Starting from the Planetary Governor Chapter 92: 91, The Storm Trap

Chapter 92: Chapter 91, The Storm Trap

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The Battle Nuns were on the right track.

The factory, already blasted into ruins, was of little value to shell anymore. The half-destroyed ruins provided better cover for survivors and were sturdier than a normal factory building.

To take it down, it still relied on the infantry assault.

If it had only been the ard workers as the opponent, two infantry battalions would have been more than enough to handle it. The number of ard workers still alive wouldn’t be that large, and they lacked heavy weaponry as well as military skills. Even if they seed fearless in the face of death, it was just a matter of ti before all were killed.

With the skills of the governor’s soldiers, even in the bloodiest of close-quarters battles, the actual losses would be quite limited.

They just needed to kill those in the blue robes.

And that’s exactly what the nuns were doing.

Indeed, they were doing it well, with courageous actions, leading the soldiers to start advancing again.

Moreover, after getting a clear picture of the situation on the battlefield, the commanders of the 2nd and the 6th battalions participating in this fight also planned to increase the frontline soldiers. Thus, four infantry companies were thrown into the frontlines of battle, including the only company with a special number in the entire troop–Abandoned Cave Company.

With the Battle Nuns systematically striking and eliminating the blue-robed in large numbers, without the ‘artillery’ support, the remaining ard workers found it extrely difficult to continue their desperate resistance.

The situation tilted back in favor of the governor’s soldiers.

Under such circumstances, the battle should have been drawing to a close.

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After Gu Hang arrived at the scene and briefly t with Perbov, Lambert, and others commanding the outskirts, he used telekinesis to lift his body high and survey the battle from above. The situation seed approximately as described.

By rights, this should have eased his worries significantly.

The nuns of Saint rcy Lily were putting in a comndable effort against the Heretic Cult; the soldiers, accompanying the battle, were in high spirits. Although there were so casualties, it was entirely within the acceptable range.

Although a factory was wrecked, this should be the only place within Revival City still capable of mounting a large-scale ard resistance. Once this was over, the job would be considered done. This show of force was a warning to the remaining Alliance elites, leaving them with no chance to resist, trembling under the slaughter wielded by Lambert.

However, Gu Hang felt a sudden surge of unease at that mont.

It was as if a great disaster was about to take shape right before his eyes.

He directly activated Spiritual Vision to inspect the entire battlefield.

Gu Hang saw many specks of Storm Heresy reactions.

Those ard workers had been preemptively implanted with so kind of heretical power that could be detonated after death, or even while they were still alive.

The specks of Storm Heresy that Gu Hang saw were likely these, under normal circumstances.

As for others that were strong or weak, those had to be the cultists in blue robes who had exposed themselves. They were being fully assaulted by Saint rcy Lily and were dying fast.

If things continued at this rate, in a few more hours, before the sun set, the entire factory area would be thoroughly cleansed.

In conclusion, at a glance, Gu Hang didn’t see any problems.

So what was that earlier feeling of unease all about?

Could it be that it wasn’t a spiritual warning at all, just his brain glitching from recent exhaustion?

Thinking this, Gu Hang felt sowhat relieved.

Of course, that would be for the best.

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Otherwise, if there really were a crisis, then that would be troubleso.

With that thought, Gu Hang took another glance at the battlefield.

Still no problems… Wait a minute?!

Gu Hang furrowed his brows deeply.

It wasn’t that he saw anything new, but he realised he might have missed sothing.

The dots of light that symbolised Storm Sorcery seed a bit too nurous.

According to the reports from Perbov about the previous state of the battle, even if any ard workers died, their bodies would be used as land mines and fired out as cannon fodder.

The corpse bombs that were used up, of course, shouldn’t still have light dots.

And when the nuns of Saint Lily started to show their power, targeting those blue-robed Cultists, the soldiers followed suit, dealing with the remaining ard workers.

Without the control of a sorcerer, the dead bodies wouldn’t detonate on their own. But even so, the soldiers kept their distance from those bodies that hadn’t exploded, ensuring they wouldn’t be blown up by so Cultist sorcerer who hadn’t been eliminated in ti.

The problem of how to deal with these remaining bodies would be troubleso, but at least for now, they didn’t pose a threat to the battle.

However, the number of light dots that Gu Hang saw didn’t quite match the number of workers the soldiers had killed and those who were still stubbornly resisting in the center of the ruins.

Moreover, many of the Storm Heresy light dots overlapped with the positions of the soldiers.

He had thought before that it might be the soldiers accidentally getting too close. But upon closer observation, it beca clear that the soldiers had no idea they were standing next to the bodies of ard workers.

It was normal for one or two people to be careless, but for so many to be overlapping was anything but normal.

Did they have a death wish?

Impossible.

Considering the previous situation, Gu Hang was startled to realize: Were those the bodies of the workers who had died in the bombardnt, buried under the factory ruins, triggered by hundreds of previous shellings?

They were implanted with the energy of Storm Sorcery just like the others and could also be used as corpse bombs.

It was just that because of the previous shelling, a large area of the factory buildings had collapsed, burying many bodies or even living people under the debris.

But being buried didn’t an they were no longer a threat.

What if these thousands of corpses were to detonate at the sa ti beneath the rubble?

It would be like thousands of compressed air bombs exploding underneath, releasing shockwaves and air pressure that would blow the seemingly solid and stable semi-ruined site into the sky.

For those deeply entrenched within, the consequences would be catastrophic.

The four infantry companies of the 2nd and 6th battalions would probably be annihilated, not to ntion even Georgette’s six Battle Nuns, who might suffer greatly from this one wave.

After understanding the risk, Gu Hang didn’t even have the ti to communicate with Perbov, Lambert, and others.

His order, transmitted through the ans of spiritual energy shaking, resonated across the entire battlefield:

“I am Gu Hang, I command everyone to cease fighting and evacuate the factory area.”

“Repeat, evacuate the factory area imdiately!”

To prevent Georgette, who was not his subordinate, from misunderstanding his orders, he specifically pulled a spiritual energy communication line to her, sending his voice directly into her ears: “This place is likely a trap, evacuate first, we can make long-term plans later!”