Chapter 404 Echoes of Courage and Loyalty (3) A critical moment
"I will not... surrender to you!" Appius roared in a low voice, just like when he first encountered this demon.
The sacrifice of his comrades gave him a chance to survive, but it was also watching the brothers who had been with him day and night die that made revenge become the whole meaning of supporting the rest of his life.
He was still living in his dream, in which he was still biting and entangled with the enemy day and night in order to return to that battlefield.
But at this time, he and the demon were like twins with two sides of the same body. Ever since he released the demon from the cage, the balance between their souls could no longer maintain a false balance. balance……
The priest who originally belonged to the third company of the Sons of Guilliman was still roaring at the demon, but he may not have noticed it. As the demon was freed, the blue-black magic lines, representing the curse and favor of Chaos, were already on his face. A wanton extension.
Fall? Or it was solidification... Calvin looked at the twisted and desperate aura of chaos on Appius's body, and suddenly he had some enlightenment.
What is depravity? It is a soul that gives up its own reason and hope and entrusts everything to hatred.
"Is this important? It's not important! You don't need to surrender to me! You just need to be loyal to your own desires, and that's all I need..." The demon whispered to Appius about the relationship between them s story.
And as the devil's laughter turned from low to high, its body made of shadows also expanded in place, completely breaking free from the translucent devil's egg. The original height of more than two meters skyrocketed to 5 meters in a few breaths. More than enough.
Blue-gray and translucent scales wrap its transparent and dark body, and the ferocious long horns on the top of its head echo the snake's tail spreading below its waist. Four thick arms extended from his broad shoulders and waist, and black crystal-like exquisite and sharp claws extended and curved on six narrow fingers.
Gold and blue are intertwined on the gorgeous metal armor, from its long snake-like tail to the crown on its head.
Different from the demons that Calvin had seen that were full of changes and distortions, the demon that appeared in front of Calvin, whether it was the horns on its head or the magic patterns on its body, showed a strange, solemn, and symmetrical appearance. Desecrating beauty.
However, when the demon turned its head to look at Calvin, the momentum it had accumulated from its appearance to its arrival dissipated in just a few seconds:
The Calvin in front of him was about four meters tall, even compared to the later demons. Especially with the silver heavy armor and the blessing of the Empire's truth, he was already majestic enough in the eyes of Appius.
But under the devil's natural extraordinary vision, Calvin's true form in front of him is even more exaggerated. In the body that is already a demigod in the eyes of mortals, there is a terrifying existence as big as a star curled up...
The figure of this being is so huge that it has tried its best to look up at the edge of his body, but at the end of his field of vision, he can only see the face of an expressionless giant spirit, in the distant clouds across the supreme sky. , casting an indifferent look down at it.
"Your Majesty, Lord of All Wisdom...what trouble did you cause?"
The demon complained softly towards its host but did not stop. A set of golden swords, shields and a double-headed snake spear were summoned from the void, and Appius behind him also felt the demon's influence. Cautiously, he also pointed the weapon in his hand at Calvin in the distance.
"You speed up the progress, I can finish it right here..." Calvin looked at the man and the demon in front of him, and put down the communication in his hand.
In the starry sky tens of thousands of meters above, Tabos just put down his communicator and frowned at the warning that lit up in front of him.
Due to the obvious difference in the number and specifications of the warships between the two sides, fighting against the Sons of Guilliman's remaining fleet would not put any pressure on him.
But the specific battle did not go smoothly. The mutineers inherited the fighting style of the Ultramarines, allowing them to make full use of the cover of ground firepower and the threat of orbital defense weapons when fighting against the Gray Knight fleet.
Although this kind of strict battle could not make up for the gap between the two sides, his solid tactical choices and never-risk fighting style also made Tabos unable to start. Several attempts to lure the enemy to a quick victory also failed in this way. The background failed several times.
"The navigator deck has detected energy anomalies in the internal space of the galaxy! Multiple large units are transitioning!"
"Recognize!" Tebos immediately replied, and at the same time notified the two wing ships that had already entered the middle-range firefight to prepare for evasion.
"Received friendly force identification signal!" A faint voice sounded from the direction of the Astropath's deck, and the command deck immediately gave the corresponding decoding comparison.
"Encrypted identification passed! Signal sources are being compared!" The crew on the command deck responded loudly, and then their expressions suddenly changed when the signal source comparison was successful.
"What's the result?" The person in charge of the command deck originally lowered his head and stared at the battlefield situation in front of him, but after waiting for a few seconds and not hearing the answer, he angrily asked the former.
He was about to take out the weapon from his waist and enforce battlefield discipline on the former, but when he saw the latter silently sharing information to the home screen, he fell into the same stagnation...
"Ultramarines! Why are they here?"
Tabers also saw the information on the screen at the same time, and he couldn't help but look at the stars that were shining at the Manzeville Point on both sides of the galaxy.
This is already his third hundred years as a member of the Victory Blade, commanding the Gray Knights' fleet.
Countless trainings and battles have made him so familiar with the navy's information that he doesn't need any instrument assistance. He can roughly know the number of incoming ships just by looking at it.
But at this moment, he would rather not have this experience, because at the origin of the galaxy, on the subspace barrier that is becoming increasingly unstable due to the accumulation of energy, there are more than thirty information sources!
This is a naval fleet with at least two battleships as its core, dedicated to strategic maneuvers in the star field!
what does that mean? This means that it must have at least four heavy cruisers and the same number of light cruisers, as well as a escort fleet that is more than three times the sum of the two!
The purpose of the Ultramarines' coming was no longer important to Tabos at this time.
What he is really worried about is that when the opponent has an absolute numerical advantage and knows that the Inquisition is fighting a sub-group from them, what choice will they make?
Should he accept the taint on his chapter's honor and join forces with an outsider like the Inquisition to exterminate his compatriots with shame?
Or should we continue to do nothing, just like how we dealt with the Inquisitors who came to investigate the sons of Guilliman before, letting them "disappear" in the vast universe?
And that actually didn't matter, especially compared to the primarch's safety.
Tybos didn't care about his own life or death, but the Primarch must not be in any danger!
what to do?
The veteran was thinking hard and hoping to find a way to break the situation. He did not dare to place his hope on the loyalty of others, especially after someone had already been dealt with in order to open the wound here.
The entire crew on the command deck knew the fleet was in crisis at this time. In the quiet air, the steel on the seat guard beside the Gray Knight captain was groaning under load.
"Abnormal energy in the space within the galaxy has been detected! Multiple large units are transitioning!"
Far below the bridge, the alarm sounded again on the navigator's deck.
Tabers raised his head and stared indifferently at the noise ahead, but just when he thought that this message was just an invalid repeat of the previous alarm, on the command deck nearest his feet, the intelligence officer responsible for information summary suddenly raised his head and shouted excitedly in his direction. Shout:
"The encrypted message passed! Source identification passed! The source of the signal - the Minotaur Chapter!
The source of the signal - the Minotaur Chapter! "
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