Chapter 230, Evil God Incarnation
"Your new blood... has been cultivated well. I almost thought they were all veterans."
Gerrit said this to Martins.
After completing the capture of the surface part of the storage center, while the troops were cleaning up the remaining resistance inside the building, the highest commander of the operation and the consultant lady finally got time together and chatted a little more.
Martins was both proud and a little embarrassed about Gratte's praise.
"Well, they have indeed performed very well. They are the new blood trained and cultivated by the governor. With the training method of the phoenix... it is impossible to train this effect so quickly. However, they are not yet your 'veteran' There are too many immature places."
"Indeed." Gerrit was not talking nonsense, "That's why I said 'almost'. They did not do well enough in some places, for example, they were not cruel enough when they attacked, and their ability to adapt to changes was a little bit stricter. , I don't know how to better protect myself on the battlefield..."
She talked about a lot of shortcomings, and Martins nodded frequently.
It's all true.
The attack is not ruthless, it is because there is not enough blood, not enough training, and I don't know how to use the tragic battlefield situation to deal a stronger psychological blow to the enemy who is still alive; I don't know that those enemies who give up resistance may also He took out his weapon and fired a black gun from behind.
Their ability to adapt to changing situations is not enough because they have too little experience and dare not change the inertia of thinking imprinted during training. At the same time, it is difficult to think of a better solution in a short period of time. The ability to make more targeted judgments is lacking.
If they don't know how to protect themselves, it shows that they are not proficient enough to use their own power armor - the training of the governor for them obviously does not include this part, and half a year of special training for space fighters is not enough for them to fully use the power armor. All skills are transformed into instinct, and can be used at will.Moreover, when making some action decisions, the assessment of risks is not accurate enough.Recklessness is not the problem, but ignorance and recklessness is the problem.
but...
"But even if there are these problems..." Gerrit said, "That's just nitpicking. Only by asking them to the standard of a veteran who has experienced many battles can we pick out these problems. But in reality? I have seen several Chapters, and some of their recruits have been formal Space Marines for several years, and they also have similar problems. If they can really get rid of all these problems on their bodies, yours What the warband has is not new blood, or even just formal fighters, but a group of elite veterans."
Speaking of this, Gerrit looked at Martins with a smile, and continued: "To tell you the truth, when I first saw you at Fury Owl Star a year and a half ago, my heart was very heavy. Although I really hope that you Old comrades-in-arms, you can stand up again. But reason tells me that the result of your tragedy at that time must be extinct in the future. What I didn't expect was that you really showed signs of recovery in a year and a half , I am really happy for you."
When he said this, Martins was a little nervous.
On the one hand, blessings from old friends are of course a happy thing.But he was very afraid that Gerrit would suddenly ask how their gene seeds came from.
But immediately, he realized that Gerrit should not have such doubts.
The two of them didn't have a detailed exchange on the situation of the Phoenix war group. Gerrit didn't know that the gene pool of the war group had all been lost.Now, seeing the newborn eight new blood of the Chapter, her natural reaction is that the gene-seed bank accumulated by the Phoenix Chapter has played a role, and she will not think about what the Governor has done in it.
No one would be able to think in that direction, because it is unrealistic.
Even if Gerrit was puzzled, she was also puzzled by why the success rate of the new blood of the war regiment cultivated by the governor was so high.
But these questions, Martins will not deliberately raise, let alone answer.
If the misunderstanding is that the warband's seed bank is still there, that's a good thing.
Although, Martins himself no longer struggles with this issue.As long as the gene-seed is pure and exactly the seed of a phoenix, it's fine.He himself didn't want to delve into it, let alone expose this matter.
He, Pastor Rizzo, and the other two veterans have made up their minds to bury this matter deeply in their hearts.
...
The reason why Martins and Gerrit have the time to chat at this moment is because they are waiting for the soldiers under their command to find further clues.
The surface part of this storage center will obviously not be the headquarters of the original Raging Owl Sect.
According to intelligence, their headquarters is underground.
This group of cultists guarded this place with all their strength, which probably proved that this was the only way to their headquarters.
It's just that they haven't found where the entrance is for a while.
Both the Battle Sisters and the Witcher are doing it.
And the first to get the result was the demon hunter.
A lady came to interrupt the chat between the two of them.
Martins remembered her.
This is Miria de Jong, one of several small captains in this team of demon hunters.Martins also knows that she has made a lot of contributions to the alliance's counter-revolutionary operations some time ago.
At this moment, the girl captain, with a flushed face, reported a piece of news to him:
"We found an entrance to the underground!"
"Oh? That's good, thank you for your work." Martins said this first, then turned his head and laughed at Gerrit: "It seems that the alliance's demon hunters are better than your battle nuns." It has to be a little bit better."
Gerrit didn't take it seriously: "It saves trouble, it's better anyway."
Martins turned his gaze back, and he saw that Miria de Jong seemed to have some news to say.
He frowned: "If there is any information, please report in detail."
"Yes!" De Jong exclaimed.
She has always been a character who is not afraid of anything.However, when facing the Emperor's Angel of Death, looking at the stalwart body of the other party, her height has just reached the other party's stomach, and when she has to raise her head hard to see the majestic face of the Matins Chapter Commander, she still I felt a heavy sense of oppression from the bottom of my heart, so much so that I was a little cautious when speaking.
She said cautiously: "It's not a detailed report, it's just this situation...we're not sure..."
Afterwards, she explained the discovery of the demon hunter to the chapter leader in detail.
After hearing this, Martins really frowned.
According to the demon hunters, they found the underground entrance of the cult's headquarters, except that they do have relatively specialized skills in search and detection, but another very important factor is that one of them has a special skill of' Soul-sensing' witcher.
This one, after activating his own abilities, found that those killed rebels, especially those magicians who wore gray robes, or even blue robes, had white dots of light symbolizing their souls, faintly Through a certain path, drifting away to a place.
What he said made other demon hunters feel a little strange.But based on the idea that it was more or less a clue, they still asked a few people to follow the so-called 'soul light spot' they perceived to investigate.
Really rewarding.
They found a very secret passage in the ventilation duct.Along the ventilation duct, when we arrived at the position of a very thick support column inside the building, we found that the support column was a fake one, but it was actually hollow, and it was a downward passage.
He didn't act rashly, he just sent someone to guard there.When necessary, you can blow up that pillar, expand the position of the passage, and then attack downward from it.
But before that, the demon hunters were quite concerned about what their companion had detected about souls passively floating back to the cult headquarters.
"...We think this is a very bad omen." When De Jong said this, he was no longer so nervous, and his expression naturally took on a very serious look, "Those cultists are obviously doing something, it is very likely It's their desperate struggle. But...we have so little information right now that we can't be sure exactly what they're doing."
Martins clearly took the lead seriously.
Many times in the past, he had fought various heretics and heretics, and told him never to underestimate these human traitors who had sold their souls to some unknown existence.They will always make a big event somewhere, causing terrible losses.
Martins turned his head and asked his advisor, "Do you have any ideas?"
Gerrit frowned and said: "I...not sure, but it may be related to a piece of information we collected before..."
Afterwards, Gerrit also shared the information she knew.
She spoke quickly and urgently, and let Martins first order the team to assemble and prepare for the attack.
According to her, if the situation observed by the demon hunters at this moment is really the same as the information that the combat nuns investigated before, the sooner they act now, the better.
Martins followed the good example, and while ordering the team to assemble and prepare for the blast, he also listened carefully to Gerrit's narration.
The original angry owl sect, this local cult organization, the core goal, just like many cult organizations seen in the starry sky, is to let the evil god they believe in come to the world.
And when it comes to them, this point is not false, but it is really possible to come true.
Because the evil god they believed in, the original angry owl, had prototypes, beliefs, and spiritual energy.This point can be seen from the avatar of Nu Xiao who was summoned during the big event they did in Fuxing City.
Since this is a prototype deity born of local beliefs, its power can truly be projected into the real world.
This monster should be in the abyss of the spirit world at present, but it is inextricably linked with the angry owl star.The original Angry Owl Sect believed that if they did something right, that evil god would be summoned into this world.
One of them is a large number of soul sacrifices.
This large number may refer to the number of millions or even tens of millions.
This is also the main reason why they targeted Fuxing City a year and a half ago: there was only enough people gathered in a small area in Fuxing City at that time.
If they're going to do something like that in the North, the scattered crews are going to be a big problem.Even Polar Industrial City, the largest city in the north, has only 50 people.
But after the failure of Fuxing City's operation, they came under tremendous pressure from the Sisters of Battle and the garrison of the Central and North Provinces. It has become very difficult to advance the evil god's descending operation normally.
The Battle Sisters once captured a high-level figure of a cult, which revealed that the radicals, or desperate factions in the sect, proposed a plan to forcibly activate the evil god's recovery.
Sacrifice as many people as you can, and even use all the magicians of their sect as seeds, and sacrifice them all together, no matter what.
This move led to huge differences within their sect.The opposition believes that doing so is a purely unnecessary sacrifice.Because it is impossible to completely awaken their gods successfully.At most, only one powerful avatar can be summoned.
But if it's just that, it's really not worth the sacrifice of the entire sect.
"... But according to our current information, such crazy ideas should be an absolute minority among them. But..."
Martins continued her words: "But if it comes to the critical moment of their life and death, they may have no choice but to fight to the death."
"So we have to do it as soon as possible." Gerrit said, "The only good news is that the only thing they can sacrifice now is the people who died in the Polar Industrial City today, and the number will not be many. The biggest main force is still Those cultists themselves. We must destroy their plan as quickly as possible, otherwise even if they only summoned one avatar, we will be in great trouble."
"I understand."
Between words, the Demoman is ready.Space warriors, battle nuns, and witchers are also on standby.
Without wasting time, Martins gave an order, and the passage, which was disguised as a building pillar but actually led underground, was blasted open.
The blasting was performed by a veteran of the Space Marines himself, and the craftsmanship was quite good. The weight of the explosives and the location of the installation were just right.
An irregular circular passage about 6×6 appeared in front of them, and there were ladders going down.
After the passage was blasted, the cultists hiding below obviously responded, and there was a sound coming from inside.
But at this time, there is no need to worry too much.
"Down down!" Martins called, wearing Terminator power armor, and was the first to jump down.
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4k word chapters.
The original schedule of 11:[-] noon has been changed to a direct release...so be it.
sleep, good night.
(End of this chapter)