40k: Midnight Blade.

Chapter 152 13. The First Battle ([-])
blood.

The smell of blood is everywhere.Conrad Coates caught the scents with precision, but he didn't let them affect him.

He turned and stepped out of the broken metal gate, where VanCleef handed him a data slate in no time.Curz reached out to take it, but didn't speak.He put his head down and began to read.What appeared on the data slate was a scan, from Nightfall.

Judging from those data, Harkosus [-] is indeed, as the senior traders said, a fully developed planet with only one city.

One of the three leaders of the Burning Fire Chamber of Commerce ruled here. The senior traders did not mention his name, but they all revealed a kind of extreme obedience through trembling tone when mentioning this person.

The interesting point here is that the civilians who accompanied them to Nostramo knew nothing about this so-called leader—they even knew little about the existence of the Burning Fire Chamber of Commerce.

Conrad Curze looked up, and VanCleef peered at his primarch through the eyepiece, awaiting an order.Curz handed the data pad back, but instead of giving an order, he asked a question.

"How's it going?"

"According to the plan, we are gradually taking control of important areas around the minaret." Van Cleef said he was about to say more, but a violent tremor interrupted his words.

Immediately afterwards, there was a terrible roar, and the company commander stabilized his figure, and immediately began to ask in the communication channel.Half a minute later, a discrete hunting team member gave him an answer.

"We blew up an arms depot," he said in a quiet tone on the channel. "These guys even have heavy tanks, sir."

"Got it, get on with your work," VanCleef replied in a calm voice, watching his primarch leave the burning gate.

The scarlet cloak fluttered behind him in the gust of wind.The Stormhawks and transport ships of the Eighth Legion streaked across the clouds, and the screams of civilians came from the streets not far away.Conrad Koz stared at all this in silence, that cold premonition came back again.

He clenched his fists.

Come if you have the guts. He muttered to himself.

There was no fear, no trembling, he had seen Khalil drive them away, and he knew what they were.

He will never run away again.
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Officer Ge-A2-4 could hear a terrible scream. He turned around, and the battle pistol and short knife in his hand were bleeding downward.

He had just executed two weak-willed soldiers, and those who did not draw fire were so vile that they would have turned their backs on its holy family even if they had gained the burning gaze within the steeple.

Officer Ge-A2-4 was furious about this, and his behavior was not contradicted by the soldiers.All those who lead the fire approved of his deed, and the power of the burning fire has blessed them until now.

Until that scream came from the end of the corridor where the lights flickered.

Officer Ge-A2-4 raised his gun and issued an order to the soldiers gathered by him with his combat helmet.

They have to go through that corridor to reach the 49th floor. The minaret has 81 floors in total, and the 49th floor is the middle node.Officer Ge-A2-4 accepted the order to come here to close the energy core, so that all automatic doors below the 49th floor will no longer be able to move.

He knew it wasn't a big deal with monsters that were lightning fast, but they could be killed.

Officer Ge-A2-4's squad had already done this, killing three monsters using four battle droids and an entire squad of 20 as traps.

At this moment, his confidence doubled.Soon, a team of six separated from the team, and they walked towards the end of the corridor.Although the emergency passage of the steeple is narrow, it also provides them with some convenience at this time.

Those monsters have no way to dodge bullets in such a narrow place.

The squad entered quickly, debriefing Officer Ge-A2-4 through their combat helmets that they were making steady progress.Then, within two seconds of the news coming back, another horrific scream broke out again.

Officer Ge-A2-4 shouted, shouting extremely hard, as if wanting to yell out all the internal organs.His soldiers began firing toward the end of the corridor without hesitation.They do not know the specifics of their companions, nor do they mourn their deaths.

Burning fire protects all souls, and no one is afraid of sacrifice in this situation.

The shooting lasted for 20 seconds. Officer Ge-A2-4 raised his hand and made a gesture, and his soldiers immediately stopped firing.The standard magazine for the battle rifle held sixty rounds, so he didn't have to worry about being caught in the middle of a salvo.

But at this moment, a black shadow suddenly rushed towards him.Officer Ge-A2-4 froze for a moment in shock, but fortunately a soldier reacted quickly and immediately pulled him to the other side.

After two seconds, they had time to observe what the thing that was thrown over was.

It's a corpse.

A shattered corpse—only the upper body, the mutilated spine and internal organs hung in the exposed abdominal cavity, and blood continued to overflow.

His battle uniform was completely torn, and only a few broken pieces of the white armor were left hanging on his chest.

His helmet was also torn off, but the burning mark on his forehead disappeared without a trace, and another symbol was carved on his forehead with a blade or something, a weird symbol with a double-headed eagle.

Officer Ge-A2-4 felt a burst of abnormal rage after a short period of fear. He raised his head, wanting to issue an order for the soldiers to advance and catch the scum that dared to desecrate the fire.However, he will never have the opportunity to issue any new orders again.

Because a ghost was standing in front of him, silently, with a cold blue light in the hollow eye sockets.It is so tall and terrifying, so tall that it should not appear in the real world.

Officer Ge-A2-4's sanity collapsed at this moment, he took a step back, he wanted to kneel down, but the mark on his forehead felt hot pain at this moment.Humiliation followed, officer Ge-A2-4 roared and raised his dagger and stabbed at the ghost.

"I admire your actions," said the ghost. "You and Ni's squad have bled the Eighth Legion."

After that, only darkness remained in the world of Officer Ge-A2-4.

Khalil calmly walked over the corpses everywhere—it took him 21 minutes to advance upwards, from the No.12 floor to the No.40 ninth floor.

Not efficient enough, but he killed many Harkosus soldiers on every floor.Considering this matter, it doesn't matter if it is a little less efficient.

His psychic powers still continue to function, in fact, as long as he wears this armor, he will continue to use psychic powers.The memories and names of the dead have thus completely become books that can be read at will. Many of his questions have been answered, but a new question has also been born from this.

One of the leaders of the Harkosus Federation and one of the family leaders of the Burning Fire Chamber of Commerce lived on the top floor of this spire.

He never leaves here, is widely loved, and gives televised speeches or other shows every night at [-] o'clock to spend a good evening with the people on Harkosus [-].

He has been in power for a long time, and many soldiers even grew up watching his show.However, such a friendly leader left nothing else in the memory of all the dead Harkosus soldiers.

No name, no face, no speaking voice.

They call him a leader, but what else?
No more.

Other than that, there is nothing left.

This person seems to exist only in a dream, and every night at seven o'clock, this dream will appear in the minds of the people on Harkosus [-].

It's so interesting.

Khalil looked up at the top of the tower.

When he got here, he could almost guess what was waiting in the darkness—in fact, he used psionic power to detect it once.

He was very cautious, so he only detected it once, and in that time of perception, the thing stayed on the top of the tower, did not choose to leave, and even greeted him leisurely through psychic energy.

Thinking of this, Khalil couldn't help smiling.Under the cloak, there was some kind of rapid friction sound coming alternately.

There are still 32 floors, and he will face the truth. As for whether the truth is as he wishes... Khalil Rohars actually doesn't care.

He was tired of the endless riddles, patience, telling riddles to others, going back and forth between lies and truth.

He was also tired of watching the darkness of those things come and go, infiltrate the Veil, and jeopardize this galaxy of humanity by every means possible.

——Only killing.

The ghosts floated up, but did not go to hell.

　After the update, I had a meal late, sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)