Chapter 113, Destruction of Projection
After Grit finished speaking, Gu Hang raised the key question: "How do we defeat it? We have to defeat a primitive psychic creature that has become a god?"
"No, it hasn't reached that point yet." Grit continued to explain, "I sensed that it is still some distance away from tearing the veil of reality and truly reviving. If nearly a million people in the entire city of Renaissance really died tragically in the storm, so many spiritual reactions would reverberate repeatedly in the ritual venue, and it might really be possible to pull it out of hell."
"But at this level close to the real universe, it still needs an anchor point. Its eight spiritual incarnations are here. What we need to destroy are these spiritual incarnations, soul to soul. A strong spirit is the key to defeating it."
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Gu Hang probably understood what Grit meant.
Although some of the things he said were difficult to understand, they were somewhat related to the underlying logic of the entire world. He found some answers from his past memories.
In the process of learning, legal psychics can understand that under the entire real universe, psychics believe that there is a layer of illusory universe, filled with pure energy but no matter. It is believed to be the birthplace of the real universe and the bottom layer of the universe, also known as the 'real universe'.
According to speculation, tens of thousands of years ago, humans in the golden age mastered advanced technology and properly utilized the energy of the real universe. Endless energy gave birth to a brilliant civilization.
All this ended with the birth of 'Hell'.
The so-called "hell" is the place where all the waste energy that cannot be used or is discharged after use gathers. It is full of madness, destruction, and chaos.
Today's psychic scholars generally believe that the current real universe is roughly divided into two layers. The Astral Spirit World is the surface layer, which is a sea of usable psychic energy. The spiritual network constructed by the Divine Emperor supports the entire spiritual world, allowing safe psychics to be born among humans, and psychic energy can also be used as a high-level energy source.
Of course, the theological society of the state religion does not think so. In their theory, the so-called spiritual network is the kingdom of God established after the Emperor ascended. In His kingdom, the Emperor blesses the human beings of this world. People should believe in the Emperor completely and devoutly, and return to the kingdom of God after death to achieve transcendence.
The Mechanicus also has their own theories, which we will not discuss for now.
But no matter how controversial it is, in the final analysis, spiritual energy comes from the spiritual world, and the ascended emperor protects mankind.
But hell still exists, filled with disordered, chaotic, crazy and destructive energy.
According to Grit, the 'Original Angry Owl' was identified as some kind of powerful psychic creature, and it fell into hell for unknown reasons. Now, it is about to complete its descent by tearing open the curtain of the real universe due to the ritual of the cultists.
And in the eight wind farms, there are eight incarnations of the Angry Owl, which are essentially eight spiritual projections of the original Angry Owl. They tore a small hole in the real universe, allowing a crazy psychic storm to sweep out.
As long as these eight Angry Owl projections are killed in the spiritual realm, it is equivalent to completely terminating the reorganization of the Angry Owl incarnation, preventing the arrival of the original Angry Owl, and completely solving the storm problem.
How to kill these angry owl projections?
"Just touch the hole." Grit gave a very specific solution and further explained, "I just wanted to see the source, so... if I just challenged the projection, it wouldn't be like this."
Oh, so you went for it after all.
"Has the projection incarnation here been resolved?"
"No..." Grit was a little embarrassed, "After I was injured, I no longer have enough mental strength to destroy the projection."
Oh, after all that recklessness, I don’t have the energy to do my work anymore.
Isn't it just giving it away for free?
Gu Hang took a deep breath and decided...
"Let me do it." Pastor Rizzo stepped forward. "Is it enough to just touch it?"
"Yes," Grit replied, "as long as you don't go too deep and just kill the monster."
"good."
Reverend Rizzo reached out his hand and touched the empty hole.
After a moment, he took his hand down, looking a little listless and weak, but his voice sounded relaxed: "I have fulfilled my mission."
As he finished speaking, Gu Hang could clearly see that the hole began to shrink at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon disappeared.
Gu Hang was overjoyed!
The dawn is just around the corner!
"We are rushing to the other seven wind farms right now! We have less than three hours, so we can still make it in time!"
Looking at the excited Governor, the pastor sighed and poured a basin of cold water on him.
"Governor," Rizzo said, "I'm afraid things are not as simple as we thought."
"What do you mean?"
"Projecting the soul to the spiritual level to fight is much more difficult than I imagined. Defeating the monster didn't cost me much, but shuttling back and forth would be mentally taxing. I won't be able to do it again in a short period of time. Otherwise, just projecting the soul would be enough to make me unconscious. I need at least two days of rest to recover."
There are still two days of cooldown for everyone to enter the spiritual copy?
Gu Hang looked at Grit.
“I’m in a similar situation.”
Rizzo continued, "It takes an extremely strong spirit to be able to withstand the pressure of soul projection. Even for the sisters of the Holy Lily of Mercy, it would be very dangerous. Among those present, only we Phoenixes are capable of withstanding it."
When these words came out, the nuns of Holy Lily of Mercy were dissatisfied.
Several people stood up:
"We can!"
"The will of the Holy Mercy Lily is in no way weaker than that of the Space Marines!"
“Leave it to us!”
They were outraged and felt humiliated.
But Rizzo had no intention of provoking her at all. Even Grit beside her fell silent at this moment.
Gu Hang saw all of this and acknowledged that what Rizzo said was true.
The head nun is a reckless woman. If she is sure, she will not remain silent.
Obviously, it was because she also believed that ordinary combat nuns would be in great danger of death if they did this that she kept silent.
In the previous battle, she had already lost a battle sister.
Gu Hang couldn't help but look at Martins and put forward his request directly: "Captain, I need your help."
Martins did not shirk his responsibility. "Fighting for the Emperor, destroying the corrupted psychic creatures, and saving the Imperial world, Phoenix has no reluctance to do so!"
The Phoenix is still very reliable!
I was originally thinking about the plan of replacing the old with the new, which was simply inhumane.
But... there are only seven Phoenix people.
This is also a problem.
Rizzo has already spent his time here, with only six Phoenixes left, but seven wind farms to deal with.
Grit looked a little ashamed. If she still had some fighting power left, she could have dealt with one of them and there wouldn't be this problem.
Or, she dared to sacrifice herself. If one nun couldn't handle it, there were ten of them. By taking turns, they would always be able to destroy a projection.
But when it came to making the decision, she was a little hesitant.
However, Gu Hang did not embarrass her: "I will deal with one myself."
"That's too dangerous," Pastor Rizzo advised.
Gu Hang waved his hands, his mind made up.
Moreover, he felt that if they fought in the purely spiritual realm, he, as a psychic, might be stronger than the Phoenix warriors.
Afterwards, the personnel were divided into many teams and started rushing towards seven other wind farms.
Except for Rizzo, the three phoenixes present ran to three places; the nuns also followed in teams as backup; the other three phoenixes in the city, headed by the bald man Schneider, also received orders and went to the other three places.
Their actions were not accompanied by any ordinary troops.
Pobov and his team were ordered by Gu Hang to go to the city to help and obey the orders of Yan Fangxu and Ossena.
The remaining Space Marines and Sisters could move forward at full speed. With the help of their power armor, they strode through the wind and rain, not much slower than a car.
The direction Gu Hang was heading was the farthest one among the seven power plants.
The reason for this distribution is that he can fly and he is the fastest.
It was not known whether it was bad luck or he was being targeted, but he was struck by lightning twice while halfway through his flight.
But nothing happened.
Before the lightning struck, he had already sensed the abnormal gathering of spiritual energy through his spiritual vision and dodged it in advance.
After he arrived at his destination, the soldiers stationed there were bombing the increasingly numerous incarnations of the Angry Owl in the huge crater left by the orbital bombing.
Gu Hang’s previous strategy was effective.
The troops that had come here according to Yan Fangxu's order encountered resistance from the cultists. The number and quality of the cultists were not particularly large, and as long as they spent some time, the soldiers should be able to defeat the enemy. The next step was to blast the wind farm, which would not be a big problem.
But during the battle, they received new orders and withdrew from the battle.
Those cultists were not chased out either.
Their mission was to protect the wind farm, even if they couldn't hold it, they had to delay it as much as possible. Even though the enemy's retreat seemed strange, they were more happy than confused.
Then, they happily encountered the orbital bombardment.
The bombing method on the Quintet followed the Governor's order and carried out 7×3 minimum-yield bombings. It did not use those huge main macro cannons and light spear arrays, but only used secondary guns.
But the effect of the explosion on the ground is still terrifying.
The direct damage range of the bombing exceeded half a kilometer, and the shock wave still had lethality one kilometer away. Even if the army retreated to a theoretically safe position nearly two kilometers away from the target location, they could still feel the intense shock.
Some houses on the outskirts of the city were blown down.
Fortunately, most people are now queuing up at various food distribution points to receive food, so there shouldn't be many casualties.
When they saw the residual heat that was being washed away by the rain after the three bombings, and rushed back, the wind farm was already gone. The incarnation of the angry owl that should have appeared was working hard to reorganize.
Needless to say, the bombardment began. The Angry Owl incarnation, which had just been reassembled not long ago, was blown to pieces again.
In this way, maintaining the strategy of reorganizing a little and then exploding a little, the incarnation of the angry owl here also became very miserable.
Until Gu Hang arrived.
He commended the troops present and then received the latest updates through the signalmen in their team.
Good news has come from the other two places closest to the wind farm that killed Cui Kao.
Two Space Marines, including Chapter Master Martins, have completed the destruction of the original projections of the two wrathful owls.
This is a good start and means the plan is going well.
Gu Hang no longer hesitated, stepped forward, and reached out to touch the hole.
Suddenly, he felt a palpitation and a large area of fog appeared in front of his eyes.
The fog came and went quickly, disappearing in a few breaths. In front of him, there appeared a deep road that sloped downwards, with no end in sight, and there was endless colorful mist rolling around.
Gu Hang could feel a strong sense of temptation, as if calling him to go on; at the same time, there was also a strong sense of fear, telling him that he would face great terror if he went on.
These two contradictory feelings intertwined in his heart, even causing him to lose consciousness for a moment.
A roar woke him up from his confused and contradictory feeling.
Turning around, Gu Hang saw an illusory incarnation of an angry owl that was two people tall, showing off its might.
That's you, right?
Gu Hang didn't say anything and used a soul cutting move.
After the soul projection came to this illusory spiritual realm, his psychic power could of course be used. In fact, because he was closer to the spiritual world and even to hell, his spirituality became more sensitive and the psychic spells he could release became stronger.
The monster had one of its legs cut off and it was no longer as arrogant as before.
Strong will?
Perhaps the Sisters of Battle and the Space Marines really need this when they enter the spiritual realm to fight. They have to fight fiercely with the terrible incarnation of the Wrath Owl here, and the strength of their will determines the strength of their "body".
But a psychic like Gu Hang doesn't need that. When he came here, he relied on his spiritual attributes to fight. All his psychic spells could work normally and were even stronger.
Gu Hang couldn’t kill the Angry Owl projection with one psychic cut, but it didn’t matter, he would just kill it one cut at a time.
Less spiritual energy consumption, stronger spiritual power... At this rate, he could deliver a hundred strikes. In other words, he could torture this angry owl to death.
In fact, that guy couldn't even withstand fifteen cuts. He didn't even touch the corner of Gu Hang's clothes before he was cut into countless pieces.
There was another thick fog in front of him. When the fog dissipated, Gu Hang saw the real world before his eyes.
And it was at this moment that he felt a strong sense of tiredness.
When he left the spiritual realm, his soul was torn apart. It wasn't an injury, but if he entered that place again in a short period of time, he might be seriously injured when he left.
He understood clearly that this was what Grit had said, the price of projecting the soul into the pure spiritual realm.
Fortunately, this price is paid when you come out. If you pay it when you enter, you will have to fight a projection of a raging owl with a weak debuff, which will make it much more difficult.
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The content is not easy to separate, so I combined the two chapters together.
(End of this chapter)
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