"Angels, you have created the perfect city, you have forged the perfect city...your ownership of her is unquestionable."
"But...why do you want to bring destruction to her? Why do you want to completely destroy your faith?"
The young lady cried to the angel.
But the angels just numbly raised their guns and pointed them at her and everyone behind her.
"Loyalty is more important than faith."
The angel answered softly, though it sounded like a dull growl.
The sound of explosive gunfire swallowed up all the blank sight.
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Angel Tai slowly released the trigger, and the crisp rebound and empty magazine reminded that the massacre was over.
He stared at the female corpse whose torso was torn apart by the bomb in front of him, her internal organs mixed with blood slowly overflowing.
He could clearly see that there was still confusion and confusion on the face of this lady. All the believers behind her also died in the same confusion. They seemed completely unable to understand why the perfect city would be related to the word 'loyalty'. Words make connections.
Yes, why is loyalty more important than faith.
Angel Tai himself is thinking about this issue.
He slowly put down the bolter and looked up at the headless corpse hanging on the highest point of the Perfect City.
Angel Tai recognized the magnificent armor.
The former chief priest, now the leader of the traitors, Erebus.
Among the Word Bearers, he and First Captain Kor Phaeron were the most powerful, and even Angel Tai himself studied under Erebus for a period of time.
The most regrettable thing is that he failed to realize that the chief priest secretly had heretical beliefs and a tendency to rebel against the empire.
Otherwise... none of this should have happened.
Looking at the broken buildings and various corpses around him, Angel Tai sighed softly.
"It's time to get out of here, sir."
The voice of a Word Bearer came from the communication channel, interrupting Angel Tai's sigh.
Accompanying it was a Land Raider. Angel Tai could clearly see that its thick tracks were filled with blood and visceral fragments, and that the twin laser main guns were also releasing superheated white smoke.
It was clear that horrific carnage was everywhere.
As the commander of the 7th Assault Company of the Word Bearers' Sawtooth Sun Chapter, Angel Tai's tasks go far beyond that. In fact, in just a few hours, he has personally executed many people. up to the lives of thousands of believers.
Although this sense of guilt cannot have any impact on the Astartes' tenacious spirit, the pride of destroying the Seventeenth Legion with his own hands still makes every Word Bearer feel bad.
Angel Tai trudged back to his battle brothers.
"…Bad mood?"
A Word Bearer came to him.
"…No one is in a good mood, Xia Fen."
Angeltay grunted as he reloaded the magazine.
Seeing his close friend in such a depressed state, Xia Fen shrugged slightly: "This is force majeure, we are all forced, brother. No one would know that such a thing would happen in the legion."
"Yeah...it was force majeure, and I didn't know he would do such a thing."
As the Land Raider's hatch slowly closed, Angeltai's eyes were still fixed on the building with the traitor's body hanging there.
Among all the buildings in the Perfect City, only the huge church with the traitor's corpse hanging there was not destroyed - it seems that there is a tacit understanding between the Word Bearers, or the Astartes' understanding of the one who lives in the city. The scarlet figure of the church stood in awe.
And this awe probably comes from the truth told by the Word Bearers who stayed in the Perfect City.
"If only I had found out earlier..."
"At the very least, there will be fewer sacrifices."
Listening to Angeltai's increasingly tired look, Xia Fen's brows furrowed even more.
"Do you know what you're talking about? My brother."
"If you reveal the truth about him...the high-ranking priests will never let you go."
Shane's tone revealed concern. He knew that Angeltai had studied with Erebas for a period of time, but after Angeltai decided to join the Sawtooth Sun Chapter, the two became increasingly estranged and parted ways.
In his opinion, there is a possibility of rebellion for such high-level priests and company commanders in the legion, so there is no need to think about the forces at the bottom.
In fact, the entire Word Bearers are now in an atmosphere of worry - the officers who used to have close relations with Erebus and Kor Phaeron have all used the most tragic methods to prove their innocence, and even several of them He resolutely sealed himself in the Dreadnought Sarcophagus to prove his absolute loyalty to the Emperor.
The spark of rebellion in the Emperor's eyes is now almost a storm that has swept through all ranks in the Seventeenth Legion.
Because of examples like Erebus and Kor Phaeron, no one can guarantee whether the remaining officers have thoughts of rebellion. The rights of most officers have been completely taken back by the Primarch. The Speaker's governance structure has returned from the strict and complex officer-chaplain dual track of the past to a single system where all authority is based on the orders of the Primarch.
Even...under the Emperor's orders, the command of the operation to destroy the Perfect City has been handed over to a stranger unknown to all the Word Bearers.
He was also the one who exposed Erebus's evil intentions and Kor Phaeron's conspiracy.
The Lord of the Twelfth Legion, Elaine.
According to the Word Bearers who stayed behind in the Perfect City, since the Lord of the Twelfth Legion suddenly arrived in the Perfect City, she revealed the truth about Erebus's rebellion and killed the chief priest in front of everyone. execution.
At first, no Word Bearers believed this truth, and even their Primarch briefly doubted it.
In the beginning, only the few teams of Word Bearers who stayed in the Perfect City obeyed her orders. However, when she revealed the truth in everyone's hearts, everyone was shocked.
Although most of the Word Bearers expressed doubts about the identity of the Lord of the Twelfth Legion, the Emperor's personal statement made them give up the idea of exploring the truth.
Even though this destruction of the Perfect City is filled with endless doubts, no one can question the will of the God-Emperor.
Even Lorgar Aurelion, who is also a Primarch, is the same.
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Next to the female corpse, which had gradually become cold, a figure emerged from the shadows.
"Poor Cyrene, miserable Cyrene..."
"Your eternal destiny has not yet begun, but it has already been destroyed under the tyrant's order..."
"But your fate is not over yet...the position of the Hand of Fate is still vacant."
"The Great Rebellion must truly occur, and Chaos must be strangled with the destruction of humanity."
"And you will be reborn again with a new identity..."
"In the name of the Esoteric Cult - in the name of me, Damon Pletanis."
His lamenting whispers were muffled by the sound of artillery fire, but the darkness in the shadow swallowed up the broken female corpse together.
Until all traces are completely gone.
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