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

So she said:

"Well, it seems they chose to forgive you."

As she uttered these words, she pulled the trigger.

A bullet left in the gun chamber ejected and landed on her other hand.

Three thousand eight hundred and seven times, including the last time, a total of three thousand eight hundred and eight times he pulled the trigger, but none of them fired the bomb.

Heloise did not respond to this until Blaise continued:

"Remember, don't think that not reacting to your behavior is forgiveness for your mistakes. Only when someone actively chooses to forgive you does it mean that your atonement has been recognized."

There is a bullet in the gun chamber but it has not been fired for more than 3,000 times, and there is no bullet in the gun chamber but not a single extra bullet has been fired for more than 3,000 times. Although the two have the same result, they are actually completely different concepts.

After saying this, Bryce threw the bomb to Heloise:

"Take it as a souvenir."

"Yes."

During the brief conversation, the transport ship had already descended to a height close to the top of the landship.

Of course, although it is close, it is actually still two or three thousand meters away. It can only be said that it is very close relative to things of this level of ships.

Then, several small-sized sub-ships were detached from the belly of the aircraft. One of them was about a hundred meters long, and compared with the kilometer-long transport ship, it was like a one-meter dwarf next to a ten-meter giant.

However, when it approaches the surface, it can be found that such a size is still very astonishing. Most ground vehicles are much smaller than these sub-ships.

The 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment and the tribesmen entered these ships and were transported upwards, while Zhang Ge and others boarded a Valkyrie transport plane that flew over and formed a three-plane formation with two other Thunderhawks carrying people from Hyperion and the upper echelons of Acoran.

Their target was not the transport ship, but an escort ship set up as a command ship, where the accompanying battle sisters, space marines, and crusaders were mainly stationed.

The Astra Militarum? Of course they were there, but they were mainly responsible for the dirty work, and there were so many of them, they were basically everywhere on the Imperial front, so their presence was assumed. They were not mentioned specifically.

When the three fighter planes flew towards the command ship, a small incident occurred.

While several sub-ships were loading personnel, the transport ship was also scanning the land-based ship below, which was not much smaller than itself, to confirm its situation in order to determine the transportation plan.

All the data is normal except for one: gravity.

Judging from its gravitational characteristics, this thing is too light, probably less than one-fifth of the normal weight of something of this size. It's like it has only one shell and is hollow inside, or a steel shell with solid wood inside.

Although the accompanying Mechanicus personnel only glanced at the data and said that you people have not seen enough and are making a fuss about nothing, it is abnormal that something that was dug out from nowhere has no data abnormalities at all.

When he was still an apprentice, he had even seen with other priests a relic whose thermal data was very high at a distance, but the surface temperature was close to absolute zero when approached.

But after all, there was a previous experience of concealing the truth, so out of caution the captain still reported the situation.

Guess where it was reported?

That’s right, it’s Zhang Ge himself.

The process was that the captain asked his superiors, who asked the Mechanicus experts. The experts thought that it was impossible to make random comments without specific testing, so they reported to the decision-makers and asked whether they should suspend the evacuation and conduct tests first.

However, the high-level officials who were originally responsible for decision-making had long been sidelined, except for the Astra Militarum and the Mechanicus personnel, so this news was passed around to the Ever-Victorious Army and Bryce.

When the two saw that it was a matter related to Zhang Ge, they looked at each other, and finally, they simultaneously left the final decision to Zhang Ge himself, and called him to ask how he should decide.

The inquiry came too quickly and too abruptly, and Zhang Ge thought it was just because he brought the land ship, so he asked for his opinion out of courtesy.

He just wanted to get to the local place for investigation and be made into skewers. He didn't have the time to care about these formalities, so he answered casually:

"Let's stick to the original decision. I don't have any special opinions."

What was the initial decision? That's right, the accompanying Mechanicus's decision: "Don't worry, it's normal."

Then, as the sub-ships returned to their positions, the transport ship towed the land ship into the air normally.

If someone were to look at it on the underground Internet at this moment, they would be able to see the first time that the sandworm of the species had reached high altitude in the mid-air land ship without a back cover - this was most likely also the first time that the sandworm of the species had reached high altitude.

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Chapter 154: Marius Augustus Calgar

Just now, shortly before the communication to Zhang Ge took place, the members of the Hyperion Mechanicus and the Titan Guard had confirmed the identity of this Titan.

Although there are no obvious features such as family crests, nor any traceable numbers.

But through atomic-level detection methods, the priests finally confirmed the production location and date of this Titan.

The origin is near Akaolan. Extremely small amounts of molecules "stuck" to the surface of the organism due to molecular penetration were extracted. After lifespan measurement and comparison with information in the database, and excluding some recent contamination, it was found that these molecules all came from the vicinity of Akaolan.

The production date was a few days ago. Although the birth year of the machine soul could not be detected, the age of the material that constituted it could still be measured, and the date on which it was reconstructed as a whole was a few days ago.

Then there is only one answer.

Hidden somewhere on Acoran lies a Titan factory that is still largely operational, capable of producing at least a Warlord-class Titan, and containing at least one pilot.

Therefore, a reasonable speculation arises:

The factory continued to operate faithfully with the support of a few surviving servitors and slaves, and until today, it produced this wild warrior Titan. Then Zhang Ge happened to break into it.

So, after he rescued the driver somewhere in the facility, as the first person to see this Warrior Titan and the driver's savior, he naturally gained the driver's loyalty.

How else could it be that it was truly new, dug out of the earth?

In addition, although the armor of this Warlord Titan is also made of adamantium, its strength and other performance properties far exceed the adamantium armor of the same-level Titans coming off the production line of the Mechanicus today... No, if the description of the local priests in Acoran is true, then it can be said that not only the armor, but the overall performance is undoubtedly far stronger than that of a normal Warlord Titan.

After a simple simulation, even if we put aside the performance of the Manifestation, the warrior with this basic data alone can at least compete with a team of one warrior and two Warhound Scout Titans.

This means that what is buried is likely not just a Titan factory, but also a series of STCs from an advanced era of technology.

After reaching this outrageous yet somewhat reasonable conclusion, many mechanical priests immediately cried out and planned to take the fleet back to counterattack Akaolan - if the Ever-Victorious Army was not able to control it, they would probably do so even if they only took the Crusaders.

Finally, a priest cautiously proposed:

Did we plant a nuclear bomb and turn all of Akaolan into ash before we left?

This sentence made many priests calm down.

Because when they heard the word "nuclear bomb", several people fainted directly, and after hearing the whole sentence, another group fell down. Finally, most of those who were still standing looked at the Acaulan priests with trembling expressions, as if they had already labeled them as war criminals.

The Skitarii officers of the Titan Guard were more direct and were already asking who was the main implementer of this plan.

In this situation, another priest from Acaulan quickly added another sentence:

Titan came from the suburbs, which means that the factory should be somewhere in the suburbs. We have already roughly scanned the surface of the suburbs and there should be nothing missed, which means that it is very likely buried somewhere deep underground.

In addition, the nuclear bomb was detonated deep in the hive, and was blocked by the countless steel blocks of the hive itself. The killing range was much lower than if it were detonated in the wild, and it would not necessarily destroy the factory.

This allowed the others to calm down. After further discussion, they came to the conclusion that they could not counterattack now because their forces were too weak. If they failed to take it down, Chaos would definitely realize that there was something important here. Even if they took it down, they would probably not be able to hold on for long.

So, it’s not that we won’t counterattack, but we have to go back and gather an expeditionary force of sufficient size and equipment before considering it.

During the conversation, someone mentioned the unusual behavior of the armed transport ship.

This naturally led to a barrage of inquiries.

While their discussion was going on, Zhang Ge was inside the Valkyrie's cabin and had just received the first communication. Only a short while later, before he landed, another communication came in.

It was the voice of the ever-victorious soldier:

"Destination changed to that armed carrier."

"learn."

Since it was an order, Zhang Ge was basically too lazy to understand the reason when he couldn't tell whether it was dangerous or not.

But Chang Shengjun explained himself:

"Haha, not long ago, those red-clad guys suddenly called me and asked me and... Sister Blaise's troops to garrison that armed carrier to protect its safety. They made a solemn promise to do so, and I guess the Astra Militarum also received it."

It’s a long sentence, but the underlying meaning is very simple, which is that if there’s a favor, everyone should take advantage of it.

He blurted out a half-word wrong before mentioning Sister Bryce. Before Zhang Ge could figure out what it was, he suddenly changed his words and used a formal and abrupt and somewhat awkward title.

Zhang Ge didn't care any more. After conveying the destination change to the Valkyrie, he could feel the fuselage stopped somewhere soon.

Leave the cabin.

The anchorage was also the landing platform on the deck. Zhang Ge saw more than thirty Space Marines and the same number of Battle Sisters coming down from the two Thunderhawks nearby.

Moreover, before they had taken a few steps, another Thunderhawk gunboat and a dozen Valkyries landed, with hundreds of people getting off, adding more than twenty and dozens of people to the two respectively.

More than fifty Space Marines, according to the normal organization of the 1,000-man Codex Regiment, would be the size of half a Grand Company. However, there was not even a champion to be seen here, only two or three White Helmets veterans including Atwood.

Obviously, even without mentioning what happened before the Primarch's awakening, at least after the Primarch's awakening, the Ultramarines' obedience to the Codex...had shifted significantly.

After confirming their identities, the soldiers dispersed to various defensive positions on the ship, and the Valkyries on the deck began to fly away - a large number of Astra Militarum troops who planned to take the opportunity to make a fortune from the Mechanicus were on their way, and the pilots needed to go back to load and make room for a new batch of fighters.

With the influx of a large number of soldiers from various aircraft, including the Skitarii, the armed carrier once again became the ship with the strongest security in the fleet, except for the Titans.

Although there is no guarantee that the Mechanicus did not use the ship as a meat shield, fortunately there were no accidents during the subsequent voyage.

After traveling for a while, the fleet arrived at the Hyperion sector.

This is the core of the entire planet and also the section with the strongest defense. The power of chaos has not yet reached its depths.

The ship did not stop and was moving towards the planet's capital in the sector.

There, someone was waiting for their arrival.

Lord Macragge, one of the Three Pillars of the Empire, Papa Smurf, former spiritual leader of the U-Team, deputy to the Primarch, and Chapter Master of the Ultramarines.

Marius Augustus Calgar.

ps: I had planned to update before midnight, but I fell asleep while writing, and continued writing after waking up. I have only just finished it, so it’s late TvT.

ps2: Here is a correction of a mistake in the previous text. The capital of Ultramar is called Macragge. I wrote it smoothly before and mistakenly wrote it as Ultramar. I just realized it now.

Chapter 155: Big Brother

The capital of the Hyperion District, Aquila Port.

If Akaolan is a mountain range made of metal, then Aquila Harbor is a metal continent with spires high enough to touch the atmosphere.

This hive already houses more than 20 billion people, with tens of billions more refugees from various parts of the planet that have fallen.

It also has the most solid void shield array and land-based orbital defense weapons, and is the main base for the Imperial Navy and the remaining fleets of the Space Marines.

With a complete defense system and a large number of garrisons, even in today's war-torn world, Eagle Port has hardly been devastated by large-scale warfare.

If calculated based on a 15 to 1 armed forces retention ratio in a total war, then the PDFs mobilized in Aquila Harbor alone are likely to be close to two billion. Adding in the supporting Astra Militarum garrisons, the number of mortal armed forces is estimated to be slightly over two billion.

This number even exceeds the total population of some marginal colonized planets. Even if we ignore the newly mobilized troops with little combat effectiveness, and only count the well-trained ones, it may have reached 500 million people.

Moreover, considering that Calgar led several large companies and several sub-groups, and that the commander-in-chief of the planet's battle sisters was actually a senior sister, they probably brought nearly ten thousand Space Marines and tens of thousands of battle sisters.

Even if only one-third of them are still stationed here, there are probably very few places in the entire empire that are safer than Tianying Port.

This is not counting the other founding regiments and their subsidiary regiments that have arrived here, including the Iron Hands, Imperial Fists, White Scars, and Dark Angels. If they had not already been deployed elsewhere on the planet, the number of Space Marines transiting through Aquila Harbor might have exceeded ten thousand.

Of course, even with such a terrifying number of armed forces, they can only barely defend themselves, or even retreat step by step, which is enough to show how powerful the opponent is this time.

The interior of the armed carrier at this moment.

There was a lot of information in front of Zhang Ge - he really didn't expect that he would become a corporate slave at his desk just after arriving in this world and serving as a Star Army soldier for a few days.

The first thing is of course the expansion of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Regiment. Its number has reached more than 50,000, of which a quarter are soldiers from the original Mechanized Infantry Regiment, a quarter are the remnants of the Astra Militarum who have been added, and the other two quarters are elites from various families in Acoran.

Such a large-scale expansion of the military forces brought about extremely heavy related affairs. Various things piled up in just a few hours and Zhang Ge needed to deal with them one by one.

The most critical of these is the agreement with the Titan Guard and the Sisters of Battle.

Although the agreement with Amelia had been signed as early as the time of Acoran, there was really no way, but during the negotiations with the Mechanicus, Zhang Ge was close to being a mercenary and a gangster.

Still failed to force the Mechanicus to withdraw voluntarily.

The scene at that time was basically that there were a group of priests sitting on the side of the Mechanicus, and a group of officers sitting on Zhang Ge's side, and then Zhang Ge was talking with the high-level priest representatives on the opposite side.

Zhang Ge: I need you to provide xx Leman Russ of a certain model, xx Chimeras of a certain model...

Priest: Okay, I’ll give it to you.

Zhang Ge: I suddenly changed my mind. I also want to add xx sets of a certain type of armor and xx pieces of a certain type of hell gun...

Priest: Okay, I’ll give it to you.

Zhang Ge: ...I think this still needs consideration. I hope to sign an agreement directly with you. You will need to ensure the relevant logistical supplies for my regiment and provide a batch of servitors...