Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

The giant transportation platform called Mobile Land crossed the blood sea and approached Land No. 2.

The ten energy shields on the platform started operating at the same time.

Although it is more than thirty kilometers away from the outermost edge of the Skull Fortress, considering that the heavy artillery shells can easily cross dozens of kilometers, the energy shield is deployed to prepare to resist the artillery fire.

The reconnaissance force sent by the Kriegs has already set off.

Creed and Grote, who had considerable objections to Dade's decision but could not interfere with the decision-making of the friendly generals, could only watch the two thousand soldiers sent out by Dade from the perspective of a drone in the war command center. The elite scouts of the Dokrig Death Corps advance into the depths of the blood mist.

These Death Corps scouts lined up in a skirmish line as if they were fighting a trench war, trudging forward slowly and groping while being wary of all possible movements ahead.

The blood mist near the land platform has been normalized. For the Kriegs, who are all equipped with gas masks, this is a blood-filled mist and they will not be affected.

But as time passed by, the scouts shown on the holographic image of the command center were getting deeper and deeper into the place shrouded in blood mist, and the effect of their gas masks was gradually becoming very limited.

Some people suffocated.

When someone falls, the deceased's companions will not even look at the deceased, but continue to move forward with weapons in hand.

However, the scout's progress was obviously a little slower.

"This reconnaissance operation is pointless."

Heavy footsteps entered the command center, and a captain of the Dark Angels Deathwing Company strode over and loudly rebuked the mortal general for his decision.

"Test whether we can still have combat effectiveness without the Black Stone?"

"What a joke, without the Black Stone we wouldn't be conducting this expedition at all. We are not here to die."

No one responded.

Dade still stood upright with his hands behind his hands, watching his soldiers gradually fall into trouble.

The scouts were gradually able to see the looming outline of the Skull Fortress in the blood mist.

Just like what the iron man named Scholar showed, there were seven small skulls on the giant wall of a huge skull, and this fortress looked like this.

When the scouts of the Death Corps saw the Skull Fortress, it seemed that the people in the fortress could sense the approach of aliens through the blood mist. In short, no matter what the reason, they instantly learned of the arrival of the scouts and immediately acted. respond.

A skull fired.

The howl that resounded through the sky burst out first. When the sound was transmitted to the command center through technological equipment, it turned into a howl that could almost shock the eardrums of mortals. You can imagine what would have happened if you were not under the protection of the black stone. negative impact.

The howl was like the sound of heavy artillery firing.

A screaming energy skull was fired from the skull and flew towards the Death Corps scouts, before the skull exploded among the scouts.

What is surprising is that the power of this thing is not very good. It only killed less than a hundred people, but its impact was unknown, including the howl when it fired and the killing of more than a hundred people.

It's like something has penetrated the thing that is invisible and intangible but exists, called will.

The morale of the Krieg scouts collapsed.

Harsh screams and panicked shouts came from under the gas masks. The Kriegs fled in all directions. When their morale collapsed and they began to flee, they made various sounds of begging for mercy and begging the Emperor for help.

"Kriegs, huh?" Creed's deputy, Colonel Kyle, looked at Dade, "Some people say that you are better at attacking cities than us Cadians, but it seems that is not the case now."

Dade said nothing, silently watching his compatriots display their demoralized appearance.

"That's not right." The Dark Angel who had just scolded Dade now spoke for the Kriegs, "I have fought side by side with you, and the Death Corps did not become like this after encountering a bombing in which less than a hundred people were killed. Demoralized trash.”

This time Dade was also silent.

Some of the scouts came back alive. These hundreds of survivors were quite smart. At least they knew how to follow the drones instead of panicking after their morale collapsed.

When these survivors returned to the range where the black stone took effect, they seemed to have suddenly enlightened. They stopped shouting and begging for mercy, and changed from running in all directions to marching in a disciplined line.

This made the people in the command center even more certain that the Death Corps scouts were attacked by willpower that they could not resist.

This situation is very common.

During the Battle of Cadia, some troops in the Assault Army, which were famous for their iron discipline and never retreating, fled.

After all, mortals have limits. The body has limits, and so does the will.

When encountering something like a demon and feeling the fear from the soul, a mortal who is not an individual combat unit creature of the Tyranids cannot remain motionless.

No one commented on the morale of the Death Corps.

Even the Supreme Master of the Dark Angels, Azrael, came to the command center. After knowing everything, he praised the Death Corps' sacrifice, saying that the Death Corps' scouts helped everyone find out that the small skulls of the Skull Fortress are not only for decoration, but also The attacks fired from those skulls would deal a heavy blow to the human psyche.

But when the survivors of the scouts returned and came to the moving land to rest and recuperate, Dade's personal guards still surrounded them.

"You have brought shame to the God-Emperor!"

"You have disgraced the victims!"

"You should be ashamed!"

"shame!"

"..."

The political commissar assigned to the Death Corps by the Military Affairs Department followed the adjutant of Dade's personal guard and listened to the adjutant reprimanding the survivors without saying a word.

The political commissar who should have been the first to take out his gun and execute the deserters is now trying to figure out where to find a way to put in a good word for these survivors.

But the political commissar failed to seize this opportunity.

Fortunately, the captain of Dade's personal guard also knew why these survivors escaped, so he was lenient.

The embodiment of opening up the net is to disarm the survivors and then organize them into a temporary company. When the attack on the Skull Fortress officially begins, these survivors will carry explosive bags to carry out suicide attacks.

The survivors who managed to survive would still have to die, but at least they would not be shot by the Guards or forced to commit suicide.

Grote, who ran out of the command center, watched the whole process. He looked at these friendly forces and felt speechless, but he did nothing.

He neither went up to scold nor defended the survivors.

Grote just watched silently.

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