Chapter 115: Chapter 113, Termination Ritual
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Dizzy and disoriented, Gu Hang refused the support of the approaching soldier and made his way to the group of communication soldiers on his own.
While taking a rest beside them, he said, “Let me know immediately if there’s any news from other places.”
“Yes, sir!”
With that, Gu Hang closed his eyes and sat in the rain to recuperate.
It wasn’t that they couldn’t afford to set up a shelter for the Governor; it was just that in the current conditions, any awning would be blown away.
Fortunately, Gu Hang didn’t care about such things.
In the following fifteen to twenty minutes, messages from all around came one by one. Three more projections of the Wrathful Owls at the wind farms were taken care of.
Together with the previous four, that made seven in total.
A smile appeared on Gu Hang’s face, even with his eyes closed.
It seemed there wasn’t much of a problem anymore.
But a few minutes later, the news from the last wind farm that he had been waiting for still hadn’t arrived.
The smile disappeared from Gu Hang’s face.
“Send a message, ask what’s going on over there, what’s the situation now.”
The communication soldier did as ordered, and soon there was a reply.
“Five minutes ago, an interstellar warrior and two nuns arrived, they… they…”
At this point, the communication soldier stammered, and Gu Hang already had an ominous feeling:
“Quick, say it.”
“Yes, sir!” No longer bothering to organize his words, the communication soldier hurriedly reported the situation as it happened, “An interstellar warrior touched the void first. Then after a little while, the void didn’t disappear; instead, the interstellar warrior fell. Then the two nuns checked, and said the interstellar warrior was already dead. One of them touched the void and also fell… The remaining nun is using the communication signal, calling for help.”
Gu Hang’s face turned completely dark.
Although not yet a complete failure, he was aware that there was a big problem now.
Besides himself, a high-level spiritual energy user, only the interstellar warriors could deal with the Wrathful Owl projections lingering in the wind farms.
These Phoenix veterans, who had undergone the Penitent Expedition and each had at least a century of combat experience, were all extremely determined. There were only seven of them, and added to Gu Hang himself, they should have been able to handle all the Wrathful Owl projections.
It was indeed a stretch, but Gu Hang hadn’t really considered the possibility of them failing.
However, even though the Phoenixes had a seventy to eighty percent chance of winning against a Wrathful Owl incarnation in the Mental Realm with pure willpower, facing it seven times in a row could lead to an accident, which wasn’t unthinkable. Moreover, Gu Hang remembered that among the Phoenixes, one unfortunate soul had been hit by an air blast and then, during the appearance of the Wrathful Owl incarnation, was slapped by the same being.
Although there was no concrete evidence, Gu Hang suspected that the one who died was this very person… Perhaps the previous warrior had already been seriously injured and in a poor state before entering the Mental Realm to face the Wrathful Owl projection with pure willpower and unfortunately lost the battle.
The loss of an interstellar warrior was painful.
Although the Phoenixes were still only his allies, their relationship wasn’t the kind where one would stand still if an ally was in trouble. On the contrary, the two sides had cooperated fairly well recently.
Even though their presence required Gu Hang to invest a considerable amount of manpower in building monasteries for them and Wu Jiarong’s research institute had to spare time to hand-make bombs for them, the interstellar warriors truly showed their worth in action. The price Gu Hang paid was not even as much as the money he would give to hire mercenaries.
On the flip side, these Phoenix warriors had been a great help to him.
The loss of one meant that Gu Hang felt he had lost at least three hundred points of grace—that was the price of a standard interstellar warrior, not to mention the veteran’s experience.
Beyond the personal loss, the downfall of a Phoenix declared that the mission to halt the Cult’s ritual had suffered a significant setback.
Seven interstellar warriors for seven wind farms left no room for error.
If a mistake occurred, the difficulty of fixing it was immense. The battle nun who died following the fallen Phoenix was a case in point.
In the whole Revival City, where could one find another being with spiritual will as strong as that of the interstellar warriors?
The only person Gu Hang could think of asking for help was Superior Georgette.
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Would the Mother Superior be willing to let her nine remaining nuns, one by one, attempt to duel to the death with the Angry Owl Projection?
Gu Hang felt a bit reluctant to broach this request.
The Mother Superior had already lost two of her subordinates; if it were only about sacrifice that would be one thing, but the critical issue was that no one knew what chance the nuns stood as they entered the Mental Realm to challenge the Angry Owl Projection.
What if all nine nuns died and the problem still wasn’t resolved?
Georgette would hesitate.
But it seemed Gu Hang had no other option.
He took a deep breath and said to the communications soldier standing by, “Go inquire where Superior Georgette currently is, I need to speak with her.”
“Yes, sir!”
The communications soldier hurried off to carry out the order.
However, at that very moment, Gu Hang heard a roar of extreme unwillingness, coming from the edge of the sky, from the void.
Suddenly, he felt that the dark clouds hovering over the city showed signs of dispersal; the increasingly fierce storm and heavy rain seemed to have lessened a great deal.
Gu Hang was somewhat startled in his heart: Had the ritual been terminated?
Had the Angry Owl Projection been dealt with?
But why?
Who had intervened?
Could it be that the last remaining nun mentioned in the previous reports had a major outbreak and defeated the Angry Owl Projection?
Gu Hang’s heart was enveloped in immense surprise!
Regardless of the details, this was undoubtedly excellent news!
Although the outcome was positive, such a rollercoaster of emotions was hardly friendly to the heart. If possible, Gu Hang really did not want to experience something similar ever again.
Shortly afterward, another communications soldier came to report the news.
“Governor, we have new intelligence from the wind farm where we lost a star warrior and a battle nun! The problem has been solved!”
“I know,” Gu Hang said with a smile, “Who resolved the issue in the end? Was it the battle nun?”
“No.”
Hmm?
At that response, Gu Hang was taken aback.
“Then who was it?”
“It was Tadeusz.”
Tadeusz? Gu Hang found the name somewhat familiar.
He instantly recalled the series of battles during the previous food transport convoy ambush. He had read the battle report, and in that battle, the position of political commissar he had established played a significant role.
Back then, the most impressive person he had noticed was naturally Kodi, who sacrificed himself to turn the tide of battle from defeat to victory.
As for Tadeusz, it seemed that in the story of Kodi, he was just part of the backdrop.
However, it was this character, who seemed as inconspicuous as part of the backdrop, who became the key to saving the entire city.
Now Gu Hang was very curious about how exactly Tadeusz had achieved this.
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An additional chapter will be added; another one will follow shortly to complete this entire segment.