Eternal Night

Chapter 414 Living Saint

At this moment, halfway through the embryonic hive, the human army was on the verge of defeat.

The troops gathered in the most critical area of ​​the city totaled about 30,000 regular troops and nearly 100,000 militiamen, including the planetary guard, the remaining Astra Militarum, Inquisitor Caesia's Stormtroopers, and the remaining residents of the city and outside the city.

The entire planet has a population of at least hundreds of millions, but now there may be only a few hundred thousand left, and people are dying every moment.

Kaisiya roared angrily, "Ridiculous! Your Ecclesiarchy doesn't even have a nun troop in this world? And your Mechanicus doesn't even have a Skitarii!? I've been to so many worlds, and I've only met weirdos like you!"

In front of Kesiya, a man dressed as a religious figure and a cyberpunk-style mechanical man both smiled bitterly.

The religious person said, "Sir, you should know that this is the heavenly world, right?"

Just this one sentence left Kesia speechless.

This 0.5 dream world is a standard big world, a huge and magnificent world that is far vaster than that of Gaia humans. Its territory has expanded to almost half of the Milky Way. There are millions of habitable planets alone. If you count the uninhabitable death planets, mining planets, etc., there are probably hundreds of millions of them.

According to the differences in the environment, function, whether there is human society and so on of these planets, the humans in this world have divided different planets for different purposes. Among them, the Heaven World is an extremely rare and precious world. This world has only one function, which is to provide a place for enjoyment and leisure for the dignitaries from the surrounding planets and even the entire star field. This often means degeneration and decay. For example, the evil god of the Warp, Slaanesh, is the easiest to corrode the Heaven World.

The state religion in the human empire in this world is famous for its asceticism, especially the nuns. They also serve as the main armed force of the state religion and are among the fanatics of the state religion. They are incompatible with all kinds of decadent behavior. If there really is a troop of nuns on this paradise planet, then the only thing they will do is to roast all the dignitaries who come to enjoy themselves on the fire, no matter how many come, until no one comes, or they are wiped out by the rebels.

Kesiya could not refute this. She looked at the Tech-Priest of the Mechanicus again, and the Tech-Priest bowed slightly and said, "Sir, this is the Heavenly World."

Kesiya was equally speechless.

The Mechanicus in this dream world is a technological organization that exists in the form of a religion. They firmly believe that all machines in the world have spirits, and above them is the omniscient and omnipotent God of Machines. If Wu Xianxiao knew about the extent of their feudal superstition, he would be absolutely stunned.

But no matter how superstitious they are, the Mechanicus is the only remaining and perhaps the only organizational force in the world's human empire in the fields of science, research, and industrial manufacturing. They need large quantities of minerals, materials, and large-scale clustered manufacturing industries to maintain their status, life, and survival.

But this is Paradise World. Paradise World means that it is impossible for the Mechanicus to carry out large-scale mining on the planet and turn the entire planet into a metal planet. Therefore, in order to maintain the original ecology of Paradise Planet, there are only less than ten members of the Mechanicus stationed here. The highest officer is only a technical priest, and their purpose of existence is only to maintain the operation and maintenance of various buildings and equipment on this planet.

A Tech-Priest is not qualified to lead a Mechanicum Skitarii.

Of course, Kasiya knew all of this, but now she was at a loss, so even if she just asked casually, she wanted to get unexpected armed support.

Unfortunately, there were neither Sisters' Troops nor Skitarii of the Mechanicus, nor any noble and mighty men descending from the sky. Even the Warhound-class Titans she was supposed to have and her elite Stormtroopers had suffered heavy casualties. At the same time, the cruisers outside the planet were unable to provide macro artillery support, because the material void outside the atmosphere had been distorted by the warp, and all attacks fired from outer space were swallowed up by the warp, as if there was an extremely thick void shield standing outside the atmosphere of this planet.

"… Tai Qilong!"

After Kesia was silent for a few seconds, she suddenly shouted loudly.

At the forefront of the fortifications, an officer who was continuously shooting with a laser gun immediately turned around. It was Kaisiya's bodyguard Tai Qilong. He ran a few steps to Kaisiya and saluted.

At this moment, Tai Qilong was in a mess and covered with wounds, especially his abdomen, where blood was flowing. He could only wrap it with a piece of cloth, but his body was still upright, without even a tremor.

Kaisiya shouted, "Gather all the stormtroopers. At the same time, select at least 10,000 Astra Militarum troops. Gather all the vehicles and heavy weapons we have now. We will launch a surprise attack in three minutes. Order the rest of the Astra Militarum troops, planetary guards, and militia to deploy to both wings to pin down all the demons for us. We will quickly assault the target area. I will be the vanguard, and you must keep up with my speed!"

Tai Qilong immediately turned around and left. At this time, the priest of the state religion shouted loudly: "Sir, no! Our position will be easily breached, and those filthy things outside are already crazy. We can't even defend ourselves!"

Kaisiya immediately raised her laser pistol and pointed it at the priest. She narrowed her eyes and said, "Pastor, be careful about your next words. Don't let me think that you have been corrupted by the devil. Now, immediately, I need you to go to the front line to give a speech and inspire all the people to fight bravely!"

The priest did not even frown. He loudly retorted, "Your Excellency the Inquisitor, I am not afraid of death. I am only afraid of dying in vain. You know, there is a demon behind our position... Once the position is breached, it will surely be rescued by the demon. In this way, all our sacrifices will be in vain!"

Kesiya frowned. She remembered the demon steel scroll. The one trapped inside might be the most powerful demon under the evil god Tzeentch. Its existence itself posed a huge and deadly threat to the human empire, so she hesitated again.

Suddenly, at this moment, cheers came from the front one after another. The morale of the originally lifeless position was reversed in an instant. The militiamen who needed to be shot at any time by the supervision team behind them and the political commissar officers to be shot continuously in order to barely maintain the front line, suddenly rushed forward bravely, constantly pulling the trigger of the laser guns in their hands.

Kesia immediately realized that the situation had changed. She no longer cared about anything here and ran towards the cheering place almost falling down. Behind her, the pastor was also running forward with shining eyes.

The two men passed a group of soldiers and saw a human man with a bird on his shoulder, a fly on his waist, and a dog following him deep in the battlefield outside the position. He had just torn a Great Unclean One apart, and the smelly and rotten body immediately turned into ashes once it was torn apart. At the same time, the laser guns in the hands of the soldiers, the heavy machine guns of the Astra Militarum weapons team, and the heavy artillery in the rear, once attacked the demons on the battlefield, the flesh of these demons was like paper, and was easily pierced and burned. Even a single heavy artillery shot could directly destroy a demon.

Under the dense fire from the positions, the hundreds of demons that had already broken into the positions and started killing mortals were quickly cleared out, while the Chaos Space Marines and more demons, demon derivatives and the like that were attacking from a farther distance also began to flee.

This precarious position was reversed in just a few tens of seconds and became impregnable in an instant. The surrounding demon groups were either destroyed or began to flee, and no demon could be seen in anyone's sight.

The arrival of Wu Xianxiao caused all the subspace beings with extraordinary powers to become mortals. In front of high-tech long-range weapons, flesh and blood are just ordinary flesh and blood. It is not surprising at all that this result is true.

At this time, Wu Xianxiao walked from outside the position to inside, and the cheering soldiers were stunned. Many people subconsciously pointed their guns at Wu Xianxiao, because he was now covered in blood, and at the same time he was holding a huge demon head with a diameter of nearly one meter in his hand. The most terrifying thing was that the demon head was still alive and kept talking.

“Stop!!”

Kaisiya's soul was trembling. She screamed wildly while running, fearing that anyone on the battlefield would accidentally discharge their gun. At the same time, the priest behind her also yelled at the top of his voice: "Put down your weapons, all the people of the Emperor, put down your weapons. This is a saint, a living saint blessed by the Emperor!"

A supreme military commander and a supreme religious leader both shouted at the same time to stop and lay down their weapons. The officers and non-commissioned officers present immediately received the order and began to order their subordinates to lay down their weapons. The militiamen were a little confused, but at this time they gradually laid down their weapons. No one dared to point their weapons at Wu Xianxiao.

Just like that, on this sloped battlefield, under the gaze of everyone in this direction, Wu Xianxiao, carrying the huge demon head, stepped into the position and into the crowd.

"The event has been accomplished."

"6.7:997.M41, Wu Xianxiao came to the paradise world of Otia. Thirteen days later, the most powerful chaos storm in history erupted in the subspace, causing a crack in the material universe. The followers, subordinates, and sublimated bodies of the four evil gods rushed into the paradise world of Otia and fought against Wu Xianxiao. Due to his achievements in killing a large number of demons, Wu Xianxiao was witnessed by the remaining people of the planet and was recognized as a living saint, the Emperor's favored one, and the Emperor's chosen one. From then on..."

"You established a first-level shelter."

"You get a completely random lottery reward."

"You are qualified to awaken three maintenance personnel." "You must return to the world where the shelter is located every thirty days and stay for ten days."

The voice of the main brain sounded in Wu Xianxiao's mind, which made Wu Xianxiao smile bitterly.

He already knew before he arrived that once he came into contact with the remaining humans on this planet, the prestige and recognition they provided would inevitably lead to him obtaining a historical event-type shelter. As expected, he established a first-level shelter, which also meant that this zero point five dream world was connected to Gaia.

Khorne and Slaanesh, perhaps with the addition of Tzeentch and Nurgle, there are at least four root-level beings in this dream world, and their goal has been achieved!
Wu Xianxiao sighed in his heart, but he still had to do what he had to do. He looked at the female officer who was obviously the highest commander and said, "Why don't you get on the spaceship? What are you doing here? Don't you see that there are demons all around you?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone around him was in awe.

How loyal!
I would rather die in this hell than let the people retreat!

The female officer was Kesiya. She immediately said, "Your Excellency the Living Saint, we will never abandon you and retreat. This means that we will all blaspheme the Emperor's will!"

"?"

Wu Xianxiao's eyebrows jumped, and he found that his confusion index suddenly dropped by 10,000 and directly became more than 190,000.

He was so frightened that he dared not neglect it or ask any more questions, and immediately asked, "Can we retreat now?"

Kaisiya nodded immediately and said, "Of course, your arrival has stabilized the battlefield. Those demons will never be able to break through our battlefield again. We can retreat now. Please ask Your Excellency the Living Saint to board the ship first and we can go to the cruiser in the void immediately!"

Wu Xianxiao resisted the urge to complain or do anything else. He said in a deep voice, "Let the elderly, children, women and children evacuate first. There are so many spaceships in the starport. Is that enough to accommodate them?"

Kesiya did not argue, she immediately said: "Yes!"

As she spoke, she immediately glanced at the pastor behind her, then called out to the officers around her and ordered the militia to retreat.

Seeing the actions of the highest military commander, Wu Xianxiao was greatly relieved. He was satisfied to see the officers commanding the militia to retreat in an orderly manner and at the same time shooting some of them in an orderly manner...

"?"

Wu Xianxiao roared angrily and almost rushed forward to start a massive massacre. His roar spread throughout the entire battlefield and caused the soldiers and officers who were executing people to stop in shock.

Wu Xianxiao held the demon's head and glared at the officers and soldiers. Although the faint domineering pressure from his domineering aura did not make them faint, it also made them tremble all over.

"Tell me! Why do you want to kill them like this?" Wu Xianxiao asked angrily.

The officers, political commissars, and Astra Militarum soldiers were all bewildered. They looked carefully at the people who had been shot. Yes, they were all people who had been killed by demons, especially those killed by Nurgle demons. Their wounds had been rapidly rotting and becoming inflamed, and fungi and insects were growing out of the wounds. Well, with the arrival of Wu Xianxiao, the changes in their wounds stopped, but there was no doubt that they all had the plague.

Isn't it natural that they should be shot directly?
Oh!
They got it!

An officer saluted Wu Xianxiao with an embarrassed look on his face and said, "Sir, we no longer have flamethrowers here, so we can't burn them directly on the spot. Besides, we are about to leave this world, so we can only shoot them hastily."

"?"

Wu Xianxiao was confused and counted the numbers in the corner of his eyes. The number dropped by more than 5,000 and became more than 187,000.

Wu Xianxiao touched his neck and head. He suppressed the thought of killing these officers and soldiers directly and said patiently: "I mean, why not treat them? They were fighting bravely just now!"

At this time, some people in the crowd started crying, and many people knelt down directly to Wu Xianxian. At the back of the higher levels of the nest, where women, children, the elderly and the young were, some women also cried loudly, shouting the names of their fathers, husbands, or sons.

The officers and soldiers all looked confused.

They understood every word and phrase Wu Xianxian said, but when they put them together they had no idea what they meant.

To treat... the wounded who have been infected with the plague and corrupted by the demons of Nurgle?

What kind of joke is this?
At this time, Kaisiya's face was full of complexities. She and the priest standing next to Wu Xianxiao looked at each other. Kaisiya whispered to the priest: "I have confirmed that the corruption in their bodies has completely disappeared. They are just ordinary illnesses, bacteria, virus infections, and injuries..."

The pastor nodded in agreement.

The priest shouted loudly: "Listen to the will of the living saint! He said these people should be saved, and the Emperor will surely send down a miracle to save these survivors!"

The wounded, numbering at least 10,000 or 20,000, were silent, weeping, and then they prostrated themselves before Wu Xianxiao...

Wu Xianxiao also watched all this in silence. At this time, Kaisiya came to Wu Xianxiao's side and was carefully examining the demon head that Wu Xianxiao was holding, trying to recognize which demon it was, what its real name was, and what its authority and threat were. Wu Xianxiao suddenly said, "Commander, I need your help."

Kaisiya was immediately shocked and shouted, "I will do it with my life!"

Wu Xianxiao shook his head slightly and said, "I need books, history books, or what you said in person... all the historical records from the 21st century to the present, the history of mankind... everything!"

Kessia opened her mouth, and the priest beside her and the Mechanicus technical priests who had already arrived all opened their mouths wide.

They knew about Earth. It was said that Terra was called Earth in the very ancient times, but the twenty-first... century?
"?"

The three of them looked at each other, each with a confused expression on their face.

Wu Xianxiao watched with satisfaction as his confusion index rose by more than 3,000, and then just recovered to 190,000.

(End of this chapter)