Royal Court Friar Coordination
Oleksandr commanded his First Company, repelling two waves of attacks before ordering the guards to advance and widen the landing zone.
The sky Head of Gardinal was stained a metallic reddish-brown by bombing, and the black combat boots of the Shadow of Order stepped on the scorching Plastcrete.
The foundation beneath is very solid, a testament to the architectural achievements of the Gardinal over thousands of years.
Inside the Plastcrete, a few cannons, surviving the impact of the railgun blast, stubbornly fired their shells into the sky.
"Breaching Team!"
Oleksandr shouted, and ten guards clad in Mark III Power Armor strode out of the ranks, splitting into five groups as they ran.
The Shadow of Order unleashed a barrage of bullets at the enemy, suppressing the defenders' firepower.
The explosion roared as the Adamantine Warhead struck the Adamantium, but failed to penetrate the solid defense.
Five "Apprentice" placed their hands on the Plastcrete encased in Adamantium, opening a phantom door.
With the first phase of the legion's development completed and each squad now having Royal Court Friar, the legion began its second phase.
Royal Court Friar, each granted different abilities by the Primarch, form new squads through various combinations.
The breaching squad is Tactical Squad designed for situations where a fortress cannot be breached.
Another member of each group rushed into the restricted area through the opened illusory gate; the "Warrior" and "Hunter" brandished their Power Sword, while the "Sleepless" and "Arbiter" activated their Power Fist.
The Warrior were astonished to see the black-armored Warrior storm the turret.
They were stunned; the turret had not been damaged in the previous attack.
Suddenly, without a sound, a crack appeared, and the enemy broke in.
The incomprehensible scene shocked their numb hearts.
They screamed and stared in terror at the black-armored Warrior, as if they were monsters that had suddenly appeared.
The Shadow of Order swiftly charged, their shimmering Disruption Field tearing the gray armor and flesh apart.
The faint, echoing sound momentarily disoriented those who heard the chanting. The leader of the breaching squad, "Midnight Poet," fired a bomb at the enemy whose eyelids were growing heavy.
After capturing the defensive turret, Oleksandr turned on the Communicator and issued the landing order.
Before the First Company's armored forces landed, Oleksandr spotted the approaching enemy armored company.
The giant tank was decorated with inspiring slogans, and its cannon barrels were rotating, aimed in his direction.
The massive, super-heavy three-legged walker slowly approached from behind the steel the Chariot, its heavy steps echoing through the air.
Flanking the armored formation were the ever-present Warrior castes of the Gardinal, an endless column numbering over 100,000.
After ordering the armored forces to accelerate their landing, Oleksandr opened the communication channel and sent a request to join the battle to the Void Walker Titan Legions.
[I didn't expect we'd need to call for help so soon.]
The tank force of the Gardinal was not the reason Oleksandr requested reinforcements.
Although the Black Emperor told them in the pre-war operational meeting that the Gardinal tanks Standard Template Construct as the Rhino and Predator tanks, Oleksandr's company had comparable armored strength.
The reason he had to call for help was that the Black Emperor told them that the Gardinal's walking mechs were comparable to the Titan.
Apart from the "Tiger Eye" Titan Legions that was conscripted to participate in the war, the "Void Walker" have always been dispersed into several teams, cooperating with the Third, Sixth, Eighth, and Eleventh Chapter centered on the Segmentum Obscurus.
Compared to other Titan Legions, the Void Walker are faster and arrive on the battlefield more quickly.
Oleksandr immediately ordered the construction of defenses; he had to hold off the Gardinal attacks before the armored forces could land.
The newly captured defensive turrets have become a powerful defensive weapon.
The defensive turrets turned around and unleashed a dense barrage of bullets at the gray heavy tank.
Oleksandr marks the enemy tanks in the front row in the Divination Box, and the turret's laser firepower, guided by the target, fires dense beams of light at the target.
Boom boom boom!
With a loud bang, five tanks burst into black smoke, their metal wreckage lying on the Plastcrete ground.
The second gray tank in front crashed into the wreckage that was emitting black smoke, and its speed immediately decreased.
With Oleksandr's precise shot, Gardinal's tanks slowed down.
Seeing the gray tanks clustered together, Oleksandr immediately marked the center with a bombardment rune, and then quickly marked a dozen other locations where enemy troops were gathered.
"Nightmare, bomb the marked location."
The flagship of the First Company Captain Relic-class warship in orbit, with its replaced power heart, the Punishment-class Reactor, in operation, beams of light and Macro-cannon aimed at the ground.
Five "Savant" quickly completed the calculations and locked onto the surface target.
The Lance pierced through the rusty clouds and struck the center of the Gardinal tank formation.
In the blinding light, the gray vehicle was torn to shreds, and the driver instantly vaporized.
Oleksandr watched as shells rained down on Gardinal's troops, clearing out most of the area without a single shell hitting the defensive zone.
Gardinal's Military Vice-Consul saw his men thrown into chaos by the enemy's orbital strikes and shouted loudly through the communications network.
"Reorganize your troops; they have fewer than a hundred men, while we have tens of thousands."
"Victory belongs to Gardinal, for the High Lord!"
The shackles deeply ingrained in generations of evolution allowed the chaotic Warrior castes to quickly quell their fear, form teams, and launch an attack on the defensive turrets.
Oleksandr watched as the gray heavy tanks roared in unison, unleashing a dense barrage of bullets at the defensive turrets.
Despite his call for orbital coordination, which resulted in heavy casualties among the enemy, the Gardinal still had nearly two hundred armored vehicles.
Oleksandr inspected the communications channel, the landing report of the Simulacrum Sanctum computing.
[First landing force: 30 Vostonian Rhino, 10 Gabriel-pattern Predator, estimated remaining standard time: 2 minutes and 13 seconds.]
The fourth landing force consists of one hundred Vostonian Rhino and thirty Gabriel-pattern Predator, with an estimated remaining time of one hour, five minutes, and fourteen seconds.
Oleksandr fully trusts the report's projected landing time; the application of the Simulacrum Sanctum will allow the legions greater flexibility in their deployment.
Regarding landing, the order of boarding and takeoff will be adjusted to allow for rapid adjustments.
Precise scheduling can pinpoint the exact timeframe by ten seconds, allowing Oleksandr to deploy defenses based on minute-by-minute data.
The leading defensive turrets, with their relentless barrage of dense beams of fire from their cannons, overheated and became unusable within a minute, destroying four Gardinal tanks.
After the "Hunter" planted the Melta Bomb, the "Apprentice" opened the gate, Shadow of Order quickly evacuated.
The enemy's retreat greatly boosted the Military Vice-Consul's confidence, and he loudly issued orders.
"Go ahead!"
As the "Apprentice" Door Opening on the second defensive turret, the "Hunter" detonated the bomb.
The Melta Bomb detonated the turret's Energy Core, sending blinding light soaring into the air as flames, carrying with them Adamantium, hurtled outwards.
A dozen or so Fireball slammed into the oncoming tank, and Plastcrete Adamantium mixed with concrete crashed into the gray tank hull like meteors.
As the second defensive turret was abandoned, black Gunship and landing craft pierced through the rusty clouds and slowly descended.