Warhammer 40: Gods Of Mortals

Chapter 263 Gifts
The battle continues.

The weepers were placed in a safe place by Dante to rest.

Foros and the captains of the Lamenters followed Dante to the meeting hall.

After entering the chamber, Dante walked towards the throne and sat down. He looked tired, and his heavy and dull breathing came from under the golden mask.

Foros first saluted Dante, then looked around the entire meeting hall and saw many senior officials of the parent regiment and the generals of the Astra Militarum.

Mephiston, chief think tank director of the Blood Angels, Kobulo, the high-ranking Holy Blood Priest, and Durst, the general of the Astra Militarum, a senior member of the Battle Sisters.

At this time, the door opened, and the Blood Angels First Captain Karan and the Chapter Masters of other Chapters came.

After looking around, Foros' eyes focused on Durst, and he found that this man's eyes were purple.

"Thank you for coming to support the mother planet." Dante's voice was rich and vicissitudes of life, slightly trembling, which made Foros even more sure that he was injured.

"This is due..."

"Are you from Cadia?"

Just when Foros was about to respond to Dante's thanks, Dust on the side couldn't help but interject.

Foros looked at Dust.

The Astra Militarum general was desperate.

"Yes." Foros nodded.

"What's going on with Cardia now?" Dust asked anxiously.

Foros said calmly: "Cardia is still standing."

"Ah...praise the throne...praise the God Emperor..." Dust took a long breath, and the stone hanging in his heart fell.

Durst is a Cadian. When he led the Astra Militarum to deploy in the Hades system for defense, there was a war going on in Cadia.

Due to unclear astrology communication, Duster had no idea what was happening over there. He only knew that Cadia was being attacked by the Chaos fleet, and that the Cadia fleet had been annihilated, and the homeland was in danger.

"I went to Hades." Foros looked at Dante, "There..."

"The place has fallen," said Dante.

Of course, Foros knew that the Hades galaxy had fallen, but he wanted to know how it fell and why the ocean on his home planet Hades III was gone.

Dante could read Foros's thoughts, and he slowly explained everything that had happened so far.

Before Baal was attacked, the Hades galaxy was the battlefield.

The Hive Fleet emerged from the Radiant Shield and was naturally frozen. Then the Imperial Navy fleet guarding Hades approached the frozen biological battleships, preparing to kill them.

At this time, all the biological warships revived and annihilated the navy in one fell swoop.

Dust and the nuns defended themselves against the swarm of insects that landed, but in the end the defense failed, and the head nun was assassinated by a Dukat.

The war in the Hades galaxy awakened a Necron army. They cooperated with humans to deal with the swarm. Through a series of battles, they detonated the devices used to collect solar energy in the galaxy, releasing shock waves that affected every planet.

But the Hades galaxy still didn't hold on.

At this point, Dante paused for two seconds and continued with a heavy heart: "I can only focus on guarding Baal. In order to create an isolation zone where the insect swarm cannot feed, I ordered the fleet to attack all the obstacles on the road where the insect swarm must pass. The planet is subject to an extermination order.”

Kripman Tactics - that's the term that comes to mind.

This is a tactic created by Inquisitor Kripman, who originally fought against the swarm, which is to impose an extermination order on the planets on the route of the swarm and create an isolation zone where the swarm cannot obtain biomass.

But if this tactic is successful, the swarm should change direction, so why is Baal still under attack? "The swarm is still here. They would rather cross the isolation zone to attack." Dante's tone revealed exhaustion and helplessness. "They seem to be here to seek revenge."

"So I conclude that the swarm is not a group of creatures driven by hunger instinct. There must be something commanding them, and this thing is angry that we have thwarted every attack it has in the past. It has come to seek revenge." The chief think tank on the side said Mephiston took over.

After listening to what the two said, Foros nodded silently.

"What happened in Cadiana?" Mephiston suddenly asked, "The Eye of Terror was shrunk, right?"

Foros nodded: "The Black Stone Obelisk has been activated, and the spiritual energy in the galaxy has been curbed... There is a traitor named Typhons. His body is rotten but he can move normally. After the Black Stone Obelisk is activated, he becomes handicapped. There is no power to restrain a chicken.”

"Sure enough." Mephiston nodded thoughtfully, recalling something that happened before.

Baal faces not only the swarms of insects, but also the demons of Khorne.

A great Daemon of Khorne named Ka'banhar tried to penetrate the warp and enter the real universe, and Mephiston led all the think tanks to try to stop it.

When Kabanha was about to come to reality, the structure of the real universe seemed to be strengthened, or it could be said that the spiritual energy "ebbed", and Kabanha failed to come out anyway.

While Mephiston was thinking, Foros observed Dante and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Dante didn't answer immediately, and took off his mask after taking two breaths.

Foros saw Dante's true appearance for the first time, and it was different from what he imagined.

Behind the mask is not an energetic man, but an old man with gray hair and an old face. His eyes are firm and strong, but he still looks a little weak due to the influence of his body.

"I'm injured." Dante put the mask on his knees and leaned his back on the throne. "A Licat came out from under the fortress and wanted to destroy the void shield. I was a step late."

Dante said as he became agitated and an angry look appeared on his face.

"The place where the bugs came out is the container where the recruits are. Those recruits were killed by the bugs before they started their path to glory."

"I was also injured in the battle."

Listening to these words, Foros lowered his head and observed a moment of silence for the recruits.

The new recruits are not all alive and kicking right off the bat; they have to stay in the container for a while.

The new bloodline of the Blood Angel may not have opened its eyes, or may not know what happened, but it was dragged away by the insects and turned into biomass... This incident made Foros angry.

"Damn bedbugs." Dante's hand tightly grasped the armrest of the throne. "The place where anti-radiation drugs are produced in the Hades galaxy has fallen. Even if we win this war, it is impossible to restore Hades to its original state."

After hearing this, Foros felt that Dante was even a little optimistic.

People in the Scarlet Scar sector rely heavily on anti-radiation drugs. The origin of the drugs has been destroyed. Not only the Hades galaxy, but the entire sector, whether it is a planet that has fallen or not, will not be able to continue to maintain it in the future.

Mortals without anti-radiation drugs are bound to die sooner or later.

"Can I ask you to join the defense plan?" Dante asked.

The Blood Angels Chapter Master was as humble and kind as rumored, and even used the word "please".

"It is our duty to guard Baal." Foros nodded, and then talked about another thing, "I did not come directly from Cadia. Before I came, I went to the Tyrone star region and brought some Lords of Tyrone. one's gift."

The new Sister who was present when she heard about the Lord of Tyrone looked unhappy because she had heard of this sector and knew that they were a group of heretics.

"It can be seen that the Lord of Tyrone is very generous to you." Dante glanced at Foros's armor, "What is his gift?"

Foros slowly raised his hand and held up three fingers: "Terminator armor and supporting weapons and equipment that are enough to arm three full battle groups."

(End of this chapter)