Chapter 189: The Condition of Ilyon Town
When Aldrian teleported near the town wall, he saw numerous blood trails and signs of fierce battles scattered everywhere. Corpses of townsfolk lay across the forest edge leading to Ilyon Town—men, women, the elderly, and children, none spared by the devils. Aldrian’s face darkened as he took in the horrific scene. After a brief moment of silent lament, he teleported again.
When Aldrian arrived at the edge of the destroyed town wall, he noticed a few devils acting as sentries. However, with his abilities, these low-level devil cultivators posed no threat to him. Using his illusion technique, Aldrian killed them from a distance without needing to make physical contact or eye contact. His illusions technique now were so complex that for those with a lower cultivation level, he only needed to look at them to cast an effect. This was possible because he had fused his technique with his mastery of karma laws, creating a deadly technique that was remarkably easy to use even broken.
If he wanted to use this technique on stronger cultivators, he would need a more potent karmic connection, such as the target looking into his eyes or even physical contact. The required connection depended on the opponent’s strength.
After killing the devil sentries, he leapt onto the ruined town wall. Only when he stood atop it did he fully see the extent of the town’s destruction. Most of the buildings were reduced to rubble and ash, with civilian corpses scattered here and there. Devils were everywhere on the streets below, patrolling what was left of the desolate town.
He killed those devils and teleported again. At this point, he was on a killing spree, every devil he saw fell instantly, one look from him and that was it. There were no high-level devil cultivators in this area, but he knew the stronger devils were all gathered in the town lord’s mansion. Taking his time, he searched for any trace of his mother while also cleansing the town of devils along the way.
Everywhere he passed, buildings lay in rubble or were engulfed in flames, with civilian casualties scattered around. Each time Aldrian saw this, his rage grew stronger. He had long despised the devils for their actions and their connection to ’that’ creature, but he had never directly witnessed such mercilessness before.
At one spot, where he had thought a beautiful park once stood, he now found a gruesome crucifixion field. Dozens of people were nailed to crosses, some of them children. Blood flowed from the poles, and many bodies were scattered around. Among them, he saw what he assumed to be their mothers, also slain in the same horrific manner.
In some places, he found many dead, naked women, and he couldn’t bring himself to imagine the horrors they must have endured before their souls departed. He also saw numerous heads impaled on poles throughout the town, a chilling sight among many other brutal scenes he encountered during his killing spree.
"The devils slaughtered all of them. The evacuation was not yet complete when the town was breached, and there was no chance for these poor people to escape."