The Shining Star Above The Heaven
Chapter 1201: Let’s Use This Guy
Bai Cangming nodded with a smile.
"I'm glad that you understand, General Bai. Look, I don't want you to be too rigid in following your peaceful concept inside your mind, which for me is the same as letting this country rot. You are a good man, and it would be too pity if you went down together with the country that you served."
General Bai sighed. General Ruan behind him looked at him with a mixed expression. She had never seen General Bai look so defeated and conflicted like this. She also shared the same sentiment as General Bai, but what Master Gao said was also true.
There are a few reasons they could not do anything to the Red Moon Guild.
First, because their power was still needed.
Second, they had strong supporters among the oblivious people who had never experienced their tyranny, and those people were many.
Third, they also had many connections inside the government which helped them in many situations.
But at this time, with the Monsters World Gate disappearing and the appearance of gates greatly lessening, even the beings inside the gates that possessed those malignant energies would weaken. The Red Moon Guild's power would no longer be an absolute necessity.
They could take care of themselves without them.
As for public opinion, they could simply shift it by revealing their secret misdeeds. They needed to do that to drag the Red Moon Guild down and lessen the effect of their fall.
But then they would drag many parties down together with them during this process, which would create chaos, and she knew that they had to pass through this process whether they liked it or not.
"Actually, we could make their fall happen without much resistance from them or anyone supporting them," Aldrian suddenly said, making the others look at him.
"After spending some time on Earth, I learned that there is a group here working together with the invaders from the hostile gates. The ones using the same power as them. They are called the Malignant. Is that correct?"
The others nodded.
"Let's just fabricate proof that they have connections with them on top of revealing all of their misdeeds," Aldrian continued, making their eyes widen.
"What?" General Bai blurted out.
All of them then saw Aldrian suddenly stretch out his hand, and at that moment, a figure suddenly appeared within his grasp!
They were shocked seeing a man already choked by Aldrian's hand. The man himself was also shocked after suddenly appearing in a completely different environment while being strangled by someone. But then his eyes widened even more after realizing the person in front of him was Aldrian.
"You—"
Before he could say anything, Aldrian punched his gut, making him cough blood as Aldrian damaged his dantian. He made sure not to destroy it completely and instead sealed it.
Aldrian then threw the man forward like trash before trapping him using a spatial lock with his face fully visible to everyone.
"Let's use this guy. I could sense that this guy is the strongest from that group. He was hiding inside a secret underground place in the Yakust City region of Russia."
The others who finally saw his face clearly were truly shocked. General Bai and the people from the four guilds even opened their mouths wide, their expressions becoming the most ridiculous since entering this room.
"Isn't this the most wanted man, the leader of the Malignant, Godwin the Red Devil?" Guo Zhenyu said in astonishment.
"How could—"
The others were truly speechless.
There was no mistake about it. The person who suddenly appeared in Aldrian's grasp was the most wanted man in the world. He was the leader of the group that had already sold their souls to those beings from the gates who repeatedly tried to harm Earth.
The Malignant was a group that worshipped beings possessing ominous energy, which they called malignant energy, and they had already become a headache for countries across the world.
The group's only purpose was to spread destruction and misery. They did all of that in the name of their god, whom they believed would be pleased by those acts. They were a crazy bunch that could die for this belief without caring about anything else.
That was why every one of their members, or anyone connected to them, was treated as an enemy of humanity, no different from those invaders from the gates.
Godwin the Red Devil was the leader of this organization. He gained his infamy after the incident in Germany where he slaughtered many hunters and normal citizens.
At that time, an SSS-class gate break had occurred.
When the situation became grim, the Malignant suddenly appeared, making the entire situation even more chaotic. Godwin personally killed two SSSS-rank hunters from Germany's guilds, which greatly weakened Germany's overall strength for several years.
Since then, he became the most wanted man in the world, and later, through information obtained from captured members of the Malignant, they learned that he was the leader of the organization.
Besides being powerful, he was also someone extremely difficult to catch. Since that time, there had been many other incidents connected to him, but every single time, he managed to escape pursuit. It was as if he possessed some kind of method that allowed him to escape and avoid detection from anyone.
Even the eleven heroes and Master Gao had difficulties catching him.
He was truly a slippery bastard who had already infuriated countless people across Earth.
But that very person was currently in this room with Aldrian's unknown ability, and seemed to be trapped under some kind of technique, as he could not move an inch after being thrown onto the floor.
How could Aldrian do that? What kind of trick did he use for this bastard to suddenly appear in his chokehold? Godwin did not even seem to realize what had happened.
Aldrian even knew where he was hiding!
That was also the same thought inside Godwin's mind at this moment. He had no idea what had just happened to him. He was certain that he had been inside his secret laboratory cultivating normally.
But suddenly, he felt his surroundings change, and the next moment, Aldrian's hand was already around his throat.
He could not understand how Aldrian managed to do that when Aldrian supposedly did not know him at all.
'Did he learn it from capturing one of the Malignant's members?' But he found that hard to believe.
Aldrian was not supposed to even know any of the Malignant members' locations or even their existence, as Aldrian had never met a single one of his members before!
He had already told all of his subordinates to stop their operations in China to avoid attracting Aldrian's attention, so he was certain that Aldrian would never come into contact with any of his members.
But how? How the hell was he suddenly brought here?
He could not resist, he could not do anything, and then suddenly, just like that, he appeared here.
Bai Cangming's eyes glimmered. He was amazed but not surprised by Aldrian's ability. At this moment, he did not know what level of cultivation Aldrian had reached because he could not sense Aldrian's cultivation at all. But one thing was certain to him.
Aldrian could do whatever he wanted in this world without anyone being able to stop him.
"How is it? It could be done, right?" Aldrian asked again.
"Yes, it could be done, Your Excellency!" the one who answered was Guo Zhenyu.
Although some of them felt bad about using this trick to push Wei Zhenyuan even deeper down, they quickly pushed that feeling aside. Aldrian had already done many things that made the entire world owe him greatly.
From clearing SSSS-rank gates around the world to capturing the most wanted criminal alive.
At the very least, they should repay him by supporting his will to bring down one of the strongest guilds on Earth. Even General Bai felt that all of this was worth it. With another major threat removed because of Aldrian, they should at least do this much.
"If we do that, then the people will completely turn against the Red Moon Guild. Only crazy people would continue supporting a guild known to have connections with the Malignant. Although the people will still become enraged with the government because they will think the government was complicit with the Red Moon Guild, that could be taken care of later," General Bai said.
"Good," Aldrian said with a smile.
He then made Godwin disappear.
"I put him in a place where it is impossible for him to escape. I will give him to you later after I'm done clearing the gates."
He then stood up. "Anyway, I think we already took too much time. There is a gate that needs to be cleared."
Sylphia, Baek Jimin, and Angelica also stood up. Bai Cangming stood up as well and followed Aldrian as he walked toward the door.
The people there quickly made way for him, but before he reached the door, Aldrian stopped his steps after one of the eleven heroes asked him a question.
"Could we see how you clear the gate?" She was a beautiful woman with fair skin and long black hair.
Aldrian looked at her before turning toward his wives. Sylphia merely shrugged while Baek Jimin and Angelica also seemed not to mind.
Aldrian then looked back at the woman and nodded.
"Of course. You may follow us."
He then turned to look at General Bai and the people from the four guilds.
"All of you can come see it as well if you are interested."
All of their expressions turned into anticipation. They wanted to witness for themselves the power of beings from the Inner Realm!