Free competition zone, Emerald Star Cluster, Black Star Corps frontline exploration stronghold.
In the spacious, silver-white training room, Hila sat cross-legged in mid-air with her eyes slightly closed and her breathing long and slow. Red light surrounded her body, and the energy waves she emitted made the high-collared cloak of the 'Crimson Snake — First Generation' combat suit look like a black and red cloud.
In front of her floated a cluster of bright red highly concentrated death energy. In the center of the red, there was a faint golden spot of light that extended out like blood vessels, spreading out with difficulty.
At this moment, Hella suddenly frowned. The energy cluster in front of her suddenly boiled, as though a violent chemical reaction had occurred. It exploded with a bang, and a faint red energy shockwave spread out, reverberating in the room.
"I failed again, sister."
Aurora's vexed voice suddenly sounded in Hella's mind.
"It's fine, it's not your problem." Hella shook her head.
With the qualitative changes in the strength and control of their Esper Ability, Espers would be able to develop more uses and effects of their Esper Abilities.
There was originally an exclusive life force link between the two of them. After Aurora entered the Calamity Grade, the link was strengthened further, giving birth to two-way telepathy, allowing them to talk to each other directly in their minds.
The transmission of life energy was originally limited by distance. At this moment, the project that the two of them were developing was an energy transmission channel that ignored distance. It had not succeeded yet, and they were still looking for a way.
After Aurora entered the Calamity Grade, Hella finally felt that she had the ability to protect herself. Thus, she no longer restricted Aurora from using her Esper Ability and consuming life energy.
"Sister, actually, the life force link that ignores distance has already taken shape. I can send out life energy from my side, but I can't transmit it to your side."
"It's not all a failure." Hella nodded and said, "Actually, I received a small amount of life energy, but the energy consumption was too severe. I can only receive about one-hundred-thousandth of the original. In my senses, most of your energy seems to have been absorbed by an unknown secondary dimension midway, and that secondary dimension actually has a weak connection with me. I can feel its existence."
"Is that so? I didn't feel it." Aurora was shocked.
"I only sensed it after advancing to the Beyond Grade A realm. I feel that if we want to complete the link, we might have to deal with this obstacle first. Previously, I injected death energy into this secondary dimension in reverse, but the moment the energy entered, I lost contact with it. I'm afraid I'll have to find some time to personally make a trip there. I keep feeling that there will be some secrets related to us inside … Let's just treat it as the intuition of a Beyond Grade A. "
With that said, Hella shook her head and raised her finger. A bright golden light spot about the size of a peanut floated on the tip of her finger. It was a trace of Aurora's life energy.
She moved her eyes and manipulated the sesame-sized death energy particles to merge with the life energy. In the next moment, there was a burst of light as the two types of energy fused together. The red and gold light particles merged into one and turned into a golden-orange light particle.
"Sister, you've successfully fused with Spicy?" Aurora was overjoyed.
"No, I'm still figuring out the fusion ratio. Currently, I can only harmonize a small amount of energy."
Hella sighed softly. She and Aurora had tried to fuse each other's energy a long time ago, but due to the lack of control over their Esper Abilities, they had never succeeded. At that time, they had thought that it was a conflict between the nature of their energy.
Now that Hella had advanced to the Beyond Grade A realm, and Aurora's ability strength and stability had also entered the Calamity Grade, Hella tried to fuse them again. Only then did she realize that their energy could actually fuse with each other, but it was unstable and required strong control to maintain the balance.
After the fusion, it would turn into a type of golden-orange energy. The characteristics of the energy seemed to have completely changed. Although the healing and killing effects were still there, these two characteristics were not strengthened. Instead, they were greatly weakened. At this time, Hella had yet to find out what special effects this fusion energy had.
At this time, the notification of a communication request sounded.
"Beep beep."
A virtual screen appeared in front of her, and the adjutant appeared on the screen. The shock on his face had yet to fade as he said, "Your Excellency Hella, the Pope of the Arcane Church wants to talk to you. Do you want to transfer the call?"
Hella's pupils constricted slightly.
She was quite surprised that such a big shot would suddenly come looking for her.
She thought for a while and said with a deep voice, "Connect it."
Very soon, the image changed, and the Pope's figure appeared on the screen.
The leaders of the three Universal Civilizations often appeared on the news, so Hella naturally knew who they were. At this time, her expression returned to indifference as she slowly spoke.
"May I know why Your Excellency is looking for me?"
Because of the tense relationship between the Arcane Church and the Black Star Corps, Hella did not show much respect at this time.
The Pope did not beat around the bush and said calmly, "I want to invite you to join the Arcane Church."
"I'm really flattered that the leader of a Universal Civilization personally invited me … If Black Star was here, he would probably say that." Hella was expressionless. "But I'm not him."
The Pope slowly said, "We've investigated you. You're a person who chases after power, and the Arcane Church can give you great power. I …"
"You don't have to say anymore. I refuse." Hella did not want to hear it at all.
"… As long as you're willing to join us, you can state any conditions."
"Not interested."
The Pope paused, his face expressionless. "The reason why you're so loyal to Black Star is because of your personal feelings?"
"It has nothing to do with you."
The Pope nodded. "My promise is valid for a long time. If you change your mind, the Arcane Church welcomes you to join us at any time."
Then, he directly hung up the communication.
Hella looked at the black virtual screen and could not help but frown.
The Pope of the Arcane Church personally came out. His sincerity was even more than the Red Empire. It was probably because of their hostile relationship that he wanted to poach the Black Star Corps.
If a normal new Beyond Grade A received such treatment, they might have accepted it on the spot. However, leaving the Black Star Corps was not within her consideration. No matter how good the Arcane Church's conditions were, she would reject it without hesitation.
…
On the other side, somewhere in the Emerald Star Cluster, a few spaceships were slowly moving toward the Black Star Stronghold.
The logo of the spaceship represented a small mercenary group. It looked like a very ordinary galactic mercenary group, but it actually carried a few Beyond Grade A Supers from the Arcane Church.
Sagman looked at the communicator and said with a deep voice, "The Pope has sent his message. The recruitment has failed. We can take action now."
The Arcane Church had already come up with two plans. They had gathered Beyond Grade As during this period of time. If the Pope failed to recruit Hella, they would strike like lightning and eliminate her.
"The situation is in our favor. The dynasty and the Black Star Corps have yet to discover that we have gathered. It's best to end this quickly and not make a mistake like last time," Taylor said.
In the past, because they were separated by a Star Field, the Beyond Grade As would take a long time to gather. If they were to take action, they would have been discovered long ago. Now that a large number of Beyond Grade As were in the Flickering World and were very close to it, the Arcane Church's actions were convenient. They could take action before the enemy discovered them, giving them no time to prepare.
"It's best to move Hella away from the stronghold. Otherwise, the dynasty's allies can quickly reinforce us through the stargate of the stronghold."
"I'll leave this to Tolaen. You go challenge Hella again and try to lure her out. The further away she is from the stronghold, the better," Sagman said.
Tolaen was stunned. He was unwilling, but he had no choice but to agree. "I'll try."
"Hmm, if Hella doesn't accept the challenge, we'll destroy the stargate of the stronghold first. It's a pity that His Excellency Sun Hunter won't be participating in this operation … Taylor, you're a Mage, so your methods are flexible. I'll leave the destruction of the stargate to you and me." Sagman hesitated for a moment before saying with a deep voice, "As for Black Star's Lord's Avatar following Hella …"
"I'll hold him back."
At this moment, Kasuyi's avatar, who had been silent, spoke.
The Arcane Church had taken out enough benefits to let Kasuyi participate in this operation, but he did not like to attack others or bully newcomers. Therefore, he sent his avatar over as insurance.
"Alright, none of us have the confidence to deal with Black Star's avatar. Only His Excellency Kasuyi can suppress him." Sagman nodded.
"It's a pity. If only His Excellency Wuornos took action. Killing Hella would only be a matter of minutes …" Desolate Beast Mercer muttered softly.
"Don't even think about it. Wuornos won't leave the Temple of Ten Thousand Gods. He won't participate in such mundane matters at all." Taylor shook his head.
The Arcane Church had sent out six Beyond Grade As this time. They were Photon Sagman, World Gate Taylor, Desolate Beast Mercer, Red Devil Tolaen, one of Kasuyi's avatars, and the Lord's Avatar of a Mechanic under him.
The nature of Kasuyi's avatar was similar to the Lord's Avatar of the Mechanic class. It also carried a portion of the strength of the main body. It was not something that EsGod's pseudo Beyond Grade A avatars could compare to.
Although the number was the same as in the battle on Planet Lighthouse, after replacing Sisko and his good friend Dylan with Kasuyi's avatar and another Mechanic's Lord's Avatar, their strength increased by a large margin. Using such a lineup to deal with Hella was already overflowing.
Furthermore, unlike Planet Lighthouse, there were no dynasty allies stationed on the other side this time, especially without Milizaus. At the same time, Black Star's main body was not there, which meant that they would not encounter the Spacetime Amber. The Arcane Church felt that the situation was very advantageous. Furthermore, their target was Hella, not that sticky Black Star who was like a sticky candy. He was much easier to deal with.
Not continuing to participate in the discussion, Kasuyi's avatar turned around and looked at the starry sky outside the porthole with a deep gaze.
"Manison, you won't make a move, right? If Hella dies, Black Star will definitely go crazy … Hehe, what a difficult choice.
It's not suitable for you to make a move. I understand what you mean, so let me act for you.
With me around, she won't die. "
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(I can't see this chapter for the time being, but it seems like it can be posted. It might only appear after November. Sleep early today, wake up early tomorrow to watch the military parade (?????)?)
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