From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

boom--!

Suffering from a golden beam...

In other words, the demon vulture was pierced by a spear that cut through the sky at an extremely fast speed, and was instantly burned by flames and turned into ashes without even being able to utter a scream.

? ?

The other vultures, noticing something unusual, turned their "eyes" to the street where the Loran family was.

Although they possess a certain degree of intelligence, they cannot figure out how their fellow creatures died.

Maybe he was shot by the monks in the monastery with a crossbow dipped in holy water?

Or was he killed by a cannon with a bullet dipped in holy water?

In short, such things have happened before, and death is a normal thing for them.

Then they prepared to lower their altitude and continue preying on human residents fleeing on the streets.

! !

"Help!"

“Oh! My God.”

"Forget God, run!"

The crowd panicked as they saw the demon vultures heading towards their street.

Some even knelt on the ground, praying non-stop, begging God or the angels and gods from heaven to perform a miracle to save them from danger.

The kind-hearted residents will remind these whimsical guys to run away quickly.

Will gods show up on their own initiative?

How can it be?

Even if they really come to the world, they will only choose to come to the world for the saints, nuns or knights who are worthy of being saved.

How could such common people as ants deserve God to show up on his own initiative? Don't be silly.

As for Luo Lan, he freed his right hand to pick up his daughter, and held his son tightly with his left hand, preparing to run into the alley not far away.

Boom, boom!

However, a demon vulture had already swooped down and landed, blocking the entrance to the alley.

"what!"

Seeing the vulture's extremely ferocious appearance up close, the daughter, who had always been well-behaved, could no longer bear it and screamed. She hugged Roland tightly and did not dare to open her eyes at all.

"Howl~!"

The vulture roared towards the sky again, as if announcing to everyone present that it and its kind would dominate all living things here.

Just as it lowered its head and opened its bloodshot beak to devour the terrified townspeople.

Tread!

A "person" with a body outline emitting a faint golden light raised his left hand casually and pressed against the vulture's beak, preventing it from moving any further.

? ?

The resident, who thought he was about to be eaten to death, opened his eyes in confusion.

Then, the resident saw a tall woman wearing golden armor, with waist-length hair and a temperament like a "god", standing between him and the vulture.

The "God" was seen pressing his left hand against the vulture's beak and exerting a little force.

boom--!

The next second, the vulture was enveloped by extremely dazzling golden flames and turned into ashes in the blink of an eye.

"howl!!"

At this time, the other demon vultures saw that the "culprit" who killed their own kind finally appeared, and they rushed towards him howling.

It seems that while the demon vultures want to avenge their own kind, they also want to share the "culprit" in order to improve their own strength.

But it's a pity.

Clang—clang—!!

Just as the demon vultures flapped their wings and tried to pounce on the woman who looked like a "god", crisp and pleasant gunshots rang out inside and outside the town.

Puff——puff——!

All the demon vultures had their skin and bodies pierced by large-caliber bullets, and were then completely shattered and torn apart by the explosion caused by the bullets.

And when the warhead explodes, it will also release a faint wave, which will directly "purify" the remains of the Demon Vulture's body, turning it into pieces and debris of flesh, without any "evil filth".

Only now did all the townspeople, including the Loran family, notice a group of tall and strong soldiers scattered around the streets.

Moreover, this group of tall and strong soldiers, wearing armor that they had never seen before and which also exuded a "sacred" aura, used cannon-caliber rifles to accurately shoot and kill all the demonic creatures lurking in the sky.

In addition to these soldiers and the beautiful woman who looked like a "god", the Loran family and local residents also discovered that a "spaceship" with a length of 100 meters appeared in the sky above the town.

Swish-swish-! !

Hundreds of missiles "emerged" from the sides and top of the spacecraft, leaving white trails and heading straight for the outside of the steel wall.

Boom. Boom——!

Afterwards, the noise caused by the explosion of hundreds of missiles made the earth tremble.

Before the Loran family and the local residents could recover, several strange-looking transport boats appeared out of nowhere.

It was a Thunder 3 transport boat that had voluntarily cancelled its stealth mode and appeared within the visual field of view of the Loran family and local residents.

As a transport boat specially designed to carry Astartes, the Thunder III has been significantly enlarged, widened and thickened based on the original Type 3.

That is, the Atlas has a nuclear fusion engine, which makes the Thunder transport aircraft, which does not look very aerodynamic, able to "fly bricks with great force", realizing manned and cargo transportation that breaks through the constraints of the surface and goes directly to low-Earth orbit and outer space.

At this moment, after removing their optical camouflage, six Thunder 3 transport boats landed in the central square in front of the church and on the wider streets.

One of the planes released its landing gear and headed for a street intersection not far from Loran and the others.

Bang—boom—.

Even if the pilot flew the plane carefully, its wings still "pierced" the buildings on both sides.

Boom—Boom——! !

Immediately afterwards, the landing gear of the Thunder 3 transport boat performed a "collision-style" parking with the bricks on the ground.

Then, the nose door of the Thunder 3 opened, releasing a group of...

"giant".

Boom, boom!

Before the Loran family and local residents could see the group of "giants" clearly, the "giants" turned into afterimages and quickly ran towards the steel wall on the east side.

After that, the news came from the east of the town from time to time;

"For the Emperor!"

"For humanity!"

Metal war cries like "Die! Die! Die!"

???

This sudden change left the desperate townspeople confused and stunned.

"Dad, the big sister is coming."

The daughter's reminder broke the eerie silence between the streets.

!

After coming to his senses, Luo Lan followed the direction of his daughter's finger and saw a "woman" who was two heads taller than him, walking slowly towards where their family was standing.

Soon, the "woman" walked in front of Roland and raised her left hand again.

However, this time when the "woman" raised her hand, she did not use as much force as to "crush" or "burn" the demon vulture. Instead, she placed it quite gently on the little girl's head.

Then, Loran discovered that his and his daughter's bodies were shrouded in a faint golden light.

At the same time, he also felt the anxiety and confusion in his heart dissipate with the appearance of the golden light.

The extreme fatigue caused by years of high-intensity work also dissipated.

? ? ! !

This made Luo Lan look incredulous.

“It’s so warm.”

The daughter couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"my Lord!"

"It's an angel! It's the legendary angel!"

Seeing Loran and his daughter enveloped in the "holy aura", the residents around them went from being stunned and confused at first to kneeling down and worshipping devoutly in an instant.

The boy standing behind his father and sister saw the residents around him kneeling and kowtow, so he followed their actions and prepared to kneel down to the "woman" standing not far in front of him.

But the boy was a little hesitant.

After all, his father never strictly required him to recite scriptures or ask him to have a devout reverence for God and the church.

The most important point is that the "woman" in front of us is somewhat inconsistent with the image of angels described by the church.

"No need to kneel down to me, kid."

But just as the boy was about to kneel down, the "woman" raised her right hand and said in an echoing voice:

"As you guessed, I am not an angel, so there is no need to bow down to me."

? !

The boy was extremely surprised and stammered:

"Can you understand what I'm thinking about?"

The "woman" smiled and nodded slightly, without giving the boy a direct reply.

"So who are you, big sister?"

The girl who was picked up by Roland asked the question quite innocently.

Hear the words.

"I am the former God of Olympus"

The "woman" still said to the girl with a smile on her face. Then, she turned around, glanced at everyone present, and raised her voice:

"Now, I am one of the main gods serving the Emperor of Mankind, the goddess of war.

Pallas Athena!

And I, the Emperor of Mankind, and the millions of warriors of the Human Empire will never turn a blind eye to the suffering of the world like the God and Heaven in your universe.

at the same time!

I will also lead the imperial warriors to eradicate those filthy and extremely ugly demon armies and degenerate heretics for you!

For humanity!

For the Empire!"

At the end of her words, Athena raised her right hand and called back the Spear of Victory that pierced the Demon Vulture.

And the moment Athena grasped the spear, a golden light visible to the naked eye burst out with her as the center.

The glare swept across the streets, alleys, central square, and the entire town like a shock wave.

The hundreds of Greek minor gods deployed in the town along with Athena also raised their exclusive bolter guns, psychic swords, and psychic spears, and roared in unison.

In an instant, the whole town was filled with the battle cries of "For humanity!" and "For the empire!"

As for all the townspeople, they were all affected by the psychic energy released by Athena, and unknowingly shifted their awe from God and heaven to the so-called Human Emperor and Human Empire.

Residents like the Loran family, who were already unhappy with God's inaction, immediately became staunch but "short-lived" supporters of the Emperor of Man and the Empire of Man.

Firmness is due to Athena and the Greek demi-gods, as well as the dark angels, who actually dealt with the threats of demons and heretics.

What's more, Athena used the "Spear of Victory" to release the pure spiritual energy from Sui Yang, and then was subjected to a considerable degree of "psychic bewitchment".

The short term is after the effect of "psychic bewitchment" wears off. The Roland family and the townspeople will consider whether the human empire is truly worthy of their awe and faith based on its performance.

The town's current situation is related to Mike and Laura's secret destruction of the power plant's unmanned facilities and the corresponding defense measures.

But in fact, the forces of Hell had already gathered on the east side of the town.

Even without Mike and Laura's secret operations, the army of demons and heretics would still launch a raid on this frontier town.

Therefore, what Mike and Laura did was just to transform the "uncertainty" of the demons and heretics into controllable factors.

After all, the air in the battle area and above the Hell forces was covered by thick clouds with psychic energy, so orbital drones and space ships could not specifically determine the Hell forces' raid nodes.

And when Mike and Laura secretly carried out the explosion to avoid accidentally injuring or killing the local humans, the forces of Hell would naturally not miss this best opportunity for a surprise attack.

And before Mike and Laura carried out the explosion, Athena and the Greek demi-gods of the Inquisition, as well as six teams of Dark Angels, had already been deployed over the town in advance on the Swift Shadow and Thunderbolt III transport craft.

Once the explosion is complete and the forces of Hell choose to launch a surprise attack, the troops on standby will directly intervene in the battle, allowing Athena to appear as a "savior" to preach.

As for the Spear of Victory used by Athena, it was also "recast" by Sui Yang, making it contain extremely powerful pure spiritual energy.

In conjunction with Sui Yang's 1911, unless there is a Primarch-level hell demon in the "One Three" universe of "Trench Crusaders", it will be difficult to cause any substantial damage to the current Athena.

At this moment, outside the steel wall on the east side of town;

The soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire relied on trenches, bunkers and various fortifications to fight fiercely with seemingly endless demonic creatures, fallen humans, and tanks and artillery with bone spurs and tentacles on their armor.

The knights of the Knights of Rebirth and the nuns of the local church were besieged by demonic creatures whose individual combat power was equally powerful.

Knights and nuns wielding heavy swords can easily kill one or more demonic creatures.

However, being "surrounded and attacked" by hundreds or even thousands of demonic creatures, no matter how strong their individual combat power was, their impact on the overall battle situation became negligible.

But with a salvo of missiles fired by the Swift Shadow.

The armored forces of the Hell forces, as well as the location where their main forces were assembled, were completely wiped out and physically purified by the "solar glare" produced by the metallic hydrogen explosion.

In an instant, the situation took a drastic turn.

???

When the remaining Roman soldiers poked their heads out of the trenches and fortifications, they looked at the mushroom cloud in the distance with a confused look on their faces.

Boom, boom!

Six fully armed Dark Angel teams, with extremely heavy steps, crossed the trench line outside the city wall and launched a crushing charge towards the equally stunned Hell Army.