Chapter 102: Chapter 101, Mind Manipulation
Georgette found Gu Hang with a very serious expression, the usual gentle smile nowhere to be seen.
“We roughly know what that group of cult traitors wants to do.”
“Do what? Destroy the city, sacrifice to the Evil God, all that stuff?” Gu Hang tried to crack a sowhat poor joke.
“Yes.” Georgette was not joking at all and nodded earnestly, “Those cult traitors always like to do this. The filthy creatures they worship, they just love all this.”
“Alright, so what exactly do they plan to do? Any leads?”
Georgette said, “Not yet, two sisters are still on the investigation. However, we might have figured out the hiding place of the cult traitors’ leader.”
“Oh?” Gu Hang finally beca interested, “Is it reliable?”
“It should be reliable, at least worth a try.”
“Then let’s try.” Gu Hang decided on the spot, “What support do you need? I’ll arrange it as quickly as possible, we better act imdiately, don’t let them get away.”
“I need you.”
“Huh?”
“A competent Psychic Caster, who can help us achieve a lot of things.”
Gu Hang quickly calculated in his mind.
He was indeed very busy now and couldn’t spare much ti, but everything surely had its priorities. Those governntal matters could wait and wouldn’t kill anyone, or at least not too many; if he could take down the cult leader sooner, that would save many more lives.
He had no qualms about participating in combat personally.
Of course, appropriate security asures would still need to be taken.
It wasn’t that he didn’t trust the nuns, but the more forces at his disposal, the better, obviously.
From the Phoenix side, they could probably assign four people to join the operation and keep three for maneuvers outside the city. They shouldn’t reject this request.
Aside from two people handling the food distribution checks in the outer city, Georgette and her team would have nine people participating in the combat.
Counting Gu Hang himself… this lineup was certainly enough.
However, after so thought, Gu Hang decided to bring along that elite marine squad.
That squad had now beco his personal guard.
After reclaiming Revival City and receiving lots of gifts before, he instantly upgraded the remaining mbers to T3 level.
That was the upper limit for now. Their equipnt, physical fitness, and combat experience were not sufficient to support a promotion to T2. Perhaps in the future, after more baptism of fire or so special opportunity or technology, their ranking could be further promoted.
But no matter what, 28 T3 level soldiers were the most elite force Gu Hang could field from under his command.
And he himself was described by Georgette as an excellent Psychic Caster.
But he could imdiately elevate his own rating by a notch.
After the battles outside the city had quieted down, Gu Hang found that his experience was enough to level up.
With just 200 gifts, he would beco an LV4 Psychic Caster as determined by the system.
This level also was what Gu Hang considered his ability to take on a fully ard superhuman such as a star warrior in single combat.
After figuring all this out in his mind, Gu Hang nodded and said, “Okay, then I will join you.”
…
After seeing off Georgette and sending a request to the Phoenix side and getting a response, Gu Hang used the last bit of ti before the team assembled to focus on two things.
The first was checking the battle settlent.
[Blood Battle Narrow Victory, 65 points of grace earned]
[Casualties: 427, Enemies Killed: 742, Prisoners Captured: 121]
[Governor’s Infantry Regint 3rd Battalion: Casualties: 89, Enemies Killed: 266]
[Prisoner Brigade: Casualties: 338, Enemies Killed: 337]
[Phoenix Battle Group (Allies): Casualties: 0, Enemies Killed: 139]
A hard-won battle… This was actually Gu Hang’s first ti achieving such a result. Obviously, the gap in strength between the two sides wasn’t large, but the victory, with relatively heavier losses on his side, led to a smaller bonus in divine grace points.
After subtracting the Phoenix’s share of the spoils, what remained was a re 65 points of divine grace.
As for that unorganized, hastily assembled prisoner brigade, their weapons and equipnt were not up to scratch. Apart from being equipped with so crew-served heavy weapons, their level of gear was virtually indistinguishable from that of ard thugs. The enemy had the bonus of brainwashed religious zeal, and although our political commissars fired them up, there was still a gap to be closed.
Despite this, having equal casualties wasn’t sothing Gu Hang was entirely satisfied with. It showed that their military skills really did leave sothing to be desired.
Gu Hang felt a bit of a headache.
He had originally thought, considering they were from the Alliance’s regular forces, they wouldn’t be too bad even if they wouldn’t reach T5, right? Maybe he could save so divine grace points and just use them normally.
But looking at it now, it seed they were a bit too lacking.
It seed he would still need to invest in them after all.
Seven thousand n, raising them to T5 would also cost 70 points of divine grace, his heart ached!
After checking the battle results, the second thing Gu Hang needed to do was level up.
With 200 points of divine grace spent, Gu Hang felt a warm current, signaling his base attributes were increasing.
At the sa ti, a screen for selecting talents appeared on his interface.
As usual, he clicked on the [Unique] line first, not expecting to be able to select it.
Without second thoughts, he clicked on [Spirituality].
[Mind Manipulation: Allows you to penetrate the target’s mind, creating illusions, altering mories, and exerting direct control. At the sa ti, it strengthens your resistance to psychic attacks. Spirituality 1]
Having obtained a new talent, Gu Hang was fully satisfied.
ntal abilities, which he had longed for, were tools commonly used by Psychic Casters and were very frightening.
Moreover, after acquiring the Mind Manipulation spiritual talent, its potential uses extended far beyond just combat.
Of course, Gu Hang also reminded himself that such abilities should not be abused. The order he hoped to establish was certainly not one founded on the manipulation of minds. He would not use this thod on his own people.
But when necessary, this technique could be incredibly effective.
After completing the level-up process, his attributes were as follows:
[Hero: Gu Hang (Faction Leader), LV4, Insufficient Experience for Level Up]
[Physique: 9, Spirituality: 18]
[Traits: Psychic Caster, Governor of Rage Owl Star]
[Talents: Protective Spiritual Energy, Telekinetic Control, Mind Manipulation]
Not much was added to his attributes this ti, apart from gaining one point in Spirituality from the [Mind Manipulation] talent, none of the Physicality or Spirituality attributes increased from the normal leveling process.
Of course, that did not an they hadn’t increased. In fact, he could feel his physical condition and spirituality improving.
It was just that the increase wasn’t enough to account for a full attribute point, so it wasn’t reflected on his personal interface.
After all, the higher one went, the more difficult it beca to level up, requiring more experience accumulation and more investnt of divine grace points. Likewise, the actual difference between each attribute point after leveling also grew bigger and bigger.
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