I, Superman, the Supreme Commander

Chapter 217: Alone Fighting, Just Massacre

The Empire, especially the Imperial structure called the Inquisition, has always hated psychics because psychics attract demons.

All living things have projections in the warp. The projections of ordinary people are small sparks, while the projections of psychics are bright flames that attract the evil creatures in the warp.

What's even more terrible is that when psykers use psionics, they are essentially opening a channel between the warp and the real world, using the power of the warp to transform reality.

Therefore, for the demons in the warp, psykers became portals to the real world. When psykers used their psychic powers, the demons who coveted them would also follow the psychic channel into the real world.

Sometimes it is part of the demon's power, sometimes it is the demon's soul fragments. Some powerful demons can even directly tear open the psychic's channel and force their way into the real world.

The result is that the psychic suddenly dies while casting a spell and a demon emerges from his body.

Those patient demons choose to slowly use their evil power to invade and corrupt the minds of psychics, strengthening their power while gradually turning them into puppets. Then, at the right time, they will take over the magpie's nest and descend into the real world.

Although a psychic possessed by a demon will soon die due to the loss of life, the demon can find another psychic before the psychic dies, and through constant reincarnation and possession, it can lurk in the real world forever.

Many of the deadly demons in history stayed in the world and did evil in this way.

Psykers, due to the abuse or improper control of their psionic powers, become stepping stones for Warp demons to enter the real world.

Those high-level psychics can even summon an army of demons by themselves, causing a planetary disaster.

However, because the Warp and Demons are sensitive taboo knowledge, the Empire strictly prohibits ordinary people from knowing them. Most psychics are unaware of the dangers of psychic powers, which often leads to serious disasters.

Therefore, dealing with psychics is one of the important tasks of the Imperial Inquisition.

Dangerous high-level psychics were directly humanely destroyed, unless they were absolutely sure they could be tamed. Low- and medium-level psychics were registered and detained, and those who were still hopeless were subjected to brutal training and transformed into Imperial warriors. Those who were hopeless were used as firewood in the Astronomican.

At all times, the Empire has tens of thousands of Inquisition [Black Ships] interacting within Imperial territory throughout the galaxy to capture psykers.

However, the Inquisition has no time to manage remote places like the Hades System, where even the Astronomican cannot reach them. The treatment of psychics is only slightly better.

Just a little bit. Because the cold aura emanating from psychics makes people uncomfortable, most ordinary people don't like psychics.

In the hive world, most psykers hide in the bottom hive, living a discriminated life not much better than mutants.

Therefore, it is understandable why there are so many witches in the cult - a derogatory term for evil psychics. In the imperial army, psychics who eat public food are called priests.

Discrimination and persecution caused a large number of psychics to join the dark camp. Originally, they had the opportunity to serve the Empire.

At least, I don't have to die as a traitor.

After resting for a while and recovering some strength, Constantine and Thomas took the unconscious Kratos to find a way out.

Due to insufficient spiritual energy, they were unable to open the door accurately, and the location they were teleported to was still inside the bottom nest.

Fortunately, with the destruction of the subspace portal, many low-level demons were immediately expelled back to the subspace by the physical laws of the real universe. The strength of those high-level demons was greatly weakened, and their bodies could be easily destroyed by bullets, so they were also quickly exiled.

After fighting for a while, the two soon met up with Raynor and his team who came to rescue them. As the reconnaissance team suffered heavy losses, Constantine decided to take the Astartes warriors back to the starship to rest.

The task of retaking Hive 101 was handed over to the newly appointed Hive Lord, retired Astra Militarum Colonel Connor.

The command deck of the Flamingo.

Second Captain Julius received a report from Constantine that the mission was completed, but eight recruits from the reconnaissance team were killed. He looked at the tactical sphere in front of him and fell into deep thought.

"Sagan, no news yet on our support?"

The Chief Think Tank shook his head and said, "Two hours ago, the contact with the headquarters and the Shark was interrupted by the subspace storm and we have been unable to contact them since then."

"They should have received the request for help and are on the way... but I'm afraid it's hard to estimate when they will arrive."

"In that case, perhaps we should consider a second battle plan."

According to the battle reports sent back from various hive worlds, the 2nd Company of the Ash Claws suffered heavy casualties, not to mention the mortal forces, tens of thousands of mortals died every moment.

Many hives reported the discovery of warp gates, but only a few, like the Constantine Squad, successfully destroyed the gates and reclaimed the hives occupied by demons.

Now that the ground forces are powerless to turn the tide, perhaps it is time to make a brutal decision.

- Completely abandon those hives that are in a stalemate and use orbital bombardment to destroy all the demons.

Although Julius also understood that orbital bombardment could not completely destroy the demon army, especially the subspace portal in the bottom nest that was protected by layers of evil magic.

But that could at least greatly reduce the number of demonic troops and delay their attack.

The Ash Claws will free up their forces to concentrate on retaking several key hive cities and turning them into fortresses, concentrating all ground forces to replace offense with defense, and hold out as long as possible until reinforcements arrive.

“Julius, have you thought it through? Do you really want to do this?”

"I will bear all the sins... In order to stop the spread of evil, it is worth sacrificing a planet to save the entire galaxy..."

"Alert the Hive Resistance. They have two hours to evacuate."

"Order Ship No. 2 to Ship No. 6 to set targets and launch the bombing on time in two hours!"

By the time Julius gave this order, a third of the hive above Persephone had been reduced to ruins, with fires burning and magma flowing into deep pits.

And two hours later, this number will double again.

"Great Sage, the warriors can no longer hold on. We beg you to rest for a while!"

In a hive city around the Sage City, a fierce bloody battle had just ended. The human army that defeated the demon army and recaptured the hive city was covered in wounds, and every soldier was exhausted and more or less injured.

They come from different hives and different forces, and now they all follow the leadership of the wise Great Sage to fight and liberate one hive after another around the Sage City.

However, they were only mortals with flesh and blood. After fighting for a day and a night, everyone's physical strength and willpower had reached their limit and they were in urgent need of rest.

Forcing them to continue fighting in this situation would be tantamount to committing suicide.

The great sage sighed and said, "Okay, the entire army will rest for a day and we'll see what happens tomorrow."

Although he knew that countless people were dying on the planet every moment, the great sage was powerless and could only watch them die.

When the Great Sage's army was resting in the Sage City, there were continuous meteor-like flashes of fire streaking across the sky, and then in the distance, near or far, the sky blossomed with red light.

The great sage looked at the red light in the sky in silence.

He knew clearly that the starships were continuously bombarding the hive city in space orbit, killing the enemy and their own people in a brutal and cruel way.

He couldn't help but whisper a question to the angel of revenge who was standing beside him.

“Is it really right to kill the people you are supposed to protect in the name of protecting others?”