Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 1716 - 975: Silent Sister

Chapter 1716: Chapter 975: Silent Sister

If the arrival of the Imperial Guard serves primarily to express the stance of this political power, the two hundred Forbidden Army soldiers, while a formidable force, hold more symbolic significance than actual value.

After all, in this battle, if victory is possible, they can win even without the Forbidden Army; if they lose… at most, the Forbidden Army can serve as the last line of defense.

This makeshift role still plays a part.

The leading Forbidden Army Guardian Officer likely possesses the combat level of a divine champion. Among the two hundred or so Forbidden Army members, there is another with the strength of a divine champion, and the number of battle group champions has reached more than thirty, with the rest all at the level of company champions.

The levels mentioned here correspond to the respective levels of Interstellar Warriors.

In fact, the ratio of divine champions emerging from the Imperial Guard is indeed high, reaching about two to three per thousand; the number of battle group champions is around five to ten percent. The rest are almost all at the level of company champions.

This proportion is much more terrifying than that of Interstellar Warriors.

To say the Forbidden Army can fight a hundred times the number of Interstellar Warriors might be an exaggeration; but fighting ten times the number of Interstellar Warriors is more than sufficient.

Altogether, this group of Forbidden Army soldiers might be able to handle four or five Great Demons?

Adding Robert and Gu Jing to handle Magnus and the Weaver of Fate. Plus, within the Infinite Corps and various sub-corps, there are also some battle group champions and even divine champions. The latter, like Nero, the overall leader of the Infinite Corps, or Chief Intelligence Director Terriot, can also deal with some Great Demons…

In that moment, Gu Jing’s mind had already considered a possibility. If the situation developed to the worst-case scenario he least wanted to see, with the arrival of nine divine Magic Lords of Thousand Changes led by the Weaver of Fate, the human side would not be entirely without countermeasures.

However, if it came to that point, who knows what sacrifices would have to be made, and who knows who would win or lose this battle.

More crucially, the cost of losing would be extremely heavy.

It’s not just the loss of troops, the loss of top experts. More critically, if demons were allowed to occupy the moon, they might drag the whole moon into Subspace. Or, as the Empire commonly put it, they would ’demonize’ the moon.

After the desecration rites, a ’demonized’ moon would possess both Subspace and real universe properties. Those endless demons could indeed swarm from there.

Using the moon as a springboard and base, they could attack Holy Terra directly.

And what’s the current state of Holy Terra?

Clearly, it’s in a battered state.

Otherwise, the most important satellite fortress of Holy Terra—the moon, wouldn’t have ended up in this condition.

There must be a lot of Chaos corruption festering on Holy Terra. The current eruptions of riots and wars on Terra are likely related to these Chaos corruptions. Some of the rulers on Terra might have secretly embraced Chaos. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain why, during the previous moon unrest, the Sun Legion, evidently corrupted by Terror Demons, turned into traitors in large numbers; traces of following Military Affairs Department orders were also present in previous commands to the Navy Marine Corps.

When the Chaos Demon army from the moon, coupled with the traitorous high officials on Holy Terra, destroyed the fortress from within… Even if Terra had complete defense measures at the time, along with the founding unit Golden Knight, the Ten Thousand Man Team Imperial Guard, and many elite troops and trump cards, the outcome might not be much better under a prolonged siege in the future.

Even if Robert and Gu Jing could escape this time, even if the Alliance could gather an army to reconquer, it’s uncertain if there’d be enough time.

Even if there is time, the cost of war will become extremely high.

Therefore, to prevent this chain reaction of worsening, they have no choice but to—either stop those Great Demons now and drive Magnus away; if they are released, they must be defeated here with all their might.

They cannot retreat any further.

This is precisely why the Forbidden Army is considered the last line of defense.

The last line of defense is necessary, but before that, the Sisters of Silence brought by the Forbidden Army, as well as the Alliance Breaker unit emerging from the newly constructed Miniature Curtain Spiritual Gate, must play a crucial role.

As these entities capable of suppressing Subspace, the ’Inviolable Ones,’ continually advance, every Subspace Demon that approaches them is significantly weakened—if not for Magnus, these demons wouldn’t be able to maintain their forms and would be directly banished back to their Subspace lairs by the Inviolable Ones and Sisters of Silence.

Yet Magnus was not having a good time either; besides dealing with Robert and resisting Gu Jing’s continuous breakthrough of his Spiritual Energy to close the Subspace rift, he was also constrained by a near-hundred Sisters of Silence and Inviolable Ones, significantly affecting his Spiritual Energy operation.

There’s hope!

Magnus also realized the severity of the situation.

He roared, unleashing a torrent of demons with venomous profanities, surging toward those Inviolable Ones.

Even though they would be severely harmed and suppressed upon approaching as if sending themselves to their deaths, they still had to advance; those surviving Jian Qi followers and even the Sun Legion Terror Demon puppets whose minds Magnus had stolen were also utilized.

They were not Subspace Demons, so they wouldn’t be suppressed by the Inviolable Ones upon approach.

However, at that moment, over two hundred Imperial Guards, led by the Guardian Officer, formed an insurmountable golden frontline, holding firm against all assaults.

Even when the first divine Magic Lord of Thousand Changes managed to emerge from a Subspace rift and attack them, they could not harm the Inviolable Ones and Sisters of Silence.

Instead, when its ability to manipulate Subspace Energy was restricted, it was banished by the joint effort of two powerful Forbidden Army champions.

Following this wave of assaults, the Forbidden Army even escorted the Inviolable Ones and Sisters of Silence close to the Subspace rifts.

Whenever they approached a rift, it would be closed; whenever a rift was closed, the summoning time of the Great Demon would be delayed.

When finally, they even seized an opportunity to suddenly approach Magnus with the Forbidden Army’s protection, even this so-called strongest Spiritual Energy ’Divine Offspring’ was subjected to some suppression.