Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 723 07.722: "The Dark Gate (asking for monthly votes)"

"Captain. Please allow us to accompany you. We have completed the mission you entrusted to us."

Just as Horatio took a step forward, a mature and capable female voice came from behind him. The voice was a little hoarse due to fatigue, but still full of energy.

Horatio turned his head and saw the Holy Roses in silver armor.

Sister Arabella held in her hand a heavy book, the metal binding was covered with scratches, and the cover seemed to be stained with blood.

“This is the field medical experience I have summarized from the past two months, which also includes a standardized field hospital construction plan.

Captain, I can finally proudly say that our sisters' hard work has not been in vain. We have successfully saved 60% of the seriously injured soldiers rescued from the battlefield. After they received prosthetic limbs and organ transplants in the rear hospital, they only need to rest for half a year to become qualified combat forces again. "

"Really?" This certainty surprised and delighted Horatio, and even made him feel a little unbelievable.

The moment his iron hand touched the big notebook, the knowledge and content contained in it were transmitted into his mind like flowing water.

From the three-dimensional view of the field hospital, the isolation area, patient area, triage area, and emergency area can be clearly distinguished. There is also a large reserved apron for vertical take-off and landing HNA aircraft to transport supplies and the wounded.

It can be seen that Sister Arabella has made a lot of efforts to adapt to the Imperial Navy.

"This is very helpful, Sister Arabella." He closed the book and handed it back to Arabella. "We are one step closer to success."

"Captain, please allow us to go down with you. I can feel the eerie aura coming from below. You are a saint of the Sisters and the Anglican Church. It is our responsibility to protect your safety." Arabella, along with a group of pure angel sisters, stepped forward with the Godwin-Diaz grenade launcher inlaid with golden irises.

The silver power armor flashed bright silver light along the round curve of the chest.

Horatio thought quickly for a while. He did not call the Battle Sisters at first because he knew there might be alien creatures below. In order to avoid suspicion and to avoid implicating the Holy Roses, he did not call these skilled female warriors.

But now that they have come...

He sighed and spoke earnestly to Sister Arabella and her sisters: “Holy Roses, I am on a secret mission as an Inquisitor.

Heading downward, we'll step into ancient xenos realm.

These alien creations may be useful to us, so I hope everyone will calm down and believe that everything we do down there is for the Emperor and humanity."

The pure angels wearing helmets looked at each other, and finally looked at Arabella together.

Now, the court official himself was on the ground, carrying out the sacred mission of preaching the general offensive.

As Diana's lieutenant, Sister Arabella will have actual command here.

"Sisters. You all know of Colonel Horatio Cochrane's loyalty to the Emperor and his heroic service in defending our Holy Land.

Now, Inquisitor Thei Perru, acting as the God-Emperor's agent, is carrying out secret missions below. As the messengers of the Emperor's reason, we must control our anger and persist in our faith in Him.

The aliens must be destroyed so that the galaxy can be cleansed. However, if their legacy can be useful to the fate of mankind, we don't mind leaving these creations behind now."

"I'm with you, sister."

"As long as they are useful to humans, we will ensure that the Inquisitor uses them within a controllable range."

The pure angels responded one after another.

Horatio heaved a sigh of relief at this, and once again was glad that he had encountered the White Daughters of the Emperor and not the witches of the Abbey of Saints on Ophelia VII.

If he were any of the latter sisterhoods, he would most likely be torn to pieces by the roaring chainswords that rushed over him.

"Follow me, sisters. Stay alert, but don't attack rashly. Follow my orders. I will give the Lord of Humanity a useful answer."
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Horatio led the Holy Rose Angels along the long and deep passage.

Along the way, the Kriegs were busy reinforcing or leveling the passages. They were tired but still working non-stop.

Finally, Horatio stood in front of the gate dug by the tunnel troops.

The main body of the door is made of dark crystals, and the faint green light flows slowly in the grooves on the door like a mysterious undercurrent.

Horatio glanced at the characters on the door. Although he could not understand the meaning, from this conspicuous feature, he could conclude that this was a catacomb building of the Necrons.

"Sir, what should we do with this door?" the staff officer stepped forward and asked.

On the stone steps in front of the gate, a group of fully armed Krieg assault engineers were already on standby. They were methodically laying out explosive detonation cords, waiting for the order from their superiors to force open the gate.

Horatio did not answer immediately, for he was worried that the explosion that forced the door open might trigger the tomb's defense mechanism and awaken the undead inside.

These endless enemies who can be teleported back to repair when dying are not easy to deal with. Their number may be extremely large. Once the undead are gone, the Carpathian Campaign will instantly turn from a quagmire into a swamp, trapping everyone in it and delaying it.

"Let me observe first," he said.

"This dark door exudes an eerie silence and may be hiding danger. You..." Before the staff officer finished speaking, Horatio walked towards the door alone.

He stepped onto the hundreds of steps. The dark stone slabs under his feet had a unique touch. Every step he took seemed to isolate the restlessness and anxiety of the outside world, replacing it with a deep tranquility.

On both sides of the gate, there stands a small black stone obelisk. They seem to grow out of the ground abruptly, pointing straight to the sky.

Horatio leaned in to observe the words on the obelisk. Those characters seemed to be silently telling the visitors a long-standing story.

After a long period of baptism, the black stone is still spotless, as if an invisible hand is cleaning it regularly.

To the left of the gate, Horatio found a piece that looked like a stone workbench.

In the middle of the component are two concentric circles, with intricate patterns and text carved on the discs. In the center of the disc is a diamond-shaped groove, which looks like a silhouette when looking down at the obelisk.

[This tomb is right below the hive?]
Horatio was shocked. Although he knew that there was a black market obelisk array on this planet, he did not expect that a tomb would be so precisely located directly below the central hive group.

Could this tomb lead to the central hive cluster? Why didn't the people of the planet destroy it? What exactly is its purpose? Is it a dynastic cemetery or a node in the network of black stone obelisks?

Horatio thought and observed carefully, trying to find a way to open the tomb door without blowing it up.

He didn't want to blow open the door and be confronted by an endless stream of deadly Necrons.

The Chaos enemy is already a difficult problem, and adding another enemy to form a three-way melee would not be a good thing at the final moment of the battle.

"Squeak! Squeak!" As he got closer to the gate, Horatio suddenly felt the iron hand moving on its own.

A "dendrite" slowly extended from the palm of the iron hand, but unlike the previous Mechanicus-style dendrites, this was a black wire with a black stone emitting green light connected to the front end.

[Wait? Why is there a black stone in my iron palm?? ! !]
(End of this chapter)