Warhammer

Sigma, the first Human Emperor who has been promoted to the God-Emperor.

Such remarks were generally considered to be sensationalism or hallucinations caused by the near-death experience. In any case, few people would believe such statements, even though the soldier insisted on his statement and was willing to swear on it to a priest. If he was not afraid of being hit on the head with a Bible and scolded by the priest, he would only use such remarks as jokes in his spare time and after-dinner conversations, such as: XXX, you must have XXXXXX again.

Such rumors, in the past and now, generally only appear in boasting, deifying rulers or the opposite experience, such as the Battle of Blackfire Pass of Justinian the Great, the statue of the God-Emperor weeping before launching the Black Purge, etc., or appear in the scriptures used by the church for propaganda, where someone, usually a paladin or a battle sister, suddenly saw a divine light in the process of fighting evil, and Sigmar appeared, so he rose up and killed the evil, etc....

It was unimaginable that this happened to a former noble knight who was surrounded by rumors, had just been rescued from a beast's den, and had given birth to a beastman offspring. This was a scandal that was enough to destroy a woman's nobility, virtue, and purity at any time.

.........

Celestine stood at the dock for a long time, standing there, gazing into the pitch-black distance. The boundary between the sea and the sky was blurred in the distance, blending into the equally deep darkness.

The biting cold wind blew the long hair scattered outside into the wind, and the brilliant golden hair became dim under the dim light of the lighthouse and torches, as if it had lost its vitality.

Celestine stared into the darkness and stood there for a long time.

After Rhine led her to the wrong forest, she regained her armor, sword, servants, and mount. All these things she had missed so much during her painful struggle in the dark dungeon for nearly a year seemed to have lost their meaning when she finally regained them.

The female knight held the sword with her left hand while her right hand hung down, grabbing the golden-skinned scripture hanging on the side and attached to her body with a chain. Her fingertips gently stroked the griffin mark on it, in silence.

The sword and the scripture were both given to her by Rhine.

She naturally knew the implicit meaning of this. This cousin was very smart since he was very young and learned everything very quickly.

Offer the sword, or offer the scripture.

These were the two paths he had chosen for Celestine after careful consideration. No matter which one she chose, Rhine would use his power to the best of his ability to help his cousin to have the smoothest possible journey ahead.

But Celestine did not choose the option that Rhine would have preferred, so the ship could only continue to stay in a hidden port and rot. Of course, with the sea now full of greenskins and pirate fleets, leaving the north by ship might not be a good option.

Holding a sword in one hand and a scripture in the other, this decision of El's future path was realized by the female knight who was conceived and gave birth to El in this life before he officially began to implement his plan to annex the South. It has to be said that this is also a humorous story.

Compared to the heartless El who is always looking for his sister, aunt, wife and grandma to stick with him, the female knight's experience and soul have been struggling in repression - release - repression.

Many times, as Celestine recited Sigmar's teachings, her mind was uncontrollably drawn back to the scenes she saw during her pregnancy, and the horrible illusion that the boy she gave birth to turned into a natural disaster, spreading fire and slaughter across the world.

She wept and cried in agony, confessed to Sigmar, and prayed for guidance and enlightenment from the Hammer Bearer and even Myrmidia.

Celestine once swore to the Hammer Wielder that she would eliminate the evil child born from her body at all costs - even her life, and even her soul. However, she could not ignore the scene where the boy, who was growing at an alarming rate and looked like a young teenager when she first saw him, was silent for a while, and shyly called out to her: "Mom...Mom..."

The scene of the boy running away in a panic, being stepped on by the feet, lifted up by the chest, crying, begging for mercy, crying and shouting that he wanted to go home...

Just as she could not forget those horrible scenes of four colors, four symbols, four indescribable evil powers celebrating and cheering Celestine's childbirth in their own ways, she could not ignore the crying memory of Al, a boy who had behaved like an ordinary boy from birth to the last time they met... except that he was more mature than his peers and came into this world through her belly.

Celestine was not soft-hearted. Just as she had decisively slashed El with the dagger, she was not concerned about these possible "disguises". Perhaps, but that was not the main reason.

On a deeper level, the reason why she could only choose "weakness" in the end and swore to the hammer bearer that before "eliminating evil at all costs" she added: "If he is indeed the son of the devil who brought chaos", is...

Chapter 61: Celestine's Ride (Part 2) [The second update is coming~]

"Oh!"

Celestine was in a turmoil of thoughts, disturbing the knight's heart, but her senses were still sharp, and she almost immediately discovered a faint fire blooming on the sea under the dark sky.

A few breaths later, as the shells fell, a house collapsed.

"Enemy attack!"

She reacted instantly, let go of the scripture, drew her sword, and ran towards the post where her team was stationed.

This was not a surprising thing. The defenders had been well prepared for the possibility that the enemy might attack the port. For example, they had prepared many simple camouflages in advance, which were supported by scaffolds and looked like houses and sentry boxes. They lit torches under the cover of darkness and looked like artillery positions to attract enemy fire.

They used some dilapidated ships, including the pirate warship that sank a few days ago, and even dismantled the remaining buildings and used their materials to block the channel into the port, making it impossible for the pirate troops to approach the dock directly and they could only exchange fire with the defenders in the outer circle.

All preparations were made to ensure that in the event of the loss of the fleet, the war on the walls would not be subject to too much pressure from the sea.

However, just as Celestine rushed back to her base—which was actually not far away, and the female knight only needed a dozen breaths of full-scale sprint—her subordinates were just startled by the sound of artillery fire and walked out of their resting position.

"grown ups!"

The frightened young man saw the familiar figure that seemed to be emitting light even in the darkness. The fear on his face faded slightly, and a hint of fanaticism emerged instead.

The young man held a helmet in both hands, and he didn't even hold a weapon for this purpose. He handed it to the female knight respectfully, and even revealed piety in his movements. Celestine took it and then gathered the team to be ready and enter the designated waiting position. Their team was composed entirely of melee fighters and could not play any role in the artillery battle. They retreated first, avoiding the firepower, and only when there were signs that the enemy was about to land by force would they play their role.

Just as Celestine led her team to turn around and retreat, a deafening explosion suddenly broke the tranquility of the entire city of Bilbarri under the night sky.

The flames were so fierce that they seemed to have illuminated half of the city.

The huge impact made Celestine and the others clearly feel the earth shaking. The female knight looked in the direction of the explosion in disbelief.

The orange-red light that shot up into the sky illuminated the location of the female knight. The power of the explosion was terrifying.

"Ammunition depot?"

An old soldier leaning on a spear said subconsciously.

"What the hell did the Estalians do?!"

Celestine's adjutant, a servant from the Julius family, was so anxious that he started cursing loudly, but even more shocking things were yet to come.

A huge sense of crisis suddenly surged into Celestine's heart, as if a blessing came to her mind. She suddenly turned around and looked at the sea.

"Everyone get down!"

She roared and pushed the adjutant and the young man forward. Most of the soldiers obeyed instinctively, only a few stood there stupidly. The order came suddenly and very strangely, and it was too late for them to react.

There was another huge explosion, but this time it occurred very close to them.

One was the artillery batteries. Shortly after the explosion of the ammunition depot, several artillery batteries also experienced violent explosions. After the deafening roar, the stone and wood defense facilities were almost completely lifted into the sky.

The second is the port.

The underwater barrier used to block the waterway also exploded. A mixture of water and various debris shot up into the sky and were thrown onto the shore. The farthest ones even fell behind the dock wall. The underwater barrier was blown to pieces. When Celestine stood up again, she saw flames from all directions illuminating the darkness.

Countless bright or dim, green lights appeared in the darkness, and huge, shadowy naval war weapons began to emerge from the fog. They were heading towards Bilbarri, spewing shells and blowing evil and shrill horns.

The enemy fleet!

Celestine stood up from the ground, leaning on her sword, and said in disbelief: "There is an enemy inside the fortress... Bill Barry, there is a traitor!"

"Prepare for battle!"

Just when the female knight decided to ignore everything else and lead her subordinates to prepare to meet the enemy, her eardrum suddenly felt a sharp pain and rapid vibration!

She looked back toward the sea.

Under the cover of darkness, a huge, pitch-black aura that is barely perceptible to the naked eye is following the terrifying flagship sailing at the front of the fleet. Under the control of several people whose bodies are shrouded in a thick aura of death, their skin is pale and wrinkled, and their clothes look like they have been soaked in the seabed, it turns into a crescent-shaped arc of light with a huge range, and is pushing towards the dock like a tide.

It passes through stone walls, wooden buildings, and material obstacles, harvesting without mercy and without stopping every bit of flesh and blood life touched by the air of death. The next moment a healthy and plump body is passed by the wind of death, it turns into a pale and withered corpse and falls to the ground with a bang.

Its speed was so fast that after sweeping through and taking the lives of the defenders in the remaining turrets, it arrived in front of Celestine in less than three breaths.

At this distance, under the light of torches and the fires that broke out after the explosion, people could already see with their naked eyes that this strange and unclean deathly aura was rapidly approaching them.

At the outermost edge, the soldiers near the sea were deprived of their life force in an instant, and before their companions could even react in fear, they had already turned into lifeless corpses.

The young soldier could only open his eyes wide, staring at the arrow that was rapidly approaching them, as if it was a punishment from heaven, a death omen that was beyond human control. At that moment, he forgot to pray, forgot to escape, and even forgot to breathe. Even his heartbeat suddenly stopped at that moment!

Close!

——————“Bang!!!”

The huge impact came again, but this time it was closer than before. The young soldier was knocked to the ground, his eyes wide open, staring in amazement at the light that stood in front of everyone, blocking everyone, emitting a rich, strong golden light that seemed to illuminate the sky, piercing through the darkness, and the dawn broke, bringing light back to the world!

Celestine held the sword in front of her chest with both hands, her golden hair fluttering behind her in the wind.

The scripture hanging around her waist floated in the air under the influence of divine power, and the emerald griffin mark was shining brightly, just like Celestine.

After a loud bang, the sky was torn apart, and the power of light from heaven was poured into the mortal world, like a searchlight falling from the sky, making Celestine's figure even more dazzling!

It is so reminiscent of a star falling into the earth.

The chains binding the scriptures creaked, then snapped and fell off.

Sigma's Bible moved without wind, shining with brilliant light. It floated in front of the female knight, flipping rapidly under the influence of an unknown force.

Ceres, who was under tremendous pressure, only had time to take a quick glance at the sacred Bible that she had read countless times. A prayer chanted and shouted by countless mortal believers and countless empires floated in her heart and surged into her throat!

"I am the Holy Hammer!!!"

The surging power of light, far surpassing the wind of death that reaped all mortal life, responded with this cry that was both a war cry and a prayer, ten times faster than the wind. A sun blossomed at the dock, noble, sacred, violent and pure!

The young man who fell to the ground could no longer see. Under the extremely strong light, he grabbed the cross necklace that had accompanied him since birth and hung on his chest. With fear, enthusiasm, excitement, and enthusiasm, he kept chanting in a low voice:

"Sigma!"

Chapter 58: Celestine's Ride (Part ) [ votes~]

The battle that lasted for a day and a night finally came to an end.

Bilbarry suffered heavy losses in this premeditated attack, which was launched by the enemy in collusion with traitors and insiders who had been lurking in the city for a long time. One third of the city was affected by the chaos caused by the explosion and attack, and the port was almost destroyed in the repeated battles between the two sides.

The wharf, which once had a huge throughput and saw hundreds or even thousands of ships berthing and leaving the port every day during its most prosperous period, has basically been razed to the ground.

After being shamelessly betrayed and suddenly attacked, the people of Bilbarri paid a heavy price, but in the end, control of the city remained firmly in the hands of the Estalia, and, most importantly, in this night battle:

The people of Estalia have finally received the miraculous salvation they have been praying and waiting for for so long!

Celestine Julius, a female knight from the Sigmar Empire, received the blessing of the Imperial Emperor and the Goddess of the South when the enemy launched an attack and the port defenders were about to be wiped out by the giant death spell released by the pirates using their terrible magic flagship!

The golden light flashed, the thunder blessed, the power of heaven and the wind of light, along with the power of Myrmidia that had been increasingly weakened and even disappeared in the land of the Southern Kingdom, were all bestowed upon the sword-wielding female knight.

She transformed herself into a saint, holding a sword in one hand and a scripture in the other, and led her subordinates who were inspired by the blessing of miracles to defend the port, killing and defeating wave after wave of enemies that boarded the dock. Even the most terrifying pirate soldiers, whose evil was beyond that of mortal beings, the undead puppets "Deep Sea Guardians" created by the blasphemous magic of the necromancers and vampire masters, could only melt like snow encountering the sun when facing Celestine holding the holy sword. All the shells and muskets fired at her were blocked or deflected by the miracle light curtain.

At the same time, tens of thousands of soldiers and residents in the city saw with their own eyes that when the battle reached the most critical moment, the tallest building in the entire city of Bilbali had now turned into a huge military fortress. In the Temple of Northern Fire, the huge statue of the goddess overlooking the entire city of Bilbali, holding a spear and a shield, with an eagle on her shoulder, emitted a bright light. Then a mighty eagle made entirely of light swooped down towards the port, killed several corrupted crabs and zombies that had boarded the dock, and then turned into a curtain of light that poured into Celestine's body.

A magical spear that fell from the sky like a meteor streaked across the night sky and pierced the side of the female knight. The female knight drew out the magic spear and gave up her sword in favor of a spear and shield, as if Myrmidia was incarnated in person. The morale of the defenders inspired by this miracle was boosted. Under the leadership of Celestine, they launched a boarding battle against the pirate fleet that had entered the dock and was directly approaching the port of Bilbarri. They shot down several pirate ships in succession, frightening the enemy. The terrifying flagship could only leave the port in a panic, fearing that it would be captured by the female knight, whose identity could be fully confirmed as the "God's Chosen Champion".

Celestine and her subordinates - all of whom had now become devout fanatics whose loyalty to her had risen infinitely - held up the defense line and even reversed the offensive and defensive situation, buying a huge window of time for the defenders of Bilbarry to reinforce their defenses and launch a counterattack. Even after the enemy fleet fled in a panic, she rushed to the city wall without stopping, leading more and more soldiers who had spontaneously gathered under her command to support the front-line defense.

The battle on the city wall allowed countless people to witness the shining light and the heroic fighting posture. The eagle of light circling in the sky made the devout believers of the goddess of war cry. Some devout battle priests were pleasantly surprised to find that around Celestine, their ability to cast divine spells was restored.

With the continuous support, the Greenskins' carefully prepared offensive was defeated by the unreasonable enemy who was directly out of his mind. According to tradition, to deal with enemies of this level, the Greenskins' warlord WaBOSS usually goes into battle personally, but obviously, the warlord Gao Maoliang does not want to launch a full-scale offensive here. There is no battle between kings. Celestine, who is suspected to be the double chosen of Sigmar and Myrmidia, naturally killed many enemies among the enemies. From west to east, the female knight who abandoned her spear and replaced it with a hammer on the city wall smashed the skulls of hundreds of enemies overnight.

Her fighting style was originally reckless, with a vague tendency to pursue "self-destruction". After receiving the blessing, Celestine regarded this as a mission bestowed by Sigmar and affirmed the path she had chosen.

The wildness of her fighting style even awakened the memories in the DNA of many greenskins who had managed to escape from her hammer, and they recalled the shadow of being beaten up by a hammer-wielding barbarian and his equally fierce subordinates in an ancient barbaric period in a place that was not yet called the Empire.

The Blood Mother must like her, and the other non-feminized Toilet Dog-Headed Man probably likes her too.

But unfortunately, it is obvious that it is not so easy for the female knight who escaped from the erosion of Chaos once to fall into the hands of a dark power again.

After the battle, what happened next was even more exciting for the soldiers and civilians in the city.

The blessings of the Wind of Heaven and the Wind of Light, as well as Sigmar's divine power, are all irrefutable evidence that cannot be forged.

The knight's subordinates swore that they had witnessed it with their own eyes: when the miracle first came, in the brilliant and dazzling light, the shadow of the hammer bearer stood behind Celestine. This eyewitness evidence made the manifestation of Sigmar the biggest and most important miracle the entire expedition had encountered in Estalia. After the news was passed back, it even made the people of the empire cheer and the bishop cry for joy!

While the priests visited and worshipped the female knight after the war with a pious, pilgrimage-like attitude, there was another group of people who had the same purpose as them.

It is the Church of the Goddess of War in the city of Bilbali.

When Sigmar's priests arrived in fear, they found that hundreds of their foreign colleagues, as well as tens of thousands of soldiers and residents, had already gathered in the room where Celestine was staying. The twelve supreme commanders of the Ten (Two) Generals' Council, except for two who had to temporarily unify the city's affairs, deal with the wounded, repair, and relief work, all personnel including the military tribune were present. The war leader of the Northern Church, the Grand Master, had been in seclusion for a long time. After the assassination of the Southern Eagle and the fall of Margarita, the only religious leader who could represent the orthodox faith of the goddess of war had already walked out of the temple and came in person to meet in front of the soldiers and civilians in the city:

The God-given Holy Spear, the exotic chosen one of the Goddess of War blessed by the Condor!

Colleagues, the fanatical atmosphere of foreign believers was so great that even Pastor Sigma thought: I think you are too extreme.jpg. It was a violent backlash of emotions that had been suppressed to the extreme due to continuous failures and blows in the past two years of war.

Myrmidia has appeared!

The Southern Goddess has not abandoned her people!

The North will not fall! Estalia will not perish!

If this news spreads to the south, and if the people of Estalia in the occupied areas (liberated areas) in the south were to witness the miracle with their own eyes, I am afraid that the hearts of the people that El has spent so much effort to win over and win over would instantly turn to the "Estalia Kingdom - Church of the Goddess of War".

There is no other reason. Myrmidia's position in the southern world is the same as Sigmar's in the Empire, although it may not be as fanatical and solid as the latter's belief.

But he is still a great god-king who has firmly bound himself to two kingdoms and a large cultural circle, the "Southern Kingdom", and is an integration of concepts, nations, countries, and civilizations.

It surpasses the status of Zeus in Olympus and Odin in the Aesir, and is second only to the divine unity in Christianity.

After all, in such a real world with many gods and goddesses, it is impossible for a unified Supreme God to exist. As a mortal who is deeply bound to the southerners and is believed to have ascended to godhood (the Church of Sigmar believes that there is only one mortal who can ascend to godhood, Sigma), reaching the level of Sigma in the empire is already the limit.

It is the spiritual and secular aspirations of the southerners!

———No one, at least no city truly respected the authority of the City Prince, the nominal secular ruler, from the bottom of their hearts. After all, that position was almost taken by a pig.

But the belief in the goddess of war is absolutely universal and solid.

Although it has declined slightly in the past 150 years with the disappearance of gods and the impact of prosperity, material and various new ideas.

But when they learn that the goddess has appeared and chosen a female warrior who is brave, powerful, wise, and beautiful—it's like the incarnation of the goddess herself has arrived!

As the chosen one of God, the whole of Bill Barry was boiling with excitement.