Chapter 12 The War Begins (5) Breakthrough and Damage
"Retreat!"
The exclaimed voice of a staff officer who had been squatting next to the Geiger counter broke the oppressive and suffocating atmosphere in the hall.
Under the gaze of everyone, he once again confirmed the value in front of him, and then jumped up:
"The subspace wave is beginning to recede!"
Of course, it’s not just the subspace wave that recedes like a tide, but also the overwhelming demons on the front lines.
Just like the fish is not only the protagonist who has not appeared in the two chapters, but also the author who is unable to wake up.
When the extraordinary power on the other side of reality becomes rootless water, the demons from another world in front of the position are like hippos that have lost their water source. Although they still have huge and terrifying power, they have lost their greatest support in the interior. The energy density on the planet is rapidly declining, and the spiritual energy fluctuations visible to the naked eye from high in the sky dim in a breath.
The demons who have been accustomed to the existence of subspace breaches for more than a hundred years have not lost their fighting power, but they have no intention of fighting again.
They abandoned the target in front of them and retreated in large numbers with their morale shaken. The soldiers who survived on the battlefield were left in a daze, not knowing whether to be grateful or disappointed.
They fell weakly on their backs in the trench, breathing heavily and then staring blankly at the sky.
Some people also choose to pursue them, and it’s not just the demons who are red-eyed.
Comrade-in-arms sacrificed before our eyes, and the order not to retreat was behind us. Against the background of the death of the entire establishment, there were many people who could not forgive themselves for living alone. At least more than 1,000 soldiers rushed towards the enemy in anger, and then disappeared in the rolling waves as expected.
In the midst of blood.
I won’t go into too much detail about these interludes, but in general, the wave of demons’ attacks did stop unexpectedly.
Is this an accident? Or is this the will of the God-Emperor?
Or to say the least, even the will of the God-Emperor should have a material carrier. And this time, the name of the carrier of the Emperor's will is Calvin.
That's right, Calvin arrived at the edge of the battlefield half an hour after the war started. After seeing the powerful demon army, he felt that there was nothing he could do, so he naturally chose to steal home.
It was still the four Gray Knights wearing optical camouflage cloaks who opened the way, but this time Calvin did not have time to slowly get in, but chose to teleport collectively based on the positioning of the four vanguards.
The huge seal is at the end of the cave, and the ancient inscriptions and reliefs have now been replaced by the blasphemous marks of the demons.
This is true on the pillars on both sides of the stone arch that is more than ten meters high, and the whirlpool-like gate that is constantly absorbing subspace energy is in the center of the arch.
The corpses of the fallen soldiers in front are being quietly transported here by the demons. The priests of Tzeentch and the acolytes of Nurgle are wearing colorful or dirty dark green robes, holding sacrificial knives in their hands, and are processing them.
with these corpses.
The ceremony has obviously not started yet. It has just been set up halfway, and the unformed sacrificial ceremony looks weird, cruel and disgusting.
Calvin, who had just stepped out of the dazzling silver light of the teleportation, saw such a blasphemous scene.
"For
the
emperor!"
"We
are
hammer!"
Without any more words, the Gray Knights, led by Calvin, rushed towards the demon army left behind.
The portal blocked by the tide of demons is the goal of their trip.
Hundreds of demons walked out of the portal and moved forward to make room for the next wave of teleportation.
The square in front of the portal was crowded and noisy.
Every time a powerful person could not bear the squeeze and violently swung his sword at his companions. Then he restored order with his head hanging high under the sanctions of the demon's remaining guards.
When the Gray Knights appeared and the road to the front line was cut off, they naturally found an outlet to vent their anger and swarmed towards the Gray Knights.
The demon armies who were responsible for staying on high ground on both sides also gathered around. In the large cave, surrounded by layers of gray knights, they were as small as a drop in the ocean.
Boom!
A ray of silver light emerged from the black wave, which was the blazing flames burning on the warhammer "Mission" in Calvin's hand. Under the flames, there were the embers of corpses that began to pile up at his feet, the devil's.
The heavy war hammer was swung as light as nothing in his hand, and no one could block its heavy weight; the dual stances of psionic energy and decomposition on the lightning claws shined with all their strength, causing the demons to fall apart in one grasp.<
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There was a demon of Tzeentch throwing flames at him from a distance, and the blue and pink flames of chaos were extinguished on his holy power armor. Then, in his eyes that could judge the soul, he wailed and spontaneously combusted on the spot, burning into ashes.
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A five-meter-tall Brass Knight Lord tried to resist his attack, but both men and cattle were hammered into powder in one blow.
For more demons, the cause of death could not even be confirmed. We could only see him swinging his war hammer, knocking away swarms of demons with one blow, and then being incinerated by the spiritual energy of order before they hit the ground.
The light on the "mission" of the warhammer is becoming more and more obvious, which is a sign of the accumulation of inertial potential energy of the mission in the swing. The greater the power, the more the spiritual energy shines.
After hundreds of demons were killed in the first battle, the potential energy accumulated in the "mission" became more and more outrageous, and the air began to be suffocated by the power it carried.
Huge shock waves carrying spiritual energy began to radiate around as Calvin danced, and each blow could poke out a silver pillar of light in the dark wave.
The Gray Knights of the Honor Guard also followed in Calvin's footsteps. Under the sole responsibility of Calvin's soul, they squandered their psychic power like never before.
"Laws! Mantra Shield!"
This was Taric's voice. The decree that originally took several seconds to prepare was instantly formed at this moment, blocking a fatal blow from the Blood Sword for a Gray Knight with an overloaded shield at the rear of the team.
"Legal Order! Glory of Champions!" This is Feier's voice. The strengthened Order that originally required a dozen Gray Knights to prepare for a long time was formed in a breath and was added to a Gray Knight facing the Brass Knight Lord.
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More uses of the law come from "Retribution", which seems to be the same as psionic lightning, but is exclusive to the Gray Knight's skills.
This skill called "Retribution" costs more than ordinary psychic lightning, but the trace of the emperor's will contained in it makes all carriers of chaos power regard it as a natural enemy.
After the emergence of Calvin, the cost of this law was greatly reduced. It was regarded as the first choice of new tactical-level skills by the champions of the Honor Guard, only because of the huge cost of the summons of the emperor's will, it became Gal.
The embodiment of literary will...
There are many more changes in laws and regulations like this, so I won’t go into details here.
In short, the price is much cheaper and the effect is still outstanding. The Gray Knights all say it is good after using it.
The huge sense of oppression and the will of the entire guard collided in Calvin's mind, and the sounds of war cries and orders came and went, but Calvin firmly suppressed them.
Psychic energy was being consumed rapidly, and the temperature of Calvin's brainstem had been maintained at a dangerous level. The squeaking current on the psionic ring in his ears and the cooling device on his armor were telling him:
It is such a heavy burden to single-handedly connect the psychic powers of the entire team together and bear the cost of their use of discipline.
But it's worth it.
It is an unprecedented experience for Calvin to have full firepower on such a battlefield, allowing the Paladins to exert several or even ten times their previous combat effectiveness.
In just a few minutes on the battlefield, tens of thousands of demons were killed by the free psychic lightning, and the entire team's invincible progress after rushing hundreds of meters was the best reward for this price.
The most important thing is that during this journey, only one or two Gray Knights in the entire team were injured, and no one was killed.
The spiritual energy is replenishing again, and a huge amount of demons are dying. Calvin's soul, which has not eaten meat for a long time, is having a good meal.
The long-lost hunting instinct began to awaken, and he even laughed heartily when he looked at the countless demons in front of him.
You must know that the demons killed by him and the Gray Knights with his psychic powers are not qualified to return to the subspace.
The moment they were killed in the real universe, the real names solidified in the depths of subspace were also irreversibly erased by the power of time and fate, but the surrounding existence knew nothing about it, just like
They never existed.
And the wealth of their souls and the power of destiny they carry throughout their lives will all be owned by Calvin.
A large number of souls and emotions fill his soul, but the essential gap means that when these souls are absorbed and transformed into higher dimensions, they can only exert one billionth of the effect.
More power of destiny quietly concentrated on the crown in his soul, making the fire of order on the cold and ferocious thorns brighter.
After receiving the supplement, Calvin's eyes became brighter and brighter, and the white-gold light was already overflowing.
After a powerful sweep, he looked at the Chaos Portal that was already close at hand, shouted the emperor's holy name loudly, and then released all the potential energy accumulated in the "mission" of the war hammer in his hand that even he could hardly control. "Boom!"
Centered on the war hammer lying on the ground in front of him, a huge shock wave containing his spiritual energy spread to the surroundings.
The psychic ripples in the air shattered those affected on the spot, and the ground wrinkled like water, transmitting destructive power outwards, disintegrating the demonic books and lampposts beside the arch that were used to isolate exploration.
"It's now!" Calvin shouted loudly to the Revenant Redeemer, which had restored communications.
What responded to him was the intervention that was already in place above the orbit.
The power of the entire psionic choir, strengthened by the psionic amplification device unique to the Gray Knight Strike Cruiser and spread throughout the entire hull, penetrates long distances and hits the breach in the subspace.
A milky-white light beam with a thickness of more than ten meters penetrated the layers of rocks above the head and inserted into the purple-black door of chaos.
Violent energy fluctuations took shape in an instant, and a bright light lit up from the center of the vortex.
Boom!
After a moment of dazzling light and flying dust, nothing was left where the Gate of Chaos had been, leaving only the gray-white rock and the remains of the indistinct mark of blasphemy burned on it.
The entire cave suddenly became quiet, and the power of subspace began to dissipate.
After losing the blessing of subspace, these demons whose muscles originally swelled and whose eyes glowed red began to stoop and their plump muscles began to wither.
The sharp sword in his hand had hidden traces of rust, and even the weakest among them could not even maintain their own existence. They were expelled from the real universe while screaming, and rolled back to the subspace where it grew up.
But no one (demons) cared, they were still looking at Calvin's figure blankly.
It seems that they still don't believe that these mere mortals, less than 20 people in front of them, actually cut off their return journey right in front of them.
"How dare you, rat!"
This is the scene that Talos saw when he was driven from the front line to the rear by the Demon Lord when he entered the cave. With his eyes cracked, he cried out.
When it comes to talking, Calvin never suffers, especially after thirty years of administrative work. He is particularly good at teasing other people's minds with the shortest words.
"In the name of the Holy Human Emperor, within the territory of the Human Empire, of course I dare! And you! The traitor captured by desire, you should stick out your dirty head as soon as possible and let me purify it for your ancestors.
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"I hope your weapons are as sharp as your mouth! Slave of the false emperor!"
The angry Talos led his Chaos Space Marines to charge towards Calvin and his Gray Knights.
The surrounding demons were eager to try, but all those who wanted to participate were killed by Talos:
"Go away! You bastard! He is mine!"
Calvin also planned to leave here in order to move closer to the mortal front. He wanted Talos to drive away the demons.
He led the team to face Talos, and the two teams began to charge at a distance of several hundred meters. A battle between 20 veterans of Chaos and 16 Gray Knight champion swordsmen was about to break out.
The battle started at the extreme distance of 300 meters. Both sides, who were well aware of the performance of firearms, had a tacit understanding to fire at this distance.
Both sides use their own long-range weapons to attack each other. The Chaos Space Marines may not be as physically strong as the Champion Swordsmen, but the experience accumulated by these veterans of the legion era for thousands of years cannot be underestimated. They are smoothing each other's enemies in this way.
gap.
The polluted and twisted heavy bolters were engraved with blasphemous runes, and bullets with vicious curses were fired at the helmets of the Gray Knights with conscious precision.
The shortcoming of the Holy Shield Terminator's lack of a foldable stance shield was deliberately magnified. The psychic shield was rapidly heating up and overloaded. While the Gray Knights used twin-mounted storm bolters to fight back, they also consciously changed the forward position.
Position to share firepower.
150 meters, which is less than 4 seconds after the charge started. The second tactical attempt of both sides of the battle was carried out separately:
Grenades and psychic grenades were flying in mid-air, and just in time for the gap between the two sides' firepower, there was a wave of "goodwill and friendly" exchanges between the two camps.
However, they failed to reach their destination, and these "little tricks" focused on details were exploded in the air by the firepower left by both sides who had been well prepared.
"Something!"
"Difficult!"
These are the thoughts of the commanders on both sides after this exploratory attack.
80 meters is the killing range of psychic energy and flamethrowers. The lightning and flames across the formation complement each other.
But these are just appearances. Both sides hide behind their formations, and the Terminators who secretly plug in the teleportation antenna are the ultimate move.
The three Terminators who appeared behind each other were all instantly focused on fire. This time, the Gray Knights finally suffered casualties.
Under the staggered strikes of the chain sword and the halberd, the three cavalry terminators were surrounded by five premeditated gray knights and killed on the spot.
The three Gray Knights who were teleported were strangled by more Chaos Space Marines after causing the same amount of damage.
Calvin continued to run expressionlessly, knowing clearly in his heart: The Gray Knights won this round of battle, but they also lost.