Warhammer 30k and the Great Tomb of Nazarick

Chapter 112 Battle Returns (5k)

Time: June 30.890, M6

During these two days, Battelle led his men to liberate another human ranch, and now his team has expanded to a size of 1,500 people.

Although the Great Tomb has entered a full-scale strategic defense and completely abandoned the human ranches and other facilities set up outside, the only ones still chasing after Bartel's troops are the remaining two of the four knights sent by Ainz.

So far, these two monsters have been carefully carrying out Ainz's orders and continue to hunt down Bartel.

But because two monsters had already been killed by Bater, now they would attack Bater in pairs and would never deal with the monsters alone again.

But now Battelle has been repaired and healed, and he has also got help, which is completely different from his previous state of unhealed injuries, so the two knight monsters can never take down Battelle, and even if Battelle has help, he can't directly take down these two cooperating monsters.

The two sides reached a stalemate.

Apart from these two monsters, the most troublesome situation encountered by Battelle's team was actually food.

Although the two human ranches had prepared a lot of food, most of it was blasphemous stuff made from humans, and there were hardly any that were edible.

Most of the kingdom had been completely destroyed by the Great Tomb of Nazarick in the previous massacre, and the remaining food and property were even more completely taken to the Great Tomb.

If only a small number of them relied on the wild animals and fruits along the way, they could still survive. However, for Bater and his group, whose number reached 1,500, it was obviously difficult for them to make a living relying solely on these things.

Even Battelle, who had extremely rich knowledge of survival in the wild, had no way to deal with this. The biggest problem was that some people in the team were used to cannibalism.

When food became scarce, some people did not hesitate to eat their weaker counterparts.

For these people, Bartel has a solution.

kill!

They are human beings, not animals, and the sufferings they have experienced are not a reason for them to fall into depravity.

Now no one forces them to live like animals, but they still want to live like animals. Bartel thinks that they don't need to live.

Of course, if you really want to be picky, the corpse starch made by the Mechanicus really does use a lot of recycled corpses.

First, here's 30k.

Many times, the residents of the middle nest in 40k were considered to be living in misery in 30k. The miserable life of the lower nest in this era would be considered inhumane even by Perturabo.

The Mechanicus' corpse starch is indeed being produced in this era, but the number is definitely not large, and the environment of most planets managed by the Mechanicus is also enough for everyone to live a leisurely 996 work life.

Therefore, the moral bottom line of Space Marines in this era is generally much higher than that in 40k.

In this era, most Space Marines also consider themselves to be humans and soldiers of the Empire, rather than the Emperor's Angels in the 40k era.

Battelle could accept these people eating their own kind if they had no other choice, but not now.

After dealing with dozens of souls that jumped out on their own initiative, facing the shortage of food, Battelle could only make further plans and find ways to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

Fortunately, Remedios has recovered a lot and can barely exert her heroic strength. With the help of Bartel, she can capture some larger monsters while facing the harassment of the two knight monsters.

Then Bartel discovered that there were many food storage places built in the Great Tomb of Nazarick along the way.

So they searched for food and after a few days finally arrived at the ruins of the kingdom's capital.

In the past, this place was the capital of the Kingdom of Re-Yestije and was also a prosperous place.

But now it has become a complete ruin.

The Sorcerous Kingdom established by the Great Tomb of Nazarick seized on a random excuse to massacre eight million residents of the Kingdom.

They not only razed the capital to the ground, but also claimed that it would continue to exist as ruins for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

Set a symbol to the world of what would happen to those who dared to go against the Great Tomb of Nazarick.

However, the time is still far from thousands or even tens of thousands of years, so it cannot be said to be a short time. It can only be said to be just the beginning.

The ruins of the kingdom's original capital were completely open to the public and anyone could come and visit. There were also many troops from the Great Tomb of Nazarick stationed here.

The Great Tomb of Nazarick was very happy to show others what they were doing in the capital of the kingdom, so the road to the capital was not abandoned, but repaired instead.
In addition, many rest stops were set up along the way, manned by undead beings who provided food and rest services.

There is food here, and the undead are generally just great dead magicians of about level 20, so Bartel killed them easily.

Thanks to this extra supplement, no one in Battelle's team starved to death during these days.

After arriving at the capital, some knowledgeable residents of the kingdom began to cry over the ruins.

The city gates and the surrounding environment here all show signs of having been attacked by low temperatures. Fires, small-scale earthquakes, and small typhoons can be seen in the city.

It was as if all natural disasters had been concentrated in this small quasi-medieval city.

Walking in this city, the weeds have grown higher than human calves, and various human skeletons can be seen everywhere in the ruins and piles of weeds.

Many snakes and rats build nests directly in human skulls, and animals such as foxes and crows are also everywhere here.

The garrison and service personnel here had been evacuated by Nazarick, leaving only low-level undead. Like the undead on the road, they were all abandoned by the Great Tomb.

The remaining undead have only so-so combat effectiveness. The refugees who have been simply trained by Bater in the past few days have already acquired a certain combat effectiveness with the help of magic scrolls.

Dealing with these undead was easy and enjoyable, and all the undead that could be seen were quickly eliminated.

The team then dispersed and began to look for food to fill their stomachs in the capital.

In the center of the capital, in the former royal palace area, Battelle saw a street that was completely different from the surrounding style.

The area that belonged to the palace has been destroyed and most of the buildings have been razed to the ground, but some of the ruins of the buildings have been deliberately left behind to let you know that this was once a palace.

There is a newly built street in the razed palace area. The street is about one kilometer long, and two wooden structures similar to Japanese torii have been erected at the front and back.

The buildings on the street are all low wooden structures, and there are many celebratory flags hanging on them.

Walking along this street, you can see various flags hanging on the buildings, with patterns such as fried ice, goldfish, and octopus painted on them.

There is also a large pool with shallow water and many goldfish swimming in it. Several skeleton wizards (the lowest level undead wizards, but with higher intelligence and much stronger than ordinary skeletons) are here wearing service staff uniforms.

"Hello, are you a new customer? We haven't had any customers for a while. Would you like to try some? Fresh and delicious takoyaki, 50% off now."

"Would you like some grain from the greatest Sorcerer King in the world, Ainz Ooal Gown? Buy two and get one free."

"Go goldfish! Go goldfish!"

Seeing Bater bringing people over, several skeleton mages immediately began to solicit customers.

Looking at these things, Bartel felt nauseous and immediately took people to chop them up. There was a lot of food and kitchen utensils inside, just right for cooking, and the tableware here was all powered by magic and would not produce smoke.

Remedios did not go to eat, but ran to the commanding height of a house and acted as a scout with a sword in hand.

The hellish experience before had completely changed her originally impatient and impulsive personality, making her calm and restrained.

That is, the attitude towards non-humans has become even more crazy than before.

After all, Battelle is just one person. Even a Space Marine only needs a small amount of rest time every day, but he cannot bear to be on high alert all the time.

Remedios was the only one in the team who could help him share his worries, so usually Remedios would help as a scout.

While Remedios was observing her surroundings carefully, the remaining two Four Horsemen monsters were also observing from the other side.

Summoned creatures, as long as they are not chaotic and unintelligent by design, all have intelligence.

However, when dealing with problems, they will completely give priority to the summoner's orders. If the summoner does not issue new orders, they will continue to act according to the summoner's last orders.

Until the mission is completed, or some bug occurs that causes their mission to never be completed.

Because of this reason, the behavior of summoned creatures sometimes seems a bit rigid. For example, now these two knight monsters, without receiving any new orders, even though the situation on Bater's side has obviously changed, they still continue to carry out the plan to eliminate Bater.

Now they were also hiding in the dark, looking for a suitable opportunity to launch an attack on Bater. At this time, they heard a strange sound suddenly coming from behind them.

There was no time to look back, and the lives of these two monsters had come to an end.

Abaddon swung the power claw on his left hand and walked out from the monster's hiding place.

Because the Sorcerous Kingdom was in this direction, in order to give this blasphemous kingdom that "took good care" of humans a little "surprise", the Empire sent double-digit Titans, an entire company of the Luna Wolves, the Black Angels' Steel Wings and other heavyweight units here.

On the way, Abaddon and his men discovered traces of human activities. In this country that had been destroyed by the Great Tomb of Nazarick, a group of thousands of people who seemed to be fleeing was a very unusual existence. Abaddon decided not to alarm them and bring his men over to take a look himself.

Then two blasphemous creatures were discovered. Because of his disgusting nature, Abaddon used the teleportation function in the Terminator to get behind them, and then destroyed them all with the power claws.

In previous observations, Abaddon confirmed that this was indeed a human team. Now there was no need to hide. It was time to meet them.

As Abaddon showed up, more Luna Wolves Terminators who were on standby in the distance used teleportation to come to his side.

It was hard for Remedios not to notice such a sudden appearance of a giant team, so she quickly blew the whistle to inform everyone of the enemy attack.

Bartel, who was eating and keeping watch on the other side, discovered that Abaddon and his men were one step behind Remedios because of their position, but after seeing this team that did not hide their identity.

He was immediately excited. The huge and heavy armor was undoubtedly the Terminator power armor that only the elite among the Space Marines could wear. Its official name was the Tactical Dreadnought Armor.

The eye-like decorations on the soldiers indicated that they were from the Sixteenth Legion, the Luna Wolves.

Great! Reinforcements from the Empire have arrived!
Battelle jumped down directly from the commanding heights and excitedly told everyone not to get excited, saying that these were reinforcements and they would be saved.

Abaddon was also very curious about the fact that there was an unarmored Space Marine here. After all, the Empire had just discovered this place not long ago. Theoretically, the only possible unarmored Space Marines who could appear here were the soldiers of the White Scars Legion who were taken away after dying in battle.

"I am Captain of the First Company of the Luna Wolves~ Ezekyle Abaddon. Brother on the other side, please tell me your identification code."

Hearing the name of Abaddon, Bartel was even happier. At this point in time when Abaddon had not yet betrayed the Empire, the captain of the First Company of the Luna Wolves was once known as one of the Three Great Crusades along with the Imperial Fist Sigismund and the Blood Angel Radron. He was here, which proved that at least the First Company of the Luna Wolves was here, and everything was stable.

Bartel, who had been holding his breath, finally relaxed. He briskly reported his identification code to Abaddon. This was a code that every official Space Marine had, used to verify each other's identities.

After Abaddon confirmed in the data that the identification code reported by Bartel was correct, he continued:
"Brother Battler, the enemy has a monster that can transform into a human. We need to perform a full body scan on you. Will you cooperate?"

Bartel had previously learned from Remedios about the double phantom that could transform into a human, so he naturally agreed with it.

Three floating servo skulls flew to Battelle together and formed a triangle, covering Battelle inside. Then the three servo skulls began scanning.

During this process, the Luna Wolves' Space Marines also secretly prepared their weapons. If Bartel was really an imposter and dared to make any unusual movements, he would be turned into powder immediately.

About ten seconds later, the scan was completed and the servo skull concluded that Battle was indeed a Space Marine, not an alien, and there was no parasite in his body.

Abaddon was very happy that a battle brother who had been presumed dead could return to the team alive. He stepped forward and gave Bartel a hug, then took him and began to ask about what had happened during this period. The warriors of the Luna Wolves began to recruit the refugees led by Bartel.

The refugees confirmed that Shadow Moon Wolf and Battelle were the same people, and now that they had been rescued, they finally put their minds at ease, and the work of recruiting and counting went smoothly.

Battelle recounted how he escaped from the Great Tomb, how he wandered around the world and fought against monsters sent by the enemy, how he rescued the humans in the human ranch, and then how he led these humans to survive in the wilderness.

Abaddon nodded repeatedly and said it was hard work. After Battelle finished speaking, Abaddon asked a soul-searching question.

Do you remember where that special underground building is? Can you take us there?
Bartel answered “yes” without hesitation.

As a White Scars Space Marine who is good at adventure, Battle has an extremely outstanding talent in finding the way. Even if decades have passed, let alone just a few days, he can still find the Great Tomb of Nazarick directly.

Abaddon judged that the mysterious underground facility that Bartel mentioned should be the real base camp of the Sorcerous Empire of Ainz Ooal Gown. In addition to various military considerations, Abaddon's years of experience also showed that these blasphemous alien heretics really liked to drill underground.

When Battelle saw that Abaddon wanted to find the Great Tomb, he immediately offered to lead the way, but Abaddon stopped him and told him to take a rest and talk about it tomorrow.

Abaddon prepared a lot of food for Battelle, and also passed on the information about his discovery. There were also other White Scars warriors coming to this world. They were now scattered and exploring various unknown corners of the world that were not convenient for aerial detection.

These White Scars Space Marines were very happy to have their lost battle-brothers return. When Battelle saw these brothers through the communicator, he was so excited that tears filled his eyes. Especially when he found out that Baan from their team was still alive, and only Baan was still alive, even these two tough guys couldn't help but shed tears.

And when Bartel learned that the Primarch Lorgar had personally brought the main force of the Word Bearers to this world, in addition to being extremely shocked, there was only one word in his mind: "It's stable."

Luojia himself even had a brief conversation with Bater through the communicator to understand some basic information, and then comforted and encouraged Bater.

Bater tried his best to report to Luojia all the important information he knew and collected.

Based on Battelle's observations over the past few days, the overall level of civilization in this world should be very average. Although the aliens have blasphemous witchcraft and are mysterious and unpredictable, their actual strength is just so-so.

Hot melt floor washing can restrain all kinds of monsters.

Their previous defeat was caused by their weak basic strength. But now, the human empire no longer lacks strength here.

Abaddon also prepared a power armor for Battelle, which was a spare power armor for the company. The original pearl white shell of the Luna Wolf was somewhat similar to the color of the White Scars. Now he simply changed the logo and used it as the White Scars' power armor.

After many days, Bartel, who was back in power armor, felt a rare sense of security. Now he could finally have a good rest.

As for the remaining refugees, the Imperial Army will come here soon to take them to the rear to rest.

Primarch Lorgar has decided to select suitable people from among these tortured but still persevering people, and form a local defense force for the planet with some veterans of the Imperial Army.

The refugees were naturally very happy about the news of heading to the rear, but Remedios was the only one who was not happy. She wanted to work with such a powerful human force to destroy the Sorcerous Kingdom.

It was not until she found out that the rear of the Human Empire was the Holy Kingdom that her attitude changed immediately. She was eager to return to the Holy Kingdom to see what was happening there.

(End of this chapter)