Chapter 555: Chapter 326, I Really Wasn’t Meant to Die!
Bochoya Galaraldo had never died and even some time before, he had been doing quite ‘well’.
However, this so-called ‘well’ didn’t imply that he was enjoying any quality of life, but rather that he wasn’t in any immediate danger to his life.
The story goes back to when Gu Hang had trapped him into Subspace.
After falling into it, the golden light on his body hadn’t diminished at all; on the contrary, because he entered Subspace, it became even more intense.
Gu Hang judged that this was due to the Divine Emperor’s blessing.
Of course, this blessing wasn’t directly given to Galaraldo.
The Sun Lord, Suo He Kaim, the de facto ruler of the Human Empire, was graced by the Divine Emperor and possessed divine power, a true Living Saint.
Moreover, he was far more powerful than any being in history known as a Living Saint. The grace he received from the Divine Emperor was particularly abundant, even enough to support the largest Solar Expedition in the Human Empire since the Great Expedition.
Galaraldo, as one of the forty-six apostles of the Sun Lord, had a portion of the divine power bestowed upon him by the Sun Lord in the form of a blessing.
It was because of this power that Galaraldo, aboard the Korolya III, remained so composed in the face of the Demons’ assault.
At the same time, once he fell into the demonic realm, with no barrier of reality to stop him, he could connect directly to the Divine Emperor’s Spirit Network, and this blessed divine power became even more majestic and powerful.
Had an ordinary person gone in, even an Interstellar Warrior, they would probably have decayed into rotting corpses in a very short time due to Plague Sorcery. But the divine power bestowed by The Emperor protected him, keeping him unaffected by the dark magic of Subspace.
Of course, to flaunt this power recklessly within a space controlled by one of the four most powerful Evil Gods in Subspace would be like a shining target, sure to provoke a targeted attack.
Galaraldo was smart enough to realize this.
He consciously reined in his power, hiding it within his body, ensuring only that he was not eroded by the rot-inducing dark magic.
This reduced the chances of being targeted and besieged by the demons of Subspace.
Thus, he was able to fend for himself within the realm of the Benevolent Father. As long as he didn’t provoke some powerful demon, he could hold out for a long time.
When Galaraldo was first thrown into the realm of the Benevolent Father, Gu Hang had left a beacon on him.
It had no other purpose, nor was it discovered by Galaraldo. Gu Hang observed his situation silently from time to time through this beacon.
Gu Hang did admire the guy a bit. Although he was in a desperate situation, he never despaired or gave up.
Once he was no longer in immediate danger, Galaraldo continuously sought ways to escape from Subspace, trying to return to the real world.
But that was easier said than done.
At least in the past year, he tried many methods, but he never succeeded.
Gradually, Gu Hang also felt much more at ease.
Although he might not die immediately, it wasn’t much different from being dead.
If he could last a year, could he last ten years, or fifty?
However, things changed recently.
The divine power bestowed upon Galaraldo suddenly started to deplete rapidly.
He himself was also aware of this.
Before, the mindset of the formerly steady as an old dog Galaraldo was truly agitated at this moment.
While the bestowed divine power hadn’t completely vanished, he made a very decisive final attempt to escape from Subspace.
He almost burnt all of his divine power—since it was going to be gone soon anyway—trying to tear open a fissure back to the real world.
Without a doubt, he failed.
After exhausting the remaining divine power, which wouldn’t replenish, he fell into a coma, and the crack back to reality didn’t successfully open either.
If things had ended there, then Galaraldo would surely have been dead.
But Gu Hang took action.
As he fell into unconsciousness, Mr. Gu, who had been silently observing, opened a passage to his Storm God Kingdom and pulled Galaraldo through.
It was a casual move; in fact, Gu Hang hadn’t yet decided what to do with him.
Back when he was first thrown into the abyssal hell, if he had died right away, there would have been nothing to say, as that had been Gu Hang’s intention.
But now, after a year had passed, the situation had changed greatly, and Gu Hang had some other thoughts.
The most important of these was the implication hidden in the depletion of the divine power on Galaraldo.
This depletion occurred around the same time as the Sun Lord’s Investigation Team, which was supposed to arrive at Korolya, suddenly decided to turn back halfway through their journey.
Could it be that the Sun Lord was in trouble?
In fact, this idea was not new and not only held by him.
As soon as the investigation team abruptly announced their non-arrival, there was already much speculation.
Publicly, not much was said, but privately, there were all sorts of rumors.
Some said there had been a major incident in the Solar Expedition, others said the high lords of the empire could no longer bear the Sun Lord, and some even said the Solar Expedition was about to end…
Among these rumors, the one about the Sun Lord, Suo He Kaim himself, facing trouble was mentioned the least.
This epic heroic figure was too well-known, and moreover not considered old by contemporary standards—only in his sixties or seventies. Given the existence of life-extension surgeries, ordinary dignitaries could live past three hundred, not to mention Suo He Kaim.