Chapter 1010 The Gray Knights’ Decision
While the Inquisition was operating secretly, the Gray Knights also made their own “new discoveries.”
The display screen was empty, but the monotonous voice of the servitor boomed from the audio system in the room. A sword brother stood aside, listening to the transmission and looking at his Sir.
Joan Herald sat on a huge metal chair, listening to the report intently with a cold expression.
“The Astral Knights and Dark Angels have just dealt heavy losses to the enemy, but they still left some remnants behind.”
The roar of artillery fire intermittently disturbed the servitor's words.
Then, the Gray Knight mentor snorted heavily and leaned forward.
“There is more.”
“Sir, there are some things you need to take a look at.”
A signal interrupted the communication and was replaced by a destroyed cityscape picture.
"This is a real-time broadcast from a scout who discovered these in the coordinates BH1-12 area."
The building in the picture is built of red bricks, with the surface covered with plaster and painted Painted in bright colors.
Most of the ruins are just piles of rubble a few stories high, with only a staircase or chimney standing here and there, next to the twisted metal skeleton of a taller building, and the ground is full of pits.
As the focus of the picture moves, the photographer becomes slower and slower.
He made his way over the rubble of a collapsed house, and here and there a limb or face poked out of the broken, charred bricks.
Soon, Joan Herald noticed something else beyond the ruins.
It was hard to make out at first, obscured by distance, smoke and dust obscuring the view - something pale, towering over the flattened city.
The Gray Knight instructor manipulated the console, and the picture was enlarged to the entire display screen, making the thing look taller.
“It must be half a kilometer high.”
The Purifier squinted his eyes and said:
"What?"
Joan Herald remained silent and squinted his eyes at this scene.
A sudden acceleration, an auxiliary jump, brings the Scout closer to the target.
His companions jumped beside him, fifty meters each time, and three more times, and then the team stopped.
The transmission had no sound coming from the communications channel, but it was clear they were disturbed.
The team members exchanged glances, and some pointed at each other.
The screen was zoomed in, and the instructor took a quick breath from between his teeth.
This tower is made of skeletons, one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, the number is too numerous to describe.
The skull was dotted with terrifying spiers, and as the magnification increased again, Joan Herard could even make out letters composed of tiny bones in the fingers and ears.
He couldn't understand what they were saying, and he didn't need to.
"Protect this area for my arrival."
Joan Herald's voice sounded like a whisper to the Purifiers.
Soon, the Gray Knights set out collectively and left the garrison camp without saying hello to anyone.
Up close, the tower is even more disgusting.
The stench of corpses and dried blood was carried in the eerie breeze to Joan Herald, the rubble crunching under his feet as he approached the grotesque building.
He raised his head and squinted in the bright sunlight.
The clear summer weather makes the Monument of Death even more eerie, and in the distance, other slender, opalescent digits stretch out into the cloudless indigo sky, a landscape that should be shrouded in darkness and storm rather than bathed in it In the warm sunshine. "Things get worse."
The Purifier's voice was flat.
“Worse?”
The Gray Knight mentor whispered, fingers curling into fists at his sides.
“There is nothing worse than Mardel escaping from the cage.”
“Is this Mardel’s doing?”
Jikov the Purifier Reed asked, unable to take his eyes off the tower.
The scouts then led them to the nearest building, a tall arched doorway through which the Gray Knights could enter without hindrance.
Parts of the body were found inside, most of the skin stretched like a tapestry around the frame of the ossuary, still veined and tinted, carefully removed from the victim, and the rotting entrails hung like ornaments, drawn Disturbing geometries and twisting letter shapes.
"No."
The instructor was answering Zikfrid's previous question. His eyes moved around the tower, taking in everything and forcing himself to check Huaiyan. author's bloody works.
"This requires a lot of labor. Abaddon will not obey the orders of a demon. No matter how powerful it was before, Mardel is still just a lost dog."
Joan Heller Ed's eyes became sharper, and his thoughts were brought back to the present.
"This... ritual, it's not just the horror itself, it serves a purpose, we've seen something beyond normal understanding, it's part of the new reality."
"Is Abaddon Already teamed up with Madel? "
"This is indeed a possibility. It will definitely make many promises in order to leave this cage. "
The Gray Knight mentor nodded slowly and turned around. Give orders to others.
“But guessing is not enough.”
At this time, a Gray Knight presented the remote communication device to the mentor.
"Second Strike Team Report."
He said, handing the bulky device to his mentor.
Joan Herard turned on the instrument, and there was a slight delay in the image, so the lips of the soldier inside did not move with his voice.
"Grand Master, we found an altar twelve kilometers away to the west. There are obvious traces of demon residue on it, and there are many demons wandering around. We suspect that this is a 'nest'."
"Understood."
Joan Herald thought for a while, and then said:
"You stand by first, we will arrive later, and always pay attention to whether the target appears. If so, Intercepted immediately."
"Yes."
At this time, Jike Fried suddenly interjected:
"Should I say hello to the Astral Knight? I'm worried that there will be some misunderstandings if I leave like this quietly."
Joan Herald shook his head indifferently.
“The fewer people who know about this matter, the better.”
The Purifier thought for a while and silently admitted that it was indeed the case. After all, using a planet as a prison for a devil, Once spread, it will attract a lot of malicious eyes.
Mardel is a difficult opponent. They cannot completely eliminate or banish it. The best way is to continue to seal it.
The Grand Master of the Gray Knights has also made plans long ago. After the war is over, except for the Astartes, all the people and planet residents who participated in the war will not be left alive!
(End of this chapter)