The Bizarre Adventures of Cloud Hammer

After docking the mastodon, Eivor took the wolf to the upper level, while Tastino and Shark stayed at the bottom level to block the orc reinforcements.

As the Space Wolves advanced, they were also ambushed by Orcs in the fortress, but they were basically just small fry who posed no threat, and there were no Orc bosses to be seen.

But after reaching the middle level, the higher they went, the more frightened the wolves became. The corpses of orcs filled every aisle, and the number of orc bosses was countless. Heavy weapons could be seen every distance. The power of these orc weapons could definitely threaten the Terminator, because at the next corner the wolves saw the corpse of a Nebula Hammer Terminator.

The Nebula Hammer warrior fell against the wall, his Terminator armor pierced in more than one place, and the corpses of orcs piled up around him. Even on the verge of death, he was still fighting bravely.

"Rest in peace, brother."

Eivor expressed his respect for the warrior by not touching the corpse. The Nebula Hammer's warriors should be recovered and buried by Nebula Hammer himself.

The wolves continued to move forward. They saw more and more Terminator corpses on the way. Eivor thought about it from another perspective. Without the help of the Nebula Hammer, could he and the wolves fight their way through the orcs and shut down the shield generator?

I can't do it. (Shakes finger again)

The enemy is not just in the front, there are orcs hiding in various hidden corners, and the weapons they use are enough to penetrate the Astartes' power armor. Without the protection of the Terminator, a lone army going deep into such a place will only die inexplicably.

Although the Nebula Hammer reached the middle and upper levels of the fortress through a surprise attack, the fact that they were able to kill orcs of this size was enough to prove their strength.

Eivor couldn't help but feel regretful. If these warriors were survivors of the Great Crusade, the loss would be too great. They shouldn't have fallen in a place that was unworthy of their honor.

Thinking of this, the wild wolves sped up again, and on the way they bumped into Er Yu who was also walking up.

Eryu was in a relatively good condition. His armor and saber were stained red by the blood of the orcs. He destroyed a large number of firepower points in the fortress, and only two of the ten Terminators he had taken away were left.

"Brother Eryu, I'm glad to see you're safe." Eivor stepped forward and asked, "Where are brothers Preseth and Seteface?"

"I'm heading to their location."

"Then we'll join you."

Yelang and Eryu cleared the remaining soldiers on the road and rushed towards the location of Apu and Xianyu at full speed. When they arrived, they saw Xianyu rip open Galam's stomach and saw his head in half.

"You're late, Brother Eivor." After getting rid of Galam, Xianyu felt relieved and the timing was just right.

"The war boss is dead, and the remaining orcs are no longer a threat." Apu asked Gloria to broadcast the news of Galam's death to the battlefield. As soon as the orcs knew that the war boss was dead, they would start fighting among themselves until a new war boss was elected.

In the positions outside the fortress, the orcs had already vaguely sensed something, and after the broadcast, they confirmed that Galam was dead. The orcs fell into chaos, and the fart elves began to flee in all directions, which gave the imperial army an excellent opportunity.

The orcs' positions were breached, and the knights began to slaughter the aliens that invaded their homes. Part of the 191st Regiment arrived at the fortress and joined the Man-eaters defending on the bottom floor.

Victory is decided.

Chapter 44 A changed future

In M41.112, the 191st Regiment of the Armageddon Iron Legion, in conjunction with the Space Wolves, Nebula Hammers, and Carcharodon Astartes, helped the Farran family eliminate the Orks who invaded the Knight Planet - Artorius, which took five Terran years.

The political commissar of the 191st Regiment was writing a combat report. A month had passed since the last fortress of the orcs was captured. During this month, the 191st Regiment and the Astartes had been cleaning up the remaining orcs and sterilizing the entire continent to prevent the orcs from making a comeback in a few decades.

It is unknown how many years it will take for the Imperial Fleet to arrive in Arterius. The 191st Regiment is expected to stay in Arterius for a long time. Many soldiers have already considered settling down in Arterius. By the time the Imperial spacecraft comes to pick them up, some soldiers may even have children.

This kind of thing is not uncommon. If there is no transport ship to pick them up after the war, it is not uncommon for the Astra Militarum Corps to stay on a planet for more than ten or twenty years. After all, everyone knows the efficiency of the Empire. The soldiers certainly cannot do nothing for such a long time. It is normal for soldiers to get married or integrate into the local people on the planet and start families.

The soldiers' children will be recorded on the list of the Astra Militarum at birth. After the transport ship arrives, these children will leave the planet with their parents. Most of them will receive training from an early age and directly join the Astra Militarum where their parents are when they grow up. Some children who are luckier will be settled back to the home planet of the Astra Militarum Corps. If their parents are killed in a battle, these children will be sent to the Loyalty Academy to continue to be loyal to the Emperor and the Empire.

The political commissar stopped writing. He didn't know how long it would take for his report to be handed over to the Military Affairs Department, but now it was time for the 191st Regiment to have a good rest.

After the war, the Fran family decided to hold a grand banquet to celebrate this great victory. The 191st Regiment and three Astartes regiments will participate. The knights are really willing to spend money.

As a knight family with a long history, the Fran family has accumulated wealth for tens of thousands of years and they will never lack supplies. It is no exaggeration to say that the food piled up in the family warehouse is enough for the people of the entire planet to eat and drink for several generations.

The High King's castle is large enough to accommodate the Astartes and the 191st Regiment, but at Camille's request, the Farran family will also hold a celebration in the territory. All expenses during the celebration will be provided by the Farran family so that civilians can also participate.

"Do you really want me to come in person?"

In the castle, Camille, dressed in a men's noble dress, was full of nervousness. As the High King of the Farran family, although she had not yet undergone the coronation ceremony, she still needed to address her subjects as a king at the beginning of the celebration.

Camille had never spoken in front of so many people before, considering she was just a country girl.

"Just keep calm. You've memorized the speech, right? You can't see anyone from where you are standing, so just think of yourself talking." Apu encouraged Camille. Since this was a banquet to celebrate the victory of the war, he also wore ceremonial armor.

"Has Lord Precious ever given a speech in front of so many people before?"

"This is a required course for an Astartes officer, and it applies to you as the High King as well."

This is a lie. Not counting the time when he led the reading of texts at the podium in elementary and junior high school, the only time that Apu gave a speech with more than ten people in the audience was during his graduation thesis defense.

"Lady Camille, the time has come." The servant came up and said that the celebration would begin in a few minutes.

"I understand." Camille took a deep breath and mustered up her courage.

"Go ahead, you can do it." Apu patted the girl on the back.

"Well, I'm going."

Camille walked to a huge balcony in the High King's Castle, from which she could overlook the entire territory. The Fran family used an instrument to project the image of the speech into the air so that everyone in the territory could see it.

"Don't be nervous, just think of it as talking to yourself."

Looking down from the balcony, one could only see dense crowds of people gathered in the town. Not being able to see other people's faces made Camille feel a lot more relieved. Then she heard cheers coming from the territory.

The common people did not know what the picture in the sky was. They only knew that it was something made by the noble grandfathers. In the past, the king would use it to give speeches. Although they did not know who the girl in the picture was, since this girl could appear in this picture, she was at least a knight noble.

The news that the knights and the Imperial Guards defeated the evil orcs had already spread throughout Aterius. Those who lost their homes because of the orcs were all grateful. Their lives were saved by the knights, and the knights also fought side by side with the Emperor's angels. This made those who believed in the God-Emperor worship the knights crazily.

So no matter who appears on the screen, the civilians will cheer and applaud.

Camille sternly tried to look serious, using her gestures to quiet her future subjects. She then spoke:

"People of the Kingdom..."

In the banquet hall of the castle, Astarte had already taken his seat. The wolves arrived first and were waiting for the wine and food to be served.

"This little girl is pretty good. She has achieved this level in such a short time."

Eivor listened to the speech and showed off a bunch of grapes. Such good things are rare. He asked the servant beside him:

"Wow! These grapes are delicious. Are they grown on this planet?"

"No, this was brought down by the adults from Nebula Hammer. They said it was for this banquet."

"Hey~ These old guys have quite a lot of good stuff."

Eivor looked at the fruits in the large fruit bowl, most of which he didn't recognize. If these fruits were produced locally in Artorius, then he would have to find a way to steal a batch of them, as they were rare things.

In Warhammer 40k, due to its low yield and difficulty in preservation and transportation, fruit is a very expensive food in the Imperium of Man. Apart from fruit-producing areas, planets close to the production areas, and the area around Macragge under the rule of the Ultramarines, civilians on other worlds, especially workers in the Lower Hive, may not be able to afford the most 'ordinary' fruit in their entire working lives. Grapes and other rare and delicious varieties are luxuries among luxuries, and only the top dignitaries of the Imperium of Man can enjoy them.

Just how valuable is a piece or bunch of fruit rich in sugar and water? Take fruits native to Warhammer 40k for example. A single piece of ordinary fruit delivered to Terra could be exchanged for a property in a remote hive.

As for fruits like grapes, let's put it this way, even the sour and astringent grapes produced on a dead planet like Baal can bring the Blood Angels a considerable amount of income, and the wine made from them has a dominant position in the neighboring star fields. Those good grapes are even more priceless and are basically reserved for the powerful before they are produced. The excellent wine made from good grapes is enough to make those with weak minds fall into the path of Slaanesh.

Eivor ate grapes from Earth in the 3K period, including black, red, purple, and green, and all of the best quality. In addition to grapes, people also put apples, pears, oranges, watermelons, bananas and other common fruits in the 3K period in the fruit plate. In the 40k era, where Terran-native fruits have been extinct for who knows how many years, everyone might as well calculate how much such a fruit plate is worth.

"These fruits taste good, right?" Brother Ou walked over and said.

"Very good, Fenris doesn't have these good things. Captain Uldren, where did you get so many fruits? How did you preserve them? And can you tell me where they came from?" Eivor shook the grapes in his hand. Just one bunch of grapes could be worth a Star Guard's lifetime salary, and he might not even be able to afford it.

"Of course, they're placed in a stasis field. Fruit is incredibly valuable. As for where it's produced... do you believe me when I say it's from Terra?"

"Terra? That godforsaken place is worse than Fenris. Oh, I forgot there are no birds on Terra."

Eivor and the wolves beside him all laughed. They thought that Terra's fruit production was not as good as Fenris's year-round spring and pleasant scenery, but they didn't know that what Ou Ge said was the truth.

"Just kidding, these fruits come from a garden world in the Solar Segmentum, but that planet no longer exists."

"That's a shame. Are these fruits also extinct?"

"Almost. The Nebula Hammer still has some seeds, but we can't find a suitable place to plant them."

"If the environment requirements are not high, I think this planet is pretty good." Eivor really wanted to bring some seeds back to Fenris, but it would be a wonder if the environment in Fenris is suitable for planting.

"That's exactly what we thought."

Under the promotion of Apu, the Fran family is ready to become an ally of the Nebula Hammer. In order to help the Fran family revive, everyone has thought of many ways. It is too exaggerated to directly give away knight mechas. Giving away one or two can be explained by the relics of the former knight allies, but giving away too many will be troublesome.

So everyone thought of providing Artorius with a source of economic income - fruit. The value of good fruit has been mentioned above. As long as Artorius can stably produce high-quality fruit, money will come like a flood, and it will also attract the attention of the imperial dignitaries. In order to obtain these precious fruits, the dignitaries will definitely give the Fran family good conditions. At that time, the revival of the Fran family will be a foregone conclusion.

The Fran family also doesn't have to worry about the seeds being taken to other planets for planting. With Gloria's genetic modification, the seeds given by everyone can only grow in the environment of Atreus, which directly guarantees the uniqueness of Atreus and the Fran family.

Aiwo stood up and looked around, and found that there was a fruit plate on every table in the hall. He asked Ou Ge:

"I said, you didn't put a plate on every table, did you?"

"That's not the case. The Astra Militarum can only get an apple or a pear, or we give them a watermelon to divide among themselves." Brother Ou picked up an apple and took a bite. "We don't have that much in stock, so we must keep some for ourselves."

"You are so generous. There are so many people who want to eat a fruit like this but can't." Eivor was already thinking about how to pack up these fruits and take them away, but there was no stasis field on their spaceship, and he didn't know how long they could be kept in the storage room if they were frozen. He also wanted to take them to Fenris to show off.

While Eivor was still thinking, the Great Shark had already taken action. They had a stasis field, and although the space was not large, it could still hold some. They couldn't eat these good things outside the domain, so they brought them back and let the brothers in other companies taste them.

"Enjoy the banquet first, and remember to come to the camp with the White Shark afterward."

"What are you going to the camp for?"

"You'll understand when you come. Some things are inconvenient to talk about now."

After saying that, Brother Ou walked away. Eivor didn't think much about it. He would go and see what it was when the time came.

At this time, Camille's speech had ended, and the victory celebration was officially announced.

During the banquet, Camille announced to the family knights the alliance between the Farran family and the Hammer of the Nebula. It was a great thing for the family to be able to form an alliance with a powerful Astartes Legion. Camille had achieved something that no previous High King had been able to do before she was officially crowned.

It's a pity that Eivor is not the Wolf Lord of Dalian yet, otherwise he would join in the fun and make friends with the Fran family. It is a sure win to have a knight family as a helper.

While Aiwo and the wolf cubs were eating and drinking, the rune priest Hake came over and said:

"Come here for a moment, Eivor."

"Isn't this my dear friend, my brother, Huck? He's finally stopped talking nonsense?"

Huck had been locking himself in the room during this time. Eivor went in to see him several times, and each time he was saying something obscure and difficult to understand. I don't know if his brain was damaged by the wind.

"What are you talking about? I'm just listening to the guidance of the wind of Fenris. Come here quickly, I have something to tell you."

Eivor followed Hake onto the balcony and asked:

"What's so mysterious?"

"Do you know what I've seen these days?" Huck told him everything he had seen.

When the Wolf and his crew first arrived at Artorius, Hake felt that the wind had stagnated, and the direction of the wind only changed when the Nebula Hammer arrived.

After defeating the orcs, Hake tried to calculate what happened in the past year, but he saw a future that was completely different from the present.

"You mean we were all supposed to die on this planet?"

"The Nebula Hammer didn't exist in the prophecy I saw, and that girl didn't become the king of the Knight Clan. Support was slow to arrive, and we were gradually crushed in the confrontation with the orcs. So you chose to decapitate the war boss, but were killed in return. Only less than ten warriors survived the entire strike team, and we had no choice but to evacuate this planet. Eventually, the planet was completely occupied by the orcs, and the Astra Militarum and the Knights were annihilated. Everyone on the planet was killed by the orcs."

In the scene that Huck saw, the Great Shark retreated first after realizing that something was wrong. Tastino also persuaded the Wolf to leave, but Eivor decided to fight to the end.

"In other words, it was the Nebula Hammer that changed our future?"

"I don't know if this is true, but the wind must have made me see this for a reason."

Hake also tried to deduce the past of the Nebula Hammer, but he could see nothing, as if this chapter did not exist.

"Why think so much? Aren't we still alive and well now? If it was the Nebula Hammer that changed everything, then they are our benefactors." Eivor didn't care whether what Hack said was true or not. Since those things didn't happen, there was nothing to care about.

"I'm just curious. Even now, there's no Nebula Hammer in the wind's trajectory. Where did they come from?"

"If they don't know, then they don't know. If the Nebula Hammer are traitors, then there's no need for them to come and help us." Eivor didn't believe that this group of old dens would be traitors. At most, they were just unhappy with the current empire.

"I'm just saying that the Nebula Hammer might be more complicated than we thought."

"What's so complicated? Sometimes if you can't figure it out, just trust your intuition." If you can't tell whether a person is good or bad, then use the intuition of a wolf to judge. At least Eivor's intuition is that Nebula Hammer is not a bad person.

"At worst, I can just ask them later. It depends on whether they are willing to tell us."

(I remember seeing somewhere that when Sanguinius was transferred to Signus by Horus, he put a bunch of grapes in a stasis field and ate them one by one. It took him a long time to finish them.)

Chapter 45 begins!

"Are all the things ready? We're going to give the wolf cub a big surprise later."

Inside the camp, Luochen and Awei were packing up the things they were going to send out next, and making sure that there would be no problems with their plan.

"I've checked it many times. You guys are taking it easy. I've been annoyed to death all this time."

Ah Wei is probably the most tired person in Nebula Hammer recently, because they used Stormbird to play Kamikaze operation before, and the engineer of 191st Regiment has been bothering him for half a month, and has been asking him indirectly whether Nebula Hammer needs a mechanical priest on board.

"Gloria, there won't be any problems with the things we send out, right?"

Luochen was very worried that there would be problems with the equipment they sent out, especially the machine soul, because Gloria had been impersonating the machine soul all along, so he was afraid that this batch of equipment would become a "blank slate" after cutting off the connection with Gloria.

"Don't worry, this batch of equipment will generate machine souls on its own after it is disconnected from me. I have already stimulated and trained the machine souls of the important equipment to be delivered." Gloria will not make mistakes in important matters. She has taken care of every detail and there will be no loopholes.