Warhammer: I am the Hammer of the Empire.

Chapter 256 The Vortex of Destiny

I want to hold fate by the throat, and it will never make me yield.Life is so beautiful, live him a thousand lives!
——————Beethoven
How vast is the void, and only one star region spans several galaxies. The distance that humans could only look at in the ancient Terra era is now only a very short subspace travel. Hundreds of light years are only a few days. There are only a few tens of days if there are more than ten thousand.

But the prosperity and tragedy of the universe are displayed in such a space that has been stretched apart. The gods of chaos tightly hold the fate of people with their silk threads called subspace. Countless people can only dance like puppets on strings. The elites of the empire can clearly understand the reality of the universe, and they attribute it to chaos, disorder and bad natural character, so that they are respectively "evil"...

But when people think that and violence is the only answer to evil, the benefits of the warp can reach their peak. The truth is that malice exists deep in everyone's heart and constantly nourishes the chaotic negative universe.

Therefore, war can't get rid of those monsters, but peace and harmony can. Even if a star area can't make any waves, that peace will never be recognized by the gods.

The strange and evil laughter echoed in the vast space of tens of thousands of light years in the Pangea sub-star region. The empire's belief that the void is its own territory when the warships are stationed in the waterway is meaningless to those non-material cosmic creatures. They only follow their own. The heart, which is also the heart of all intelligent beings in the entire universe, stirs up extremely vicious emotions.

In the void space outside Skadi, countless mechanical priests tried their best to empty their homes, and then used the building templates of the dark technological age to quickly modularize and form a not-so-large void space station. It looks like a piece of metal The disorderly Rubik's Cube, large and small ships in and out of its interior.

This iron-cast world is the Lord of Skadi's best credit and shelter for the turbulent universe. Those who were once displaced and desperate can come here to work, and those who are frightened and precarious are proud to be protected here. , the heart of the entire star region began to beat slowly.

The joy and sorrow are mixed. On Skadi, the lord looked at the report in his hand. During this period of time, the pirate attacks not only did not decrease, but intensified. People couldn't help but doubt the origin of those pirates. With the help of the high mobility of the space fighters, Alan Baier quickly began to call the staff to measure the situation.

But this time the opponent was clearly prepared, and the pirates' routes could not be fixed, and Alan Bayer realized almost instantly that the opponent had a detailed study of his strategy...

His complicated thoughts quickly grasped the contradiction of the situation, old rival?No, those guys are almost dead, do you have any information?Inside Skadi?Or inside the star area?

The immediate battle situation should not be so easy to leak out. The secrecy within the empire is not a vegetarian, but if the enemy is inside the empire, and has financial resources and personnel, he can also bribe the clerical profession, and it is not impossible to obtain battlefield information.

Lord Skadi only used data and intelligence for a period of time to get a rough idea of ​​the situation, but it was only a guess. For the enemy's orderly counterattack, he often used many tactics, such as letting the Imperial Guard warships jump gangs and three-point ranging , but such tactics are often used by other troops.

He can only be sure that a brand-new haze has appeared in this star region. Will this long-war-torn place be dizzying to welcome a new war before it reveals the light behind the dark clouds?

"Emperor, why are you so cruel, or are the monsters in the warp still showing hope for the empire's way to the solar sector?" he murmured to himself.

Alan Bayer fumbled for the holographic strategic star map in front of him. From a recruit who knew nothing to a hero commanding the Imperial Guard, he has experienced a lot. If he looked at this thing a few years ago, he must be confused?
It's just that the current Lord of Skadi will not be confused anymore. Now that the storm of fate is sweeping again, he must also make any preparations for disasters.

Soon, orders were issued to increase military supplies, increase the frequency of border patrols, factories to produce at full speed, and expand the scope of food cultivation in Skadi and recycle commercial energy. There are also cases in Skadi that require soldiers to train more. Most people can taste the feeling that the mountain rain is coming, and that is not good.

A few days later, the canteen was overcrowded due to additional training. The recruits Katachan who had just completed the special training of Katachan had undergone a long training. Adventurers, or aliens born on the outer front of the hive city, lingering in the filthy blizzard.

Those brutal experiences pushed them forward and brought them a lot of success, but unlike real forest warriors, they did not have the thick and dark muscles, nor did they have the inheritance of the Catachan blade. After contacting the Ministry of Military Affairs, except The Sergeant Chief and his active-duty Catachan team of about 20 people who are serving, those blades were all recovered by Catachan's exclusive military department.

In order to show those forest spirits and praise their sacrifices for the empire, Catachan soldiers not only have a set of exclusive troops, but also have the right to recover the relics of the Catachans, which belongs to the culture of the world to which they belong, and the Sun Lord also Can't be disobedient.

It can be said that the Catachans trained today are no longer children of the forest, but the special historical crystallization of this ice planet. They need a new name, but there is no war that belongs to them to name them. .

And the Master Chief, who was able to rest early as an instructor, was chatting with the Laitlin boy who was cooking the food in the cafeteria about the recent messy things. The actions during this period made the Skadi troops who enjoyed the rare peace already ready to move, but they did not Know who the enemy is and where it comes from.

Soldiers outside kept shouting and training, and Raitlin just used it as a soundtrack to stir the boiler. The aroma was overflowing, thick oil and smoke, and the big wooden spoon was stirring in the rich soup, and the thick sticks hung on it. The sauce, the spoon still has a lot of messy food scales stuck on it.

The Raitling man muttered. "It's going to war again. I enjoy the present life. I can cook and chat with women, but it's very complicated. I also look forward to the day when I use a sniper rifle to blow the enemy's head. I just hope that the days of the army will end and I will be hungry every day. "His point of view is as plain and true as ever.

Sergeant Catachan sat down at the table and answered. "War is the way to survive, we have no choice, the emperor will protect us to win, and we just need to do our best, and the current situation of the enemy is not clear, strategic actions are just fine-tuning the internal environment..."

He said this to comfort himself, he was not escaping from the war, but he did not want this place that had just started to be involved in destruction, nor did he want his hometown to become a wasteland.

He picked up a drink and gurgled to vent his damn dissatisfaction, because they all knew that death and war could not escape in this universe.

For a while, apart from the sound of stirring pots and bowls, the whole cafeteria only had the slight sound of swallowing. The silence was terrifying, as if it wanted to take away people's souls.

The horror of war can only be understood by those who have experienced it. It is the veterans of Skadi who are timid about the violence, those organized "individuals" called civilizations who understand the "violence" of another civilization.

That kind of power is terrifying and irreversible for individuals, so even those decision makers will be sucked into it, but at the end of forty thousand years of this dark human civilization, this is almost inevitable.

This kind of silence was not broken until a young man in military uniform walked into the cafeteria. The second lieutenant sat next to Sergeant Catachan, and Sergeant Catachan naturally handed over the drink and muttered. "Attracted by the wind of war, come to find comrades in arms to keep warm?"

The second lieutenant looked at the veteran who was almost middle-aged. "Next is our time, right..."

"By the way, for a change of mood, Arkady and I are engaged."

"Engagement?" Kid Raitlin became interested, and the Master Chief also stopped the wine glass in his hand to munch on the name, feeling familiar, and then shouted. "Arkadi? Captain Kellys Arkadi?! Captain Fraxia?"

The second lieutenant nodded and said. "During this period, she is applying for discharge from the army, and I guess the ownership of the Fraxia 113 regiment may be assigned to my name."

"Ha, congratulations, but Lieutenant General Alan Bayer may indeed do this. He really doesn't like power. Although he is capable, it's okay to share a lot. When will the wedding be held?" The younger generation asked, and realized that this was a happy event for the entire Skadi, and it also meant that the Skadi Fourth Infantry Regiment was going to be happy.

For the legendary Legion of Miracles who was once the only one, who later erased the shame and revived their hometown, their experience was so rich that all their personnel retired. Those complicated battle experiences were enough for the empire to respectfully arrange for those heroes to serve as PDFs in the Garden World.

But if you leave now, is there still a place for the entire universe to live?They've lived through despair, hope, regression, too many terrible things, and too much lingering honor, and in the end, veterans don't die, they just wither.

When those tragic fates weigh on those poor people's bodies, the value of this wedding will also increase accordingly. Although it is distorted to use one's life events to boost morale, this is an empire.

There is nothing better than the blessings offered by the soldiers, and nothing is sweeter than victory. If failure turns everything into hell, then no matter how good things are, there is no need for them to exist.

So Master Chief Catachan smiled wryly and just said. "I know someone who used to make invitations for nobles. The food for the banquet can be dealt with by the Leitlin kid. I hope you can afford it!"

"It's a heavy responsibility, but thank you..." The second lieutenant sighed, the pressure came to him, and Sergeant Catachan patted him on the shoulder at this moment. "This is the joy of the entire 113th Regiment and the [-]th Regiment of Fraxia. Don't show a bitter expression, my brother."

The second lieutenant showed a complex expression that flashed away. Why didn't he know what his wedding would represent at this moment, but no one can escape in the vortex of war, and this incident came during the noisy meal time of Catachan soldiers. In the smelly skin and sweat of people, it was dissipated for a short time.

Only the sound of food swallowing and everything people need to survive maintains the most basic things, just like the essence of this dark universe, but human nature also makes human beings do all kinds of things beyond desires and instincts, this is the bright light of the Emperor The source of it is also the only lighthouse in this dark universe.

And Skadi's brightest light source is probably the Sun Lord, no, the former Sun Lord himself.

Alan Baier pays attention to most of the situations in this world, and also maintains those clumsy and stupid balances. He dare not think about how this place will be without him, but at the same time, he must also think about the future. He is not a great person. Just do your best.

He walked anxiously in the office, and the once precious relic gun had been put in the drawer and was about to rust. Although the technology of the Dark Ages was not like that, he casually thought, can he still afford to command a war?A covert, a terrible war?

Then he began to comfort himself, those things would not come, it was just that his thoughts were too complicated and he could not get out of those deaths and pains, and soon he settled down relying on the psychological quality trained on the battlefield, those killings, explosions Don't kill him.

Ghosts and snakes didn't see him breaking his heart. Even after witnessing demons and subspaces, his will was still like the edge of a sword, and he didn't retreat. Some people commented that if the Lord of Skadi was a psyker, then the empire might have one more power. Alpha class!

But the reality is that that kind of "gift" did not fall on him, and he didn't like it, and he didn't pray for it. He only needed peace and tranquility in his life.

The irony is that the entire universe does not change anything because of one person's heart, but it will open the door to the appeal of the entire group. This is not only the source of the suffocating fear of the endless void, but also the most romantic nightmare in this world. .

Just like the joke the emperor made to those who worked hard, the exclusive warship of the Inquisition landed from the void, and the news brought on it was not good, but it represented that the entire universe was once again exposed to the cold world of Skadi. tusks.

Inquisitor Nova jumped down from the transport plane lightly, the war engine was roaring, as if expecting the storm to come, and the thread of fate was gradually pulling all the people still living in this universe in the looming operation of the subspace.

At the same time, those things buried deep in the nightmare have moved one step further from the void to the real existence. Among the countless creeping grotesques, one day, right and wrong will choose between the light of the emperor and the death brought by the devil. One, will this world continue in the victory of mankind, or will it be destroyed in the wild laughter of demons...

It's just that the ending is not friendly, so all the Skadi people can do is enjoy the present...

(End of this chapter)