Chapter 361: Boarding Battle 3: Secret and Awakening

"We must retreat."

In the dimly lit meeting hall, Avalon, wearing the Indomitable Tactics Fearless, broke the silence.

The feedback from the battle ahead exceeded their worst expectations. The battlefields opened up by the enemy in various places on the warships and the uniform armor painting let them know that they might be fighting against the main force of the Grey Knights.

In view of these unfavorable news and the authority of Avalon's defense master, his suggestions were not questioned and were quickly passed.

"Then the next question is how to retreat."

Gulbin, who was in charge of the fleet command, pointed out the problem they faced. After the flight decks at the bow and the main body were successively lost, there were channels for them to retreat, but none of them were mature plans for evacuation in an organized manner.

"At the end of the B6 channel on the left side of the plasma reactor, there is our hidden flight deck. As long as the pre-buried explosives are detonated, the surface armor can be detached and we can withdraw directly."

The champion swordsman Ryan, who had been silent all the time, suddenly spoke, which surprised Gulbin beside him. The two had been in the same warband for more than a century, and it was the first time that he clearly knew the hidden function of this brother.

"Then there is only one problem left."

The keeper Stein, who was in charge of the command of this warband, looked around and confirmed the direction of the next battle for the entire warband.

"We need to evacuate the brothers guarding the middle section of the battleship, and then concentrate our forces to penetrate the enemy in the direction of the engine room."

"Agree..."

"Agree..."

The discussion ended here, and the Alphas in the meeting hall left the dark hall one after another according to their respective tasks.

And when Stein was the only one left in the whole hall, the door behind his seat was pushed open again.

Stein sat motionless on the marble seat, and seemed to have expected this.

"Password." Stein asked in a low voice.

"Dragon blood." The man was wearing a cape with optical camouflage function on his power armor, and his voice was familiar to Stein but difficult to recognize.

"Item number?" Due to the discipline of the legion, Stein did not try to investigate the identity of the man.

He searched for the corresponding program in his memory according to the password given by the other party, and then, as if he had received some inspiration, he sat up straight with a serious attitude, and the power sword in his hand was already clanging.

"Gray scale." The words uttered by the man stopped his guarded posture, and the special pronunciation made the leader of the war gang enter a special physiological state.

"Key..." The stiff words came out of Stein's mouth, and the man did not hesitate, and directly issued a special password to him...

Huh!

Stein's muscles relaxed all over his body, and he sat slumped on the stone chair for several seconds. Large sections of memory were activated from his brain under special hypnotic instructions, and a secret that made him tremble was awakened by this memory.

"I didn't know there was this here..." He murmured.

"Unless necessary, ignorance is a virtue." The man responded.

"Okay, your order?" Stein stood up from his chair and took out a key that he had never known before from the secret compartment of his armor.

"It's not my order, it's his will."

The man took the metal badge-shaped key from Stein's hand, turned around and pressed it under the neck of a dragon head in the Hydra mural on the wall of the meeting hall.

The entire stone wall slowly cracked under the servo-driven hydraulic device, and at the end of the messy floor was the metal gate that had been opened.

The strong light made Stein, who had been in the dark room for a long time, feel a little uncomfortable. While his pupils contracted violently, he also saw his final mission at the end of this secret room - a huge life support cabin covered by a static force field.

"Can I know 'his' intention?" Feeling that the reserved poison in his chest was taking effect, Stein asked before he died.

This was not his usurpation, but hundreds of years of life in the Eye of Terror had made this Alpha almost forget where he came from.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed his true position.

Hundreds of years of memories of fighting against the Empire flashed through his mind, and all kinds of true and false battle experiences made him eager to have a final destination before he died.

"...Okay, I will destroy your brain physically after you die." The visitor hesitated for a moment, but decided to solve this last doubt for Stein.

But even he himself could not know "his" complete thoughts.

"There is a special existence on this ship, and 'he' hopes to observe it closely."

"Received."

The poison in Stein's body has taken full effect. This giant who used to be extremely strong staggered and leaned weakly on a broken stone chair.

The mysterious visitor calmly observed the increasingly long breathing under his chest armor. After confirming that the signs he showed were consistent with the type of toxin and that his death was unstoppable, he whispered, "What are your last words?"

"Give him my respects...Hydra Supreme!"

The intense neurotoxin spread in Stein's two hearts. As his breathing stopped, this Astartes, who knew his camp until the end, finally stopped breathing.

The mysterious man looked at the lifeless body in front of him, waited in silence for a while, raised the plasma pistol in his hand, and whispered:

"Received, but unfortunately, I can't witness his resurrection either."

Boom!

The blue-white plasma melted Stein's helmet instantly, and the shock wave stirred up the dust in the room and turned his head into ashes.

The mysterious man who had completed the cleaning procedure turned around and walked towards the open secret room. After turning off the energy of the static exit personally, the Alpha who was on a special mission watched the servo start according to the predetermined program.

Until the automatic mechanical arm took out a tube of red blood from the cold box and injected it into the extremely tall body in the life support cabin.

The mysterious man also activated the pre-prepared poison in the armor, ending his life before the life woke up...

Hiss! Huh!

The automatic machine completed its mission and started the activation program of the life support cabin before the last energy was exhausted.

The nutrient solution in the columnar glass cavity receded like a tide, and in the darkness when the lights were turned off, the powerful heartbeat sounded in the unusually strong chest.

The plate-like ribs expanded violently outwards under the movement of the huge lungs. With a long breath, this exceptionally strong Astartes finally returned to the world after centuries of slumber.

Uh!

In the last second, he still had a low groan coming out of his mouth, and in the next second, this body had broken the shell of the life support capsule and was crouching and watching the surroundings with a vigilant posture.

His emotionless blue-green eyes looked around, and the dark environment in the secret room and the meeting hall was clearly visible in his eyes with natural night vision.

"Alert lifted. Location, No. 0195 reserve point."

The strong giant saw the bodies of the two dead after looking around. He walked barefoot slowly to the body of the mysterious man and squatted down, carefully observing the latter's physical signs.

"Uh... found the dead. Analyze the identity... Analysis is complete, the third generation of the empire's biochemical transformation results, the development level is 77%, the gene seed mutation level is 5%, and the source of the gene seed points to... me?"

"Who am I?" The giant's eyes showed a thoughtful look.

But he did not pause for this thought. After picking up the plasma pistol in the mysterious man's hand and examining it, he turned around and looked at the secret room before he woke up.

On the wall behind the broken life support capsule, a brand new Mark IV power armor and a matching weapon kit were waiting on the automatic armor machine in the state of parts.

"I am... the son of the emperor..."

He stood up and walked towards the ancient automatic machine, standing in the central groove and starting it without any instruction.

As several mechanical arms flew up and down, his body was quickly buried under the armor made of ceramic steel and adamantium.

When all the armor was installed, the last mechanical arm buckled the heavy Mark IV helmet. When the threads of the neck armor and the helmet were closed, the sound of air pressure sounded under the helmet.

The giant uttered the second half of the sentence with the eyepiece on his helmet lighting up:

"I am, Alpharius!"

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