The Shining Star Above The Heaven-Chapter 1058: Their Turn to Attack

Alicia opened her eyes and turned her head to look at the kneeling succubus.

"What is it?" she asked.

"Lord of Thousand Souls was found dead in his pavilion."

"What?!" Alicia was astonished, and she narrowed her eyes. She then turned her gaze toward one direction, and her sense instantly extended toward it. Her sense passed through many things as it moved across the destroyed city.

She kept expanding her sense for more than a hundred kilometers until it reached a small hill inside the city. On top of it stood a pavilion complex which at this moment was already blocked by many devils guarding the area.

Inside one of the halls, she found a corpse, and she did not doubt that it was the corpse of Lord of Thousand Souls.

Without saying anything, her body suddenly turned into dark mist, and it only took three seconds for her to reach the corpse. The corpse was surrounded by many symbols, forming a kind of formation.

Her body manifested again from the dark mist, and the moment the guards saw her, they instantly knelt without even seeing her face.

"My lady," they greeted.

Even without seeing her entirely, their faces were already flushing as they restrained the sudden desire that rose within their hearts. They were strong devil men from the human race, and a powerful succubus like Alicia, who exuded natural charm, was naturally their weakness.

Since they cultivated devil techniques, their desires became much harder to control. Still, they had to restrain themselves every time they saw her if they did not want to suffer a horrible death.

Alicia did not say anything and observed the corpse in detail. The condition of the corpse was truly terrifying, with all of its orifices stained with blood. The veins across the corpse were bulging, and the skin had turned greyish black, as if it were rotting from the inside.

She frowned deeply when the succubus who had given her the report manifested right behind her in a kneeling position.

"Has Lord Guvard left his pavilion recently?" Alicia asked.

"No, my lady. He never left the pavilion at all," the kneeling succubus answered.

"Has anyone touched his corpse?"

"No, my lady. Luckily, the one who found his corpse was one of his disciples. They suddenly sensed their connection to their master being severed. When they found him and wanted to check on him, a strong curse exuding from his body made them not dare to touch it," the succubus answered.

"Because the curse might have spread if touched, they surrounded it with the Confinement of the Million Curses Formation to prevent anyone from touching it or the curse from spreading."

Alicia still frowned as she continued observing the body. Luckily, no one had touched it, because what she sensed from the corpse made her heart chill.

She could sense a powerful curse emanating from the corpse. It was a curse she sensed for the first time in her life. Even without touching it, she knew that this curse could endanger her.

She comprehended curse laws, yet the chilling sensation that shook her soul was something she had never experienced before.

It was terrifying and cold, and what astonished her was that the sensation came from a curse already trapped inside the Confinement of the Million Curses Formation. The formation specialized in containing powerful curses, and it should have blocked any sensation the cursed object exuded.

However, the fact that she could still sense it showed how powerful the curse inside the corpse was, to the point that the corpse itself now resembled a cursed artifact.

'What kind of curse is this?' Alicia thought. 'Is someone attacking using a curse? How could they do that when he never left his pavilion? Through his puppets? That might be possible, but there was no news that the puppets had been discovered. Unless…' her frown deepened.

'Unless someone already knew about the puppets and used them to attack with a curse so quickly that Lord Guvard did not have time to react.'

'But even if that was the case, was there anyone among those weaklings who possessed the ability to send such a powerful curse? This was a quick-death type curse with strange properties. If they had someone like that, their war in this world would have been far more difficult in the past.'

She bit her lips. For the first time, she felt genuinely angry about the situation.

'Damn it. With Lord Guvard's death, we have lost our main source of information at the strategic level. We can only depend on those low-level spies for tactical intelligence.'

That was a major setback for their war in this world. Without a strategic-level information source, she would not know what the powers of this world truly planned for the future.

Her chances of making the wrong decision would increase, which could greatly harm her troops.

She gritted her teeth, and a moment later she took a deep breath.

'Don't tell me this was also caused by Aldrian?' Since that man's appearance, not everything had gone according to her plans in the Gardum Kingdom, and now she had lost one of her most valuable assistants.

'Do I have to make a move myself now?' But then she shook her head.

'No, not yet. Let's wait for now and take care of the other territories first. Although I lost the source of important information, at least I still have momentum in most territories. I still have a chance.'

"Keep the corpse here. Don't touch it or do anything to it for now," she ordered.

"Yes, my lady."

Alicia then disappeared as she turned into dark mist. The succubus looked at the corpse for a moment before she also disappeared.

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On the next morning, outside Hervian City, an interstellar vessel was parked. Aldrian, along with Prince Martis, several generals of the royal families, and thousands of troops, were embarking on it. Princess Xena also joined the troops with her knight order.

In the distance, many people of the city were watching. With how large the movement was, there was no way it would not attract attention. This was also the first time many had seen Aldrian, which caused an uproar.

They wondered where Aldrian and the royal troops were going.

King Darius stood not far from the vessel, looking at them with a solemn expression. His face showed his hope that this plan would succeed. This was what Aldrian claimed to be the fastest way to end the war and rid the world of the devils.

The plan was very simple.

Storm their headquarters in this world and kill the leader. Something easier said than done.

In the past, he did not want to consider such a plan for several obvious reasons.

First, they did not know the real location of the devils' headquarters. Second, considering how powerful the devils were, they could not simply barge in blindly and make countless sacrifices. They would exhaust their own resources if that happened.

'May you succeed and bring victory,' the king thought as he watched Aldrian's figure enter the vessel.

A moment later, the hatch of the vessel closed, and it began to depart. It floated higher and higher as the people of the city watched from afar with hopeful expressions.

Although they did not know where the troops were going, they hoped that whatever awaited them, they would succeed.

As the vessel reached the upper atmosphere, it started moving north. Aldrian was inside the control room with Princess Xena and Prince Martis, looking at the outside scenery through the screen.

However, not even a minute after they began moving north, an operator reported.

"A vessel is approaching us from the west. It is likely a devil vessel."

"Keep moving forward," Aldrian ordered, and his figure disappeared from the control room. His figure appeared on top of the vessel as he looked toward the west.

He saw a dot in the distance growing larger as time passed. Soon, a sparkle of light appeared from the dot, and a few seconds later, the sparkling light shot toward his direction.

The devils were using a beam cannon attack.

"Raise the defensive formation!" one of the operators took the initiative to block the incoming attack, as this was already standard procedure.

However, even before the beam reached their vessel, they saw through the screen that the beam split into two as a slash energy cut through it. At the same time, they felt a powerful sword will that gave them goosebumps.

They continued watching as the slash energy moved at incredible speed toward the devil vessel until, a moment later—

Slash! Rumble!

The slash energy split the vessel from front to back. The vessel broke apart into two big parts.

The sight made the hearts of those watching through the screen tremble.

Too powerful! It was too powerful!

From that distance, Aldrian could actually destroy an interstellar vessel with a single sword slash. But a moment later, they detected another vessel approaching from a different direction.

This time, without even giving the vessel time to fire its beam cannon, Aldrian struck first. He had already sent another slash, and this vessel suffered the same fate as the first one.

Watching the scene once again, the others could only sigh in amazement.

It looked like this battle would be much easier than they had thought.