"Get ready to blast!"
At the command, Oscar and the Zedd brothers ran to the armored door at the end of the passage. Then they quickly and skillfully installed the hinges, locked the door with armor-piercing bombs, and released the explosive wires from their gauntlets until they were on both sides of the door. Its position.
Ustad nodded, and a silent jet of data detonated the explosives, causing the door to bulge inward as if struck by a giant invisible fist.
A veteran wearing a Terminator ran forward and kicked the door hard with his boot.
The metal buckled, almost snapping in half from the terrible force.
Two seconds later, the twisted door fell inwards, and before it hit the ground, two other soldiers threw a grenade through the smoking hole.
The roaring sound set off a series of chain explosions, and then the sound strangely leveled off, like a string of firecrackers, echoing from within.
The Terminator moved toward the ruined doorframe, but Ustad raised his fist, keeping his warrior where he was.
Suddenly, a liquid flame rolled up from the room, roaring with boiling power, licking the stairs outside the door.
Flames burst from the door, and Ustad nodded to the Terminator, who turned the door and unleashed a barrage of bolts at full speed on the soldiers inside.
The noise was deafening, the roaring alarm echoed wildly in the stairwell, and flashes of light flashed from time to time.
The cabin was cleared, leaving only a pile of broken limbs.
Ustad then slowly walked up the stairs, followed by his squad, followed by Bahram leading a second squad.
The interior of the stairwell was dark and charred, like a volcano's flue.
Ustad came out of the stairs and walked into a wide corridor that surrounded the inner layer of the upper deck and was a huge hall.
The hall itself is a hollow rectangle with a courtyard fifty meters wide and one hundred meters long.
As soon as he emerged, heavy artillery fire roared through as the enemy desperately tried to reorganize and adjust their defenses.
"Alk, clear the left, Bahram, go to the right!"
The words were unnecessary, both men knew what to do, but Ustad wanted to be sure.
Until then, they encountered the warriors of the Minotaur Chapter for the first time.
Soldiers in brown armor ran out of the far cabin and aimed their guns, but they were too late.
The next moment, the Astral Knight's bullets filled the entire space. Such huge firepower that even the exquisitely crafted armor could not withstand it.
Bahram fired on the move, and the molten heat of Haoma went straight towards the enemy.
The two warriors in front of him fell backward. One climbed over the railing and fell into the courtyard below. The other stumbled and fell to the ground, his chest being completely evaporated.
Bahram found cover and knelt beside the body, studying the armor and its images.
The red long-horned bull, with its angry eyes, creates a sense of recklessness and cruelty.
Too barbaric, too fanatical, it looks like a barbaric culture raised to the level of civilization, but it will never truly become civilized.
The Minotaur, even the name sounds barbaric, a Chapter named after the legendary Labyrinth Monster from the Forgotten Age.
There was nothing jarring about the name, and Bahram shook his head at its raw, visceral nature.
"Why is this so?"
Bahram saw that the chests of the fallen Minotaur warriors had the same aquila emblem as theirs, but it was now stained red with blood.
"Why do we chant and kill each other for the Emperor?"
At this time, Haoma pushed him.
"Stop talking to the dead, enemy reinforcements have arrived!"
Bahram's visor began to show the tactical situation, and the soldiers had already rushed to it and started to head for the exit.
Their surprise attack caught the guards off guard, but the guards remained tenacious.
And it has to be said that the Minotaur's equipment is also as high as possible. They also have a large number of plasma and melt weapons, and the killing efficiency of the two sides is not much different.
"The northern staircase is about to be captured. Alke, I want your team to go to the southern corridor and press down on the Minotaurs. Bahram and I are going to break through from the north."
"clear."
"Getting in place."
As soon as Bahram stood up, he saw two balls of plasma attacking, smashing the body of an astral knight into pieces.
This fight became increasingly cruel.
Ustad led his men around the corridor, with flames spurting out from below, grenades flying from behind the bunker, and shrapnel everywhere.
In the fierce exchange of fire, two more soldiers fell. One was hit in the head by a blaster, and the other was attacked by several armor-piercing rockets and grenades.
Ustad felt tremendous pressure weighing on him, but it wasn't enough to pull him out of the fight.
"go ahead!"
he shouted on the public channel.
"Speed up, move forward!"
The soldiers moved faster and kept shooting at the enemy.
They quickly rounded the corner of the opposite corridor and were about to appear on the enemy's flank.
Almost at this moment, a burst of violent gunfire rang out from the distant corridor, and the passage was filled with the chug of heavy explosive shells, followed by the whoosh of missiles.
Ustad turned the corner and saw a Minotaur emerging from the doorway below, the archway gleaming with the remnants of a specially modified missile warhead.
After discovering the enemy above, he immediately aimed his melta gun at Ustad, but Bahram's shot hit him in the head, knocking the opponent's head and helmet out of sight.
The other Minotaur immediately fired around the arch, but without exposing himself, just shooting wildly.
The impact hit Ustad's armor on the right shoulder, but the bullet only glanced past, not enough to stop his charge.
"Destroy them!"
He led his men into the enemy's flank and fired precise, intensive firepower at the exposed enemy soldiers.
A Minotaur took a blow but did not fall.
The warrior then raised his weapon, a jet-black multi-tube melta, ready to hit Bahram who was shooting.
At this time, Robin suddenly flew in front of him from one side, and drew out his sword like a meteor, causing the opponent's head to fly into the air.
Then Robin picked up the fallen multiple tubes of hot melt and pulled the trigger towards a Minotaur hiding behind the bunker of a marble statue. In an instant, the torrent of destruction destroyed the statue and the people behind it at the same time, leaving only the ground. A large pool of slag of metal and rock.
The battle was brutal, with neither side having a choice, but in the end the Astral Knights overwhelmed the enemy with their superior equipment and personnel.
After dumping more than thirty corpses, the Minotaur warband withdrew from the area.
But the victory did not bring joy to Ustad, but made him very worried, because they also lost twenty-one warriors, and the number and resistance of the enemy far exceeded his expectations.
Judging from the remaining personnel of the opponent and the surrounding movements reported by the auspicious device, the Minotaur Chapter has deployed at least two tactical companies in the Daughter of the Storm, and most likely three!
It's just that the opponent is still defending in various areas. Once they gather together, it will be difficult for Ustad to directly access the bridge.
After realizing that there were obstacles in the mission, Ustad did not insist on completing it with the power at hand, because Soshyan told him that the enemy's situation was unknown, and if something went wrong, he would call for support.
And the means of support——
Ustad glanced at the battlefield, and then took out a signal generator.
As his signal for help was sent out, a second wave of jumping torpedoes was sent from the Unbound Soul, leading Farzad's team to penetrate into the body of the Storm Daughter from another direction. In order to seize the Weeper The former flagship of the Astral Knights has committed two companies.
The Minotaur fleet in the distance seemed to turn a blind eye to this——
