Chapter 230, Evil God Incarnation
"Your new blood... is well trained. I almost thought they were all veterans."
Grit said this to Martins.
After completing the capture of the surface part of the storage center, when the troops were clearing out the remaining resistance inside the building, the highest commander of the operation and the advisory lady finally had time to chat together.
Martins felt proud and a little embarrassed by Grit's praise.
"Well, they did perform very well. They are the new blood trained and cultivated by the Governor-General. With the Phoenix's training method...it is impossible to train them to such an effect so quickly. However, they are not worthy of your praise as 'veterans'. There are still too many immature aspects of them."
"Indeed." Grit was not lying. "That's why I said 'almost'. They really didn't do well in some areas. For example, they were not ruthless enough when they attacked, and their ability to strictly adhere to doctrine and adapt to changes was a little lacking. They didn't know how to better protect themselves on the battlefield..."
She mentioned a lot of shortcomings, and Martins nodded frequently.
It is all true.
They were not ruthless enough, which meant they had not seen enough blood, were not well-trained enough, and did not know how to use the tragic battlefield conditions to inflict a stronger psychological blow to the surviving enemies; they had never been severely beaten, so they did not know that those enemies who had given up resistance might also draw their weapons and shoot them from behind.
Their ability to adapt to changing circumstances is not good enough because they have too little experience and dare not change the thinking habits imprinted during training. It is also difficult for them to think of better solutions in a short period of time. They lack the ability to make more targeted judgments based on the uniqueness of each battle.
Not knowing how to protect themselves shows that they are not proficient enough in using their own power armor - the Governor's training obviously does not include this part, and half a year of training for Space Marines is not enough for them to completely turn all skills into instincts and use them at will. In addition, when making some action decisions, the risk assessment is not accurate enough. Being reckless is not a problem, but being ignorant and reckless is a problem.
but……
"But even if there are these problems..." Grit said, "that's just nitpicking. Only by holding them to the standards of a truly battle-hardened veteran can we point out these problems. But what about the reality? I have seen several chapters where some of their recruits have been official Space Marines for several years and they also have similar problems. And if they can really correct all these problems, then your chapter will not have new blood or even just official warriors, but a group of elite veterans."
At this point, Grit looked at Martins with a smile and continued, "To be honest, when I first saw you on the Wrathful Star a year and a half ago, I felt very heavy-hearted. Although I really hope that you old comrades can stand up again, reason tells me that your miserable situation at that time will inevitably lead to extinction in the future. What I didn't expect is that you have actually shown signs of recovery in a year and a half. I am really happy for you."
When he said this, Martins became nervous for a moment.
On the one hand, the blessing from an old friend was of course a happy thing, but he was afraid that Grit would suddenly ask about where their gene seed came from.
But immediately, he realized that Grit would not have such doubts.
The two of them had not discussed the situation of the Phoenix Chapter in detail, and Grit didn't know that the Chapter's gene bank had been completely lost. Now, seeing the eight new members of the Chapter, her natural reaction was that the gene bank accumulated by the Phoenix Chapter had played a role, and she would not think about what the Governor had done in it.
No one would think in that direction because it is unrealistic.
Even if Grit had some doubts, they were only confused about why the success rate of the new blood trained by the Governor-General was so high.
But Martins would not deliberately raise these questions, let alone answer them.
If the misunderstanding is that the regiment's seed bank is still there, that's a good thing.
Although, Martins himself no longer bothered about this issue. As long as the gene seed was pure and was definitely the seed of the Phoenix, that was enough. He himself was unwilling to delve into it, let alone expose the matter.
He, Pastor Rizzo, and two other veterans have decided to bury this matter deep in their hearts.
…
The reason why Martins and Grit had time to chat at this moment was because they were waiting for their warriors to find further clues.
The surface part of this storage center is obviously not the headquarters of the original Angry Owl Sect itself.
According to intelligence, their headquarters is underground.
This group of cult members are guarding this place with all their might, which probably proves that this is the only way leading to their headquarters.
But they couldn't find the entrance for the time being.
Both the Sisters of Battle and the Witchers are doing this.
The first one to get the result was the Demon Hunter.
A lady came and interrupted their chat.
Martins remembered her.
This is Milia de Jong, one of the team leaders of this demon hunter team. Martins also knows that she made a lot of contributions in the alliance's anti-counterrevolutionary operation some time ago.
At this moment, the young captain, with a flushed face, reported a piece of news to him:
"We found an entrance to the underground!"
"Oh? That's great. Thank you for your work." Martins said this first, then turned around and said to Gritte jokingly, "It seems that the demon hunters of the alliance are better than your battle sisters in this regard."
Grit didn't mind it: "It saves trouble, it's better anyway."
Martins turned his gaze back and saw that Milia de Jong seemed to have some news to tell.
He frowned and said, "If you have any more information, please report it in detail."
"Yes!" De Jong shuddered.
She has always been fearless. However, when she faced the Emperor's Angel of Death, she felt a heavy sense of oppression from the bottom of her heart, and spoke cautiously, looking at the other party's majestic body, with her height just reaching the other party's belly. She had to look up hard to see the majestic face of Chapter Master Martins.
She said carefully: "It's not that the report is not detailed, it's just that in this situation... we ourselves are not too sure..."
She then explained the witcher's findings in detail to the chapter leader.
After listening to this, Martins indeed frowned.
According to the demon hunters, they found the underground entrance to the cult's headquarters. Besides their specialized skills in searching and investigating, there was another very important factor: one of them had a demon hunter with the special skill of 'sensing souls'.
After activating his ability, he found that the white spots of light that symbolized the souls of those killed rebels, especially those sorcerers wearing gray robes or even blue robes, were floating towards one place through a certain path.
His words made the other demon hunters feel a little strange. But thinking that it was a clue, they still sent a few people to follow the so-called "soul light spot" that the person sensed and went to investigate.
It’s really rewarding.
They found a very secret passage in the ventilation duct. When they followed the ventilation duct to a thick supporting column inside the building, they found that the supporting column was actually a fake one, which was actually hollow and formed a downward passage.
They didn't act rashly, but just sent people to guard there. If necessary, they could blow up the pillar, expand the passage, and then attack downwards from there.
But before that, the demon hunters were quite concerned about what their companion had discovered about the souls passively drifting back to the cult headquarters.
"...We think this is a bad sign." De Jong was no longer so nervous when he said this, and his expression naturally became very serious. "Those cultists are obviously doing something. This is probably their last struggle in despair. But...we have too little information now, and we can't be sure what they are doing specifically."
Martins obviously took this clue very seriously.
In the past, many experiences of fighting various heretical cultists taught him to never underestimate these human traitors who sold their souls to some unknown existence. They would always cause a big incident somewhere and cause terrible losses.
Martins turned to his advisor and asked, "Do you have any ideas?"
Grit frowned and said, "I... am not sure, but this may be related to the intelligence we collected before..."
Afterwards, Grit also shared the information she knew.
She spoke quickly and urgently, and asked Martins to give the order to assemble the troops and prepare for the attack.
According to her, if the situation observed by the demon hunters at this moment is really the same as the information previously investigated by the battle sisters, they must act as quickly as possible.
Martins followed suit and listened carefully to what Grit said while ordering the team to assemble and prepare for the blast.
The original Angry Owl sect, this local cult organization, has the same core goal as many cult organizations seen in the starry sky, which is to make the evil god they believe in come to the world.
When it comes to them, this is not just a fantasy, but something that can really come true.
Because the evil god they believed in, the original Angry Owl, had a prototype, faith, and spiritual energy. This could be seen from the incarnation of the Angry Owl that was summoned during the big event they organized in Fuxing City.
Since this is a prototype deity that originated from local beliefs, its power can be truly projected into the real world.
This monster is currently in the abyss of the spirit world, but it is inextricably linked to the Wrathful Owl Star. The original Wrathful Owl sect believes that if they do something right, the evil god will be called to this world.
One of them is the sacrifice of a large number of souls.
This large amount may refer to numbers in the millions or even tens of millions.
This was also the main reason why they targeted Fuxing City a year and a half ago: at that time, it was the only place on the Angry Owl Star that had a large enough population gathered in a small area.
If they were to do something similar in the North, the scattered personnel would be a big problem. Even the Polar Industrial City, the largest city in the North, only has 500,000 people.
But after the failure of the operation in Renaissance City, they were under tremendous pressure from the Battle Sisters and the garrisons in the North-Central Province. It became very difficult to carry out the operation of the Evil God's Descent normally.
The battle nuns once captured a high-ranking figure of a cult, who revealed the radicals, or desperate faction within the sect, and proposed a plan to forcibly revive the evil god.
They would sacrifice as many people as possible, even using all the sorcerers in their sect as seeds and sacrificing them all at once, without any hesitation.
This move caused a huge disagreement within their sect. The opposition believed that doing so was a meaningless sacrifice because it would not be able to successfully awaken their god. At most, it could only summon a powerful incarnation.
But if the entire sect is sacrificed just for this, it is really not worth it.
"...But according to our current intelligence, such crazy ideas should be an absolute minority among them. However..."
Martins continued, "But if it comes to a critical moment of their survival, they may have no choice but to fight to the death."
"So we have to hurry." Grit said, "The only good news is that the only people they can sacrifice now are those who died in Polar Industrial City today, and the number will not be large. The biggest force is still the cultists themselves. We must destroy their plan as quickly as possible, otherwise even if they only summon one incarnation, we will be in big trouble."
"I understand."
As he spoke, the Demoman was ready, and the Space Marines, Battle Sisters, and Demon Hunters were also on standby.
Without wasting time, at Martins's command, the passage, which was disguised as a building pillar but actually led to the underground, was blown up.
The blasting was done personally by a veteran Space Marine, whose skills were quite good, and the amount of explosives and the location of their installation were just right.
An irregular circular passage of approximately 6×6 appeared in front of them, with a ladder leading down.
After the passage was blown up, the cultists hiding below apparently reacted, and sounds were heard coming from inside.
But there is no need to worry too much at this time.
"Down, down, down!" Martins shouted. Wearing the Terminator power armor, he was the first to jump down.
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4k word chapter.
It was originally scheduled for 11 noon, but it was released directly... So let it be.
Go to sleep, good night.
(End of this chapter)
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