Chapter 228 Psychic War
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The psyker named Kuros has revealed the future in his previous contact with Perturabo, and even told Perturabo directly On which planet does that psychic warlord exist?
It is the third planet in the galaxy that revolves around the sun, a planet that looks as beautiful as Terra.
Then Perturabo chose to launch an orbital bombardment of the planet without any hesitation.
The horrific orbital bombing directly destroyed the ecological environment on the planet's surface. When 90% of the entire planet's wild animals had been exterminated, the orbital bombing had only been carried out for two hours.
After the bombing continued for 4 hours, the surface of the planet had completely turned into purgatory. This originally extremely beautiful planet, a planet similar to Terra, was the only thing left on it that could be called beautiful. The only thing that exists is the aurora phenomenon created in the planet's atmosphere after the light spear bombardment.
After the orbital bombardment was completely completed, the Space Marine units of the Fourth Legion located in each strike cruiser prepared.
After other Space Marines had already begun attacking other planets in the galaxy, they were finally able to take action.
The Iron Lord's attack order has been issued. No matter how difficult the next battle will be, the Space Marines of the Fourth Legion cannot take a step back.
But they will not fight alone, because the Twelfth Legion, which is best at assault operations, is also ready for battle. After all the Space Marine troops of the two legions are ordered to be dropped, they take the airdrop pod to the surface.
The tail flames of the overwhelming airdrop pods illuminate the sky of the entire planet.
If there is any creature standing on the surface and observing the sky at this time, it will feel as if the gods are projecting their anger onto the planet. The blood-red sky illuminated by the flames is a concrete and intuitive manifestation of the divine punishment.
“Damn greenskins hollowed out the entire planet.”
“Damn greenskins, nothing is more damned than greenskins.”
In the command deck, Perturabo kept talking.
Angron looked out the window. The Space Marine troops sent to other planets by Perturabo had completed their mission.
After those transport planes carrying Space Marines left other planets, the explosions and flashes that appeared on the surface of the planets one after another, and the subsequent disintegration of the planets proved that they had accomplished the Lord of Steel's mission extremely well. The strategic vision is to destroy other planets in the galaxy as much as possible and limit the battlefield to one planet.
According to Angron's idea, there is actually no need to send the army to land for combat. It would be better to just use orbital bombing or some kind of extermination weapon to blow up the entire planet.
But it’s not that Perturabo didn’t think of doing this, but the prophecy told him not to do it.
"I could have blown them all up with virus bombs."
"If these disgusting aliens didn't do what the psyker prophesied, they would throw the virus bombs I threw back. Return to the fleet, then I will blow them up directly."
Perturabo said.
After hearing these words, Angron was slightly surprised, but it was only a moment of surprise. After all, it was not surprising that there would be a war in which the emperor might come to personally participate in the war.
"I suddenly want to try it." Perturabo suddenly said again, "Maybe they are not as powerful as predicted. Maybe I should test whether using live ammunition weapons to attack the main planet will be Bounce back.”
"Don't!" Angron held down Perturabo's hand that was about to raise, "Listen to the advice, listen to the advice."
Perturabo slowly let go.
The Lord of Steel has always not believed in mysterious things like prophecies, but this time it was different. The Emperor warned him in a dream that he must listen to any prophecies from Kouros.
In this case, we can only follow orders. However, in Kuros’ prophecy, any live ammunition attack on the planet will be rebounded by the position formed by the psychic boys. There is such an unverified premise. This battle is not easy to fight.
"At least we should find out how strong those greenskins are." Perturabo adjusted the holographic image on the tactical table and began to pay attention to the tridents.
In Perturabo's strategy, Trident, as the elite among the elite, leads a group of elite warriors. They have a special role and a mission with high hopes.
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This is the Tridents.
Dantioch personally led the team and led the people who had special missions in the special arrangement of the Father of Genes to advance on the surface of the planet.
Although there are less than 200 people in total, this number is enough because the team has not alerted the enemy until now.
Those greenskins lived underground, and the orbital bombardment that destroyed the entire planet's ecological environment did not cause them much trouble.
Dantioch, who was advancing on the surface where magma was flowing, suddenly felt that the greenskins seemed to be able to predict what would happen in the war, so they chose to develop and exploit underground in advance. , rather than on the surface.
Keeping this intuition in mind, Dantioch moved on.
“Compared to before, this place is simply hell now.” Dantioch’s Terran best friend said.
"It is undeniable." Dantioch expressed his agreement in a short sentence.
The Milky Way is extremely large, and there are so many planets in it, but the problem is not that every planet can be colonized and inhabited by humans, and not every planet can be transformed enough for human colonization.
In the galaxy, those dead worlds with no value and harsh environment are the majority.
A world that can be colonized by humans is extremely precious, especially a planet with an environment similar to Terra, which is even more precious.
However, Dantioch also felt that it was not the Lord of Steel who destroyed the world. This world was already hopeless, ever since it was almost hollowed out by the green skins.
"Don't you think it's strange?" Lando Egger, the team's best at large-scale engineering, said, "The prophecy said that this planet was almost hollowed out. We scanned it and found that it was true, but this planet There is no large-scale geological disaster on the surface of the planet, which is as strange as seeing a ghost.”
The observant Dantioch also noticed this problem, and he had already thought about the answer: "Perhaps it is because the enemy has a technology that can affect an entire planet."
"That would be very terrifying. , Guys, let us pray that this will not be the case."
"What's the use of praying, Brother Lando Egger? The Emperor has already said that there are no gods in the universe!"
When the people who hated words like gods and prayers once again brought up the truth of the empire, no one answered because a green skin appeared directly in front of everyone.
There is only one green skin.
The greenskins, who had always had an absolute advantage in numbers, now only had one. This situation made the Space Marines feel like they were facing a formidable enemy.
Dantioch observed the greenskin carefully.
The green skin that suddenly appeared in front had a rickety body and did not have the stout stature that green skins generally have. It seemed that the physical fitness of an old human was not even comparable.
This made Dantioch feel even more weird.
And this greenskin didn't use any weapons, he just came here empty-handed, not even the rough cold weapons that are common among the greenskin race.
Dantioch only took a second to observe the situation, and then he and the other Space Marines took cover on the spot.
Lando Egger was the first to fire on the greenskins.
Others also pressed the trigger at the same moment.
All Space Marines unanimously chose to pull the dual-stage trigger to the bottom, so that the bolt gun in their hands could fire bolts at the fastest rate of fire to kill the greenskins.
But it was as if something noticed who was the first person to show murderous intentions.
Lando Egg felt like he was being targeted by something, and his firing action suddenly stopped, then he turned around and looked at Dantioch. The muzzle of the bolter in Dantioch's hand had just spit out the first bolt.
The flow of time seemed to be slowed down. Amidst the sparks produced by the exploding barrel and the tail flame of the explosive shells, Dantioch turned his head and his eyes fell on the battle brothers.
"Dan..."
Bang——
Lando's head exploded, and several helmet fragments flew into Dantioch's body, making a loud bang as they collided with his ceramite armor.
"Death to the alien bastard!!!"
The Space Marines reacted instantly. Another trident in the team opened fire, and the plasma flew towards the target who looked extremely weak but extremely threatening. green skin.
At the moment when Lando Egg was sacrificed, Dantioch felt that the other party might be a psyker.
The psykers among the greenskins...
But when the plasma and explosive bombs flew over, the green-skinned psyker did not use any defensive means. He was hit blankly and was beaten to pieces.
The Space Marines looked at each other and fell into a trance after the battle.
Some mysteries appear in the hearts of every Space Marine.
What happened to that green skin just now? Are there many green skins that can crush other people's heads like that? There are only a few here and there, or are they almost everywhere on the planet?
However, all questions remain unanswered.
Once something involving psychic powers is encountered, it is often difficult for the Fourth Legion to immediately come up with an effective solution.
The scene that just happened is also the reason why the Fourth Legion hates psychic powers.
It doesn’t take many years of combat training, and even those common green-skinned races don’t have the physique and courage to fight Space Marines right after they are born, but he just looked at Lando Egg and pinched Broken Lando Egg's head.
Not even the heroic death Lando Egger deserved...
"Attention!"
Following the soldier's reminder, a large number of green-skinned people suddenly appeared in groups. They did not come out of a certain place, did not go through tunnels, but appeared directly in front of everyone out of thin air.
At the same time, Dantioch felt that something was staring at him, something extremely malicious...
Every Space Marine had the same feeling.
Then a voice appeared in Dantioch’s ears: “Brothers, let’s WAAAGH up, shall we?!”
From the wording of this voice, Dantioch You can tell that this is definitely the green skin speaking, but this green skin's voice can be heard and understood by Dantioch and his comrades, because this voice echoes in the soul and will not be affected at all. Limitations of natural language.
Then the greenskins in front of them suddenly became crazy, just like the voice called, they became WAAAGH.
The greenskins completely ignored their own safety and attacked the humans in front of them unarmed.
Dantioch and the battle brothers slaughtered the greenskins like bugs on Novshendak, but just like the meaningless charge of these greenskins while they were unarmed, Human attacks are meaningless. No matter how many greenskins die at this time, more will soon come out of thin air to join the battle.
But Dantioch is thankful for one thing now, that is, greenskins who can use psychic powers don't seem to be everywhere.
Just when Dantioch had this idea, suddenly a green-skinned man stopped on the way to charge, his eyes filled with green energy, staring at Dantioch.
"I will give you a chance to say my last words to your big brothers, the shrimps."
Dantioch heard these words.
He subconsciously wanted to look at a battle brother and say his last words, but he suddenly came to his senses.
His iron will told him: If he really turned his head and spoke his last words, that hateful psychic green skin would kill him as he spoke, just like it did when it killed Lando Egger .
After Dantioch realized this, he suddenly couldn't even hear the green-skin-like accent, and immediately raised his bolter to kill the green-skin that was staring at him.
But then another greenskin stopped and used his psychic powers.
One after another, the greenskins seemed like machines that were suddenly powered on, changing from a state of ignorance to a dangerous aura in their every move.
Although the Iron Warriors do not have any psychic talents, they are still a member of the human group with low psychic potential. They can slightly perceive the psychic power flowing in the air, and these psychic abilities Volume is gathering.
Even they can feel it, which means that the spiritual energy has gathered to a certain extent.
A premonition of danger emerged, and Dantioch turned around and yelled at the battle brothers, but the explosion that followed covered the words he roared out of his throat.
Snowflakes suddenly appeared in the air.
Dantioch turned to look at the greenskins. One after another, the greenskins that were accumulating psychic power exploded into snowflakes, as if they were made of snowflakes.
“Come here!”
Qin Xia trudged out of the wind and snow, his fingers sparkling with lightning, and he shouted to Dantioch and his party.
Dantioch immediately rushed towards Qin Xia with his battle brothers.
Flames, shocks, electric currents or other attacks formed by the gathering of psychic energy flew past their heads, and the greenskins also began to release psychic energy to fight back.
But in the end everyone disappeared into the snow and wind safely.
After trudging out of the snow, Dantioch found himself and his battle brothers on the command deck of a certain warship.
This is the White Knight.
The covering panels on the portholes of the White Knight are slowly rising, apparently they have just returned to the real universe from subspace.
Qin Xia walked to the communication station and said, "Connect me to the legion fleet."
The faces of Angron and Perturabo immediately appeared on the communication panel.
After seeing Qin Xia appear, Angron and Perturabo had two extreme reactions.
"I'm back." Qin Xia smiled at Angron, then looked at Perturabo's stinky face, "By the way, I got your tridents back."
Perturabo frowned.
I originally thought of asking Kuros to help find Qin Xia, a super arrogant man, but also to sell Angron a favor.
As it turns out, Kuros will not arrive until a week later, and now Qin Xia appears inexplicably.
Perturabo felt helpless.
(End of this chapter)