Chapter 538 At the same time-
"Has the message been sent to Konskavan? Regarding Operation Flower of Cadia? And, has our request for mass defense been sent to everyone else?"
In the new headquarters - which now stretches for a considerable distance beneath Clough Castle and was actually part of the former laboratory of the Klan Sage - this cave system follows the interior of the ancient ruins, Empty and complex, its secrecy and defensive measures are obviously very suitable for maintaining the safety of the entire command and the Lord of the High Fortress. The Klan Sage also agreed to lend his skitarii and battle robots.
"Yes." Kyle nodded, "The signals have been sent out, but there is no response. The signal from the Logistics Minister may not be good. Besides, I mean, the Black Templar doesn't have it, and the Space Wolves don't have it either. They don't even fight. None of the nuns responded, which was very strange. Logically speaking, they should have seen it.”
"Yeah." Creed put a cigar in his mouth again, but he didn't light it because even the almighty Staff Sergeant Kyle couldn't find a second complete cigar now. "Perhaps living saints are perfectly capable of inspiring mortals, but those Emperor's children see it differently."
Sergeant Kyle made a disapproving sound to his commander, and at the same time carefully looked around to make sure that the staff officers, staff, and others who were busy around him did not notice the conversation between the two of them here.
Creed has always been like this. Although he has been outstanding since he was adopted by the Eighth Regiment and entered the military system, Garland Kyle, who had known him in the Cadian White Shield Army, knew very well that although this old friend He has talent on the battlefield, but his subtle insouciance towards the Holy Emperor and Terra, or his overemphasis on the people of Cadia themselves, always makes Kael worried.
Fortunately, Ursaka E. Creed is now the most successful living commander in Cadia in every sense. Even so, we still have to guard against the future liquidation of the local traditional military families and the Inquisition. Kyle thought, mentally planning the content of Creed's next speech.
I don't know if it was a coincidence or some devil's plan, but out of the corner of his eye, Kyle saw an eye-catching figure forcefully separating the wave of flustered staff officers and secretaries in front of him, and walking straight towards them.
"Oh, no," he whispered, trying to get Creed's attention. "Promise me, Ursaka, not to have a big argument with her."
The Lord of the High Castle turned his face and saw the strong and tall woman walking towards them.
"Then you have to find us a room that no one is using as soon as possible, Kyle." Creed's jawline tightened, and he frowned, "I think the confrontational attitude between the Imperial Tribunal and us is not appropriate here at this moment. Show it to my subordinates.”
At the other end of the vast rock hall, Inquisitor Thalia Davona, the highest leader of the Rebellion Order in Cadia, was walking towards them firmly.
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Karkadius Shiron suddenly appeared outside the Warmaster's conference room. This was the first time Mokas saw this always calm and elegant Alpha Legion intelligence chief with such an obvious facial expression.
"She is coming! They are all coming!" said the Master of Alpha Intelligence. "They will come eventually! But not now! The path of destiny is full of mist! Warmaster! And, Daughter of the Fortress! You are here Sitting there, have you not noticed so many obvious problems in the fortress and its surroundings?”
Draula suddenly stood up, ran to a wall of slightly withered flesh and blood, and pressed her palms and forearms directly against it.
The power of subspace was forcibly injected into the black stone through her guidance, and then the mass of flesh and blood began to squirm vividly. Mocas's eyes began to adapt to different visions. Now, she became the black stone fortress.
Her eyes saw the eight spiers of the Blackstone Fortress, and her eyes also saw the blue-green second continent of Cadia below and the ice caps in the distance. The crossfire light of the huge-caliber artillery or the sudden fire somewhere The explosion flames passed under the clouds on the planet's surface, and she She saw the captain of the Eternal Will murmuring in a low voice in his throne connected to the cable. She saw the soldiers of the Black Legion entering the airdrop pod and the Thunder Eagle, which were continuously dropping towards the ground. She saw the slaves of the fortress were Working in the cabin on the lower deck——
etc! What is that? ! That is definitely not a living creature from any fortress or a member of the Black Legion!
She hurriedly mobilized the eyes of more fortress slaves and drove them staggering through the cabin that was blasted at the bottom. This is the usually empty bottom room. This kind of empty room that is not covered with subspace flesh and blood is in the Eternal Will. There are too many places on which no one lives and no one will enter, because without the help of flesh and blood in the subspace, living there will make any military The members of the group felt very depressed and depressed - because the slaves in the fortress essentially had no consciousness of their own, they were all connected to Mocas's subspace flesh and blood, so that no one noticed when a hole was blown open here, and the coldness of the vacuum The wind froze a group of slaves into broken, crystallized flesh and blood, and she hurriedly changed to another group——
"We were betrayed by a group of Space Wolves, and it was your fault." Hiron scolded, and Morcas saw nine heads and eighteen wings appearing around his head, like a prophesied warp vortex. Like a kaleidoscope, they appeared one after another next to his shaved head, and several of them were eating the newly appeared wolf-shaped totem. "But I have to rush over now to deal with these intruders first. You'd better Quickly mobilize the fortress to help us.”
"But it's not my fault!" Mocas shouted as she sat on the steps next to the throne in despair, "Blackstone Fortress is alive! I can only use the shackles made from subspace to put around her neck. Deceiving her attention so that we can direct the main gun and other things to fire! But she doesn't have any sensors or acupoints to automatically help us detect the enemy!"
"That's because you spent too much time observing other things in the real space. So much so that you didn't even see it or their appearance." The intelligence master did not blame her more, but this made Mocas even more uncomfortable. , because she turned around and saw a look of deep disappointment in the eyes of her beloved Warmaster and father.
The fortress girl's heart tightened as if it was being grasped. ah! How she wanted to reach out and smooth out the painful wrinkles on his heroic forehead!
"Mocas."
"Warmaster! I will help you take care of it! Please don't worry! Please believe me!"
"The target of the wolves will not be what they appear to be." The Warmaster thought deeply, and the brilliant halos of blue, pink and purple on his forehead were like endless feathers from the orbit around his forehead. It bloomed like a gorgeous crown of change. "I was once a wolf pack," he said. "Go and look for the sides of the holes they dug. Smaller holes, more hidden tunnels."
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"I will feed them to the fortress for you."
Mocas bowed deeply and followed Hieron out.
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Captain Hanna Keztrall was racing through the clouds in her beloved aircraft, and just behind them she heard the steady fire of her gunner-observer's heavy logging gun.
"How are you?!" she shouted, "Ravs! Did we get rid of them?!"
Dead Eye's team tracked outside the northern wall of Clough Castle to the southern wall. They successfully took a large number of reconnaissance photos, regarding the Dark Angel's attempt to build its crashed cruiser into a defensive fortress against demons, and the Iron Warriors' force. The sudden smoke screen and rapid march, the pursuit of the Iron Wolf Company by the Space Wolves, and the following scenes whose meaning made her afraid to continue thinking about it - she must bring back this most precious and convincing intelligence photo! Otherwise, the high command may be misled! The cunning enemy is trying to plot a conspiracy to lurk in instead of the Imperial forces! The Space Wolves' Iron Wolf Company may be making peace with the enemy for some purpose! They are no longer pure! She must warn the headquarters and the Supreme Lord! No one would believe what she said unless she took the film back.
Now this precious film was in the cockpit of their plane, but when their team evacuated, they encountered ground artillery fire brought by the demonic troops and the damn hell flying dragons. Although these damn creatures may not be as fast and light as her plane. Fast, but their advantage lies in the swarms, there are too many of them, these beasts exuding the stench of sulfur are hunting the Cadian aircraft.
The leader of her reconnaissance team had heroically entangled two dragons with himself so that his wingmen could escape with the film. May the Emperor bless their heroic souls! And they lost three more planes while escaping towards Fort Clough. Now the team only has Hannah's Dead Eye, and she is less than a hundred kilometers away from Fort Clough. They can do it.
The captain's head was swollen, and her face was covered with heat and sweat provided by adrenaline. She held her joystick tightly, not daring to look back while distracted.
"Ravs! How is it?!" Her loyal and reliable partner, the artilleryman who had flown with her more than two hundred times, did not answer, but she could still hear the sound of his shooting, click, click, click.
The beast behind seemed to be chasing closely, and she seemed to think she could hear the sound of the fleshy and metal wing membranes beating the air.
She turned the fuselage sideways again, trying to escape the pursuers through the gap between the two thick clouds.
Then she heard in horror a sharp scraping sound coming from the metal skin on the wings - it sounded like some wild beast was trying to scratch her plane with its huge claws like a cat's scratch toy, and she felt The port side sank suddenly: her heart also sank. Finally, a hell flying dragon followed them, and the flank was a blind spot for Raffus' shooting, although she still heard the sound of him shooting steadily.
"There is a stone forest ahead! I must try to fly at a very low altitude! Rafs! Hurry up!"
Then Captain Hanna Ketzlar, a native of the Cadia slum, began pulling on the plane's control stick as hard as she could remember.
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"Ursaka." Thalia Davona's scarred face was extremely determined. The inquisitor who worked against the Rebellion Order in Cadia would definitely not be a soft persimmon, just as her eyes were bright now. Looking into Creed's eyes without flinching. "I don't want to tell lies, I want to hear the truth, and I hope you tell the truth."
"We don't tell lies either, Ms. Inquisitor." Creed bit his cigar, then took it off and inserted it into his chest pocket, "You know, I've never been good at telling lies. What do you want from me?”
"I believe you have read that briefing. Everyone who takes over as Lord or Supreme Commander of Cadia will receive this briefing from the Tribunal." The Inquisitor carefully examined the face of the Lord of Cadia. With every slight change in his expression, "So can you explain to me the reasons for the extra troop movements and civil engineering work that my investigators reported to me?"
During that briefing, Garland Kyle felt a terrible chill pass through his stomach, and the adjutant who always guarded Creed like a city wall felt his face become hot due to the amplified heartbeat of fear. As a member of the Eighth Regiment who had been with Creed almost everywhere and looked after him for many years, Sergeant Kyle certainly knew about that briefing.
Hell, he is a Cadian veteran who has fought many battles and been to more than one world. He certainly knows what the Extermination Order Agreement and the Extermination Order are. No matter how high-sounding they are, why did he think that his level was at that time? Are you honored to hear this briefing? This was an extermination agreement for his homeland, the world where he was born and raised. Is it because he always thought that this time would pass like the previous twelve times? But the Inquisitor's attitude made Kyle's stomach sink.
"Oh, those." Creed said in a businesslike tone, "You know, hidden soldier caves, reserves, lurking outposts, Cadian mythology says that there will always be magic soldiers coming from deep in the mountains. Come out to turn the tide, right? That's our reserve team. They will only be mobilized in emergencies and play a decisive role."
The Inquisitor stood up as if to slam the table, but there was no table in front of them, so she stood up and paced around Creed, hands behind her back.
——As if Creed was the prisoner she wanted to interrogate. Kyle thought. This is not a good sign.
"Don't play word games with me! Ursaka! Many of them are setting up temporary landing sites! Don't think I don't know!" she shouted. "It's never been done before because it's never been done like this before. Enormous contact! There are too many demons descending on Cadia this time! Eight-pointed stars in the sky! Everyone has witnessed it! The chaos pollution index in the residential area remains high! We cannot take any risk of spreading! Such serious and increasing number of sightings and contacts of subspace entities in any world. All require large-scale virus bombing! ”
"Are you really going to do this? I mean, you're trying to tell me that even if we now have the miracle of a living saint manifesting, and we can finally drive Abaddon away and banish the Black Legion from our world, the Inquisition is going to execute All the newly victorious heroes and people here? And then destroy the Empire's strongest fortress world and best recruiting world that Abaddon failed to destroy?"
"The living saint protects the souls of the dead, and I ensure that everything that should be cleaned is left on the ground during the extermination order. To avoid spreading pollution from transporting soldiers." Thalia said coldly, "Of course, including myself, I I've seen enough demons and I'll be here with you when the time comes. We have to look at the bigger picture. , Creed, as long as this place is cleansed, other sent out Cadian regiments can be allowed to come back to colonize and reproduce. If there are enough Cadian people scattered in the galaxy, these people who have left their homes will be happy to come back and rebuild. The overall situation is important here! Creed! This is for the empire!"
"Okay... ok... I understand..." Creed began to express his understanding with a hum and a haha, and signaled Kyle with his eyes to ask the inquisitor lady out.
"Don't fool me!" She rushed over, almost in the face of the Supreme Lord, "You must tell me personally! Promise me that you will implement the final agreement!"
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"Look directly at me! Speak your answer out loud!"
The Lord of the High Castle shook his head, closed his eyes, and muttered something, and then he answered the judge.
"Make sure there are no evacuations," he said.
(End of chapter)