The Astartes Family's Notebook

Kill their entire family!!!

The Emperor really said this, and it is recorded in both the "Records of the Emperor's Sacred Words" and the "Records of Imperial Admonitions." The Lord of Mankind called for his execution more than once.

As loyal Imperial Angels, the Wings of Desolation and the Raptor Legion naturally have to listen to their Imperial Grandfather.

Kaz wanted to say something, but he couldn't. The secrets of the Black Stone Obelisk should be left for the unknown, kind-hearted sage of the Mechanicus to discover.

Now, it's time to kill.

Chapter 106 Bad Signal

In the warm embrace of the subspace, we found the meaning of life; in the cries of despair, we heard the whispers of chaos.

All hatred gathers here, abandoning the shackles of reason and the illusion of order, forsaking all justice and mercy, accepting the infinite possibilities of chaos, and faithfully following the way of the Chaos Eight-Pointed Star.

Chaos doesn't care about your past, your identity, your status, or the people you once served. The only things that matter are your deep hatred, your thirst for power, and the way you pursue Him.

We stand on the edge of enlightenment, needing only to take that first step into eternal chaos, and He will reshape your entire being, your hatred.

Whether for individuals, nations, races, or the world as a whole, it will become part of your strength. In the abyss of despair, the weak will perish, while we will rise and be reborn!

So, will you join us? My friend, my brother.

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There are countless excuses to defect to chaos, but only one reason to be loyal to the emperor.

In this eternally war-torn galaxy, only the Emperor loves humanity.

The Shadow of Death, having lost his will, defected to the Destruction Lord and even attempted to use empathy to win over the Astartes of the Corrupted Wings and the Raptor Chapter.

Originally, this mission was undertaken out of personal favor and honor.

The nature of the situation changed after the traitors, lured by the shadow of death, sent notices urging surrender.

Heh, I originally only wanted to kill you all, but now I'll show you I can't!

Motor Sich's caution played a significant role, and the Shadow of Death Warband retained its organizational structure from the Warband era.

The Chaos Traitors have at least two full-strength companies of troops, and without the help of the Raptor Fifth Company, this battle will be very difficult.

However, at present, the loyal Imperial side of Astartes has the numerical advantage.

There's no need to consider what strategies to use to gain a tactical advantage; however many Astartes the Shadow of Death deploys, the Empire will deploy the same number to counter them.

We, the Loyalists, have air support from warships and superior weaponry. Come, you heretics who believe in Nurgle instead of the Emperor, come and fight us head-on! Let's see which is stronger and more powerful: the false life Nurgle has given you or the Loyalist bombs the Emperor has bestowed upon us.

The first hive has already fallen, and Katz, from a personal standpoint, understands those hive residents who, under pressure from reality, have turned to the Destroyer.

However, understanding is not the same as forgiveness. Compared to the victims infected by the Nagle Plague and turned into walking corpses, these traitors who defected to the enemy are even more hateful.

The Death Shadows' tactical objective is not hard to guess: to use a large number of plague zombies to corrupt the land within the control area of ​​the Second Nest City.

Although the Chaos Fleet failed in the space battle, the First Nest still possesses a robust Void Shield defense system. The Chaos Warband used Nurgle's plague to acquire a large number of plague carriers as reinforcements, and the shadow of death still looms over Skord.

Unlike Motor Sich's cautious and pessimistic attitude, Katz was having a blast.

The reason is actually quite funny.

Because Karz was a Cloud Hammer, he didn't understand how terrifying Nurgle's Plague was; he only remembered one thing.

The subspace plague does not follow biological pathology, but is an idealistic supernatural disease, and only unwavering faith in the God-Emperor can provide immunity.

Hehe, what a coincidence! Look at what's on my shoulder armor.

God Emperor, I freaking respect for your teeth!

Ignorance breeds fearlessness, fearlessness breeds dreadlessness, and dreadlessness makes one impervious to evil.

Even though the solution approach was completely wrong, the answer was correct, so everything was right.

Using precious mortal troops to clear the zombie horde would be too wasteful, so the Astartes decisively accepted the mission.

Even Jesfer, who was stationed in the second hive city, was amused by this embarrassing situation.

A precious army of ordinary people...

The remaining Imperial forces on the planet had been utterly demoralized by the Shadow of Death warbands, and they might have surrendered at any moment had the two warbands not arrived in time.

However, it would be impossible to breach the first hive city with just over two hundred loyal Astartes; a large number of mortal soldiers would be needed to fill the gaps.

So until they could regroup, the Astartes were truly full-time caregivers.

The difference between Nurgle and Khorne becomes apparent.

The Lord of the Skull does not care where the blood flows, but the loving Father welcomes everyone to join his warm family.

Therefore, when fighting against the forces of the wicked, one must always be wary of antisocial personalities and traitors who have lost their minds.

However, these strategic considerations remain irrelevant to Katz.

He really enjoyed chopping.

Using explosives to fight zombies is a wasteful luxury, so the young sergeant welded a super-large ammunition box himself.

Kars had 20,000 rounds of ammunition for his heavy logging gun, three chainsaw swords, and the explosive gun hanging on his waist that he didn't plan to use unless the Chaos traitor showed up.

Kaz absolutely loves zombie games.

Didn't Ingus complain that his marksmanship was a bit off?

Okay, okay, I'll practice more then.

Swain followed behind Katz, watching as Katz used the heavy logging gun meant for suppressing fire like a sniper rifle, and he also felt that something was strange.

It should be noted that heavy logging guns are usually welded to a base for use, and their recoil is no less than that of a bomb gun. Kaz held it with both hands and used the machine gun in rapid fire as if it were a bolt-action rifle.

It's a bit abstract.

"What abstract? This is the effect of setting an example. I've seen Ingus do it this way before. If he can do it, there's no reason why I can't. If I can do it, you should practice too."

Swain wanted to refute something, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed to make sense.

"And, Swain, you know what? I didn't use aim assist. There's no shortcut to getting a feel for things; you just have to practice, really practice."

Swain, who was obediently holding a melee weapon and following Kaz as a spotter, thought Kaz was right. He would practice like that tomorrow too. It would be a waste not to use a ready-made moving target.

The 20,000 bullets were quickly used up. The impact, which was enough to tear the ligaments of an ordinary soldier's arm, was just a warm-up for Kaz. He unloaded the ammunition box he had welded and put the gun aside. The Empire's advanced material technology gave Kaz a slight tremor.

Twenty thousand rounds! Even though it was burst fire, that's still twenty thousand consecutive shots, and the barrel still wasn't worn out.

There is information!

It was still early, and going back now seemed a bit unsatisfying. Kaz, wielding two chainsaws, prepared to practice his melee skills a bit more.

It's been over three years since I've had any real combat experience. Although sparring with my fellow fighters is quite fun, the feeling of the chainsaw cutting into flesh is still the most exhilarating thing for Astartes.

With the warships' oracle arrays scanning the sky around the clock, Yesfer did not use the conventional tactical squads of four or more people. Instead, he directly released the Astartes who had descended upon the hive city in pairs, leaving only four mobile squads of sixteen people in total to patrol the skies aboard Thunderhawk gunboats, ready to deal with any emergencies.

If the Shadow of Death thinks that such methods can destroy the loyal Imperial Astartes, it is being far too naive.

Yesfer is waiting for the second hive to complete the reorganization of the PDF forces.

What is the shadow of your death waiting for?

However, the think tank Euler brought Motor Sich some less-than-good news.

The Skold system is not only remote, but its reality veil is also exceptionally strong, resulting in a very high delay in subspace communication. In addition, there are no interstellar relay stations in the surrounding subsectors, so there is no hope of Imperial reinforcements in the short term.

Chapter 107 Tunnel Warfare

Tunnel warfare, hey, tunnel warfare, buried millions of divine soldiers.

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It is difficult to judge whether the successive governors of Skord were good or bad.

Because we are in the purgatory of the Milky Way, in this abstract human empire, there is only loyalty, not right or wrong.

As the galactic overlord and an interstellar empire, the human world has no shortage of various common minerals.

There are 400 billion stars in the Milky Way, but only one million colonized planets on paper. To take an extreme assumption, if each star system has only one planet orbiting it, that's still 400 billion planets. How many do the human empires actually occupy? One percent is four billion, one hundred thousandth is four million.

Tsk tsk, with this level of development, would they even dare to call themselves the rulers of the galaxy in other science fiction works?

Don't be embarrassed, this is how it is in our Warhammer world. The galaxy is a river, and the starry sea is a sea. It's the Age of Exploration, so it's normal.

Skord is not an important node in the subspace route, but it has been able to develop over three thousand years because the planet contains many rare and precious high-value special minerals.

Although the easily accessible areas have already been excavated, and the continental shelf has been riddled with holes by humans, there are still many resources in the deep rocky regions of the planet that still have development value.

However, the Empire's logistics costs were simply too high. With mining costs plus transportation costs, Skord had lost its core competitiveness.

Therefore, the mining world declined.

Why do you see it?

An empire, a human empire! Trees and grass are starting to grow back on the surface of Skord. If this isn't decline, what is?

Therefore, the two nest cities left by the governors can be considered the most precious legacy left to their descendants.

Although its core business competitiveness is gone, Skord can still make a living by engaging in mineral smelting and refining, and increasing the profit ceiling per unit volume of shipping.

When people have money, they can't help but spend it lavishly. It's so hard to research and produce things ourselves. Why don't we buy more? Are we going to let the Empire's Charter fleet sail empty-handed?

When people are broke, they always understand Xianglin's Wife and become like her. Really, I was so stupid. I only knew that money came easily because my family had a mine. Why didn't I think of setting up more production lines?

Having made their fortunes in the mining industry, all of Skord's industrial capacity is strongly correlated with mining equipment.

Such a one-sided development path is hard to describe for the loyalist Astartes, and the Chaos traitors are not much better off.

They didn't even have enough weapons and equipment to organize a rebel army of converts to the cult.

Despite having usurped a large portion of the planet's population, the Death Shadow Warband was unable to effectively utilize the Nurgle Plague, leaving them feeling frustrated.

The Nurgle Plague Infected are fine for bullying the natives of primitive societies, but in the sinister realm of the Human Empire, zombies can't even handle IG or PDF without rocket launchers.

Even if Left 4 Dead is updated to version 40K, the basic gameplay remains unchanged. Who do you think is trying to survive?

Kaz has always been good at stirring things up. After getting to know the engineers and technical sergeants, he naturally learned how to write small programs.

So when the kill counter written by Kaz started circulating among the Astartes, Ingus interfered.

“Your calculation of kills using only the graphic analysis function of the infrared spectral detector is not accurate enough and the error is too large, which is unfair. I have made some modifications and linked other functions of the power beetle detector.”

It has to be you, the all-around champion! Is there anything you can't do?

It's true that Astartes has no worldly desires, but when it comes to rankings and lists, the competitive spirit just won't stop.

The reorganization and training of the PDF troops in the second hive city were not yet complete, and the production line for the orc-like flying machines was not yet modified. Relying solely on about a hundred Astartes, they managed to push the zombie wave outwards by hundreds of kilometers.

In less than a month, more than 30 million Nurgle zombies perished at the hands of Astartes.

Don't misunderstand, 30 million is not the limit for Astartes, but rather the Shadow of Death realized that simply driving the low-intelligence plague zombies was not enough to effectively damage the second hive, so it voluntarily withdrew.

The emperor's money cannot be wasted, nor can the benevolence of a loving father be limitless.

The Chaos forces in the First Hive City voluntarily withdrew, while the Imperial forces in the Second Hive City also accumulated strength. Skold, a mining world invaded by Chaos, experienced a brief period of global peace without war.

It's just an illusion.

With the Sector Military Affairs Department now in charge of the war, the fleet in orbit has begun a relentless bombardment, determined to shatter the void shield of the First Hive City.

The problem is that this war is led by the Desolate Wings Fourth Company, and Motor Sich doesn't have enough ammunition to fight the fortress-class Void Shield of the Hive City to the death.

Astartes has its own unique way of fighting.

The Shadow of Death faction is trying to arm the Nurgle cultists in City One, while the Desolation Wings are doing their best to purge the PDF forces in City Two.

It seems that both sides are preparing for a classic large-scale battle.

Who would believe that...?

Desolation Wings fooled Death Shadow like a fool, while Death Shadow fooled Desolation Wings like a complete idiot.

As a result, the Raptor Legion's eagles encountered Chaos Astartes traitors with the same idea in the underground mine tunnels.

Hey, what a coincidence! First blood was taken by our Raptor Squad!

Although the Fifth Company Commander, Yesfe, was unusually cheerful for someone who didn't seem like the crow king's son, the Nineteenth Army Corps' skills had never become rusty.

A direct assault was indeed the Astartes brothers of the Wasteland's forte, so the Fifth Company focused their main attack on the intricate underground mine tunnels of Skold.

After three thousand years of mining, the Skord continental shelf is already riddled with holes, but there is still much to be done, much to be done indeed.