Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 61 The First Battle
Hive outskirts, highlands.The battle is imminent.

Wights and trolls in sight dragged their rotting, bloated bodies through the woods to the clearing in front of the Gray Knights.

Without Calvin's order, the ten gray knights of the two Interceptor squads took the lead in raising the storm bolters in their left hands, and launched precise firepower strikes at the enemies in front of them.

The interceptors skillfully maintain the established firepower density according to the echelon, so as to ensure that when the comrades-in-arms who fire first within the predetermined cycle enter the reloading state, there will be no deadly firepower vacuum on the front line.

Their killing efficiency is extremely high, because the weapons they are equipped with—the specially modified storm bolter with psychic access, the blow to the enemy is far from limited to the physical body.

When the guns in the hands of the gray knights are shooting, the spiritual bombs fired after being blessed by their own spiritual energy can strike the opponent's body and directly hit the target's soul regardless of the opponent's armor.

Bypassing these tough or corrupt bodies, and directly targeting the opponent's soul with an effective and fatal blow, can efficiently make these subspace creatures quickly lose their anchor in the real world and roll back to their hometown.

Such firearms may indeed sacrifice some of the power of physical destruction, but when they are facing a large number of low-level servants created by the pollution of chaos, this kind of efficient point-to-point killing of souls will make the gray knights' firearms extremely powerful. Excellent cost-effective ratio.

Even larger or higher-ranked demons will fall under the short-term high-density spiritual attack when faced with the saturation blow of this kind of firearm.

The rotting corpses were easily wiped out under the precise shooting of the gray knights, and a small number of giant monsters also died in the middle of the charge under the concentrated fire.

This low-intensity battle, which was comparable to shooting training, lasted only a few minutes before it was declared over.

Just as the gray knights were about to put down their guns, a new enemy appeared.

"For the Lord of Corruption!" With a howl in the distant woods, more carrion and giant monsters appeared at the edge of their sight.And the leader is a behemoth over 4 meters tall.On the huge and fat body is stretched to the limit, transparent skin, and maggots can even be seen swimming in the rotted and suppurated green muscle and yellow-brown fat under the skin.

As it walked towards the high ground where the gray knights were, it held up the mace in its hand, and chanted the holy name of Nurgle's loving father indistinctly.To pray for power from evil gods.

At the same time, in response to the demon's call, densely packed rotting corpses stood up in the originally empty swamps and mud ponds around the high ground where the gray knights stood.

They couldn't see the existence of eyeballs in their mud-filled eye sockets, and their mouths were so rotten that the teeth could be seen through their cheeks, and they also screamed profane words "for... the Lord of Corruption!"

The gray knights on the high ground began to shrink their formation, and Calvin, who was standing in the center protected by the interceptor formation, reached out and clicked on the communicator, and said to the arbitrator brothers of the two interceptors:
"We can't fight like this, our time is limited. We can't delay like this! From now on, you have to save ammunition and protect our flanks on both sides. As for the front, leave it to us."

The two arbitrators apparently also saw this situation. After receiving Calvin's order, they immediately issued an order in the communication channel. The interceptor team smoothly moved away from the front line of fire and focused on protecting the two wings.

After all the frontal firepower got out of the way, Calvin also took a deep breath. He looked around at the Terminator left and right and said:

"Then, it's time for us to play next..."

Calvin began to fully mobilize his spiritual power, and let go of the power of order.

The originally quiet flame representing order at the core of his soul finally stopped suppressing the anger that had been deliberately suppressed since he smelled the stench from chaos when he arrived on this planet with Calvin's permission!
The moment the flame was allowed to shine, the color representing its temperature quickly changed from dim to fiery!
The soft silver light used for camouflage in the past was instantly torn off, and the dazzling white-gold light that represented judgment and end began to shine.

This kind of light is so sacred, but also so cruel and cold.

All pollution and filth in front of it will be invisible, it is so undeniable and irrefutable.There is only one ending waiting for them, and that is to be completely purified.

What was reflected externally was that Calvin's eyes began to emit white-gold light, and the original blue leaves on the dharma ring between his forehead were smudged into a sacred golden color under the fluctuation of spiritual energy.

At this moment, Calvin briefly gave up his human side, and his human characteristics were correspondingly swept away.He will embrace his mission wholeheartedly at this time.He will no longer have human emotions until he gives the final judgment to the blasphemy in front of him.

No mercy!Only anger!And it is not the wrath of mortals!After his soul at this moment has completely embraced order, all that remains is only the cold anger that belongs to order!
Calvin raised his right hand, pointed it lightly at the sky, and clenched it into a fist.A wave of psionic energy centered on him swept across all the terminators present in an instant.

The anchor points left in the minds of the comrades who have been training together all the year round, like a data protocol, instantly communicate with each other's thinking, and the spiritual thinking channel completes the link with all the terminators.

"The connection is complete, the first state, start." Calvin said softly.

Twelve pairs of eyes, twelve brains, twelve weapons, twelve angels of judgment from the Emperor, united at this moment.

The rotting wights and monsters of Chaos are close at hand, but the Gray Knights seem to be gone.

The interceptor teams on both sides also expressed their absolute trust in the Terminator, and continued to focus on guarding the two wings of the Terminator.

The twelve terminators put their weapons in place with both hands in unison, knelt down on one knee, and lowered their heads.Pray to the God-Emperor far away on Terra before the battle.

Their movements are so uniform that in the eyes of mortals, they may not be different from the tacit understanding cultivated by other Astartes through years of ritual.

But in the eyes of the gray knight interceptors who are also Astartes, the dynamic vision far surpassing that of mortals allows them to capture more amazing details while fighting.

Especially in the eyes of the two arbitrators of the team commander, this kind of millisecond-level synchronization is definitely not something that can be achieved through training.

There must be some equipment that they don't know about that has begun to be installed experimentally.

And this team with a higher level of security that they have never heard of is obviously an experimental force for this equipment.

The silent prayer process is quick.When the short prayer was finished, Calvin, the tallest gray knight at the front of the team, stood up in the lead.

He looked at the monsters that were so close that he could already smell the rancid smell, raised the big sword in his hand, turned around and shouted loudly to his comrades behind him:

"I am, the Emperor's Hammer! (we are hammer !)" Then he jumped down and started his first kill.

And the terminators behind him who are of the same body and the same heart as him at this time also follow Calvin's spiritual guidance and call.

While holding their weapons tightly and following Calvin to charge towards the enemy, they shouted battle cries with the same meaning but different content:

"For the Emperor! With the holy Lord of the Titans!"

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