Chapter 230, Evil God Incarnation

"Your new blood... has been trained well. I almost thought they were all veterans."

Grit said to Martins.

After completing the capture of the surface part of the storage center, the highest commander of the operation and the consultant lady finally had time to chat with each other while the troops were cleaning up the remaining resistance inside the building.

Martins was proud and a little embarrassed by Grit's praise.

"Well, they did perform very well. They are the new blood trained and trained by the Governor. With the training method of the Phoenix... it is impossible to train such an effect so quickly. However, they are not worthy of your praise as a 'veteran'. There are still too many immature places."

"Indeed." Grit didn't talk nonsense, "That's why I said 'almost'. They did not do well in some places, such as not being ruthless enough when they attacked, and their ability to strictly abide by the doctrine and adapt to changes was a little poor. They didn't know how to better protect themselves on the battlefield..."

She talked about a lot of shortcomings, and Martins nodded frequently.

It was indeed true.

They were not ruthless enough because they had not seen enough blood and were not well-trained enough. They did not know how to use the tragic battlefield conditions to give the living enemies a stronger psychological blow. They had not been beaten and did not know that those enemies who gave up resistance might also draw their weapons and shoot them from behind.

Their ability to adapt to changing circumstances was not enough because they had seen too little and did not dare to change the thinking habits imprinted during training. At the same time, it was difficult for them to think of better solutions in a short period of time. They lacked the ability to make more targeted judgments based on the uniqueness of each battle.

They did not know how to protect themselves, which was reflected in their lack of proficiency in using their own power armor - the Governor's training for them obviously did not include this part, and half a year of training for Space Marines was not enough to allow them to completely turn all their skills into instincts and use them at will. Moreover, when making some action decisions, the risk assessment was not accurate enough. Being reckless was not a problem, but being ignorant and reckless was a problem.

But...

"But even if there are these problems..." said Grit, "That's just nitpicking. Only by holding them to the standards of a real veteran can you point out these problems. But what about the reality? I have seen several regiments, some of whose recruits have become official Space Marines for several years, and they also have similar problems. If they can really correct all these problems, your regiment will not be new blood, or even just official warriors, but a group of elite veterans."

At this point, Grit looked at Martins with a smile and continued, "To be honest, when I first saw you on the Wrathful Star a year and a half ago, I felt very heavy. Although I really hope that you old comrades can stand up again. But reason tells me that your miserable situation at that time will inevitably lead to extinction in the future. What I didn't expect is that you really have signs of recovery in a year and a half, and I am really happy for you."

At this point, Martins was a little nervous.

On the one hand, the blessing of old friends is of course a happy thing. But he was afraid that Grit would suddenly ask how their gene seed came from.

But immediately, he realized that Grit would not have such a question.

The two of them had not had a detailed discussion about the situation of the Phoenix Warband, and Grit did not know that the warband's gene bank had been completely lost. Now, seeing the eight new blood of the new warband, her natural reaction was that the gene seed bank accumulated by the Phoenix Warband had played a role, and she would not think about what the governor did in it.

No one would think about that because it was unrealistic.

Even if Grit had some doubts, she was wondering why the success rate of the new blood of the warband cultivated by the governor was so high.

But Martins would not deliberately mention these questions, let alone answer them.

If it was misunderstood that the warband's seed bank was still there, it would be a good thing.

Although, Martins himself is no longer entangled with this issue now. As long as the gene seed is pure and it is definitely the seed of the Phoenix, it's fine. He himself is unwilling to delve into it, let alone expose this matter.

He, Reverend Rizzo, and the other two veterans have decided to bury this matter deep in their hearts.

...

The reason why Martins and Gurrett have time to chat at this time is because they are waiting for their soldiers to find further clues.

The surface part of this storage center is obviously not the headquarters of the original Angry Owl Sect itself.

According to intelligence, their headquarters is underground.

These cult members are guarding this place with all their strength, which probably proves that this is the only way to their headquarters.

It’s just that they haven’t found this entrance for a while.

The battle nuns and demon hunters are doing this.

And the first to get the result are demon hunters.

A lady came to interrupt their chat.

Martins remembered her.

This is Milia De Jong, one of the captains of this demon hunter team. Martins also knew that she made a lot of contributions in the anti-counterfeiting operation of the alliance some time ago.

At this moment, the young captain, with a blushing face, reported a piece of news to him:

"We found an entrance to the underground!"

"Oh? That's very good. Thank you for your work." Martins said this first, then turned around and teased Gritte: "It seems that the demon hunters of the Alliance are better than your battle sisters." It needs to be better in this regard.”

Gerrit didn't take it seriously: "It saves trouble, it's always better."

Martins turned his gaze back and saw that Milia De Jong seemed to have some news to say.

He frowned: "If there is any information, please report it in detail."

"Yes!" De Rong was excited.

She has always been fearless. However, when facing the Emperor's Angel of Death, looking at the opponent's majestic body, her own height had just reached the opponent's belly, and she had to work hard to raise her head to see the majestic face of Chapter Master Martins, she still I felt a heavy sense of oppression from within, so much so that I was a little cautious when speaking.

She said carefully: "It's not an undetailed report, it's just that... we are not sure about this situation either..."

Afterwards, she explained the witcher's discovery in detail to the chapter leader.

After hearing this, Martins really frowned.

According to the demon hunters, they found the underground entrance to the cult headquarters. In addition to the fact that they do have relatively specialized skills in search and exploration, there is another very important factor. One of them has a special skill. The soul-sensing witcher.

This person, after activating his ability, discovered that the slain rebels, especially those warlocks wearing gray robes or even blue robes, symbolized the white light spots of their souls, vaguely Through a certain way, drifting to one place.

What he said made the other demon hunters feel a little strange. But based on the idea that it was more or less a clue, they still asked a few people to follow the so-called 'soul light spot' they sensed and go to investigate.

It’s really rewarding.

They found a very secret passage in the ventilation duct. When we followed the ventilation duct to a very thick support column inside the building, we found that the support column turned out to be fake. It was actually hollow and a downward passage.

He didn't act rashly, he just sent people to guard there. If necessary, you can blow up the pillar to expand the passage, and then attack downwards from there.

But before that, the demon hunters were quite concerned about what their companion had discovered about the souls passively floating back to the cult headquarters.

"...We think this is a very bad sign." When De Jong said this, he was no longer so nervous, and his expression naturally took on a very serious look, "Those cultists are obviously doing something, it is very possible It's their desperate struggle. But... we currently have too little information to determine what they are doing."

Martins clearly took this clue seriously.

In the past, many experiences of fighting various heretics taught him that he should never underestimate these human traitors who sold their souls to some unknown existence. They will always cause a big incident somewhere and cause terrible losses.

Martins turned to his advisor and asked, "Do you have any ideas?"

Gritte frowned and said: "I... I'm not sure, but this may be related to an intelligence we collected before..."

Later, Gerrit also shared the information she knew.

She spoke very quickly and urgently, and asked Martins to give the order to assemble the team and prepare to attack.

According to her, if the situation observed by the demon hunters at this moment is really the same as the information the battle sisters investigated before, they must act as quickly as possible now.

Martins followed his example and while ordering the team to assemble and prepare for blasting, he also listened carefully to Gerrit's story.

The core goal of the Original Angry Owl Sect, a local cult organization, is the same as many cult organizations seen in the starry sky, which is to bring the evil god they believe in to the world.

But when it comes to them, this is not a lie, but a real possibility.

Because the evil god they believed in, the original angry owl, had a prototype, a belief, and a gathering of spiritual energy. This can be seen from the incarnation of the angry owl that was summoned during the big incident they had in Fuxing City.

Since this is a prototype god born from local beliefs, its power can truly be projected into the real world.

This monster should currently be in the abyss of the spiritual world, but it is inextricably linked to the Raging Owl Star. The original Angry Owl sect believed that if they did something right, the evil god would be called into the world.

One of them is a large number of soul sacrifices.

This large amount may refer to quantities in the millions or even tens of millions.

This was also the main reason why they targeted Fuxing City a year and a half ago: at that time, it was the only place on Raging Owl that had a large enough population in a small area.

If they were to do something similar in the North, dispersed personnel would be a big problem. Even Polar Industrial City, the largest city in the north, only has a population of half a million people.

But after the failure of the operation in Renaissance City, they were under great pressure from the Battle Sisters and the garrison of the Central and Northern Provinces, and it became very difficult to promote the normal operation of the evil god's advent.

The Battle Sisters once captured a high-ranking figure of the evil cult, who revealed the radicals, or desperate factions in the sect, and proposed a plan to forcibly start the revival of the evil god.

They would sacrifice as many people as they could, and even sacrifice all the sorcerers of their sect as seeds.

This move led to huge differences within their sect. The opposition believed that doing so was a pure and meaningless sacrifice. Because it would not be successful in awakening their god completely. At most, they could only summon a powerful incarnation.

But if it was just for this, it would be too unworthy to sacrifice the entire sect.

"...But according to our current intelligence, such crazy ideas should be an absolute minority among them. But..."

Martins continued her words: "But if it comes to the critical moment of their life and death, they may have no choice but to fight to the death."

"So we have to hurry." Grit said, "The only good news is that the only people they can sacrifice now are those who died in the Polar Industrial City today, and the number will not be large. The biggest force is still the cultists themselves. We must destroy their plans as quickly as possible, otherwise even if they only summon an avatar, we will be in big trouble."

"I understand."

As he spoke, the blaster was ready. Space Marines, Battle Sisters, and Demon Hunters were also on standby.

Without wasting time, Martins gave an order, and the passage disguised as a building pillar, but actually leading to the underground, was blown up.

The blasting was done by a Space Marine veteran himself, with quite good skills, and the amount of explosives and the installation position were just right.

An irregular circular passage of about 6×6 appeared in front of them, with a ladder going down.

After the passage was blasted, the cultists hiding below obviously reacted, and there were sounds coming from inside.

But there was no need to worry too much at this time.

"Down, down, down!" Martins called out, wearing a Terminator power armor, and jumped down first.

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4k word chapter.

The original timer was set at 11 noon, but it was set to be released directly... So that's it.

Going to sleep, good night.