Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1041: Chapter 567

Dubo wasn’t a psychic, but it didn’t hinder him from using machines to clearly ’see’ from a higher-dimensional perspective that the power of the neuron progeny he controlled was being penetrated.

Honestly, seeing the psionic mass he represented as being in control pierced through, leading directly to the “Alfonso II” he was aboard, made his mechanical heart tremble fiercely.

The more one studies psionic energy, the more one feels reverence for it. It has too many capabilities and is too terrifying.

In an instant, he issued a series of commands.

The ship’s void shields needed to be ready for impact; the maintenance team had to be on standby at all times; the secondary backup void shields had to be ready to activate immediately if the current void shield system failed…

This series of orders were all made out of fear that any danger might occur, causing issues with the fleet’s most important core vessel.

However, everything he worried about did not happen.

The void shield of the Alfonso II was perfectly fine, not feeling any pressure at all.

The computing unit in his mind rapidly analyzed the situation, intercepting information from the psionic clash between both sides, trying to figure out what Gu Hang was up to.

Gu Hang’s attack was not aimed at the void shield.

Then, where was it aimed at…

“Boom!”

Just as his calculations were about to conclude, an explosion sounded.

His calculations were rendered meaningless.

The consequence had already occurred.

“We have been invaded!”

An information report came through.

Dubo didn’t issue any special orders. The ship had a complete set of mature response mechanisms for combating boarding and enemy invasions.

He needed to see with his own eyes what the situation was like.

Then, he was a bit dumbfounded.

The enemy… they were indeed enemies, but the type of enemy genuinely surprised him.

Even something he had never encountered before.

They had light blue, semi-transparent forms, each resembling a person in various military uniforms, such as regular soldiers’ plastic-steel combat armor and some power armor. However, these outfits should only be ’appearance’, having no real significance in actual combat. Their essence was still entities composed of energy.

In this nature, they were somewhat similar to chaos demons: both were entities condensed by subspace energy in the real world.

For a moment, Dubo thought he was dealing with some kind of chaos cultist power.

Even you, Gu Hang, with your thick eyebrows and big eyes, became a traitor? Just with a different allegiance?

But soon, he felt the difference.

Those… spirits displayed power that wasn’t as extreme as the abyss demons.

This wasn’t to say their power wasn’t strong. In fact, the power these spirits used wasn’t diverse, revolving around storms, gales, and thunder.

But in another aspect, they didn’t have overly extreme emotional expressions like those abyss demons.

Which had its pros and cons.

Based on the Alphonso Sect’s past experiences with abyss demons, they were truly troublesome opponents. If demons invaded a ship, even machines could become possessed by the subspace forces represented by these extreme emotions.

Machines can become possessed too.

But these spirits didn’t have these traits.

They seemed rational, almost like living people—or rather, they seemed to possess a living person’s soul.

No matter what, them not having the ability to possess machines was good news; they were far more disciplined compared to the typical chaos abyss demons, which was bad news for the ship’s defenders.

Dubo felt utterly frustrated.

“…When the war ends, I must expose Gu Hang’s wrongdoings!”

“Calling us traitors? He’s a traitor too!! He can even summon demons!”

Even though Dubo knew these spirits were not the same as demons, they were still creatures formed by pure subspace energy, not a power humans should normally wield, not even the most powerful spiritual master could.

Even if it wasn’t relying on the power of the most powerful four evil gods in subspace, it was finding strength in the lesser subspace evil gods.

Still a taboo.

But he quickly realized he needed to lead his fleet to survive first.

Otherwise, if everyone on this ship perished in space, there wouldn’t be a chance to criticize Gu Hang later.

On the War Ark, the elite Protection Army had already taken action.

The appearing spirits were being swiftly eliminated.

These spirits were formidable, very elite. But according to the information sent back by Sage Boreson, who led the Protection Army, their combat power was roughly equivalent to the top warriors of the Imperial Star Realm Army.

Strong? Certainly, that’s formidable combat strength.

However, the troops stationed as the Protection Army on the “Alfonso II” were undoubtedly the absolute elite of the sect’s armed forces.

The large Knight Mecha was not suited for combat operations within the ship, but some of its smaller units were very troublesome adversaries.

Not just things like Sentinel Mechas, but more like some squire-level Knight Mechas.

They were much smaller than the standard Ranger-class Knight Mechas, but still slightly larger than Sentinel Mechas. Their firepower didn’t surpass Sentinel Mechas by much, given their size limited the heavy firepower they’d carry. However, their agility, armor, and a small shield generator made their actual combat ability far surpass that of Sentinel Mechas.

Besides the squire knights from various Knight Orders, the ships’ automated warriors were even more robust.

To those who didn’t know the detailed differences, these automated warriors might resemble Intelligent Iron Men, but their actual cores were completely different.

Intelligent Iron Men were purely machines with no soul or flesh brain whatsoever, solely relying on one or more core machine chips working together to drive the machine bodies to fight.

But the automatic warriors of the Mechanical Protective Forces were different.

Although termed ’automatic,’ in essence, these things are still… people?

Or rather, serf-machines.

Individuals who underwent organ-cutting surgery, with a part of their brains removed, boosted their hardware configurations to the maximum during body modifications, thus becoming the automatic warriors.

They were an important force in the Protection Army. Some had extremely comprehensive configurations, with superior ones handcrafted by high-ranking members of the Sect of Mechanics, being absurdly elite.

When both the Protection Army and the Knight Order were mobilized, the spirits invading the ship were naturally eradicated.

No one was much weaker than the other, but the spirits simultaneously appearing at the same location within the ship were still at a disadvantage.

However, before Sage Boreson, responsible for ship security, could breathe a sigh of relief, new reports surfaced: large numbers of spirits appeared in another dozen areas of the ship!

Boreson and several other summoned, team-leading sages formed a command structure together, orchestrating teams to extinguish ’fires’ all over the ship.

The spirits seemed endless.

After eliminating all stationed spirits in one area, spirits continued to emerge from subspace rifts; after praying to the God of All Machines and using blessed machines to close the subspace rifts, two new areas opened subspace cracks and needed firefighting again.

The Alfonso II was enormous, akin to a nest capital in space, boasting a structure larger than a Retribution-class Battleship and stretching 40 kilometers in length, with hundreds of layers of sections.

Even with over 1.5 million Sect of Mechanics units operating inside, covering every spot proved challenging.

Overall, the Sect of Mechanics guarded the entire ship quite well. The key areas were given priority protection and had remained issue-free constantly.

But one had to append qualifiers to this ’issue-free’: temporarily and in important areas.

In some non-crucial areas, the protection level wasn’t as adequate.

For instance, a subspace rift emerging in the lower deck cabin zone.

There were originally few Sect of Mechanics units active in this area, which wasn’t critical, merely the slave quarters.

The appearing spirits quickly slaughtered the few slave units active here and cut off information transmission to the outside.

While the upper areas were in chaos, they quietly expanded the subspace rift larger, leading more and more spirits to walk out from the rift, from within the Storm God Kingdom.

Very soon, here, under the radar of the sect, a division, then another division, organized by these spirits, stood in formation.

Until the number of spirits assembled here topped 160,000, structured into four major infantry divisions according to Alliance military formation, they needed to continuously expand occupied zones to accommodate the growing numbers.

It was at this point that a patrol squad they annihilated managed to relay the information due to their strong blockade being breached, sending the message out.

Discovery was already a fact, so they ceased hiding.

Under the leadership of ’commanders’ and ’officers,’ these spirits, who had sacrificed themselves for the Alliance on countless battlefields and now resided in Gu Hang’s Divine Realm, awakened once more to fight for the Alliance.

They actually enjoyed it very much.

They had long been eager to do so.

The frenzied spirits rushed out, swiftly scattering the Protection Army who hadn’t expected such significant disturbance in the lower deck area.

From the ship’s perspective, the Protection Army undoubtedly held an absolute numerical advantage, but locally, the Protection Army, unable to mobilize in time, instead became the numerically inferior party in the fight.

Furthermore, there appeared to be some issues in their command.

Due to underestimating the number of spirits, they were too eager to eliminate them. They erroneously launched repeated proactive offensives, and the Protection Army units drawn from neighboring areas often charged into the most intense battles following the signals and requests for support from their frontline comrades, without regrouping with other allied units.

This resulted in piecemeal reinforcement tactics.

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