Yes.
A clone.
If these two Blood Angels had x-ray vision and could see inside the gold cloth, they would discover that the Gemini Gold Cloth was empty, with no one inside.
The gold cloth before them was merely a gold cloth.
As for where Hawk went?
Hawk went nowhere.
At this moment, Hawk was still sitting cross-legged, but not on the ground; he was high up in the sky.
While using the Reality Stone to conceal his presence, a Phoenix phantom was projected behind him.
His Universe was within the Phoenix phantom, and at this very moment, the Gemini, an area of 513 square degrees and one of the Zodiac constellations, was shining brightly within his Universe.
At the same time, his continuously burning Little Universe and the Reality Stone in the Phoenix's eyes were projecting a golden saint cloth into the Gemini star map.
gold cloth!
Gemini.
Hawk was not a fool, nor was he a reckless man.
Although he wasn't sure if Blood Angel Jack and Allen had any trump cards, it didn't stop him from assuming they did.
After all, caution makes for a long journey.
A wise man does not stand under a tottering wall.
The most important point:
Gwen was still waiting for him to return home.
So... Hawk came here early, did they really think he was here to wait for a rabbit by a stump, to wait at leisure for the enemy?
He was here to turn this place into his home ground.
Although his Seventh Sense was not yet open, Hawk still couldn't turn his Phoenix Universe into reality.
But—
After he comprehended the Seventh Sense and acquired the Mind Stone, his Little Universe's power once again underwent a qualitative leap. With an almost inexhaustible supply of energy, he could still manifest a true gold cloth using the Reality Stone.
Hawk had originally intended to manifest his own Phoenix gold cloth.
Unfortunately, he couldn't.
Phoenix was his natal constellation and the foundation of his Little Universe. Manifesting the Phoenix gold cloth would, in theory, be equivalent to manifesting the Phoenix Universe.
After all, the power of the saint cloth is linked to the constellation.
Manifesting the Phoenix saint cloth would be equivalent to manifesting the Phoenix constellation, but his Phoenix constellation had already been expanded into the Phoenix Universe.
So, it wouldn't work.
However, other constellations could. After he set the tone for the Phoenix Universe, the other constellations could almost all be summarized as Phoenix Pegasus, Phoenix Cygnus, and Phoenix Zodiac.
Fortunately.
After his Universe ascended to a Gold Universe due to his comprehension of the Seventh Sense, it had already expanded by twofold.
The vast number of stars was enough for him to light up Gemini. He came here in advance precisely to evolve the Gemini star map within his Little Universe.
The reason for choosing Gemini to manifest was simple.
Because the Gold Saint of Gemini possessed a special ability.
Meditation!
Saga of Gemini once used his Little Universe in the Pope's Hall, through meditation, to remotely control his gold cloth to fight enemies, allowing him to contend with foes without revealing his true self.
This was exactly what Hawk needed.
The most important point.
It's common knowledge.
Saga once served as the Pope for a period.
And now!
Using the Pope to kill Blood Angels was clearly very fitting.
Isn't it?
But—
Hawk sat cross-legged, as if sitting within his projected Little Universe, sensing the blood-red cobweb that had now spread around the gold cloth clone through meditation.
He could sense that this blood-red cobweb was trying to control him?
Gwen, in New York City, watched this scene, her heart skipped a beat, and she couldn't help but stand up, her eyes fixed on the gold cloth entangled in blood on the big screen.
But suddenly.
She gazed at the Gemini Cloth on the big screen, blinked, and then, as if she realized something.
Sharon, beside her, looked at the big screen's image, then at Gwen's inexplicable expression.
"Don't worry, Gwen, trust Hawk. He has never lost a battle since his debut."
..."Hmm."
Gwen snapped back, meeting Sharon's eyes, which held both concern and a hint of worry, and smiled faintly: "Don't worry, I'm fine, Sharon, because that's not Hawk."
Sharon paused slightly, looking at the gold cloth covered in blood on the big screen.
"Not Hawk."
"Hmm."
"How do you..."
"A hunch."
Gwen's smile was radiant.
She didn't tell Sharon the real reason, not just Sharon, she didn't plan to tell anyone why she was so certain.
Because Hawk had told her before.
Gwen recalled one night, she and Hawk were lying in bed, watching Hawk project and evolve the incomparably brilliant and beautiful Phoenix Universe, as if embraced by a Phoenix, listening to Hawk tell stories of the Bronze Constellations, Silver Constellations, and the Zodiac constellations.
After knowing and seeing so many saint cloths evolved by Hawk, she curiously asked Hawk: "Since there are so many saint cloths, why haven't I seen you wear any others?"
Hawk, at the time, mysteriously hugged her: "Because I made a promise with the Phoenix."
It was then that she learned that the Phoenix constellation, which had given Hawk its divine authority with heavy investment when he was still obscure, had since become Hawk's natal constellation.
Although he might evolve those constellations, use their abilities, and even find suitable Masters for them.
But Hawk would not wear the saint cloths of those constellations.
Except for dragon.
In Hawk's words.
dragon!
It was his belief.
Only Phoenix and dragon, no one else's hands.
But Gwen had also seen the dragon saint cloth, and the golden saint cloth on the big screen was neither the dragon saint cloth nor the Phoenix saint cloth.
So—
Hawk was not inside.
Gwen was very certain about this.
Sharon looked at Gwen's very confident gaze, listening to Gwen say it was a hunch, and the panic that had just risen in her heart subsided.
Just then.
The blood-red color entwined around the Gemini Cloth grew stronger, and blood began to drip downwards.
As the blood continuously dripped and began to coalesce on the ground.
Suddenly.
A bloody hand abruptly reached out from the blood, followed by a blood-red creature, completely formed from blood, but outwardly identical to the Gemini Cloth, crawling entirely out of the blood.
The next second.
The blood-red creature roared.
The roar was deafening!
And in mid-air.
Hawk lowered his gaze slightly, feeling the suppressed energy on his gold cloth clone and the mysterious fluctuations emanating from the blood-red creature that mimicked him, and frowned.
He looked up at Blood Angel Jack, his voice calm.
"What is this?"
"Heretic, this is your sinful side."
"Sin."
Hawk chuckled.
"Who defined it?"
"Jehovah!"
"Accept judgment, heretic!"
As Blood Angel Jack said this, Blood Angel Jack on the other side had already roared, and then his blood-red wings shot out, transforming into a sharp Spear of Judgment, which, with a 'poof,' pierced the shoulder of the blood-red creature that seemed to be bound to the ground and looked exactly like the gold cloth.
And at the moment the Spear of Judgment pierced the blood-red creature's shoulder.
The shoulder of the Gemini Gold Cloth suspended in mid-air also seemed to be pierced by something.
Hawk raised an eyebrow, glanced at his pierced spot, and looked at Blood Angel Jack.
"Shared Body Curse?"
"Hehe."
Blood Angel Jack sneered, facing Hawk, whose face was fully covered by a mask, his expression arrogant.
He was exactly like a villain, starting to spout nonsense when victory was in his grasp.
"Everyone's actions will eventually be judged by their deeds. You killed the Blood Holy Spirit, so you will naturally be killed by the Blood Holy Spirit."
"This was originally prepared for Mephisto."
"But it's fine."
"It's the same when used on you. Kill you, and no one can stop Jehovah's arrival."
Hawk listened to Blood Angel Jack's explanation, his expression dawning.
"No wonder Mephisto said that once the Death Angel awakens and enters the dimension of Death, those Death Lords will all die."
"It's not your nascent Death Angel defeating those Death Lords."
"It's by killing them with these underhanded curses."
Although he controlled this gold cloth through meditation.
His perception was almost the same as when fighting while wearing this gold cloth.
He could sense that this gold cloth seemed to be intimately connected with that blood-red creature.
How to put it?
It felt very mystical.
Somewhat similar to the causality spoken of by Western Buddhas, countless causal lines bound the saint cloth and the blood-red creature together.
If the blood-red creature was injured, the gold cloth would also be injured.
Considering that Jehovah and the Western Buddhas were both mysterious, it was not surprising that they had such strange abilities.
However... it was troublesome, but not without a solution.
There was just a small problem.
The Blood Angel wouldn't give him time to solve this problem.
Indeed!
Blood Angel Jack and Allen's expressions now became infinitely fanatical.
"Jehovah!"
"Great Jehovah!"
"In your name, judge this heretic."
"Heretic—"
"Die!"
As the words fell, Blood Angel Jack and Allen didn't hesitate. The blood-red wings behind them shot out, transforming into countless Spears of Judgment, whistling and crackling as they pierced the bound blood-red creature on the ground.
As the Spears of Judgment pierced the blood-red creature one by one.
Various parts of the gold cloth, suspended in mid-air and unable to move because the blood-red creature was bound, also seemed to be pierced by something.
"Holy sh*t!"
Sharon in New York S.H.I.E.L.D. watched this scene and, like the other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, couldn't help but cover her mouth and exclaim.
"Hawk!"
"Don't worry, that's not Hawk."
Gwen looked at the screen. The more tragic the Gemini Cloth appeared in the image, the more certain she was that Hawk was not inside that saint cloth.
Soon.
The blood-red creature was riddled with holes like a beehive.
The gold cloth suspended in mid-air also became a beehive.
Blood Angel Jack and Allen looked at the gold cloth, now riddled with holes like beggar's rags, with expressions of having successfully achieved their scheme.
Just as their smiles were radiant.
Hawk's voice came from the tattered saint cloth.
"Is that all?"
"..."
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