Stars for the good Warhammer

While the Senate meeting was still going on.

Located in the spire area on the top floor of the hive, a twelve-man Astartes team from the Ash Angels Chapter is cautiously advancing towards the airport along the long-dried water pipeline of the hive.

Occupy or destroy the sound array center located on the top of the hive, prevent the forces of chaos from interfering with the communication system of the imperial defenders, and at the same time explore the defense distribution of the top hive. This is their first mission since leaving Haven. .

Through the tactical eyepiece of the closed helmet, at this moment, Levin, as the team commander, could clearly see a scarlet mist, a thick mist with a sticky texture, floating in the heavily rusted pipe. The visibility of the surroundings is only about one meter, making walking in it feel like being in a pool of reddish-brown muddy water.

According to the analysis report projected into the retina, what permeates the air is a highly toxic chemical mixture. If it were not for this Ash 3 type assault armor specially modified by the Alliance, the air here would even be enough to kill A Space Marine wearing standard power armor died suddenly in a short time. Apparently, the enemies above hoped to use this method to prevent outsiders from entering the top hive area through the intricate hive pipes.

In front of the team, a small anti-gravity drone was floating lightly in a pipe filled with corrupt gas. It used a light blue fan-shaped beam to continuously scan the environment behind the fog and was mounted behind it. Multiple sensors are also recording the entire process of the team's actions every second.

[Vibration reaction detected in the area 300 meters above]

[Presumed to be enemy armored units]

[Threat level: extremely high]

At this moment, as the information in the retina was updated, the [Unheard] devices equipped by the team members were turned on almost at the same time.

This is a set of infiltration auxiliary modules externally placed in the power armor backpack. When the [Machine Soul 3.0] system linked to the power armor determines that the wearer is in a potentially exposed environment, it will activate itself.

Realizing that something was going on, the team immediately stopped advancing under Levin's gesture command. Soon there was a violent tremor from the pipe overhead, as if something heavy fell directly on top of the pipe.

Through the outline displayed by the thermal imager of the eyepiece, the Ash Angels hidden in the passage could clearly see that what was above them was actually a hell flying dragon, a mechanical creature controlled by a demon.

Perhaps it sensed something. At this moment, the blasphemous thing was putting its head on the ground, using its keen sense of smell and the perception of being a creature of subspace to monitor every move below the ground.

It was as if he was looking at Levin below. Through the thin wall, he could even clearly hear the demon's heavy breathing. In just a few seconds, it seemed like several seconds had passed. century.

Fortunately, the performance of the alliance's equipment was excellent enough. After about ten seconds of confrontation, the Chaos Demon, who had found nothing, finally flapped its wings and left the group's heads.

[It has been confirmed that the threat has been lifted. Praise be to the Twin Lords of the Galaxy and Ohm Messiah. 】

It wasn't until such a reminder appeared in his retina that Levin finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then, under the guidance of the drone and the system, the team left this dangerous passage as quickly as possible, and finally arrived without any danger. The Liaoding nest area took a short rest in a hidden building ruins.

However, before the members of the team could clean up the toxic substances on the armor, not long after, the drone with a smiley face symbol on the screen came to Levin on its own initiative, and then spoke out with a stiff mechanical voice. Such a strange problem.

"Mr. Levin, after a tense operation, our audience wants to know what you think of the Ash III power armor produced by the Alliance and the matching modular equipment."

When they heard this question, Levine and his team members were stunned on the spot, not knowing what to do.

Could it be that this is the test mentioned by the alliance?

Looking at the smiling face that appeared in the center of the screen, Levin couldn't help but murmur in his heart.

As an Ash-type Astartes who abandoned the "Codices of the Astartes" and instead trained in accordance with the "Alliance Army Code", Levin originally thought that he and his brothers were sent to the battlefield of the Vigil Star. What will be carried out will be a covert operation.

But as a result, when they arrived at the scheduled assembly point for the first time, they were greeted by a girl who called herself Gray Wind. Levin was very surprised by this, because he clearly remembered that he had been in Sanguinius. I saw the other person’s face in my memory.

Under the unreasonable order of the girl, he and his team members were forced to take off the old power armor and put on this special combat uniform called Ash Type 3, even the The weapon was also replaced with a pressurized twin Gauss rifle.

Only then did they understand that the original purpose of calling them in was just to conduct a so-called actual combat test.

At first, the team members, including Levine, protested against this behavior. However, when they actually came into contact with and tried out the special equipment customized by the Alliance for the Astartes, even The most stubborn member of the team also reluctantly fell silent.

"I have to admit. I used to be a little biased against these toy products from the Alliance, but if it weren't for them, maybe we wouldn't have been able to get here."

Hearing this, the drone smiled brightly at him, seeming quite satisfied with the answer.

"Thank you for your answer, praise the Twin Lords of the Galaxy and Ohm Messiah."

Listening to the obviously excited tone of the other party, this situation made Levin couldn't help but once again doubt whether the gadget called [Machine Soul 3.0] in front of him was just a machine without emotions as the alliance said. Auxiliary tools.

Because no matter from which angle you look at it, this thing looks very much like the [Hateful Intelligence] mentioned by Chapter Chaplains when explaining the Holy Scriptures. But what puzzled Levin was that when he really asked When it comes to the topic of whether the alliance has used illegal technology, the veterans will always deliberately avoid or interrupt his questions with fierce words, as if this is a secret that cannot be touched.

But then again

What about the audience that the other party mentioned just now?

For a moment, after briefly asking about some other aspects of his feelings, the little thing then went to interview other members of the team.

The atmosphere was so weird that Levin almost forgot that at this time, they were in a dangerous nest where evil spirits were entrenched and blasphemous sounds were echoing everywhere in the sound array system. Just a little carelessness could lead to death. risks of.

At this moment, the team's scanning equipment suddenly reacted again.

[Biological reaction detected 100 meters ahead]

[Threat level: zero]

Almost at the same time, Levine pointed his gun in the direction indicated by the system.

However, what surprised him was that the next thing he saw appearing among the rubble was a human girl carrying an old bucket and wrapped in a dirty blanket.

When she saw the gray-armored knights gathered in the ruins, the girl's face showed an excited look.

"The Emperor's Angel."