Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

Chapter 45 Imperial Frontier: Courage

The arcades of the hive city are crowded with people. This magnificent building made of milky white marble and gold decoration is wide and tall. Once upon a time, this was the only way to the Victoria Cathedral. During the annual Ascension Festival of the Emperor, It's always bustling with people walking along the pilgrimage route to the cathedral.

Today the place is also crowded with people, but not out of faith and piety, but out of fear, the most complete fear.

These panicked refugees gathered here. They were shouting and cursing. Refugees carrying large and small parcels and holding children were crowded together like sardine cans. What was even worse was that the vehicles in the crowd were squeezed a lot. Space.

These armored vehicles of the Planetary Defense Forces that were supposed to be fighting on the front line were parked here. They kept honking their horns and roaring to tell the crowd to leave. Soldiers with guns roughly pushed the refugees who were blocking the road. People cursed loudly. Their act of weakness and betrayal, but these desperate soldiers apparently didn't care at all.

They desperately fled towards the core of the hive. The leading officer stood on the turret of the Chimera armored vehicle, waving his arms and shouting curses to signal those in the way to get out of the way, but they couldn't do it at all, because everyone wanted to enter. Core City.

Explosions rang out one after another around them, and the burning sky flickered above the crowd. All this, combined with fear, brought chaos, and the soldiers began to advance more aggressively.

A Guardsman carrying a laser gun roughly pushed away a pregnant woman with the butt of his gun. The latter lost her balance and fell backwards, but she did not fall to the ground but was supported by someone. .

"Thank you, first." The pregnant woman turned her head and thanked her, but her words got stuck after just two words, because she saw the pendant hanging on the person's chest, the letter i made of ruby.

Vito helped the pregnant woman up and then motioned for her to get out of the way. The latter quickly moved out of the way with the other refugees so that Vito could face the panicked soldiers.

They all looked at the inquisitor almost in horror. The female governor was standing next to him. They were the only two of them without bodyguards, but the inquisitor alone was as intimidating as an entire legion.

He walked up and looked at the frightened soldiers, their inner panic hanging on their faces. The inquisitor walked past each of them and looked at them with cold eyes, as if a razor had scratched their hearts.

"Lieutenant, do you remember the history of Victoria?" Vito asked, standing in front of the Chimera. The lieutenant above could no longer show off his power. His legs were so weak that he couldn't even speak a word. Vito He smiled and looked at the soldiers and refugees around him.

"Then let me review the history for you. During the Beast Wars, the first colonists of Planet Victoria were the descendants of the heroic legion who recovered most of the Extreme Sector from the greenskins."

"Thousands of years ago, your ancestors fought against the green tide that spread across the galaxy. They fought in the galaxy under the command of the Primarch, the Fire Dragon Lord Vulkan Vulcan. Under the guidance of the Emperor's Light, they wiped out millions of green-skinned enemies. Into the galactic trash can.”

Vito looked at the faces, the soldiers looked at each other, and the refugees whispered, "And you, their descendants are here now, members of the Guard who are supposed to protect the people of this planet, here you are pushing, cursing and even Almost killed an unborn child.”

Vito drew the bolter from his belt, almost immediately causing a scream from the crowd, and the lieutenant and the company of guards in front of him almost immediately paled.

"As an inquisitor, my duty requires me to put a wall on you cowards, right now." Vito said, his finger on the trigger, and he looked around at the group of cowards and defeated troops.

But Vito's expression suddenly became serious. He suddenly raised the muzzle of his gun and fired. Violent bomb flames exploded above his head, and a figure crashed into the crowd.

When the person closest to him stepped forward to check the situation, the thing suddenly raised its head and tore the person into pieces with a roar. Screams and fear exploded among the crowd like thunder, and people screamed. As they fled around, many people fell to the ground and were trampled to death by thousands of feet.

Countless unlucky people were killed instantly, their flesh and blood was splashed on the walls and the road. The monster got up and bent down and roared in the direction of Vito.

"What kind of monster is that!" the soldier yelled, aiming his gun at the monster, and Vito grabbed his shoulder. "Licart, get out of my way now!"

Vito said and threw the soldiers away, but not everyone was as lucky as him. Likart strode forward and brandished his claws, instantly tearing apart several soldiers who shot at him hastily.

The deadly assassins of the Tyranid swarm passed through the defense lines in the war zone silently, and came here silently. It has only one purpose, like all assassins in the past, the leader.

Likart rushed to Vito at lightning speed and clawed at Vito's face, but the latter pulled out the chain sword at lightning speed, and the roaring golden-red chain saw and the sharp claws collided with each other. , dazzling sparks spurted out instantly, and Vito blocked the heavy blow from Rikart's right paw with one arm.

The Tyranid assassin retracted his claws and struck again quickly, and Vito blocked it accurately. The two sides fought together at extremely close range and at high speed. The chain sword and the biological claws collided with each other and sprayed out dazzling sparks.

Vito rolled sideways to avoid the horizontal attack of Tyran's giant claw. The Inquisitor raised a small, almost invisible shield to block the side attack of Tyran's assassin. To others, it seemed that Tyran's claw was blocked by the chainsaw sword, but Tyran looked at Vito in surprise and stepped back a few steps.

Olivia cursed and pulled out the laser gun on her waist, but was stopped by Vito's loud rebuke.

"Don't waste ammunition. If you can't kill it, it will only anger it. Dear, help me now and evacuate these refugees." Vito said as he drew out the chainsaw sword and slashed Licart's wrist with a backhand. Bone shell fragments splashed everywhere, but he jumped back in time to distance himself before his flesh and blood were cut.

Licart's body crawled a few steps on the ground and gradually became transparent. Its figure finally disappeared completely in the space, causing exclamations and screams from the people around him.

"It will be invisible, stop yelling, Olivia! Take them away!" Vito said, raising his chainsaw sword as if he knew where Licat was, and accurately blocked the deadly blade that the latter swung down.

Olivia also immediately began to command the soldiers to take the refugees away, and everyone began to run around in a hurry, but before everyone could run, Olivia pulled out her gun and fired a shot into the air and scolded them.

"Why are you running around?! Corporal! Organize a retreat, all idiots with guns, raise your guns and form a position, what are you looking at? Move!"

Vito watched as Olivia began to organize defense in her roar. The hurried soldiers reorganized their defense under her scolding and kicking. They formed a cordon to organize the refugees to retreat, and called on the armored vehicle driver to turn the vehicle sideways to block the road.

Everyone began to move in an orderly manner, while Olivia continued to curse loudly and command everything. Vito looked at her with relief, "She is indeed my good girl."

Vito turned around and swung the chainsaw sword like lightning, and adjusted the chainsaw sword of the Imperial Sky Eagle to hit the invisible silent attack. Sparks splashed on the ground and moved in the lake of blood.

Licarte's face appeared in front of Vito, and its forked tongue twisted in front of the judge. Then suddenly Licarte jumped back and disappeared completely.

Vito stood in front of Chimera calmly holding the chainsaw sword. There was no panic in his eyes. On the contrary, the lieutenant on the armored vehicle was frightened and looked around like a lunatic with a laser gun.

The monster moved silently without sound or impact. The whole huge body and claws did not leave any traces on the ground, just like a ghost of nothingness.

Vito narrowed his eyes slightly as if he was looking for something, then suddenly turned his head and pulled out the grenade launcher and pointed it in the direction of the lieutenant, "Jump down! Action!" The lieutenant obeyed the order and almost subconsciously jumped off the armored vehicle. The grenade launcher roared and a shot hit Licart's face. The monster appeared in the range visible to the naked eye in the explosion. It fell on the armored vehicle and roared, then quickly stood up and jumped off the armored vehicle, overwhelming Vito with its huge body. Its two abdominal claws pressed Vito to the ground. Licart waved its two claws high. It thought Vito still had no means of counterattack, but suddenly a force hit Licart, and the inexplicable force hit the assassin beast heavily and flew out. Licart was hit on the front side of the Chimera's body and hit the muzzle of the coaxial machine gun. Vito waved his hand and the cockpit cover on one side suddenly opened, revealing the operator who was at a loss underneath. Vito pointed at him and shouted, "Shoot!"

The command was like the node pheromone of the Tyranids, transmitted to the driver's brain with lightning efficiency, and immediately responded almost instinctively.

He immediately pulled the trigger, and the coaxial machine gun roared like thunder, and the explosive shells continued to bombard the back of Licat until a terrifying hole was blown out of its chest.

The beast roared and raised its head, with a protruding and curved, slender and densely forked tongue in its mouth, but suddenly its head was blown apart in an instant, and purple-black brains sprayed everywhere, covering the entire front body of the Chimera.

The sticky brains and flesh also sprayed on the driver. He looked at Vito in front of him from the driver's window in horror. A plasma cannon extended from his wrist, and flashing ion lightning jumped on his entire arm.

Vito lowered his palm and the plasma cannon automatically retracted into his wrist. In a very short time, Vito's arm returned to its normal shape again.

The Inquisitor looked at the smoking corpse of the monster in front of him. Now there was only a pool of plasma on its face. The whole face was dissolved and shattered, leaving only a miserable corpse.

The communicator on Vito's wrist suddenly rang. Vito raised his wrist and the voice came out immediately, "Mr. Inquisitor! Tyran has come in from the underground street! We can't hold on any longer, the Emperor is coming again! We need reinforcements! Now!"

"Okay, I got it, Major. Let your people hold on first. I'll be there with my people in a while." "Yes, sir. May the Emperor bless you." "He should bless you even more now."

Vito said and turned off the communicator. As the sound of the fierce battle disappeared, the refugees and soldiers came out from both sides of the armored vehicles. They came to the center of the avenue and looked at the body of Licart in amazement. People whispered to each other, and Olivia walked over from a group of people and looked at the tattered body.

"Are you not hurt?" she asked, and Vito smiled and touched her face, "Please take care of yourself and them first.

Vito climbed onto the armored vehicle and stood on the Chimera's turret overlooking the regrouping crowd.

The lieutenant was among them. He put on his hat again and walked up. The tank crew also emerged from the hatch on the front side, sitting on the sloped armor and looking at Vito on the roof of the vehicle.

"This is the Tyranid creature. You can see it now. As you can see, it is dead." Vito pointed at the monster and said, "This bastard can be killed, and so can the ones outside. Yes, their number Huge and boundless, you may not have as many bullets as they do.”

Vito looked at everyone, and all the eyes were looking at the judge. They were eyes full of longing, and they were looking at the heroes.

"The empire has been fighting for 10,000 years! Every battle has been fought like this. We have fought with all kinds of monsters and evil spirits for 10,000 years! And it is humans who are fighting against them! Humans like you, not the Asta outside. special!"

Vito looked around at the crowd and said loudly, "We are fragile, weak and incompetent, and our flesh and blood are vulnerable to great power, but we held our position! We defended the empire for ten thousand years! For ten thousand fucking years! We won!"

The Inquisitor pointed to the flying artillery fire at the end of the street, "I have worked with tens of thousands of mortals and hundreds of Astartes to beat these bastards out there back into their mothers' wombs, and then put bombs in their mothers' butts. Let’s blast back into the void together!”

"Your ancestors, along with my people! We drove all the fucking monsters and monsters back into their mother's womb! Chaos, Tyranid, Necrons and Eldar and the fucking Tau! For ten thousand years ! We are still standing here, the Empire is still standing in this galaxy! And we will continue to stand!"

"If you want to run, run! Every one of us will die, whether today or any day in the future, but think about it for yourself, when you see the Emperor, do you tell him that you have accomplished nothing, or do you still stand in the Empire for thousands of generations? Stand tall in front of him and tell them I died like a hero!"

Everyone looked at Vito, and the Inquisitor raised his chain sword and pointed it at the sky, "Fuck those aliens! Who will follow me to kick their butts?!"

Thousands of guns and fists were raised amidst the cheers. The cheers sounded like thunder. Olivia stood among a group of excited soldiers and refugees who had regained their courage and looked at Vito on the roof of the car. She smiled. Come out and look at the man.

"This is my king, our hero."

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