Chapter 1070
It was quite obvious to Anton that the people of Xaphiot didn’t wish to speak about Airus except in vague terms, and that was doubly true of whatever was in the core of their planet. They also kept silent on the matter of teleportation.
Anton hadn’t yet asked directly about any of those pieces, but that was to help maintain his current facade of power. Perhaps stronger than individual cultivators on the planet, but only by a small margin. However, even without a bound star in the system he was actually quite a bit stronger than he led them to believe. So far, nobody had tried to kill him and take his things… so that was good at least.
From the small snippets that he overheard, it seemed that there were long standing rivalries between the planets… which indicated some way to interact with each other. Without any apparent space travel, Anton wasn’t quite sure how that was- but he could make some assumptions. Perhaps they had interplanetary teleportation… though why they would not create formations to stop the other side from teleporting to their planet was a mystery. Perhaps their particular techniques were difficult to block.
Ultimately, Anton knew that he needed to learn from the other side. So while he appreciated being a guest of the Swirling Sword Sect and Elder Togoldor, he was going to have to visit Airus himself. He just needed to find a way to do that with minimal fuss. At least the two planets weren’t in active conflict, or his task would be several times more difficult.
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Finally the Scarlet Alliance had managed to track down the biggest trouble in the Silver Fang. The pair of cultivators that had most disrespected the territorial claims of the Scarlet Alliance. One was the sect head, a man named Reigo. The other was one of the sect elders, carrying the name Tanel.
Scarlet Alliance forces had pinned them in, eventually driving them to the planet Tros, where they had taken a stand with four other Augmentation cultivators from their sect.
The assault on the planet was about to begin, after having gathered what forces they could quickly bring to the area. The Scarlet Alliance fleets were led by Zazil, Prasad, Catarina, and Timothy. While the enemy had an advantage in numbers, the quality of their cultivators had proven to be worse. While they anticipated that Reigo would surpass the others, the few recordings from his raids hadn’t shown an alarming level of power- simply one that outlying planets hadn’t been prepared to deal with.
Something drew Catarina’s attention to her tablet. “We’re not a moment too soon,” she said. “Looks like some sort of reinforcement fleet is approaching.” She furrowed her brow. “A powerful one. Too bad we didn’t have any proper scouts in system, as the report is somewhat lacking. I can only tell that the fleet had sufficient power to trigger a warning.”