Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 104 02.0103: ‘Scarlet Ritual’ (First Order!)

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[+Louise, can you see anything? +] Horatio used the Hand of Command to place a psychic beacon.

[+Yes, I can see a bright…dangling arrow? And…my shadow? What is this? +] Louise looked behind the bunker.

[+That’s the command beacon I released+]

Horatio understood the principle and manifestation of the Hand of Command.

It can help Horatio give real-time and extremely accurate instructions to individual soldiers or squads, just like in the games “Men of War” and “Company of Heroes”, and let the soldiers fight on their own.

Although it is not like the mechanical priests controlling the Skitarii, letting the soldiers with subjective initiative to execute it themselves, it is more adaptable to local conditions, and the effect may be better.

[If I really suddenly have psychic mental control, that would be a big problem. ] Horatio thought, if that was the case, he might have to join the Black Ship.

Horatio immediately issued beacon instructions to the units he could command. Although almost everyone asked Horatio what it was, he cleverly claimed that it was a command phantom obtained from the Mechanicus, a new technology discovered by archaeology.

[I'm afraid I'll have to ask Father Lati to help me smooth things over later. ] Horatio was a little embarrassed.

The warriors immediately took action, moving towards the predetermined position marked by Horatio, and quickly seized the advantageous firing point.

The Blood Angels guarded the gate, and most of the bullets could not cause any damage to their sturdy power armor until Brother Romain Rolland dodged a hot melt ray.

Bang! A huge explosion came from the side, and the heavily armored mutants rushed into the Imperial Guard with hot melt bombs, turning into a bloody rain, and the broken limbs and flesh stuck to the outer wall of the holy church.

[+Damn it! They killed the lieutenant! Who will command now? +】The guard sergeant shouted at the top of his lungs from the communicator.

[+I am Chief Sergeant Horatio Cochrane of the Imperial Navy and the garrison officer of the Cathedral of the Goddess. I will take over the command. +]

[+Okay, this is the only way for now. +] Although the sergeant did not say it explicitly, from his tone, he did not think highly of the land battle command ability of this sergeant major who was affiliated with the Navy.

Horatio did not have time to get angry about the other party's disrespect and immediately took over all the defensive forces.

[+As the garrison officer of the cathedral, I now take over the command of all the garrison forces of the Cathedral of the Goddess. Repeat, I now take over the command of all the garrison forces of the Cathedral of the Goddess. +]

[+The Ministry of Justice troops respond to your call. +] The voice of Inquisitor Javert came from the background sound of huge shotgun fire.

[+I need some sisters to guard the interior of the church. Outside the church, 20 combat sisters, a rhino troop carrier, and a medical sister will accept your leadership. You must stop them. May the Emperor bless you.+] The voice of the elder sister came out with the hymns in the church. She had to hold a sacred ceremony and could not take care of the command.

[+Thank you, elder sister+]

As Horatio could command more and more soldiers, he decided to immediately shrink the defense line of all troops after reviewing the battle situation and gave up the outer square with corpses everywhere.

Under his command, everyone took turns to cover and brought back as many injured survivors as possible, instead of leaving them outside to be dismembered and slaughtered by the minions of Khorne.

Horatio took a look at the soldiers who could still fight in the ‘soldier card’.

There were 30 Hell Pioneers, and only 3 of them were slightly injured.

There were 4 more special police officers in the Ministry of Justice, all of whom were injured, but they could still continue to fight.

20 combat sisters, a rhino troop carrier, and Sister Arabella.

Three blood angels in excellent condition.

But the Imperial Guards were not in good shape. The soldiers from the 304th Cadia Regiment had been reduced to 112, including 20 seriously injured.

This was all his remaining trump card. Chaos was scattered all over the planet. Air transport troops were busy putting out fires everywhere. Some reinforcements entered the underground from the ground and were struggling in street fighting. It might not be possible to push through for a while.

The door of the Celestial Maiden Church was pushed open, and nearly tens of thousands of people gathered in the Celestial Maiden Church.

Horatio could see the 80-meter-high statue in front of him at first sight.

The golden statue was vivid, depicting Sanguinius with a golden silent mask on his face, stepping on the big devil, holding a spear and a sword, and two little angels helping him spread his holy wings.

But to be honest, although the name of the statue is called the statue of Sanguinius.

But behind the golden mask, is it Sanguinius himself, or the ‘substitute messenger’ (Sanguinius’s herald) whose secrets are unknown even to the Blood Angels, or Sanguinius’s beloved son, Sanguinius?

Horatio didn’t know either.

Sister Arabella felt sorry for interrupting the chanting. At her request, the head nun opened the mechanical staircase leading to the basement under the statue and borrowed half of the nuns who were singing hymns to take care of the wounded.

Guardsmen carrying stretchers kept walking through the red carpet in the middle, and the groans of the wounded echoed with the hymns.

Some civilians saw blood dripping on the red carpet, trembling all over and closing their eyes to pray for Sanguinius’s blessing.

“Stop them!” Horatio’s shout was still clearly audible amid the bursting gunfire.

Using his commanding hand, he set up two staggered lines of defense in front of the church steps, with the two sides being the tall church walls, so the enemy could only break in from the front.

Under the dense fire network, layers of corpses fell in front of the wide silver-white arch, screaming and wailing, the barrels of the two heavy felling guns were red and white, and even the wind bolt guns on the Rhino personnel carrier began to jam constantly.

The guards knelt in one row and stood in the second row, with bayonets hanging on the muzzles. They formed a human wall behind the sandbags, and under Horatio's shooting command, they kept firing at the Anointed of Khorne who rushed into the courtyard.

They killed countless enemies, frustrated the rounds of assaults by Khorne's lackeys, leaving them dead and bleeding all over the ground, wailing and screaming, punishing them for desecrating the sacred day with the Emperor's wrath, punishing them for killing innocent people and their bloody violence.

As the Blood Pact Army rushed to the front line of the assault, the brave Cadian Blitzkrieg suffered heavy losses after fierce exchanges of fire.

Soldiers were shot and fell to the ground in the queue, their blood dyed the white tiles red, seeped into the gaps, and flowed into the dark underground.

The reinforcements were blocked on the periphery and engaged in fierce street fighting with the Blood Pact soldiers hiding in the buildings. Every step forward would cost a lot of sacrifices.

Horatio could hear the sound of Lemanus tanks firing at buildings in the distance and the sound of ammunition exploding after being ambushed.

It was difficult to get support from large air units in the underground environment.

As soon as the Valkyries in the sky hovered, they would be bombarded by the shoulder gunners hiding in the tower. Even if Falida killed one, other Blood Pact soldiers would carry the barrels and change positions to wait for other flying fighters. And they had a lot of barrels, shooting from different directions, unable to parry and evade.

There are many other places that are suffering from the same predicament as the Church of the Goddess of Heaven. The reserved air transport troops are running around like firefighters and fighting.

The last box of ammunition in the heavy logging gun position has also been used up, and the hot wind bolter has burned the hands of the battle sister.

The color is gradually disappearing from people's eyes, and the world seems to be left with only the red light of the explosion and the darkness of extinction.

Horatio smelled the strong smell of blood in the air, as if he was in a rusty hell.

Unclean signs began to emerge on the bloody ground, and the psychic reading alarm began to rise.

"What the hell is going on?" Arbitrator Javert spat and looked around.

Horatio looked at the ground, and the blood was slowly drawing a strange rune.

It was getting bigger and bigger, draining blood from the dead and gathering together, no matter whose blood it was.

Horatio couldn't understand the twisted unclean language above, but he knew it was not a good sign.

He was not sure what terrible things would happen in the courtyard in front of the church, but for the sake of safety, he ordered the troops to start firing at the influx of cultists in an orderly manner and retreat.

The nun driving the Rhino troop carrier backed up and blocked the steps facing the gate, using her steel body as a strong shield to protect the temple.

[+Sister, I think there is a situation here, I am afraid you need to take a look+] Horatio looked at the growing bright red rune array on the ground and said to the sister in a serious tone.

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