Chapter 498, In the Name of the Battle Group

Lost four games in a row, and lost in a very embarrassing way.

In the first game, they used the Terminator to fight against the conventional tactical power armor, and lost; in the second game, they fought between the Terminators, and lost; in the third game, they used their own tactical power armor to fight against the opponent's Terminator, and still lost.

In the fourth game, they sent the champion of the chapter in anger, but still lost.

The shame is actually secondary, the most terrible thing is the actual huge loss.

The four who died in the battle were all the backbone and core of the chapter!

The captain of the first company can almost be regarded as the second or third person in the chapter. If Erso encounters an accident, the captain of the first company can almost directly take over the work of the chapter leader temporarily; the champion of the chapter and the champion of the company are all the absolutely elite backbone of a chapter, and there are not many of them. Even the 48-year recruit who died the easiest and performed the worst, represents the future of the chapter.

In a battle, if any one of these four people died, Erso would be very heartbroken.

Not to mention the death of four people at that time.

What's more terrifying is that Erso has no confidence. Before the duel between the warbands began, he thought that the duel should be very smooth, but now, he has no confidence at all about how many people will die in the next 100 victories.

But can it be stopped?

Not to mention that there are still 100 prisoners in the hands of the opponent, even if they give up after losing four games in a row, isn't that equivalent to admitting defeat directly? If it gets out, the Fury Warband will simply lose face!

Winning is the best, losing is also okay, but losing in this way will not only make you look very weak, but the most important thing is that you will be labeled as a coward 100%.

No warband can bear this humiliation.

Space Marines can admit that they are not as skilled as others and not strong enough, and they will be brave after knowing shame.

But cowards? Cowardly? Retreating without fighting?

This will be ridiculed by everyone.

In the process of being transformed by gene seeds, many of the earthly desires of Space Marines have been reduced to a very low level due to physiological changes. They can tolerate bad food, have low interest in sex, and have low desire for power and enjoyment. Relatively speaking, their pursuit of honor, fame, and loyalty has become particularly paranoid.

Space Marines regard honor as their life. Although each chapter and even each Space Marine has a different definition of honor and loyalty, almost no one can ignore the loss brought by the title of "coward".

This is almost the most intolerable slander for Space Marines. They would rather die than endure such a reputation on their heads.

Erso is the same. Even because of the warlike culture of Fury, they can't stand the notoriety of escaping duels even more than ordinary chapters.

Grit your teeth and continue this battle.

Erso sent out a chapter champion again, determined to win the fifth game.

This time, he finally got what he wanted.

Although it was not easy to win, the opponent seemed to be a "new recruit" who had not been in the game for more than 20 years.

In the past, they might have disliked that the victory was not beautiful enough. But now... no matter what, it is a victory.

It's good enough to win.

The Fury Champion on the field seemed to hesitate for a moment, but in the end, he still made a request to Erso through the communicator, saying that he could fight again.

Erso also hesitated for a moment.

The strength of this champion is of course beyond doubt, but he consumed a lot in the last duel. Can he really win in another fight?

Losing another champion is really a loss. There are only three warriors in the war group who can bear this title.

However, Erso finally agreed.

On the one hand, the Fury Champion has a strong will, and on the other hand, he is thinking that the Phoenix should not be able to take out another one who can fight the Fury Champion, right?

In the past, Karduso certainly had this strength, but he was also seriously injured when he killed Cao Boyang, and it was impossible for him to come up and fight again; the Phoenix's war group priest Rizzo unexpectedly showed a very strong fighting power, and even killed the first Fury Champion in a single duel. But he had also experienced a hard battle and no longer had the strength to fight a second game.

Of course, if Martins went down in person, it might be more dangerous, but if that was the case, he would go down in person.

However, this sixth game, they lost again.

In the Phoenix Regiment, when the second captain of the Phoenix named Reginaldo, who claimed to be a veteran who had also gone through the Hundred Years of Atonement Expedition, went down, Erso seemed to smell something bad.

However, he finally chose to trust his own people.

As a result, he died.

Although Reginaldo was also seriously injured and had a broken hand, he was still alive, wasn't he?

While Erso gritted his teeth and the entire Fury was silent like a library, the duel lasted for 67 consecutive games.

In these 67 games, they only won 11 games.

In the winning matches, they almost sent out the strongest warriors in the regiment. In addition to the two who died in the previous battle, the third champion of the regiment also went down. This time, it is really difficult for the Phoenix to bring out another warrior of the same level.

Three consecutive "recruits" went down, and the Fury Champion won the first two games. To be fair, the two Phoenixes played quite well, but there was definitely a qualitative gap with the regiment champion. They were killed relatively easily, and although the Fury Champion was injured and damaged, it is estimated that it would not be a big problem to fight another recruit.

The rare winning streak greatly inspired the morale of the Fury. After some shouts finally came out, he started the third game in a row.

But he capsized in the ditch.

This time, the Phoenix still sent out a "recruit", but this person showed stronger strength than the previous recruits. More importantly, he is also a think tank and has powerful psychic power.

This Phoenix named Henrik Larsen used the power of psychic energy to kill the last champion of Fury Flame who had fought two consecutive battles.

In other battles, Fury Flame lost more than it won.

They sent out only the backbone forces, and almost every company champion went down. These company champions, when fighting against the "new recruits" sent by the Phoenix, can have a winning rate of about 40%.

But it's only 40%!

Before this duel began, who the hell could have thought that the company champions of the Fury Flame Regiment, fighting against the "new recruits" of the Phoenix who had served for a maximum of 20 years, had only a 40% winning rate!

Who would believe it if I told them!

But this is the current reality.

What if the company champions are all defeated?

Then the company commanders can only go up.

The combat effectiveness of the company commanders is generally at this level, and they are generally only slightly stronger than the company champions.

But what happens when all these people are defeated?

How many people in the Fury Flame Regiment can be called "champions"?

It is impossible to send all of them out to fight such a cruel battle with a low chance of winning.

Then they can only send veterans and non-commissioned officers from each company.

When they went to fight, let alone the winning rate, they only won two games in total.

It is still obvious that the two dead phoenixes who died in the battle mainly made fatal low-level mistakes. The strength they normally showed was actually far beyond their opponents.

Excluding the two games that they won by luck, the rest of the non-commissioned officers and veterans were all defeated and died in the battle.

For the Fury Flame Regiment, they only lost 56 people. For a super-rebirth regiment whose actual size is much larger than the provisions of the Holy Scripture, it should not be a serious problem.

But if the 56 dead were composed of the only three champions in the chapter, six of the ten company commanders, including the first company commander who was the second in command of the chapter; more than 20 company champions; 27 veteran non-commissioned officers who were equivalent to the backbone of grassroots officers...

Then this loss would be devastating.

The high-level combat power of the entire chapter was wiped out, a large number of high-level commanders were eliminated, and what was more serious was that it became difficult to promote talents from the grassroots.

From this perspective, there is no doubt that the Fury Chapter suffered a heavy blow, which means that the entire chapter was broken half of its spine, which is almost comparable to the worst loss in the history of the chapter.

"Enough!" Casimir Erso roared.

"Captain!" The chief priest beside him pulled him back, trying to dissuade him from taking risks.

But Erso could no longer listen to any advice.

His eyes were red, like a gambler who had lost badly, ready to push all his remaining chips onto the table and turn the tables with the last hand.

And this last and biggest bet was himself. He was the Chapter Master of the Fury and also the most powerful warrior of the Chapter.

And what he wanted to win with this bet was naturally the Chapter Master of the Phoenix.

"Come on! The rest of the battles are meaningless, let's put those preparations aside, Martins, let's fight to the death in the name of the Chapter Masters of both sides!"

He issued a challenge.

Martins accepted the challenge.

He could have refused. He could have let the elite warriors of the Phoenix go down and fight with Erso. Although, no matter how much the Phoenix warriors were strengthened, they were far inferior to top masters like Erso, but Erso's victory was not easy to achieve, at least not invincible.

As long as he needs to exert some effort, he will accumulate some injuries and consume more energy in the battle, and then after a few more battles, Erso's condition will decline.

At that time, Martins can calmly choose to let his warriors slowly wear Erso to death, or force him to leave the field voluntarily; he can also choose to go out and kill Kazimierz Erso himself after Erso's condition deteriorates to a certain extent and he has a better chance of success.

This would make the Phoenix's victory in this battle group duel slightly flawed, but it was the most stable.

However, Martins did not choose this.

Although it was smart to do so, it was not enough for a warrior.

He was reluctant to waste so many warriors' lives in vain. At the same time, he had a strong sense of honor for defeating Erso in a fair duel.

Phoenix certainly also values ​​honor!

Martins stood on the duel field.

This time, he did not talk nonsense with Erso.

The bickering was a bit unbeatable, so the real deal was in the hands.

The two did not even conduct the long-range probing that was very common in the dozens of duels before. Neither of them was the kind of master of long-range firepower control, so this kind of probing was unnecessary.

The two came to the most empty area in the center of the field at the same time.

This place was almost flattened in the previous duel.

As soon as they met, they rushed towards each other.

During the sprint, the two swords intersected and fought hard.

They were evenly matched, and neither of them was able to complete the first kill.

Then, the power swords of both sides began to confront each other in an extremely fast and high-frequency manner.

In this pure swordsmanship and strength competition, Martins felt a lot of pressure.

Now, after personally confronting, he had to admit that Erso, as an old warrior with four or five hundred years of combat experience, was perhaps only one step away from becoming a legend. In the swordsmanship competition, although Martins has made great progress recently, he is still not Erso's opponent.

Erso's technique is more exquisite than he imagined.

And Martins... his swordsmanship is certainly not bad. After all, the Phoenix is ​​a descendant of the Phoenix Legion. Although the swordsmanship is not as exquisite and gorgeous as the parent group, it does not mean that it will become weaker after becoming simple and pragmatic.

Among the things that the Fury Legion inherited from the parent group, the Punisher Legion, the swordsmanship is not praised.

But the inheritance of the characteristics of the gene seed is one aspect, and personal training, experience, and accumulation are the issues of personal level differences.

It's not as good, but at least it's not a level worse, and it's still within the range that Martins can contend with.

...

When Martins was suppressed by Erso's superb swordsmanship, Erso was actually bitter in his heart.

Martins's strength was too great, and he could feel a strong vibration every time they fought.

It's not that Martins's strength is greater than his, but the difference in equipment.

Both of them are wearing a full set of Terminator power armor, and they are both powerful. However, the difference is that there is a big difference in performance between the 'Unyielding Type' and the 'Iron Cavalry Type'. The Iron Cavalry Type has greater strength, stronger output, and more powerful defense.

The advantage of the Unyielding Type is mainly... cheap and low cost.

This is also one of the reasons why it eventually became popular, not just because many parts of the Iron Cavalry's technology were lost.

However, this advantage is meaningless in this duel.

Erso is a Chapter Master after all. He couldn't get the Iron Cavalry and had to use the Indomitable, but at least he could get the Fine Edition.

Fine Edition generally refers to the handmade products of senior craftsmen, or even masters of the Mechanicus, which have improved performance in all aspects compared to the mass-produced version. The specific improvement depends on the level of the craftsmen.

Logically speaking, this Fine Edition should be able to narrow the gap with the Iron Cavalry on Martins.

However, in actual combat, it feels even further apart.

Could it be that... the Iron Cavalry on Martins is also a Fine Edition?

Expensive Iron Cavalry, plus Fine... the price of this set of power armor may be twice as expensive as the one on Erso!

The performance gap of the equipment was revealed at this time.

Erso was furious!

If I had money, I would have killed you long ago!

He could have caught several fatal attacks, but he failed to catch them because of the opponent's stronger force!

The few attacks that were barely launched were also blocked by the ridiculously thick armor of the elite cavalry.

Erso could only calm down and look for more and better opportunities.