T3 Unit

Before embarking on the mission that was ostensibly a rescue but actually a trap, Gu Hang emptied his remaining savings.

Originally, the Grace he had obtained during the battle at Mantan Valley Manor had been exhausted on extracting technology and training the 3rd Battalion. However, a few days ago, when Yan Fangxu led a team to burn the Incubation Nests in the Xenomorph Forest, he received 1-2 points of Grace for every nest destroyed, depending on its size.

After burning seven Incubation Nests, Gu Hang had obtained 11 points of Grace.

He poured this Grace into 11 soldiers of the Marine Assault Team.

The elite assault soldiers who descended from the starship were a completely different breed from regular troops. They wore dark brown integrated combat suits and masks, were heavily equipped, and left not a single inch of skin exposed during combat. The seemingly lightweight combat suits, when fitted with Plasteel plates, were even more effective than standard armored vests.

These were the elites of the Imperial Marine Corps, essentially special forces. Their training level was rated as T4 by the system. To raise their training level by one tier to T3, it cost 1 point of Grace per soldier.

1 point of Grace was enough to train a hundred ordinary people into an entire company of soldiers equivalent to the regular Imperial army.

But when used to train T3-level soldiers, it was only enough to upgrade one person.

To train them further to T2 would require 10 points of Grace per person—enough for Gu Hang to level up his own Hero panel.

However, while the cost was high, the value was extraordinary.

At the time, he had pulled the 11 Marines aside and performed some mysterious special training maneuvers.

The movements were something he had made up on the spot, but he claimed they were a blessing from The Emperor and a special training method he possessed.

It would be hard for most people to believe such a thing, but it was different when it came from Governor Gu Hang.

These Marine soldiers had all seen with their own eyes how those raw recruits had turned into qualified soldiers in such a short period of time.

How could they not believe it?

The Marine soldiers were ecstatic!

The 11 men followed the Governor's instructions meticulously and with great piety, completing the movements.

Then, in a very short time, they truly felt a world-shaking change occurring within their bodies.

They became stronger, even to a somewhat superhuman degree.

They ran faster, possessed greater strength, and had higher resistance to impact; if a bullet's power were slightly lower, it might not even penetrate their frontal bones. Their strength was nearly two or three times what it had been before; large rocks they couldn't budge in the past were now moved with relative ease.

Their neural reflexes also became faster; some flying birds looked like slow-moving paper planes in their eyes. Their military skills improved drastically in a short time, turning them from mediocre marksmen into sharpshooters. They also felt they had mastered some highly efficient close-quarters combat techniques, which, paired with their sidearm knives, would be enough for them to take down five or six of their former selves in a close-range fight...

Deeply experiencing the changes within themselves, they felt as if they were in a dream.

Why was this happening? It was completely unscientific!

But it was indeed reality.

They could only attribute it to the Grace of The Emperor and the miraculous nature of the Governor.

And they were one of the trump cards Gu Hang had prepared for this operation.

At this moment, these soldiers, strengthened to the T3 level, were playing the role Gu Hang had expected.

11 Electromagnetic Rifles chased the falling Heretic Priests. They didn't need verbal communication; every three of them locked onto one target. The Metal Spikes hit with the precision of an aim-bot, rarely missing even while the soldiers were running and the targets were in freefall.

During this process, Gu Hang was also playing dirty.

The opponents were strong, and Gu Hang wouldn't waste his limited Psionic Power recklessly. But just as he had cut off the three Heretic Priests' control over the Storm Eagle earlier, he could perform acts of "deflecting a thousand pounds with four ounces" at critical nodes.

This time, the dirty trick he pulled was to interfere with and sever the three priests' control over their Storm Shields.

Although the Marine soldiers had been strengthened to T3, it was the soldiers who were enhanced, not their firearms. The Eagle Electromagnetic Rifles in their hands remained unchanged. The Metal Spikes hit the three guys, only to be blocked by the Storm Shields.

Trying to break a Storm Shield purely through the power of bullets was difficult; it would require someone to stand still and be shot at for quite a while. However, it was somewhat effective, as it lowered the intensity of the Storm Shields and forced the Heretic Priests to channel their spirituality to maintain the shields' integrity.

This gave Gu Hang an opportunity.

He only needed to give it a light nudge; he didn't even need to expend much effort to completely collapse the Storm Shields, just make them more unstable.

The Storm Shields, suddenly weakened and even showing gaps and flaws, were quite fatal to the falling priests.

The weakest among them was particularly miserable. In mid-air, at least five or six Metal Spikes pierced his body.

The ultra-high power of the Electromagnetic Rifles was something the human body could not withstand.

That guy was instantly shredded in mid-air, and by the time he hit the ground, he was no longer recognizable as a human, just a pile of broken remains.

But the other two were in better condition.

In Gu Hang's vision, he could see that the strongest one was basically unaffected. After his Storm Shield glitched, he quickly compensated and avoided being hit. The other had a similar reaction, but his skill level was clearly inferior to the strongest one; he ended up taking two shots, which severed one of his arms and one of his legs.

The two priests who were still alive after hitting the ground each made their moves.

The strongest one, who was almost uninjured, suddenly sprouted a pair of white storm wings from his back. The wings looked somewhat like turbines, and as they blasted air backward, his speed reached an extreme level in the blink of an eye.

He ignored the charging Marine assault soldiers and set his target directly on Gu Hang, who was in the rear.

The Howling Wind Divine Envoy had not forgotten his mission; his most important goal for this trip was to kill the Planetary Governor.

He had intended to use the storm and the white mist to disrupt the soldiers' positions, allowing the Abscess Monsters to charge in and annihilate the troops, leaving only the Governor hiding in the Infantry Fighting Vehicle to be dealt with later.

But he hadn't expected the Governor to leave the protection of the Infantry Fighting Vehicle himself.

However, the fact that the Governor possessed Psionic Power and even used very advanced techniques greatly shocked him.

His plan had suffered a major setback because of this; the Governor's actions not only terminated their destruction of the human soldiers' positions but also landed him and his two subordinates in a very dangerous situation.

But he still had a chance.

As long as he could kill the Governor on the spot.