Chapter 242, My Legion of Heroes
The commander of the 31st Airborne Division, Lieutenant Colonel Derek, felt confused now.
He was convinced that he should have died before.
At that time, he was commanding the artillery unit, firing at the huge evil god. But at that moment, a bolt of lightning fell from the sky.
He felt that everything in front of him was illuminated by light in an instant. The severe pain lasted for about a moment, and then he fell into darkness.
That should be death, right?
He died in battle without any regrets. Being able to die in a battle against an evil god would be a worthy death. The only regret is that he could not see the outcome, but he firmly believes that under the leadership of the Governor, the warriors of the alliance will win.
However, he didn't expect that after death, there would really be a soul that would go to heaven?
No...that's not right.
He looked around, the environment here was very familiar.
Except for the strange blue 'sun' in the sky that was still emitting electric arcs and the dark clouds in the sky that had disappeared, the rest of the surface environment seemed to be the place where he and his army fought to the death.
And next to him, there were many, many translucent little blue men like him. Many of them had familiar faces to him, so they might as well be his soldiers!
What's going on?
"Warriors, look to me."
A familiar voice sounded in everyone's heart.
That's the Governor!
They looked up involuntarily and saw the governor's figure floating there under the not too dazzling blue sun.
Many soldiers involuntarily performed military salutes to show respect.
Gu Hang returned the gift solemnly.
Then, he slowly said: "I'm sorry for reawakening you from your supposed long sleep."
"You came because of my recruitment and died fighting for the safety of the Alliance. You should have received a peaceful sleep."
"But now, our work is not finished yet. I still need your strength to continue to shine after death."
"I will not force you. If anyone is unwilling, please recite 'Long Sleep' three times in your heart, and I will send you back to sleep. You are also the 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 wasn't talking nonsense.
If someone really doesn't want to, he can indeed send them back.
However, after carefully feeling it, he didn't even hear a word of 'sleep' among more than three thousand people.
Then, he opened his eyes with satisfaction and said: "Very good, I am very happy to continue fighting with you. Our first job is to establish a Our base.”
"Build a Hall of Valor. This will be the resting place for you and all future heroes who fight for the Raging Star and the welfare of mankind!"
"Now, the person with the highest military rank comes out!"
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Among these more than 3,000 people, the one with the highest military rank is naturally Lieutenant Colonel Derek.
His death in battle was both surprising and normal to Gu Hang.
Normally, it meant that after the battle, when he returned to the real world, he saw the casualty report, mentioning the news that the commander of the 31st Airborne Division had died in battle. So, seeing Derek here is normal.
Surprised means... that a division commander-level commander was unfortunately struck to death by lightning, which was quite unlucky. When Gu Hang first learned about it, he was quite shocked.
Lieutenant Colonel Derek...oh, Colonel now. The alliance's practice will be to reward merit again after the war, and the war dead will not be missed. There will be those who should be promoted to military ranks and awarded military medals, and dying in battle is also merit in itself - as long as they did not die stupidly or in violation of military orders.
It is also meaningful for the sacrificed soldiers to receive military rank promotion and military medals. Honorary military rank medals and military medals will be returned to the family; higher military ranks and accumulated military medals will increase the amount of pensions and allowances for the families of deceased servicemen who are minors, widows, and elderly parents.
This is another reason why the morale of the Alliance army is high: there is no need to worry that your sacrifice is of no value, the Alliance will remember it all.
Colonel Derek has become the leader of this force, and there are quite a lot of things he has to do next.
All the heroic spirits are derived from those who died in the previous battle. Some of them died in the confrontation with the storm monsters summoned by the original Raging Owl; some were killed by lightning and thunder when fighting against the Storm Raging Owl himself.
Although the guy was beaten to death in frustration, in fact, before he was killed, he summoned no less than a thousand thunderbolts.
Apart from the ones that hit Gu Hang and were dodged by him crazily, there were also many others that hit the army, causing nearly two thousand people to die in battle.
These casualties came from various units of the Northern Army Group, and their arms and organizations were scattered. It is quite a test of Colonel Derek's ability to knead and organize them again.
Of course, Gu Hang believed he could do a good job.
After he settled the matter of re-establishing the organizational system, their first task was to change this barren land and build some buildings here according to the advice of the Governor.
Although it is windy all year round, never rains, and there is no climate change, the soldiers who have died in battle and become heroes do not seem to have to have a house that can protect them from the wind and rain. However, Gu Hang still hopes that these heroic spirits can still maintain their awareness of themselves as 'human beings'.
They have just transformed into another form, and they should continue to identify themselves as 'human beings'.
If not, what's 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 good, they must try to create conditions so that they can live a life as human as possible, in order to make this anchor stronger.
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After watching Colonel Derek go about his business, Gu Hang also began to think about his own affairs.
His main goal when he returned to this Kingdom of God was to explore how to use this new ability.
Summoning heroic spirits can only be regarded as an unexpected surprise.
After completing the upgrade and obtaining the new innate ability of [Real World Essence], Gu Hang noticed that the souls of those who died in the war were still floating here.
They couldn't go back, and Gu Hang couldn't let their souls completely leave the real world and return to their real bodies. But he can use the essence of the real world to control the Kingdom of God, and use spiritual 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 spiritual energy.
It’s just that Gu Hang doesn’t look like that beast.
What imagination could a beast have? It will only create a group of people who are as brainless as themselves.
Gu Hang, on the other hand, retained to a great extent a series of "human" traces such as the personality and memories of the original owners in those soul fragments, and reshaped their bodies with spiritual energy.
Gu Hang not only gives them ideas, freedom, and will, but also reserves a future for them to be promoted.
At this point, there is a fundamental difference from the previous brainless storm monsters that can only be used as cannon fodder.
And thinking about this, Gu Hang was shocked to realize that these heroic spirits... how could they resemble demons?
Living in the abyss of hell or the real world; the body is composed of spiritual energy; it has its own will but is controlled by itself, a god who is not a god; future promotion needs to rely on gathering more spiritual energy to strengthen itself...
Shaking his head, he forced the thought out.
Don't think blindly yet.
Then, he began to think about how to use the entire Kingdom of God.
Now, not only can he easily and casually invest his consciousness into this Kingdom of God, he can also easily open a rift in the real world leading to his Kingdom of God in the real world.
This will make a big difference.
During the battle, the cracks that were torn open allowed the army of heroes he had created to come to the real world at any time, and as a surprise force, appear anywhere on the battlefield without warning.
The strategic value is great.
It is also about tearing open the rift in the real world. As long as Gu Hang does this, the spiritual power he can use in the real world will reach a very exaggerated level. Especially when using the storm series of psychic spells, the power will become extremely exaggerated.
At this moment, his body has reached the level where he can destroy a team of Terminator veterans alone. And once the curtain is torn apart and blessed by the power of the Kingdom of God, although he himself is not up to 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 It is normal for the strength to increase three to five times.
Then, perhaps an elite company of Space Marines will be wiped out by him independently; even in Star Wars, his personal power may affect the outcome of the battle by interfering with or strengthening the void shield. Even some small, such as patrol ship-level starships, he can use the greatly enhanced storm spell to destroy them without fully deploying defense!
After appreciating his full strength, Gu Hang couldn't help but shudder.
It's a bit scary.
Not mentioning these combat aspects, Gu Hang also thought of some methods in other aspects.
For example, the 'storm' divinity he inherited has strong control and dominance over the storms formed by spiritual energy. So, is the waste energy storm problem that has been raging on Raging Owl for hundreds of years expected to be solved?
Directly transforming the climate and geology at the planet level would cost astronomical amounts; but Gu Hang used secondary divine power to control the intensity of the waste energy storm, repair the environment, and allow the spiritual energy that is essentially the real world to penetrate into the real world, but because It may be an achievable method to turn waste energy storms that cannot be stored due to environmental damage into usable spiritual gas fields.
It's just that he has to stay in some place where the waste energy storm is blowing fiercely for a long time.
But it's not too strenuous. Anyway, he has always had a lot of government work. There is no difference between working in Fuxing City and having a mobile office and staying in one place for several months. It does not delay him from cleaning up the waste energy storm while working.
This matter is not a random thought. After he leaves, he plans to go to Gaota Province, the former Garbage Town and now Gaota City, to verify the feasibility of this idea.
In addition, Gu Hang also thought of a possible approach.
Tearing the curtain of reality is a big move, and Gu Hang will definitely not use it like this until the critical moment. However, opening a very small crack, or even not opening it at all, just thinning the curtain of reality somewhere to allow more psychic energy to pass through, would make much less noise.
Doing this may not allow Gu Hang to be significantly strengthened in the fierce battle, but the spiritual aura that gradually penetrates, accumulates over time, and gradually becomes stronger, will bring a benefit: within a considerable range, among humans, Individuals with relatively high spiritual attributes will have a better chance of awakening spiritual power.
In other words, Gu Hang may have a way to mass-produce psykers.
At this moment, he was even beginning to think about what a name should be for a mage group to be built in the future when there are enough psykers.
To be honest, mass-producing psykers allows more people to have the opportunity to awaken psionic powers. This is a more feasible thing than fixing the problem of waste energy storm.
Generally speaking, having a lot of psykers is not a good thing.
Psykers are always accompanied by many problems, such as not being able to control their own power and harming others and themselves; for example, they are easy to become the target of the abyss of hell, causing great damage after being seduced into the mind, and even being possessed by demons. Tear open the curtain of reality and form a small-scale demonic invasion...
But Gu Hang thought about it and felt that these risks were controllable here.
The source of power for the psykers he trained was the Kingdom of Storm God controlled by Gu Hang. Although this place is also in the abyss of hell, as long as Gu Hang doesn't want to, there won't be any big news like tempting the mind, being possessed by demons, and tearing the curtain of reality.
As for the remaining problem of 'how to control psychic power without hurting yourself or others', it can be solved.
"If you think about it this way, before establishing the mages, I might have to establish a psionic academy first? Let's call it a magic school... or call it Hogwarts?"
Gu Hang amused himself by thinking about it.
He was in a good mood and couldn't help but focus more on the blue sun in the sky.
His perspective gradually zoomed out, and soon encompassed the entire Kingdom of God.
The place was still desolate, but in Gu Hang's eyes, he seemed to see a vibrant future.
However, this process of distance has not ended.
Soon, what he saw was not just the Kingdom of Storm God. A larger realm appeared in his perspective.
Outside the Kingdom of Storms, shrouded in the rays of the blue sun, is a vast expanse of chaos. Countless colors are constantly rolling and entangled in this space. The powers of various attributes are intertwined with each other, forming an extremely chaotic and twisted scene.
At first glance, it looked quite beautiful, but at second glance, this sense of complete disorder made him feel faintly dizzy and nauseated.
Looking further away, Gu Hang seemed to see five particularly distinct huge areas in the endless chaos.
But just at this glance, he suddenly felt that his already very powerful spirituality gave him a strong warning.
He cut off the angle of view without hesitation, but the next moment, a severe headache still came to him.
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