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Chapter 618: The Abilities of the New World Torch
Wang Mengsong watched the battle coldly.

What could he say? He was just an ordinary soldier of the Chapter's Penitent Battalion, the one who led the Chapter to commit serious crimes. What right did he have to speak?
No one will listen.

Wang Mengsong himself was in a very awkward state of mind.

The Alliance was about to surrender, and he had already surrendered, and even on the Fantasy Moon Star, he participated in a crucial backstab against the Fury Legion.

The Alliance wanted to sentence the entire regiment to a penance expedition, and he accepted it. After all, he had committed a crime. Moreover, this penance expedition under the protection of the Alliance was actually no different from a normal situation, and it was not very painful.

The Alliance dismissed him as the Chapter Master, not allowing him to continue to command and lead the Chapter. Instead, they asked him to join the Penitentiary Camp, and he accepted it. Gu Hang would not be at ease with him, which was understandable. Moreover, he asked himself that everything he did was selfless, all for the survival and even development of the Chapter. It didn't matter if he didn't want to be the Chapter Master, and it didn't matter if he was allowed to join the Penitentiary Camp as an ordinary soldier. For the Chapter, he would do anything.

However, what happened next made him start to feel that something was wrong.

The regiment was quickly replenished.

It was so fast that he found it unbelievable!

He was a chapter master who once managed the operation of the entire chapter. He knew better than anyone how troublesome and time-consuming it was to replenish the chapter's members.

The Alliance simply found 800 young people who fully met the requirements for gene seed surgery?

Then in just over half a year, these people completed the implantation of the gene seeds and grew superhuman organs?

The alliance has a big secret!
And he doesn't pretend at all, he just puts it out in the open!
Are these really the cubs of our New World Torch?

He totally doesn't believe it.

There aren't even that many gene seeds!

He also secretly found the regiment's pharmacist, who was also sent to the Penitence Camp with him, and secretly obtained some biological samples of these New World Torches for testing.

He is truly the seed of our own regiment, and there is absolutely no problem with his bloodline.

Moreover, these "new recruits" showed a very strong level of strength. Although they had only been Space Marines for a short time, they were as skilled as the old warriors of the previous chapter, or even better.

The new warband leader named Moretti was particularly outstanding. If such a person had appeared in the warband before, Wang Mengsong would have been ecstatic. The thing he was most worried about all along was that there was no successor to the warband. He himself had barely grown up and was not inferior to the champions of other warbands. However, there had been no newcomers growing up in the warband, which made him quite worried.

But now, the new captain is of very good level, which certainly makes Wang Mengsong feel relieved, but he still feels a little jealous in his heart.

Although he didn't want to admit it, he did have a thought in his dreams: the regiment was full of rookies, inexperienced, and suffered setbacks in operations. As the former commander of the regiment, he was more or less respected and asked for his opinions...

However, this also did not happen at all.

Atonement camp, atonement camp, it’s just as the name suggests, these old people are all guilty.

The new blood of the Chapter, hated them.

He especially hated Wang Mengsong himself.

These new recruits fully accepted their identity as the "Torch of the New World", had a strong sense of honor, and took it as their mission to rebuild the glory of the Chapter. But because of this, the Chapter was regarded as a traitor to the Empire, and even had two extremely bad behaviors of backstabbing friendly forces. After the reputation was ruined, it was normal for the initiator to be hated.

The poor treatment and isolated attitude made Wang Mengsong and others feel very uncomfortable.

Even if it was just like the atonement camps, sending people to the most brutal battles to be consumed as punishment, they might still be able to accept it.

But even these are not there.

The new warriors regarded every battle as a great opportunity to wash away their sins and gain merits, and they wanted to fight every battle beautifully, at any cost. In this case, how could they bear to let the Atonement Battalion go? Wouldn't that bring shame to their own merits!
This feeling of being ignored and marginalized makes them even more uncomfortable.

Moreover, the chapter culture formed among these new recruits is also very... strange.

They have never received any instruction from the old torchbearers on their tactical style, but they have spontaneously developed a fighting and tactical style similar to that of the old torchbearers. This is normal, with the same bloodline and the same seeds, their strengths and weaknesses are also the same, so their tactical styles will naturally tend to be the same.

However, apart from the tactical style, the rest of the chapter culture is really too different.

In the past, the New World Torch was not too particular, and its relationship with mortals was neither good nor bad. The internal atmosphere was relatively friendly, and everyone was polite to each other... However, the new battle group has a very strict internal atmosphere, and everyone has a deep hatred for each other.

Moreover, the Alliance's system was deeply brought in, and the Chapter Priests assumed a role similar to that of the political commissar in the Alliance army. The entire Chapter was very fanatically loyal to the Alliance, believing that they were born with original sin, so all sacrifices were what they deserved.

Such a sacrificial spirit and a strong tendency towards martyrdom are completely different from the New World Torch of the past.

Wang Mengsong also had a lot of opinions about this, thinking that this didn't look like the New World Torch at all. He even sadly believed that the New World Torch was gone, and now there was just a loyal dog of the alliance that had resurrected using the corpse of the New World Torch.

Of course, what he thinks is not important and is meaningless.

He just accepted his fate and followed the regiment in a daze, landing on the surface of Aramita to carry out the mission.

It was a rare opportunity for Moretti to bring them along.

After all, the mission was difficult and important. He had to use all the strength of the regiment, even the Atonement Battalion.

Wang Mengsong was just like an ordinary soldier - oh, he was - fighting with the regiment.

First they forced their way into the space elevator, a step the Alliance agents had already arranged in advance, with help from the local engine oil man.

The next step is to launch a rapid outward attack after the elevator arrives at the star port.

There are three parts here:
First, expand the scale of the battle, attract attention, and create chaos.

Second, capture key areas as much as possible. This point can be combined with the previous point.

Third, behead a Mechanicus Hawk Sage who was managing the starport.

Wang Mengsong was certainly not qualified to handle the third task, so he could only handle the first and second tasks. To be honest, he did a pretty good job.

He and his old brothers from the Redemption Camp killed many enemies and captured several important locations, including a command center, which paralyzed communications between enemies in a large area.

He has completed his mission.

Instead, the so-called elite soldiers of the regiment who were responsible for beheading encountered problems.

The elite of the Mechanicus are not really that easy to deal with.

After the sage reacted, he realized that his own combat strength was there and that the fully armed mechanical sage was not easy to deal with.

At the same time, a large number of elite Crusader troops set up a strong defense line and resisted the attack of the New World Torch.

The second company commander, who was in charge of the command, was obviously furious.

He began to ignore the casualties, and forced the regiment to launch a crazy attack regardless of casualties and losses.

Wang Mengsong couldn't help it, so he led a team over.

He did not participate in the battle. After all, he had not received any orders and could not act on his own.

He could only watch from a distance as the New World Torches died one after another in the dense firepower network of the Crusaders.

The powerful mechas brought by the Knight Titans, in cooperation with the cyborg troops of the Crusader Army, demonstrated strong combat capabilities.

Their lines were constantly being squeezed, and the attack of the New World Torches seemed to have achieved good results despite huge sacrifices.

However, the experienced Wang Mengsong could see that it was intentional on the part of the opponent. They were using space to exchange for the manpower of the Space Marines.

Every step forward for the New World Torch has come at too high a price in blood.

It won’t work to fight like this.

But what to do?

Continue to stand aside and watch?
He thought he could calmly watch these new recruits who hated him die one by one, and it wouldn't matter even if all of them died.

After all, in his opinion, he did not think that those people whose chapter culture and ethos were completely different from the old torches were the new world torches, so what was the big deal if they all died?

Moreover, he had not received any orders. At this critical moment, the second captain did not try to summon the people of the Atonement Camp to help.

Live it!

He thought so in his mind, and every time a New World Torch Warrior appeared in front of him, his eyebrows would raise unconsciously.

In the regiment's communication channel, he heard the roars of these new warriors:

"For the alliance!" Wang Mengsong even sneered at this.

"For the empire! For the emperor!" Wang Mengsong didn't care much about this. The New World Torch has been shouting this for hundreds of years, and he is tired of it.

"For the New World Torch!" Well, that's a little interesting.

"To wash away our sins!" Who are you talking about?
"With my blood, history is made!" This seems to be their new slogan? Is it necessary?

……

With a cold face, Wang Mengsong clenched his teeth.

He still refused to admit that he had made a mistake. After all, if it weren't for his decision, what would the New World Torch look like today? I'm afraid it would have disappeared into history long ago.

If he hadn't joined Tiekai in the rebellion, would Tiekai have let them go? The war situation seven or eight years ago was not what it has been in the past two years. The power of the empire had not yet gathered, and at that stage, with the power of the New World Torch, it would have been certain to die against Tiekai, and the only outcome would have been annihilation.

Well, backstabbing an ally, destroying a chapter, and defeating the first batch of the Inquisition's troops is a bit fucked up...

On the Fantasy Moon Star, although he had done something backstabbing, wasn't that to restore order and to give the Alliance a token of surrender? This couldn't be considered his own sin, right?
Although it ruined the reputation of the regiment...

So what are these young new bloods doing now?

The reason why they are born with so much suffering and the whole atmosphere of the regiment is serious and emphasizes sacrifice is that?

No matter how much he didn't want to admit it, he had to admit it in order to fill the many big holes he had dug in the past.

Why did the New World Torch want to "use my blood to forge history"? Because their past was too shameful.

These shameful things exist no matter how many objective reasons Wang Mengsong has to defend himself.

And now, can he really sit here with peace of mind, watching these younger generations who are different from him and even hate him, go to die one by one?
He slowly raised his hand and connected the communication channel: "We can't fight like this. I suggest you withdraw and rest for a while, leaving some troops here to continue to engage and find other directions for breakthroughs."

"Shut up, traitor, you have no right to speak here."

It is not surprising at all that the second captain, who is already furious, has such an attitude.

Despite being scolded, Wang Mengsong had already made his decision.

"Camp of Redemption, follow me. We need to show those young brats what the New World Torch is really capable of!"

(End of this chapter)