Warhammer 30k and the Great Tomb of Nazarick

Chapter 103 Marching towards the Holy Kingdom
When the entire territory of the Silan Theocracy was recovered by the Empire, it would naturally be necessary to dispatch troops to other human settlements.

The world needs a unified human regime, and only one.

And to the Empire, the Holy Kingdom, a country that had been infiltrated like a sieve by aliens and the Great Tomb of Nazarick, was a real eyesore.

Originally, under the self-directed and staged performance of the Sorcerous Kingdom, the Holy Kingdom had been semi-forced to accept living together with demihumans, and various kinds of demihumans could be seen in many cities.

Although these demihumans had fought together with humans before, after all, only a small number of people fought together. The physiological and cultural differences between the demihumans were felt by everyone.

After all, respecting you means having children with you, or eating your corpse. Few people can accept this. Some of the sub-humans are pure survivors of the jungle, and the level of civilization of most sub-humans is extremely poor. What's more, the appearance of some sub-humans really does not conform to human aesthetics.

The main reason why a direct fight did not break out under these circumstances was because of the remaining power of the Sorcerous Kingdom of Ainz Ooal Gown and the conscious manipulation of the Holy Kingdom's high-level officials who had long been controlled.

But now there is no need to consider these situations, as the army of the Human Empire has arrived in the territory of the Holy Kingdom.

The first to arrive here were the vanguard of the Word Bearers.

As for the desert city separating the Holy Kingdom and the Theocracy, it had already been cleansed out.

Aliens were executed, incompetent and corrupt human rulers were excommunicated, the Emperor's gospel was spread, and the suffering humanity was saved.

The Holy Kingdom's side facing the Theocracy was not originally their main defense focus, so although there were city walls built, they were not as tall and majestic as those on the Demihuman Forest side.

Of course, this simple wall means nothing to the Space Marines of the Human Empire.

The first group of Word Bearers airdropped directly into the fortress in ten Soka Stormbirds, and then occupied the fortress almost without bloodshed. More Word Bearers and other troops of the Empire also officially entered the Holy Kingdom.

The forces of the Empire began to judge the demihumans within the Holy Kingdom.

Because there were so many demi-humans here and they were so diverse, apart from the necessary samples left for the Mechanicus, the remaining aliens were pushed into the square for mass execution.

At the beginning, some people from the Holy Kingdom tried to stop the Empire's execution squad, because after all, these demi-humans had lived with them for several years and there were good people among them.

But the Imperial soldiers ignored these people. They should be thankful that they were in the 30th millennium. If it was the th millennium, daring to plead for the aliens would be enough to sentence them to death.

The priest of the Word Bearers stood on a makeshift platform, looking at the various aliens that were pushed in.

Human-headed horse-bodies, pig-headed human-bodies, fat maggots, half-human, half-sheep monsters, etc. In short, dozens of different aliens were found in this fortress alone, which made the Word Bearer priest wonder how there could be so many types of aliens in this world. It was like an interstellar zoo, but this did not prevent him from destroying these aliens.

The priest stood on the platform and shouted: Call on the Emperor of God, please send down merciless fire from heaven to bombard their deformities and ugly hearts, so that I can set things right, burn all the filth and evil to clear my name.

Following the priest's order, the heavy promethium flamethrower began to burn the heretics.

At the beginning, many people dared not watch the burning, but I don’t know who was the first to shout

"Kill all these man-eating monsters!"

Following this shout, the people of the Holy Kingdom began to howl loudly one after another.

The resentment that had been accumulated for a long time was released at this moment. What happened next was very simple, it was nothing more than further clearing and destroying the remaining aliens, while spreading the state religion, and this only required leaving a part of the troops behind, and the remaining large forces began a full-scale attack on other areas of the Holy Kingdom.

After Ainz's conscious destruction, although the Holy Kingdom is not now completely empty, its population has been halved, and almost all capable and experienced soldiers have been killed.

The Holy Kingdom, which had no resistance to Space Marines to begin with, would often choose to surrender without hesitation after hearing that the newcomers were from the human camp and seeing their strength.

Apart from the aliens that were destined to be destroyed, the most fierce resistance came from the Faceless Sect of Ainz Ooal Gown in the castle.

Originally, the leader, the Faceless One Ningya, was giving a speech in the capital of the Holy Kingdom. When the Space Marines appeared in the city, she immediately called on all believers to unite and resist this force that did not belong to the Sorcerous Kingdom.

Among them, Ning Ya personally took part in the battle, using the Level 50 weapon Ultimate Hyper Meteor given by Ainz, which was a longbow with an extremely exaggerated and gorgeous shape.

Although Ning Ya is far from reaching that level, she can still use this bow. The magic arrows shot from this bow can theoretically still hurt the Space Marines.

But this is only in theory. In practice, it is very easy for Space Marines to dodge this kind of attack, which is almost as fast as cold weapons and bows.

None of Neia’s attacks hit the Word Bearers.

This made Ning Ya feel unbelievable. When she used this bow before, the effect was like that of a god of war, but now it seemed that there was not much difference from using an ordinary bow.

Such a fact impacted her worldview which had already been shattered once.

But she still refused to give up. The young but ferocious-eyed leader sneaked into houses and alleys, hoping to delay time by constantly changing the terrain and using the Ultimate Super Meteor to suppress the enemy.

In Neia's eyes, these tall warriors who suddenly appeared and focused their attacks on them were obviously forces hostile to Ainz.

Although they didn't know where these people came from, for the sake of Lord Ainz, the Faceless Men should consume these opponents as much as possible.

For the sake of Ainz-sama, I would sacrifice the entire Holy Kingdom.

Thinking this, Neia began to use her followers as human shields without hesitation.
But the Space Marines obviously had no scruples against these cultists. Under the roar of the bombs, no matter what kind of cultists they were, they immediately felt the physical light and then broke into many pieces.

Ning Ya, realizing that believers were useless, rushed to the areas where there were more civilians than anywhere else.

Lord Ainz once said that a strong person can do whatever he wants.

Therefore, Ning Ya no longer felt any guilt for her behavior.

She agreed with Ainz's theory from the bottom of her heart that the strong are righteous and the weak are evil, and believed that the weak should sacrifice for the strong.

However, her escape failed in the face of a large number of Word Bearers, and finally Ning Ya was captured and confirmed to be the leader of the cult Faceless Men.

For such a well-known traitor, the Empire imposed a seventy-two-hour death penalty with white phosphorus.

(End of this chapter)