"asshole--"
Enraged, Ustad used the gray marrow again.
Heat spurted out from the gaps in his armor, and the display panel inside the helmet failed due to the severe impact. His body temperature changes could not be seen, so Ustad tore it off.
Throwing down his helmet, Ustad stood up with a gray-green face. The armor on his body had three claw marks left by the monster. A trace of bright red blood flowed out through the claw marks, but he was soon covered by some mysterious force. Filled with silver.
At first the Astartes' movements were somewhat sluggish, as if he was struck by the cold that penetrated his bones, but his spirit strengthened him.
He staggered forward, the pain and cold gradually easing.
Looking at this scene, the mysterious demon shook his head.
"It's just like a bug."
Its sound is accompanied by the sound of muscles sliding and bones breaking.
"Stubborn, stubborn."
"I am Astartes, the avenging angel of the Emperor of Mankind."
Ustad challenged the monster, using the brief respite to focus his strength.
"Arrogant! I am your doom!"
The demon roared and rushed forward at an extraordinary speed.
"Say it as if I were you."
Claws flew through the air like blades, and Ustad's power sword spat out golden lightning.
He tried to use his sword to neutralize the monster's attack, but was still startled by its power at the moment of contact. He involuntarily took a step back, his boots scraping the floor.
"Son of the Curse, I have already seen through your tricks!"
The demon laughed ferociously. At this time, under the influence of the gray marrow, its skin was covered with a layer of frost, but the demon's skin immediately became as hot as molten iron.
Ustad raised his sword forward and stabbed the demon's arm, but the force of the counterattack traveled from his forearm to his shoulder.
The monster's heavy blow almost caused the Astartes' weapon to fall away. In the face of the confrontation between force and force, the opponent had overwhelming power.
"Why--"
Ustad, who was accustomed to using gray marrow to weaken the power of the warp, was very puzzled.
Why does the demon seem unaffected?
The opponent swung out a claw, and Ustad jumped back, taking a stance before the demon attacked again and then landed firmly.
"The Warp exists, and I will send you back there. No matter how hungry you are, I know you will not be able to do so. You will be banished by the Emperor's radiance."
"You have no idea what we are, you have been misled, and you have no idea of your destiny."
Suddenly, there was lightning and thunder on the battlefield, and then a crimson lightning shot fiercely at the demon from the smoke.
The monster was startled at first and tried to deflect the psychic attack with its well-developed forearms, but the lightning suddenly cracked and turned into five smaller thunderbolts, which directly hit the demon's limbs.
In an instant, the demon's limbs were almost broken, and his huge body fell to the ground.
"who!"
After taking a few breaths to recover his limbs and get up again, the demon let out a shocking roar.
In the smoke, a giant wearing a gray hooded robe slowly walked out. His face was hidden under a dark golden mask in the shape of a jackal. His right hand was slightly raised, and the light danced lightly on his fingers.
"Mardel, stop your little tricks."
The devil's head turned 90°, and then whispered:
"I smell the scent of the one-eyed prince's heir from you. Who are you?"
"The end of you."
The next moment, a white tongue of fire burst out from the mysterious man's hand, and death prayers and mysterious spells flickered on the edge of the flame, like fluttering wings.
Then, it sliced the demon apart with a brilliant line.
For an instant, the demon's body staggered, and then flames leapt across its shadow-shrouded body.
Watching the demon turn to ash, Ustad turned and looked at the stranger, who bore the emblem of the Chapter on his cloak.
"Who are you? Which company is your brother?"
The man turned his head, looked at Ustad, and then replied:
"You think I am your think tank, just call me Jackal."
"Jackal..."
Ustad frowned, and then suddenly thought of something.
"Ah, you are Ka——"
Then he shut his mouth, knowing he shouldn't reveal the secret.
Kayon smiled slightly, walked to the demon's ashes, squatted down and groped for a while, and finally found a small object.
"This is......"
Ustad walked over and took a look and found that it was the roasted remains of some kind of creature. It looked like some kind of worm.
Kayon turned it over in his hand and studied it for a while, then stood up.
"Some kind of parasite, Madel should have implanted it into the World Eater's body a long time ago. Its function is probably to transform the body into some kind of semi-subspace creature, and the demon can use it from a distance. The ability to control this body is similar to telepathy. Because the changes in the body come more from the biotechnological level, the role of gray marrow is not obvious..."
As he spoke, Kayon seemed to be lost in thought. He was silent for a while, and finally said to himself:
"Strange, how could a subspace demon have this kind of technology? It looks more like that person's handiwork, but he should be imprisoned now...Did something happen while I was away? "
After chanting for a while, Kayon shook his head, put aside these thoughts for the time being, turned to Ustad and said:
"How's the defense going?"
"The casualties are heavy. The company has lost 19 people and seriously wounded five people. The mortal defenders have also suffered at least 40,000 casualties. Now we can only trap the last area of the fortress. After that, only the church is left. Now all People are crowded together and it would be a disaster if..."
"Soshyan's new order, the second company will retreat with me immediately."
Ustad glared at Kayon, and then said:
"There are still nearly 60,000 residents here."
"Let them retreat into the mine tunnel."
All explorer fortresses basically have mine tunnels, which are built for digging, but the underground is intricate and complex. Not only is the terrain harsh, but there may also be dangerous native creatures and demons.
"There is a boring machine waiting for them underground, but they need to walk to the evacuation area on their own. Whether they can survive depends on whether the throne protects them. This is the only way."
Ustad opened his mouth, but in the end he did not ask the question in his heart.
In fact, he knew without the other party answering how likely he was to survive this kind of self-rescue, but there was really no better way to deal with the situation at hand.
So the second captain of the Astral Knights nodded silently, turned around and began to gather the soldiers, and asked the defenders to start mobilizing civilians to quickly move to the ancient mine tunnel near the main drainage of the fortress.
After everything was arranged, the enemy's artillery fire had begun to pound the sacred church. Ustad took one last look at the emperor's icon above, and then was overwhelmed by the flash of teleportation——
