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Chapter 303: The Captured Warlock of Another Dimension (4K)

Several columns of smoke rose from the plains on the northwest side of the Parmenio continent. Those were the burning Leman Russ and Chimaera armored vehicles. The dots of fire looked like patterns on a beige tablecloth, so gorgeous.

All that came out of the intercom was some noise. Yesterday, the headquarters in Delos City had promised that they would send a local planetary defense company from Parmenio to support them while the general offensive was underway. But now the soldiers lying in the trenches like drowned fish no longer had any hope for this.

The so-called reinforcements might never come. After all, Nurgle's Plague Legion has broken through the defense line on the north side of the continent. Under the bombing of those Wither Fighters, the large army has been forced to retreat to the hive city on the southwest side and has not been heard from since.

It is naturally impossible for the Empire's Valkyrie fighter fleet to attack against Nurgle's plague fly swarms and demon engines without position support. If it really did so, the pilots of the fighters would definitely be eaten by those demonic creatures.

Moreover, even if the promised reinforcements could successfully arrive at the front line, all of this would have long been meaningless. After all, the Chaos Space Marines of the Death Guard arrived on the battlefield and successfully occupied the cities and settlements that they were supposed to guard.

Those demigods blessed by the evil god are not comparable to the cultists and plague zombies. The well-trained Astra Militarum companies are powerless in front of those things, and the plastic steel armor of the Chimera chariot is gently pierced like a piece of paper.

In the distance, footsteps sounded like heavy drumbeats. It was a deformed beast as tall as a mountain that could not be described with common sense. To be more precise, that thing was originally a mountain. Under the erosion of Nurgle's evil magic and the power of the warp, the originally lifeless rocks were transformed into pools of twisting flesh and blood, and finally condensed into the deformed creature strolling in the plague plains. How could the command center come to rescue the mere thirteen soldiers trapped in the position under such circumstances?

A young soldier clung to the laser rifle in his hand. The cries of the plague zombies and the wails of his companions tortured by the disease in the past day had almost broken his nerves. He clearly remembered that last night three Lightning fighters that came for reconnaissance were surrounded by a swarm of flies above their positions. The naive pilots wanted to use heat-attracting bombs to drive them away, but they eventually crashed.

Two crew members jumped out with parachutes, but the heat-attracting bombs remaining in the air had already attracted the surrounding plague zombies. With desperate shouts, the two unlucky guys slowly fell and successfully sent themselves into the mouths of the zombies.

The soldier glanced at his companion who was sleeping on his shoulder. Yesterday's bombing had infected him with a deadly plague. Under the bulletproof helmet was a face covered with pus-filled sores that it was impossible to see its original features. Even through the gas mask, he could smell the disgusting stench.

If nothing unexpected happened, the city of Delos would have fallen under the attack of the plague army. Perhaps the fleet in orbit had already left, and the regent and his angels had already abandoned this planet called Parmenio.

"Please bless my soul to return to the throne."

After praying, the tormented young man slowly put the muzzle of the gun to his chin. Just as he was about to pull the trigger, an intermittent voice suddenly came from the walkie-talkie that had been silent for several days. After putting his ear close to it, he could finally barely distinguish a few vague syllables.

"Our armored units are 120 meters away from the position. Prepare to break out."

The noise in the communicator became louder and louder, and gradually, I could only see the poisonous fog slowly rising in the wasteland at the end of my sight. Then, several swollen withering drones suddenly appeared in the rising fog, which was extremely terrifying.

Soon, a row of Leman Russ tanks and Chimera tracked vehicles rushed out from the rear of the position, leaving a neat row of traces on the loose sand. Then the fighter planes from the Empire started fighting with the incoming demon engines at the fastest speed. In an instant, flames and explosions rang out one after another, and the earth shook uncontrollably like a dining table being hammered by a giant.

At this moment, a soldier in the foxhole shouted to everyone with a look of surprise.

"That's the Colonel's troops! They're trying to break out and we have to follow them!"

However, before any action could be taken, a Leman Russ that was trying to cross the trench suddenly exploded less than two meters away from the foxhole. The detonation of the ammunition caused the tank's turret to soar dozens of meters high like a rocket. The violent shock wave caused the soldiers who wanted to stick their heads out to observe the battlefield to fall over. When they got up again, the originally noisy battlefield had become quiet again.

In less than a minute, the wilderness before their eyes had turned into a steel graveyard. In the dim sky, the Valkyrie, which had lost one wing, was spinning and falling. Dense swarms of Nurgle crawled all over the cabin like cockroaches, and finally slammed to the ground together with the fuselage.

The tanks were done, but the battle was far from over. The surviving Astra Militarum soldiers used their flamethrowers to deal with the oncoming plague zombies. A ball of plasma shot out from the foxhole and luckily hit the Death Guards mixed in with the zombies under the watchful eyes of the young soldiers.

The scorching plasma instantly exploded among the zombies, but it failed to cause any damage to the Chaos Astartes. The next second, the soldier operating the plasma cannon received a response from the bolter. The rocket-propelled high-explosive ammunition tore his body apart, turning it into a pool of sticky flesh and blood that covered the land already littered with corpses.

This horrifying scene completely destroyed the last line of defense in the hearts of the young people. Seeing that the army of plague messengers was slowly approaching the position, a soldier in the trench raised the laser gun in his hand and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"We surrender!"

This embarrassed voice echoed in the silent battlefield and soon caused a burst of laughter. However, just as the cultists blessed by Nurgle were about to approach the trench to check the specific situation inside.

next moment
As several silver-white lights flashed by, a large number of iron cans as tall as a person suddenly fell from the air into the battlefield without any warning. At the moment of collision with the ground, wisps of gray sandstorms that could spread on their own were released from the cans.

What both sides didn't know was that the gray-white sand floating in the air was actually a swarm of hungry nano-insects. The moment the nano-machines came into contact with the air, they were activated and immediately began to devour, until all the enemy forces within a one-kilometer radius were completely devoured.

Amidst the huge shock, the transport formation consisting of fourteen Banshee carrier-based aircraft roared through the low clouds, fired a round of missiles to clear out the slow-moving Chaos artillery outside the range of the nanostorm, and then hundreds of elite soldiers wearing fully enclosed power armor, led by two silver-armored knights, jumped out of the cabin at a low altitude of four hundred meters, and with the help of gravity parachutes, landed steadily on the ground surrounded by sand and dust.

It was not difficult to tell from the sword emblems on the soldiers' armor that they were the troops of the Alliance of Ashes. The Astra Militarum soldiers, who were reborn at the arrival of friendly forces, jumped out of their foxholes excitedly. Some of them saluted the Sky Eagle to the oncoming knights, while others excitedly fiddled with the radio trying to inform the nearby besieged troops of the good news.

But what they all didn't expect was that at the moment when the soldier reached out to touch the radio switch, accompanied by a dull gunshot, an electromagnetically pressurized bullet actually shot into his head and destroyed the radio that the soldiers were desperately protecting. Realizing that something was wrong, the soldiers in the foxholes wanted to resist, but at the moment they raised their guns, bullets fired from all directions harvested the lives of everyone on the scene in a few nanoseconds. At the moment they fell, the nanoclusters floating in the air began to devour them at the fastest speed. About an hour later, the battlefield would be restored to a desolate state.

At this moment, a slightly heavy voice came from behind the knight.

"Raphael"

The person who spoke was Michael. Looking at the tragic scene of blood flowing like a river in the foxhole, he felt a touch of indescribable emotion in his heart.

The knight named Raphael just admired from afar the Nurgle behemoth that was being surrounded by a swarm of nano-insects in the distance, and then explained slowly.

"Father told us that this is a secret operation and we must not let anyone know our whereabouts. There is no need to waste energy on such things."

As he spoke, he took out a crystal fragment from the storage compartment of the armor at his waist and handed it to the Alliance soldier who was carrying the detection equipment.

"Begin preparations for the ceremony to awaken the Temple of Time. According to the coordinates father provided, the second temple is near us."

Hearing the other party's relaxed tone, Michael couldn't help but fall into silence.

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After an unknown amount of time, the crystal in the soldier's hand began to flash with a strange light, and suddenly a gorgeously decorated door appeared in the empty plain.

Above the gate is a tree of life carved out of rock, and a uniquely shaped "worm" with its body wrapped around the tree trunk. The same pattern appeared many times during the investigation of the first Temple of Time. According to the explanation given by the AI ​​in the temple, the tree represents the origin of the "Hymn Girls", and the giant worm surrounding the sacred tree is the mysterious "Time Worm".

These are enough to prove that behind the door in front of us is the second Temple of Time. These temples built by the hymn girls tens of millions of years ago are perfectly hidden in a special dimension. Usually, the entrance to the temple can only be opened with the help of soul crystals.

However, according to the intelligence obtained recently, the Black Legion led by Abaddon seems to be looking for traces of these buildings as well. Those people are making maps to steal and master the power of the Worm of Time. In order to stop them, Otto gave this task to Michael a month ago and ordered him to find the remaining four temples before the Black Legion based on the deciphered coordinates and bring back the relics.

"Set up a defense line here and never allow anyone to get close to the gate."

After the genetically modified soldiers at the scene gave the order, Michael and Raphael, followed by an elite Storm Guard, opened a dimensional door that seemed to lead to the realm of gods.

There was a hazy scene behind the door, but just a second before the two were about to step in, a strong sense of incongruity suddenly surged into Michael's mind, as if he had been electrocuted.

"Wait! Something is watching us"

Hearing this, the soldiers gathered in front of the gate instantly went into alert. At the same time, the Banshee formation hovering in the air also began a full-channel scan of the surrounding area. However, as time passed, no expected abnormalities occurred around them.

"We can't stay here for too long."

Faced with Raphael's reminder, Michael, who felt a little strange, finally had to give up. However, shortly after the group entered the dimensional gate, a completely transparent alien warship with a strange shape appeared behind the clouds.

Behind the door was a scene similar to Temple No. 1, an isolated island floating in the air within a space-time rift. The magnificent church, which served as the main building of the temple, was located in the center of the square. However, when the group entered cautiously, the scene that appeared before their eyes really surprised Michael.

Inside the temple was a huge mechanical platform. In the center of the open mechanical structure, in a special tank with a torrent of energy flowing, was a strange individual with a flickering ghost-like figure imprisoned. The moment Michael saw the other party, the uneasiness in his heart became stronger. He could feel that the thing seemed to have noticed him.

"What on earth is that?"

Shortly after the words fell, the artificial intelligence named Vanessa that resided in Michael's armor responded.

"According to the system records, the target is the [Sealed Extra-Dimensional Warlock]. This is one of the most important collections in the Cult of Time and is also a key item used to maintain the existence of the Temple of Time."

"Another-dimensional sorcerer?"

"Yes, it is a dimensional creature captured by the Alliance in the year 2638 of the Star Calendar. Research on this species has enabled the Alliance to gain advanced technology related to space and dimensions. In the Alliance's records, this species has another name."

"Boundary Breaker."

When Raphael heard the name, he was trying to get close to the mechanical device and froze in his tracks. If he remembered correctly, that was the name of another great enemy of the alliance besides the Rectification Protocol that his father Otto had mentioned not long ago.
(End of this chapter)