Chapter 220: Time to Pop Out the Siths Boyz!
Chapter 220: Chapter 219: Time to Pop Out the Siths Boyz!
Iron Guard Fortress on Sanctuary Star.
Outside, thousands of warships were locked in a death struggle with millions of Tyranid bio-ships.
Human drop pods and Tyranid spore pods fell upon the surface like interweaving raindrops.
Bolter fire, artillery, and chainswords echoed incessantly amidst the dense crisscrossing of lasers and acid.
But this was different from the previous, desperate, simple stalling.
This time on Sanctuary Star, the objective of the war had changed to completely expelling the Tyranid Swarm that had intruded upon Sanctuary Star.
To such an extent that Light Lances, used for small-scale extermination of occupied zones, had reappeared over Sanctuary Star after a long absence.
Deep within the Iron Guard Fortress at this moment.
The Black Gold Custodes stared blankly at the still-unfamiliar peers beside them, bolstered by the protection of two Legions, and the battle situation outside finally gaining the advantage.
The atmosphere inside the entire Iron Guard Fortress finally eased up quite a bit.
However, this relaxation only existed among the lower-level personnel; deep within the Iron Guard Fortress, Lorgar Aurelian and Leontus, surrounding Sith, were silently watching the latest projection sent from Terra a few months ago.
Sith was completely speechless to the extreme, because in the projection, the information about the two Tyranid tentacles that Guilliman had once given him had now changed to three.
The two main ones were being held back desperately by Leontus relying on the Solar Blade fleet of the Segmentum Solar and the Pacific Segmentum.
There was another tentacle that, upon discovering that the other two overt tentacles could not break through, bypassed Sanctuary Star directly, forcing its way toward Terra despite suffering huge losses.
In the current projection, that ‘decapitation’ tentacle, which was much ‘thinner’ than the conventional Tyranid tentacles, had its vanguard feelers already coiled around the absolute core of the Imperium of Man.
Pluto at the edge of the Sol System!
Sith stared blankly at the projection, not even having the desire to complain about Guilliman in his heart.
On the other side, Lorgar Aurelian and Leontus likewise had no desire to complain about Guilliman.
Sith hadn’t expected that there would actually be three Tyranid tentacles, while those two hadn’t expected that the reinforcements Guilliman found for them were actually that group of people from the Great Heresy!
Moreover, looking at Malakin of the Lamenters, who had been casually brought over by Sith, and recalling the news Malakin had just delivered, even now, Leontus and Lorgar Aurelian were curious about what an ‘Apocalypse-hardened Veteran’ was.
Although Lorgar Aurelian and the other both understood and grasped the three words within it.
But they truly had not expected that these three words could have such a combination.
At the same time, in this situation where they couldn’t figure out where Sith had managed to get as many as five hundred veterans who had survived several Apocalypse battles, they kept worrying about their own future.
Watching Sith, who hadn’t thought that far ahead yet, Lorgar Aurelian and Leontus had already begun to ponder how to explain in the future that they had actually become the ‘guides’ for the Legion from the Great Heresy!
Not only did they host this group of Ancient Legions, but they also addressed their leader as ‘My Lord’ in public.
In the end, they even sent out the precise coordinates of the Sol System, urging Sith to hurry and lead this group of ‘Heresy’ survivors to Terra!
The three people in front of the command console all had their own thoughts.
It wasn’t until Sith finally struggled to withdraw his attention from the projection, and felt Sith withdraw his gaze, that Lorgar Aurelian and Leontus hurriedly focused all their thoughts on Sith.
Afterward, they buried the words ‘traitor Legion’ deep in their hearts.
After all, in this situation, finding a group of ‘Heresy’ survivors to go back was better than the Tyranids.
“I need the route to Terra.”
“And I need to disengage from the battle immediately and head to Terra.”
Sith sighed long and helplessly before speaking; upon hearing this, the expressions of Leontus and Lorgar Aurelian opposite him instantly improved quite a bit.
Leontus even turned the projection directly to display the route.
“Although the will of the Tyranid Swarm has a massive impact on Warp communication and the Astronomican, we have still managed to create a temporary route by relying on the Astropathic Choir to relay it.”
Leontus spoke while displaying the route, revealing a rather winding and circuitous path.
“Although the entire route is currently occupied by many passing fleets, as long as Lord Sith gives the word, we will immediately clear the entire route.”
“Temporarily opening a dedicated line for Lord Sith to lead the fleet to reinforce Terra.”
Obviously, Leontus was more worried about the defense of Terra than anyone else, so when talking about the plan to quickly reinforce Terra, there was almost no pause or hesitation.
Moreover, after Leontus finished speaking, both Sith and Lorgar Aurelian thought about it carefully and felt that this was indeed the best plan.
However, after Leontus finished speaking, Sith widened his view from Terra to the massive battlefield spanning two Segmentums, but he frowned again.
Looking at the starting point of the route in the projection, Sith looked up at the Iron Guard Fortress on Sanctuary Star where he was currently standing.
“If I go to Terra, what happens to Sanctuary Star?”
Sith asked, and upon hearing these words, Lorgar Aurelian and Leontus’s expressions sank.
In the end, it was Leontus who squeezed out a bitter smile as much as possible and looked at Sith:
“We…”
“Will hold out until the very last moment.”
He didn’t say what they would do, only stating their choice; Sith was stunned upon hearing this, and then, seeing that Leontus was already prepared to sacrifice himself, he shook his head decisively.
“Sanctuary Star cannot be lost.”
Leontus and Lorgar Aurelian did not expect that Sith was actually concerned about them, and were just about to try to appear as calm as possible to let Sith not worry.
Sith pointed to the star map:
“Sanctuary Star is holding back two main Tyranid tentacles; if Sanctuary Star is lost, I am very likely to be caught in a pincer attack in the Sol System.”
Leontus and Lorgar Aurelian were stunned.
Oh…
So he wasn’t concerned about the two of us.
Lorgar Aurelian pouted, while Leontus, after realizing, showed even more helplessness on his face.
“We certainly know the importance of Sanctuary Star, but to completely hold Sanctuary Star, we would have to leave all the reinforcements you brought behind.”
“But then how would we reinforce Terra?”
Leontus explained, while Sith looked at the sparse Imperial defenders and the massive Tyranid Swarm.
After a long silence, a faint murmur appeared intermittently in the ears of Leontus and Lorgar Aurelian.
“Pop out troops… Sisss… Boyz…”
Lorgar Aurelian and the other were confused, but Sith raised his hand at this moment, centering the entire star map’s perspective on a group of Greenskin forces that were already raging near Sanctuary Star.
Watching Sith actually paying attention to this group of Greenskins who were being squeezed by both humans and Tyranids, Lorgar Aurelian and Leontus were even more confused.
At the same time, for some reason, they always felt that ‘Sith’ and ‘Boyz’, when combined together, sounded so much like ‘Ork Boyz’?
Then, amidst their confusion, Sith confirmed that there was soil here for the reproduction and development of Greenskins, and finally looked up at the ceiling.
His gaze pierced through the thick mountain, inside the orac, a group of ‘tall’,’slender’, ‘dark green’ figures, which had not been able to get reinforcements and had been carefully protected by Sith, ‘calmly’ walked toward the projection used for transmitting images.
And then, the core of the Iron Guard Fortress.
Looking at the dozens of Greenskins that suddenly appeared before their eyes, possessing somewhat the bearing of Krorks and a physique as fierce as the Custodes, the hearts of Lorgar Aurelian and Leontus, which had only just barely accepted the Great Heresy Legion, became restless again.
Heads up, inhaling, with faces full of ‘this is not right’.
They looked at the Greenskins in front of them, and then looked at the surrounding Black Gold Custodes and the Great Heresy Legion.
Leontus and Lorgar Aurelian were left with nothing but expressions of ‘I have really never seen this before’, falling into complete silence.
“The composition of this group of reinforcements…”
“Is it this complicated?!”