Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

In the fighting area.

The girl named Sarah was wearing the same training uniform as the surrounding Astartes, mainly gray-blue, with yellow as an embellishment, and also had the exclusive logo of "Wolf Head".

In this way, the identities of the Astartes gathered here are ready to be revealed. It turns out that they are all space wolves who like to watch the excitement, but also like to fight and fight each other.

As for the girl with the red hair and ponytail, although she has a pretty face and a very serious and dignified expression, she is still childish, only seventeen or eighteen years old.

"Rou~!"

"Boom!"

"boom!!"

The showdown between the girl and one of the wolves continues.

The attack range of the wild wolf seems to be extremely fierce, and every punch seems to be over the head, "accidentally" hitting the deck, making the entire cabin tremble.

And the girl was also able to use her vigorous steps and extraordinary reaction speed to barely avoid the wolf's attack.

In fact, the wild wolf deliberately slowed down the attack speed and deliberately gave in. Otherwise, no matter how strong the girl is and how fast her reaction speed is, in terms of close-range physical skills and fighting, she will only end up being instantly killed against the Astartes.

At this time...

The girl dodged to the left, avoiding the wolf's straight punch attack, and then when she and the wolf intersected each other, she turned around and used her strength to make a roundabout kick.

"Boom!" There was a muffled sound.

The sole of the girl's right military boot hit the underside of the wolf's right rib.

On the other hand, the wild wolf who was kicked due to being too careless for a while...

"Sarah won!" Immediately raised her left hand and voluntarily surrendered.

"Eh?"

The girl named Sarah froze in place, obviously she didn't expect the winner to be decided so soon, no, it should mean that she won the victory? ?

"Oh!! Sarah did a great job!!"

"Hahaha! As expected of our little sister!"

"Jason, you rubbish, you can't even beat Sarah. From now on, you will say that you are from Iron Fist, let alone our wild wolf, shame on you!"

Without giving Sarah time to react, the wild wolves on the sidelines booed one after another, and by the way, complained about the "defeated" wolf.

Immediately afterwards.

One of the wild wolves directly picked up the girl and placed it on his left shoulder, then raised his right hand and said loudly: "Brothers, in order to celebrate Sarah's eighteenth birthday, it's time to have a hearty drink!"

"Woohoo~!"

"let's go!"

The wild wolves also cheered in unison, took Sarah and left the fitness cabin, shuttled through the corridors, and then took the rail train in the ship, and finally came to the periphery of a rather large tavern...

It seems that of all the Legions, only the Space Wolves have taverns in their battleships.

Sarah, who was sitting on the wolf's left shoulder, was a little dazed the whole time.

Sarah's full name is Sarah Kerrigan, and she was also one of the survivors of the Battle of Kaplan when the space storm was raging ten years ago. She was evacuated to solar system.

After the war, the surviving 13th Battalion tried to search for her mother's whereabouts, but learned that her mother had rushed to Magenmo on a business trip, and the colonial planet less than ten light-years away from Kaplan also fell.

As a result, Sarah's mother also died at the hands of the devil, and even all her relatives were spared.

And the results of her inspection showed that she had extremely high psychic potential, so the 13th Battalion reported the situation and submitted an application for the company to adopt Sarah.

After some twists and turns, and Sarah's own wishes, the company finally decided that the 13th Battalion would be responsible for the care and teaching.

Since then, this little girl, who has no family or family, has studied, trained, and lived with the 13th Battalion until now. At the same time, she is also the champion of the 1st Company of the 13th Battalion, responsible for teaching how to control and use psionic powers.

And the reason for the fight just now was that Sarah wanted to take advantage of her eighteenth birthday to accept the "traditional customs" of wild wolves—

Fight and drink.

In this regard, the wild wolves naturally agreed to the little girl's request.

It's just that in terms of "fighting", the wild wolves absolutely dare not let Sarah use psychic power at will. You must know that when she was twelve years old, when she released the psychic impact for the first time according to the company champion's guidance, she accidentally used too much force. , almost "bombed" their new flagship.

Xin Hao's two main engines were disconnected, they were not overloaded, and no casualties were caused, otherwise they would really be "space" wolves.

But in terms of pure physical skills and fighting, Sarah is by no means an opponent of any Astartes. Even though she has received Astartes' cruel training since she was a child, her physical fitness and reaction speed are far behind. not belong to a level.

And Sarah is not stupid, knowing that the wild wolves pushed a "unlucky guy" out to let her, and then she was "defeated".

At this time.

Sarah and the wolves entered the tavern through the never-closed hatch...

"Sarah! Happy Birthday!"

"Our sister can finally drink freely!!"

All the Astartes, the auxiliary army, and individual crew members congratulated Sarah on her coming of age.

It was supposed to be a touching and warm scene, but all the "uncles" and "big sisters" toasted a girl and held up the glass full of wine, which always felt a little different.

In contrast to Sarah...

"Have a good drink!!" She couldn't wait to wave her right fist.

From this point of view, the crying little girl has gradually been "wolf-like".

Sarah quickly jumped off her left shoulder, walked through the crowd, approached the bar amidst cheers, and slapped the bar table for the bald wild wolf who was temporarily serving as the bartender, and said loudly:

"Give me a siren rum and a beer mug!"

"Oh!!" The crowd cheered even more.

"it is good!"

The bald wolf smiled boldly, and immediately poured the amber siren rum into a 500ml draft beer glass of "mortal" size filled with a few ice cubes, and then put the draft beer glass on the table and pushed it to Sarah forward.

Seeing this, Sarah picked up the beer mug without hesitation.

"Drink! Drink! Drink!" Others encouraged and cheered.

"The battalion commander is here!"

! !

But a sudden reminder interrupted the atmosphere, and the cheers of celebrating the birthday stopped abruptly, and everyone turned their attention to the entrance of the tavern.

I saw an "Old Wolf" wearing formal attire, with short hair and beard, and taller and stronger than ordinary Astartes, standing at the entrance and looking around at the crowd.

The mechanical prosthesis on his left arm and the hideous scar on his left face all indicate that this "old wolf" is the commander of the 13th Battalion, Gen Rosigold.

"battalion commander…"

Seeing Gen Luo's appearance, Sarah's momentum withered, and she couldn't help putting the beer mug back.

"Cerrigan comes out, the others continue." Genro commanded in a deep voice, and left the tavern after speaking.

"call…"

Gen Luo was completely gone, and the wild wolves dared to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Sarah..." The bald wolf took back the half-cup of siren rum, shook his head and said, "Let's drink the wine later, or the battalion commander won't spare us."

"It's all my fault for being too self-willed, wanting to drink and fight like you." Sarah blamed herself.

"Hahaha, I can't blame you for this." A wild wolf said with a smile: "I think the battalion commander must have something important to talk to you about, after all, he treats you like his own daughter, hehe, Don't worry about what the battalion commander will really do to us."

"That's right, don't worry."

"Maybe the battalion commander will give you a birthday present."

Others also joined in.

"Yes, I understand!"

Sarah nodded again and again, and rushed out of the tavern quickly, catching up with Gen Luo who had gone far.

All the way silent.

The two came to the battalion commander's office not far from the bridge.

Approaching, Sarah found that there were a variety of skulls, furs and various specimens hanging on the bulkhead, highlighting Gen Luo's past achievements.

Outside the porthole directly opposite to the cabin door, there is a scene of fault space, but what attracts Sarah's attention the most is a silver sword placed on a fixed desk.

Gen Luo still remained silent, sitting directly behind the fixed desk, while Sarah behaved extremely well, standing at the desk and waiting for all kinds of "You are too young to drink!", "You child is too disobedient! "Wait for the long-winded reprimand.

Ten years ago, Genro was one of the few Astartes who faced and successfully killed fallen gods, demigods or trolls, and survived in the end.

It’s just that Gen Luo also lost a left arm and a heart because of this, which made the original Sarah almost mistakenly thought that she had the attribute of “resisting people”. Her parents and family members died tragically, and even her savior almost sacrificed.

Fortunately, Gen Luo survived successfully and insisted on replacing the mechanical prosthesis. He also refused to use nanotechnology to restore the scar on his left face, and regarded these injuries as a kind of "shame" and "self-punishment".

There was a moment of silence.

"Battalion Commander... I'm sorry, I shouldn't be fooling around." Sarah said first.

"Today is your birthday."

However, Gen Luo waved his left hand lightly, indicating that the farce of "drinking and fighting" is over, and then changed his previous serious and dignified demeanor, and his tone was much more relaxed than in the tavern, and asked:

"I heard, you want to be a real Space Wolves?"

?

Sarah was taken aback for a moment, and then said solemnly: "Yes, Battalion Commander, I want to be an auxiliary army of the Space Wolves, and I want to kill aliens and heretics together with my brothers."

"Alas..." Genro sighed helplessly, and said, "Kerrigan, we are the troops responsible for the edge of Oslo, and we have to deal with the bug problem all the time. ...Are you sure you're ready?"

"Yes, Battalion Commander." Sarah was very firm.

"..."

Genro had a headache.

Although his adopted daughter is very talented, Genluo obviously doesn't want Sarah to go to the battlefield prematurely, especially on the edge of the star area where the melee is extremely dangerous.

"Battalion Commander, you are the one who taught me what it means to be a human being and what is the duty of a soldier, so I want to be like you. In my eyes... you are as omnipotent as my father."

Seeing Sarah's serious face, and hearing the key word "like my father", Gen Luo stopped being entangled in an instant, but glanced at the silver sword on the sword rest, and said:

"I remember you liked "Starlight" when you were young, take it away, it's not suitable for an old man like me anyway, take it as a coming-of-age gift from me."

This silver sword named "Starlight" was the weapon used by the fallen demigod Perseus.

After Gen Luo severely injured Perseus, he was also on the verge of death, and the Starlight Sword kept piercing his body.

A few wild wolves were afraid that if they pulled out the Starlight Sword directly, it would cause secondary damage to Gen Luo, so they transferred them to the Hefjord together with their swords. This move also successfully allowed Gen Luo to withdraw from Kaplan and survive to this day .

Countless brothers and younger generations stayed in Kaplan forever, but he "escaped from birth". This is one of the reasons why Gen Luo chose to leave scars forever.

Shortly after the war, Sui Bian rewarded him for his meritorious deeds, spending 1,000 points to "wash away" the chaotic psionic power of the Starlight Sword and change its authority, and then officially bestowed the Starlight Sword on Genluo.

! !

Now, when Sarah learned that Gen Luo was going to hand over the Starlight Sword to her, the solemnity and seriousness on her face suddenly turned into excitement.

"Don't get excited." Gen Luo raised his left hand to stop Sarah from cheering and yelling in advance, but warned:

"Starlight can be given to you first, and the 13th Battalion welcomes you back at any time."

"Come back?" Sarah was puzzled.

"That's right." Gen Luo withdrew his left hand and explained Sarah's confusion: "I know that once you make a certain decision, you will not change your character easily, so I applied to the superior in advance to officially transfer you to the No. 13 Battalion.

And not long ago, the superior also replied to my application, which generally means that I agree to approve it, but the premise is that you need to participate in the latest Astartes recruit trial. "

"Trial for recruits? Is it a trial to go to the prehistoric forest? But I'm not an Astartes..." Sarah was even more puzzled.

"I don't know, but I know that your psychic potential is far beyond ordinary people, and there is no harm in participating in the trial, at least it can make you adapt to blood and killing earlier.

Coincidentally, the direwolf will head to Luna base in three days, so let's relax when we arrive in Fenris and prepare to head to the solar system with the direwolf.

and also…"

Genro stood up while talking, walked around the desk, and then picked up the star light sword and handed it to Sarah:

"Perform well during the trial, don't disgrace our 13th Battalion, but don't forget that we will always be your relatives."

"Yes... Battalion Commander, I will definitely not let you down!" Sarah, with reddish eyes, held up the Starlight Sword.

"Don't show a crying face, go, put away the starlight, and then continue your birthday party, remember not to drink too much."

"Uh-huh!"

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…

Shortly after.

"Director, Gen Rosigold, Commander of the 13th Battalion of the Space Wolves, has just received a report that Sarah Kerrigan will officially participate in this year's recruit trial."

"yes…"

Sitting in the waiting room, Sui Bian, who accepted the red queen's help with haircut, turned his head slightly, and said to the white queen who was reporting to him:

"Inform Alexia and Rebecca and ask them to help make arrangements, and how long it will take for Nova to return to the solar system."

"Agent X018's mission is still in progress, and it is expected to take thirty-two hours." The Queen replied.

"Father." At this moment, Leon also walked into the waiting room and said to Sui Bian, "The auditorium is ready."

"Okay, I got it." Sui Bian stood up, walked out with Leon, and ordered: "Queen Bai, don't forget to wait for Nova to complete the task before sending her the child's information and files. "

"OK."