After receiving the warning from Commander Lysander, Soshyang decided to return to the Obsidian Fortress in the first place.
Other battle groups expressed support for his decision and told Soshyan that after he left, each battle group would select twelve soldiers as guards of the monument. This ceremony will continue until their battle group is gone. There are no guards to send.
Soshyan thanked them for their actions, and then as the new commander of the battle group, he received the power armor and genetic seeds recovered from the battlefield by the Mechanical Instructor.
Although he only got a hundred sets of patchwork complete power armor, 27 active genetic seeds, and several incomplete Terminator armors, at this time he could only comfort himself better than nothing.
Because the warships of the battle group were completely destroyed in the assault, Soshyan chose to take the Shield of Courage to return to the home planet.
This is a not-too-distant journey, and it is a smooth journey in subspace. The thing that Soshyang did the most on the ship was to consult and learn from Lysander.
He is still too young, and he has not received any training or training on the battle group leader. He has almost no knowledge of how to manage and organize a battle group.
Rysander, as the longest company commander of the Empire Fist after the Great Rebellion, has extensive experience in fighting and leadership.
Facing Soshyan's confusion, he kept instilling the duties and tasks of an officer to the opponent. The Fist of the Empire is a very obedient and execution legion, and it also has a very stubborn side in leadership.
Soshyang absorbed the knowledge and ideas of Professor Lysander as much as possible, but he always felt that some ideas were very incompatible with his ideas. Although he tried hard to accept it, he always had questions or doubts.
Generally speaking, he always feels that he is a little incompatible with Empire Fist, which is a very strange feeling.
The Shield of Courage voyaged in the subspace for a week, then jumped into the real world and reached the home planet orbit of the Astral Knights.
It can be imagined that when Soshyang appeared alone in front of the gate of the monastery fortress, the guards and recruits inside looked surprised.
In this operation, the battle group came out completely. The monastery fortress only left 33 recruits who had just received the transformation, and Lothar, a battle group veteran who was in charge of managing these recruits.
Since the battle group has just paid the eleventh tax and has not recruited new recruits, there are only so many people.
When Soshjan entered the fortress and informed everyone of the results of the brutal battle, everyone was shocked and then suspicious. Some even thought Soshjan was a lying deserter. It was not until Lysander appeared that everyone realized Soshjan. What is said is true.
Astral Knights battle group, has actually perished.
The emotions of the recruits immediately changed from shock to sadness, then confusion, and even despair. Everything they had been familiar with was shattered.
When Soshyan hinted to everyone that the monastery fortress might be accepted by other warbands, they didn't even have despair-despair itself was also an expression of hope.
As the new commander of the battle group, Soshyang immediately gave a brief speech to the recruits present.
"I personally participated in that war. Perhaps some of you think I am a coward, a deserter, and I should fight to death with other combat brothers. Yes, I do think so."
Soshyang pointed his finger at the deep scar on his forehead.
"Death is not difficult, but it is not another escape. The commander of the Amurad warrior handed over the warrior to me, so as long as I survive, the warrior will not die. This is what I set up. oath."
Lysander stared at Soshyan. He observed that these young people possessed a very special temperament. In fact, he was not optimistic about the reconstruction of the Astral Knights, because their number was too small.
No accident, this battle group will completely die out within a hundred years.
But the appearance of Soshyang gave him a glimmer of hope that this person...maybe it can really be done.
"Yes, we will probably have nothing next, but we will not bury ourselves in the failures of the past! If staying here just makes us indulge in sorrow, then I would rather leave! Astral knights were born in the void and will belong to them. Void, although we are all recruits, we must never
is not a flower in a greenhouse! We can also create a great career for the martyrs! A breath is still there, the battle group will last forever! "
"A breath is still there! The battle group will last forever!"
"Very good! This is Don's descendant!"
Lysander clapped his palms hard, and then said loudly:
"In order to support your reconstruction, I will give you two Rand fast attack boats and a batch of weapons and ammunition in the name of the captain."
"thank you very much!"
Soshyan held Lysander's hand tightly and said from the bottom of his heart:
"No matter what situation we are in, we will keep our pledge of loyalty in mind, and if necessary, we will respond to the call."
"I will remember your vows. I still have a task. I will send it here. If we have a chance in the future, we will meet again, Commander Soshyan."
"Goodbye by destiny, Captain Lysander, Primarch is on the top, for the glory of him and the Lord of the Earth!"
"The original body is above, for the glory of him and the Lord of the Earth!"
After bidding farewell to the Fist of the Empire, Soshyang asked the servants of the battle group to quickly pack their belongings, including the things in the warehouse, and pack everything that could be packed. At the same time, he also asked the thirty-three recruits to choose their own power armor-here. In principle, they should enter the recruit company first, but in person
In the case of lack of power, I can only catch the ducks on the shelves.
After a simple arrangement, Soshyan asked Lothar to wake up the fearless mentor Brother Said who was stationed in the fortress, but the other party told him that Brother Said had automatically awakened a few days ago, and he has stayed where only the battle leader can enter. underground space.
After Soshyan dismissed Lothar, he walked along a long corridor that stretched down to deeper under the monastery fortress.
There are no combat brothers standing guard on the road, because only the war captain can enter here. During the walking, Soshyan found that the walls, ceilings and marble floors of the corridor were covered with prayers.
This is like a tomb passage.
But the cemetery of the monastery is not here.
When Soshyang reached the end, there was a closed door in front of him. When he took off the iron halo and pushed it into the depression on the door, the dusty door slowly opened.
After entering, Soshyang found that this circular room was like an archives, with a huge granite in the middle, although it did not look like an altar or something.
It is pitch black here, and Soshyan, who is not wearing a helmet, can only vaguely see that the rest of the walls around the room are composed of rows of shrines, up to the ten-meter-high roof, and there are many sheepskin scrolls in the shrines.
It suddenly occurred to him that this might be the archive room of the battle group, which records the long history of the battle group.
Thinking of this, he walked to one wall, wanting to take out a roll of parchment to see what happened.
"Who!?"
Just as he stretched out his hand, there was a harsh noise rubbing against the marble floor in the dark space, and then there was a loud noise, and the door closed.
Soshyang immediately turned around, drew the explosive pistol, and pointed it at the dark void.
"come out."
Before the words fell, it was the sound of heavy mechanical transmission. When the air flow hit Soshyang's face, he finally realized that a behemoth was approaching him.
Sturdy legs, angular torso, a pair of huge iron fists on both sides of the mechanical arms-the holy Fearless Said monk appeared in his sight with heavy steps, before Soshyan could not even feel him The presence.
When an interstellar warrior suffers irreversible damage, he has two choices, either accept death frankly, or continue to serve the emperor in another form.
Dreadnought Mecha is the second option.
Inside the huge metal shell is a physically disabled and muscle-atrophy warrior. He can only survive in the amniotic fluid membrane of the iron coffin, but with the help of a powerful mechanical drive, he is still a deadly killer on the battlefield.
Generally speaking, Fearless are the longest serving veterans in the battle group, so besides participating in the battle at critical moments, another task is to use their own experience to guide the younger generation of the battle group and tell them the history of the battle group.
Brother Said is the most respected mentor in the Astral Knights. It is said that he is the first batch of Astral Knights to serve, and he is over three thousand years old.
Soshyang received a lot of guidance from him in the recruiting stage, and the two are not unfamiliar.
"Fr. Said?"
Soshyang let out a surprise, put away his weapon.
"Why don't you say a word, I thought "
"I already know everything."
Brother Said's words made Soshyang hang his head in ashamed.
"everyone is--"
"Amurad did it anyway."
Brother Said walked to Soshyan and stretched out an arm.
"He found that thing, right."
Soshyang was stunned for a few seconds, then backhanded out the alien creation named Red Talisman from his backpack and handed it to the Brother Said.
"Sure enough..."
Fearless body trembled for a moment, and then returned the red talisman to Soshyang.
"In this way, the most critical step is achieved."
"What's the most critical step? Why did the battle commander give his life to this thing, and—"
Soshyang, who was already full of doubts, threw a dozen questions in a row, but Brother Said did not answer him immediately. Instead, he walked to the granite in the middle, inserted his arm into it, and rotated it around.
"Your arrival is a destiny."
Brother Said's hoarse voice came through the loudspeaker.
"Embrace your destiny!"
The granite cracked like a flower, and then the braziers all around lit up, and there was something slowly rising in the center of the rock.
Looking at that thing, Soshyang's expression was first doubt, then shock, and finally fear.
was pale, with his mouth slightly open, he took a few steps back, and even knocked down a burning brazier. Fuel spilled on the ground, instantly lighting the whole secret room red.
Under the light of the fire, a blue-black flag stood in front of Soshyan, and on the flag, an ancient Terra number that seemed to be burned up by the fire was shining——