The Shining Star Above The Heaven-Chapter 888: Trapping Assassins

The group of devil assassins moved with fast yet silent steps as they approached the camp from the side where the Aster Empire was located. From this direction, the patrols, which consisted of cultivators from various powers within the Aster Empire, moved in a coordinated manner.

They had already been informed about the assassin threat, which made them feel tense. The devils here were strong with their high-level cultivation, and if they sent assassins with the same strength, it would be even more terrifying.

They were not confident in detecting normal assassins in the Ancient Blue Gate World, let alone assassins from this place.

Without the patrols knowing, the assassins they were wary of were already approaching their direction, and at this moment their distance was less than a kilometre. Under the darkness of the night, the devils used movement techniques based on darkness laws that concealed even more of their presence.

As they had already planned how they would launch their attack, they began to spread out. Their plan was simple: kill everyone in sight silently. They had to keep doing it until all of the enemies were killed or until they were found out.

There were some who would enter the base camp, while the others would kill any patrols located outside the camp. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

The devils had already spread out, and most of them entered the camp while the rest targeted the nearby patrols.

The patrols, which consisted of elves and cultivators from the Doria Kingdom, were looking around their surroundings with full attention. They also heightened their senses to detect any small movement.

But, unfortunately for them, they did not know that the assassins had already targeted them, and one of them was already upon them.

From behind, one of the assassins swept his dagger and almost cut their neck in one strike. However, before his dagger could even touch their skin, without any sound and without any disturbance, the assassin’s figure suddenly disappeared.

The other assassins who were also targeting the outside patrols had nearly killed their targets when suddenly their figures disappeared as well.

In fact, at this very moment, all of the assassins who had infiltrated the camp and were about to kill many of the Aster Empire’s troops also vanished. Even with all of this happening, no one realized the death that had almost befallen them. They did not know that assassins had nearly killed them, nor did they know that those assassins had disappeared without a trace.

Where had these assassins suddenly disappeared to?

The moment these assassins disappeared, they suddenly appeared in an unknown location. The sudden change in scenery, combined with the fact that they could not move their bodies, shocked them greatly. They appeared in a place full of darkness, and they could not see or sense anything within this space.

The leader of the assassins tried to move his body, but he could not. The only part he could move was his head. He tried to look through the darkness, but nothing could be seen. It was as if his sight had been completely covered by a blanket.

He did not even know that all of his men were nearby.

’Did I step into a trap? Where is this place?’ he thought. The mysterious situation he was in made him tense, but he tried to calm himself down.

He did not want to shout, since he had no idea what this place was or what kind of situation he had fallen into.

Pow!

"Argh!"

Suddenly, he heard the sound of a body being struck by something, followed by a scream full of pain from one of his men. The scream echoed around him, making him turn his head toward its direction.

"Hey, is there somebody here?" he finally spoke in a hushed voice, and many voices echoed in response.

"I’m here, my lord."

"My lord, I’m here."

"My lord, where is this place?"

He heard all the voices of his men, which shocked him. All of them had been captured in this place.

"Who was the one that screamed just now?" the leader finally asked. However, before anyone could answer—

Pow!

"Arghh!"

Another scream full of pain resounded. This time, it belonged to one of the voices that had just spoken. At this moment, the leader knew that someone outside of their team was also present among them, and whatever this person was doing, they were hurting his underlings.

"Who are you?! Show yourself!" he shouted as he kept trying to look into the darkness, but it was useless. He still could not see anything. The other assassins also realized that there was another presence in this place, and whatever that presence was doing, it was not good.

"Hey, show yourself!"

"Don’t hide behind the darkness, you fucker!"

The assassins tried to mock whoever had trapped them here, hoping to force the person to reveal themselves, but—

"Argh!"

Another scream of agony suddenly resounded. It was as if the attacker was completely ignoring their shouts and mockery. Their hearts were filled with panic, as they did not know what was happening, and they could not see or sense anything around them with their spiritual sense.

Even so, they kept shouting toward whoever had trapped them here, hoping the attacker would make a mistake. If that happened, they might find a way to escape this place. They had not killed even a single enemy yet, and yet they had already been captured without knowing how.

Dying like this would be too shameful.

However, as time passed, another scream of pain echoed, and they understood that it would keep happening until all of them went through whatever that figure was doing to them. Whatever was done to their comrade must have been terrible, because not a single voice came from the one who had just screamed.

Seeing that the situation seemed to be getting much worse, the assassins decided it would be better to commit suicide using the poison already prepared in their mouths.

But, before they could bite the small poison capsule, they suddenly realized they could not move their mouths at all. They could not move their heads either and could only move their eyes.

This terrified them, and they quickly thought of another method of suicide, which was to blow their own dantian.

However, before they could trigger their dantian to start the process of blowing it up, they suddenly found that they could not circulate their energy. A moment later, they felt sharp pain in their abdomens, right where their dantian was located, as a punch struck them hard.

It happened so fast that the time between each person’s scream was only a split second.

The leader felt the same thing as a punch hit his dantian with tremendous force, shattering it completely. He wanted to scream his lungs out at how unbearable the pain was, but he could not. The pain of a destroyed dantian was something no cultivator would ever want to experience.

The leader felt his cultivation slipping away rapidly, and he could not even express his agony as the cultivation he had gathered throughout his life slowly dissipated.

The place remained completely silent for a few minutes until the leader finally sensed someone standing right in front of him. Cold sweat dripped from his forehead, and he did not know whether it was because of the pain or the tense feeling at this moment.

Suddenly, he felt his head being grabbed before another wave of pain surged through it. The pain grew unbearable, and combined with the pain of his destroyed dantian, he finally fainted.

However, before his sight turned into complete darkness, he saw a pair of blue eyes looking at him calmly. Those blue eyes became the last thing he saw before he closed his own for good.

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Inside Aldrian’s tent, there was no one present, but a moment later a spatial crack suddenly opened and Aldrian stepped out of it. After he came through, the spatial crack closed again.

He had just come out of a secret realm, and at this moment that secret realm collapsed, killing everyone inside it.

There was no sign on Aldrian that he had just killed anyone. He simply adjusted his sleeve slightly, then sat beside a small table and picked up a cup of tea before taking a sip. It was the tea he had poured earlier, before creating the small secret realm he made specifically for those assassins—a secret realm with darkness-law properties.

He had teleported all of the assassins inside that realm before breaking their dantian and looking into their memories. He wanted to see whether they knew anything related to what he sought.

But unfortunately, they did not know the thing he wanted to know, which was the location of Heserdolf.

However, he did obtain useful information about the whereabouts of these assassins, which he could spread to the other forces. Their headquarters had also not yet been attacked by the alliance forces, which made them still able to operate effectively.

Their headquarters were located near the south pole of the world, and he could reach it tomorrow if he kept teleporting throughout the night.

’I think I need to change the plan. I need to visit their nest first,’ he thought as he put down the teacup.