Chapter 45: The Empire's Frontier: Courage

The arcades of the hive city were crowded with people. This magnificent building made of milky white marble and gold decorations was wide and tall. Once upon a time, it was the only way to the Victoria Cathedral. It was very lively every year during the Emperor's Ascension Festival, and people would walk along the pilgrimage avenue to the cathedral.

Today, it was also crowded with people, but not out of faith and piety, but fear, the most thorough fear.

These panicked refugees gathered here, they shouted and cursed loudly, and the refugees with large and small packages and children were squeezed together like sardines in a can, and what was worse was that the vehicles in the crowd squeezed a lot of space.

These planetary defense armored vehicles that were supposed to fight on the front line stopped here. They kept honking their horns and roaring to let the crowd leave. The soldiers with guns pushed the refugees who blocked the road roughly. People cursed their weakness and betrayal loudly, but these desperate soldiers obviously didn't care at all.

They fled to the core of the hive desperately. The leading officer stood on the turret of the Chimera armored vehicle, waving his arms and cursing loudly to signal those who blocked the way to move aside, but they couldn't do it at all because everyone wanted to enter the core city.

Explosions sounded one after another around, and the burning sky was not flashing above the heads of the crowd. All this, combined with fear, brought chaos, and the soldiers began to move forward more aggressively.

A guard soldier holding a laser gun pushed a pregnant woman away with the butt of the 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 to thank her, but the words were 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 signaled her to move aside. The latter quickly made way with other refugees so that Vito could face the panicked soldiers directly.

They all looked at the Inquisitor in horror. The Governor General stood beside him. There were only two of them without bodyguards or guards, but the Inquisitor was as intimidating as a whole army.

He walked up and looked at the terrified soldiers. Their fear was on their faces. The Inquisitor walked past each of them and looked at them with cold eyes, as if a razor had scraped their hearts.

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

"Then let me review the history for you. The first colonists of Victoria planet are descendants of the heroic legion that recovered most of the extreme sector from the greenskins during the Beast War."

"Your ancestors fought against the green tide that spread across the galaxy thousands of years ago, fought in the galaxy under the command of the Primarch Fire Dragon Lord Vulcan. Under the guidance of the Emperor's light, they swept millions of greenskin enemies into the galactic trash can."

Vito looked at the faces one by one, the soldiers looked at each other, and the refugees whispered around, "And you, their descendants, are here now, the members of the guards who should have protected the people of this planet, pushing and shoving here, cursing, and even almost killing an unborn child."

Vito pulled out the grenade launcher on his belt, and almost immediately caused a scream in the crowd, and the lieutenant and the company of guards in front of him almost immediately turned pale.

"As an inquisitor, my duty is to wall you cowards, right now." Vito said with his finger on the trigger, he looked around at the cowards and the fleeing army around him.

But Vito's expression suddenly became serious. He raised his gun and fired a shot. A fierce explosion of flames exploded above his head, and a figure fell into the crowd.

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

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

"What kind of monster is that!" The soldier shouted and aimed his gun at the monster, and Vito grabbed his shoulder. "Licart, get out of here now!"

Vito said and threw the soldier away, but not everyone was as lucky as him. Licart strode up and waved his claws to instantly tear apart several soldiers who shot at him in panic.

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

Ricart killed Vito at lightning speed, and it grabbed Vito's face with its claws, but the latter pulled out the chain saw sword at lightning speed. The roaring golden red chain saw and the claws collided with each other, and dazzling sparks instantly sprayed out. Vito blocked the heavy blow of Ricart's right claw with one arm.

The Tyranid assassin retracted his claws and attacked again quickly, and Vito also blocked it accurately. The two sides fought at a very close distance and at high speed. The chain saw sword and the biological claw collided with each other and sprayed dazzling sparks.

Vito rolled sideways to avoid the cross-cutting blow of the Tyranids' giant claws. The Inquisitor raised his hand with a small, almost invisible shield to block the fierce blow from the Tyranids assassin's side claws. It seemed that Tyron's claws were just blocked by the chain sword, but Tyron looked at Vito in surprise and took a few steps back.

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

"Don't waste ammunition. If you can't kill it, it will only anger it. Do me a favor now, my dear, and evacuate these refugees." Vito said, pulling out the chain sword and slashing Likart's wrist with his backhand. The bone carapace The fragments sprayed everywhere, but before it was cut into flesh and blood, it jumped back in time to distance itself.

Likart's body gradually became transparent after crawling on the ground for a few steps. Its figure finally completely disappeared into the space, causing people around to scream and scream.

"It will become invisible. Stop screaming, Olivia! Take them away!" Vito said, raising his chain sword as if he knew where Likart was, and struck the latter with precision. The deadly blade coming down.

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

"Why are you running around?! Corporal! Organize a retreat. All the idiots with guns raise your guns and form a position. What are you looking at? Move!"

Vito watched as Olivia began to organize a defense under her roar. The hurried soldiers reorganized their defense under her orders of scolding and kicking. They formed a cordon, organized the refugees and began to retreat, and called for armored vehicles. The driver turned his vehicle sideways and blocked the road.

Everyone began to move in an orderly manner, but Olivia was still directing everything with curses loudly. Vito looked at her with relief, "She is indeed my good girl."

Vito said as he turned around and swung his chainsword like lightning, and the chain sword of the Imperial Sky Eagle hit hard with an invisible and silent attack. Sparks splashed to the ground and moved in the lake of blood.

Likart's face appeared in front of Vito's eyes like a shadow, and its forked tongue twisted in front of the judge. Then suddenly Likart jumped back and disappeared completely.

Vito stood calmly in front of the Chimera, holding the chain sword. There was no trace of panic in his eyes. On the contrary, the lieutenant on the armored car was so frightened that he looked around like a lunatic with his laser gun.

The monster moved silently without any sound or impact. Its entire huge body and claws left no traces on the ground, just like an empty ghost.

Vito squinted his eyes slightly as if searching for something, then suddenly turned his head and pulled out his bolt gun and pointed it in the direction of the lieutenant, "Jump down! Action!"

The lieutenant obeyed the order and jumped off the armored vehicle almost subconsciously. The bolter roared and shot Likart in the face. The monster appeared within the range visible to the naked eye in the explosion. It fell down on the armored vehicle and roared. He got up and then quickly stood up and jumped off the armored vehicle, overwhelming Vito with his huge size.

Its two belly claws pinned Vito to the ground. Likart waved his two sharp claws and raised them high. It thought that Vito still had no way to fight back, but suddenly a force hit him. The inexplicable strength on Likart knocked the assassin beast away hard.

Likart was hit against the front side of the Chimera and hit the muzzle of the coaxial machine gun. Vito waved his hand and the cockpit cover suddenly opened, revealing the bewildered operator underneath.

Vito pointed at him and yelled, "Hit!"

The command was like the Tyranids' node pheromones, transmitted to the pilot's brain with lightning efficiency, and he immediately responded almost instinctively.

He immediately pulled the trigger, and the coaxial machine gun roared like thunder. Explosive bombs continuously bombarded Likart's back until a horrifying hole was blown out of its chest.

The beast roared and raised its head, with its protruding and curved mouth, and its slender densely forked tongue, but suddenly its head was exploded, and purple-black brains sprayed out in all directions, covering the entire front body of the Chimera.

The sticky brain, blood, and flesh also sprayed onto the driver's body. He looked at Vito in front of him through the driver's window in horror. A plasma cannon protruded from his wrist, and flashing ion lightning danced across his entire body. on the arm.

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

The Inquisitor looked at the smoking corpse of the monster in front of him. Only a pool of plasma was left on its face. The entire face was dissolved and chopped into pieces, leaving only a corpse with a miserable appearance.

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

"Okay, I understand, Major. Let your people hold on first. I will arrive with my people in a moment." "My lord, I hope the emperor protects you." "He should protect you even more now."

Vito said and turned off the communicator. As the sound of the fierce fighting disappeared, the refugees and soldiers walked out from both sides of the armored vehicle. They came to the middle of the avenue and all looked at Licat's body in amazement. People whispered to each other, and Olivia walked over from the group of people and looked at the tattered body.

"You're not hurt?" she asked, and Vito smiled and touched her face, "Take care of yourself and them first."

Vito climbed onto the armored vehicle, and he stood on the turret of the Chimera, overlooking all the people who had gathered again.

The lieutenant was among them, and he put on his hat again and walked up. The tank crew also got out of the front hatch, and sat on the sloping armor and looked at Vito on the roof.

"This is the Tyranid creature, you see it now, and as you can see, it's dead." Vito pointed at the monster and said, "This bastard can be killed, and so can the ones outside. Yes, their number is huge and endless, and your bullets may not be as many as their number."

Vito looked at the crowd, and every pair of eyes looked at the Inquisitor, and they were pairs of eyes full of longing, pairs of eyes looking at heroes.

"The Empire has been like this for ten thousand years! Every battle has been fought like this. We have fought against endless evil gods for ten thousand years! And it is humans who are against them! Humans like you, not the Astartes outside! "

Vito looked around at the crowd and said loudly, "We are fragile, weak and powerless, and our flesh and blood are vulnerable to the mighty force, but we held our ground! We defended the Empire for 10,000 years! A full 10,000 fucking years! We won!"

The Inquisitor pointed to the flying artillery fire at the end of the street, "I once worked with tens of millions of mortals and hundreds of Astartes to beat these bastards outside back to their mothers' wombs, and then put bombs in their mothers' asses and blew them back to the void!"

"Your ancestors, together with my compatriots! We fucking beat all the monsters back to their mothers' wombs! Chaos, Tyranids, Necrons and Eldar and fucking Tau! It's been 10,000 years! We are still standing here, the Empire is still standing in this galaxy! And it will continue to stand! We will continue to stand!"

"If you want to run, run! Each of us will die, today or any day in the future, but think about it yourself, when you see the Emperor, will you tell him dejectedly that you have accomplished nothing, or will you hold your head high in front of thousands of generations of imperial heroes and him and tell them that I died like a hero? ! ”

Everyone looked at Vito, and the Inquisitor raised his chainsaw sword and pointed it at the sky, "Fuck the aliens! Who will come with me to kick their asses? ! ”

Amidst the cheers, thousands of guns and fists were raised, and the cheers sounded like thunder. Olivia stood among a group of excited soldiers and refugees who regained their courage and looked at Vito on the roof of the car. She smiled and looked at the man.

"This is my king, our hero. "