Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

Shortly after.

Within the gravitational range of the dwarf planet, the Teutonic Knight is moored among the wreckage of the warship that has become space junk, and not far from the starboard side of "her", there is also a covenant technology ship moored.

The ship is shaped like a whale, with a length of about 900 meters. Its specifications are almost the same as those of the Firm class. It should also belong to the ranks of frigates like the Firm class against the human fleet.

This ship was detected by Magnus with psychic power, and the frigate was commanded by the elite family.

But "her" situation is not optimistic.

The hull was scarred and severely damaged, and even the internal air pressure was difficult to maintain.

It can be seen that if the Teutonic Knight did not join the melee, then "she" would have already merged into the nearby wreckage.

But the sinking ending is still inevitable.

So four purple transport planes with a sleek appearance, carrying the last survivors, abandoned the ship and boarded the Allied Teutonic Knight.

Inside the hangar…

"Aw! Aw!"

"Please cooperate with the inspection, thank you for your cooperation."

"ah!!"

"For your safety, don't move around."

The scene is not too chaotic.

Technicians wearing white costumes and mechanical skeletons are patiently carrying out routine inspection and disinfection procedures on elites, grunts, jackals, and an engineer like a long-necked jellyfish.

In charge of maintaining order, hundreds of honor guards equipped with Terminator power armor, dark angel paladins and Thutmose's Sekhmet, as well as the dark angel's auxiliary army.

Following the style of the Primarch and the entire Legion, the name comes from Sekhmet, the ancient Egyptian goddess of war and medicine, and its Terminator Power Armor also has obvious ancient Egyptian characteristics.

In terms of weapon matching, it is a bit monotonous compared with the Glory Guards of other legions, because the Sekhmets are more inclined to use psionic combat.

After the technicians complete the routine procedures, they will give these allies who are different from humans a certain amount of freedom, and then start operations on the transport aircraft and carrier aircraft of Covenant Technology.

Roughly count.

Less than two hundred survived successfully, the Grunts and Jackals accounted for the majority, and the rest were more than 20 blue-armored elites and the only yellow-armored elite.

Due to the "backstab" by the Brutes and the Prophet, plus the incident of obtaining the City of Fraternity from Moore and Vadami, and now being rescued by the Teutonic Knight, this group of young elites, Human respect far outweighs vigilance.

Gnolls and Grunts didn't have too many ideas, they just wanted to follow the elites they admired. As for the engineer...

I am very interested in the decks of human technology, carrier-based aircraft, transport boats, and even the terminators of the Glory Guard, and I want to study them carefully.

at this time.

crowd periphery.

"Ok…"

Leon, with his hands crossed in front of his breastplate, groaned after hearing what Magnus said just now, and asked his brother for an affirmative answer:

"If there is no problem with my ears, then you just said that the interior of the dwarf planet is hollow?"

"Yes." Magnus did not deny it: "And there is still a fierce battle between the surface and the earth's inner world, and the troops of the Covenant Empire are fighting with a group of..."

Speaking of this, Magnus's tone became more serious: "A group of creatures that cannot perceive with psionic energy are fighting, and I only experience endless hunger from them.

Like life, memory? We still have a strong appetite for emotions, but if we want to know more, we can only go to that dwarf planet to find out. "

"Memory and emotions?" Leon frowned inadvertently, and said in a deep voice: "It seems that there are indeed unknown Zerg that my father mentioned."

"Perhaps."

"Anyway, first try to get useful information from Commander Sangheili."

"it is good."

The two Primarchs walked through the crowd as they spoke, approaching the elite commander in yellow armor under the astonished gazes of the gnolls and grunts.

As they approached the stop, Magnus negotiated with the other party: "Hello, I am Magnus, the Primarch of Humanity, and this is Leon, the Primarch next to me. May I ask what happened to this planet?"

"..."

Looking at the two giants over four and a half meters, especially the giant (Magnus) with short brown-red hair, who can speak a human language that even he can understand, the yellow-armored elite was extremely shocked .

Fortunately, the commander had a strong psychological acceptance ability, and after a while, he clenched his right hand in front of his chest, showing enough respect and introducing himself:

"It is a great honor to have the help of the two Primarchs. I am the captain of the Fervent Prayer, Volsa Vocambe, and also the supreme commander of the ship's forces.

In fact, before you humans arrived here..."

Next, the elite commander named Volsa shared what he had learned with Leon and Magnus.

The Red and White queens called their galaxy Corinth, but the Covenant Empire called it "Peak God Realm".

Because the hollow dwarf planet perceived by Magnus is exactly the celestial fortress built by the forerunners, the shield world.

at first.

Converted to the earth year that humans are used to calculate, the Covenant Empire knew of the existence of the Corinth galaxy as early as four years ago.

But this galaxy gave the covenant empire a very barren, barren impression with low development value.

Fortunately, the dwarf planet in the second orbit shows a suitable surface environment for living things, which has attracted the close attention of the Supreme Council.

Afterwards, the Supreme Council dispatched a large number of scientific research and engineering teams to carry out comprehensive inspections and research.

The first abnormality is that Covenant Technology is unable to explore the geology of this dwarf planet. It seems that there are some shielding measures that make the subsurface full of unknowns.

after that.

The engineering team tried to use the most primitive excavation methods and found that it was a layer of all-metal crust that wrapped the dwarf planet.

Dig out the familiar metal structure, let the Supreme Council realize that this is a celestial body built by the forerunners.

The news was a sensation.

After all, among the forerunner's "heritages" owned by the covenant empire, the largest is the city of fraternity, so the city of fraternity is regarded as the capital.

The discovery of this shield world, which is several times larger than the city of fraternity, made the Supreme Council intend to move the capital.

It's just that the cracking process is very slow, and it took three and a half years to get involved in the interior.

And once you try to use the high-energy rays of the battleship and try to dig violently, you will be locked by the automatic artillery on the surface of the shield world.

Even with an energy shield, the battleship cannot withstand an easy blow from the artillery.

Through this, Covenant's research and engineering teams understand that the shield world is still functioning normally.

In order to avoid a stronger counterattack, the Covenant Empire had no choice but to give up violence and rely on the cracking of the engineers.

But the progress is still slow, it can be said that it is about zero.

Until more than twenty Earth days ago.

Corresponding to Lara Croft's archaeological team, open the time node of the ruins of Methrein.

The opening of the ruins of Methrein not only allowed the priests to discover the existence of humans, but also caused the equatorial area of ​​the shield world to open an entrance, which finally allowed the covenant people to step into the interior of the shield world.

However, Walsa doesn't know what the inner earth world looks like, because his authority is not enough to enter the shield world.

As for becoming such a muddy appearance, it is inseparable from the battle between their elite clan and the ghost-faced beast.

As the Corinthian galaxy in the pinnacle of God's Domain, the Covenant Empire naturally deployed twelve elite fleets.

However, the civil war caused by the City of Fraternity quickly spread to the entire Covenant Empire.

The ghost-faced beast fleet stationed in the Corinth galaxy also followed the secret order of the three priests, and quickly attacked the elite side with twice the number of advantages.

Although they were caught off guard, the elites who were good at guerrilla tactics and also liked to jump gangs fought back and forth with the Brutes fleet.

During this time.

The elite troops remaining on the surface of the shield world were slaughtered by the regular troops of the Covenant Empire led by the ghost-faced beasts with absolute numbers.

In order to completely annihilate the elite fleet, the Brutes clamored to Volsa and the others that they would release the weapons created by "My God".

But Walsa said that after the Brutes were released, the other party's communication was in a panic, and the most heard words were "ask for help!".

Instead of providing any help, the weapon of "My God" dragged the regular troops led by the Brutes into another quagmire.

Even so, the Elite Fleet and the Brute Fleet still lost both sides. If there was no "foreign aid" such as the Teutonic Knight, the Brute Fleet would eliminate all the elites at the cost of a miserable victory.

…

Weapons made by the Forerunners?

After listening to Walsa's description, Magnus frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, and suggested to Leon:

"First upload the information you know so far to the Red Queen, and then prepare your and my guards and go to the surface entrance at the equator together."

"it is good."

Leon responded without objection, and turned to leave here.

Magnus bowed his head slightly, and thanked Walsa: "Thank you for the information, Captain, and we will handle everything later."

"You're welcome, this is what an ally should do." Walsa shook his head lightly.

Immediately afterwards, the elite commander raised his clenched right hand, and his mood became quite indignant:

"Dear Magnus, if you want to land on the ground, be sure to bring me and my subordinates! I want to avenge the dead of my compatriots!"

"I can understand your feelings, but for your sake and also for our safety, please stay on the Teutonic Knight." Magnus declined.

"This... well, then please." Walsa had no choice but to give up.

End the conversation.

The Auxilia led the group of survivors to an area on the edge of the hangar where they could rest.

Leon, through the repeater of the Teutonic Knight, used the power armor to upload the information to Red Queen, and asked her to tell his father the current situation of the Corinth galaxy, and then proceeded to arrange the landing on the surface.

Shortly after.

The Teutonic Knight sailed out of the area full of wrecked warships, gradually approaching the Shield World, and finally "parked" at the shield world's rotation speed more than forty kilometers above the ground.

Immediately afterwards.

A large transport boat, escorted by four Viking fighter jets, left the hangar of the Teutonic Knight, passed through the turbid atmosphere, and headed for the equatorial entrance that could lead to the inner world of the earth.

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…

Shield world equator.

Approaching a void of darkness, covering the area on the backside.

On the calm seaside, there is a large military base of the Covenant Empire.

The strong lighting emitted from the base, not only did not light up the place, but gave creatures a sense of security in the face of darkness, on the contrary, they might be swallowed by "darkness" at any time.

It can lead to the inner world of the earth, like an open super giant gate entrance, which is located not far to the west of this base.

"Ah...!" Hissed and wailed.

"Gulu...!" and the gagging sound of some kind of creature chewing and swallowing echoed inside and outside the base.

"Whoa! Whoa!"

Suddenly, a dense blue and green plasma artillery regiment flickered in the east corner of the base.

Take a closer look.

I saw several covenant combat teams fleeing towards a fortification with no discipline at all.

As they ran, they swung their muzzles behind them, regardless of accuracy and heat dissipation. At the same time, in order to vent their uncontrollable anxiety and fear, they frantically pulled the trigger and fired plasma cannon balls at the "enemy".

Look closely at their faces.

Each one of them seemed to have encountered a ghost, showing an extremely frightening demeanor.

Even a few rebellious ghost-faced beasts were panting, running at the forefront of the team regardless of "for my clan" or "for my god", fighting for more chances of survival for themselves.

"Roar~!"

At this moment, an "elite" monster roared and rushed out from the right side of the team, swung "his" thick right arm, and rushed straight at a ghost-faced beast.

"Boom!"

The "elite" actually broke through the energy shield at one time only by swiping vigorously with its right arm, without any reduction in its strength, it just knocked the ghost-faced beast that lost its shield into the air.

"Pfft!" Blood gushed out immediately.

The ghost-faced beast weighing nearly half a ton flew more than ten meters in a perfect arc, and finally passed out, losing its combat ability first.

The "elite" seemed dissatisfied after finishing off a ghost-faced beast, and chose to rush into the enemy group alone.

! ! !

"Get rid of it!" shouted the well-armored Brute Commander.

Everything happened extremely quickly, and the covenant combat team had no time to react, so they had to stop their escape and could only deal with this "elite" first.

"The corpse should lie down properly!"

"Hey! Damn Sangheili, you won't stop even after you die!"

The ghost beasts who reacted first, yelled and pointed the muzzles of their plasma rifles forward, and fired wildly at the "elite".

"Yeah! Yah!"

Gnolls and Grunts also yelled, forcing themselves to overcome their fear and assist their commanders in attacking.

"Roar…"

This "elite" forcibly resisted the concentrated fire attack for a few seconds, and finally lay on the ground with his head up with a roar.

Seeing the successful knockdown, it finally allowed the covenant soldiers to see clearly this "elite" whose strength, speed, and vitality were extremely exaggerated.

"His" figure is twisted and crooked, looking very awkward and uncoordinated.

The skin exposed outside the armor is viscous and earthy green, with dense creeping tentacles and tentacles growing on the head and neck, and the right arm is distorted and twisted into a huge whip-like tissue.