Chapter 978: The Lost Shadow
“Bastard——”
In anger, Ustad used gray marrow again.
Hot air spurted out from the gaps in his armor. The display panel inside the helmet failed due to the severe impact. His body temperature changes could not be seen, so Ustad tore it off.
Throwing away his helmet, Ustad stood up with a gray-blue face. The monster left three claw marks on his armor, and traces of bright red blood flowed out through the claw marks, but soon It was filled with some mysterious silver.
At first the Astartes' movements were somewhat sluggish, as if crushed by the cold that penetrated his bones, but his spirit strengthened him.
He staggered forward, and the pain and cold gradually eased.
Looking at this scene, the mysterious demon shook his head.
"It's just like a bug."
Its sound was accompanied by the sounds of muscles sliding and bones breaking.
"Stubborn, stubborn."
"I am the Astartes, the avenging angel of the Emperor of Mankind."
Ustad challenged the monster, using the brief respite to focus strength.
"Arrogant! I am the end of you!"
The demon roared and rushed forward at an extraordinary speed.
"Speaking as if I were you."
Claws flew in the air like sharp blades, and Ustad's power sword spat out golden lightning.
He tried to use his sword to neutralize the monster's attack, but was still startled by its power at the moment of contact. He involuntarily took a step back, his boots scraping the floor.
"Child of the Curse, I have seen through your tricks a long time ago!"
The demon laughed ferociously. At this time, it was affected by the gray marrow, and its skin was covered with a layer of frost, but the demon's skin immediately Hot as molten iron.
Ustad raised his sword forward and stabbed the demon's arm, but the force of the counterattack traveled from his forearm to his shoulder.
The monster's heavy blow almost caused the Astartes to lose their weapons. In the face of the confrontation between force and force, the opponent had overwhelming power.
“Why——”
Ustad, who was accustomed to using gray marrow to weaken the power of subspace, felt very puzzled.
Why does this demon seem unaffected?
The opponent swung out a claw, and Ustad jumped back, taking a stance before the demon attacked again and then landed firmly.
"The Warp exists, and I will send you back there. No matter how hungry you are, I know that you will not be able to do so. You will be exiled by the Emperor's radiance."
"You You don’t know what we are, you are misled, you don’t know your destiny at all.”
Suddenly, there was lightning and thunder on the battlefield, and then a crimson lightning shot fiercely at the demon from the smoke.
The monster was startled at first and tried to fend off the psychic attack with its well-developed forearms, but the lightning suddenly cracked and turned into five smaller thunderbolts, which directly hit the demon's limbs. .
In an instant, the demon's limbs were almost severed, and his huge body fell to the ground.
"Who!"
After taking a few breaths to recover his limbs and get up again, the demon let out a shocking roar.
In the smoke, a giant wearing a gray hooded robe slowly walked out. His face was hidden under a dark golden mask in the shape of a jackal. His right hand was slightly raised, and the light danced lightly on his fingers.
"Madel, stop your little tricks." The devil turned his head 90°, and then whispered:
"I smell the scent of the one-eyed prince's heir from you, who are you."
"Your end."
The next moment, a white tongue of fire Bursting out from the hands of the mysterious man, death prayers and mysterious spells flickered on the edge of the flames, like fluttering wings.
Then, the flames turned into brilliant lines that cut the demon apart.
For a breath, the demon's body staggered, and then the flames jumped over its shadow-shrouded body, evaporating huge energy and creating a spiritual storm.
Watching the demon turn to ashes, Ustad turned around and looked at the stranger, who bore the emblem of the Chapter on his cloak.
"Who are you? Which company's brother?"
The man turned his head, looked at Ustad, and then replied:
"What do you think? I am your think tank, just call me Jackal.”
"Jackal."
Ustad frowned, and then suddenly thought of something.
"Ah, you are Ka——"
Then he shut his mouth, knowing that he should not reveal the secret.
Kayon smiled slightly, walked to the demon's ashes, squatted down and groped for a while, and finally found a small thing.
"This is."
Ustad walked over and took a look and found that it was the roasted remains of some kind of creature. It looked like some kind of worm.
Kayon turned it over in his hand and studied it for a while, then stood up.
“Some kind of parasite, Mardel should have implanted it into the World Eater’s body a long time ago. Its function is probably to transform that body into some kind of semi-subspace creature, a demon. You can use telepathy-like abilities to control this body from a distance. Because the changes in the body come more from the biotechnological level, the role of gray marrow is not obvious."
As he spoke, Kayon seemed to be trapped in After thinking about it, he was silent for a long time, and finally said to himself:
"Strange, how could a subspace demon have this kind of technology? It looks more like that person's handiwork, but he should be imprisoned now. Did something happen during the time he left me?"
< br>After chanting for a while, Kayon shook his head, temporarily put aside these thoughts, turned to Ustad and said:
"How is the defense situation."
"The casualties are heavy, the company Nineteen people have been killed and five seriously injured. The mortal defenders have suffered at least more than 40,000 casualties. Now we can only hold the last area of the fortress. After that, only the church is left. Now everyone is crowded together. If that would be a disaster"
"Soshiyan's new order, the second company will retreat with me immediately"
Ustad glared at Kayon, and then said:
"There are still nearly 60,000 residents here."
"Let them evacuate into the mine tunnel."
All explorer fortresses basically have mine tunnels, which are built for digging, but the underground is intricate and complex. Not only is the terrain harsh, but there may also be dangerous native creatures and demons.
“There is a boring machine waiting for them underground, but they need to walk to the evacuation area on their own. Whether they can survive depends on whether the throne protects them. This is the only way.”
Ustad opened his mouth, but in the end he did not ask the question in his heart.
In fact, he knew without the other party's answer how likely he was to survive this kind of self-rescue, but there was really no better way to deal with the situation at hand.
So the second company commander of the Astral Knights nodded silently, turned around and began to gather the soldiers, and asked the defenders to start mobilizing civilians to quickly move to the ancient mine tunnel near the main drainage of the fortress.
When everything was arranged, enemy artillery fire had begun to hit the sacred church. Ustad took one last look at the emperor's icon above, and then was overwhelmed by the flash of teleportation——
I haven’t asked for a vote for a long time. I’m asking for a vote today o(╥﹏╥)o
(End of this chapter)