Chapter 555______The Great Retreat-
As the flow of particles gathered on the fingertips of the ruling sage gradually dissipated.
The first change that can be felt by ordinary organisms at the sensory level is temperature.
The temperature in the underground cave where the two mechanical mages were originally had reached over sixty degrees Celsius due to the waste heat emitted by the guards gathered here and their own reactor engines, but at just 10% For a second, Call didn't even need the built-in thermometer to tell him what was going on, because his automatic cycle maintenance system had already started adding antifreeze to his lines - and the mechanical fingertips he hadn't fully retracted had already begun to form thick crusts. of frost.
"What?" Sage Klan turned around in confusion, "What happened? The pressure disappeared? Rules...formulas...principles...what did you do?"
"I have accomplished one of the greatest deeds in history! Crane!" Kaul raised his head and seemed to be able to see the amazing scenery tens of millions or even tens of trillions of kilometers away through the thick rocks and soil.
"The Eye of Terror... is about to close!"
The loyal warriors are fighting fiercely with the secret keepers, bloodletters or bird-shaped demons that are constantly pouring out of the cave ahead. Suddenly I discovered that these demons They all showed expressions of astonishment, and then their physical forms in reality began to disintegrate and melt away, just like a piece of meat that had experienced a thousand years of decay and weathering in the blink of an eye, and finally turned into dust or even smoke. Dissipated in the air.
But before the defenders could start to rejoice, more severe headaches, vomiting and other symptoms appeared on themselves, causing most of the people here to lose the ability to move. They once had psychic manifestations. Or people with slight psychic powers had a particularly severe reaction. Some people's hearts stopped beating on the spot, and some people let out terrifying and unhuman howls, as if their "rational" part was being forcibly removed from their minds. Strip.
The inquisitor who suddenly appeared held her head and knelt down in pain - she was an extremely powerful psyker, and she was surrounded by psychic lightning, showing that she was coming to this place. Unconscious resistance and self-protection in the vast dimension of nothingness.
The Astartes had different reactions to this, but they all observed one thing in their nausea. As the enemy demons dissipated, the Space Wolves that originally pounced on began to collapse to the ground. Moreover, those parts that mutated into beasts did not become better. On the contrary, they began to become less like humans. If the previous mutation seemed to be inspired by subspace, now it is like their blood. inhibition in The material was removed - the Space Wolves now lived up to their name. Soon there were only wolves here, and not a single Fenrisian. This made the Astartes who were originally friendly forces hesitate a little - fortunately there were still Several special leaders from the central government promptly stopped their plan to "deal with" all these wolves. The warriors from ten thousand years ago and the warriors from ten thousand years later had unknowingly divided into two groups and stood on both sides. , looked at each other carefully.
Similarly, the impact of this ruthless, ruthless invasion was so wide and so intense that even the few Primarchs outside the stand surrounding the emergency operations in the middle of the battlefield were not fully able to survived.
Although they did not experience the severe pain of the mortal psykers around them and were still able to move, an indescribable sense of nausea, resistance and other feelings still appeared in each of them.
Just different.
Robert Guilliman hissed in pain, and the functional curve crown rotating on his forehead dimmed, turning into intermittent light spots.
"Are you okay?" A concerned greeting came from the fearless loudspeaker grille. It sounded like the people inside were not affected, and the mechanical bird still looked very flexible, with one eye looking worriedly at the person being flooded. The person seeking rescue, stopping the bleeding, and treating the wound looked in Guilliman's direction with one eye with concern.
"It just feels like there is a part of it..." He struggled to find the words, "Part of the...function? Was it suddenly blocked? Closed?"
Hong Suo's voice interrupted their conversation chat.
"The situation is temporarily stable, but we have to move him immediately."
"What?"
"At least get away from the thing above our heads that is sending out drastic changes in readings - I don't care what it is, my medical instrument readings tell me that this phenomenon will be extremely detrimental to his recovery. It may even cause permanent brain damage. Consequences of damage.”
They looked at each other.
"...Then let's not delay. As for who did this, let's wait until we leave."
"I will conduct the summons and organization."
" I’ll gather the people.”
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“I want to speak to the Warmaster.”
After sending a communication request for an unknown number of times, Mocas clumsily and diligently repaired it. The damaged Blackstone Fortress was constantly looking forward to the Warmaster's response.
Is he seriously injured? She was very worried about him, how much she wanted to teleport to him immediately!
Finally, she saw the Spirit of Vengeance turning around the ship and heading towards her, and the flame of warmth and hope ignited in her heart again.
She knew that her father would not abandon her...
But the communication holographic panel flickered a few times, and she saw the face of a girl who was indifferent but full of the will to kill.
The Spirit of Vengeance, Usio.
"He is injured. He needs treatment and rest now, and cannot talk to you."
Mocas's heart tightened, "How is father?! Teleport me there! I I want to see him! I want to guard him!”
"That's not necessary. Little pet." The girl stared at her mercilessly with her cold eyes. "If you hadn't been too noisy and woke up Lord Abaddon, he would still be resting now."
"I'm sorry...I..."
"There's no need to say sorry, because his meaning is very clear. The final strategic plan has been transmitted to my meditator."
"What plan?" Mokas asked in panic, "Please send me there first!"
< br>The Spirit of Vengeance did not answer, her huge hull moved over gracefully, and then began to push the central part of the Blackstone Fortress.
The fear of being unable to control herself swept through the Daughter of the Black Stone.
—The vengeful spirit was pushing her into a downward trajectory.
"No——! I want to see the Warmaster! I want to see my father! Father! You don't understand! I am Dravula Abaddon! Father promised me! Father will agree! I am Abaddon Daughter of Barton! He reached out to me!"
But there were no more replies in the communication.
The panicked and sad Mocas was disgusted by the Blackstone Fortress, and the blackstone implants all over her body became extremely painful. She shouted, and the name her father and she had given to herself fell towards Cady. Ya.
come down.
Crash.
The third continent of Cadia was hit by a falling fortress.
It split from the center, shattered, and sank.
A tsunami hundreds of meters high is sweeping across the remaining land, the sky is falling, the core of the earth is exposed, and the seal disappears.
Subsequently, the towers on the Elisian Plains collapsed one after another in the cracks of the earth. The interference of the corrupted materials of the Blackstone Fortress caused their newly formed resonance to lose its perfect resonance.
Half of the Eye of Terror has just been closed.
Reopened.
No, it’s not even reopening. With the destruction of this ancient giant structure, the fluctuations in the supreme sky came back so violently that the eyes of fear shed immaterial black and red tears - it was like in reality. A huge blood bubble is about to pop up in the universe.
Anyone could see that something was coming. Unstoppable.
The temporary small-scale retreat was quickly replaced with the final code name.
Except for the few carrier ships that the Cadian fleet desperately launched towards the ground, the eyes of the Cadian people who escaped the earthquake, fire and tsunami reflected two colors of hope: a large number of them were painted with the Empire Vehicles such as Fist Yellow and Gun Silver Stormbirds and Thunderhawks were landing at various survivor gathering points densely and at high speed, like raindrops of hope.
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The reader in the office aboard the Ironblood had reached the final parts of the book describing the Battle of Cadia. He turned the page and read Reading the new content, he slowly frowned.
"What's wrong?" Perturabo BC also tightened his eyebrows with a long black and white beard, making his face look solemn and full of fate. While asking, he was still moving like flying. In the next room, Magna, who had finally woken up, was nervously making actuarial assessments and assumptions, comparing and defining various statements and accumulated profit and loss values, and Make maximum estimated losses, verify implicit reserves and final adjustments, etc.
"...Well, I just don't like what I read about the Daughter of the Blackstone and the Fall of the Fortress."
"Really?" The Iron Lord paused. for a moment, "But that's pretty good. For a kid who thinks he has a father."
"Can I ask why? It seems like It’s so depressing that it feels like a punch to the cotton.”
“Believe me, this is better than when she called Abaddon her father in person, only to be answered by you. It’s a tool, and it’s useless. It’s better. At least she still had some self-convincing illusions when she died.”
"Uh... maybe? After all, we can't know what comfort is in other people's hearts."
"Maybe."
"Okay,... In addition, from this accurate narrative angle, I hope This reporter is fine.”
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Panting, Captain Hannah Ketzlar grasped the arm of Ravs on her shoulders, and was stepping across it one step at a time. The positions that were plowed open by artillery fire from both sides rushed to the designated evacuation point.
Because the Iron Wolf Company followed Master Honso and the others into underground combat, Hannah, as a pilot, stayed at Clough Castle and also received the order to retreat.
"Hannah." Ravs whispered in her ear.
The captain gritted his teeth and did not answer.
“Hannah,” he said again, struggling to move his legs that had just regained consciousness.
She just grabbed him harder to prevent him from sliding down, and led him forward step by step.
"Hannah." He almost begged, "Put me down and stay here, and then you will definitely catch the last few evacuating ships."
"Shut up!" The heroic woman The pilot replied viciously, "I said I wanted to save you at that time. I've thought about this since then! You don't have to say anything anymore!"
"But..." The weak machine gunner wanted to say something, but suddenly a strong force came from his feet. came up, almost pulling Katezlar to the ground.
“I said I will not abandon you! Or we will die together in Cadia! My mother is also buried here, and we will stay here! This is our tomb! What are you doing? ...Ghost...?”
< br>The angry red-haired girl turned her head and was about to complain about the weight that Rafs put on her, but her cracked and dry lips immediately froze: her most trusted partner and lover was gritting her teeth and trying hard to open one. The hand that grabbed his limp ankle.
That hand.
It was a hand with half-decomposed flesh, hanging on a pale skeleton like gray-yellow gelatin and dry leather.
That is definitely not a hand belonging to a living person.
What's going on? ! What is this? !
She swallowed the scream that was about to come out, pulled out the tool knife on her calf, and began to help Rafs chop off the thorns that were holding him tightly and almost sinking into the flesh. Dead Man's Finger.
"Let's get out of here."
"Leave me here and give me a pistol. I can keep you safe in my sight, just like when we were in heaven. ...Hannah." Ravs implored her again.
"Shut up! I risked selling my soul and chose to believe that Doctor Astartes, who looked like a supervillain wearing Imperial armor, was a good man with professional ethics. This was not for the sake of Leave you behind at this time!"
"We always One person must survive! The Cadian people will be immortal! Hannah! I hope that person can be you!"
While they were talking and stumbling forward, there were several more... Arms that had just begun to rot, or had turned into bones, stretched out, trying to grab them.
Suddenly, there was a burst of gunfire, and a row of vehicles rushed over with a group of soldiers.
“What are you still doing here?!”
Captain Hailske of the 24th Cardia Regiment poked his head out of the personnel carrier and sat next to her There is an Astartes wearing silver armor and a steel mask.
"Come up quickly! The dead here are all resurrected! Leave quickly!"
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As the Crimson Gate was completely pushed open by the Crimson Wave, more and more dead felt the call of Chaos and began to join the army of the living to capture any living left on the crumbling rock.
All the ships filled with the retreating Cadian people, who left behind their own equipment and burdens, and took only Cadian soil with them, activated their full strength to escape from the sinister gravitational vortex formed when the planet shattered. .
Some smaller ships were still swaying with their engines at full power. At this time, the Phalanx and the Enterprise drove in front of the chaotic cosmic ray particles and gravitational magnetic field vortices. They were huge enough. Blocked a small part of the shock wave and gravitational vortex, especially the Enterprise, if The Mountain Formation is a mainstay, protecting the retreating fleet behind it, and the Enterprise is a dexterous albatross, spreading its broad wings and cleverly constantly changing the angle of the chaotic time and space torrent that washes away the front shields of the two giant ships. , one by one, rescuing more ships that cannot escape the trap of the physical laws of the universe.
The moment after the last boat finally started its engine and began to make a short jump.
A loud noise was like the cry of an evil son or the first cry of an evil god.
Cadia, the only and first fortress world before the Eye of Fear.
Completely cracked.
There is no obstacle before the Scarlet Road.
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This retreat was eventually called the “Great Retreat of Cadia” in the accounts of imperial historians, and there are many first-hand accounts of its process. Some were lost or tightly sealed, but in the end, Cadia's 850 million inhabitants were miraculously found. Thirty million people were evacuated—many researchers claim that this number is impossible because no ship can transfer so many people at once in a short period of time. However, the colonial fleet formed after the event and multiple new Kassels The Diaan Auxiliary Legion suggests that the population being transferred was at least close to this number.
It is still unknown which ship was able to carry such a large population at that time, but more reliable and mainstream research believes that it may have been the Phalanx and a Rogue Trader Dynasty fleet that had just arrived to join the war. With so many evacuees, the Dynasty fleet was empty and maneuverable, so it was able to pick them up in time.
(End of this chapter)