Warhammer: I don't want to be a stinky can! ! !

Chapter 669 117. Strategy Room

【Terra】

The guards of the captain of the second company of the Salamander Legion hurried into the palace.
There were traces of flames on the dark green armor, and the helmet and boots were still stained with blood and mud from the alien planet.

Not far behind him, a fanatic of the Cult of the Dark in pitch-black protective clothing followed him closely. The pace of the Salamander might be a little too fast for mortals, but the fanatic kept following the steps of the Space Marine without changing his expression.

In front of them was a female officer of the Silent Sisters. After exchanging secret signals with the fanatics, the female officer began to lead the way for them.

A team of silent nuns lined up on the side, allowing anyone with a short eye to see that this was an instruction from Hades.

The black-helmeted warriors guarded the two men with strict discipline.

The Salamander thought it was a bit of a waste, but Terra and the palace were indeed very crowded right now, with countless people of all kinds passing by them in a hurry.

Salamander saw countless people from the Mechanicus, as well as Rogue Traders, political commissars from various legions, officers, Space Marines, Psychics, Soulless Ones... He even saw the Imperial Guards.

There were also convoys transporting goods, and the palace was filled with people as dense as a school of sardines.

The dark-skinned warrior looked at everyone, and from their frowning brows, Salamander felt that each of them seemed to be carrying a mission that depended on human lives.

If they came here by themselves, they might be stopped by the crowd or even bumped into by someone.

Salamander thought about it, but in front of a team of silent nuns emitting cold air, everything was solved. The crowd, as dense as a wall, naturally parted in front of them to make way.

Walk and walk again, the palace is a huge maze.

The crowd gradually thinned out, and Salamander estimated that they had gone deep into the basement of the palace. Finally, they stepped onto a long corridor where you could hear a pin drop. The imperial guards were lined up on both sides, and the huge door was staring at him.

Even before setting foot there, the fire lizard could feel the oppression there.

Arrived.

The Sister of Silence stopped and gestured to them. The fanatics responded with simple and awkward gestures, and then the door opened a crack for them.

The cold air seeps out.

The fire lizard took a deep breath, and then walked in with the jubilant fanatics of the Dark Cult—

"Are you here? Thank you for your hard work."

An unexpected male voice sounded, deep but surprisingly relaxed and casual, causing the Salamander to be startled.
He then looked inside the room clearly. It was a small strategic command room. The walls had been transformed into huge sensor screens, which were flashing real-time strategic intelligence.

A tall, gray monster stood hunched in front of the strategic table, turned his head and looked at the visitor with his white eyes. His strange, tattered cloak hung to the ground and was shedding dust.

Beside him was an old-looking Death Guard and a handsome Son of Pluto, who were helping to manipulate the holographic images projected on the strategic table.

Some tiny dots of silver liquid were suspended above the strategic table.

But the voice that greeted him did not come from here.

On the other side of the room, a black-armored giant was sprawled comfortably on the sofa, holding a thick stack of battle reports in one hand and a plate of snacks not far from where his other hand was hanging. The same silver liquid was also floating beside him.

...Pluto.

Thanks to the fanatics around him, Salamander immediately recognized that this was Pluto. Next to Pluto stood several mortals with serious faces. They seemed to be important generals of this great expedition, either from the navy or the legion.

In the dimness of the room stood a Custodian, equally tall, comparable to the Primarch, but still not as tall as the skinny behemoth at the strategy table.

!

The first step of the fire lizard that reacted was to kneel down and salute.

"Captain of the Second Company of the Salamanders, Guard Gabu, has met several adults. Praise the Pluto, praise the God-Emperor."

"Praise Hades!"

The fanatics around him also knelt down, saluted, and shouted, their voices coming from within the muffled protective suits.

"Please stand up, my warrior. Next time, just give the Sky Eagle Salute. The war is urgent."

"Yes, my lord."

Salamander said, and then he realized that the monster at the strategy table should be the Primarch of the Death Guard - Mortarion the Pale Lord.

? !
He felt ashamed of his blasphemous thoughts and quickly corrected his subconscious behavior of viewing the Primarch as a monster.

The Salamanders and the fanatics remained motionless, waiting for the order from their superiors. The Pale Lord still looked cold, which made the legionnaires feel a little pressured, but Hades was not at all what he had imagined.

"You must be tired just coming from the front. If you feel tired, you can sit down and rest - don't panic, I invite everyone in this room to sit down and rest - but you see, this is it."

Hades spread his hands. He was already used to speaking first. Otherwise, with his appearance, except for Karas who would come up and scold him, others would probably shut up because of the aura he exuded.

"And, sorry I won't ask about the war on the front line yet - what's the matter with this lady?"

Hades said, looking towards the fanatic in full body protective gear.

"Praise you——"

The fanatics saluted again.
"Lord Pluto, I have the power of the Heaven of Lust. I captured this spiritual energy and collected samples on a fallen planet."

Hades stood up suddenly and walked a few steps to the believer.
"I commend you for your courage - but next time you can capture some demons or Eldar and don't be so brave - excessive bravery is reckless."

Mom! Yeah!
Hades thought that he had once again experienced the wild methods of his Hades Cult. He paved the black area and then signaled the believers to take off their protective clothing.

The heavy black protective suit fell to the ground, and Hades heard another very light footstep. Mortarion also came over and looked carefully at the believer who was infected with Slaanesh's psionic energy.

They had faced humans infected by Slaanesh before, with Karas being a typical example, but it was clear that Slaanesh was changing. It was no longer scales, and the obvious features that originally had scales were replaced by tiny granulations, its ears became pointed, and its pupils turned black.

【…】

【Slaanesh is being corrupted by the Eldar.】

Mortarion said, blinking his alien eyes and raising his hand, a wisp of mist hanging from his fingertips.

【do not move. 】

The Primarch said, the white mist penetrated into the body of the believer, and Hades watched as the fanatic immediately trembled violently.

"Ugh!"

Hades said, the black domain moves,
"What is this for?"

You can’t bully his believers!
【Check. This will make her slightly uncomfortable. 】

Mortarion said, frowning.
Slaanesh's psychic infectiousness has become stronger... is it the effect of that arrow... or is it due to His current state?
Hades,

Death said,
[I want this person. You can't use the Black Domain to remove the spiritual energy attached to her soul now. I need to make antibodies and vaccines.]

[Before this, I had already made a complete vaccine using the infected people inside the Death Guard... but you see, Hades, He mutated. ]

Seeing Hades staring at him, Mortarion added silently,
【She will be safe.】“…”

"Will you then, my believer?"

Hades turned his head to ask, only to see the fanatic nodded firmly, and it didn't look like he was "uncomfortable" at all.

"I do, your Excellency—that is why I have persisted so long."

Alright alright.

Hades sighed inwardly, why are they all crazy?

He stretched out his hand, and liquid metal condensed into a three-headed dog necklace between his palms. Because Hades was wearing armor, a small cut was made on his exposed cheek. The blood was enchanted onto the necklace, and then the wound healed.

"Give."

Hades said,

"If the chaotic spiritual energy erodes to the last step, I will forcibly eliminate it."

He handed over the necklace, and as expected, he saw that the fanatic fainted in excitement, and the fire lizard beside her gasped slightly, as if suppressing a cry of surprise.

"..."

Hades didn't want to say anything. After the war, he thought he should work with Angron to publish a book titled "What is a normal and healthy person, why the Empire advocates normal and healthy people, and how to become a normal and healthy person."

Death Guard pharmacists soon arrived at the scene and took the fanatic away.

Mortarion seemed to sense Hades' silence, so he added,
[The vaccine will be available soon, and we cannot protect the entire battlefield. ]

"It's you, not me."

Hades smiled, looked at the fire lizard apologetically, turned around and sat back.
"Unless it's an area of ​​high psychic power - but multiple insurance always helps, you're right."

On the battlefield with chaos, if the concentration of spiritual energy is too high, chaotic characteristics will appear in untransformed people. This is unavoidable.

[What have you brought... the offspring of my kind brother? ]

The Primarch did not walk back to the strategy table. Mortarion walked over to the Salamander and looked at the dark-skinned warrior carefully.

He extended a hand, motioning the warrior to follow him to the strategy table, where the Empire's war star map was projected, focused on the Scalus sector in the hazy star field.

On the map representing the territory of the azure empire, a depression like a giant eye appeared near the Scalus star region. The bloody purple color representing the power of Slaanesh also eroded many areas.

That giant eye that seemed to be pierced from the inside was originally an exit to the web, the "Happy Valley of the Laughing God", but the Laughing God seemed to have let it fall, turning it into a big mouth that Comoros used to spew into the physical world.

Nearby, countless hidden or marked entrances and exits of the web also turned purple.

[…You are from here.]

Mortarion reached out and pointed at a fallen planet near the Scalus sector.
Tell us, what is the current situation of the war?

Salamander swallowed and began to describe what the front-line defenders encountered.

..............................

First came the raiders who raided the ships.

The Dark Eldar raiders seemed to appear suddenly, and immediately launched an attack on merchant ships and naval patrols in the Scalus and Caliss sectors.

Before the local defense forces could react, the first two waves of attacks had ended, and all the people and supplies on the attacked ships disappeared.

To the people's horror, they found the symbol of Slaanesh among the bones of those slaughtered by the Eldar, which was utterly impossible.

This immediately caused panic among the local upper-class indigenous forces, but the empire responded extremely quickly.

Before the third raid took place, the local Underworld Cult's minor bishop reported the situation, and the Underworld Cult's cardinal personally arrived in the star region and immediately contacted all nearby imperial troops.

The Second Company of Salamanders stationed in the nearby Ultimate Star Zone also arrived at the front line at this moment.

……

Hades and Mortarion looked at each other.

At that time, the Empire could not be sure where Slaanesh's attack would come from. The Webway was interconnected, and a wrong direction would lead to a completely different destination.

Because of the concern about Chaos's erosion of the general public, the news about Slaanesh was blocked. However, after confirming Slaanesh's situation, Hades immediately notified the Cult of the Underworld under his command.

This down-to-earth organization, which integrates well with the local people and has good resistance to chaos, has always been an invisible supervisory agency for large-scale psychic events.

At the same time, due to the establishment of the Academy of Athens as an information hub, information was able to spread rapidly through non-psychic means.

……

Initially, except for the Cult of Hell and the Mechanicus, which had a love-hate relationship with the Cult of Hell and dispatched all their troops almost immediately, the rest of the local guard forces still did not realize what they might face next.

Soon, the webway hidden between the galaxies once again spewed out countless armies.

At the same time, war broke out on at least six civilized planets. Eldar battleships and cruisers of different styles appeared. Wild Eldar ships were mixed among the Dark Eldar fleets, and warp projections that almost blinded psychics flowed on them.

It was an unimaginable army size, completely different from the Eldar's previous style of always preferring to act alone.

These crazy and mad people, whose flesh and blood could not even be seen as having much self-will, smashed countless soldiers on the battlefield.

On the bloodiest battlefield, an alien Titan was released, and the moment it landed, it beheaded a Predator-class Titan from the Mechanicus Titan Order.

At the same time, the attack did not only come from the Eldar. The Great Daemons of Slaanesh shuttled through the Eldar army, commanding the advancement of the war.

Compared with the fanatical Eldar army, the local defenders were superior in strength. On a key hub planet, the Cardinal of the Cult of the Underworld personally took to the battlefield to save the last stepping planet that could reach the heart of Slaanesh's fallen area within two weeks.

But beside this planet, the battle line continued to retreat, and finally stabilized at the junction of the Scalus Star Sector and the Caliss Star Sector.

At this moment, on that isolated planet, the war situation is still not optimistic. The giant pterosaurs and dinosaurs raised by the wild Eldar even appeared on the ground and fought with the imperial army.

And in the starry sky, the Dark Eldar's extremely fast cruisers and battleships, relying on the Eldar's Ark World, dealt a heavy blow to the Imperial Navy - the sea area has been completely occupied.

………………

After Salamander finished his report, the room fell into a brief silence.

Hades thought that the troops in the nearby star fields had been ordered to support the battlefield at the first opportunity. This was an efficiency and speed that was completely unimaginable for the previous empire.

But it still doesn’t work…

Hades thought that even though he believed that the firepower was still not saturated enough, it was obvious that the front line needed more support.

They had to set off. Although their goal was to ultimately behead Slaanesh, the empire's territories devastated by Slaanesh also needed to be protected.

(End of this chapter)