Chapter 225 Blood War Temple
“Still unable to contact the Chapter Leader!”
Listening to the white noise in the communicator, Al was obviously very worried.
But compared to the disappearance of the chapter leader, what worries him more is the battle situation in front of him.
He couldn't tell when the aliens began to appear. The first thing that alerted them was a gunshot, followed by fierce gunfire that continued until now.
The originally silent cave seemed to be boiling.
The Space Marines guarded the entrance to the temple, unaware of what was happening around them, until the rooms were set alight one after another, and the fire dispelled the darkness, and they finally understood what was happening.
The Genestealer Cult launched a large-scale attack here!
The main force of the attack was a large number of first to third generation hybrids. They held high blasphemous war flags and armed with various homemade crude weapons. They poured out from all directions and launched a surprise attack on the Crow Lord's followers.
In order to protect their homes, those people chose to resist desperately, building temporary bunkers on the streets and taking out all their weapons.
But the gene stealers were obviously prepared. They brought out many heavy weapons, including military heavy bolters, rockets, and heavy lasers.
The battle went to extremes from the beginning. The genestealers launched a fierce attack on the followers of the Crow Lord regardless of casualties, with incomparable hatred and fanaticism, and these heretical believers would rather die than take a step back.
But their number is too small, at least compared to the overwhelming number of aliens, it is far from enough.
Armin also thought about summoning those people to the temple to defend it, but after careful consideration, he did not dare to risk fighting with these dangerous elements who might be heretics. The only thing they could do was to open the gate The nearby stone candlesticks and some small statues were knocked down, and then used to build a bunker near the gate to deal with the subsequent impact.
The sound of gunfire in the distance did not last long before disappearing. Apart from the crackling and popping sounds of burning houses, the only thing left in the cave was the terrifying roar of the alien.
"For the Four-Armed Emperor!!"
A blasphemous war cry came from the distance, and Armin took a deep breath. His field of vision was already full of monsters.
The many-legged beasts scampered through the burning streets, their roars echoing in the air, and more surged up from behind the positions, out of the alleys, through windows and doorways What jumped out were abominable human imitations, holding stolen or homemade weapons.
They held high the alien war flag, which contained not only blood, but also the heads and limbs of people who had just been chopped off.
Armin didn't want to look at these things anymore, so instead he aimed his bolter at them.
"Put it closer and fight again. Everyone listen to my instructions."
As the captain, he became the highest commander when the chapter leader was absent.
But there was another worry in his mind.
At some point, Nick suddenly disappeared. Just when he was about to look around, these aliens appeared.
In desperation, he could only stick to his duties, but he vowed to find the boy as long as the battle was over, and secretly prayed that he had just found a place to hide.
"For the Emperor! Destroy the aliens!!"
As the first alien stepped onto the temple steps, Armin shouted a war cry as his command, and then fired his bolter at the charging enemy. The first Genestealer opened fire.
The divine roar of the Empire's wrath then echoed throughout the cave, and each shot from Armin dropped a smoking corpse at the feet of its companions, sometimes even two at a time.
But there are still too many of them.
10 kills, 20 kills, 30 kills...
Armin fired out a magazine, but there seemed to be no obvious change in the enemy tide.
"Save bullets."
Due to the large number of enemies, Armin can only ask everyone to suppress the urge to shoot and only pour out firepower when the distance is shortened.
Strong firelight illuminated the buildings on both sides of the temple, and the air reverberated with explosive sounds, thickened by the smell of burnt flesh and blood.
The first batch to charge were a generation of hybrids with little intelligence. There were tens of thousands of them, rushing up one after another, stepping on the corpses of their own kind. If the temple stairs were not too narrow, they might have flooded the place long ago. . But some began to climb the walls on both sides of the temple, which forced Armin to assign two additional warriors to defend both sides of the front.
Originally there were ten people in the team, not counting Soshyan. Now after he and Sol left, there were only nine people left. Two people were assigned to defend the sides, and there were only seven people left on the front.
Seven people have to resist countless aliens. This task is not particularly difficult. At least for Armin now, this is the most serious moment since he became an Astartes.
"Tara, is your plasma ready?"
"Okay!"
"Teach them a lesson!"
Although only one squad came this time, Soshyan had already realized that the task would be more severe, so he specially allocated some weapons from the armory to strengthen the squad's firepower.
The plasma gun held by Tara is one of the only plasma weapons owned by the Astral Knights Chapter.
After charging, he leaned out from behind the bunker, aimed at the enemy wave on the stairs, and pulled the trigger.
The next second, the air crackled as it was filled with plasma gas, and then the muzzle released destructive firepower that was so bright that it was difficult to see directly.
Balls of hot plasma rolled past the Genestealers in an instant. They were so dense that each superheated plasma bullet wiped out dozens of them.
With just two shots, a large space was cleared on the stairs.
But the space was quickly filled.
"Wall, it's up to you."
The warrior named Wall nodded, and then sprayed the hot liquefied promethium fuel directly towards the enemy group, burning a dozen aliens and Forcing the others to retreat - but the pressure of their own kind has nowhere to go.
In just a few seconds when the flamethrower takes off, the flames cause considerable damage.
In addition, the soldiers decisively threw prepared armor-piercing grenades when the enemy approached.
Boom——————!
After the high explosion, deadly small metal fragments strafed the enemy group, killing hundreds of aliens, and the power of the explosion of more than a dozen armor-piercing grenades made the entire temple tremble.
Although this killing efficiency is very high, the team's ammunition is also consumed at an extremely rapid rate.
The first thing to use up was the grenade.
Armin's mind processed all these details quickly, calculating where was the best position to shoot, and where the battle line became thin - if that can be added.
His bolter fired over and over again, the exploding alien skull spraying a spray of blood, brains, and bone fragments.
Despite their focus and efforts, some slip through the cracks and make it to the last rung of the ladder.
Armin was holding the power sword tightly in his hand at this moment.
When an alien with four arms and a long tongue stuck out of its mouth crossed the bunker and rushed towards him, Armin followed the swordsmanship taught by Thor to perform a series of slashes - Thor taught them to first find the enemy's target. loopholes, and wait for the right opportunity to remove their attack power.
Armin kept this teaching in mind and thrust his sword at a clever angle.
After taking a breath, the alien that rushed towards him with its claws broke off its hands and neck, and its headless body fell heavily to the ground.
But they continued to fight, trying to overwhelm the Space Marines with their numbers.
This is exactly the nature of this kind of alien. Except for fatal injuries to the brain or vital organs, they will hardly be knocked down by any attack.
Armin called on his warriors to change their formation, relying on the bunker, with their backs to each other, forming a tight semicircle to tightly guard the entrance to the temple.
As the aliens approached them, they fought back with fists and blades, fighting with all their might for the Emperor and their survival.
(End of this chapter)