paranoianovel Chapter 288 The Light of Redemption
Chapter 288 The Light of Redemption
"Go and catch some slaves. We need enough labor on the lower deck to move the ship." The unpleasant voice floated into the distance together with countless swift figures.
The "Astartes" scattered, and after a while, the whole planet was left with only howls of pain, tears of sadness filled the dry earth, and the breath of death swept across the world like a whirlwind.
The mutants ran away everywhere, hiding in caves, deep ditches, and stone forests, squeezing their dry and thin bodies into small gaps that the "giant warriors" could not enter.
Farther away, a large number of mutant slaves were whipped and lined up in a long line, walking towards the two long ships at the top of the distant mountains.
Two dilapidated Moon-class cruisers were "stranded" in this world. During the Great Trek incident of the fleet led by William, Alpha successfully attacked, and the brothers of these two battleships were brought to the Eye of Terror. However, They came out again.
No one knew what they saw. When all the Primaris warriors died on the battlefield, the seeds of corruption finally took root and sprouted in the bodies of the Black Shield warriors.
The Black Shield warriors are very "calm" and strictly follow Yifeng's development strategy. Survive first, then recruit new members, and develop with all their strength.
He replenished his strength and repaired his warships, which was the obsession of all Astartes.
The surrounding mutants were mercilessly enslaved by them. After the fierce wars thousands of years ago, this small world accelerated social degradation with a large number of deaths of scientific and technological personnel, and eventually lost the artificial light it relied on for survival.
Mutants accustomed to darkness made the Astartes feel sick, but there was nothing they could do about it.
A large number of crew members who were originally on the battleship gradually became corrupted when they traveled through the Eye of Terror. As time went by, more and more people showed signs of being corrupted.
The Astartes carefully cleaned up these mortals, many of whom came into contact with some things of Chaos.
The replacement's obsession deepened, causing fluctuations in the warp level. When one came into contact with the belongings of a Chaos cultist, the power of the evil god descended.
Tzeentch's power gave a warrior an "epiphany" and turned him into an apothecary.
He hid at the bottom of the mutant city, shouting in the communication channel that he was fighting to "kill the fleeing Chaos believers", but in fact he started a bloody and cruel experiment.
His transformation was brutal but effective, and each mutant became a super soldier. When he reappeared in the eyes of the battle brothers with the first batch of finished products, fierce conflicts broke out.
Death is inevitable, and this army of mutants has become a slave serving the Lord of Knowledge. The success rate of mutants in making Astartes is extremely high, but at the cost of an extremely high mutation rate.
They almost created an army of chaos in the real world.
(Please pay attention to the distinction. Although the Black Dragon Chapter has serious bone hyperplasia and the bones are inserted outside the body, they are loyal! They are serious human beings!)
Gradually, the warriors no longer called the Emperor, but instead called human beings, and they developed a sense of disgust for the word human.
At first, they just thought that long-term contact with mutants gave them this illusion, and they just needed to return to the empire world, as long as they did!
Under the guidance of the evil god, they gradually blamed the mother group, the Red Torrent, for their situation, and put the "mother group" under the microscope to look for shortcomings. Naturally, they caught a lot of disloyal behaviors.
They believe that they are righteous, and these Astartes actively work hard to survive, wanting to represent "gods" and punish the Red Flood for their betrayal.
These slaves of Tzeentch have always believed that they should clean up the house.
.....
The same mistake as the Second Legion.
On the other hand, a battle group with the gene seeds of the Second Legion arrived in the world by chance. Of course, everyone thought they were a sub-group of the Ultramarines, including themselves.
Redemption Light Chapter.
Although the name is very similar to the state religion, they have nothing to do with the state religion and are not superstitious at all.
Five of their strike cruisers came to our territory, bringing with them fifteen hundred Astartes.
It is known that the Primarch inherited some of the Emperor's personality, and the Astartes inherited some of the Primarch's personality.
The Emperor was able to create Thunder Warriors, and the Primarchs and Astartes were naturally outstanding biologists. This trait was inherited by the Primarchs of the Second Legion.
The Primarch of the Second Legion was loyal, of course, but in a way that was... disloyal.
This was the second trait he inherited from the Emperor, who saw the Thunder Warriors, the Primarchs and (doubtfully) the Astartes as tools, and he, too, created better tools.
Transforming alien races into Astartes, or in other words, the Astartes' servant army, is similar to the relationship between the Tau and the Kroot.
Just slaves of the Astartes.
He is more open-minded and wild, an excellent geneticist who hates steel extremely, and has a bad relationship with the Primarchs who are good at using steel, such as Ferrus Manus and Perturabo. His heir also hated the use of steel equipment and the method of replenishing combat power, so he naturally fell to the other side.
Massively strengthen physical and spiritual abilities.
The primarch of the Second Legion admired the Emperor the most. Unlike Lorgar of the Word Bearers, he believed that the Emperor was the most perfect body and the most powerful gene. He respected everything about the Emperor. Including psionics, which the Emperor abhors.
Just as the Mechanicus kept learning knowledge and trying to get closer to the God of Machines, he began to transform the "alien Astartes" that were strengthened in different aspects to supplement the examples of genetic enhancement in various aspects, such as strong physical strength, high agility, Powerful psionic...wait, find a way to get closer to the Emperor, the genetically perfected one.
He made the second fatal mistake, using aliens with powerful psychic powers to transform into "Astartes" to enhance their psychic power and supplement their combat power.
All of this is a secret, a top secret that only exists within the Second Legion's vanguard.
The original body is like the Tyranids. Before attacking an alien force, it first sends scouts to capture the enemy's individuals and transform them into alien Astartes. They are faster and stronger than those aliens and completely crush them in every aspect. This race thus easily won the war.
After victory, do these alien races still need to be kept? No need, the loser does not deserve to be studied. As for the genetic monsters they created in order to defeat them, let them be wasted in the endless war that followed.
Even the central and rear troops of the Second Army did not know the secret of the vanguard army that "only the most elite veterans can join" in the army's propaganda.
For the Primarch, it was just a waste of experiments in the endless war of the Great Crusade.
However, for his descendants...
The Vanguard Army gradually had to accept operating with a group of crazy creatures, and gradually developed a sense of identity with these creatures in the long-term life and death struggle. No one knew which race the face under the tactical helmet belonged to.
On the surface, the Second Legion has achieved brilliant results, even ranking among the best among the twenty-one primarch brothers. There are no aliens in the area it conquers, and it is a stable and peaceful human world. The Second Legion showed great respect for the Emperor, without arousing the suspicion of any of their brothers.
All was eventually discovered, and that moment came in the midst of a great war - against the Randan Empire - a superpower that rivaled the empires of humanity during the Great Crusade.
Faced with the enemy's powerful psychic powers, the alien "Astartes" were instigated to rebel, the Second Legion's attack was blocked, and countless "Astartes" were destroyed.
The original body of the Second Legion did not care about the death of tools. There was a clear hierarchy within the Legion. Terran veterans and human Astartes belonged to the highest class. The rest were arranged according to the strength of the original race. As long as the human Astartes were injured or killed Just as little as possible.
He began, as before, to study Ran Dan's psychic powers and transform him into a super soldier.
And then it failed...
That exceeded the limit of his knowledge. The "Stronger Ran Dan" he created was spiritually controlled by the original Ran Dan alien race. With a single attack, the Second Legion was almost destroyed.
He had to give up his "experiment" to hide himself and released super monsters that were larger and couldn't be hidden under power armor.
The Dongchuang incident happened, the emperor discovered it, and no one knew what the outcome would be.
The central and rear armies of the Second Legion, which are responsible for cleaning up the remaining enemies and guarding the recovered world, are composed of humans. They were distributed to the Ultramarines Legion and the Imperial Fists Legion with their memories erased.
The Redemption Light Chapter that now accidentally wandered into the world is a descendant of the Second Legion who considers itself to be the descendant of Guilliman.
Although there are 1,500 people, they are a holy scripture group.
The culture of the Ultramarines Legion is reflected in all aspects of the Redemption Light Chapter. Honor and responsibility allow them to resolutely kill all aliens and not repeat the mistakes of the original body, but...
In the Codex Astartes, apothecaries are not considered battle brothers and are not included in the number of Chapters of one thousand men...
The biological talent deep in their genes led to the emergence of a large number of pharmacists in this chapter. Six hundred pharmacists followed the nine hundred battle brothers. For a while, it was unclear who the combat troops were.
On the other hand, fighting on the edge of the galaxy for a long time, (the empire basically does not care), it is very important that every warrior has the ability to replenish the chapter. No one knows when the chapter will be destroyed, and only the remaining One or two people.
Each of them is willing to learn the knowledge of the apothecary to ensure the survival of one warrior and the survival of the entire chapter.
A combat company composed purely of pharmacists is very terrifying. A brother is injured and falls to the ground. Every teammate has the ability to heal him and quickly restore his combat power.
Like an invincible army, to deal with them, the only way to deal with them is to use absolute power to crush them at the beginning of the battle.
The Redemption Light Chapter considers themselves to be the descendants of Guilliman, and when the Prince Regent called for the gathering of Chapters "on the Galactic Frontier", they immediately responded to the call.
The departure was too hasty, and we were in an area outside the Emperor's Star Torch. We suddenly lost our way to Stone City.
It's Christina's Lair, that forge world.
This group of guys who don't like instinct or machinery took a look and thought, oh, isn't there a restored Forge World? Roll up your sleeves and get ready to get started.
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Two tattered Lunar-class cruisers lay on the mountains, and several "Astartes" drove the last obedient slaves into the two repaired warships.
One of them looked at the dark land behind him at the last moment. There were countless mutants hiding in the dark cave.
He sneered, a group of stupid people who thought they had escaped disaster.
The moon-class cruiser's hatch was closed, and countless weird machines covered the surface and surroundings of the cruiser.
The cruiser can't take off from the ground, it's too heavy, unless...
Unless there is no ground.
A violent explosion erupted from the interior of the planet. The huge impact blasted away the mountains together. The moon-class cruiser on the top of the mountain suffered horrific shocks. The huge acceleration caused countless mutants to rupture their blood vessels and explode their internal organs.
The two battleships located on the top of the mountain rotated out of the orbit of the planet.
"Start the afterburner, release the buffer device, stabilize the ship, let's go." After the "Astartes" command, the spacecraft started to move after a few minutes. The mechanical structure that fixed the spacecraft fell off, and some of them were already in the geological disaster. Twisted in the middle, firmly on the cruiser, flying towards the bright Milky Way with this steel creation.
"More slaves died than expected."
"Then let the rest do more work. This is not a problem. Go and give the order to have them pile the corpses into the corpse starch furnace as soon as possible. We are leaving."
The spacecraft followed the track and took one last look through the small porthole at the world that had brought them hundreds of years of suffering.
"This may be the brightest time in this world in thousands of years." Looking at the exposed large tracts of magma spewing out from the earth, the earth shattered, and the huge cracks were still clearly visible in space.
"It doesn't matter, the darkness will come back soon."
The thick smoke from the volcanic eruption quickly occupied the atmosphere, making even the faint starlight invisible in this world. There was only a surface covered with flames, like a terrifying purgatory.
The spacecraft gradually stabilized, and the two Lunar-class cruisers jumped into the subspace. There were no navigators, but the "Think Tank" guided them, and the power of Tzeentch guided them to where they wanted to go.
Two Moon-class cruisers, fully loaded with 2,400 alien Astartes, their first stop was to the Stone City Forge World. Although they have more numbers, they do not have enough power armor and jump gang warehouses, so if they want to use their identities as Red Torrent warriors, they first go to Stone City to deceive them and get the best equipment. If they can't, they will grab it.
Two crumbling moon-class cruisers emerged from the cracks in the subspace. They kept broadcasting "We are the red torrent" of the three-hundred-world garrison, cruisers No. 007 and No. 008, requesting supplies.
As a result, only a few words were broadcast, and five strike cruisers were seen ahead in a mobile battle formation circling around the Stone City galaxy.
The professional war literacy of the Redemption Light Chapter allowed them to immediately discover the ships appearing behind them. Whether they were enemies or friends, they had to drive them away immediately.
A strike cruiser approached, and the alien Astartes jumped, slapping the bird servants with twisted palms and wrinkled skin, trying to confirm whether the opponent was the garrison of the Red Torrent.
......
A few hours later.
Nianci Vajra is here to pick up the goods. Seven Phantom Dragon-class battleships have been manufactured. These are not the Fengyun-class battleships that Haituo Sage worked hard to modify. They are the oldest ones snatched from the World Eaters. The battleship recorded in the five STC template fragments.
Because it was severed, the lost information allowed Anos to fill it up with the powerful technology in the People's Light, making it look neither like a creation of the Golden Age nor an alien creation.
Seven Iron Hands technical sergeants died as martyrs and turned into machine spirits without telling their parent company.
Nian Cijin had prepared a speech to reprimand the technical sergeants, and was about to deliver an important speech in Stone City. As soon as he arrived, he saw five strike cruisers, making an offensive posture around the forge world.
The two moon-class cruisers were burning with fire, and they were covered with holes for attacks by jumping gangs.
The moon-class cruiser also has the red torrent emblem painted on its side (after all, it is intended to defraud people of supplies).
"Think Tank, which chapter is that? Why does the emblem look like the ship of a medical nun?"
"The Redemption Light Chapter, the Sons of Guilliman."
"Call them immediately. This is our territory. Both sides should stop fighting immediately, otherwise we will intervene forcefully."
Nian Cijin sent three Fengyun-class battleships here. Other ships were cruising, but the Phantom Dragon-class battleships in the low-Earth orbit of the Forge World that were always ready for battle saw the arrival of the battle group. From the huge space orbit, Sail out and aim your guns at the two warring parties, forming a horn formation with the Fengyun-class battleships.
The Redemption Light Chapter did not heed our calls, but adopted a more aggressive fighting method.
Neither the Phantom Dragon-class nor the Storm-class battleships are in the Imperial Keel Coded Record Library. This must be the forging world of the Dark Mechanicus.
The only cry on the communication channel was "Traitors, prepare to accept the Emperor's punishment!"
Nian Cijin has been trying his best to avoid fighting, but this loyal war group believes that his coming here is the emperor's guidance, and he is to kill the traitors entrenched here!
Their strike cruisers rushed towards us at full speed, with a continuous barrage of macro-cannon barrages and light spear strikes, as if they were going to jump to our aid under suppressed fire.
Nian Cijin was also angry. The universal law of the universe, strength is the last word.
"Start a solid stance." Nian Cijin was a little angry, and the priest (political commissar) robes made a sound as he moved around like flying.
"Prepare to teach them a lesson. Everyone, prepare to keep your distance and knock off their void shields!"
The Fengyun-class battleship left the spot with a "whoosh", and the macro-cannon barrage was thrown into the air. The original machine soul of the torpedo found that the enemy it was locked on was getting further and further away from the melta warhead, and finally broke away from the lock.
The strike cruiser was also shocked. Accelerating so fast, even White Scar's lost Bladestorm Glory Queen-class battleship still needed more than ten seconds to accelerate to full speed. It was actually faster.
This time, the distance between us and the opponent is slightly further, and we are not directly pushing into the void shield like before. The attack also did not use torpedoes.
The powerful bombardment hit the side of the strike cruiser. The two ships missed each other. Before the opponent's jump gang flew away from its own void shield area, only the tail flame of our battleship could be seen.
The three flying warships did not escape. After turning in a large circle, the Nova Cannon locked on the strike cruiser that lacked long-range attack capabilities, and completely destroyed the void shield of one of them.
"Now, can we talk? We can blast you to pieces with just our naval guns."
The Fengyun-class battleships circled the enemy ships on this small battlefield, while the Phantom Dragon-class battleships were more violent.
At long range, with only terrifying firepower, the seven battleships paralyzed the void shields of the two strike cruisers flying towards them. One of them still advanced to a dangerous distance, and the fleet locked its ion engine area without hesitation. , bringing it to a stop, leaving only the weak power of the auxiliary engine to slowly retreat.
"This is the strike cruiser Final Redemption. We are the Light of Redemption, the great Chapter Astartes, the executors of the Emperor's will, the tip of the spear of the Imperium of Man..."
Nian Cijin: "That's good! I feel the same way."
Redemptive Light: .....
Later, Nian Cijin reported the organization of the Red Torrent, but the Chapter Leader of the Light of Salvation sneered, "You call those two ships of aliens the Astartes Chapter?" You think I'm blind!
They tightened their defense line, with five battleships surrounding the two moon-class cruisers. More than a thousand battle brothers were slaughtering the traitors. They just had to wait a little longer.
"I say this for the last time, both sides stop fighting, otherwise the only thing you can accept is death."
"Hmph, there is no evidence that you are the loyal and powerful Red Torrent Battle Group. We don't trust you."
"Fives"
"???"
"Four, three, two..."
"I suggest that we calm down and send representatives from both sides to meet..."
"One, fire!"
The second salvo of the Nova Cannon was aimed at all the battleships of the Redemption Light Chapter. The Nova Cannon was too big. When it hit the battleship, it affected more than one area. The strike cruiser that was within jumping distance had to urgently accelerate and break away. Contact with two Moon-class cruisers.
Nova cannons sliced past the edge of their outer armor, and the Astartes, without their void shields, felt themselves vulnerable.
"I said: Stop, or I will break your hand if you don't stop!"
Forget it, it's a coincidence. One side is calling for a meeting, and the other side is beating "our ship"? Are you kidding, do you think I have no temper?
The Astartes of the Redemption Light Chapter were enraged, but the Chapter Master regained his composure.
He clearly realized that he was at a disadvantage. The enemy could really kill them within the distance of the gang. The outrageous speed and the Nova Cannon that exceeded the maximum range of the strike cruiser were enough to destroy the entire battle group.
"Bring the battle brothers back, we prepare to retreat."
"Chapter Master!? Are we just going to let these heretics take over this forge world?"
"No, we need more power. The regent has transferred most of the peripheral forces of the galaxy. We can't wait for support here, so we leave immediately, mark this place, and wait for the opportunity to regroup and fight back."
A strike cruiser towed the lost battleship, and other ships recovered the battle brothers and prepared to leave.
But a Nova Cannon shot flew past the bow of the ship, stopping the actions of the Redemption Light Chapter.
You can come when you want and leave when you want. Do you think you are Trazin?
Mindfulness of loving-kindness is the key to success.