Warhammer 30k and the Great Tomb of Nazarick

Chapter 104: The Fall of the Faceless

The military force Lorgar sent to the Holy Kingdom included more than a thousand Space Marines from the Word Bearers Legion alone, and even more auxiliary forces.

These troops will quickly take over the entire territory of the Holy Kingdom, explore the various mineral veins in this world, lay out the empire's industrial facilities, and transform the Holy Kingdom into a suitable part for the huge war machine of the Human Empire.

But for the Word Bearers, the fact of annihilating the Faceless Men is not worth mentioning.

But it is a big deal for the Holy Kingdom.

The full name of the Holy Kingdom is the Holy Kingdom of Lobel. It is a peninsula country surrounded by the sea on three sides. The territory is divided into north and south by a bay that is 40 kilometers wide and 200 kilometers long. On the map, the Holy Kingdom looks like a horizontal U-shaped lock.

As a result of the conspiracy of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, the Northern Holy Kingdom was massacred, and nine out of ten houses were empty. Although the South did not suffer a fatal blow, under the arrangement of Demiurge, the contradictions between the nobles in the north and south of the Holy Kingdom became extremely sharp and could erupt at any time.

The Faceless Men were founded by their leader Neia and they worship Ainz Ooal Gown as a god.

The doctrine advocates the strong and openly declares that weakness is a sin and strength is justice.

In the teachings of the Faceless Men, Ainz Ooal Gown is undoubtedly the absolute strongest and naturally the embodiment of justice.

With the secret support of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, this sect developed very quickly. In addition to human believers, many demi-humans joined the sect and infiltrated all aspects of society. Later, it became an organization that could compete with the royal family of the Holy Kingdom.

The royal family of the Holy Kingdom, the current Holy King, and several important courtiers had long been replaced by the double phantoms of the Great Tomb of Nazarick.

The Great Tomb of Nazarick had set up a large number of hidden agents in the Holy Kingdom, most of which were designed and executed by Demiurge himself.

According to the original plan, the Civil War between the Holy Kingdom and the North will break out in a few years. By then, if another million people die in the Holy Kingdom, the Kingdom will be completely controlled by the Great Tomb of Nazarick.

However, all the original layout of the Great Tomb in the Holy Kingdom and all the chess pieces were completely destroyed in the face of the absolute violence of the empire.

Funny enough, the most fierce resistance here came from Ning Ya's Faceless Men sect.

Faced with the overwhelming force of the Empire, most members of the Faceless Men sect at the border of the Holy Kingdom and other cities resolutely followed their teachings and immediately slid to their knees, without offering any resistance.

The Empire uniformly executed the demihumans among them, while the human believers were temporarily detained and tried later.

The only one who put up a real desperate resistance was the Faceless Men's headquarters in the Holy Kingdom's capital.

Because the imperial forces advanced so quickly, the vast majority of people in the Holy Kingdom's capital had no idea they were here.

The only one who could know this information was the Holy King, who relied on the surveillance system established by the Great Tomb. Faced with this situation, the Great Tomb spies led by the Holy King judged that the Holy Kingdom had no chance of holding on, and after sending a call for help to no avail, they decisively chose to retreat.

As a result, the top leaders of the Holy Kingdom disappeared collectively, while Ning Ya was leading her church to conduct daily lectures and sermons.

The location she chose was the capital's Grand Square. There were nearly 10,000 believers here, including many fanatical believers developed by Ning Ya.

Ning Ya, the leader of these people, is actually very young. She was just an apprentice knight a few years ago.

At that time, the Holy Kingdom was ravaged by Demiurge, who was disguised as the Demon Emperor. The Holy Queen and the Highest Priest died for their country, and Neia’s parents also died in that tragic war.

At this time, Ning Ya followed the Paladin Captain Remedios to the Sorcerous Kingdom to seek help from Ainz. After experiencing a series of events, Ning Ya firmly believed that Ainz was the embodiment of justice.

In order not to cause trouble for Ainz, she even took the initiative to reject Ainz's suggestion to resurrect her parents.

After that, Neia developed a habit of telling others about Ainz’s greatness, just like today.

She was standing on a high platform, wearing a white mask and giving a passionate speech.

Because Neia was born with an extremely ferocious look in her eyes, in order to better introduce the greatness of Lord Ainz to more people, she chose to wear a white mask without facial features, and this gradually became a tradition.

All of Neia's followers began to wear white masks, and the name of the Faceless Men came from this. When Neia was once again talking about the wonderful part of the Sorcerer King Ainz's victory over the Demon Emperor, the Empire's army arrived.

Because they already knew the situation of the Faceless Men, the Word Bearers who discovered the gathering of the Faceless Men in the air immediately rode Stormbirds to strangle the heretics.

The Word Bearers did not choose to use the twin laser cannons or heavy bombs on the Stormbird gunships to directly kill the enemy, because they had been instructed before they came that the leader of this blasphemous heresy must be captured and executed to demonstrate the power of the empire.

Fifty Word Bearers jumped directly from the Stormbird hovering a hundred meters above the ground without using any auxiliary measures.

When a group of two-meter-tall muscular men in full power armor jumped directly down from a high altitude, then landed on one knee in a standard superhero posture, with dust flying and the ground cracking, the visual effect was extremely strong.

Fifty Word Bearers landed in different parts of the square and surrounded the believers.

"Kneel down and surrender immediately, and you may still live. If you dare to resist, you will be killed without mercy!"

The leading Word Bearers priest shouted as he raised the priest's staff in his hand and waved it at the statue of Ainz in the square. The Stormbirds in the crowd cooperated very well and opened fire.

This gigantic statue of Ainz was built by Ning Ya and his men. It was eight or nine meters tall, but the colossus carved out of rock was no more powerful than a paper statue in the face of the twin laser cannons.

A large chunk of Ainz’s head was cut off, and the rock in its original location melted into hot magma, flowing down.

Several Faceless Men were unable to dodge and were drenched by the lava. They were either killed instantly or rolled on the ground in severe pain, wailing.

Faced with such an overwhelming power difference, the Faceless Men naturally did not dare to act rashly.

Under everyone's gaze, Ning Ya shouted across the crowd, "Who are you? Why are you trying to hurt us?"

The priest looked at Ninya and asked, "Are you Ninya Baraja, the leader of the heretical sect of the Faceless Men?"

“Yes, it’s me. So can you please tell me your identities and purpose? We serve the great Sorcerer King. I don’t think you would want to offend His Majesty.”

"Threat? Haha, it's a pity that this trick doesn't work on us."

Facing the threat in Neia's words, the Word Bearers priests and other battle brothers couldn't help but laugh, and this behavior angered Neia. Although these tall warriors were wearing helmets, Neia could sense their contempt when they heard the Sorcerer King.

"what's so funny?"

Neia could accept others looking down on her, but she could not accept someone daring to look down on the Sorcerer King Ainz.

"Oh, there's no need to explain to you."

Ning Ya had to die, but the method of death had to be specific. In this case, there was no need to explain to a guy who worshipped such blasphemous things. Following the priest's order, the Word Bearers began to charge towards Ning Ya!

“These people are Ainz-sama’s enemies! In the name of the Sorcerer King, destroy them!”

Ning Ya took out the Ultimate Super Meteor that Ainz had given her, a large bow with an extremely gorgeous appearance, drew the bow, put an arrow on it, and shot an arrow at the Word Bearer priest.

Ning Ya used all her strength in this attack. She activated the magic tool she was equipped with - the Archer Gauntlet, which was an item that could improve the wearer's shooting skills and overall physical performance.

Another magic item, the eye mask goggles, was also activated. The effect of this magic item is that the wearer can use a special skill called snake shooting once every three minutes. After using this skill, the arrow will jump up in front of the enemy and then attack the enemy like a prey.

Finally, Ning Ya used her professional ability to add a thin layer of holy power to the arrow.

Just like that, Ning Ya gathered all her trump cards and shot an arrow, fiercely aiming at the priest of the Word Bearers.

(End of this chapter)