Warhammer: Start with a dog.

Chapter 546 Kaul: I always feel a subtle sense of loss -
The Elysion Stonehenge is an ancient monument that has existed on the surface of Cadia for as long as every Cadian can remember.

According to the research of the Mechanicus, its actual history exceeds the total age known to mankind. The reason why it is not considered a naturally formed wonder but a huge landscape built by an ancient intelligent race is that the Black Rock Tower here has a size that is impossible for nature to create: although each design is different, the ground height of each tower is exactly 500 meters, and the underground part must be 250 meters. There are also extremely small tunnels in its core, which are only as wide as a human head. The length of the tunnel inside each tower is also 250 meters according to the research of the Mechanicus over the years. But it is difficult to obtain more information: because the results of the auspicious scans of them are always blurred or severely shielded, and attempts to enter the tunnels using modified servitors or other methods will eventually lose contact and be unable to return.

Moreover, there are more than 7,000 of them, 5,810 of which have been discovered. They are not evenly distributed on the surface of Cadia, and some have even been buried for many years and no one knows about them. But there is only one place where their density is the highest, and that is a place that these commanders who have already memorized the war zone map think of: the Elysien Stonehenge.

The ruins of this ancient Black Stone Tower, which is densely packed with all kinds of mysterious rules that no one knows about, is located in the north of Krave Castle, close to the place where the Dark Angels fell. Earlier, the Iron Wolf Company of the Space Wolves tried to ambush the mysterious Iron Warriors armored forces that landed here. Of course, Lord Gao Gang has noticed that in the military situation map given by Mercury, the opposite side is missing an entire armored force, and the number of friendly armored forces that are fighting bravely and defending the south wall and the southeast corner is as if there is a slight coincidence with the number of those wonderful, ancient sacred war machines. But after observing the defensive situation of the southern wall for a while, the old wolf decided to keep silent for the time being.

——Our command center is openly equipped with the Demon Champion sent in by the Inquisitor's envoy as the main thinker. At this time, we are still worried that the missing Iron Warrior was not caused by a clever wild wolf. Moreover, now that he is here, some units of the Iron Wolf Dalian have been quietly deployed on the top of the southern city wall. As long as someone dares to show any unusual movement that is harmful to the empire or... A cold light flashed across the Wolf Lord's eyes.

The wolf priest Asge Tieya's somewhat vague but clear warning to obey orders came to his mind again. Gao Gang waited patiently for the next combat assignment. There were still many fronts and places that needed to be adjusted and supplemented, but finally he waited for what he wanted to hear most.

"Regarding the reinforcements from Sven Bloodhowl's Firehowl Great Company and the 13th Cadia Guard Regiment," the 13th Primarch's amber eyes turned towards the projection of one of the fleet commanders, "what does the commander of the Iron Hands think of this?"

"We have sent a team of Dreadnoughts and Special Terminators via Stormbird to meet them. The calculations have been completed, and the next report will begin in 200 seconds."

Although they did not quite understand why the Primarch's Saint required them to convert the two unpainted ships taken out from the two Mimir vaults into the Glorious Queen class, and also restored the name of the flagship to the old legion era, and required Cardan Stunnus to command, but he said that he would support "that one" to perform a special mission, but this was not something the Iron Council and the Iron Ten warriors should consider now.

Now that Ferrus Manus has returned among them in the form of a saint, and has proven himself with his outstanding, overwhelming calculation and combat power and his powerful control over the Gorgon Fortress and the Hall of Conquest of each clan, then all the clans of Medusa should put aside all confrontations and simply carry out the orders of the Gene-Father - although they once had doubts and were often filled with concerns about the recurrence of the Gaudia incident, Cardan now admits that the Medusans really need the return of their Primarch, and everything, everything began to get better. The always discordant voices disappeared, and the people and warriors began to work towards new goals and hopes, just as Cardan and his master Malkan Ferrus had once worked hard and expected.

Once, seeing the danger lurking beneath the Iron Hands' increasingly extreme creed of flesh and blood, they worked secretly for hundreds of years to reunite the various Chapters and clans, and to counter the influence of the Voice of Mars, but when the Primarch truly returned, the priests of the Mechanicum alone were unable to resist him.

Within a single day, several Mimir vaults were opened, and the Gorgon Forges and other ancient large-scale facilities began to refill with energy and resume true peak operation, and began self-inspection and repair at an astonishing speed.

Thirty-six hours after the Gorgon Forge confirmed the command authority of the Saint of Ferrus and the Iron Hands as a whole confirmed the return of the Primarch, the Medusa System, which they had once had to divide with the Mechanicus in order to gain support after the Primarch's death, had fallen completely back into the control of the Iron Hands.

Then came a series of "highly dramatic" events and adjustments... There were also several twists and turns and misunderstandings that almost caused serious consequences, but at least they finally waited for the moment predicted by Iron Calculation and Ferrus, and arrived here in time. In this case, let the world see the brilliant results that they have been quietly brewing in the Medusa Galaxy for a long time!
That is... The Iron Hands commander's mechanical eyes unconsciously focused on Honsou and Mercurius who were sitting at the conference table. Although he had been informed in advance that these were the new masters of the battlefield, Cardan Stunus, who had served as the war leader of the Iron Council (roughly equivalent to the head of the regiment) for five hundred years, still tasted something unusual - what kind of demon body could have a computing speed faster than the Iron Hands' proud computing sage team?

He sent the meeting content and other data to the Primarch Saint and his companions who were active elsewhere according to the agreed frequency and report. Soon, a reply came, "If it is confirmed that the person present is Hong Suo in the pharmacist power armor, then he can be identified as a friendly force. Keep in touch."

"A team of Holy Dreadnoughts and Terminators? No ordinary Astartes?" Mercury once again raised the question in a tone that did not match his appearance. "Although tactical Dreadnoughts and Dreadnoughts are indeed powerful weapons for fighting in the cabin passage, isn't their speed unfriendly to evacuation and support? If any of them are lost on the Chaos side, it will be a huge blow to us and an act of aiding the enemy."

——You guys are too rich. Who would use a whole team of these soldiers for boarding? Aren't you afraid that they will all die on the board or that the enemy will become greedy and directly jump into the subspace and take them away, thus enriching the enemy?
"Please rest assured." The war leader's voice was a little hoarse. He had just received some limited rehabilitation measures for his trachea and internal organs that were severely damaged in the battle. "Our Dreadnoughts and Hell Terminators have absolute experience and advantages in this regard." He turned his gaze to Owen Gao Gang, "We will bring them back safely."

Captain Krahl of the Dark Angels coughed loudly for everyone to hear, much like the sound of someone trying to curse or stop laughing. The Space Wolves, who had witnessed and heard more than once about the chances and numbers of hostages or rescue targets dying in Iron Hands rescue operations, had a clear expression on their faces: "The teeth of the All-Father! The Iron Hands will kill all living things they see in order to win! Can someone else send a team to look for Blood Howl?! Russ! Help us!"

"The Iron Hands will bring them back alive," Cardan promised again, but the effect was counterproductive. The High Wolf Lord seemed to be preparing to recite Fenris's elegy for Sven Bloodhowl.

"Don't worry." Mercury took the time to calculate and comforted Owen Gaogang, "The success rate is still very high. Then, let's start making arrangements to leave the Clough Fortress and shift the focus of defense to the Elysian Stonehenge. I have completed the first phase of arrangements and sent them to the data tablets in your hands. I suggest that they be implemented immediately, because according to my calculations, Abaddon will launch a focused or decapitation attack on this area at any time. I assume that he has a detailed map relying on the intelligence department. Judging from the overall situation, the probability is very high."

Creed and the other Cadian officers looked a little gloomy.

"Ah, look, look, this body that the Unliving One possesses is actually the wisest and calmest being here!" Cawl said admiringly, "An organized and decisive way of handling each matter, matrix thinking! We should start moving now! I will let my branch of the Crusaders keep up!"

"Oh, wait, we must leave enough defenders on the city walls." The Demon Champion frowned at everyone's surprised gazes. "The Clave Fortress has taken in almost all the surviving refugees in the surrounding area in the past few weeks. We can't just abandon the fortress and leave them to the enemy."

"The Emperor!" Sister Sylvania exclaimed. "He's still thinking about refugees!"

"Unbelievable!" Baron Lewan exclaimed. "Refugees and paupers!"

"Sometimes I do sigh for the whole fact of the universe we live in." Creed said lightly. Sergeant Kyle quietly reminded his superior again. "Why does this feel more and more like a slight sense of déjà vu..." Shangtuo muttered.

Hong Suo glanced coldly at his colleague.

"What's wrong?" Robert Mercury Guilliman looked up in confusion. "As Cadia's allies, we can't just walk away, right? At least we can give them hope of holding out until the end of the battle. I will integrate all the forces and complete the new deployment and defense preparations for the new position within a minute."

"Where did you get the map of the Erichen area?" Creed bit his cigar and stared at the tall demon champion and his crown.

"I just passed by the pile of maps and flipped them open, glanced at them and memorized them."

"My God." Creed sighed, "If you can prove to be reliable, I am willing to trade all my secretaries and staff for you."

Then he saw the Demon Champion seemed to be amused and laughed, in a very human way.

The High Castle Lord's eyes widened again, but he also smiled.

It was the Master of Pharmacy who finally put an end to the buzzing noise at the conference table.

——Because his Thirteenth Uncle turned his gaze to him again, and the Master of Potion noticed that the red light began to linger around the curved crown again.

Hong Suo, take out the good treasure you used before!
"Of course." He sighed mentally exhausted, and announced to the Archmagos Belisarius Cawl and Magus Klan, whose eyes were beginning to become bright and sharp, that he would provide protection with a "reliable all-round field generator", so they could leave a part of the inner guard to cooperate with the scattered Space Marines to be responsible for the defense of the city walls, and the White Shield Corps composed of Cadian teenagers aged twelve to sixteen would assist in internal security, and the shield generator of the city fortress would also be kept on.

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And when the vanguard troops among these troops, except for the armored regiment, knights and nuns who had to stay on the ground for defense and those who could enter the underground of the Stonehenge of Elysiane, entered the deepest part of the Stonehenge and the most densely packed part of the stone towers, they found that there was no problem at all with Mercurius's deduction and calculation.

The vanguard encountered a torrential fire attack from the elite troops of the Black Legion in the dark and winding rock tunnel.

The traitors used landing craft and teleportation to arrive here before the Cadian Allies, and in order to avoid the saturation orbital fire attack from the Phalanx, Enterprise and other ships on the ground, they quickly entered the underground cave and were heading towards the cave part of the core area - the spectacular black stone towers also revealed their ten-story main bodies in the underground cavity, and the huge ancient tunnel system connected the hall-like caves that were more than ten meters or even thousands of meters high.

As they began to track the invaders, they heard dull, distant bombing sounds coming from the earth. As the sound stretched for dozens of kilometers like a giant dragon rolling past, many small fragments fell from the rock above their heads.

"Are they trying to tear this place down in advance with this kind of firepower?" Creed complained. "It sounds like there's no need for the Big Predator to do anything."

Mercury was walking beside him. They were walking at the back of the team. Many mechanical devices held up by anti-gravity sleds were still connected to the demon. He blinked when he heard the words. Countless real-time data points were captured from hundreds of different communications, discretely aggregated into a curve passing through the ever-changing crown on his head. "The Combined Fleet has just requested an expanded orbital strike on the Black Legion landing area to cut off their reinforcements to keep our retreat open. I provided the corresponding coordinate grid."

"Okay. I hope Archmagos Cawl is as genius as he says he is, and can fix these damned antique stones and make them counter the Eye of Terror."

"If we can really counter it, then we may not have to fight so many Unlifes in all the wars we fight here in the future. It will be a lot easier, and that's a good thing." Kyle said.

"No, Kyle." Creed took a bite of the deflated cigar in his mouth, but it would be unwise to light it in the underground tunnel.

"War, no matter what it is, is never a good thing."

(End of this chapter)