The Shining Star Above The Heaven-Chapter 889: Knowing His Location

Time passed by and another day had come. The sun in the Red Mist Star was already at the highest point of the world. The battle across the world was getting more tense, and the alliance forces kept pushing the devils to the edge.

Inside one of the cities that had not yet been attacked by the alliance forces and was still far from the frontline, Heserdolf was inside a big mansion. He sat inside a private room with another devil whose cultivation was much higher than his.

In front of him was one of the few peak pseudo-immortal-stage devils who had not followed Rulleus to the central star cluster. He was the one responsible for leading the devils in this region, and the city Heserdolf was in was the center of this region. His name was Argus.

Heserdolf’s expression showed a headache as he massaged his temple, and in fact, for the last few weeks his expression had mostly been like that. The devil in front of him showed a frown as he also felt concerned about the recent development of the war.

"Those bastards from the Ancient Blue Gate World are getting closer to this region, and at most, a month from now they will arrive in this city with their troops if they keep moving according to their current pattern. Well, I doubt they will just fly directly into this city using an interstellar vessel because they would be besieged from behind as well," Argus said.

"We already lost contact with the Ragmur region and the Ferdilis region, and because of that, we really cannot reach or communicate with the troops in the southern pole. The assassins’ work is also not effective enough to dwindle the enemy’s power. It is even the opposite, since we already lost many assassins because the enemies seem to know how our assassins operate," he continued.

"Our spies and reconnaissance teams were also quickly discovered, which made us blind to their strength and movement. The only thing we can depend on to track their movement is the information that comes from the places they have conquered."

"The reinforcement from other worlds that have not yet been attacked will only arrive in the next three days, and even when they arrive, we don’t know if they can stop the enemies. The central star cluster really brought many of their powerhouses this time."

Heserdolf released a heavy sigh.

"My lord, in my opinion, this world is a lost cause and it’s much better if we abandon this world and consolidate our forces in the farthest world of this star cluster, Aberon. I think that is the best solution for our current problem," Argus added.

"Even if we escape toward Aberon, we still have to fight them with everything we have, and we might still lose," Heserdolf said, and then he gritted his teeth.

"If only most of our powerhouses had not followed His Highness toward the central star cluster, we would still have the strength to fight them. Damn that man named Aldrian," he cursed with full anger as his aura flared.

Argus’s frown deepened. "As I thought, the rumor about him seems true. With his power, I doubt that His Highness’s troops, even with support from our forces here could really conquer the Ancient Blue Gate World."

He was one of the devils who leaned toward believing the rumor about Aldrian.

With how huge and solid the rumor in the central star cluster was, he doubted that those cultivators were simply playing psychological warfare against the devils. The scale was too big and too abrupt to be a mere rumor. That was why he decided to stay and not follow Rulleus to the central star cluster. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Now that the figure named Aldrian seemed to have come here personally, he believed it would be better for them to retreat first and plan for a counterattack from a safe distance.

As Heserdolf was still thinking about how he should move forward, a communication artifact inside his pouch gave off an incoming signal. He took out the artifact and activated it to hear what the other side had to say.

"My lord, I think we have a problem. Something happened in the Red Tower’s main hall."

Hearing that, Heserdolf frowned.

"What happened?" he asked.

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In a place far from where Heserdolf was, there was a long mountain range. The mountain range had dangerous terrain and natural poisonous air that covered a large part of the area. The poisonous air was caused by the existence of many poisonous herbs spread throughout the mountain.

This was one of the places in the Red Mist Star that even the devils did not want to explore or enter. Even peak pseudo-immortal-stage devils did not dare to underestimate this place.

However, in this mountain range, there was a secret that not all devils knew. It was the location of the main headquarters of the Red Tower, the assassins’ group of the devils.

In the deeper part of the mountain range, there was a cave on the rocky cliff, protected by a concealment formation. Normally, even if people passed by this place, they would not see any cave here.

However, at this moment, if anyone passed by, they could see the cave. That was because the concealment formation had been destroyed.

In the deeper part of the cave, there was nothing strange, and it looked like a normal cave. But as the cave reached further inside, bloodstains could be seen, followed by many dead bodies. The conditions of the corpses were varied.

Some were split as if a sword had cut them in half. Some had their bodies crushed to the point they were unrecognizable. There were also some who had simply dropped dead without any visible wounds, except for the horrified expressions on their faces.

The corpses released devil aura, which clearly showed that these bodies were devil cultivators, and they were wearing the same attire as the assassins.

Deeper into the cave, there were more hidden formations. This time, there were many trapping formations and killing formations. Even a pseudo-immortal-stage cultivator would find it challenging to breach this many traps and killing formations. One wrong move and they could die here.

But those formations had also been broken, and the assassins’ corpses were scattered in many places.

Moving even deeper, one would finally find a large space big enough to build a full building complex. In this vast and high underground space, there was a complex of buildings, and in the middle of it stood a large twenty-floor pagoda tower.

At this moment, the complex that was usually full of activity was silent, and all the buildings had been damaged, burned, or entirely collapsed. Flames engulfed many parts of the complex, with corpses lying here and there. Only the crackling of fire could be heard in this space.

Inside the damaged pagoda tower, which was also engulfed in flames, many corpses were scattered from the lowest floor to the highest. At the top floor, a red-haired figure with a bloodied sword in his grasp was reading a scroll. Near him was a headless corpse releasing a peak pseudo-immortal-stage aura.

This red-haired figure was Aldrian.

At this moment, he was reading the scroll that contained many secret pieces of information regarding the Red Tower and the devils as a whole.

Aldrian had arrived in this region a few hours ago after traveling here by continuously teleporting throughout the entire night. Not long after he arrived, he immediately looked for the headquarters of the Red Tower, located in this mountain range based on the memories of the assassins he killed last night.

After he arrived at their headquarters, he did not waste any time wreaking havoc here, killing any assassins he saw. He also met the true leader of the Red Tower, who was now the headless corpse near him.

He did not have the chance to look into the leader’s memories, because the man had actually committed suicide using a unique method by destroying his own soul with a special rare poison he had planted in his own head.

Aldrian thought the leader was really creative in the way he chose to die, but also crazy. But it gave him a lesson for the future. He would be more careful to check the prisoners’s souls quickly if he caught someone alive.

With nothing to be gained from the leader, he simply beheaded him. He would have to look for the information he wanted elsewhere in this place.

After searching for some time, he finally found the scroll he was reading now. And after reading it for a while, he smiled as he finally found what he was looking for.

’I see, you are in there,’ he thought.

What he found was the current location of Heserdolf. The Red Tower had to take orders from their leader, and they had to keep information about the leader’s location so they could stay in contact with him.

This information was exactly what he needed so he could end the war in the Red Mist Star much faster.

’But his location... if I remember correctly, then the nearest troops in that region are the Beast Continent’s troops led by Dragon King and Phoenix Queen,’ Aldrian thought.

’Well, let’s inform them then. Let them be the ones who kill Heserdolf.’