Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 306 05.0305: ‘Lightning Strike’

When the Indefatigable’s air wing returned to the port, Horatio appeared in front of the pilots again, already wearing a power armor. His 1.9-meter figure was only slightly shorter than the Space Marines, tall and mighty.

He was wearing the ‘Conqueror’ (Imperado) type officer power armor, but compared with before, there was a small component on the power backpack behind him.

It was a semicircular iron halo, a gift from the state religion, a symbol of the Imperial Saint.

The female wing leader looked at the completely changed style of the commander and the saint iron halo behind him, and was momentarily distracted.

In the silence, the devout believers of the state religion among the pilots knelt on one knee, took out their rosaries or double-headed eagle badges and prayed in a low voice. One after another, the crowd fell down like wheat waves and bowed their heads to him.

Even if someone could get an officer position through connections and bloodline, the status of a saint could never be obtained casually.

And what about this power armor?

She didn't remember the commander ever mentioning that he had such a treasure.

Captain Fasha was really surprised by the new look of his commander.

Horatio raised his hand and signaled the pilots to stand up.

"Thank you for saving my men's lives, Commander." The female captain saluted respectfully with the Sky Eagle salute, "I didn't expect you to be a saint. You never mentioned it."

"Relax, Captain Fasha. The medals and ribbons on my chest are enough to reflect my merits. If I bring up my sainthood, it would be too distant and arrogant."

"I see, Commander, are you going to board?"

"Yes, before you came, I was not only the fleet liaison officer of the Communications Department, but also had a very important task for the entire fleet.

Next, I have arranged your combat missions in the Aviation Department. The three lieutenants of the Aviation Department will be responsible for the specific take-off and landing arrangements for the next period of time. If there is any emergency, you can connect to my communication channel at any time. I will reply if conditions permit."

"Yes, Commander."

As they were chatting, a tall female candidate with short dark blue hair and purple eyes came over, also fully armed.

She was a Cadian. Fasha looked at the pair of purple pupils that were famous in the Imperial Army and thought secretly.

She saluted herself.

Fasha also saluted her back.

She looked at her commander and said, "The Hell Vanguard is ready, Centurion, lead us to victory."

Hell Vanguard? ... Centurion?

The unfamiliar term and the huge amount of unknown information made the female captain stand there blinking, a little overwhelmed.

The story of her superior seemed to be more than mysterious, it was simply unfathomable. How many stories were there behind him? And... how many departments had he been the leader of? ——

The aftermath of the explosion of the nova cannon and the minefield damaged part of the star fortress, causing damage to the enemy's void shield force field generator.

The Imperial Navy warships that entered the inner ring orbit fired a salvo of macro cannons, overloading the remaining void shield force field of the star fortress in just one round. The powerful energy overload caused an electromagnetic pulse short circuit inside it, and some cabin areas of the star fortress turned from bright to dark with the naked eye.

In the Indefatigable ship.

This is a secret room next to the warp engine at the stern of the ship. The intricate and messy ducts on the wall are connected to the warp engine, which can be regarded as part of its body.

The task force members who are carrying out the lightning strike mission stand on the transmission matrix. The Monsignor of the State Church leads the believers to spray holy water on the warriors wearing power armor continuously, and use the consecration incense to soak every part of their bodies.

Such tedious and lengthy consecration prayers are necessary.

Because these warriors are about to pass through the warp in the flesh.

If you don’t have a loyal belief in the Emperor and the blessing of the holy rituals of the State Church, even this tiny moment of warp shuttle may corrupt people.

But fortunately, in the 41st millennium, the Empire has mastered the warp micro-jump technology of lightning strike very maturely.

Rather than worrying about whether you will be corrupted and mutated during the jump, you might as well worry about whether you will get stuck in the wall when you are teleported to the other side, and the flesh and blood cells and iron-carbon alloy will fuse together at the molecular level to become a real "steel body" in the physical sense.

Several mechanical priests were making the final adjustments before the lightning strike.

They called up the design drawings of the star fortress and chose the open space closest to the mission target.

After all the priests had gone through complicated calculations and obtained the best and most accurate coordinates, they entered the teleportation coordinates into the Thinker array, and the matrix under the feet of the soldiers began to glow slightly and emit a strange humming sound.

In theory, as long as no one built anything at the target location, the teleportation would not get these soldiers stuck in the wall.

But it was only in theory.

These teleportation devices inevitably have the same error characteristics as the subspace turbulence.

"The lightning strike is ready, energy transmission is in progress, and the individual error radius is expected to be ±50 cm. Lightning strike countdown 30, 29, 28..."

This error is estimated with Horatio as the center point. These mechanical priests can only guarantee that he will be sent to the target safely and without worries, while others can only leave it to fate with the error.

Horatio heard Louise's slightly nervous panting in the officer channel with only three people.

After sealing the helmet, she was meditating with her eyes closed, her heart pounding, and she silently recited the consecration prayer.

Being teleported and stuck in a wall to death is an extremely humiliating way to die. As a loyal warrior of the God Emperor, no one wants to end up like this.

So she begged the God-Emperor to guide her to a successful landing and fight valiantly against His enemies.

Horatio adjusted his breathing, and when the countdown reached the last three seconds, he closed his blue eyes.

In the void, a blue strip of light was projected from the Lord Daros and the Indefatigable, and landed on the top of the star fort.

"Hoo ho! Hoo ho!" For a moment after he completely lost his senses, when Horatio regained his senses again, he felt like the world was spinning and he almost lost his footing.

His vision went dark, and he subconsciously placed his hand on the wall beside him, but what he touched was a cold ceramic helmet.

When he regained his vision, he turned around and saw a hell soldier holding a hell carbine in a forward sprint and melting into the wall.

The body is completely submerged into the steel wall from the chest down, and the connection between the human body and the body is smooth and natural, as if he should be here, like a finely carved wall statue.

The visor of his helmet was dim, which meant he was dead. There were no signs of a struggle, which meant he died quickly and peacefully.

Just a transmission error of ±50 centimeters can cause an elite warrior who has undergone heavy selection and training to die meaninglessly without firing a shot.

"Each killing squad reported their numbers." The leading officer, Louise, conveyed a routine inquiry to the squad leaders.

"The first team has lost one member."

"Second detachment all arrived."

"One person in the third team suffered a broken foot and lost the ability to move." the team leader reported.

Behind him, two hell soldiers used power swords to cut off the ankle of their companion whose left foot had melted into the wall, and then took out a first aid kit to stop the bleeding.

Although he was not dead, the vanguard also lost the ability to move. He could only sit against the wall, relying on his still intact upper body, holding a gun to guard the surroundings.

Judging from their current location, the probability that he could survive until the armed forces of the Imperial Navy who jumped from the gang arrived here was relatively slim.

It was more likely that a rebel search party would have spotted him first.

Therefore, he was mentally prepared to die in battle. He only wanted to recruit a few more traitors to support him, so his comrades left two more high-explosive fragmentation grenades for him.

Bang bang bang!

A series of dull crashing sounds came from the shallow deck outside the star fort.

Those were the first batch of troops of the Imperial Navy to board ships and jump gangs.

Hundreds of shark assault boats galloped past the ship, cutting through the void. With the help of magnetic equipment, they stuck messily on the star fort. Then the plasma cutter and hot-melt barrier-breaking components were activated, and the assault boats dug deeper and deeper. , until it submerged into it, leaving only dark vent holes on the surface of the star castle.

Led by the armed commanders of each ship, the Imperial Navy's armed forces appeared in each cabin like a surge and pounced on the rebels.

They fought fiercely with the rebel Starfort defenses.

The hell soldiers had their own missions. With a thought, Horatio projected the star fort design inside his helmet and once again determined the locations of the combat intelligence command center, artillery control center, and observation post.

In the chaos, the rebel troops had no time to take care of this small infiltration force.

After using the servo skull configured for him by Lati and using the secret waste code, he hacked the closed-circuit television of the Star Castle to a black screen.

Horatio and Louise expertly assumed a fighting stance, and he patted her shoulder armor. The female alternate led the team forward with understanding, and the team began to move forward.

Even though the rebels had already activated the backup power supply at this time, they were urgently overhauling the power supply system.

However, minor equipment such as lighting in the corridor are not within the limited power supply range of the backup power supply. They must give priority to allocating energy to the shuttle ramp and combat command center.

A group of heretical support troops ran past the fork in front of them, but no one noticed the hell's vanguards who melted into the darkness and silence. However, the vanguards could use the night vision equipment on their helmets to see them clearly in advance.

Horatio used the hand of command, combined with the detection auspicious device of the team's scouts and the reconnaissance vision developed by the C.A.T servo robot, to lead the team in stealth and step forward, avoiding all unnecessary exchanges of fire along the way.

At this time, a squad of rebels were guarding the area around the elevator. They set up heavy bolters behind a simple bunker to block the passages on both sides.

There is no way to avoid it.

Horatio immediately raised his hand and clenched his fist, signaling the kill team to stop advancing.

Then, he used his commanding hand to mark red arrows on the heads of the exposed enemies one by one, with each person's shooting sequence planned on the arrows.

"Ten seconds, each aim at the target."

Louise half-knelt on the ground, looking through the advanced thermal imaging optical sight, the shooting line was pointed directly at the head of the heavy explosive bomb operator.

"Fire!"

Jiong! Jiong! Jiong!

Dozens of laser volleys were fired, and a group of people in the garrison staggered to the ground in an instant.

"Keep pushing!"

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