Yes.
Clone.
If these two Blood Angels had X-ray vision and could see inside the Golden Holy Armor, they would find that the Gemini Golden Holy Armor was empty, with no sign of anyone at all.
The Golden Holy Armor before them was merely a Golden Holy Armor.
As for where Hawk had gone?
Hawk hadn't gone anywhere.
At this moment, Hawk was still sitting cross-legged, but not on the ground; instead, he was high up in the sky, thousands of miles above.
While using the Reality Gemstone to conceal his figure, a Phoenix shadow was projected behind him.
His Cosmos was within the Phoenix shadow, and at this moment, the Gemini constellation, one of the Zodiac constellations, was shining brightly in his Cosmos over an area of 513 square degrees.
At the same time, his ever-burning Little Cosmos and the Reality Gemstone in the Phoenix's eyes were projecting a gold-colored Holy Armor into the Gemini star map.
Golden Holy Armor!
Gemini.
Hawk was no fool, and certainly not a reckless brute.
Although he wasn't sure whether Blood Angel Jack and Allen had any backup plans, it didn't stop him from assuming they did.
After all, caution ensures a ten-thousand-year ship.
A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.
The most important thing.
Gwen was still waiting for him to return home.
So...
Did Hawk come here early, truly thinking he was just idly waiting, taking advantage of rest?
He came here to turn this place into his own domain.
Although the Eighth Sense was not yet activated, Hawk had no way to turn his Phoenix Cosmos into reality.
But—
In his comprehension of the Seventh Sense, and having acquired the 'Mind Gemstone,' his Little Cosmos power once again gained a qualitative leap, nearly achieving an inexhaustible energy source; thus, using the Reality Gemstone, it became possible to materialize a true Golden Holy Armor.
Hawk originally considered materializing his own Golden Phoenix Holy Armor.
Unfortunately, it was impossible.
Phoenix was his natal constellation, the very foundation of his Little Cosmos, and theoretically, materializing the Golden Phoenix Holy Armor equates to materializing the Phoenix Cosmos.
After all, the power of the Holy Armor is linked to the constellation.
Materializing Phoenix Holy Armor is the same as materializing the Phoenix constellation, but his Phoenix constellation has already been expanded into the Phoenix Cosmos.
So it's not possible.
However, other constellations are possible, since after setting the tone for Phoenix Cosmos, nearly all the other constellations can be summarized as Phoenix Pegasus, Phoenix Ice River, and Phoenix Zodiac.
Fortunately.
After his Cosmos ascended to Golden Cosmos through the comprehension of the Seventh Sense, it has expanded twice as large.
The vast amount of stars is enough for him to illuminate Gemini; he came here in advance to evolve the Gemini star map within his Little Cosmos.
The reason for choosing to materialize Gemini is simple.
Because the Golden Saint Warriors of Gemini have a special skill.
Meditation!
Sajia once used his Little Cosmos to remotely control his Golden Holy Armor to fight enemies through meditation in the Pope's Hall, allowing confrontation without revealing his true form.
This is exactly what Hawk needs.
The most important thing.
As is widely known.
Sajia once served as Pope for a time.
And now!
Using a Pope to kill Blood Angels is quite fitting.
Isn't it?
But—
Hawk sat cross-legged, as if perched within his projected Little Cosmos, sensing through meditation the blood-red web now spreading around the Golden Holy Armor.
He could feel it, this blood-red web trying to control him?
Far away in New York City, Gwen watched this scene, her heart skipped a beat, and she stood up, eyes fixed on the screen showing the blood-covered Golden Holy Armor.
But suddenly.
She watched the Gemini Holy Armor on the big screen, blinked, and seemed to realize something.
Sharon, beside her, watched the screen and Gwen's mysterious expression.
"Don't worry, Gwen, trust Hawk; he's never been defeated."
"...Mm."
Gwen responded, and met Sharon's caring yet slightly worried gaze, smiling slightly: "Don't worry, I'm fine, Sharon, because that's not Hawk."
Sharon hesitated, looking at the blood-covered Golden Holy Armor on the screen.
"Not Hawk?"
"Mm."
"How do you know…"
"Intuition."
Gwen beamed brightly.
She didn't disclose the real reason to Sharon, nor does she plan to tell anyone why she's so certain.
Because Hawk had told her.
Gwen recalled a night when she was lying in bed with Hawk, watching Hawk's projections transform into a Phoenix Cosmos that was stunningly brilliant and embraced by a Phoenix, listening to Hawk describe the Bronze, Silver, and Zodiac constellations.
Knowing and seeing the numerous Holy Armors transformed by Hawk, she curiously asked: "With so many Holy Armors, why haven't you worn any others?"
Hawk mysteriously embraced her: "Because I've made a pact with Phoenix."
That's when she learned, as Hawk rose from obscurity, he invested heavily, conferring his Divine Authority to Hawk, making the Phoenix his natal constellation.
While he might transform those constellations, use their abilities, and even seek suitable owners for them.
But Hawk would not wear the Holy Armors of those constellations.
Dragon constellation excepted.
In Hawk's words.
Dragon!
Is his faith.
Only Phoenix and Dragon are trusted to no one else.
But the Holy Armor of the Dragon, Gwen had seen it before, and the golden Holy Armor on the big screen was neither the Dragon Holy Armor nor the Phoenix Holy Armor.
So——
Hawk was not inside.
Gwen was very sure of this.
Sharon looked into Gwen's determined eyes and listened to Gwen say it was intuition, and the panic that had just risen in her heart settled down.
At this moment.
The blood entwining the Gemini Holy Armor grew more intense, and began to drip blood downward.
As the blood continued to drip and began to coagulate on the ground.
Suddenly.
A blood hand abruptly reached out from the blood, followed by a creature entirely made of blood but looking identical to the Gemini Holy Armor, crawling completely out of the blood.
The next second.
The blood creature let out a roar.
The roar was deafening!
And in midair.
Hawk lowered his gaze slightly, feeling the suppressed energy in his Golden Holy Armor clone and the strange vibrations coming from the blood creature mimicking him, and frowned.
He looked up at Blood Angel Jack, his voice calm.
"What is this?"
"Heretic, this is your sinful side."
"Sin."
Hawk laughed.
"Who decided this?"
"The Lord!"
"Accept judgment, heretic!"
As Blood Angel Jack said this, on the other side, Blood Angel Jack had already roared, and blood-red wings burst out, transforming into a sharp Spear of Judgment, which pierced the shoulder of that creature looking like it was bound to the ground, resembling the Golden Holy Armor.
And at the moment when the Spear of Judgment pierced the shoulder of the blood creature.
The shoulder of the floating Gemini Golden Holy Armor also seemed to be pierced by something.
Hawk raised an eyebrow, glancing at his pierced position, looking at Blood Angel Jack.
"Curse of the same body?"
"Heh."
Blood Angel Jack sneered, facing the fully masked Hawk, his expression arrogant.
Just like a villain, starting to talk nonsense when he thought he had won.
"Each person's actions will ultimately be judged by their actions. You killed the Blood Spirit, and naturally, you will be killed by the Blood Spirit."
"This was originally prepared for Mephisto."
"But it's okay."
"Using it on you works just as well. Kill you, and no one can stop the Lord's coming."
Hawk listened to Blood Angel Jack's explanation, his expression suddenly clear.
"No wonder Mephisto said that once the Death Angel awakens into the dimension of Death, those Lords of Death will all die."
"It's not your newborn Death Angels who defeated those Lords of Death."
"It's these filthy curses that killed them."
Even though he controlled the Golden Holy Armor through meditation.
His perception was almost the same as when he wore the Golden Holy Armor in battle.
He could sense that the Golden Holy Armor seemed to be closely linked to the blood creature.
How to say it.
The feeling was quite mysterious.
A bit like the cause and effect discussed by the Western Buddha, countless threads of cause and effect binding the Holy Armor and the blood creature together.
If the blood creature was injured, the Golden Holy Armor would also be injured.
Considering that both Yahweh and the Western Buddha were quite mysterious, having some of these strange abilities wasn't surprising.
However...
It was troublesome, but not unsolvable.
There was just a small problem.
The Blood Angels would not give him the time to solve this problem.
Indeed!
Blood Angel Jack and Allen's expressions became infinitely fanatical at this moment.
"Lord!"
"Great Lord!"
"In Your name, judge this heretic."
"Heretic——"
"Die!"
With these words, Blood Angel Jack and Allen didn't hesitate, and the blood-red wings behind them violently shot out, transforming into countless Spears of Judgment, whistling and piercing the blood creature bound on the ground.
As each Spear of Judgment pierced the blood creature.
The floating Golden Holy Armor, also unable to move due to the binding of the blood creature, seemed to be pierced by something.
"Damn it!"
Sharon from New York S.H.I.E.L.D watched this scene, like other S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents, she couldn't help but cover her mouth in shock.
"Hawk!"
"Don't worry, that's not Hawk."
Gwen looked at the screen, and the more tragic the screen of the Gemini Holy Armor was, the more she believed Hawk was not inside that Holy Armor.
Soon.
The blood creature was turned into a honeycomb.
The Golden Holy Armor floating in midair also turned into a honeycomb.
Blood Angel Jack and Allen looked at the pierced Golden Holy Armor, now looking like ragged clothes, with a victorious expression.
Just as their smiles were bright.
Hawk's voice came out from the tattered Holy Armor.
"Is that all?"
"..."