Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 987, 08.986: 『Infiltration Landing』

"Sisters!" Diana, clad in heavy shield guard gear, approached from the other side and called to Arabella, the Angel of Purity, who was preparing to board the plane. "The Emperor has witnessed your courage. We will land with the main orbital landing force. See you on the ground."

May the Emperor's light illuminate our path forward!

Captain Archie's voice rang out again from the ship's acoustic broadcast system.

"Three minutes to go, the first infiltration troops are ready to set sail!"

One after another, Valkyrie assault transport planes took off vertically, taking advantage of the cover of the planet's dark side at night, and sped toward their target suborbital orbit like arrows released from a bow.

Amidst the violent jolts, the Hell Soldiers, their faces fully concealed by their armor, leaned back in their seats with a fearless and unrestrained air. The jolting caused their teeth to chatter uncontrollably, threatening to cause them to bite their tongues or lips at any moment.

However, the Hell Soldiers are experienced, and many of them choose to relieve their discomfort by chewing military gum or soft nutrition bars, which offer a slightly lower level of protection but are more pleasant, unlike when they were recruits, nervously biting their mouthguards.

“I actually hate you the most, Rogers.” A Hellsoldier blew gum bubbles inside his helmet and said to his comrade in front of him with a sneer, “Because we were teammates before, I was too embarrassed to say it. I hate you, you bastard.”

"Why? Because I didn't hold back during the last combat training session?" the soldier sitting opposite him asked with a sneer.

"Back at Abridal Loyalty Academy, you always copied my homework. But I was just writing nonsense! And every time I got scolded by the instructor, I was falsely accused of copying your homework because we both made the exact same mistakes! But I was always the one who got scolded! And then I had to take the physical punishment with you!"

"Hehehe, you vengeful jerk, I'll never copy your homework again. After we land, I'll walk in front, and you watch my back. Just like every live-fire training and combat assault, you'll just follow behind me and eat my dust."

Suddenly, a gust of wind swept through the entire cabin, abruptly interrupting the soldiers' conversation.

"Thirty seconds!!!" Valina stood behind the slowly opening hatch, her battle robe billowing wildly in the howling wind.

Click, click, click!

The hydraulic stabilizers pressing down on them immediately released and retracted upwards.

The scouts stood up in unison and turned to face the opening tail hatch, which resembled the mouth of hell.

"If you die, I'll carve on your tombstone 'Here lies Rogers, the good-for-nothing who only knows how to copy homework and ended up as a sergeant.' Anyway, a dead man can't stop me from carving whatever I want."

"Go to hell! I'm definitely not going to give you that chance! Kiss my ass, Michelle!" The Hell Soldier named Rogers gave him the middle finger in a mocking manner.

"Jump!!!"

Valina took the lead, being the first to leap out and disappear into the suborbital gales and turbulence.

*Screech!* — *Screech!*

One by one, the Hell Soldiers activated the gliding devices on the soles of their shoes and shot out of the tail compartment like arrows.

"Alas!"

During the rapid descent, these battle-hardened veterans let out comical laughter and shouts over the communication channel.

"Shut up, all of you! You're so noisy! You bunch of brats! After this war, I'm going to kick your asses to pieces!" a veteran sergeant yelled in the channel.

"Don't die, old Hunter! Otherwise, we'll carve 'Old Hunter with no sense of humor and a perpetually stern face' on your tombstone! Hahaha!"

"You bunch of brats! That's why I hate you navy kids the most! You chatter all day long, with no discipline at all! Damn it! Maybe today I can finally get rid of you for good."

"An altitude of 20,000 meters!" Valina's voice rang out in the channel, cold and clear.

In an instant, all the laughter and chatter in the channel vanished.

The Hell Soldiers brought their hands and feet together, like steel torpedoes diving towards the ground.

The intense friction with the atmosphere created dazzling trails of fire on the exterior of their armor. But from the ground, they appeared as insignificant shooting stars streaking across the sky.

No one knew that this was a special operations team descending from suborbital space, and no one would have any doubts about it—because no aircraft or ships capable of launching them were detected, either inside or outside the atmosphere.

"Ten thousand meters high!!!"

"Good luck to you all," Michelle, who was usually so sarcastic, said unexpectedly. "May the God-King bless you, me, and all of us."

"Five thousand meters!"

When Valina called out the number, everyone began to adjust their posture. They crossed their arms over their chests and adjusted from a head-down diving position to a standard landing position with their feet down.

The gravity parachute began to decelerate, and the powerful anti-gravity field instantly slowed their terrifying descent, and the flames of atmospheric burning disappeared.

From the ground, everything looked like a group of space debris that had unfortunately crashed into a planet and burned up in the sky.

"Two thousand meters!!!"

"We're stepping into hell!!" the Hell Soldiers shouted in unison over the channel.

The gravity parachutes on their backs released a full load of anti-gravity force fields, and the vector nozzles also began to function, spraying out tiny blue fluorescent streams that precisely propelled them in different directions according to the predetermined group plan.

"500 meters! Prepare for landing!!!"

The overload anti-gravity force field is activated instantly!
A crimson pop-up, serving as a warning, flashed simultaneously on the visors of every Hellsoldier.

Boom! !

Almost simultaneously, pairs of heavy steel combat boots slammed heavily onto the rain-soaked sand.

On the ground, a rare light rain was falling. A hazy mist covered the ground, providing excellent cover for their movements.

"Tianyan-01 has landed at its designated location and is deploying its reconnaissance radar." This was the first audio message that came through the channel after landing, reporting from the reconnaissance team.

"The Ground Spike-02 has landed at its designated location and is approaching the air defense missile position on the east side."

"The Bird Gun-02 has landed at its designated location and is approaching buildings around the airport to scout the hangar location."

"Fenfu-01 has landed at its designated location and is currently observing the airport's defense forces and the location of its barracks."

"This is 'Red Hat'," Valina said in the voice channel. "All teams, stand by, report information promptly, and await orders to proceed."

"Tianyan-01, received, over."

"Spiked Ground-02, received, over."

"Shotgun-02, received, over."

……

Valina observed the tower through an advanced reconnaissance data binocular, and she spotted the well-equipped Severus elite troops—the Severus Shock Troopers.

"As expected of the most important air force base that the traitor Severus seized at all costs, they stole all the vehicles and equipment allocated to Sintira from this airport and even sent their most elite troops to garrison it again."

Valina marked all the enemies she saw. Their numbers far exceeded those of the Hell Vanguard. With only 12 men, they wanted to take over the tower. Even Astartes would probably have a hard time escaping unscathed.

(End of this chapter)