Chapter 125: Deathwatch

The Deathwatch was also a military armed force composed of Astartes.

However, it differed from other Chapters in this way.

It was a Chapter organization created by the Inquisition and Astartes to combat and eliminate all xenos that threatened humanity. Therefore, the Astartes members in this Chapter came from various other Chapters under different Primarchs.

Moreover, its membership wasn't permanent.

It didn't recruit permanent members. Other Chapters only sent their members to join in a mission or training mode, seeming like a temporarily formed Chapter.

So the Salamanders squad could be said to have completed their original mission and could now temporarily join them, becoming part of this force.

Currently, the tactical force the Deathwatch had dispatched to this star system and planet was piloting three Imperial Thunderhawk gunships and two Thunderhawk transports, departing from their warship toward this planet that had been subjected to half an Exterminatus.

They had originally planned to drop the second special cyclonic torpedo as well. But the Salamanders would provide special assistance, so complete Exterminatus might not be necessary.

That so-called special assistance referred to the method of eliminating the hive nest.

So, as commander of this Deathwatch force, he looked again at the holographic projection cast by the servo-skull.

This was a projection of where the Tyranid hive nest had originally been on the surface—a strange formation like a bizarre flower that had pierced through the ground and bloomed on the surface, but now no longer existed.

Some unknown force had carved out such a smooth bowl-shaped crater there. Like refreshing ice cream being scooped out with a hemispherical spoon.

After making a gesture toward the holographic projection, the image enlarged further, showing the hive nest frantically concentrating fire at something in the air.

Very strange—the image showed nothing, nothing mixed in the air, and the bugs' attacks didn't seem to hit anything, but they were concentrating fire on an airspace not very high up.

Then, suddenly, strange ripples spread out, like ripples produced when calm water was disturbed.

But these ripples were spatial ripples, spreading omnidirectionally at considerable speed. The affected air showed no visible change, but the ground vanished the instant it was affected.

In the blink of an eye, the hive nest disappeared just like that.

What weapon could have caused this?

How did the Salamanders master such a weapon?

No, it wasn't mastered by the Salamanders!

If it belonged to them, they would have used it long ago and notified his side.

"Xenos power?"

Such a cold voice came from beside him—that was the Inquisitor from the Ordo Xenos.

This Inquisitor didn't approve of the Salamanders squad joining. Because the Salamanders weren't being clear, he suspected cooperation with xenos.

The Inquisitor's attitude was to drop the second cyclonic torpedo and thoroughly execute Exterminatus.

This proposal was naturally temporarily halted by him as commander of this force.

Simple—he trusted the Salamanders squad captain. Actually, he knew the Salamanders squad captain.

Once, that captain had been a member of his squad.

Later, after he joined the Deathwatch, he had Airet lead the squad.

Regarding cooperation with xenos, the Empire currently had two voices: one believed cooperation could be tolerated to a certain degree.

The other believed any xenos should be eliminated.

The Inquisitor following alongside was the latter, unable to tolerate xenos existence.

He could already imagine how this guy would report to the Inquisition and denounce him later.

So he hoped Airet would also deliver, that the assistance he brought would truly spare this planet from complete Exterminatus.

This way, he would have a way to get rid of this annoying Inquisitor and replace him.

If possible, he'd rather have this guy killed.

This damned bastard had made an oversight in intelligence investigation last time, nearly causing him and the entire squad's destruction, making him angry enough to want to shoot this guy.

It was this guy's zero-tolerance actions toward xenos that had nearly caused the xenos they were barely cooperating with against Orks to open fire on them.

So he hoped that if this bastard Inquisitor could be gotten rid of, the replacement sent would be more reliable.

Hmm?

Noticing something, the commander waved his hand in the void, like swatting a fly, and the holographic image disappeared as the servo-skull moved aside.

Looking at the screen on the Thunderhawk transport, he could already see daemons spreading their ugly bat wings and flying up to attack them head-on.

Besides daemons possessing physical bodies, he could also faintly see daemons flying directly out of the warp rift, seeming to want to corrupt them.

Obviously, due to warp energy leakage spreading through this area, they were too lazy to find corpses as mediums and couldn't wait to play with them.

So the psyker in the squad also prepared to respond.

But just then, ripples suddenly appeared in the void in front of the five Thunderhawks. Then a Thunderhawk gunship flew backward out of something invisible.

"Captain, have the psyker on your aircraft prepare for untouchable impact immediately."

The communication sounded—it was Airet.

"Ready! Use whatever you have immediately!"

Almost the next second, an abnormal sensation hit, affecting everyone. Especially the most powerful psyker in the squad, who reacted most severely.

When he recovered from this uncomfortable feeling of his soul being pulled and came to his senses, he saw the Thunderhawk gunship ahead clearing the path for the Deathwatch.

The Chaos scum came attacking head-on, and the physical guys suddenly seemed like they had broken wings, constantly falling downward.

As for those daemons that had half-materialized through energy leaked from the warp, they also screamed as they seemed to flash-burn and disappear into ash.

Or rather, they looked like they were suddenly affected by some incomprehensible force, instantly vaporized and decomposed, vanishing like mist.

Was this the assistance Airet mentioned?

Had they developed some special weapon through an untouchable?

Was this new equipment prepared by the Great Sage for them to test?

Because he'd heard that this small squad was often commissioned by the Great Sage to transport various new weapons to battlefields for experimentation.

Obviously this time's item was extraordinary—they couldn't even tell them about it.

With this kind of force clearing the path, breaking into the heartland looked like no problem!

They would surely slaughter all those Imperial traitors there!

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