Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 35 Assassination of the Garrison Captain
After three work cycles, Nimrod decided to launch a new offensive.

Thierry and Szczesny need time to build their teams, and Bukayo is still in the preparation stage.

Nimrod decided to take only the first regiment and conquer Stettin and Mazov.

He led the team out with the repaired heavy halberd in his hand, and left Wojciech behind to continue developing waterproof weapons.

Yelena hurried over and joined the team. She didn't expect that King Nimrod could conquer the powerful Lukopo Hive in such a short time.

Mazov, upper nest, ventilation passage.

Maria Kornikova, who is two meters and one foot tall, applies tube oil to the machete.

Another woman with a shaved head, repairing a laser spear, glanced at the time on her tactical watch and whispered.

"Maria, the agreed rendezvous time has passed thirteen standard minutes. Pironkova should be dead."

The six people were divided into two teams, each carrying out assassination missions. After sneaking into the nest, they acted independently to hunt.

"Tesvetana, she won't be coming. She assassinated Baron Bereshensky, triggering a pursuit by the security forces. With her abilities, she can't escape."

"So it was her who did it. I thought it was you."

Tesvetana exclaimed that the other five of the six had their own strengths, but only Maria surpassed the others in every aspect.

"My target was the guard captain, and Pironkova created the opportunity for me."

Maria said this while wiping the blade with a yellow silk cloth.

"follow me."

Tesvetana hesitated for a few seconds. If someone else had assassinated the target while he was alert, she would have thought he was crazy, but Maria had the ability to take advantage of every opportunity.

Mazov's garrison captain, Valukevich, felt like he was going crazy. The communicator kept beeping, and he didn't even want to check the communication information.

"Valukevich, the heir of our Skorupski family has been dead for two working cycles, and the murderer hasn't been caught yet?"

"Valukevich, I am the new patriarch of the Drongovsky family. My father, Bereshensky, died in the last working cycle. You must hand over the murderer to me."

"..."

After tired of dealing with the urgings of various families, Valukevich, whose hairline was visibly receding, decided to vent his anger on his subordinates.

He switched to the command channel and roared angrily to all the squad leaders.

"You losers can't even locate an assassin."

"Damn it, if you can't find him today, don't even think about packing up."

After hanging up the phone, he gulped down a glass of water and felt better.

At this moment, the communicator beeped again. Valukevich's body trembled, and he answered the call weakly.

"Captain, we found her. The assassin is hiding in the B-118 chemical plant."

Valukevich's spirits rose, and he shouted loudly.

"Keep an eye on him, I'll be right there."

The garrison captain immediately stood up and called his men together.

"Come with me. I must catch the idiot who is causing trouble for me today."

He boarded an open command vehicle, which started and sped along the streets.

Two kilometers away from the target point, suddenly a dazzling light flashed and hit the high-speed driving wheel.

The command vehicle immediately lost balance, spun and crashed into the wall.

"assassin!"

Valukevich drew out his laser pistol. He had not expected the assassin to be so bold, and he had not expected that he would be attacked before even entering the factory area.

[Those useless subordinates didn't report the assassin's breakout. Could there be more than one assassin?]
Valukevich didn't give any orders, not wanting to become a target. He crouched and trotted to the wall of a roadside building, looking around. He discovered that the laser gun had been silenced, making no sound when it fired.

The assassin's shooting was accurate, and with every shot one of his men fell to the ground.

After observing for more than ten seconds, he determined through the light beam that the assassin was located in the water tower.

[He's an experienced assassin. That water tower supplies water to fifteen nearby factories, so there are too many evacuation routes.]
The garrison captain took out his communicator and contacted his squad leader, he whispered.

"Idiots..."

As he spoke, he didn't notice that a figure was approaching quickly and silently from the shadows.

"B-138 Water Tower, repeat..."

"B...", a cold light flashed, the scimitar slid past, and the head fell to the ground.

Blood splattered on her face, but Maria didn't feel a single wave of emotion in her heart, not even a sense of accomplishment for completing the mission.

After Nimrod captured Stettin, he sent the destroyer Termalica of the 7th Company to seize the spaceport, and another destroyer, the Nowy Sonchy Sandchika, to participate in the war against the alien pirates.

In the royal palace, in addition to finding a potion ingredient for Sequence 9 "Reader", he also obtained the main ingredient for Sequence 9 "Midnight Poet" corresponding to Sequence 8 "Sleepless" - a poem that had been passed down for thousands of years.

The Magdans are the most ostracized of the Vostroyan people, and they value the kind of knowledge that the Tech-Priests despise the most: culture.

The Royal Palace in Szczecin houses two collections of poetry by Guteras poets, one by Musa Galil, The Nightingale and the Fountain, and the other by Herbert, The Harmony of Light.

Nimrod left the third and ninth companies behind and immediately led his troops to attack Mazov.

As soon as he attacked the upper nest, he immediately noticed something different. The guards who were the first to react and stop the attack from the previous three nests did not appear.

Nimrod encountered resistance from the Mazov regular army. After he defeated the defenders with ease, Yelena came to see him with two assassins.

As he listened to the briefing, he recalled that Maria was the only one of the six who held his gaze for a moment.

[Her willpower is beyond compare.]
Nimrod made his mental assessment of her as Maria's cold voice carried on to the final part of the briefing.

"As I expected, after the death of the garrison captain, the major families immediately began vying for the position of guard captain, completely forgetting to hunt down the assassin. They were still arguing until you attacked the hive city."

Nimrod nodded and said appreciatively.

"Well done, it exceeded my expectations."

He then said to Yelena, "The three who are still alive have passed my test."

In addition to Maria of Mazov and Tsvetana, there was another assassin who survived in Szczecin, which had achieved less success.

"Mazov and Stettin are in your hands. Speed ​​up the reconstruction according to the Tezvok method."

Nimrod also found a set of ingredients for the "Reader" potion in Mazov's palace, and once again only found two ingredients for the potion, which were still two poetry collections by ancient Terran poets.

One was Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova's "Twilight" and the other was Adam Zagayevsky's "Shock".

Nimrod sent the First Company to raid the spaceport and seize the destroyer Vistula.

Only after he returned to Tezvok and met Kaminsky did he understand how ostracized the Magdans were.

When the sage saw him, he immediately spoke.

"King Nimrod, you have punished the Magadans, and the God of All Things is greatly pleased. Before I came, the Om Messiah bell rang three times."

Nimrod did not respond, believing that art also had its value.

The sage continued.

"Rosicky has crafted your armor. Please fulfill the agreement as soon as possible and eliminate the alien pirates."

"Sage, I will depart before the Night Kai shift and will be at Starport during the next work cycle."

"Please bring Rosicky with you; he will assist you."

(End of this chapter)