In the huge church of the Fortress of Victory, all the seats and benches and unnecessary furnishings have been moved away, and now there are more than two thousand space warriors.
The golden emperor's holy elephant towered under the dome, surrounded by countless angels and garlands, overlooking his invincible army. Although this army had millions of people in the past, but now only a few thousand people, their will and determination passed down have not changed.
This place not only contains soldiers from the Alliance of Suffering, but also a newly joined Imperial Fist Company and the Crow Wings of the Dark Angels. Warriors of different colors and logos are neatly lined up like sculptures. From a high point, they look like a mosaic grid composed of many colors.
Bahram was just an inconspicuous member of the team. He swallowed and suddenly felt that the back of his neck became dry and itchy. Maybe it was because he hadn't taken a shower for too long and didn't sweat much.
The one standing with him was Talos, who seemed quite abrupt in the crowd because his height was already taller than ordinary Space Marines. Fortunately, the other regiments were also a little taller, so he did not make him particularly outstanding.
Just as everyone was waiting, the Lord finally showed up.
The commander of the Knights of the Star Realm, the commander of the Supreme Lord of the Great Vortex Expeditionary Force, the highest wartime commander of the Alliance of Suffering, Soshyan Alexey made a brilliant debut surrounded by the Honorary Guard and a group of commanders, senior officers and other commanders, as well as a waiter holding the eagle flag granted by the High Lord.
After Soshiyang left the team, he walked slowly forward, stood behind the podium, and looked directly at the other person's eyes when he looked at people.
As early as two days ago, all the soldiers knew what happened. Everyone was shocked and they couldn't help but talk, and most of them were complaining about the magical arrangement of the High Lord.
However, the Knights of the Star Realm are still very proud and proud that their own commander of the battle captain became the highest lord commander who was almost in the position of war commander, because few Space Marines in the Empire have been able to lead expeditions of this level since the Horus Rebellion.
The most recent similar thing is in the Badab War, Virant Odiz, the commander of the Red Scorpion, temporarily took over the supreme command from the Grand Inquisition Legate Jandis Ferryn.
For Bahram, being able to participate in such an expedition is both exciting and nervous.
"Brothers, soldiers."
When Soshiyan spoke, his voice was deep and his tone was just right, and the two were modified to achieve a perfect balance.
"The Emperor's soldiers."
The amplification of these words, through the microphone, echoed in the dome of the church like thunder, deafening and calm, full of charm and faith.
"We are at the beginning of a great war. Soon we will face the evil enemies who disobey the emperor's will and put many human worlds in the abyss of heretics and stinking no faith. Everyone knows that they were once, like us, Astarte, who was loyal to the emperor and mankind, but for some selfish and depraved reasons, these thieves tried to be separatist and independent! Turn Astarte's ambition to protect mankind into an infinite desire for power! Our expedition is to shatter their last delusion, save the people in the vortex from water and fire, rebuild order, and bring light to these worlds that have been lost for many years."
Soshiyang paused for a moment and looked into the distance, as if he was staring at Xie Chong in his speech with all his heart, looking at the black-hearted king across the distant void.
Of course, the pause at this moment also gave the audience time to chew what he just said.
Soshyan is not a speaker, but his language is always convincing. When others hear him, they know that he is confident in his words. The listener should be like him. Some qualities in that strong belief can focus the listener's thoughts on his goals.
Bahram was also deeply touched by this. He even found that the cynical 11th Company soldiers around him were listening to the words of the commander, as if their hope for victory and glory was on this.
This power is far superior to all priests and is stronger than any political commissar.
Bahram felt that he might not be able to do this in his entire life.
"Soon! We will take the first step of the expedition! This is a very critical step! If we hesitate, we will fail! If we fail to make up our minds to implement the firm will required for this great task, we will judge the fate of hundreds of billions of compatriots! This battle will be unprecedentedly cruel, because we are facing the most evil and stubborn group of heresy, whose souls have completely fallen and will never be forgiven! We cannot look directly at the light of the emperor!"
Then, suddenly, the atmosphere of the speech changed, and Soshiyan switched from a priest who was preaching to an officer who assigned tasks to his subordinates.
In other words, he became the leader of the Astartes again.
"But as your commander, your trusted chief and brother, I must still tell you that although glory is within reach, the road ahead is a thorn. The vortex is not a good place. It is the shallowest isolation of subspace from the real universe. There, matter and intangible worlds intersect, and if you are not careful, you will fall from reality to the void. Even if you don't have the heresy of the Red Pirates, the cracks that open at any time will swallow the passing warships. The occasionally triggered subspace storms can turn a solid warship into a skeleton in a few seconds. The light of subspace leaking from the rift is enough to make the mortals on the entire planet completely crazy in the blink of an eye... This is the area where we are about to fight in the future, extremely dangerous and extremely deadly."
For some reason, Bahram felt that these supposedly disturbing statements were made by Soshiyan as if they were the challenges that pure men had the privilege of overcoming-
"War is never a joke. Every war will bring tragic consequences. Those dying wails are the best proof... Those who start the war must bear all the consequences. This is the first thing I learned after becoming the commander of the war. However, the responsibility requires us not to fear life and death, but I must also be responsible for the lives of all warriors. So this is a more difficult question - what is the purpose of the war? I know that victory alone is far from enough! So what is the result of victory? Or what is the responsibility after victory? This is why I waited until everyone's exercise was over before telling everyone that we were about to launch an expedition, because I was also thinking about how to defeat the enemy at the lowest cost and how to give Huron his head without sacrificing more lives."
Soshyang paused and then laughed as if he knew no one would agree with his cold joke.
"Of course Huron won't give it to him, so we have to get it ourselves, but what I want to tell you is that this expedition will not be launched very urgently. We have a lot of plans and work to do. We also need more hard training during this period. In the end, our goal is to let the lost souls of the vortex regain the glory of the emperor!"
Then, he raised his right hand and gently tapped his chest.
"The last point is that all the sprinkled blood will be revenged, and the heroic spirit of the commander of Randall is looking forward to comfort."
All the soldiers slammed their chests at the same time.
"All the blood that has been sprinkled will be revenge!"
Chapter completed!