The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Although they destroyed the small sentry guns deployed by the enemy, the Second Company did not rush in. Instead, they threw twenty plasma grenades with adhesive capabilities—they were not worried about damaging the passages inside, because the Mechanicum used extremely high-strength alloys when they built the steps of the Crimson Temple.

With a flash of azure light from the entrance, two rockets flew out from inside, but they were wildly inaccurate, obviously fired by the shooter's subconscious trigger pull before death. More rockets exploded inside.

Three warriors holding boarding shields were the first to enter, followed by Terminators, using the height difference to form a fully covered firing range. Second Company Captain Wang Rajic was one of the Terminators.

As soon as they entered, they were met with thick smoke. The steps on the walls were covered with scorch marks and dried bloodstains, and pieces of limbs were scattered everywhere. Before they had gone a hundred meters down, he heard movement.

"Grenade, side door at the corner ahead."

At his command, one of the three shield-bearers in the first row took out a grenade, activated it, and threw it.

With a bang, screams mingled with curses, and then several Genestealers, armed with lasguns, rushed out and began to fire at the White Templars Second Company squad, but their bolter fire immediately killed them. However, the chaotic footsteps also indicated that more enemies were rushing over.

"Put it here."

At the top of the temple, under Sotha's instructions, a Stormbird carrying a huge teardrop-shaped machine resembling a drop pod slowly placed the device on a flat area, then deactivated the gravity traction device.

Immediately afterward, a Tech-Marine of the White Templars stepped forward and began to operate the device.

A dozen seconds later, with the fixing claws firmly locked onto the ground, a disposable, high-powered melta cutter at the bottom of the device erupted with intense force, directly burning through the thick floor slabs and bricks, all the way down for more than a hundred meters. The viscous, molten material flowed like magma, transmitting a muffled roar throughout the Crimson Temple.

The prototype of this device was the large void claw pod. Wise Man Ulan Hudah improved this high-accident-rate drop device, turning it into a "can opener" capable of breaking through solid fortifications from above, especially the improvement of its melta cutter, increasing the power and compressing it, similar to a high-powered melta cannon, but it could only be used once in a short period of time.

Soon, a passage was formed. The five hatches of the breaching machine opened, and Sotha was the first to step into one of them, then jumped down—

Boom!

The moment he landed, the huge shockwave blew away a dozen figures lurking in the darkness. Then, he reached out and grabbed the claws reaching towards him from above, gently snapping them off as if breaking a branch.

Amidst painful screams, purple pus splattered on the ground, and Sotha raised Skyfire to cut open the alien creature's internal organs.

The corpse of a purestrain Genestealer became his first blood of the day, and also the first blood he had personally drawn in a long time.

In the continuous sound of falling, the Dehkhani Terminators appeared around Sotha one by one. As soon as they landed, they immediately engaged in battle, using dense bolter fire to kill groups of ugly creatures waving crude weapons and constantly jumping and running.

Even in the face of the towering Angels of Death, these hybrid aliens showed no fear. They just chattered, screamed, and roared. No matter how many of their kind were slaughtered, they would not retreat half a step.

The hum of power weapons and the shriek of bolters echoed the alien screams and roars. When the Terminators unleashed their combi-weapons inherited from the ancient Legions, the dark hall burst into a blinding light, then boiled the air inside. Rows and rows of Genestealers burned with fierce flames, and screams came from all directions.

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The massacre went smoothly, but the warriors did not stay here. They followed Sotha's steps and began to move forward. When five steel cables slid down, soldiers from other companies also began to enter through this fast entry point.

The internal structure of the Crimson Temple appeared on Sotha's arm. As he walked, he began to assign tasks.

"Third Company, go and occupy the Force Sanctum, control the energy output, and be careful to protect the facilities. Fourth Company, sweep the Regulation Shrine and the Chamber of Sacred Voices. Fifth Company, go and control the Monitoring Shrine and the Subsystem Control Station. Second Company, after completing the breakthrough, control the void shield reflector and the fixed weapons control center."

In the process, he never forgot to move towards his goal. The Terminators surrounded him, and as they walked through the tall and wide corridors, dense bullets kept firing from both sides.

The Genestealers desperately wanted to prevent these terrifying giants from approaching their target—the Cogitation Chapel where the Patriarch was located. They took out all their weapons, heavy machine guns, lasguns, and various rockets and explosives.

But all of this was as powerless as children throwing stones at giants in front of the high wall formed by the Dehkhani.

And even more terrifying was that the Dehkhani Terminators gathered together to form a huge, mobile void field. These aliens, who relied on their minds to communicate with each other, instantly seemed deaf and blind, lost their command, and could only fight instinctively in fear.

When they were still more than three hundred meters away from the target, more powerful aliens joined the interception. Some of them were hybrid Acolytes, with three asymmetrical, strong arms, who could easily wield heavy chainswords and rock grinders like clubs, using these simple but extremely destructive civilian machines to cut enemies in half.

In addition, there were also purestrain Genestealers running fast in the darkness, numbering in the thousands.

They swarmed in from all directions, vowing to tear apart the person threatening the Patriarch with their claws.

The First Company was quickly surrounded by a tidal wave of aliens. Their combi-weapons and heavy flamers quickly turned the surrounding area into a sea of fire, and some purestrain Genestealers relied on climbing on the pillars to escape the disaster.

However, at this time, a figure walked out of the flames.

They immediately locked onto this "lone" target, screeching and pouncing down from above.

The next second, a strange long weapon wrapped in flames drew two circles of fire at an extremely fast speed, and the corpses of a dozen purestrain Genestealers fell with a thud.

But they were not discouraged and continued to charge, reaching out their claws, trying to overwhelm him.

Sotha grabbed the end of Skyfire, then swung it around like a sledgehammer, instantly sending the corpses of more than twenty Genestealers flying out, smashing into their compatriots.

Then, the weapon, carrying the power to split mountains, struck forward, smashing into a purestrain and directly vaporizing it. The resulting shockwave impacted the surroundings, like a heavy bomb exploding, sending the screaming purestrain flying into the air.

At this time, their simple consciousness finally understood that this thing was simply not something they could fight against.

But they could no longer escape the opponent's butcher's knife. The swinging Skyfire was like an automatic harvester in a field, slaughtering all the surrounding Genestealers with mechanical efficiency. Such killing could not even cause a little fluctuation in Sotha's heart, because it was too easy, so easy that he could not have any sense of "fighting." He even felt that he was just doing repetitive "hard labor."