Chapter 646, The Fate of Phoenix

"Hello, Captain Su Lie."

When Su Lie heard this greeting, he suddenly opened his eyes and saw a man in a golden and red military uniform.

He knew this face.

Marshal Gu Hang, the commander of the southern line of the empire in the Iron Armor War.

Although it was a long time ago, he still remembered it. Although they had never met, Su Lie had certainly seen Gu Hang's photo.

He sighed and said to Gu Hang: "Do you really have no other way? You have tried to turn into something that has nothing to do with me?"

As he spoke, he raised the sword at hand.

It was a finely crafted power sword. The purple-gold color did not fade even after thousands of years of wind and frost. At the end of the hilt, there was a soaring phoenix. It was the first inheritor of the regiment's genes, the first phoenix, the emperor's own son, and a jewel made by hand. This is a treasure that has been passed down by the phoenix for a long time. It is an undoubted sacred object of the regiment. It is called "Phoenix".

"You can deceive me with lies, but I can see through it."

"You can deceive me with the illusion of a fighting brother, but I can still see through it."

"Even if you transform into the appearance of the God Emperor to deceive me, you cannot shake my faith."

"Not to mention the current appearance."

As he spoke, Su Lie's pace became faster and faster, and the phoenix in his hand was already raised high. A fierce purple flame rose from the sword and suddenly slashed towards Gu Hang.

The next moment, Gu Hang's figure shattered like a bubble and appeared behind Su Lie.

He swung his sword backwards as if he had predicted the future.

Although it seemed to be at least 30 meters away, the illusory sword blade composed of purple fire, like a sword energy, reached Gu Hang's chest in an instant.

This sword really caught people off guard.

Gu Hang's spiritual power was fiercely released, forming a spiritual energy group, colliding with this "sword energy".

For a moment, Gu Hang's face changed a little.

He originally thought that the so-called sword energy was just a special ability of the weapon in Su Lie's hand, which could release energy strikes.

But it seems that this is not the case. Its strength is comparable to the full-strength attack of an S+ level psychic!

Psychic energy is the extraordinary power of emotions and souls. From this sword energy, Gu Hang can even feel Su Lie's unwavering will.

This sword will naturally not hurt Gu Hang. However, although he is in the subspace at the moment, he is quite far away from the source of Gu Hang's power-the Kingdom of Storm God. The power cannot be transmitted, which means that Gu Hang is not at the peak. Even if Gu Hang can resist Su Lie's sword, he will never feel comfortable.

After finally breaking it up, in a blink of an eye, Su Lie himself has arrived in front of him, and the Phoenix Blade in his hand slashed down with brilliant flames.

"Wait!..."

Gu Hang shouted while fighting with spiritual power.

He is a top-level space warrior, and now he has finally experienced the combat power in person.

In the previous concept, Martins, including Erso, the former commander of the Fury, were the best fighters that Gu Hang had seen. However, in front of Su Lie, those two were not good enough, and there was a significant gap.

Chapter champion?

I'm afraid that Su Lie can no longer be described in this way.

Moreover, when facing this top warrior, Gu Hang also had a feeling: when his psychic power acted on him, it would be offset by another psychic power.

This is very unusual.

Gu Hang can confirm that Su Lie does not have any psychic power, he should be a pure warrior. But in addition to his powerful body that is not only far beyond mortals, but also far beyond ordinary space warriors, top warriors like Su Lie also have extremely terrifying spiritual will.

The role of spiritual will not only means that they will not be defeated by difficulties, but also that in this universe, spiritual will itself has power.

Its strong and tenacious spirit naturally has extremely terrifying psychic potential.

This is why if a Space Marine is trained to become a psychic, a so-called "think tank", it will often be more powerful than a mortal psychic.

Even if they do not become a think tank, or the so-called "no psychic talent", the strong willpower of the Space Marines will also give them very strong psychic resistance.

It may not be obvious enough in ordinary Space Marines. But as long as it reaches the level of veterans, it is already a little different. The psychic power that can crush mortals in groups may be just a powerful shock wave on the body of a Space Marine veteran.

And at the level of sergeants and sergeants, it would take the power of a Lion tank to crush a sergeant with psychic power.

It is even more difficult to become a company champion.

At the step of the regiment champion... ordinary psychic power will almost become ineffective on them. Even for Gu Hang, it would take some effort to deal with a regiment champion in a one-on-one match - of course, it is effort, not impossible.

But when the strength reaches a higher level, to the level of the so-called ‘Emperor Champion’ like Su Lie, it would be very difficult for Gu Hang to control the opponent with his psychic power.

Especially since he cannot borrow the power of the Storm Kingdom now.

Previously, Gu Hang was not only resisting the sword energy that Su Lie slashed out, but he was also using his spiritual energy to form a force field, trying to tie up Su Lie so that the two of them could have a good communication.

However, Gu Hang had to admit that he underestimated the other party. The psychic power that formed the force field had no effect at all, and Su Lie was able to break free. Then, there was a series of ultra-fast and ultra-violent sword strikes, which made Gu Hang dizzy for a moment, so that when Su Lie struck close to his face again, he was a little unable to resist.

However, even though Su Lie opened his mouth to shout stop, Su Lie obviously had no intention of stopping.

After the sword was blocked, Su Lie did not apply any further force. Instead, he withdrew his long sword, and then at a faster and more violent speed, slashed fifteen times fiercely at the psychic shield in front of Gu Hang.

No matter how strong the psychic shield was, it couldn't stop an Emperor's Champion from slashing like this, and it finally shattered into nothing with a sharp squeaking sound.

However, when this sword struck Gu Hang's body again, it was completely cut away.

Gu Hang's body also dissipated like a bubble and appeared dozens of meters away.

Su Lie's reaction speed was extremely fast. He turned around and charged again.

After suffering losses continuously and experiencing first-hand the top-notch combat strength possessed by the leader of such a start-up war group, Gu Hang no longer dared to look down upon him in the slightest.

Inspiring his psychic energy, he summoned a thunder spear with his strongest posture, and pierced Su Lie fiercely.

The Phoenix Lord charged forward and slashed with his sword. The purple gold sword broke through the thunder and was about to strike at Gu Hang again, but an even more ferocious thunderstorm appeared behind it and exploded directly.

At this time, Su Lie couldn't bear it any longer and was blasted dozens of meters away before hitting the wall.

He didn't suffer too many injuries, he just felt a strong impact. He can fight again.

At this time, Gu Hang's voice sounded a little helpless again: "Commander Su Lie, I know you have been facing tremendous pressure for a long time, but I believe that with your spirit and will, you You should be able to distinguish what is an illusion, what is the temptation of the evil god of subspace, and what is real and harmless.”

Su Lie, who landed from the wall, did not rush over immediately again.

When Gu Hang breathed a sigh of relief, he caught a glimpse of a few Phoenix Guards elites walking in with guns in hand after hearing the fighting inside. He was also a little angry. With a wave of his hand, the shock wave knocked them away and locked the door.

Turning his eyes back to Su Lie, he saw that the Phoenix Lord did not take any further violent actions. He obviously realized that Gu Hang's attack just now would not cause any substantial harm to his subordinates.

At this time, Gu Hang breathed a sigh of relief again.

He continued: "Let's get to know each other again. I am really Gu Hang."

Su Lie didn't launch an attack, but he didn't say anything either. He just looked Gu Hang up and down, his expression still very wary.

How could he be allowed to be unwary?

The Phoenix Chapter and their flagship, the Queen of Glory battleship Phoenix Crest, have been floating in the subspace for ten years.

Of course, the time when the Phoenix Legion disappeared from the real universe was not that long, in fact, it was only less than three years or so.

However, the Warp is a magical place. Here, time and space are distorted. The clocks and time records on the Phoenix Crest, as well as the physical sense of the time spent by the Space Marines themselves, all clearly show that they have spent ten years.

Three years in the real universe are only twisted into ten years, which is actually relatively minor in the subspace. Thanks to the protective force field on the ship, which is also an ancient technology, it is the so-called 'Geller Force'. field', rather than the currently commonly used astral protective force field that is only used for relatively safe navigation in the astral tunnel. Otherwise, the situation would be much worse than it is now.

Including the engines that the ships have that can travel through subspace, that is also a technology that the Emperor had before his ascension.

In that era, there was no such thing as an astral tunnel. To travel at faster than light speeds and cross galaxies, you could only navigate through very dangerous subspaces. The ship will have a subspace engine, and then a Geller field to protect itself in the subspace. But the danger of subspace is much greater than that of the astral tunnel.

Time while traveling through the Warp is unstable.

In modern astral tunnels, one can clearly know where to enter from a galaxy, where to exit, and how long it will take. But there is no such thing as primitive subspace navigation. Maybe three to five days will pass, maybe three to five years will not come out; with a high probability, the destination is correct, but there is also a high probability that even with navigation, you may get lost without knowing it. Where to go.

Just these instability in navigation are already fatal. Even though the administrative efficiency of the empire is currently very low, in that era, it would have been even more difficult due to communication and transportation problems.

And beyond that, there are the risks of sailing itself. The whispers in the warp can seduce and drive the crew crazy, and even warp demons can invade the ship. The Geller Field can protect against most of these situations, but there are always wonderful warp forces that sneak in without warning.

From time to time, there would be reports that a ship came out of the warp and arrived at the port, and all the people on the ship had become mutated monsters, but they still believed that they were human. Once their cognition was exposed, they lost their minds and went completely crazy.

All these situations gradually became history after the Emperor ascended and the astral tunnels were widely formed. The warp engine and the Geller force field also gradually withdrew from the stage of history. Only some ships built in that era retained these ancient and useless things.

The Phoenix Crown Feather is a warship from that era.

By the way, the Empire no longer has the ability to build the Queen of Glory class warships. At present, all the Queen of Glory class owned by the Empire were built in the era before the Emperor ascended. Each ship has parts designed by the Emperor himself. It is undoubtedly the most powerful warship in the Empire.

Even though the warp engine and Geller force field on the Phoenix crown feathers had not been used for thousands or tens of thousands of years, at that time, when they were forced to do nothing and only this method could get rid of pursuit and siege, these two devices still faithfully played their due role.

Otherwise, the Phoenix Regiment would have been finished and could not have lasted for ten years.

But despite this, the problem of the Geller force field being in disrepair still exists, and the Phoenix Regiment has been under great pressure during these ten years.

There are always warp demons that invade the ship and are solved by the surviving 300 Phoenix warriors. But in this process, there will inevitably be losses. At present, Phoenix has sacrificed nearly half of its manpower.

Not every one of these sacrifices died in battle. It is also common for them to be lured, invaded by the power of the warp, mutated, and then executed in tears by their own fighting brothers.

What's worse is that it seems that something in the warp has already set its sights on them.

The most interesting thing for that unspeakable existence is none other than Su Lie himself.

Su Lie could always hear the voice of ‘Him’.

He promised him that as long as he nodded, he would immediately be able to gain eternal life, eternal perfection, eternal joy, and be promoted to ‘Prince’.

And every time, he firmly refused.

No matter what sweet words that existence said in his ears, or what beautiful illusions it built in front of him, he remained unmoved.

When Gu Hang appeared, he thought it was another temptation of ‘Him’.

Although it didn’t feel like it, the fact that Gu Hang suddenly appeared on the Phoenix Crown in the subspace itself was even less realistic.