Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 548 06.0547: "Implementation of the Extermination Order"

Whoosh!

The Valkyrie drew an arc in the air, deftly bypassed the bow shield of the light cruiser, and flew directly to the newly-prepared Epic.

Outside the cabin, there were transport ships everywhere that were evacuating from Basol from the Imperial garrison, the Provisional Ministry of the Interior, state religion personnel, and other institutions. There was no end in sight, perhaps thousands of them.

They are waiting, waiting for the Emperor's wrath to fall on this world filled with heretics and aliens.

When everything returns to calm, they will once again spread the empire's only faith across the sacred territory of the Lord of Mankind.

Inside the epic number.

As the boatswain blew the captain's welcome whistle, Horatio walked quickly out of the shuttle apron.

He took the Inquisitor straight to the bridge. Although the length had increased from 1.2 to 2.2 kilometers and many places had been completely new, the internal structure of the Epic was not complicated.

"Captain, First Lieutenant (1st Lieu) Archie Cuthbert Collingwood reports to you." The young first mate with a short ponytail saluted immediately when he saw Horatio coming to the bridge.

"Report the data of this ship." Horatio took off his helmet and handed it to the servant to repair the horsehair decoration that was pierced by the railgun.

"According to the standards of the classed ships, the Epic of the Bayonet class has been expanded to 13 departments. Command Department, Operations Department, Supervision Department, Navigation Department, Weapons Department, Power Department, Communications Department, Lookout Department, Service Department, Engineering Department, Navigation Department, Boat Department, and Aviation Squadron.

Except for the aviation force which is directly under your command, Captain, all other departments have three commissioned officers and one or two reserve officers.

The total number of people on the ship increased from 16 to 39, and the number of officers increased from to .

The armed forces increased from 1100 armed sailors and 500 boarding crew members to 1820 armed sailors and 780 boarding crew members.

At present, our ship is fully staffed, and Father Latti's new round of improved torpedoes have been loaded in Connor.

However, due to the hasty departure, our ship was only loaded with half of the supplies. According to the report of the accountant, it can last us one and a half months without supplies. "

"I understand. Now the Epic will have her first mission. Father Lati." Horatio turned and said to the display console in front of the captain's command throne. The Epic's neural plug transmission device automatically connected him to the busy chief technical priest.

"Captain, the intelligence officer has conveyed your final order to me. The dissolving virus bomb is ready. However, in order to launch it, you need to insert the Inquisitor Rose Knot into the authorization socket."

Horatio looked toward Thei.

"You can use yours. After all, the one my father got contained the authority of the Extermination Order. He transferred this rose knot to you, and naturally the authority was also transferred to you."

"Commodore Edward never told me that his clearance level was so high."

Thei chuckled.

"After all, you didn't have any use for it before, right? My father was at least a Commodore in the Imperial Navy, a senior officer who had the power to issue extermination orders, but he used the rose knot to integrate this function. When you were still a non-commissioned officer, if you knew that this rose knot had the power to issue extermination orders, would you still be so calm?"

"You are right, Miss Thei. Some things are better left unsaid until the right stage."

At this moment, Horatio looked at the planet Basol and let out a long breath.

He took off the rose knot from the necklace on his chest and inserted it into the slot. The sliding cover at the bottom of the rose knot opened, and data dendrites as sharp as needles stretched out from it and pierced into the data interface below.

Soon, the Thinker array in front of the two began to transmit data.

"Rosette insertion detected."

"Identifying..."

"The Order of the Forbidden City, authorization has been obtained."

"All functions have been unlocked, please enter the command."

After entering the coordinates of the ground uplink network that Brother Thei and Korchagin risked their lives to set up as the landing point of the extermination order.

A black and red button flipped out from a hidden interface and appeared in front of him.

"The moment has finally come. This will be the first time you implement an extermination order, Captain. I'm curious about what you feel at this moment?" Thei said cheerfully, walking around behind him with a smile.

"I don't feel anything." Horatio's tone was very calm, without any so-called "guilt" for destroying the planet.

After the education at Zhongsi Academy, as well as so many battles and incidents, as well as his own mission, future challenges and many other influences, he is no longer the same person who had just traveled through time.

Now he is a pure imperial soldier, a traverser who has achieved unity of knowledge and action in understanding the truth of this world. No one knows better than him what he is doing, the cost of doing so, and the impact on the human empire.

He put his finger on the button that read 'Exterminatus' in High Gothic.

“We have treated them as our compatriots and given them opportunities, but they always think we are the invaders.

But the Human Empire has ten thousand ways to tell these humans who identify themselves as aliens.

The sacred territory you stole from the Emperor, the Empire can take it back in ten thousand ways." After saying this, his finger pressed the button.

Beep! Beep! Beep!
Amid the shrill and terrifying alarm, the slide cover of the No. 1 torpedo compartment opened.

A huge torpedo appeared in the terrifying dark red light.

The Tech-Priests have equipped this torpedo with a dissolving virus bomb as its warhead.

The lights in every cabin on the ship and in the command bridge instantly changed from white to flickering scarlet.

During the implementation of the extermination order, the entire ship began the highest level of martial law and all personnel were required to report to their posts immediately.

The armed forces looked serious, maintaining order and security in every corridor.

Inside the ship's church, the acolytes, led by Sister Holy Rose, began to chant hymns of consecration to the Lord of Mankind and the Empire, in a solemn and dignified manner.

The hymns added a sense of solemnity and ritual to the highest ruling of the empire.

In a cabin filled with nano-aroma and lingering mist, the technical priests sang praises to this creation that unleashed the destructive power of Ohm Messiah in a unique binary language and in the ways of the Mechanicus.

'Flesh will perish, but machinery will last forever.'

"Ohm Messiah will bring destruction upon his enemies!"

"emission."

At dawn, on the surface of the planet.

The dawn of sunlight shines on this empty land, announcing the arrival of a new day to all the creatures on this planet.

"Yeah! The enemies have withdrawn! Basol is liberated again!" The Guvisa rebels, who had spent the entire night advancing, climbed up the memorial sculpture in the square and waved the orange-yellow Tau flag excitedly.

The entire wide suburban street, for several kilometers in radius, was bustling with people.

Those heretics who were unwilling to submit to the empire cheered loudly.

"The Greater Good will prevail!!!"

Countless Guvisa and Tau people occupied the square of a peripheral city. Although they had not yet entered the city, looking at the densely packed spaceships flying away from the planet, they were sure that they had won this "struggle".

Suddenly, a Tau man happened to look up and saw a bright light in the sky, and soon more and more participants noticed it.

"Look! Look there!"

"Then...what is that?"

Guvisa and the Titan people stopped cheering and looked at the fireball that streaked across the sky. They felt that this thing was full of ominous aura.

The nearly 100-meter-long torpedo flew over the rebel base and arsenal following the ground uplink signal.

BANG!!!!
An explosion powerful enough to blind a person suddenly rose up on the horizon, illuminating the dawn as bright as noon and obscuring the brilliance of the sun.

When the dizzying glare subsided, a towering black-green mushroom cloud rose into the sky.

Whirring whirring!

Like a tsunami, a poisonous fog shaped like a hundred-meter-high wall came overwhelmingly at a speed of 310 meters per second after the explosion.

The rebels and thugs who ran to the ground didn't even have time to scream, let alone escape.

The flesh and blood of all organisms covered by the poisonous fog are instantly melted by the virus and turned into organic matter on the ground.

A poisonous fog storm swept through, leaving behind a pile of white bones of people wearing combat armor and traditional Tau clothing.

“Some people may say that I am not qualified to execute tens of billions of people.

But those who understand the truth will understand that I have no right to give them a way out.

No sacrifice is too great to be accepted, and no betrayal is too small to be forgiven.

All of this will write the triumphant song of the empire, only mankind will live forever!"

In orbit, in addition to the warships of the Imperial Navy and the strike cruisers of the Space Marines, several twenty-kilometer-long void giants - Imperial pilgrimage ships - are slowly approaching the sky above Basor. Tens of billions of colonists from all over the Empire can't wait to land on the surface of this planet and start their new lives.

It won't be long before the Empire's Sky Eagle flag will once again fly high above the land of Basol.

The pure human skull symbol will be inlaid on the beams of the Gothic tower, representing that the Lord of Mankind is watching everything.

(End of this chapter)