Chapter 226 04.0225: "Just kill a few traitorous Astartes"

The tarmac was soaked by the drizzling rain.

The drizzle dispelled the gloomy air, sprinkling lightly on everyone, making them feel refreshed.

Horatio, wearing the Imperator-type officer power armor, saluted the Centuriae of Vanguards who were ready to go.

Standing in front of the square formation, Louise, wearing a void blue beret, was the first to return the salute, and then the vanguards behind her saluted Horatio in unison.

"Comrades, this is the first official military operation of the Special Warfare Division. The fleet superiors are watching us, the people of the planet are watching us, and the great God Emperor is watching us.

Today, we will brilliantly crush the conspiracy of the Scarlet Cultists and completely eradicate this cancer. Let them pay for all the evil deeds they have done during the Sanguinius Festival."

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He drew the Zhongzi Power Sword from his waist and raised it high into the sky: "Zhong! Cheng! Must! Win!"

"Loyalty! Will! Win!"

The soldiers wearing power armor all raised their Ryza-type Hell Guns, stomped their feet, and stepped together, making a uniform sound of armor and guns colliding.

The loud slogans demonstrated the surging and high fighting spirit.

Although the Hell's Vanguards learned a lot from the Storm's Loyalists in terms of combat training.

But as a member of the Imperial Navy, each of them wants to prove that they are more elite and better than their teachers.

And today is your chance to prove it to people.

Horatio put away his power sword and put on his horsehair helmet. The buckles aligned and made a clicking sound. Rows of fluorescent characters appeared on the eyepiece, clear but not dazzling. While performing the last system self-check, he strode towards the rear cabin of a silent night-flying Valkyrie fighter modified for special operations.

Louise followed behind him as his adjutant.

Five fully armed Astartes Brothers, as well as the Ravenno Inquisitor and his elite attendants were waiting for the two men at their seats.

"First team! Turn left! Run!"

"Second team! Turn right! Run to board the plane!"

"The third team!..."

One after another, the Valkyries, whose blue colors turned black and blended perfectly into the night, and whose engines had been specially silenced, quietly took off from the tarmac and headed towards the dark, yet vast underground world.

On the Valkyrie transport plane.

Horatio quickly sent instructions to all teams to deploy deep strikes through the data pad built by Latti.

In previous lives, this was reflected in the table rules as "deep nine inches".

The purpose is to deploy elite units suddenly in battle or in combat reserves through tunnels, teleportation, high-altitude landing, or other special means to achieve a surprise attack effect. While ordinary units can only stay in the deployment area, these elite units can be deployed at any position 9 inches away from any enemy unit before the battle.

In the actual deployment of this operation, Horatio planned to have these elite units riding on the Skyraider special operations Valkyries quietly land not far from the target location, lurk in the darkness around the enemy, and then disperse and secretly eliminate the surrounding threats through assassination, silent sniping and other means.

Father Lati's system naturally also reserved a standard interface for accessing the Imperial communications command network, so the Inquisitors and Astartes could see the detailed deployment plan.

"The code is 'Well, I'm the happiest today.' Requesting confirmation." The plainclothes Inquisitor Ravenno asked as he checked the Scipio naval pistol in his hand.

"confirm."

After discussion, Horatio would lead the main force of the Hell's Vanguard to carry out a full-armor assault mission, so the task of infiltration and lurking was given to the Inquisitor who had experience of living in the lower nest.

"The person you are in contact with is a deacon from my former gang. Maybe you don't know each other, but as long as the slogan is right, he and the infiltrators will cooperate with you."

"Excellent. Actually, I have arranged some people as well, but they are not my agents."

"Who?"

“I’ve been in the Abyss Harbor’s nest for a long time, so I know some people.

The guy who said his militia has been keeping an eye on these scum for a long time. Since we have a common enemy, I think his power can help us too. "

"Of course, Inquisitor. Provided that he and his people do not interfere with us."

"He won't. This person is here to deal with the aftermath. He won't arrive at the destination at the same time as us, and he won't alert us. With the help of the local tyrants, it will be much easier to deal with the aftermath. We will use them.

However, you said that Captain Afel would be responsible for a key mission. What is it? Now you can tell me."

"The Flesh Lord may have a traitorous Astartes to protect."

"what?"

The Inquisitor's ears rang a little due to the pressure inside and outside the cabin. He thought he had misheard: "Weren't all those traitors and heretics killed by you in the universe and turned into dust in the void?"

"After the battle at the Cathedral of the Heavenly Maiden, the number of heretic bodies we counted did not match the number witnessed. There were several bodies missing."

"But how do you know they're down there?"

"Because I killed a traitorous Astartes in front of the rift, and with the help of this ancient and glorious chainsword, I closed the rift directly. These remnants of the defeated army could not have escaped back in front of me. Although there is no direct evidence, I want to invite the Space Marines to participate in our operation just to be on the safe side.

But according to the latest news from the Imperial Guard this morning.

Two companies of their suppression force have lost contact down there, and they wanted to ask our Special Operations Division to go investigate.

I think they were most likely annihilated, but given the level of those defeated soldiers, it is unlikely that they could have been wiped out so cleanly. So I think my previous guess was correct."

A blood-red liquid oozed out of Horatio's iron hand, and this liquid gradually reshaped into a chainsword in his hand whose length was far beyond the control of an ordinary person.

Inquisitor Ravenor blinked at Horatio in shock.

“Two companies lost contact?

And you...really killed the traitorous Astartes?" he asked blankly.

"Yes, I killed a rebellious Astartes." He said calmly as he wiped and maintained the chainsword that symbolized his friendship with the Blood Angels.

His tone was so calm, as if he had just killed a weak mortal cultist.

"That's him? The mortal officer who single-handedly killed the traitor heretic?"

"According to the Terran calendar, he seems... not even 20 years old?"

"I have served the Chapter for 172 years, and have only killed 43 traitors. It is said that he killed two on that day alone."

Several Blood Angels' golden-helmeted veterans nearby were looking at the young man in front of them, who seemed a bit thin due to his height, and were whispering to each other in the private channel.

They had not participated in the battle for the Maiden's Cathedral, so they were surprised that mortals were able to kill their renegade cousins.

The statements of many battle brothers have confirmed that a mortal killed Astartes that day, and it must be the 'Mortal Centurion' in front of them.

Horatio had no idea what the Astartes were communicating about, he could only inexplicably notice that several red-armored giants on the opposite side looked at Horatio and nodded pertinently.

Brother Romain Rolland listened calmly. He turned his head to Horatio, and Horatio saw him 'looking' at himself out of the corner of his eye.

In a wonderful atmosphere, both parties nodded at the same time and nodded to each other, as tacitly as comrades who had cooperated with each other in the battlefield for a long time.

Captain Afiel looked at the young man through the laurel wreath helmet eyepiece, which was the symbol of the chapter's champion. He did not speak, and seemed to be thinking about something.

He was thinking about the prophecy that Lord Mephiston had spoken.

Among those who knew about this, most people liked Brother Romain Rolland.

They all felt that as a fellow brother, he, who was about to go to Death Watch for training, would lead everyone to save Baal from the hungry mouth of the Tyranids and thwart the Hive's intentions.

But he never expressed his opinion because he had a 'wonderful' intuition.

This intuition had emerged when he first saw the young man on the plague ship.

He saw his own shadow in this young man named Horatio Cochrane, and also saw unlimited possibilities.

He never denied a person's potential because of age, as he himself had served in the Chapter and today became the Lord of the Watch and Captain of the Second Company of the Blood Angels, and he was only 146 years old.

As a Space Marine, he is still young compared to the descendants of Sanguinius, whose lifespan after transformation surgery is often measured in thousands of years, but he has already achieved amazing achievements.

[Will he really be the savior of Baal?] The captain turned his eyes.

As the Lord of the Watch of the Blood Angels, he has a little-known secret duty, which is to protect the life of the last 'Blood Herald'.

Although this prophecy has only just begun, all nine 'Holy Blood Heralds' are alive, competing ignorantly under the witness of fate.

But for some reason, he already had a premonition.

I have a feeling that the young man in front of me will be a person of vital importance to the future of the entire human empire.

It is so important that the entire Blood Angels Chapter will protect him at all costs and will risk their lives to guard his safety.

It was for this reason that when the young man reappeared on the Blade of Vengeance and asked the Second Company of the Blood Angels for assistance in its military operations, he agreed without hesitation.

Inquisitor Ravenno standing by showed surprise in his eyes. If Horatio had not been able to really lift such a large Holy Blood Chainsword with one hand, he would have doubted the authenticity of this narrative.

The servants around him were also dumbfounded. The burly man with fists as big as sandbags ignored Horatio at first, but after hearing about the battle record of this little man whom he looked down upon, he now stared at him in shock.

[How come this brat is regarded as the most important ally by the Inquisitor?]
This was one of the reasons why he was upset with Horatio, but when he thought that they wouldn't have much interaction in the future, he maintained his current attitude of ignoring him.

The eyes of the slender woman holding the dart gun were filled with disbelief, as well as a different kind of fear and embarrassment.

That night, after the young man broke into Inquisitor Ravenno's room, she complained to other agents that if he was not a collaborator of the Inquisitor, she would have already grappled him with her knees.

But now it seems that if a fight had taken place at that time, it would be hard to say who would win in the end. Would she be able to win over the young man, or would Horatio, who had single-handedly killed the traitor Astartes, win over her?

(End of this chapter)