Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 417

  Chapter 417 The Road to Expedition: News from Dante

  Vito has a general understanding of the situation of the Blood Angels, knowing how they came to this ghostly place, and how many battles they have experienced during the process is already troublesome. Generally speaking, they did a good job in Cadia.

Before the start of the Battle of Cadia, the Great Fortress Lord Creed was attacked in the entire Cadia fringe fortress world, and the entire Cadia defense force suffered heavy losses after experiencing a betrayal civil war and the early blocking battle , so the Great Castellan sent a signal for help to all Imperial Space Marine chapters.

He creatively tied more than a dozen astropaths together, through the intensity of hitting the astropaths, he forcibly pierced through the interference of the subspace storm, and sent out the astrology for help. I have to say, this idea made Vito Feeling admiration, he plans to try the same next time he encounters a subspace storm or a subspace shadow.

But in terms of the situation at that time, the distress signal was indeed sent out. Although many astrologers were lost in the storm due to the intensity of the subspace storm, there were still a few lucky ones who escaped from the clutches of chaos and went to every corner of the empire.

Many imperial powers responded to the call, among which the Space Wolves and the Black Templar were the first to be affected. The former sent a full three large companies to Cadia for support, and the latter even dispatched an entire army with the size of a battle group. The expeditionary force came, and Vito already knew the story.

He and Sven Gorehowl raided the Blackstone Fortress together with his Dalian, and witnessed the heroic sacrifice of the entire Dalian, as well as the return of their wolf lord Sven to the throne, but their sacrifices seemed to be meaningful, because the Blackstone Fortress In Abaddon's absence, it took Abaddon even longer to take down Cadia.

As a result, during this period, more imperial reinforcements crossed the storm and arrived in the Cadia sector. Although Cadia's parent star had fallen and the entire surface was destroyed by the impact of Abaddon's deadly Blackstone Fortress, the entire planet remained intact. It exists tenaciously, and the black stone obelisk on it does not seem to be completely destroyed.

The Cadia Defense Force may have been destroyed together with their homeland, but Cadia is still truly standing, not only because the body of Cadia's mother star still exists, but the black stone buried under it still suppresses the fear. Eyes, but also because the entire Cadia star area is still built.

Due to the protracted battle on Cadia's home planet, Abaddon was forced to mobilize more troops to attack Cadia's home star, causing him to slow down his attack on the surrounding galaxies, or even give up his attack. As a result, several key node worlds, And dozens of fortress planets were preserved, which provided a rallying point for the arrival of the empire's subsequent reinforcements.

And in this series of response to the call for help, among the emperor's army that came to Cadia to assemble, there was a company of the Holy Blood Angels. Before that, Dante's captain had already received the news of Sanguinor from the dream. , he heard a call from the Emperor himself, calling on the entire Blood Angels Chapter to answer the call and go north to meet the Black Crusade.

When the call for help from Lord Creed came, Dante ordered the three companies of the battle group to rush to the rescue of Cadia without hesitation. They were led by the Holy Blood Priest Owen Auer, and the entire expedition fleet set out from Barr. After a long voyage, they arrived at the fringe star field of Cadia, and immediately plunged into fierce battles.

The Blood Angels initially assisted the Cadia Defense Force with the full force of three companies, defending the entire key Mandeville point galaxy on the southwest side of Cadia, ensuring that subsequent imperial reinforcements can continue to enter, but as With the fall of Cadia's home planet, the Black Legion has launched an all-out attack.

Many of these troops followed Abaddon and went straight to Terra, but there were still many Chaos warbands left behind. They rejected the unified order of the warmaster and started plundering and carnival on their own in the name of their respective evil gods. The Dia sector was in turmoil, with various Chaos warbands striking out on planets that Abaddon had neglected and abandoned in previous battles.

As the entire star area fell into chaotic wars, the killing and death here also attracted more Chaos demons and war gangs to come here, and before that, the Space Wolves and the Black Templar, the two most numerous, After the expeditionary forces of the two most powerful chapters left with the retreating troops of the Cadia home planet, the entire star area fell into a situation where there was a serious shortage of Astartes.

  Although according to Raphael, the second company of the Dark Angels stayed in Cadia for a while, and they were led by Asmodai, Vito felt that something was wrong when he heard this.

As he expected, the Dark Angels then suddenly left, without reason or explanation, the entire Dark Angels company suddenly broke away from the battle and disappeared into the Cadia sector, leaving the remaining Imperial forces to fight alone. .

This almost led to the collapse of the empire's defense line, but fortunately the Holy Blood Angels turned the tide in the end. Captain Oreo was ordered to lead his company to take the strike cruiser Baal's Sword commanded by Captain Livia to the gap in the battle line. place.

  Vito has heard about this excellent female captain, mainly because she is very beautiful. That's right, it's a strange focus, right? But this is Vito isn't it? Get used to it early my old buddy.

   All in all, according to Rafael's description, it was a tragic week, the entire company was reduced by more than half, and the full company of 200 people had only 90 people left after the battle.

The souls of countless battle brothers returned to the throne, but in the end, after paying such a terrible price, the Blood Angels repelled the frenzy of the Khorne army led by Kabanha himself. The name of Sanguinius has triumphed.

But after that, they also lost contact with the main fleet of the battle group. Afterwards, the lone army led a small number of imperial navy and guards, and moved to fight in various places in Cadia, constantly fighting with the chaotic war gangs. And rush to help wherever possible.

During this period, they experienced many battles, many of which were quite thrilling, but with Captain Livia's excellent command skills and the extraordinary bravery of the Blood Angels, they were all safe in the end. , And thus created countless glorious battles worthy of being remembered by later generations.

In fact, almost all battles are worth remembering. After the battle of Cadia's home planet, the warriors who continued to defend the northern gate of the empire and delay the huge army of Chaos, the epics they wrote with blood and tears are worthy of being remembered. Always remember.

  At first, Vito thought that they had also received a call for help from Walmark, so he led the remaining company members to come to support, but this was not the case, at least not completely.

"We did come here to help after receiving a call for help at the beginning, but we also received other messages on the way." The company priest who can speak kind words and express his skills far better than his brothers, Raphael said so.

Almost all the above stories are narrated through his mouth. As said, Raphael has a brilliant literary talent. As a pastor, he is very good at his duties. He uses his excellent eloquence and literary accomplishment to boost morale and preach loyalty. The great light, as Vito remembered him many years ago, did a good job.

"But on the way here, we finally received a message from Pastor Owen Auer. It was an astrologer from the expedition flagship "Tear of Holy Blood". Although the content was distorted by subspace, become confused and unclear."

"It's a compliment to say that it's a riddle, it's just a bunch of crazy words." Cazaril protested from the side, and he seemed to be separated from his brother after returning from the black temple. Several company officers on the side kept a distance, intentionally or not.

Cazaril stood alone on the side, like a solitary lion, but fortunately Rafael was still standing with him. The relationship between the two seemed to be close, although Cazarel A little at a loss, after all, he has left his battle group for a hundred years.

  But Vito believed that with the help of Raphael, he would eventually integrate into his battle group smoothly. Now, Raphael is still by his side, and the priest nodded slightly and smiled as if agreeing.

  Vito knew that Raphael was using his outstanding political talents to match Cazarel's words, so that he would not appear to be isolated from other silent fighters, like an outsider.

"It's true, that astrologer is very distorted and weird, but fortunately we have the Sword of Baal, and with the hard work of Captain Livia's excellent astrologer, we deciphered the meaning within a few days , at least roughly the correct meaning."

"Baal is calling all the Blood Angels to return to their home planet urgently." Captain Oreo, who has always been taciturn, said, he rarely participated in the conversation, but when he spoke, he was extremely majestic. Captain, but with a dignity and inviolability enough to be mistaken for a Chapter Master.

Even if there is indeed a chapter commander standing beside him, in front of the solemn and battle-tested Oreo, Malakin looks more like an ordinary company commander under his command, if they are not wearing Power armor with different coatings, then it must be the case.

"It's not just us, Pastor Owen Auer conveyed the order of Dante's Chapter Commander himself. He ordered all the expedition forces of the Blood Angels to immediately contact and gather all the Blood Angels' sub-groups in the entire galaxy to In the name of the leader of the Brotherhood of the Holy Blood, all sub-groups are required to gather urgently in Barr, and there is no room for error."

The Brotherhood of the Holy Blood "doesn't exist" in the strict sense. After all, according to the sacred scriptures and the regulations of the Empire, private associations and secret societies between any Space Marine Chapters are strictly prohibited. This is to avoid a repeat of the Great Rebellion. In Space Marine Society culture.

Therefore, this point was strictly prohibited and suppressed in the empire in the future, but although similar organizations have been banned on the surface, in fact, this kind of interstellar warrior brotherhood derived from the blood of brothers still exists widely. The Society is one of them, and this kind of organization is usually a start-up battle group, with all the separated sub-groups.

   This point is almost an open secret in the empire. Everyone knows it, but no one dares to pursue it. Why? Think about it, if you were an Inquisitor, or a High Lord, would you be crazy enough to go to trouble with the Startups?

And this kind of fraternity, in addition to daily communication and contacting the feelings and sense of belonging between all the sub-groups and the parent group, will also be responsible for establishing an emergency headquarters during the war to coordinate the operations of several, or even dozens of war groups. Joint action, so space fighters from the same bloodline can often act quickly and tacitly and fight in unison.

  And at certain critical moments, when a huge crisis comes, the Brotherhood can also issue an emergency call to the sub-groups all over the galaxy, calling all the children of the original body to gather in a certain place to form a temporary legion.

This urgent call has different names in various warbands, the most representative of which is the Final High Wall Agreement during the Beast War. Dozens of Sons of Dorne gathered in Terra to defeat the Beast Invasion, on Ullanor once again achieved the same brilliant feat as in the period of the Great Crusade.

   And in the blood angels' sub-group, this call is called .

"The order of Tears of Holy Blood has been sent from Baal to the whole galaxy. As far as I know, all the sub-groups that have received the order have already begun to return to construction urgently. More than a dozen sub-groups and their entire forces are gathering towards Baal. By then Tens of thousands of angelic sons will gather on Baal."

  Raphael said so, Vito frowned, and he held his chin thoughtfully, "Dante will not issue such a recall order easily, something must have happened to Barr."

  "We don't know, maybe the astronomical language was distorted and the information was lost, or it didn't exist at all, but in any case, no matter what crisis Baal is about to face, we will go to the holy Baal."

   "Then let's not waste time here! Baal is calling, all brothers have already set off, why are we still wasting time here?"

  Cazarel stepped forward and waved his fist and said loudly, "We are here to inform the weepers brothers, they are already with us now, why don't we leave?"

  He looked around at his brothers. They all looked at each other and didn't speak. As Vito expected, Raphael immediately raised a hand to signal him.

   "Of course we will return to Baal, Cazaril, but you think explaining all this to the Marshal, and return to Baal."

"Do you want to come together? My lord, if you can come to Baal, it will definitely boost morale." Malakin said from the side, his words were full of respect, and Vito shook his head slightly after watching him think for a moment .

"I can't go, I'm sorry my friends, now Terra needs me more at this moment, but I also assure you that when I arrive in Terra, I will immediately lead the legion to help Baal, and we will fight side by side in Baal, That won't change, we'll see each other again soon, I promise."

Vito's words made the surrounding fighters a little frustrated. They all hoped to fight side by side with the legendary **** who respected Sanguinius himself, but they couldn't refute Vito. Compared with Baal, Terra also Of particular importance is the Throneworld, which all Astartes are sworn to defend with their lives.

Cazaril sighed secretly like the brothers around him, but Raphael beside him spoke again, "No one will doubt your courage, my lord, just as we went to Baal, your going to Terra must mean equally important mission."

   "We have no right to ask you to give up this important task. It is your responsibility. No one can replace you except you. Just as we will go to Barr, no one can take our place except us."

  Raphael's words immediately dispelled the depressed mood, and instead gave it a more important sense of mission. The surrounding warriors in red and gold chatted with each other and nodded to each other.

Cazaril also raised his head and nodded to his brother priest, who also nodded lightly in response. The tall and tall Captain Oreo walked up beside the two of them. He stood tall and tall in front of Vito. Those who also look up to him.

Under the watchful eyes of hundreds of blood angels and wailers, the company commander and Vito looked at each other. After a moment of awkward silence, the company commander Oreo stretched out a hand, and he held the A hand reaches out to Vito.

   "Goodbye, Baal." "Goodbye, Baal."

Vito reached out and held hands with the company commander. Although the handshake between Vito and the company commander without armor was extremely awkward, like a baby trying to hold an adult's finger, it still couldn't prevent the surroundings from bursting into cheers. Voice.

The blood angels and the lamenters, the soldiers raised their arms and shouted, the bolt guns and power swords were raised high, brothers and brothers put their arms around each other's shoulders, cheered the return of the marshal, and praised their mission, in a In the high morale, Vito let go of his hand and nodded to everyone, and he nodded to the people in front of him one by one.

Captain Oreo was the first to respond with a nod, followed by Malakin, Cazaril, and finally Vito and Raphael looked at each other and nodded in affirmation, then turned and left. He was surrounded by soldiers on both sides. He left with cheers, and the people standing on the side of the battleship watched his figure go away until he and Lilith disappeared at the end of the deck.

In the warm atmosphere of the brothers of the two battle groups, Cazaril approached the company commander, and he put his hand on the power sword on his waist and approached the company commander, "Commander, should we set off now? "

  Aureo was silent for a moment, then turned to look at the sword of Baal, "Captain Livia, set the course and take us back to Baal."

   "Follow the company commander, we will set off immediately to return to Barr."

  (end of this chapter)

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