Warhammer: I don’t want to be a can of worms! ! !

Chapter 669 117. Strategy Room

【Terra】

The guards of the commander of the second company of the Salamander Legion hurriedly entered the palace.

The forest-green armor had traces of being burned by the flames, and the helmets and boots were still stained with blood and mud from the alien planet.

Not far behind him, the Hades fanatics in dark protective clothing followed him closely. The pace of the Salamander might be a little too fast for mortals, but the fanatics kept their pace with the Space Marines without changing their expressions. .

In front of them was a Sister of Silence. After exchanging signals with the fanatics, the Sister began to lead them.

A group of Sisters of Silence lined up aside, making it obvious to anyone who was not discerning that this was Pluto's instruction.

The warriors in jet black helmets were very disciplined and guarded the two of them.

Salamander thought this was a bit of a waste, but Terra and the Royal Palace were indeed very crowded now, with countless people of all kinds passing by in a hurry.

Salamander saw countless members of the Mechanicus, as well as Rogue Traders, political commissars, officers, Space Marines, psykers, soulless ones from various legions... He even saw the Custodes.

There are also convoys transporting goods, and the palace handles crowds as dense as sardines,

The dark-skinned warrior looked at everyone, and from their frowns, Salamander thought that each of them seemed to be carrying a life-threatening mission on their shoulders.

If they came here by themselves, they might be stopped by the crowd, or even bumped into.

Salamander thought, but in front of a group of silent nuns exuding cold air, everything was solved. The crowd, as dense as a wall, naturally separated in front of them and made way for them.

Walk, walk, the palace is a huge maze.

The crowd gradually thinned out, and Salamander estimated that they had gone deep into the underground of the palace. Finally, they stepped onto the long corridor where the drop of a needle could be heard. The Imperial Guards lined up on both sides, and the huge door stared at him.

Even before he set foot there, Salamander felt the oppression within it.

arrive.

The Silent Sister stopped and gestured to them. The fanatic responded with a simple and awkward gesture, and then the door opened a crack for them.

Cold air seeps out.

Salamander took a deep breath, and then walked in together with the joyful followers of Hades Cult——

"Here you come? Thank you for your hard work."

An unexpected male voice sounded, low but unexpectedly relaxed and casual, making Salamander suddenly startled.

He immediately saw clearly inside the room. It was a small strategic command room. The walls had been transformed into huge sensor-type screens, which were flashing real-time strategic intelligence.

A tall, gray monster stood bowed in front of the strategy table, turning his head to look at the visitor with his white eyes. His strange old cloak hung to the ground, and dust was falling.

Next to him were an old-looking Death Guard and a handsome son of Pluto. They were assisting in controlling the holographic image projected on the strategy table.

Some dots of silver liquid were suspended above the strategy table.

But the voice that greeted him didn't come from this.

On the other side of the room, the black-armored giant lay comfortably on the sofa, holding a thick stack of battle reports in one hand, and a plate of snacks not far away from the other hand hanging down. The same silver liquid was floating beside him.

... Hades.

Thanks to the fanatic believers around him, Salamander immediately recognized that this was Pluto. Next to Pluto, stood several mortals with serious faces. It seemed that they were important generals of this great expedition, or the navy, or Corps.

In the darkness of the room, stood an Imperial Guard. He was equally tall, comparable to the original body, but still not as tall as the skinny behemoth in front of the strategy table.

!

The salamander's first step after reacting was to kneel down and salute.

"Gabu, the commander of the second company of the Salamander Legion, has met several adults and praised Hades and the God Emperor."

"Praise be to Hades!"

The fanatics beside him also knelt down, saluted and shouted, their voices coming from the muffled protective clothing.

"Please rise, my warriors, next time only the Eagle Salute will be enough - the war is urgent."

"As you command, my lord."

Salamander said, as he realized that the monster at the strategy table should be Mortarion, the Pale Lord, the original member of the Death Guard.

? !

Embarrassed by his blasphemous thought, he hastily corrected his subconscious perception of the primarch as a monster.

The Salamanders and the Fanatics remained motionless, waiting for orders from the superiors. The Pale Lord still looked coldly, which made the legionnaires feel a little pressure, but Pluto was not at all what he imagined.

"You must be very tired just coming off the front line. If you feel tired, you can sit down and rest - don't panic, I invite everyone in this room to sit down and rest - but you see, this is it."

Hades spread his hands. He was used to speaking first. Otherwise, with his appearance, other than Karas who would scold him when he came up, others would probably shut up because of the aura he exuded.

"And, I'm sorry I didn't ask about the war on the front lines - what happened to this lady?"

Hades said, looking at the fanatic who was wearing a full body protective suit.

"Praise you——"

The fanatics saluted again,

"Lord Pluto, I have the power of the Heaven of Lust. On a fallen planet, I captured these spiritual energies and collected samples."

Hades stood up suddenly and walked to the believer in a few steps.

"I commend you for your courage - but next time you can capture some demons or Eldar and come back, you don't have to be so brave - excessive bravery is reckless."

Damn! Yeah!

Hades thought, he once again learned the wild ways of his underworld cult. He laid out the black domain and then signaled the believers to take off their protective clothing.

The heavy black protective clothing fell to the ground. Hades heard another very light footsteps. Mortarion also came over and looked carefully at the believers infected with Slaanesh's psychic energy.

They had faced humans infected by Slaanesh before, and Karas was a typical representative, but it was obvious that Slaanesh was changing. It was no longer scales. The places where scales and other obvious characteristics would appear were replaced by fine and small granulations, the ears became pointed, and the pupils were black.

[……]

[Slaanesh is being eroded by the Eldar. ]

Mortarion said, he blinked his alien eyes, raised his hand, and a wisp of mist hung from his fingertips,

[Don't move. 】

The Primarch said, the white mist penetrated into the body of the believer, Hades watched the fanatic tremble violently immediately,

"Ah!"

Hades said, the black domain moved,

"What is it doing? What is it doing?"

You can't bully his believers!

【Check, this will make her a little uncomfortable. 】

Mortarion said, frowning,

The psychic infectivity of Slaanesh has become stronger... Is it the effect of that arrow... or is it due to His current state?

【Hades,】

The God of Death said,

【I want this person, you can't use the black domain to remove the psychic energy attached to her soul now, I need to make antibodies and vaccines. 】

【Before this, I have made a version of the complete vaccine with the infected inside the Death Guard... But you see, Hades, He has mutated. 】

Seeing Hades staring at him, Mortarion silently added,

【She will be safe. 】

“…”

“Then are you willing, my believer?”

Hades turned his head to ask, but saw the fanatic nodded firmly, and it didn’t look like he was “uncomfortable” at all.

“I am willing, my lord—that’s why I persisted for so long.”

Okay, okay.

Hades sighed in his heart, why are they all crazy.

He stretched out his hand, and the liquid metal condensed into a three-headed dog necklace between his palms. Because he was wearing armor, Hades had a small cut on his exposed cheek, and the blood was enchanted on the necklace, and then the wound healed.

“Here.”

Hades said,

“If the chaotic spirit energy erodes to the last step, I will force it to be cleared.”

He handed the necklace over, and as expected, he saw the fanatic fainted in excitement, and the fire lizard beside her took a small breath, as if suppressing a cry of surprise.

"..."

Hades didn't want to say anything. After the war, he thought he should work with Angron to publish a book called "What is a normal healthy person, why the Empire advocates normal healthy people, and how to become a normal healthy person."

The pharmacist of the Death Guard arrived at the scene quickly and took the fanatic away.

Mortarion seemed to sense Hades' silence, and added,

[The vaccine will be out soon, and we can't protect the entire battlefield. ]

"It's you, not me."

Hades smiled, looked at the fire lizard apologetically, turned around and sat back,

"Unless it is a high psychic area-but multiple insurances are always useful, you are right."

On the battlefield with Chaos, if the psychic energy is too high, the characteristics of Chaos will appear in untransformed people, which is unavoidable.

[What did you bring again... the offspring of my benevolent brother? ]

The Primarch did not return to the strategic table. Mortarion walked to the side of the fire lizard and looked at the black-skinned warrior carefully.

He extended a hand, signaling the warrior to follow him to the strategic table, where the Empire's war star map was being projected, focusing on the Scalus sector in the hazy star field.

On the map representing the blue territory of the Empire, a giant eye-like depression appeared near the Scalus sector at this moment, representing the bloody purple of the Slaanesh forces, and also eroded a lot of areas.

The giant eye that seemed to be punctured from the inside was originally a webway exit, "the Happy Valley of the God of Laughter", but the God of Laughter seemed to have let it fall, thus becoming the big mouth that Comoros spewed into the physical world.

Nearby, countless hidden or marked webway entrances and exits also turned bloody purple.

[…You came from here. ]

Motarion stretched out his hand and pointed to a fallen planet near the Scalus sector,

[Tell us, what is the current situation of the war? ]

The Salamander swallowed his saliva, and he began to tell what the frontline defenders encountered.

…………………………

First, the raiders who raided the ships.

The Dark Eldar raiders seemed to appear suddenly, and immediately launched attacks on merchant ships and naval patrols in the Scalus and Caliss sectors.

Before the local defense forces reacted, the first two waves of attacks had ended, and the humans and supplies on the attacked ships disappeared.

What frightened people was that they found the emblem of Slaanesh in the bones slaughtered by the Eldar, which was completely impossible.

This immediately caused panic among the local upper-level native forces, but the Empire responded extremely quickly.

Before the third raid occurred, the local Underworld Little Bishop reported that the Underworld Cardinal personally arrived in the sector and contacted all nearby Imperial troops immediately.

The Second Company of Salamanders stationed in the nearby Ultimate Sector also arrived at the front line at this moment.

…

Hades and Mortarion looked at each other.

At that time, the Empire could not confirm where Slaanesh's attack would come from. The Webway was connected in all directions, and a wrong direction would lead to a completely different destination.

Because of concerns about Chaos's erosion of the general public, the news about Slaanesh was blocked, but after confirming Slaanesh's situation, Hades immediately notified his Hades Cult -

This down-to-earth organization, which integrates with the local people and has good resistance to Chaos, has always been an invisible supervisory organization for large-scale psychic events.

At the same time, due to the establishment of the Athens Academy as an information hub, information was able to spread rapidly through non-psychic means.

…

Initially, except for the Hades Cult and the Mechanicus, which loved and hated the Hades Cult, which almost dispatched all their troops at the first time, the other local guard forces still did not realize what they might face next.

Soon, the Webway hidden in the galaxy once again swallowed up countless troops.

At the same time, at least six civilized planets were in flames. Eldar battleships and cruisers of different styles appeared. The Dark Eldar fleets were mixed with wild Eldar ships, and the subspace projections that almost blinded the psychics flowed on them.

It was an unimaginable army scale, completely different from the Eldar's previous style of always preferring to go out alone.

These crazy, flesh and blood with no self-will, smashed countless soldiers on the battlefield.

On the bloodiest battlefield, the alien Titan was released, and just as it landed, it beheaded a Predator-class Titan from the Mechanicus Titan Adeptus Mechanicus.

At the same time, the attack was not only from the Eldar, the Slaanesh Daemon shuttled through the Eldar army, commanding the advancement of the war.

Compared with the fanatical Eldar army, the local defenders were inferior. On a key hub planet, the cardinal of the Hades Cult personally went into battle and saved the last pedal planet that could reach the heart of the Slaanesh-occupied area within two weeks.

But beside this planet, the battle line continued to retreat, and finally stabilized at the junction of the Scalus and Caliss sectors.

At this moment, the war situation on the isolated planet was still not optimistic. The giant pterosaurs and dinosaurs raised by the wild Eldar even appeared on the ground and fought with the Empire's army.

In the starry sky, the Dark Eldar's extremely fast cruisers and battleships, relying on the Aida Eldar's Craft World, dealt a heavy blow to the Imperial Navy - the sea area has completely fallen.

………………

After the Salamander reported, the room fell into a brief silence.

Hades thought that the army in the nearby star field had ordered support for the battlefield at the first time. This was an efficiency and speed that was completely unimaginable for the previous Empire.

But it still didn't work...

Hades thought that even if he thought the firepower was still not saturated, it was obvious that the front line needed more support.

It was necessary to set off. Although their goal was to finally behead Slaanesh, the Empire's territory destroyed by Slaanesh also needed to be protected.