Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 258 04.0257: ‘The Third Salamander Company’

The third to last day before the triumphal ceremony.

Horatio's personal situation has been adjusted to its peak state, his thinking is organized and logical, his whole person is refreshed, his mind is stable, and the phenomenon of wandering away from work no longer occurs.

Today, he came to the starport and welcomed a special guest with many naval officers

Boom! Boom!

Dozens of tall Space Marines walked down from the connecting platform with heavy steps. They were wearing dark green power armor, with dark skin and red eyes, like anvils burning with blazing fire.

As one of the many officers who volunteered to go to the star port to take on the task of welcoming them, Horatio saw these solemn warriors at the first moment.

"Long time no see, son of Wokan, welcome to Port Abyss." The Lord of the Blood Angel Watch stepped forward and welcomed the tallest warrior among them.

Standing next to the Lord of Watch was the rescued Salamander Chapter Company Champion, who was respectfully saluting the visitor.

"Brother Bryant, it's great that you are safe and sound. We are sincerely grateful to you, cousins." The tall bald man still maintained a resolute and solemn expression, but his tone could be heard as sincerity.

This image seems to show that they are not the salamanders commonly known.

Horatio looked at the huge warhammers in the men's hands, and then at the weapons in their hands.

These warriors all held flamethrowers in their hands, and did not have any standard explosive weapons.

With so many details, Horatio could guess their identities just by looking at their equipment, without looking at the totems on their shoulders.

There is no mistake, these Space Marines come from the 3rd company of Salamanders, "Volcanic Rock", and the company commander is the one who looks closest to Vulcan, Adrax Agatone, the Ordnance Master of Salamanders.

The Salamander Chapter is not a standard Codex Chapter. They only have seven companies. This is a tradition inherited from the 30K era.

Although these men of the Third Company also abide by the Promethean sect's creed of protecting the weak, they are mainly responsible for playing the role of 'blackface' in the battle group.

However, they are by no means the ‘deviant people’ as rumored on the Internet in their previous lives.

They are truly the purgers of the Chapter, as evidenced by the variety of powerful flamethrowers that all of them are equipped with.

They are mainly responsible for dealing with situations that other Chapter brothers cannot deal with, such as the removal of suppliant paupers who are suspected of being corrupted, children of alien races, wounded and dying or corrupted Battle Brothers.

In frontal combat, they are also efficient breakers.

Only when they have no choice but to do so, they will sacrifice their own lives and the lives of civilians, regardless of casualties, in order to achieve a quick breakthrough.

When other battle brothers are unable to quickly eliminate the enemy due to being caught in a melee with large numbers of unevacuated civilians, they will execute the breakthrough order resolutely and efficiently under the leadership of Captain Agathon.

Under this order, they will not be distracted by the casualties of other combat brothers and civilians, but will only focus on achieving strategic goals, and will amplify the wrath of civilian losses caused in the process a thousand times to cause this suffering. The root of the enemy's head.

"Cousins, there is currently a very threatening cult force in Abyss Port. They will launch another attack in three days. I wonder if you can leave after three days? Work with us to maintain order and Stable dedication.”

"This is the responsibility of the planet's legal department. As long as they faithfully perform their duties, dealing with some heretics is not a problem, cousin. Our company's support mission schedule has been scheduled for after 562 years, and we have no time to care about these trivial matters. ”

After receiving the soldiers of his company, Captain Agathon turned around and left with his battle brothers behind him. If he hadn't heard that a Blood Angel Watch Lord was picking him up, he wouldn't have appeared with his men. Show equal respect.

"A large-scale kidnapping has just occurred in Port Abyss. The kidnappers are blasphemous believers in the Power of Joy, and the victims are a large group of innocent children and women. Their lives and deaths are now uncertain. We plan to raid their area tonight Hideout."

‘The victims are a group of innocent children and women’, this sentence touched the sensitive zone of the Salamanders.

Before Captain Afel finished speaking, all the Salamanders turned around in an instant, and a blazing red light glowed in the eyepieces of their helmets.

"We will punish these blasphemous pedophiles and bullies and burn them to ashes."

——

That night, it was getting dark.

The planet's surface is brightly lit.

In Port Abyss, although the sentence "the poor do not deserve to live on the ground" sounds uncomfortable and discriminatory, it is indeed a cruel fact.

As one of the top logistics hubs in the Obscure Star Territory, the number of wealthy people and financial resources in Abyss Port far exceeds that of most star districts in the empire combined.

Those who can establish a foothold on the surface of this planet are considered to be the richest even if we look at the entire empire.

But the problem that arises from this is that when these people live a good life, not only do they not repay and be grateful for the gifts the empire has given them, but they begin to deviate from the teachings of the God Emperor and touch taboo and blasphemous people and things.

The target location of this raid is an artificial island on the Sea of ​​Stars.

It is reported that there is a huge underground structure under the island, where the kidnapped and missing persons are held.

This location is 36,757 kilometers away from the throne area, far away on the other side of the planet, which is beyond the range of the Valkyrie.

But for the Imperial Navy that controls the void and the two Space Marine companies with void ships, they do not need to take an atmospheric aircraft for long-distance voyages.

At this time, the island with bright lights and laughter is tens of thousands of kilometers above.

Three giant ships are hiding in the darkness of the void, parked on the heads of the ignorant cultists.

With incense and prayer, the red and dark green Space Marines each walked into the landing capsule of their respective regiments.

The Imperial Navy's gravity parachute is not enough to support the wearer to parachute in low-Earth orbit. The team led by Horatio will take the Lavis landing craft to the suborbital sky and perform a 10,000-meter airdrop there.

Although the Hell Vanguards cannot directly drop a drop capsule like the Astartes, their tactical value is still very high.

——The Astartes' drop capsules cannot accurately hit an island of only 160 square kilometers from orbit without ground guidance.

If they miss, the drop capsules will fall directly into the seabed thousands of meters deep. Even the Astartes power armor cannot guarantee their survival under such high water pressure.

Therefore, the Hell Vanguard will play the role of "Pathfinder" as planned at the beginning of the establishment in this operation. They will serve as a ground guidance team, arrive first to guide positioning, and clear a landing area for other troops to land, which is crucial.

This time he also brought Thei, the throne agent, and Yin Shuyao, a novice exorcist.

Inquisitor Ravenno is meeting with the Death Watch team that arrived quietly and planning its mission objectives.

After the warriors cleared the ground, the two ladies will take the Lavis landing craft and arrive on the ground under the escort of a naval infantry guard.

It is difficult to guarantee that there are no man-made subspace rifts or altars that can open rifts in this level of cult strongholds.

——

"The Hell Vanguard is ready to take off."

Horatio looked at the data board on his arm, and the preparation data of the five teams on the five Skyraider Valkyries, each of which was filled with 12 people.

Everyone was waiting for them.

Five dark Skyraider Valkyries took off from the small aviation deck on the belly of the battleship with blue tail flames. After leaving the cabin, they suddenly boosted and rushed straight into the planet's suborbital.

In the process of breaking through the thin atmosphere, the body began to shake violently, as if it was about to disintegrate.

But no one looked around under this violent tremor.

As an elite unit, everyone in the Chief Eagle Flag Brigade has experienced at least a hundred such parachutes.

It is worth noting that this time, these Eagle Flag warriors wearing power armor also put on polymer fiber cloaks specially customized for them by the Navy.

This cloak has excellent heat insulation function. When they break into the atmosphere alone and rub against the atmosphere violently, it will not catch fire. It can also be used as a fireproof cloth when rushing into the fire scene, blocking the flames in front of them.

A low-visibility Emperor Eagle was embroidered on the cloak as the honor symbol of the chief brigade.

"30 seconds to airborne countdown!"

"30, 29, 28..."

"Turn on the airborne indicator light."

Beep——

The vanguards stood up together, took out the hot-fire carbines from the gun racks on their sides, and then divided into two rows, waiting behind the hatch, waiting for the airborne indicator light to change from red to green.

"1! Action begins!"

The hatch opened, and the whistling wind swept into the cabin. The vanguards strode out of the tail cabin and jumped into the dark night sky. The navy cloaks that were blue to black wrapped them, and the tails fluttered in the wind, whirring with their head-down diving posture.

11 kilometers per second is the speed of friction and fire in the atmosphere. Horatio saw through the trembling eyepiece that his body was already coated with a layer of red and yellow gold flames, but under the protection of the heat insulation layer of the power armor and the liquid gold heat dissipation device, it was not so hot that it was unbearable.

"Adjust the descent posture when 500 meters above the ground."

To avoid staying in the air for too long and being discovered by the enemy with the bright track in the night sky.

Horatio issued an order to use the gravity parachute at the minimum safe altitude, and then stared at the rapidly jumping descent speedometer on the helmet.

The altimeter was changing at a very fast speed.

Below the extreme altitude of 500 meters, the gravity offset force field of the gravity parachute will not guarantee that the lander can land safely, but above 500 meters will cause the trajectory to exist for too long. Only the most elite pioneers can pursue the extreme combat effectiveness at all costs and adjust the landing posture in time at this altitude.

The role of the gravity parachute vector engine behind them during landing is to adjust the landing direction and slow down their falling speed in time at the minimum safe landing altitude.

This is why they landed first to guide the landing-their terminal airborne direction is controllable in real time, and the Astartes airborne capsule often cannot achieve such delicate control, so they often hit the surface buildings during the descent, although this is also the reason why these demigods think that it is okay even if they crash into the buildings.

"Altitude 576, start adjusting the landing posture! Slow down!"

Everyone immediately started the propulsion device and adjusted the posture in mid-air, from head down to feet down.

The gravity parachute's built-in weight-offsetting force field began to work. Without the pull of gravity, Horatio felt as if he was floating in the void.

As the vector engine began to work in reverse, the falling speed dropped rapidly.

Plop! Plop!

One by one, they circled the island and fell into the sea near the beach.

The sea water evaporated, cooling the heat on their armor.

Soon, the wet helmets of the Hell's Vanguards appeared from the sea one by one. As they advanced rapidly, the deep armored upper body was also exposed, and the power armor boots with built-in roller skates finally stepped on the soft beach.

"Each team, report the personnel and operation status."

"Team One, get in place. Start placing the ground airborne guidance beacon."

"Team Two, get in place. We have captured the beach tower and are not exposed."

"Team Three, get in place. We have ensured the safety of the landing field."

"Team Four, get in place. We are monitoring the enemy's movements. The enemy has not discovered our infiltration."

"Team Five, get in place. We have infiltrated the enemy's stronghold and started to explore the underground structure. We will report the follow-up situation in a timely manner."

After each team reported, Horatio connected the communication of the two combat barges.

"Dear adults, the ground guidance beacon is unblocked and can be airborne." Horatio picked up the horn-shaped sound array communication microphone installed behind Louise and reported. Louise knelt on one knee, holding a gun in her hand and keeping a vigilant posture.

As soon as the voice fell, he and she looked up at the deep night sky, and bright meteors were sliding down from the sky.