Chapter 936, Not Unsolvable

Chapter 936, Not Unsolvable

Gu Hang was always able to keep track of the situation of the expeditionary force.

He has indeed been paying attention to it.

In his view, the Alliance was indeed the core force in saving the entire human empire, and he did not believe that anyone else could do as much as he had.

However, having another strong ally would be a good thing.

Gu Hang thought highly of Robert and had high hopes for him.

Of course, if we follow Gu Hang's idea, then Robert would be better off staying in the Infinite Starfield, using the Infinite Chapter's home base as the center, and launching a military operation similar to the Alliance's Dark Side Expedition centered on the Spiderweb and Eastern Starfields, to expand the Empire's territory in the Holy Frontier.

Instead of rushing headlong into Holy Terra, it's better to steadily and diligently manage each and every world in front of us.

Even if Holy Terra is truly finished and destroyed, and the human empire ceases to exist, the Alliance will still have preserved half of the Dark Side empire. Then we'll see how much territory Robert can hold onto in the Holy Frontier of the Empire.

At worst, we can join forces again and fight our way up to Holy Terra step by step, and take back humanity's home planet.

Of course, the loss of Holy Terra would be of paramount importance, potentially triggering an even greater crisis, a point Gu Hang agreed with. Therefore, when Robert decided to launch this highly risky expedition to Terra, he ultimately did not offer too strong an objection.

Now that the expedition has begun, and it not only embodies Gu Hang's hopes for an improvement in the situation on the Holy Frontier, but also contains his own son, he naturally won't ignore it completely.

The expeditionary force that set out from the Infinite Starfield did not get lost in the warp, not only because of the Emperor's blessing, but also because of Gu Hang's small help.

But in reality, there wasn't much Gu Hang could actually help with.

At the very least, it would be difficult for him to directly dispatch troops or deliver supplies to the expeditionary force's ships.

That price is too high; even Gu Hang wouldn't be willing to do it.

However, there is another kind of help that can be provided to the expeditionary force through Gu Jing's existence.

Especially informational content.

Robert has an exceptionally intelligent mind, but he needs a lot of information to base his decisions.

Gu Hang can provide a lot of clues and knowledge about the subspace, evil gods, demons, and psionic energy. As soon as something happens, Gu Hang can usually tell what's going on just by looking at it through Gu Jing's perspective.

Gu Jing himself understood, as he had told Robert himself; but there were many things Gu Jing didn't understand, even after so many years of study and practice, there was still a ceiling to his power, and he couldn't understand until he reached a certain level.

Gu Hang would then tell him the information, and he would then pass it on to Robert.

The information provided by Gu Hang helped Robert avoid many pitfalls and indirectly saved the entire expeditionary force on several occasions.

The same applies to the things the Dark Elves did this time.

However, even Gu Hang misjudged the situation this time.

Just a little bit.

After all, the Eldar have a terrifying foundation. They were the cosmic overlords of countless millennia ago, and even after their destruction, they managed to survive the Slaanesh's pursuit until today. That's something they couldn't have done without some trump cards.

Gu Hang didn't realize what these dark spirits were up to when they first appeared. It was only after the formation was deployed that he spent some time analyzing what the formation was for.

He predicted the formation would take eight hours to activate, but it actually activated in seven hours. This seven-hour delay was due to the destruction of numerous formation nodes.

However, there was one thing that Gu Hang had already figured out, but he didn't tell Gu Jing and Robert.

To destroy the Dark Eldar's warp-cutting array, the critical number of nodes that need to be destroyed is half.

The reason he didn't tell the other two was that after analyzing the situation, Gu Hang knew from the scene that the human expeditionary force had absolutely no chance of achieving this goal.

In other words, their being drawn into the inner circle was already a foregone conclusion.

There is absolutely no way they could destroy half of the nodes within eight hours.

This means that the entire expeditionary force has been dragged into the shadows, and that is a foregone conclusion.

Then what's the point of saying anything?

Did you say that would demoralize the entire expeditionary force?
It would be better to keep their morale high and encourage them to work hard to overcome those obstacles.

Destroying a node means the destruction of an Eldar army or Eldar ship.

While they are desperately defending the node and delaying its destruction, they are unable to fully utilize the Eldar's superior flexibility and elusive tactics. It would be best to kill as many Eldar as possible.

After the Eldar are killed, their souls will return to the Comoros and they can be reborn. However, they will also need to undergo physical regeneration, which takes time. Furthermore, the reborn Eldar will experience a long period of weakness and will need considerable time and effort to regain their former peak strength.

For the Eldar, whose population is relatively small, the losses must be enormous.

As for the Spirit Race's determination to complete their grand strategy despite such enormous losses... in Gu Hang's view, it's not entirely without a solution.

After realizing that it was a foregone conclusion that Robert and his expeditionary fleet had been drawn into the shadows, Gu Hang's thoughts shifted from how to prevent this from happening to how to take advantage of it.

The Dark Eldar, the Alliance has dealt with them before.

Before the Cataclysm, Eldar pirates frequently roamed several regions in the southern part of the Eastern Space Domain, a problem that had plagued that area for a long time. Furthermore, Eldar pirates also regularly harassed the trade routes between the Alliance and the Infinite Starfield.

Gu Hang learned that the so-called 'prophecy' obtained by the Spirit Race was actually obtained from prisoners of the Dark Spirit Race pirates.

Furthermore, taking advantage of this, the Alliance seized the opportunity when a group of Dark Eldar pirates were escaping and opening their own veiled portal from Comoros to the real universe, and blasted several cannonballs into the portal.

Those shots must have landed inside the Comoros, causing damage in a certain area.

Of course, those few shots alone are not the key point.

The main reason is that Gu Hang took this opportunity to slip some 'hidden agenda' into Comoros.

His Legion of Heroes.

Not many managed to sneak in, and quite a few were quickly caught, eliminated, and returned to Gu Hang's Storm God Kingdom.

However, Gu Hang hoped that the heroic spirits representing a portion of his power, once sent into Comoros, even if they didn't exist for long, would allow him to use them as a guide to find Comoros's exact location.

The Dark Eldar are powerful precisely because no one can break into their lair; they are the ones who take the initiative to harass others.
If they could find their lair, or even find an opportunity to launch a preemptive strike, conquering or destroying the Comoros, then humanity would have a chance to completely annihilate these repulsive, fly-like dark aliens. Gu Hang wasn't like some human rulers who harbored absolute hatred for all non-human races. However, the Dark Eldar, a definite enemy of humanity, would be quite desirable if they could be completely wiped out in one fell swoop.

Unfortunately, they do have a rich history.

Gu Hang could sense that his heroic spirits still existed, and he could even command them. However, Gu Hang was unable to devote more power to them, nor could he locate Comoros's position through these heroic spirits.

This is a bit magical.

Gu Hang didn't even know how these Dark Spirits managed to do it.

However, there's nothing to be too surprised about.

If the Dark Eldar's lair could be found so easily, and if Gu Hang could so easily unleash his psychic power on the Comoros with just a few coordinates, then they would have no chance of escaping the Slaanesh's pursuit over the long years.

Gu Hang didn't believe he was stronger than Slaanesh. It was perfectly normal that Gu Hang couldn't do what even Slaanesh hadn't.

However, Gu Hang never gave up his interest in Comoros.

In the aftermath of the Cataclysm and during the Dark Side Expedition, while Chaos was humanity's primary enemy, the threat of the Xenomorphs never diminished.

Regarding the Xenomorphs, the main threats are the Orks and the Voidlings. However, quite occasionally, the Dark Expedition will also encounter the Dark Eldar, who are causing trouble.

Comoros itself does not produce resources. Even if there are some rare greenhouse cultivations, they are of little use, not to mention that it requires massive amounts of minerals, metals, energy... all of which must be obtained from the real universe.

They could either establish Dark Eldar colonies in the real universe and use slaves for production.

Alternatively, they could form pirate raiding parties and plunder.

The Dark Eldar can do both.

Colonization and plunder are the ways of survival for the Dark Eldar.

The cataclysm also gave them an opportunity.

The human empire became weaker and more fragmented than ever before, and their actions of plundering planets, acquiring populations, and establishing colonies became much smoother.

This inevitably leads to encounters with the Dark Side Expedition.

Based on their past experience dealing with the Dark Eldar, the Alliance also has a special operational manual for dealing with this alien enemy.

When fighting the Dark Eldar, finding the Veil Spirit Gate that connects the real universe to the Comoros is of paramount importance.

Every time Gu Hang finds and destroys the Veil Spirit Gate, his will always descends and casually stuffs some heroic spirits into it.

Once inside, the heroic spirits kept a low profile and didn't cause any trouble.

They even concealed their human form—this is simple, they were originally the embodiment of Gu Hang's power, the embodiment of the storm. Their memories and human form from their previous lives were secondary, bestowed upon them by Gu Hang.

It is also convenient not to maintain a human form when necessary.

That was the appearance of an elemental creature formed from pure storm energy.

Elemental beings, or energy beings, are rare in this universe, but they do exist, and some have even established civilizations.

Among the many slaves and mercenaries enslaved or hired by the Dark Eldar are these elemental beings.

Gu Hang's Storm Spirits, in this guise, lurk in the Comoros.

The total number is not large, but Gu Hang did not expect that these mere hundred thousand Storm Spirits disguised as elemental creatures could play a very important role in the military.

Their most important task is to gather intelligence after entering the social system and structure of the Dark Eldar, so that they can better understand the Dark Eldar's veiled city.

There have been considerable achievements. Gu Hang's understanding of the Dark Elf race is now much richer than it was in the past.

And there was an even more unexpected gain.

Elemental creatures seem to have a special purpose for a certain family. As mercenaries, half of Gu Hang's Storm Spirits have joined a mid-level family called 'Dark Source'.

During this time, the Storm Spirits, disguised as beings with a mindset completely different from ordinary carbon-based life forms, gathered information and discovered that the biggest supporter behind the 'Dark Source' family seemed to be an important force within the Dark Elf race—the Witch Spirit Order.

As one of the three pillars of the Dark Elf race, it's quite normal for the Witch Spirit Cult to support a family and make it serve them. Gu Hang also took this opportunity to have his Storm Spirit further contact the Witch Spirit Cult behind the Dark Origin family through the Dark Origin family, in order to obtain higher-level and more core intelligence.

The entire process went even more smoothly than expected. The sorcerers, who utilized supernatural powers, were very fond of these valuable elemental creatures as mercenaries. The leader of the Storm Elements, 'General Wind,' even unexpectedly received an audience with the leader of the sorcerer cult, known as 'Old Woman.'

This is a truly important person!
If you were to rank the important figures in Comoros by their status, the old woman would easily be in the top three.

It was also through her and the entire Witch Spirit Cult that the status of the Storm Creatures rose rapidly, and they gained access to a lot of information that was previously difficult to obtain.

In the present moment, this information can be put to good use.

Robert is quite capable.

Despite such a dramatic change, he quickly calmed the entire fleet, preventing it from remaining in a state of panic for too long. As a result, the dark-skinned men who had been sent back to their homeland tried to take advantage of the situation to launch a fierce attack on the human fleet and disrupt its foothold, but ended up suffering losses instead.

That's normal. Although these black-skinned expeditionary forces are elite, their numbers are small, and they suffered heavy losses while maintaining the magic array.

Seeing that they could not succeed and would not gain any advantage, they did not linger and quickly withdrew.

In any case, in their view, the human fleet that had entered the veil was already trapped and could be dealt with sooner or later.

If we can't deal with it right now, we can retreat first, then regroup the main force, gather all the cannon fodder and the power of the major families, and continue the fight.

Here, they have a constant supply of provisions, while human soldiers are one less to die and one less bullet to fire.

Taking advantage of this time, Robert reassembled the scattered fleet and, amidst the chaos, found a new target.

That was the exact location of the Veil Harbor in Comoros that Gu Jing had told him.

That was the common departure point for the Dark Eldar pirate fleets, the place where the Veil Portal opened and closed. The Dark Eldar pirates used this place to open Veil Portals that led to various parts of the real universe, allowing them to easily travel between the real universe and the Veil.

If we can capture that place, then humanity can make use of this most important technology of the Dark Eldar!
(End of this chapter)