Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 156: The Thales People Addicted to Spectacular Performances

Taiping Star Region, Tanis's high-altitude orbit.

Sanchez, the Chapter Master of the Seventh Regiment, stared at the holographic image of Tanis and spoke to the Chapter Officer beside him.

"The Thalesian warships are not in the system. We must take this opportunity to annihilate the aliens on the surface of Tanis."

"Before we set off, the Gene Father reminded me of the characteristics of the Telos people."

"The Thales viewed warfare as a spectacle, planning their tactics based on spectacle and glitz rather than sound tactics."

There was a gleam in the Hunter's eyes, and his big hand lightly tapped the planet Tanis, enlarging it.

"The Telians' tactics were bizarre, sending out columns of gleaming war machines, only to follow up with poorly equipped and lightly protected infantry in the ensuing battles."

"The two opposite extremes of 'overemphasis' and 'overdisregard' often appear in a strange succession. They lack a coherent overall strategic thinking."

"Their tactical actions are so bizarre that we find it difficult to predict them."

Captain Szesny, who had the High Gothic letter "I" and the ripples of ocean waves branded on his left shoulder, frowned and spoke.

"No," Sanchez said, shaking his head. "We don't need predictions. We just need to throw out the bait."

"When they pounce on the flashy bait, we'll deliver targeted strikes."

The Reaper Lord cast fifty-two baits in Tanis, and the 333rd Regiment of the Sun Auxiliary Force, which had been fighting with the th Regiment, was ordered to move out.

They were used as bait again, but unlike Triken, this time no one could be sure which bait the main force of the Telians would take.

Four days after casting the bait, the Thales took action.

Jorginho, with waves and the High Gothic letter "II" painted on his left shoulder armor, reviews the match report.

"The Thales people's thinking is truly incomprehensible. The seven, twenty-third, and forty-ninth strategic points they deployed their war machines to focus on have completely different characteristics."

"The seventh strategic point is outside the forest and has weak defenses. The twenty-third strategic point is located at the edge of the Nar Woods and is surrounded by minefields. The forty-ninth strategic point is located on a hill. The auxiliary legion commander is leading the guards to build a fortress, and the legion's artillery is concentrated here."

"In addition to these three strategic points, the Telians also launched attacks on 25 strategic points, but they only sent infantry equipped with simple weapons, and were easily defeated by the auxiliary troops."

While the second company commander was speaking, the first company commander was thinking hard but to no avail.

"There's no logic, not even like the logic a normal person would have..."

Szczesny was silent for a second before finding the right phrase: "Like a gambler rolling dice."

“Is there a conspiracy?”

The Reaper Lord thought silently for a few seconds, then shook his head decisively, his tone firm and powerful.

"will not!"

"These are the Telians my father was talking about. Their attack is illogical."

"Szczesny, your company's target is the 23rd strategic point; Jorginho, the 49th strategic point is yours; I'll be in charge of the 7th strategic point, using the explosive bomb."

The Chapter Master looked at the other Chapter Masters and Lieutenants, "For the remaining strategic points, follow the previous arrangements and use subsonic bullets."

Seeing Sanchez give the order, Szczesny said nothing more. He didn't believe that the king would make a mistake, but his father sent him to the Seventh Regiment, and his responsibility was to give advice to the radical and bold Reaper Lord.

The Master of Sound Array reported the results of the meeting to the flagship of the 12th Regiment. The commanders of the two regiments quickly boarded the space capsule.

The black drop capsules grew increasingly dark and scorching during their journey through the atmosphere, then slammed into the earth, sending up clouds of dust and scattering earth and rocks. Then, they opened with a rumbling sound, slamming the wide hatches heavily onto the ground.

The Shadow of Order quickly rushed out of the airdrop chamber and dispersed mechanizedly. The teams connected end to end to form a circular formation and launched an attack from behind the Telas people.

Sanchez looked at the glittering war machines in front of him. The Telos people had no reaction to the enemy troops that fell from the sky and appeared behind them. They were like beasts without wisdom, stubbornly continuing to attack the seventh strategic point.

The Reaper Lord was stunned for only a moment before he came to his senses. He issued orders to the Honor Guard and the special forces teams selected from the third to fifth companies.

"Attack!" Sanchez strode forward, raised his left arm, and fired a mass explosive bomb at the dazzling armor that was even shinier than the Shadow Moon Wolf's pearl white armor.

The explosive bomb shot mercilessly into the alien armor that was like a work of art, penetrating the lower pair of the two pairs of vertically arranged forelimbs.

The explosion tore apart the longitudinal nerve axis wrapped in the protein structure, and the squid-like body was left with only the head and cephalopod-like tentacles.

The Reaper Lord pulled the trigger repeatedly, killing several Telos people.

Sanchez pressed the rune, strode forward, and immediately appeared behind the magnificent war machine, swinging a slash with the 23rd rule of "Osberch-Waya".

The roaring chainsaw sword tore through the shining mechanical shell and accurately chopped the back of the space squid.

Amidst the roar, blood mixed with protein floated into the air, and the squid head wearing a shiny helmet spun in the air and fell to the ground.

The experienced "Hunter" rushed left and right among the Thales people, using his senses and "subspace insight" to complete the analysis of the space squid people during the battle.

He opened the command communication channel and issued the latest orders.

"The Thales people spent more effort on their appearance than on combat. Their bodies are not suitable for combat, and they lack combat awareness."

"Primarch above, he is interested in the eyes of the Telians, and in chopping off their heads whenever possible."

After hundreds of Thales people were killed, the space squids seemed to come back to their senses from the gorgeous battle performance. The war machines danced and twisted their bodies as if they were performing, rushing towards the black-armored warriors.

The Shadows of Order keenly seized the opportunity of the Telians' battlefield dance and dealt them a brutal blow without any appreciation.

Sanchez discovered that the main force of the space squids was still obsessed with their magnificent performance of heavy raids and attacks on weak defenses.

Two words came to his mind: "clown" and "dressage".

At the same time, my mind flashed back to the performance I saw at the Terra Festival when I was seven years old, the clowns with heavy makeup and the dance steps performed by actors playing horses.

While the Reaper Lord was thinking, he kept moving and killed the Telos people efficiently.

At the same time, Szczesny's exclamation was heard in the headphone channel.

"Space squids are much more gorgeous than sea squids, and more..."

Just as Szczesny was choosing his words, Jorginho spoke.

"That's the complexity of species, the squid left the sea and became a gorgeous space species."

When Sanchez led his troops to surround the auxiliary army camp, an even stranger scene occurred to him.

Commander Thales, dressed in gorgeous armor, showed no anger or sadness, nor did he try to escape.

He performed a strange, jaunty dance in the cell, leaping from side to side and displaying a variety of colors.

The "Hunter" stared at the gorgeous space squid for a moment, but failed to understand the strange thinking of the Thales people.

The Reaper Lord flashed and swung his sword, ending the battle.

[My carefully prepared hunt ended up being a farce.]
After the conquest of Tanis, Sanchez began collecting the eyes of the people of Telos.

Biological sages conducted an anatomical analysis of the space squid's four visual organs and found that they have a 230-degree field of view.

After dissection, the watery outer membrane and spongy "retina" can be seen. The front eyes have a large number of cones, which are conducive to seeing long-wave light, such as infrared rays; the back eyes have more rods and are extremely photosensitivity.

The confusing feeling caused by the Nar trees being constantly pulled out of the ground and then falling back into the ground had no effect on the sensitive Order Shadows. The Nar grubs were collected one by one and prepared to be dedicated to the Father of Genes.

The 12th Regiment remained in Tanis to establish order and guard against the Thales fleet.

When the Seventh Regiment returned with the spoils, Nimrod discovered on the Royal Shadow that the Dice of Prophecy had been fully charged.

(End of this chapter)