From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

After nearly a thousand years of corruption and erosion, Jerusalem has completely fallen.

Where is the "normal" here?

The ground, buildings, and even the sky.

They all turned into hideous looks.

Either they are covered in living tumors and grow dense tentacles, or they are covered with fangs, bone spurs, and eyes that make people suffer from trypophobia.

Along with the thick clouds in the sky, there are also a large number of tentacles, bone spurs, and irregularly shaped eyes that are constantly twitching.

If an ordinary person witnessed such a scene, his consciousness and rationality would be severely impacted.

As long as ordinary people look into those strange-looking "devil's eyes" that exude a weird aura, they will instantly become servants of hell and fall into the illusion of self-satisfaction and self-indulgence.

It seems that only the determined dark believers who carry out the original intention of the "Dark Pilgrimage" can successfully cross the gates of hell, meet the lords and demons of each level of hell, and then obtain the "official recognition" of hell, and possess qualitative changes and incomparable power.

However.

Clang—clang—!!!

Ri~whoosh——whoosh——!

However, after the two Thunderhawk gunships landed on the corrupted surface and opened the nose and side doors, Captain Galan Clovis, Champion Aldaimo and forty company guards poured out of the cabin and suppressed the fallen knights and hell creatures around them with firepower.

The two Thunder Hawk gunboats that completed the transportation and "unloading" tasks also used 2.0cal caliber rotary bolter cannons, ground-to-ground metal hydrogen missiles and 140mm caliber plasma main guns to provide firepower assistance to Galan and others who were walking fast when they closed their hatches and took off again.

The fallen knights and hellish creatures who live and inhabit this place obviously did not expect that apart from the paladins, there would actually be "humans" who dared to break in here.

In a short period of time, they were unable to organize an effective counterattack or blockade.

Galan, Aldemo and the company guards are neither ordinary people nor dark cultists who want to make a pilgrimage to hell.

The gene seeds derived from the Emperor and the Primarch gave them a considerable degree of resistance to the Warp, not to mention the extremely difficult Hell plane that could only wreak havoc on the Earth.

The extremely chaotic and corrupt scene before them was not enough to distort and affect the will of Galan and others.

At most, they would feel that everything here is disgusting and physically uncomfortable.

As for Serin who was following closely behind Galan?

As a soulless artificial intelligence, how could she be affected by such a level of corruption?

Serin was holding a high-powered plasma pistol, but she did not open fire like Galan and the others. Instead, she used her electronic eyes to "madly" scan and photograph everything at the scene.

Maybe there is something worth studying.

However, judging from the scans and preliminary analysis, although the scene outside the Gate of Hell looks quite horrifying, in essence, it is not much different from the surroundings of the bloody city wall.

It is only the "miasma" and corrupt forces from hell, after a long period of influence and erosion, that have created a "forbidden land for mankind" that is enough to distort the will of ordinary people.

The fallen knights who tried to attack and stop them, the huge hellish creatures, the living buildings with tentacle spurs, etc., were only much stronger than the guys on the bloody wall as a whole.

This is why only the Paladin dares to go deep into this place and enter hell alone.

Not to mention ordinary elite soldiers, even the veteran knights of the Knights Templar and nuns of the church who have experienced major battles cannot resist the erosion and obstruction of hell.

It is even more impossible to get close to the gate of hell with extremely high temperature.

Galan and others, under the influence of gene seeds and multiple transformation operations, as well as the experience of participating in interstellar-level wars since youth, are able to easily resist the erosion and corruption of the "Trench Crusade" hell.

soon.

With the help of their large-caliber weapons and the fire support of two Thunder Eagle gunboats, everyone successfully arrived at the Gate of Hell, which looked extremely spectacular and gorgeous, but full of filth and evil.

On both sides of the door were piled up living buildings made up of countless human corpses, and in the center of the door, a raging fire was burning.

Moreover, the extremely high temperature air waves are so strong that even if you are standing far away, or even wearing power armor and combat uniforms, you can still feel the corruption and death from hell.

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Following behind Galan, Serin first scanned the Gate of Hell and the surrounding buildings with her electronic eyes.

Their various reactions and brief data all indicate that the gate of hell before everyone’s eyes is a “portal” with self-awareness and thoughts.

And the Gate of Hell also gave Serin a feeling, that is, that consciousness and thought, similar to her

AI?

"Ms. Celine."

At this time, Galan, who had led the company guards and company champions to eliminate all threats around him, glanced at the Gate of Hell, then turned to look at Serin who had fallen silent, and asked:

"Since you have volunteered to serve as our advisor, may I ask, if we directly step into the gate of hell burning with blazing fire in front of us, can we directly go to the plane of hell?

Or, will we be completely wiped out after we step into that gate of hell?"

"That gate to hell has a being similar to me. It may follow established procedures to detect whether the people who cross the gate to hell are qualified to go to the hell plane."

Serin paused, and continued to explain to the Dark Angels, saying:

“And this Gate of Hell should be some kind of advanced biotechnology, and it has many similarities with the pure flowers cultivated by Your Majesty through his pure spiritual energy.

But overall, the power contained in the pure flower is much stronger than the gate of hell in front of them.

If a pure flower is planted here, it will not take long to completely assimilate the so-called Hell Gate and turn it into an imperial asset."

Galan frowned slightly under the "Pure Flower" helmet.

Although he asked the people who raided the Gate of Hell to carry sufficient ammunition and equipment so that they could "kill as many people as possible" in the Hell plane, he did not take into account the Flower of Purity, the "artifact" cultivated by the Emperor.

? ? ! !

But then, Galan showed a surprised look under the helmet.

Because while Serin was explaining to them, she also took out a "peony" from the metal storage box on her side that looked like crystal and emitted a light golden glow.

Then, Serin half-knelt on the ground and planted the pure flower that looked like a crystal peony on the surface covered with pustules and blood tumors.

And after the pure flower took root in the ground, the filthy things such as pustules and blood tumors covering the surface immediately began to wither and decay.

"Ms. Serin is really prepared for a rainy day. She prepared the pure flower in advance." Galan sighed.

However, after seeing that the speed of the Pure Flower's purification of the surroundings was a bit slow, he continued to ask:

"By the time the Pure Flower assimilated the Gate of Hell, the main force would have already broken through the many defenses of the Hell Army, so is there anything faster?"

"The Flower of Purity is just a prop I use for experiments and data collection. It is not the key to this operation." Serin stood up and raised her hand, interrupting Galan's questioning.

This intelligent AI, who looked thin and small compared to the other Astartes around him, walked towards the gate of hell.

At the same time, she also adjusted her special combat suit to a mode that could resist extremely high temperatures, saying:

"The Hell Gate has a quasi-artificial intelligence mindset that can distinguish and detect whether the person who crosses over has the strength and qualifications to go to the Hell plane.

You are fearless, and you are the descendants of the Emperor of Mankind and the Primarch. According to my analysis and speculation, you should be able to complete the crossing without any injuries. "

As she spoke, Serin turned her head to look at Galan, whose height had increased to 2.8 meters after wearing the Hades Terminator, and asked:

"So, what are you waiting for? Aren't you anxious to get the first merit?"

"let's go."

Faced with Serin's provocation, Galan was not angry at all. He gave brief orders to everyone and walked forward quickly.

And Galan surpassed Serin and became the first dark angel to take the initiative to step into the raging fire and cross the gates of hell.

"Warning. Warning detected that the wearer is in an extreme environment

warn"

When Galan's helmet screen was occupied by flames, a metallic female reminder sound came to his ears.

The Hades-type Terminator he was wearing also began to automatically adjust the energy shield and the nanosuit with a fluid metal layer to resist the erosion of extremely high temperatures.

But the real difficulty is not the high temperature and flames, but the "shock" that directly hits the soul.

In addition to the warning sound, there were also whispers in Galan's ears?

For example, "Oh great warrior, surrender to me and you will gain supreme glory"

"Fight for Asmodeus, and you will taste the most delicious food in the world. Hehe" and so on.

However, these whispers were pure "ineffective corruption" to him.

Galan's psychic potential is low, resulting in low resistance to supernatural attacks.

Commonly known as "low French resistance".

But Galan's will, or rather, the company guards and company champions who came here with him, all had extremely strong wills.

After all, they are all "natives" of the "Doom (movie)" universe.

Those who have faced the depravity of their 24th pair of chromosomes, which magnified their evil side, in their childhood, are able to maintain their bottom line and their original intentions.

The “mere” temptation from the hell plane is nothing.

Galan ignored the whispers in his ear and continued to move forward based on his feeling.

The helmet screen showed that a full 11.1 minutes, or 666 seconds, had passed since he crossed the gates of hell, and his eyes suddenly became "clear".

There was no longer the hellfire that enveloped his entire body. Instead, there was only the dead silence and dark jungle.

Roar.

Ouch.

At the same time, through his hearing that was far superior to that of ordinary people and the assistance of the Hades-type Terminator, he was able to vaguely hear the roar of some giant beast in the distance.

Boom, boom!

Soon, Galan heard the sound of magnetic boots stepping on the soil behind him again.

The slightly reduced radar on the helmet screen also showed that all the company guards, company champions, and Serin had successfully crossed the gate of hell and arrived in a forest that seemed to be in the hell plane.

Glancing around.

After confirming that there was no potential threat, Galan turned to Serin again, seeking confirmation:

"Ms. Celine, if I'm not mistaken, this should be the dark forest that symbolizes sin in Hell One or Three, right?"

"That's right." Serin nodded in affirmative response and continued:

"According to the information provided by the Intelligence Department, this is indeed the entrance to the Hell Plane. If you want to go to the real first layer of Hell, you must cross the Agron River, which is called the 'River of Sorrow'."

The core members of the Intelligence Department learned some of the "settings" of "The Trench Crusade" through Sui Yang, so they recommended the personnel in charge of the "One Three" universe to read Dante's "Divine Comedy: Inferno".

As the captain of the 1st Company, Galan, even if he is not good at calculations, will read any data and information that is helpful for integrating the war.

So without Serin's reminder, Galan recognized that this was the entrance to hell.

Dark forest.

Followed by.

Galan continued to walk forward and ordered: "Everyone, please pay attention. There may be three or more supernatural beasts in the dark forest. Be prepared to fight at any time."

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The Dark Angels responded without words.

Then, Galan, Serin and other "people" moved forward based on their first instinct.

There is no distinction between east, west, south and north here, and their respective navigation systems are in a disordered state. Therefore, Galan can only rely on his years of combat intuition and Serin's scanning and analysis to move in a general direction.

I do not know how long it has been.

They arrived at a depth of dense forest where they could hardly see their hand in front of them.

Except for the soulless Serin, all the dark angels can clearly sense the looming "discomfort" and "fatigue".

People who enter the dark forest, if they have traveled a long distance and are physically and mentally exhausted, can easily get completely lost here and become "wandering ghosts."

As they walked forward, they witnessed disembodied spirits wandering in the woods.

Among them are knights and nuns who betrayed God and heaven, as well as ordinary human beings and cultists.

However, the weirdness of the dark forest had little impact on Galan and the others.

Everyone continued to move forward.

The helmet screen showed that 11.1 hours had passed since they arrived in the Dark Forest, or 666 minutes later, they finally reached the edge of the Dark Forest.

They did not pay attention to the time displayed on the screen, and naturally believed that the speed of time flow here was different from that in the physical universe.

Otherwise, Athena, the Grey Knights, and the Greek lesser gods would have already crossed the gates of Hell and also arrived in the Dark Forest.

Wow.Wow~!

At this time, they also saw that under the gray "sky", there was a muddy river with no end in sight.

According to the Divine Comedy, the muddy river before their eyes was the "River of Sorrow" where nothing, not even a feather, could float except the ferry boat of hell.

Agron River.

Moreover, as soon as they reached the shore, they saw a "boatman" who was at least three meters tall, driving a "ferry" towards the shore.