Chapter 617: Chapter 356, Subspace Smuggling Plan_2
At the same time, as they penetrated deeper, the enemy’s movements became increasingly elusive.
Wherever the flesh and blood structures or the ground had not been cleansed and were imbued with activity, a cavity door might open at any moment, and Plague Demons would emerge, causing significant casualties to the human forces.
Equally troubling was the indication that routes blasted by the Orbital Cannons and then stormed by armored troops were starting to get resealed.
There seemed to be signs that the Plague Demon Army planned to break through the human forces’ rearguard, trapping them within the city before beginning an encirclement and elimination campaign.
As it stood, unless they abandoned the assault and promptly withdrew their forces, the human military had no other means to counter the situation. The main demon army outside the city had not been annihilated, merely a direct passage had been blasted through them. This passage was flanked by battle lines stretching tens of kilometers in depth on both sides.
The troops responsible for maintaining the human military’s rear simply could not withstand the pincer attack coming from the enemy.
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Even within Fino City, the human forces could no longer sustain the vigorous offensive they had launched the previous day. They shifted to hunkering down on the spot, and it was already commendable if they could maintain the positions they had secured.
The situation had reached a critical point.
However, at the same time, Gu Hang believed the moment to strike the final blow had ripened.
In fact, having 300 to 500 thousand human troops within Fino City was already enough to meet his requirements. The current situation was even more than twice as favorable as the one he had originally hoped for.
This granted him and his subordinates with Spiritual Energy a significant margin for error.
The Storm Mages, prepared in advance, swiftly formed an array around everyone just as they had practiced over the previous months.
At the very heart of the array stood Dress.
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Her spatial Spiritual Energy talent would play a central role in the entirety of the endeavor.
This was a primer for opening a spatial gateway.
And if it were simply a matter of conventional teleportation, why the necessity for the prelude of millions of brave soldiers’ blood?
Gu Hang, floating above Dress, was in fact the mastermind behind this transit, an incursion involving the teleportation of hundreds over a mere distance of slightly more than 200 kilometers.
The entire teleportation array was under his control.
And he, discreetly opened a subspace rift.
This rift, of course, connected to his Storm God Kingdom.
The next moment, a deep blue radiance enveloped all the people above the array.
Over six hundred people, along with numerous heavy machines, disappeared from their original location in an instant.
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Many among them were experiencing teleportation for the first time and thus found everything to be normal. Their nervousness was simply due to the unfamiliarity and the previous warning about certain safety risks of teleportation, added to the arduous task that lay ahead.
But, at the same time, there were quite a few among them who had been through teleportation before.
Like Mrs. Georgette.
She sensed that the Spiritual Energy teleportation this time was somehow different from the experiences she had been through on other battlefields in the past.
Previously, point-to-point teleportation in the real world was almost instantaneous—a sensation of dizziness followed by a blinding white light that obscured everything. After that, it would be over, and they should have arrived at their destination.
If lucky, there were no enemies nearby, and the teleported team could have time to organize their gear, deploy their formation, and ascertain their precise location—teleportation had its variances.
If unlucky, they might land right amidst the enemy, which was still relatively fortunate as they could simply fight chaotically with a debuff of dizziness and disorientation. After all, they were teleported for that very purpose, and it’s not like the ambushed enemy would be in any better shape.
The worst-case scenario was being teleported into a stone. Half of the body inside, and half outside—that would be fatal—literally. The spatial power of the teleportation would ‘push aside’ the entities in that area, whether it was air or other substances, to place the teleportee there. Pushing aside air was akin to a gust of wind, but forcefully pushing aside something else under high pressure often caused fatal injuries to the person who was halfway or fully immersed.
Even if they survived the damage, it was quite common to be stuck and unable to get out.
However, this risk was low as the teleporters would eliminate it as much as possible—just like they would try to make the teleportation more accurate.
As for accidents… accidents were a part of Spiritual Energy teleportation. What could one do?
But the difference this time was that the feeling of dizziness was much more intense.
It was even worse than when teleportation malfunctions occurred over distances of thousands of kilometers.
Moreover, the intense light before their eyes was not white, but blue.
And crucially, she did not feel that she had reached her destination but was ‘stuck’ in some environment.
The blue light, not even blocked by closed eyes, prevented her from seeing her surroundings. She only felt her body floating.
She seemed to have heard the sound of lightning as well.
Her dizzy, nauseous state was rapidly easing, but her heart was becoming more and more panicked—could there have been a teleportation accident?
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Of course, this was no teleportation accident, but rather Gu Hang’s doing.
At this moment, everyone was within his Storm God Kingdom.
This place was already in subspace, and also the springboard he intended to use.
The plague demon sword that had been purified was now firmly grasped in his hand.
With the demon sword in hand, he swung forcefully, tearing open a rift in the space before him, and the space filled with evil, the rotten smell was just beyond this spatial crack.
Although extremely unpleasant, this force did not show any hostility, nor did it backfire.
At this stage, Gu Hang’s heart finally settled.
Although, according to previous calculations and estimates, the outcome should be just like this without a doubt, he still felt a lingering trepidation as there had been no conditions for experimenting.
And now, his conjectures had turned into reality.
The subspace surrounding and eroding Korolya belonged to Ge Wajia, the great unclean one. And the power source of the demon sword in his hand was as well, an incarnation of Ge Wajia.
And by using this holy instrument to touch this piece of subspace, there would be no counterattack.
Next, Gu Hang enveloped everyone with his own power, and continued the teleportation, crossing through the split created by the demon sword, arriving at the subspace area closest to Fino City.
Though it was still subspace, the environment here was drastically different from the Storm God Kingdom.
A thick green aura wafted through the place, and within each inch of ‘air’, it seemed there were countless tiny organisms. They were content, they were unruly, they had received a promise from some great existence, ensuring they would exist forever and could do whatever they desired. And these drifting tiny organisms had no intelligence—the only thing they wanted to do was to proliferate, proliferate, and proliferate some more.
And the human body intruding this subspace was apparently the best carrier for their reproduction.
Their instincts drove them to eagerly try to enter the human body through any available means—breathing passages, skin, exposed mucous membranes, and the like.
But they were kept at bay by a force that was of the same origin as them, but much more powerful.
They could only wilt away where they were.
That force belonged to the master of this space.
Gu Hang, who was not rejected, was still very cautious.
He quickly followed a pre-calculated route, wrapping everyone with the power of Spiritual Energy, and arrived at the core area of ‘Fino City’.
From subspace, they had come to Fino City.
This might sound unbelievable, but in fact, it was quite simple.
The reason Fino City had ‘revived’ was precisely that the entire city had been completely covered by subspace rules, or to say, the whole city had been dragged into subspace and became a part of it.
The whole of Fino City possessed a dual overlap state of the real world and subspace.
The closer to the edges of Fino City, the weaker this overlapping state would be, and reality’s veil could still play a certain role; but the closer to the core, the more solid the overlap of the two. At the very heart, they were simply one and the same.
And the target of Gu Hang and his group was precisely at the core of Fino City.
Here was the cause of the city’s revitalization; at the same time, the Wicked Void Shield and dark energy Anti-Orbit Cannon that protected the revitalized city in the real-world, drew their powers from this very place.
To destroy these, they had to come here.
And now, they had arrived.
Ge Wajia made no reaction to this, and the subspace here showed no rejection to their arrival.
Utilizing the demon sword, sharing the same origin as Ge Wajia himself, to ‘deceive’ the subspace for the smuggling plan, it could be said to be half-successful already!
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