Emperor's Daughter of the Red Sands

Chapter 58 Darkness in the Shadows
"Angels, you created the perfect city, you forged the perfect city...Your possession of her is beyond doubt."

"But... why did you bring destruction to her? Why did you completely destroy your faith?"

The young lady cried to the angel.

The angels just raised their guns numbly, aimed at her, and aimed at everyone behind her.

"Loyalty is more important than faith."

The angel answered softly, though it sounded like a dull growl.

The sound of explosive bombs swallowed all the blank sights.

……

Angor Tai slowly released the trigger, the crisp recoil and the emptying of the magazine indicated that the massacre was over.

He stared at the female corpse whose torso was torn apart by the bomb, and the internal organs were mixed with blood slowly overflowing.

He could clearly see the puzzlement and confusion on the lady's face, and all the believers behind her also died under the same confusion. They seemed completely unable to understand why the perfect city and the word "loyalty" Words make connections.

Yes, why is loyalty more important than faith?

Angel Tai himself was thinking about this question.

He slowly put down the bolter, and looked up at the headless corpse hanging on the highest point of Perfect City.

Angel Tai recognized that luxurious armor.

The former head priest, now the leader of the traitors, Erebus.

Among the Word Bearers, he and First Company Commander Kor Phaeron are the most powerful, and even Angor Tai himself studied with Erebus for a while.

The most regrettable thing is that I didn't realize at all that the chief pastor secretly had heresy beliefs and a tendency to betray the empire.

Otherwise... none of this should have happened.

Looking at the dilapidated buildings and various corpses around him, Angel Tai sighed softly.

"Time to get out of here, sir."

A Word Bearer's voice came over the comm channel, interrupting Angor Tai's sigh.

Accompanying it was a Land Raider, and Angor Tai could clearly see that its thick tracks were covered with plasma and visceral fragments, and the twin laser main guns were also emitting overheated white smoke.

Clearly, horrific massacres are everywhere.

As the commander of the [-]th Assault Company of the Jagged Sun Chapter of the Word Bearers, Angel Tai has to perform far more tasks than this. In fact, in just a few hours, he has personally executed many the lives of thousands of believers.

Although this sense of guilt can't have any impact on the tenacious spirit of the Astartes, the pride of personally destroying the No.17 Legion still makes every Word Bearer feel bad.

Angor Tai returned to his battle brother with heavy steps.

"…Bad mood?"

A Word Bearer came to him.

"...No one is in a good mood, Xia Fen."

Angletai grumbled as he loaded the magazine.

Seeing the sluggish state of this best friend, Xia Fen shrugged slightly: "This is force majeure, we are all forced, brother. No one will know that this kind of thing will happen in the legion."

"Yeah...Force majeure, I didn't know he would do such a thing."

With the hatch of the Rand Raider slowly closing, Angletai's eyes were still fixed on the building where the corpse of the traitor was hanging.

Among all the buildings in the perfect city, only the huge church with the dead body of the traitor was not destroyed-it seems to be a tacit understanding between the Word Bearers, or these Astartes have a deep understanding of the The scarlet figure of the church stood in awe.

And this awe probably comes from the truth told by the Word Bearers who stayed behind in the Perfect City.

"If only I had found out sooner..."

"At the very least, there will be fewer sacrifices."

Listening to Angertai's increasingly tired appearance, Xia Fen frowned more and more.

"Do you know what you're talking about? My brother."

"If you reveal the truth about him...those high priests will never let you go."

Xia En's tone revealed concern. He knew that Angertai had studied with Erebus for a period of time, but after Angertai decided to join the Jagged Sun Warband, the two became more and more distant and parted ways.

In his opinion, such high-ranking priests and company commanders in the legion have the possibility of rebellion, so the lower-level forces don't even need to think about it.

In fact, the whole of the Word Bearers is now in an atmosphere of anxiety - officers who have been close to Erebus and Kor Phaeron in the past have proved their innocence in the most tragic way, and some of them even Resolutely locked himself in the Dreadnought sarcophagus to prove his absolute loyalty to the Emperor.

In the eyes of the emperor, the slight flames of rebellion can almost be called a storm that has swept through all classes in the current No.17 Legion.

Because there are examples like Erebus and Kor Phaeron before, no one can guarantee whether the rest of the officers have the idea of ​​rebellion, and the rights of most officers have been completely taken back by the Primarch. The speaker's ruling structure has changed from the strict and complicated dual-track officer-cleric of the past to a single system with full authority based on the orders of the Primarch.

Even... at the Emperor's behest, command of the operation to destroy the Perfect City had been entrusted to a stranger whom none of the Word Bearers knew.

He was also the one who exposed Erebus's malice and Kor Phaeron's plots.

The Lord of No.12 Legion, Elaine.

According to the Word Bearers who stayed in the Perfect City, since the Lord of the No.12 Legion descended unexpectedly on the Perfect City, she revealed the truth about Erebus's betrayal, and made the head priest public in full view. execution.

At first, none of the Word Bearers believed this truth, and even their Primarch briefly questioned it.

In the beginning, even the few groups of Word Bearers who stayed behind in the Perfect City obeyed her orders, but when she revealed the truth in everyone's hearts, everyone was shocked.

Although most of the Word Bearers expressed doubts about the identity of the Lord of the No.12 Legion, the Emperor's personal statement made them dispel the idea of ​​exploring the truth.

Even though the destruction of the perfect city is full of endless doubts, no one can question the will of the emperor.

Even Lorgar Aurelion, who is also a Primarch, is the same.

……

Beside the gradually cold female corpse, a figure emerged from the shadows.

"Poor Cyrene, poor Cyrene..."

"Your destiny of eternal life has not yet begun, but it has already been destroyed under the order of the tyrant..."

"But your destiny is not over yet... the position of Hand of Fate is still vacant."

"The Great Rebellion must actually take place, and Chaos must be stifled in the doom of humanity."

"And you will be reborn again with a brand new identity..."

"In the name of the Esoteric Cult—in my name, Damon Platanis."

The murmur of his lament was buried in the sound of gunfire, but the darkness in the shadows swallowed the broken female body together.

Until all traces are completely gone.

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