Chapter 242: My Heroic Legion
The commander of the 31st Airborne Division, Lieutenant Colonel Drake, now feels very confused.
He was sure that he should have been dead before.
At that time, he was commanding the artillery troops to fire at the huge evil god. But at that moment, a bolt of lightning fell from the sky.
He only felt that everything in front of him was illuminated by light in an instant. The intense pain lasted only for a moment, and then he fell into darkness.
That should be death, right?
He had no regrets about dying on the battlefield. To die in a battle against an evil god was a worthy death. The only regret was that he didn't get to see the end, but he firmly believed that under the leadership of the Governor, the warriors of the alliance would win.
However, he did not expect that after a person dies, he really has a soul and goes to heaven?
No...that's not right.
He looked around and found the environment here very familiar.
Except for the strange blue "sun" in the sky that was emitting arcs of electricity and the dark clouds that had disappeared, the rest of the surface environment seemed to be the place where he and his army had fought to the death before.
Beside him, there were many translucent little blue men like him. Many of them looked familiar to him, so they were probably his soldiers!
What's going on?
"Warriors, look at me."
A familiar voice echoed in everyone's heart.
That's the Governor!
They looked up involuntarily and saw the Governor's figure floating there under the not-too-bright blue sun.
Many soldiers saluted involuntarily to show their respect.
Gu Hang returned the greeting solemnly.
Then, he slowly spoke, "I'm sorry to have awakened you from your supposed long sleep."
"You came here because of my call, and died for the safety of the alliance. You should have a peaceful rest."
"But now, our work is not yet complete. I still need your strength to continue to shine after death."
"I won't force you. If there are those who don't want to, please say 'eternal sleep' three times in your heart. I will send you back to sleep. You will still be heroes of the alliance."
"Those who are willing will stay and continue to protect our world with me."
Then, Gu Hang closed his eyes.
He is not talking nonsense.
If someone really doesn't want to go, he can indeed send them back.
However, after careful consideration, he did not hear even a single word of "eternal sleep" among the more than 3,000 people.
Then, he opened his eyes with satisfaction and said, "Very good, I am glad to continue fighting with you. Our first task is to establish our base here, in this place that once belonged to the evil god but now belongs to us."
"Build a Hall of Heroes. This will be the final resting place for you and all future heroes who fight for the Wrathful Star and for the welfare of mankind!"
"Now, those with the highest military rank, step out!"
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Among these more than 3,000 people, the one with the highest military rank is naturally Lieutenant Colonel Drake.
Gu Hang was both surprised and normal about his death.
Normal means that after the battle, when he returned to the real world, he saw the casualty report, which mentioned the news that the commander of the 31st Airborne Division had died in the battle. So it was normal to see Derek here.
What was surprising was that... a division-level commander was unfortunately struck to death by lightning. It was really unlucky. Gu Hang was quite stunned when he first learned about it.
Lieutenant Colonel Drake... Oh, now he's a colonel. The Alliance has a customary practice of rewarding meritorious service after the war, and those who died in battle will not be left out. Those who deserve promotions and medals will all receive them, and dying in battle is also a merit in itself - as long as they didn't die stupidly or in violation of military orders.
It is also meaningful for the soldiers who died to receive military rank promotion and military medals. Honorary military rank medals and military medals will be returned to their families; higher military ranks and accumulated military medals will increase the amount of pensions and allowances for the families of minors, widows, and elderly parents of the fallen soldiers.
This is another reason why the morale of the Alliance troops is high: there is no need to worry that their sacrifice is in vain, the Alliance will remember it all.
Colonel Drake became the head of this force, and he has a lot to do next.
All the heroes came from the dead in the previous battle. Some died in the battle against the storm monsters summoned by the original wrathful owl; more were killed by lightning and thunder when fighting against the wrathful owl itself.
Even though that guy looked frustrated after being beaten to death, he actually summoned no less than a thousand thunders before he was killed.
Apart from those who hit Gu Hang and those who were frantically dodged by him, there were also many others that hit the army, resulting in the death of nearly two thousand people.
These casualties came from various units of the Northern Army Group, and their arms and organizations were very scattered. It was a test of Colonel Drake's ability to reunite and organize them.
Of course, Gu Hang believed that he could do it well.
And after he had managed to re-establish the organizational system, their first task was to change this barren land and build some buildings here according to the Governor's advice.
Although it is windy here all year round, it never rains, and there is no climate change, the soldiers who have died in battle and become heroic spirits do not seem to need a house to shelter from the wind and rain. However, Gu Hang still hopes that these heroic spirits can still maintain their cognition as "human beings".
They have simply transformed into another form, and they should continue to consider themselves as "human beings".
If not, what is the difference between them and the storm monsters summoned by the original angry owl?
And since they are human beings, even though the conditions in this kingdom of God are not very good, we must try our best to create conditions so that they can live a life as similar to that of human beings as possible, so as to make this anchor point more solid.
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After watching Colonel Drake go about his business, Gu Hang began to think about his own affairs.
His main goal in returning to this divine kingdom is to explore how to use this new ability.
Summoning heroic spirits can only be considered an unexpected surprise.
After completing the upgrade and obtaining the new innate ability of the essence of the [real world], Gu Hang realized that the souls of those who died in the battle were still floating here.
They couldn't go back, and Gu Hang couldn't make their souls leave the real world intact and return to their real bodies. But he could use the essence of the real world to control the kingdom of God, and use psychic energy to glue and fill their shattered souls.
To put it bluntly, these heroic spirits are essentially no different from the storm monsters summoned by the original Angry Owl. They are all a combination of broken, dead souls and psychic energy.
But Gu Hang doesn’t look like that beast.
What imagination can the beast have? It will only create a bunch of brainless creatures like itself.
Gu Hang, on the other hand, retained to a great extent the personality, memory and other traces of the original owners of those soul fragments as "human beings", and reshaped their bodies with psychic power.
Gu Hang not only gives them thoughts, freedom, and will, but also reserves a future for promotion for them.
At this point, there is a fundamental difference between them and the previous brainless storm monsters that could only serve as cannon fodder.
When thinking about this, Gu Hang was surprised again, these heroic spirits... why are they a bit like demons?
Living in the abyss of hell or the real world; the body is made of psychic energy; has its own will but is controlled by itself, a god who is not a god; future promotion requires gathering more psychic energy to strengthen itself...
Shaking his head, he forced the idea out of his mind.
Don't think too much about it yet.
Then, he began to think about how to utilize the entire kingdom of God.
Now, not only can he easily and casually put his own consciousness into this kingdom of God, he can also easily tear open a real-world rift in the real world leading to his kingdom of God.
This will make a big difference.
During the battle, the torn rifts could allow the army of heroes he had created to descend into the real world at any time and appear as a surprise force anywhere on the battlefield without any warning.
The strategic value is huge.
It was also tearing open the cracks in the real world. As long as Gu Hang did this, the psychic energy he could use in the real world would reach an extremely exaggerated level. Especially when using the Storm series of psychic spells, the power would become extremely exaggerated.
At the moment, his body has reached the level of being able to destroy a team of Terminator veterans alone. Once the veil is torn open and the power of the Kingdom of God is blessed, although he himself cannot reach the level of the evil god, after all, his spirituality is still limited, and the power he can control at the same time is limited, but with the blessing of the violent power of the real world, his strength will increase by three to five times, which is normal.
Then, perhaps an elite company of space warriors could be wiped out by him alone; even in the star wars, his personal power could affect the outcome of the battle by interfering with or strengthening the void shield. Even some small starships, such as patrol ships, could be destroyed by him using the greatly enhanced storm spells without them fully deploying their defenses!
After making an accurate assessment of his full-strength combat power, Gu Hang couldn't help but shudder.
It's a bit scary.
Without mentioning these combat aspects, Gu Hang also thought of some solutions in other aspects.
For example, the 'Storm' divinity he inherited has a strong control and dominance over the storms composed of psychic energy. So, is there any hope that the waste energy storm problem that has been raging on the Wrathful Owl Star for hundreds of years can be solved?
Directly transforming the climate and geology at the planetary level would cost an astronomical figure; but Gu Hang could use his secondary divine power to control the intensity of the waste energy storm and repair the environment, allowing the waste energy storm, which was essentially the spiritual energy of the real world that infiltrated into the real world but could not be stored because of the destruction of the environment, to be transformed into usable spiritual gas fields. This might be a feasible method.
It's just that he has to stay for a long time in some place where the waste energy storm is strong.
But it was not difficult, since he had a lot of government work to do anyway. Working in Fuxing City was no different from setting up a mobile office and staying in one place for a few months. It would not prevent him from working and cleaning up the waste energy storm at the same time.
This was not just a random thought. After he got out, he planned to go to the High Tower Province, to the former Garbage Town, now the High Tower City, to verify the feasibility of this idea.
In addition, Gu Hang thought of another possible approach.
Tearing the reality curtain would make a lot of noise, and Gu Hang would definitely not do it unless it was a critical moment. However, opening a very small gap, or even not opening it at all, just thinning the reality curtain a little to allow more spiritual energy to pass through, would make much less noise.
Doing so may not allow Gu Hang to gain significant strength in the fierce battle, but the spiritual energy that gradually penetrates through will accumulate over time and become increasingly strong, which will bring a benefit: within a fairly large range, individuals among humans with relatively high spiritual attributes will have more opportunities to awaken spiritual powers.
In other words, Gu Hang might have a way to mass-produce psychics.
At this moment, he had even begun to think about what name he should give to a mage corps when he had enough psychics in the future.
To be honest, mass-producing psychics so that more people have the opportunity to awaken their psychic powers is a more feasible approach than fixing the waste energy storm problem mentioned above.
Generally speaking, the appearance of a lot of psychics is not a good thing.
Psychics are always accompanied by many problems, such as not being able to control their own power, harming others and themselves; for example, they are easily targeted by the abyss of hell, and after being seduced, they cause great damage, and even become possessed by demons, tearing open the curtain of reality, forming a small-scale demon invasion...
But after some thought, Gu Hang felt that these risks were controllable for him.
The psychics he trained were inspired by the Storm Kingdom controlled by Gu Hang. Although this place was also in the abyss of hell, as long as Gu Hang didn't want to, there would be no big news such as seducing the mind, being possessed by demons, and tearing the curtain of reality.
As for the remaining problem of 'how to control psychic power and not hurt yourself or others', it can be solved.
"If you think about it this way, before establishing the Mage Corps, I might have to first establish a psionic academy? Let's call it a magic school... or how about Hogwarts?"
Gu Hang was daydreaming to amuse himself.
In such a good mood, he couldn't help but pay more attention to the blue sun in the sky.
His perspective gradually expanded and soon encompassed the entire kingdom of God.
This place is still desolate, but in Gu Hang's eyes, he seems to see a vibrant future.
However, this process of distance did not end.
Soon, he saw more than just the Kingdom of Storm God. A much larger domain appeared in his vision.
Outside of the Storm Kingdom, which was enveloped by the blue sun, there were vast tracts of chaos. Countless colors were constantly rolling and tangling in this space. Powers of various attributes were entangled with each other, forming an extremely chaotic and distorted scene.
At first glance, it was quite beautiful, but at second glance, this sense of complete disorder and chaos made him feel slightly dizzy and nauseous.
Looking further away, Gu Hang seemed to see five particularly distinct and huge areas in the endless chaos.
But with just this one glance, he suddenly felt that his already very powerful spiritual power gave him a strong warning.
He cut off the view without hesitation, but the next moment, a severe headache still came to him.
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