As long as you die, you are invincible, but in 40K

"Officer Amelia Ting, are we going to do it as the Order has always done?"

Hearing this question, Amelia did not respond for the time being, but turned her gaze to Zhang Ge.

Zhang Ge had never seen such a large church before. He was looking around with great interest. After a while, he suddenly realized that Amelia was looking at him. He said in confusion:

"what happened?"

Amelia briefly explained the past practices and specifically reminded that although the possibility of accidents occurring by doing so was small, there was indeed a certain risk.

Hearing that there was danger, Zhang Ge replied:

"Of course, I have no objection."

After receiving the reply, Sister Amelia conveyed her agreement to the Heroic Battle Armor.

As the convoy slowed down further, reaching a speed close to walking speed, more than a dozen combat nuns who had taken off their helmets got out of the vehicles, except for the nuns who had to stay in the vehicles.

Above, little angels attracted by this scene slowly gathered above the convoy and flew around.

Seeing this scene, the crowd gradually became jubilant, and children were considered relatively pure and were allowed to pass through the isolation line. They either wore small ornaments such as crosses or wreaths they made themselves... The latter was actually not common, but don't forget that a large number of petals were scattered at the military parade not long ago.

Some of these ornaments and wreaths were lifted high and thrown into the vehicles, while others were presented to the battle sisters.

When they faced the children running towards them, they would always half-kneel down and accept the ornaments they hung around their necks, on their armor or on their guns with a smile. Occasionally, they would reach out their hands to hold their faces - the children who received this honor would naturally run back to their parents' arms with joy.

Even the tall hero armor was no exception. Before, under the expectant gaze of a little girl, the Pure Angel Sister used the barrel of the giant explosive gun on the left arm of her hero armor to pick up the wreath in her hand and put it on her helmet, covering up a lot of the golden irises.

In the darkness of thousands of years, there are always some sparks of hope flickering and burning. Perhaps they can only bring a brief moment of light, but at least for now, the nuns are doing their best to leave at least a trace of memory worthy of hope for the people gathered here before they burn out.

ps: It will be on the shelves tomorrow. Promise me that at least tomorrow, you guys won’t spend your last cat cookies on reading other writers, okay? TvT.

Chapter 66: Stars Like Rain

The convoy gradually went deeper into the crowd and after a while entered an area not open to ordinary pilgrims. After a simple reorganization, the speed was increased again.

Zhang Ge drove the vehicle and quickly turned several corners with the car in front. Finally, a gate about thirty or forty meters high appeared at the end of the corridor. The gate seemed to be made of all metal, and it even required several special engineering mechas to turn the torsion bar together to open it.

When passing through the middle, Zhang Ge looked at the thickness of the gate and estimated that it was at least made to a standard that could withstand the bombardment of Leman Russ for a long time.

Behind the door was a large open space surrounded by a wall. At a glance, there were more than a dozen gates as huge as the entrance we had just passed on all sides of the open space.

This open space is formed by the huge church seen on the periphery. The outer church is a hollow rectangular block. It is not only used to receive foreign pilgrims, but also serves as a giant wall to protect the core religious building.

The Battle Sisters' Cathedral of Acaulan is naturally located here.

Due to the outbreak of the previous war, a large number of Battle Sisters were sent to the front line to mix with the Astra Militarum. Therefore, unlike other elite troops deployed in various important hives, the distribution of Battle Sisters is that the closer to the front line, the more people there are, including Acoran.

Here, the number of combat nuns reached thousands before the war, and they established several field branch churches in the wild, including the three orders of the Bloody Rose, the Martyred Saint, and the Courageous Heart.

But now, the only surviving combat nuns are those in the convoy, and none of the nuns of the Bloody Rose Order were spared because they refused to retreat.

In the distance, a chic church was approaching. In contrast to the luxurious surroundings, this church was not much different from the branch churches Zhang Ge had seen in the outside world before.

Apart from being larger in scale, familiar features such as its iron-grey exterior and densely packed defensive weapons make this church look more like an incongruous military fortress than a religious building.

As they approached the church gate, Amelia said:

"Sister Heloise of the Order of the Courageous Heart is waiting for us inside. There used to be three sisters of the order here, but now only she survives because she stayed in the hive."

The gate of this church cannot accommodate vehicles to pass directly through, so the convoy parked the vehicles in the vehicle storage area next to it, which also belonged to the Battle Sisters.

As people gathered, Zhang Ge counted them and it seemed that there were really more than twenty people, but the number of vehicles was too high, which created the illusion that there were a lot of people.

Surrounded by these nuns, Zhang Ge entered the church after passing through the main door that was opened and closed by an armed pilgrim, followed by the noble who had wisely left the other PDFs outside the door.

The interior here is as plain as its exterior. Although it is located deep inside, the layout is even simpler than that of the outer churches. Except for some rare materials decorations in the necessary places such as tall statues and blessing prayers, the rest of the church basically only considers the most basic physiological needs.

In the hall, there are familiar furnishings, the familiar number of about a hundred nuns, and the familiar sight of them bowing their heads in prayer.

Fortunately, this time the nun in front was facing everyone, and the statue was intact.

Seeing the team arrive, the elder sister walked over from the statue. Amelia also came forward and spoke first:

"Sister Heloise, we found some alien creatures in the bottom nest."

Amelia took out the potions from the storage. Zhang Ge glanced at the noble and found that he was studying the relief behind the door and didn't even look at him.

Turning back, the head nun had already stuffed the potion into the bodies of several little angels whose stomachs could be opened to receive it. After being pulled to the side door by Amelia, she was obviously going to discuss some specific matters that could not be said in front of others.

After thinking about it, Zhang Ge felt that he had nothing to do for the time being. He approached the Angel Sister who had taken off her Heroic Armor and asked:

"Can I move freely?"

"random."

After getting permission, Zhang Ge left the group of nuns and was about to talk to the nobleman to get some information when a servant who seemed to have received the call said something to him hurriedly.

The other person's expression changed noticeably.

Soon after the two of them finished talking, Zhang Ge came up and asked him:

"What happened?"

The nobleman didn't seem to want to say anything at first, but considering that Zhang Ge seemed to have a certain influence on the battle sisters and was a war hero who was pushed out, he opened his mouth and said:

"It's embarrassing to say, but we lost contact with several of our facilities before. They must have been taken away by the Mechanicus. Several rounds of counterattacks have failed to recapture them. But don't worry, such conflicts often occur during confrontations. In fact... we were the first to seize the opportunity to invade several of their factories."

Telling you something that seems like a secret or a scandal but is actually insignificant in an intimate tone is an old-fashioned social tactic that always works.

However, just as Zhang Ge was about to reply, a sense of disobedience rose from the bottom of his heart, and he changed his words:

"What is the lost facility? Tell me."

Seeing Zhang Ge's sudden change in demeanor, the nobleman also became more serious and replied:

"They're just a few space detection arrays, usually used to detect orbital debris or meteorites. But it doesn't really matter if we don't intercept them in the short term. Those things can't penetrate the hive's outer shell, so they're not important facilities."

Just as Zhang Ge was about to say the next sentence, accompanied by a distant loud noise, a violent tremor like the sky falling and the earth collapsing came from above.

This time it was not a simple tremor, but a violent earthquake as if the epicenter had reversed upwards and the earth was suddenly torn apart. The tremor even caused many people to fall down and lasted for several seconds before stopping.

Then, the power went out.

The artificial lights in the sky went out one by one. In the sudden chaos, searchlights and tactical flashlights were turned on, but they only scanned the surroundings blankly.

Something that Zhang Ge had been ignoring since he came to the bottom nest now surfaced in his mind.

Rumors, those rumors that have not been investigated clearly.

Assume such a scenario.

First of all, it is known that in the event of a front-line collapse, the nobles will definitely select a war hero to boost morale. Even if it is not for boosting morale, but only to coordinate the Astra Militarum and the PDF, there will be a surviving senior officer, such as the commander of the entire front, who will be selected to serve as a similar unified command of the two armies.

Regardless of whether they are war heroes or unified command, such representatives cannot be useless, otherwise they would not be able to win the support of the Astra Militarum.

So, what if the person who started the rumor knew about the existence of the monster in the Bottom Nest, and the purpose of starting the rumor was to lure this person to the Bottom Nest to investigate?

In such a sensitive period, it is unlikely that the number of consecutive saints will go unnoticed, let alone a military personnel who is not mediocre.

Perhaps he relied on his own power, perhaps he borrowed the help of the nobles, perhaps he was blocked from investigating, or perhaps he entered the bottom nest to investigate and heard nothing.

No matter which one it was, no matter whether he was dead or alive, no matter whether that thing was found out or not, it would at least trigger a conflict between the two forces. It was basically impossible for the nobles to make concessions in the bottom nest incident, and the more they refused to make concessions because of such insignificant things, the more suspicion would be aroused, and the conflict would be further intensified.

During a standoff, minor conflicts often occur, rarely brought to the fore. Furthermore, there's little effective communication between the two sides. Are you going to ask someone if they stole my facility? How can you admit it directly? What if you're recording something?

What's more, the advancement of chaos is relatively slow now, so it won't be a big deal even if we fight for a short while.

But what if Chaos's initial goal wasn't to advance from the ground? What if their large-scale ground offensive...was simply intended to force the production of the aforementioned war heroes, facilitating subsequent plans, while also using a slower advance to confuse the Hive's upper echelons?

When the chains are linked together, a hidden ring appears at the same time.

Those field churches scattered in the wild.

These churches seem to have nothing to do with the current situation, but think about it, if a church is built according to the standards of a military fortress, what kind of facilities must it have?

That's right, in order to prevent landing capsules, orbital artillery bombardments and other things that are basically impossible to intercept from entering the atmosphere, it is necessary to build a space detection array.

The Terminator elites are not cabbages, and using them to jump directly into the church to fight is not without risk. If it were not for the lack of time and supply, the combat sisters would really bury a super bomb under the church and then detonate it when the enemy cannot be defeated.

If it was just for some sacrificial activities, why take such a risk? Wouldn't it be possible to just wait for the cannon fodder to be pushed over? It's possible that the Chaos Lord couldn't control his subordinates, but if he couldn't control so many elite troops at the same time, he would have died long ago.

Therefore, the original purpose of sending these elite troops was not to perform sacrifices.

Those deliberate placements and sacrificial scenes were only meant to cover up the fact that their target was the church, or rather, to destroy the church's space detection array.

This also explains why the vehicles parked outside the church were not destroyed, and why they didn't care about the few scattered survivors at all.

The ultimate goal of all these things is to ensure that the Hive City's void shield array can "just" react a little bit later when something that is too big to be covered and too big to be intercepted by anti-aircraft fire falls in space.

This is a game. After sorting it out, it is as simple as a straight line on a white paper. But if you take a wrong step, you will become a loser, and the loser is usually the dead.

Amid the shrill wailing of alarms outside and throughout the hive city, Zhang Ge walked to the door of the church.

Above the spire, there is a dome. This dome is the second layer of protection located under the outer shell of the hive. It can freely adjust the transparency of a certain area to allow sunlight to enter, but it can also withstand the bombardment of large-caliber artillery and protect the safety of the spire below.

Now, Zhang Ge looked up, and as another violent tremor like tearing the earth apart came from top to bottom, a notch appeared in the dome. The notch expanded rapidly, and soon a huge crack was torn apart amid the whistling metallic wailing sound like the sky overturning.

Time seemed to slow down. In his eyes, a section of the wreckage of an Imperial Navy frigate appeared. It was twisted a lot because it had just pierced the outer shell of the hive city and was scraping against countless wires. The front end was emitting flames.

Like a giant's finger piercing through cardboard, or like the verdict of Judgment Day, the wreckage of the frigate, along with countless shiny metal fragments that rubbed against the air and generated heat due to the rapid fall, fell to the ground at the top of the tower amid the sound of gas explosions and alarms.

Like stars and rain.

To the rear, a Chaos warship was heading straight for the two gaps, as if mocking the futile resistance of the Akauran Hive.

P.S.: This is the last chapter before the book goes on the shelves. It is about 3.5k words. I have written down everything I wanted to write. Maybe many of the characters will not be seen again after this chapter. The words have passed in a flash, as if the book was just opened last week. I will write a thank you note for the book later. I also ask those who think this book is worth continuing to follow to support it. See you tomorrow.

Although it is a speech of gratitude, I thought about it for a while and still don’t know what to say, so I will just talk about my feelings when I write.

To be honest, I don’t really know how to write a formal novel, nor do I have any experience in this area. What I’m doing now is just throwing a few people into an imaginary scene, and then thinking about it. These people have different personalities and behavioral logics. So based on these, what will they do and how will they do it in such a scene?

In the process of conceiving and overturning previous ideas, I write down little by little what I want to write and what I think is more reasonable to write in this way. This is why my update speed can never be increased.

After all, human imagination is limited. Generally speaking, the more grand the scene, the more it squeezes the imagination. I don’t know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate that in order to write a hammer article, such scenes have to appear frequently.

Of course, the second reason is that the relevant settings of Warhammer are too complicated, and there are a large number of versions, variations, and conflicts.

Sometimes the official writers eat up the settings they wrote, sometimes the cg eats up the settings of the novel, sometimes rumors are piled up and no one knows what will happen, sometimes the next edition of the rule book eats up the previous edition, and there are countless examples like this.

Although I have tried my best to repeatedly confirm the possible settings before writing each chapter, mistakes are still inevitable, and the progress of updates has been slowed down to a certain extent in order to confirm the settings.

Having said so much, I think there is actually nothing to be sentimental about. I don’t think my writing is very good, but from the more than 80 collections after the release of the first chapter more than a month ago to more than 31,000 now, this book also carries my hopes. I hope to do better and hope to get more support from everyone.

That's about it, love you guys.

Chapter 67 Impact

ps: I will update three chapters first to see how the subscription situation is. If there are more, I will update more.

The moment the falling debris came into contact with the ground, the first thing that erupted was a blinding glare. This was caused by the huge amount of heat generated by the twisting of a large amount of ceramic steel. This heat even caused the ceramic steel on the contact surface to melt into chunks as the heat energy accumulated, turning them into a dazzling liquid incandescent state.

In such a huge kinetic energy, the originally thick ceramic steel partition wall of the spire and the surrounding buildings seemed to become a fluid, and the wreckage was exactly the stone thrown into the water.

The dazzling white molten steel mixed with countless metal fragments lifted by the impact rolled outward like waves, and the "tsunami" that spread outward in a radiating pattern from the center of the impact gradually climbed to hundreds of meters in height. In this huge wave that spread outward, a large number of pipelines and facilities exploded one after another.

All this happened so quickly that the shock wave had not yet reached the church. It was a violent air wave formed by the sudden expansion of countless air compressed at high speed in front of the wreckage during the collision, carrying countless tiny debris on the ground.

Even though they were at such a long distance, the shock wave still knocked Zhang Ge away like a wall and knocked him behind the door.

In mid-air, Zhang Ge felt pain coming from all over, but as he was about to land, he still forced himself to arch his body inward and stretch out his arms.

Then, his palm quickly touched the ground. Zhang Ge seemed to be able to feel the muscle squeezing and bone fractures caused by this moment, but he still forced himself to slightly adjust his landing posture at that moment. His body then fell down and rolled to unload the force in an attempt to minimize the damage to his body.

However, even so, after the shock wave passed, Zhang Ge, who was lying on the ceramic steel ground, still felt that he had lost the strength to even support his body. He could only use his arms to try to support himself to a half-kneeling position with great difficulty, and vomit out the blood that was accumulating in his chest and was about to flow out of his throat.

It was at this moment that the sound of a collision came over. The roar was like the sound of thunder amplified hundreds of thousands of times, so that the huge volume concealed all the characteristics of its tone, making it a harsh noise coming from all directions.

Soon, Zhang Ge could no longer hear the sound. He subconsciously looked at his palm and realized that it was a short-term hearing loss caused by the strong noise.