The Shining Star Above The Heaven-Chapter 1028: Beruin Family’s Elite Brigade

Aldrian appeared on one of the crowded streets and entered one of the nearest inns from the mansion. He reserved one room for himself before entering it and sat down to meditate.

At this moment, he was waiting for someone to come.

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A few hours later, the crowded street opened a path once again for another convoy that came out from the town’s warp gate. This time, it truly astonished many people. The line of knights with strong auras created an amazing spectacle, and they came from the force that had become the highest authority of this entire region.

The moment they saw the symbol of one of the Beruin family’s elite brigades on the waving flags and on their armor, they knew that something unusual had happened.

"Isn’t that Beruin’s Lion Brigade? Why are they here? Aren’t they tasked at the frontline?" one of the spectators said.

"Yes, this is truly strange. They were supposed to be in the middle of the war at the frontline. The fact that they are here means that something unusual has happened," another replied.

"Don’t tell me there might be devils near us? I heard that the devils are infiltrators, and they have infiltrated many parts of our territories and created destruction," another commented.

"Ugh, hearing that possibility gives me goosebumps. It looks like this place is no longer safe."

The people here had never seen the Beruin family send this kind of force to this small town before, so it made sense that many were talking about it.

As the people opened the path for them, the knights from the Beruin family kept moving forward toward the direction of the town lord’s mansion. They were led by an old man with short white hair and a beard. His expression looked fierce, and even his stature was intimidating. He was tall and looked strong.

He had the most impressive cultivation here, at low pseudo immortal establishment stage, making him the strongest being in the town if Aldrian was not here.

Behind him was another strong cultivator at peak pseudo-immortal foundation stage. A man with a youthful face and long brown hair, making him look heroic. Despite his young appearance, he was the second strongest in this line of troops after the leader.

"Sir Kuartin, are there really devils in this place? This place is too weak for the devils to put their attention on," the young man asked the leader.

Kuartin kept walking as he spoke. "I don’t know, but from the report that I heard, there is a huge possibility that a devil has appeared in this place and killed the town’s lord. There should be no one who dares to mess with our family, yet there is someone who did so. That is why the patriarch ordered our brigade to investigate this place despite us being positioned at the frontline."

"Also, this place is not entirely worthless. This place is the source of the Crimson Flame Mushrooms, so the devils might want to create chaos here. Those devils are truly clever and will attack some places with purpose. Do not even think of underestimating their cleverness, Louis, or we will be outsmarted by them," he added.

Louis nodded with a smile. "Yes, sir."

As their troops kept approaching the mansion, Aldrian had already stopped his meditation and looked outside the window that overlooked the main street.

He could finally see the line of troops, and he could not help but feel impressed by how seriously the Beruin family was taking this matter.

He did not expect the Beruin family to send such a strong line of troops to investigate the death of the town lord. From what he heard from the conversation of the apparent leader of these troops through his domain sense, the Beruin family seemed to have mistaken him for a devil.

That was why the Beruin family sent these troops that looked like they had just come from the frontline.

However, this was better for him. With the Beruin family sending these strong troops, he could make this matter even bigger. He wanted the Beruin family to know that what happened here was not something they could contain.

He wanted countless people to know how the vassal of the Beruin family managed this town. He wanted others to know how the Beruin family was treating their own people.

If he wanted to make sure that no one like the town lord would appear again, if he wanted the Beruin family to stop doing what they were doing, then he needed to make the matter in this town big and show them that they could not do whatever they wanted without punishment.

There would be consequences. There would be karma.

After a while, the Lion Brigade arrived at the town lord’s mansion, and they were greeted by Henrik. He truly did not expect the Beruin family to send one of the strongest knights they had to this place.

However, Henrik felt relieved upon seeing the Lion Brigade, even its leader, Kuartin, had come.

"Sir Kuartin, welcome to the town lord’s mansion," Henrik greeted, which was responded to with a nod from Kuartin.

"Let’s get straight to the point. Tell me what happened and bring me to the town lord’s corpse," he said.

"Ah, yes. Please, this way," Henrik said.

Kuartin ordered his troops to guard the entire mansion while he and Louis entered it. As they walked toward the room where the corpse was, Henrik told Kuartin what had happened.

He explained how he met Aldrian and decided to bring him to this place. As he recounted everything, Kuartin’s expression turned furious.

"To think that you invited an enemy into your own lord’s mansion. If that man insulted your pride, then you should have died with honor defending it. What a coward, obeying the order of that man which brought the death of your lord," he berated angrily.

Henrik could not fight back and could only listen silently. He inwardly gritted his teeth.

The hell with pride or whatever. He was a man who valued his own life the most. Fight that monster?

Absolutely not.

"My apologies, Sir Kuartin. This is my fault for not being brave enough to face that man. I am willing to receive my punishment," he said with his head lowered.

Kuartin snorted. "You might end up dead this time because of your cowardice. Moreover, there is the possibility that the man you talked about is a devil."

Henrik widened his eyes.

"What? A devil? Impossible! How could that be? I did not sense any devil aura from that man. Not even a bit," he said in astonishment.

"The devils are cunning. They can disguise themselves as normal cultivators and walk among us. That is also why they have been able to infiltrate deep inside many territories of other powers. At one time, I found someone from whom I did not sense even a little bit of devil energy, yet he was actually a disguised devil," Kuartin said.

"They are using an unknown method, which is truly troublesome for us. If it is true that the man you talked about is a devil, then you will die a horrible death," he added with a cold gaze.

Henrik’s heart turned cold. So that was why the Beruin family sent the Lion Brigade.

They suspected that the man he brought was a devil.

If that was the case, he knew that once it was proven, he would end up dead, and not in a good way.

If there was no devil here, then he might still have a chance to live.

However, if that man was actually a devil, then it changed everything. He would be seen as the person who brought the devil into their base. Not only a coward, but also someone who obeyed a devil’s order. Even after his death, his name would be tainted forever.

Henrik’s face turned pale.

His life was truly over after this.

Before they realized it, they had already arrived at the room where the town lord’s corpse was. The corpse had not been moved from the room where he was killed, and the room itself was not touched much, so when they entered, they still saw the destroyed room.

Kuartin observed the room for a moment.

"There is remnant energy everywhere, but it is from one person only," he said.

"This is the town lord’s remnant energy, Sir Kuartin. From the remnant energy, it only shows that the town lord was the only one who unleashed a technique, which made the room like this. We did not sense any other energy, which means that the town lord was killed without the other party using any technique," Henrik said.

Kuartin then approached the town lord’s corpse, which was already covered with a white cloth. He then opened the cloth to look at the town lord’s condition.

The moment he saw it, he frowned deeply.

"It is clear that his head was smashed against the floor so hard that it was crushed. The one who did it was undoubtedly many times stronger than him, considering how easily he killed the town lord without using any technique. The one who did it is most likely an Immortal Transition Realm cultivator," Kuartin said.

"Sir Kuartin, there is one thing that I do not understand," Louis suddenly said as he looked at the town lord’s corpse.

"Why did the killer target only the town lord? If that person is a devil and wants to create chaos, why not just kill all the people in this mansion, basically flaunting to us that they could reach this place?" he added.

"This feels more like that person only killed the town lord as if he had a personal vengeance or something like that."

Kuartin frowned as he continued looking at the corpse.

What Louis said made sense. If that person was a devil, then he was doing things differently compared to the devil infiltrators he knew.

"That is because he deserved to die, and to make the Beruin family send someone here."

Suddenly, a man’s voice resounded from their side, which shocked them. They instantly jumped to create distance and took a wary stance as they saw a man standing near them, looking at them.

They did not sense this person’s presence at all!

"It’s him! He is the person who killed Lord Agerus!" Henrik shouted in fear as he stumbled backward.

Hearing that, Kuartin and Louis’ expressions turned solemn as they readied their swords. They prepared for battle.