The Astartes Family's Notebook

"No, really no, a fleet battle is going too far. Are your two companies' company champions just there to do nothing?"

Who the hell are you, Blood Duck Warband?

never heard of that.

You're a penitent monk? I've heard of that.

I've only heard of it.

Katz's blatant bias finally drew a response from the critics.

Alright, when in doubt, let's have a glorious duel.

The penitent monk thought about it and decided it was acceptable, so he agreed.

Ka Zhongtang has done a great service, successfully resolving a civil war within the Imperial Hall.

But what does it mean that we Blood Ducks also need to participate?

It would be so boring to just have a martial arts competition without any extras.

You Blood Ducks love to meddle in other people's business, so bring out the prize money.

The penitent monk picked up the thread and threw out the competition plan, clearly someone who frequently encountered problems.

The insulters and the penitent monk each send three people, while the meddlesome Blood Duck sends two. The eight people are drawn into groups for elimination battles, and the final winner gets to say whatever they want.

Furthermore, each Astartes player must carry a weapon of superior quality or higher. The winner takes all, and the loser shouldn't complain.

hiss......

Are all the gangs in the Misty Starfield like this?

Kaz wasn't scared, but rather felt bewildered. "I was just trying to break up a fight, is it really necessary?"

If you're a coward, don't play; if you play, don't be a coward. If you don't have any skills, you're just trying to get your mother to fight.

Hey, look at Kaz's temper.

Okay, okay, okay.

Good, good, good.

You look down on me, Kaz, the runner-up of the first Omidas Black Cup tournament, and that's fine.

Do you know Samar? He's the [Killer of Metsudo]!

They chickened out today, so the Blood Duck Battle Gang has disbanded.

You forced me to do this.

Don't be fooled by the Blood Duck Warband's poverty; that's just a common problem among Chaos Warbands—they simply lack various Astartes-specific heavy firepower equipment.

However, Kaz has no shortage of individual combat equipment of superior quality, as they were all gifts from his various good buddies who came out of the Eye of Fear.

"Who's coming with me?"

The Blood Duck Battle Clan was filled with fervor.

Trois had expected the gang leader to choose him, but Kaz chose Qiong En instead, which puzzled the Fallen Angel leader within the War Gang.

"Boss, Qiong En... he's a bit lacking."

"We chose him to go and see what he was capable of because he was a little lacking."

"Um, could it be?"

"What do you think? When has the Astartes draw ever been fair?"

"Oh, then I have no problem."

Apart from the silly kid Qiong En, the other seasoned veterans understood and calmed down, looking at their technical sergeants with loving eyes.

No, what do you mean?

Nothing more to it. After the lottery ceremony ended, the Blood Duck Battle Clan members all showed expressions of "I knew it."

Two groups of insulters and penitent monks fought each other. A third member of the insulters attacked Qiong En, while the penitent monks' team champions attacked Kaz.

Although the repentance cultivators' battle group raised their voices high, they still acted in a methodical manner.

Ultimately, this was a conflict between the penitent monks and the insulters. Blood Duck was meddling, so he offered two pieces of equipment as a token gesture and then gracefully left.

Qiong En finally understood that he was just there to go through the motions.

Yeah, otherwise, how could a rookie technical sergeant like you get to show off like this?

This isn't showing your face, it's showing your ass!

Yeah, that's why we Blood Duck should choose a technical sergeant to go out there. It's not shameful to lose, right?

Qiong En's private chat channel was full of profanities, but unfortunately, it wasn't aggressive enough to break through the defenses of the veteran members of the War Gang.

But it's different for Katz.

Those who truly want to win don't have smiles on their faces. Kaz was surprised to discover that the fight with Omidas that influenced his life was already a hundred years ago.

This time, in Samar's name, Katz is determined to win everything.

Chapter 447 The Battle is Underway

When one's affections are insufficient, one cannot resolve resentment and shame; when one cannot express hatred, one cannot reveal envy and fear.

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"Pits gods and buries saints, deceives immortals; complete loyalty and sincerity are the mark of a sage; the mind is divided, fighting left and right, honoring the highest heavens both inside and out."

As Kaz stepped onto the arena, muttering an opening poem that no one else could hear, the regret and melancholy in his heart seemed to linger like the melancholy of that year.

If I were still the loyal Eighth Company Commander of the Desolate Wings of the Astartes Legion...

Forget it, let's play the game, let's play the game.

Astartes had abandoned all worldly ties and old dreams, leaving only his personal interests in glory and showing off. He couldn't stand not letting Kaz show off to the fullest.

The competition venue was very basic; they just found a planet in the galaxy with a decent gravity environment, leveled the land, and that was it.

According to Katz, they should sell tickets to the nobles of the Nest City at a high price.

Astartes, the Imperial Civil War, the Tournament of Glory—with a little management, a market worth billions of Throne Coins can be created. Add in the betting and bookmaking, and a hundred billion in revenue can be easily earned.

However, the insulters and penitent monks all read his messages but didn't reply, and there was nothing Kaz could do about it.

Hey, suddenly everyone's praising the Black Orcs. The Black Templar Chapter is so pragmatic; the Grand Marshal of the Black Templar is always willing to try anything that helps raise funds for the Eternal Crusade.

Narrow-minded, your local branch in the Misty Starfield is still too narrow-minded.

If you disagree, then you disagree. Let's stick to the original format for this challenge.

The tournament consisted of eight rounds to four, four rounds to two, and the finals. Because the schedule was simple, with only three rounds in total and a standard first-blood rule, the venue was not specially hardened or reinforced.

After all, everyone was in a hurry.

The four matches in the first round were played simultaneously.

By specifically choosing this anaerobic environment, both the insulters and the penitent monks had ulterior motives.

Despite the Penitentiary's murderous demeanor during the conflict, as a loyalist chapter and one of the twenty members of the Astartes Grand Chapter guarding the Eye of Terror, the Penitentiary is not the type to act recklessly.

We're about to have a fleet war, why aren't we running rampant?

Hey, they're just bullying honest people, they'll scare them a little first.

Despite the word "abuse" in the name of this warband, they are actually quite civilized.

Penitent monks are essentially playing the trick of deceiving others with the appearance of a virtuous person.

Because the offspring of the godfather are naturally introverted, the people who hurl insults may not even realize how famous they are.

The Dark Raven Guards were already small in number, and during the second military reform, the 19th Army Corps split off three sub-regiments.

The insulters, the Blackguards, and the Raptor Band that Kaz knew.

Although the Raven Guard branch later spun off a dozen or so sub-branches during the army's formation, out of the Empire's thousands of branches, the descendants of Raven King Corax only received one percent of the brand. The dwindling number of members was a cause for lamentation.

Kaz had become buddies with the eagles, so he naturally knew some of the stories about the Raven Guards.

Those who hurl insults cannot get along with the original Blackguard and Raptor Chapter.

It's not that the insulting group has forgotten its roots; the main reason for this situation is the difference in fighting styles.

With the production capacity of the Salvation Stars, if the Raven Guards didn't support their subordinate groups, their equipment would be so luxurious that even Macragge would be envious.

But the reason why the mother group is the mother group is that it needs to be fed.

Blackguard is a notoriously hot-tempered guy in the Empire, skilled at heavy firepower sweeping and loves to shoot people in the face.

The Raptor Squadron is very practical; they use whatever works well and are not picky about food.

Therefore, both of these entities maintain a relatively close relationship with the Savior and regularly send people back to the Storm Sector to collect supplies from the Raven Guard.

But the insulters are different. Since the split, unless the parent group calls for them or a brother group asks for help, the insulters never take the initiative to participate in team building activities.

Furthermore, those who hurl insults are particularly adept at covert operations, resulting in a significantly lower casualty rate compared to other loyalist factions of the Empire with a more "normal" style.

Since the savior can't "control" the insulters with supplies and equipment, it's only natural that the insulters are not close to the main group.

If that were the only case, the person who hurled insults wouldn't be so famous.

So where does the problem lie?

Ah Fa, come out and say something!

Stop talking, stop talking, or you'll get beaten up.

The Insulters' Warband, the Empire's premier anti-Afa organization, boasts a proven track record and is honest and trustworthy.

For example, Dark Angel, Holy Blood Angel, and Space Wolf only have unique skills to quickly identify Ah Fa lurking inside, but when these three gangs beat Ah Fa up, it's like Ah Fa is asking for a beating, asking for a beating and getting a beating in return.

But the insulters are different. For thousands of years, they have been persistently and actively causing trouble for AlphaRes, and with remarkable results.

The only way to sniff out and execute Afa is through the Rubyanka Chapter of the Human Empire.

This is something that veteran battle groups with a long history know, and the penitent monks are no exception.

Therefore, penitent monks are gambling that those who hurl insults will back down.

Because the penitent monks were really in a hurry, they were given supplies and rushed off to fight.

Look at what they're saying. The two companies of those who are hurling insults have been waiting here for three months. Are they pregnant women or something?

There's no way around it; this is a problem fostered by the Great Astartes, and this is the style of the Imperial Loyalist faction.

We're loyal to the Emperor and serve the Empire. We'd give our lives for him, we don't care about anything else.

Don't penitent monks know that what they're doing is unethical?

I know.

If we meet again amidst the mountains and rivers, the green hills will not bear to bury my loyal bones. If I encounter those who hurl insults at me in the future, I will let them say a few words and will never retaliate.

If they go and never return...

Then let's not go back together.

If your empire were simply abstract, it would have perished a thousand or eight hundred times over.

However, this tragic scene mixed with abstract imagery is truly hard to bear.

"Very well, you are all loyal subjects of the Empire, all men of unyielding integrity. So, I, Kaz, am acting like a villain?"

If we don't teach your two families a lesson today, how can our Blood Duck Battle Group face the former commanders of the Blood Raven Twenty-Four Dynasties!

Because everyone was watching, it was impossible to avoid them. After talking to everyone, Kaz finally settled one thing.

The insulters and the penitent monks did indeed mistake their own war gang for Blood Raven.

This is a good thing, after all, that's the original intention of changing the paint job.

Aside from the more rigid traditional warbands, most warband emblems actually have variations or several parallel and universal versions.

This is in accordance with the provisions of the Astartes.

However, Kaz did not expect that the Blood Ravens had made a great impression and gained considerable influence during the previous twelfth Black Expedition.

Therefore, the local factions in the Misty Starfield don't really like the Blood Raven Chapter.