Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 145 03.0144: ‘The death penalty and the noose are the only means to deal with traitors’

The Iron Hand's power was fully activated and the emergency heat dissipation was activated again. Horatio gritted his teeth angrily and threw the sea battle spear.

Whoosh! !

The short spear tore through the air and emitted a terrifying wind-breaking scream. The guards nearby were dumbfounded.

How is this spear throwing? This is clearly a humanoid ballista! !

"Ouch! Ah!"

The spear pierced the traitor's right shoulder, and the huge force propelled his entire body forward, nailing him directly to the bulkhead.

"Cuff him and the intruder in chains and hang them on the execution grid! Let them enjoy the pain until they bleed dry and die!"

Horatio pointed his dagger at the seriously injured traitor officer and the contracted criminal whom he nailed to the wall with his sea battle spear, and issued the cruel orders commonly used by the navy to treat traitors to the armed sailors next to him.

"Yes! Sir!" The two sailors came to their senses and saluted solemnly.

They spat on the traitors, violently dragged them under the torture grid, used pulleys to lower the two skeletons hanging on the grid, untied the rusty hand shackles and shackles, and handcuffed the two traitors separately. , and then pulled the pulley to lift them into the air.

"Ah!! Ah!!!!"

Both of them were still breathing, and for some reason they looked quite energetic. Waves of heart-rending screams echoed on the gun deck like loudspeakers.

This terrifying scream made all the enemies lose their fighting spirit. Some contract workers who stood on the side of the invaders and resisted the navy laid down their weapons and wanted to surrender.

Some who refused to surrender were shot to death by armed sailors.

"Sir, what to do with these surrenders?" the armed sergeant asked.

Horatio looked sternly at the surrendering soldiers who were kneeling on the ground begging, and only said one sentence coldly:

"No betrayal, no matter how small, should be ignored. The Imperial Navy will not tolerate any traitors alive."

The invading enemy had been completely annihilated. Horatio reported the victory of the anti-jump gang battle to the Captain of Arms and received a punishment order approved by the captain.

The drafted sailors were then dismissed and returned to their fighting stations. He'd been mobilizing them for too long and couldn't allow the macrocannon's rate of fire to drop any further.

Buzz! ——

Dark Sight suddenly popped up.

'Confirmed: Sons of Darkness'

'Status: active'

‘Energy: 6/7’

'Psychic: 5/7'

‘Corruption: 3/7’

‘Soul Fire: 80/80’

A ball of black-gold light began to emerge from the pool at the bottom of the skill tree.

‘Soul Fire: 0/160’

Finally, this ball of black gold light merged into the commanding hand.

In an instant, four new branches of the tree unfolded instantly. Horatio could see their branching outlines and background colors, but he could not see their specific content.

And these four background colors...

[Why is it the color of the Four Vendors...] Horatio was shocked.

He checked again to make sure he saw it correctly. It was red, green, blue, and purple.

[Is it really corrupted? ] He felt incredible.

[The corruption is not full... What's going on? ]

He took a breath and continued to look back, not letting panic show on his face.

The black gold lines continued to surge into the red branch tree, lighting up the first skill.

‘Activate: Crimson Scourge Branch Line’

‘Activate: War Cry (Elementary)’

‘Automatic passive effect: All units in the command sequence within 88 meters of the prosthetic holder +8 morale, +8 stamina, +8 melee attack’

‘Active activation effect: Consumes 2 points of energy. Enemies within a range of 88 meters are more likely to engage in melee combat with you than to shoot; units in the command sequence will regain their morale within 30 minutes and temporarily remove negative psychological emotions. ’

[Regain morale? And what do these +8 mean? ]

Horatio switched to the bird's-eye view of the Commanding Hand, and a series of quantified values ​​appeared on the soldier card.

However, this value is more to facilitate his assessment of the overall level of this force. It is a parameter quantification based on the Warhammer World combat power perception in his mind as a traveler, so that he can quickly review and make correct and quick decisions in battle. Reasonable deployment.

If you separate an individual soldier from a team, you can also see his personal attributes.

Horatio suddenly realized it and immediately verified it.

He used his thoughts to control the opening of the weapon cards in his mind, and then the attributes of one of his personal guards appeared.

‘Elite Imperial Navy Breakthrough Jump Team’

‘Number of people: 12/12’

'Fire accuracy: 86'

'Melee Attack: 55'

'Melee defense: 61'

'Armor: 47'

'Morale: 65'

'Endurance: 54'

'Dodge: 23'

In other words, I no longer need to spend time checking the household registration of the soldiers under my command, and I can know their training level and overall quality at a glance.

[nice one. ]

"Sir? Sir!" the sergeant-at-arms shouted, causing Horatio to retreat from the commanding hand's bird's-eye view.

The sergeant handed him the bicorn hat that had fallen to the ground in the previous battle.

He brushed off the dust on it, put it on solemnly, took a deep breath and straightened his chest again, assuming a stern and majestic look.

"Let's begin," he said coldly and solemnly.

The military drummer beat a rapid drum beat, and the armed sailors immediately started running, formed a queue, and guarded the surroundings to maintain discipline.

Under the watchful eyes of sailors and loyal indentured servants.

The hands of the surrendered servants of the Blood God and the contract workers who betrayed the navy were tied with ropes behind their backs, and their mouths were stuffed with balls of braided rope.

Horatio, who was the responsible officer, led the way, facing forward, with his back straight and his sword solemnly raised in front of him.

The armed sergeant behind him faced the first war criminal, put the tip of his sword against his abdomen, and retreated to the beat of the drum.

At the end, the armed sailors put bayonets on the backs of the war criminals. To the rhythm of the drums, Horatio and the armed sailors stepped forward and escorted all the war criminals onto the second platform without guardrails.

This deck without guardrails is so intimidating that sailors call it the 'punishment deck'. All executions in the fort were carried out here, so it was equipped with a sufficient number of execution equipment.

"Look, the show has begun."

"It would be nice if I could have some conversation."

Some sailors who were chained to the ground for their mistakes during the war watched with relish the execution show that was about to begin.

The armed sergeant had arranged for the sailors to tie the noose that was fluttering in the wind on the steel pillar that stretched in mid-air.

The war criminals stood in a row tremblingly. Behind each of them was an armed sailor with a shining bayonet on their backs, and another sailor put a noose on them.

Many prisoners peed, and the hot and humid water soaked their pants and flowed down their legs to the ground.

They were howling, and some were twisting and struggling, but they were all firmly controlled by the sailors behind them. It was a luxury to even jump to their death.

Horatio raised his hand, and the snare drummer stopped beating.

"In accordance with the Imperial Navy Navigation Act, any illegal armed intruders on Imperial Navy ships, rebels, mutineers, and wartime disobedient. The God Emperor will not forgive these sins, and they will be punished with the most humiliating death."

Horatio announced in a loud voice: "And those who made heroic decisions in the battle, I will truthfully report your decisions to the captain. The loyal ones will receive the rewards they deserve!"

"Yeah!!! Long live sir! Hang the traitor!"

"Shame! Depraved! Die, traitor!"

"Ha tui!"

Those contractors who chose to help the Imperial Navy fight against the invaders cheered and cursed and insulted the traitors who were about to be executed with righteous indignation, venting their inner resentment and dissatisfaction wantonly.

Horatio raised his sword, the sergeant-at-arms blew his whistle, and the drummer began beating his drum.

The solid hemp ropes were secured.

Hanging is divided into falling type and top hanging type. The former is to push people down from a high place and break their necks in an instant.

However, the Navy only uses the top-hanging hanging method inside the ship. After the victim is hanged, he will hang there for a period of time to warn the enemy and rebellious sailors.

The moment Horatio swung his command sword downward.

"Pull! Hey! Hey!" The sailors behind shouted to the beat and pulled the rope hard.

This is the most painful type of hanging. There is no instant relief when the throat is strangled during the fall. All the victims can clearly experience the rope tightening around their necks, gradually tightening, slowly pulling their throats, and hanging them. rise, hanging in the air, like strings of bacon.

The suffocation made the victim's face become distorted and turned red and purple.

They swayed their bodies violently back and forth like fish wagging their tails, and they could clearly feel that death was coming bit by bit.

Little did they know that the more they twisted, the more painful their death would be. But this is what everyone wants, and it is the fate that the traitor deserves most.

Then the violent shaking gradually turned into involuntary shaking and twitching. Horatio could hear the painful gasps escaping from the throats of the victims. Those who had resisted urinating also urinated.

After a minute or two, most people's shaking became smaller and smaller, and their erratic toes also dropped. Only a few still made some movement.

But even if they are not killed by mechanical asphyxiation, their brains will be brain-dead within a few minutes because the noose blocks the blood supply.

Until the last one, no one moved, and a long list of traitors with purple-to-black faces hung in the air like neat strips of bacon, swaying slightly with the wind.

Their corpses will then be thrown into the barrel of the macrocannon and fired back at enemy ships to prevent possible Chaos corruption.

Horatio put the sword back into its ornate scabbard, and the drummer stopped beating at that moment.

The brief and quick execution ended, because the battle was not over yet, and the Imperial Navy did not have time to imprison these guys who were destined to die. The sooner the execution was carried out, the safer it would be, and it would save a lot of potential trouble in the future.

Bang bang bang!

Three extremely loud cannon sounds came from everywhere.

Horatio and the crew looked out through the observation portholes, and saw gushing fire coming from the scarlet spine of the Blood Angel's Blade of Vengeance.

Three huge bombardment turrets opened fire. The super-heavy shells, which were even more exaggerated than the Mars IV macro cannon, roared and hit the hull of the Murder-class cruiser, creating a huge gap like a torpedo.

"Yeah!!!" Seeing such a powerful and magnificent blow, the crew members cheered excitedly.

Witnessing the largest and longest flagship-class battleship, which is extremely rare for even a Space Marine chapter, to take part in battle is a rare event in most sailors' lives and cannot help but be emotional.

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