A Person Named Aqua Duna Decided to Die (Part 2)

28th Expeditionary Fleet.

"Thirty years, Chemos the Centaur, Golden Ring."

"I love Fu, and Fu loves me."

Most of the Corsairs mercenaries had already returned to their small sailing ships to hold a ceremony to honor the New Phoenix King.

Pray thirty times with utmost sincerity.

As for this incomprehensible "blessing".

Yriel was also unsure why she had chosen a word from the New Phoenix King Legend Play as a pious blessing to Him.

But she could sense that whenever she uttered these words, whether in Eldar or human language, the evil creature from the Empyrean would never dare to approach her again.

It is very effective at exorcising demons when traveling in Warp.

As one of the Phoenix King's most devoted followers, this small group of Eldar, after successfully escaping the clutches of the Thirsting Lady, have grown ever more devoted to the New Phoenix King.

Even if the other party is not Eldar.

So what if the prototype is just Mon-keigh?

If you can defeat the Thirsting Lady, you'll be Super War God!

Have you received any news from Iyanden?

Beside her, a Bone Singer asked.

"I'd rather I hadn't received it." Yriel shook her head bitterly.

"I told them everything that happened here, and the old man said we were bewitched by the devil and that it was a heinous act of betrayal."

She understood that Iyanden was still considered powerful among the Craftworld Aeldari at this time.

Even if the chances were slim, these old guys never gave up hope of restoring the Aeldari Empire.

Under such prejudice, they would never admit that the New Phoenix King is human.

"It's alright, sister. Once they truly witness the power of our New Phoenix King to dispel all the gloom of the Thirsting Lady, they will definitely volunteer to join our ranks."

"It's too early for all of this."

"We also need to teach those who are blindly confident and do not understand the power of the Empyrean, so that they may also understand the dangers of Chaos."

"But what should we do?"

"Spreading faith."

As Yriel spoke, golden flames seemed to emanate from her eyes.

The new Phoenix King needs a catchy myth to aid in its spread.

"And nothing is more suitable than the [Centaur gold ring], which has spread throughout half of the Imperium of Man."

Within the Imperium of Man, under the influence of Fulgrim and through the collective efforts of numerous Terra artists...

Just as Fulgrim had predicted, the play "The Centaur gold ring" became an accessible and worldwide masterpiece.

In the Imperium of Man, you can say you haven't read Imperial Truth, but you absolutely cannot have missed the [Centaur gold ring]!

Influenced by this play, Golden Ring engraved with Centaur became a token of love for almost everyone.

I hope it can be like me, accompanying each other through one thirty-year period after another.

People often say that this Centaur gold ring is the guardian of all pure love in the world.

It can completely destroy all evil things that dare to hinder pure love!

"Maybe."

"Yriel murmured."

The entire spaceship, along with the 2,700 Eldar who arrived one after another, began a ceremony that lasted for 30 minutes.

In the Empyrean, something unexpected seems to be brewing.

But in this thirtieth millennium, who can truly know?

Gardinal Prime.

The final battlefield is chaotic and filled with death and violence.

"Cicero, watch out!"

Kasgar, riding a high-speed motorcycle back and forth across the battlefield, shouted a warning.

Having been wounded multiple times during the previous charge, the numerous wounds on his body were now greatly distracting him.

He paid no attention to the self-destructing Rhino Armored Vehicle speeding past him, focusing solely on the enemy in front of him who was engrossed in battle.

"Varied--"

He noticed it.

But it was too late.

The Armored Vehicle, flashing with a mad light, was about to self-destruct in front of him.

"Stop!"

As if time had stopped for a moment, behind everyone, the psionic staff in the hand of Amar of the Thousand Sons Think Tank stopped the guy flashing with crazy light.

"Get out of the way!"

Amar called out anxiously.

At this moment, the staff in his right hand flashed with a strange light, and wisps of frost condensed at his feet. His skin, which had already returned to normal, became unusually taut under his extreme exertion, and flickered with an eerie light under the influence of Psychic Power.

After seeing Cicero quickly disperse, he released the almost solidified Psychic Power in his hand and withdrew, watching as the self-destructing Armored Vehicle collided with the enemy's Walker Tank, causing an explosion.

Thanks.

Cicero looked at the wreckage of the explosion with lingering fear.

Without Amar's help, this would have definitely killed him on the spot.

"It's not over yet! Over there, the Gardinalians's large weapons are approaching!"

That was the Lord of Gardinal's large Walker Tank —of course, the name "tank" was clearly not quite appropriate for his excessively large size.

Zi—

The High-Energy Particle Cannon, emanating from the top of the tank, swept across the battlefield.

The terrifying ray, like the Grim Reaper, can pierce through everything it encounters, turning into a fiery red lava lake at its final point of impact.

We need to figure out what to do with this thing!

Kasgar was now using the Phoenix spear. With the added boost from the high-speed Anti-gravity Bike, he aimed at the large Shield Generator on the opponent's machine and pressed the Extendable Attack button on the spear.

With a whoosh, the Shield Generator that was hit was instantly reduced to scrap metal and exploded.

The Extendable Attack is still as effective as ever.

As for the swordswoman Aqua Duna, she naturally wouldn't resort to the unethical use of a retractable weapon like he did.

Call out!

The blade of the Xhanabal Saber in his hand flew swiftly off the hilt, revealing the chain linking to it.

As the blade pierced the opponent's Shield Generator at an extremely high speed and triggered an explosion, the Psychic Force Shield of the Super Giant Spider Tank thinned even further.

Hey, don't tell me.

You know what?

It works quite well.

Aqua Duna's eyes lit up.

Compared to the previous fighting techniques that required close combat to break the opponent's defenses, the attack method developed by Kasgar, which is called melee combat but is actually ranged, is indeed quite interesting.

How much they looked down on Kasgar's little tricks before, they've proven how formidable they are once they actually use them.

"Intensify the attack!"

Accompanied by fierce artillery fire from the Iron Hands Core Forces, the counterattack amassed by the Lord of Gardinal, though initially powerful, gradually tore a gap in the defense line as more and more Iron Hands joined the battle.

Meanwhile, the Heavy Spider Tank that Kasgar had previously dealt with was successfully overloaded by the combined attack of the Ultramarines, the Sons of the Emperor, the Thousand Sons, and Iron Hands, allowing him to kill the Gardinal High Lord was sitting high inside.

"High Lord is dead?"

"It's not that simple," Kasgar replied. "According to my research on the Gardinal data, the Gardinal is ruled by a personality entity that was collectively uploaded and formed by the countless Archon who rule this star Imperium."

"It's less of a kill and more like defeating one of Gardinal High Lord's digitized personalities."

If we don't destroy the enemy's Data Avatar hiding in the Gardinal Capital Fortress, there will be endless Lord of Gardinal opposing us in the future.

"So that means he Abominable Intelligence."

"Then why did we even try to make peace with him in the first place?"

Aqua asked.

Good question.

But there are some things you'd better not ask casually.

"Now, more and more of those large spider tanks will be joining the battlefield. Not only that, but the enemy's soldiers, who are equipped with high concentrations of stimulants and biological genetic modifications, are also following closely behind."

"The war is about to reach its climax, and now is the crucial time to escape and land in the core area. Aqua, prepare to execute the next step of the plan."

"Clear."

With that, the Second Captain the Emperor's Children nodded, and drove his Purple-Gold Motorcycle away towards the main Iron Hands behind him.

"And, Amar, you know what you should be doing."

"Clear."

He nodded heavily as well, leading a Thousand Sons Psyker Squad toward the main force behind them.

"What does this mean, Commander Kasgar?"

"Why did you send them all back first? Is there some special arrangement?"

Seeing this, Cicero, the Ultramarines Chapter, asked a question in confusion.

"Chapter Master, you'll find out soon enough."

Kasgar sighed softly and said with a heavy expression.

The tense battle was over once the Primarch of the Iron Hands joined the fray.

On the battlefield, every shot fired from the tactical backpack behind her cleared obstacles for the Iron Hands Legion's advance.

These were merely tasks to clear away obstacles so that she wouldn't be disturbed by other small fry as she moved forward.

What she is most proud of is the indestructible and terrifying Power Hammer in her hand, which can tear any obstacle she encounters to shreds in an instant.

With her unstoppable advance, more than a dozen of Gardinal's super tanks have been destroyed by his hammer.

The power of the Primarch is terrifying.

Thump!

With Philus's unparalleled hammer falling, only this last Gardinal Supergiant Spider Tank remains on the battlefield.

Consumables such as suicide Armored Vehicle and suicide soldiers did slow down the progress of the Ultramarines, but they have not made any further achievements since then.

Except for one Titan Beast that was insisted upon by the Adeptus Mechanicus to be preserved, the rest were all overloaded and destroyed by Iron Hands's heavy weaponry.

The massive horde of infantry tanks was pushed back by an even larger combined force of Ultramarines and Iron Hands.

Even the Gardinal Gene-Enhanced Soldiers were wiped out in the steel torrent.

The last surface armed forces from Gardinal were almost entirely wiped out in this battle.

The war has reached its final, mopping-up stage.

"Is there anything else you'd like to say?"

"Begging for mercy, regretting it? Or praying for release?"

Seeing that the enemy's situation was hopeless, Philus, with her disproportionately large size, spoke to the enemy's giant tank.

Although the words of the weak are meaningless, at this moment, she still longed to hear the other person's final sobs of defeat due to their weakness.

"Hey Philus, don't think you've already won."

As the enemy's response came from inside the giant tank, Lord of Gardinal had prepared his final countermeasures.

Drop--

Perish together.

Heaven!

An unusual event has occurred in the sky!

As the Lord of Gardinal finished speaking, the star rings in the sky above the Gardinal Prime suddenly broke free from Philus's control.

It seems that under the control of the Lord of Gardinal, the asteroid belt surrounding the Gardinal Prime is gradually descending to the planet's surface due to the gravitational pull of the Star Rail's orbit!

Once these asteroids land on the Earth's surface, the impact on the Iron Hands forces will be no less than that of Exterminatus!

"Quickly. Order the 413th Expeditionary Fleet and 52nd Expeditionary Fleet to immediately launch an attack on the asteroid I have marked."

"As I instructed, use the ramming guns to knock these things down!"

Philus's expression became very serious.

The enemy's Orbital System is protected by Psychic Shield Generator, so artillery fire is not very effective against it.

The only way to destroy it quickly is to use the fleet's powerful ramming to smash the orbit around the planet to pieces.

But clearly, just as Philus had predicted, the warships were not moving very fast.

Trying to smash the enemy's Orbital System before the asteroid belt crashes down is really putting the warship in a difficult position.

But now, what other options are there?

"My lord."

The voice of Aqua Duna, the Second Captain of the Sons of the Emperor, came through Philus's communication system.

She completed her task on the battlefield and, as Kasgar had requested, returned to the warship in the sky.

Her purpose in coming here was not to leave the battlefield ahead of time.

Instead, it's a final farewell.

"Look at the sky."

As a dazzling meteor streaked across the sky, a low-visibility specialized Drop Pod, moving at an extremely low speed, successfully passed through the enemy's protective shield and landed in the control center.

That was Drop pod from Aqua Duna.

As for her solo landing in the enemy's lair, her intentions are self-evident.

More accurately, it's about going to destroy the enemy's reaction device together with it.

"You foresaw this moment, didn't you?"

As they watched the meteor streak across the sky, Cicero, the Ultramarines Chapter, spoke to Kasgar.

"That's right."

"So what are you going to do now? Just watch Aqua walk towards her death alone?"

"No. But even if we break into the city now, it wouldn't be easy, let alone rescue her."

Kasgar gripped the motorcycle handlebars tightly.

In order to make Philus realize that Aqua is doomed, she must cause her and the opponent's shield to Reactor together.

At the very least, Philus needs to realize that they are doomed to perish together.

Therefore, it would be impossible for Kasgar to save Aqua from the Reactor explosion.

"But who can say it's completely impossible?"

Ultramarines Cicero smiled.

Kasgar did not reveal anything about demons.

He was unaware that, according to the prophecy, Aqua had to die to make Philus realize her mistake.

He only wanted to save the highly skilled Sword Saint.

And in his heart, the Commander Kasgar, the Sons of the Emperor, thought the same thing.

"Let's go! We'll have our Ultramarines clear the way for you and get you there!"