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Chapter 569: Crystal Forest Dusk Echo
The capturing senses in Rebos' pupils locked onto the shadow, and his analytical senses began to analyze it quickly.
The guy's whole body was blurry and I could only make out his general outline. His shadow seemed to be disappearing soon.
After hearing this warning, Hemiel did not relax completely just because he was a low-level person. Instead, he kept a close eye on the shadows of the woods behind him and was on guard against the strange lights.
"Do you want me to fix it?"
Caroline jumped forward, aiming the "Truth" in her hand at the shadow in front of her, waiting for Rebos's order.
"No, it's disappearing."
Rebos said without turning his head, then strode forward and walked under the tree where the shadow was.
Caroline lowered the gun slightly and looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar figure in front of her. She always felt that the other party seemed to be closing his heart again.
She had communicated with Sister Stika many times, and after every day's prayer, they would talk about things between girls.
Sister Stika's ability to give birth to life is something that all nuns envy.
Especially for Caroline, who has a negative psychic body, her life form is basically unable to give birth.
As the daughter of the Divine Emperor, she always felt incompetent, and especially this time, she failed to protect Lin Heng well, and she blamed herself every day.
If the Emperor had not given her a more important task, she would definitely want to become a nun of atonement and join the team of atonement.
"Okay..you..what is that?"
“According to Ark’s exploration notes, this thing is called a Shadow Man, a byproduct of the Hive War.
Because of the influence of the hive shadow, the soul is alienated by hunger and greed, and always wants to devour other souls.
It might attack living things, but right now, perhaps because its energy coefficient is too low, it's barely even able to maintain its own form."
As Rebos spoke, he walked over to the tree where the crystal and chitin were entwined. Above where the two substances intertwined, a soul stone was emitting a dim luster.
He took out a dagger and pried it open carefully. Caroline wanted to help, but was stopped by Hermione.
"sisters."
"Prince Guard."
"Your weapon?"
Caroline looked at the Truth, then at Rebos and said, “Lin Heng brought it to me. Without him, the Divine Emperor would not have given me this weapon.
The reason why the Divine Emperor gave me this weapon was to let me help Lin Heng, protect Lin Heng, and guard Lin Heng."
The two followed Rebos for a few meters, talking as they walked.
"Since it is His Majesty's order, I won't ask any more questions. However, as for that guy, what is his identity?"
"I don't know either." Caroline shook her head and said, "Logically, I should know him.
But unfortunately, the ordeal I endured as a nun made me forget the past and focus solely on the safety of the empire. I only knew everything about him when he boarded the ship."
Caroline began to talk about her past with Rebos, the battle against the Queen of Fate in the spaceship of Notan, and then the salvation of the Immortal Lucius in the hive world.
Later, during the Riza Heresy, he forced his way through the Warp rift. These feats one after another really surprised Hemiel.
He knew that Rebos must be a man with means and ability, but he didn't expect that he could cause such a big stir alone.
If he were to take charge, just mobilizing a galaxy for war would require long-term preparation, and this unit is still measured in years.
"Looking at it this way, the battle on the transport flagship was something he considered in the long term."
"Yes, he has too many things to consider and too much data to calculate. Once he gets into the state, he will concentrate completely, so his emotions will not control him."
Caroline pursed her lips and stepped over the roots of the twisted dragon, stepping into a pit full of fallen leaves.
The momentary weightlessness startled Caroline. She exerted force with her hind legs and pounced forward like a female leopard.
He rolled to the ground and looked behind him. In the pit of fallen leaves where he had just stepped, there were sharp single-molecule crystals growing.
"Huh~ Actually, he's changed for a while now. Although I'm still serious with him, some people have said that he's starting to joke around."
Hemiel listened as the branches blocking the way were lifted, and the crystal tumor above it exploded with a "pop" sound due to the force.
Each crystal fragment of that thing is like a shuriken bullet. In this case, it is like being shot at close range by a shuriken shotgun.
Thanks to years of combat training and neural engineering, Hemiel was alert and quick enough to dodge. While it wouldn't necessarily cause significant damage to the adamantium armor, subconsciously dodging was always better than resisting head-on.
"Heh... just kidding. I've seen a lot of people like this. I guess their sense of humor has been removed through surgery.
He is like a sophisticated machine, he can solve any situation with calculations and use any person.”
"Although what I said was a bit selfish and unbearable, it was all for the sake of the Divine Emperor and the Empire, so it's understandable..."
The two men stopped and looked at Rebos's raised arm in front of them, then immediately looked around and became alert.
The spectrometer in the helmet decomposed the light, and in the woods with messy luster, the shadows one after another gradually revealed a strange taste.
"There are 10 at 2-13 o'clock, and the highest level is level 11 Ita." Ribos said quickly.
"There are 6 at 10-11 o'clock, and the highest level is level 10 Theta." Caroline knelt on one knee and took aim.
"There are 2 of them from 6 to 18 o'clock, the highest level being level 9, Yota-level." Hemiel raised his spear with one arm, turned the halberd's blade upside down and pointed it at Caroline, then said:
"Sister, can you lend me some blood?"
Without saying a word, Caroline took off her gloves and wiped the blade with the back of her hand. A stream of bright red blood quickly solidified on it.
"Let's do it."
Rebos took the lead, and those shadows were not willing to be outdone. They all let out terrifying screams, and the sound waves roared towards them, carrying fallen leaves and crystal powder.
As this group of shadows released their psychic energy, the surrounding crystal bones responded to it.
The psychic power seemed to be enhanced in this bizarre forest. It was chaotic, strengthened and differentiated.
The evil energy attack on the soul crushes the brain, while the crystal storm destroys the body with great force.
The wind was rising and the clouds were surging. Amidst the howling gale, a bright light exploded in the shadows, and the blooming power of erasure immediately demonstrated its magnificent divine power.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
The advice of "Truth" immediately silenced the disturbing roar, and the furious bomb of divine blessing destroyed everything.
Guns were bombarding over there, blades were flashing over here, and a bloody halberd swept across the shadow, and the opponent's body's energy level immediately dropped by half.
It seemed as if it had suffered a great blow. It staggered and did not dare to stay any longer. Its body trembled and it fell directly into the crystal on the ground to avoid it.
But Hemiel doesn't care where you run, he will sweep away thousands of troops with his halberd. Whatever is within three meters around him will be chopped down or chopped into pieces!
To be honest, we were lucky to face these two people. Caroline died quickly enough, and Hemiel had a chance to escape.
But he was not so lucky against Ribos. The Black Stone Armor guided the direction of the negative psychic energy, and a thin layer of spirit-repelling power covered the Eldar's long sword.
This is a much more stable energy than Caroline's blood, and one blow from it would kill anyone who died.
The flash of swords and the shadows dispersed, but the terrifying thing was that death seemed to be a relief.
When the negative psychic energy gathered in Rebos's palm, the next moment the most powerful ghost was strangled by his neck with one hand.
The originally physical body immediately shrank. At the same time, the released evil energy gradually stopped, the storm in the dense forest gradually subsided, and the screaming in the mind also stopped.
"KAA..ZAAA..."
Hoarse syllables buzzed from that greedy mouth. As the negative psychic energy grew stronger, the shadow's resistance became weaker.
"It sounds like insects chirping." Hemiel shook off the crystal dust on his body and stepped forward to say.
"The Hive Shadow invaded the Infinite Circuit. The two linear modes of psychic energy differed greatly. Coupled with the excessive number of deaths, the souls were overloaded and projections were created in the subspace.
Under the influence of many factors, the mutual pull caused mutations, thus giving rise to a new species."
"Do you want to kill this disgusting alien?" Caroline stepped forward and said.
"No." Rebos said firmly.
He pressed the shadow into the crystals on the ground, and output negative spiritual energy that made the other party suffer unbearable pain through the electromagnetic coil on his palm.
Forcing the other party to release the poor spiritual energy over and over again, providing data for him to understand these crystals.
"The scale of the psychic storm just now was a bit too chaotic. It's possible that these crystals have some undiscovered functions.
The flow of spiritual energy is radial, and about 30% of the energy flows back into the spiritual bone roots under the ground.
The alienated spirit bone crystal has little effect on the release of this single-nature spiritual energy, but it can be clearly calculated that a considerable amount of spiritual energy is directly absorbed, refracted, and dispersed by the crystal."
"So?" Hemiel stepped on the spirit bone crystal and said.
"So a lot of experimental data support is still needed."
With that, Rebos stood up and walked forward, leaving the two of them staring at each other.
"To be honest, I thought I was pretty boring most of the time and was really focused on the mission, but when I saw this guy..."
"He came with a great mission, carrying the expectations of the Divine Emperor. His goal drives him and he cannot stop."
"Huh...you're really good at finding excuses for him."
Hermione sighed and followed. Caroline bit her lip and followed in silence.
The three continued to travel through the dense forest. As they went deeper, the characteristics of the forest began to gradually emerge.
A crystallized beetle lay on the tree trunk, sucking the juice, and branches and leaves grew above the spirit bones, swaying in the wind.
On the bank of the gurgling stream, dog-sized insects were tearing each other apart among the clusters of flowers, completely destroying the beautiful scenery.
Not far from them, three or four strange-looking Eldar soldiers were sitting on rocks, watching the farce unfold.
They are very different from the Eldar on the Ark World. Not only do they look very gloomy in temperament, they are also silent and seem unable to speak.
Even more striking was their appearance, with glaring Zerg chitinous carapaces sewn onto worn Eldar armour.
This weird combination is like an alienated soul in the armor, which is just an empty shell that should have been dead long ago.
Moreover, around them, there were many shadows digging the ground with tools made of crystal.
A large amount of soil was piled up on one side, and many transparent beetles crawled out of it one after another, fleeing from this dangerous area.
The dog bugs nearby saw the prey appear, and immediately gave up fighting and rushed forward to bite the beetle quickly.
Suddenly, an arm was thrown up from the pit. The dog worm was overjoyed and picked it up and ran towards the soldier whose armor had the most chitin.
The Eldar soldier took the arm and stared at the old object in silence, his thoughts stirring in its ink-like soul.
Finally, it gripped its wrist armor tightly, reached into its arm armor, and pulled out the broken arm that had dried into jerky flesh.
Carelessly discarded, dogs and insects scrambled for it, and the farce reappeared. The shadow climbed out of the pit, its illusory body having undergone significant changes.
There were actually spiritual bone crystals growing on several of the opponent's joints. The connection between soul and matter could probably only be constructed by the energy of the subspace.
Among the seven or eight shadows, the leading soldier gave the armor to the one whose arm joints had spiritual bone crystals growing on them.
The opponent moved the spiritual bones on the joints like bone spurs, contracted the shadow arm, and then continuously adjusted and filled the armor until it could move freely.
The corpses of insects and elves were gradually dug out, and those alienated elves shadows tried to transform their equipment and arm themselves.
"The situation here is indeed very strange. They are completely different from previous life forms. This place really contains a great mystery."
"God-Emperor, the xenos' faith actually supports their reappearance in the world, wearing the armor of two races but inheriting only the will of evil."
"A weak man in armor cannot withstand the attacks of a strong man, and a child wielding a sword will only injure himself and be killed."
The three Rebos were lying in the grass, watching over there and communicating silently. Although they couldn't agree on anything, they had the same idea about this group of weirdos.
"We've seen enough, shall we take action?" Hemiel turned his head and said.
"Then I'll climb up the tree to provide fire support." Caroline prepared to get up.
Ribos didn't have any better plan, so he simply prepared to go invisible and control a few people directly.
Just as the three of them were getting into position, Rebos crept forward, Hemmiel gripped the halberd tightly and stood up to throw, and Caroline picked up the truth and pulled the trigger.
"Oh!"
Suddenly, there was a loud thunderclap out of nowhere, and a gap leading to the subspace was opened by artillery fire. Although it was fleeting, the suction force of the bizarre sea of souls changed the world.
Several shadows had no time to dodge and were pulled in and swallowed the moment the gap exploded.
The dogs and insects around were so frightened that they ran away with their heads in their hands, and the aliens wearing armor were startled by this situation.
Looking at Hemiel showing his figure and Caroline firing in the treetops, they immediately focused their attention on each other and began their howling counterattack.