The broad avenue used for religious processions had become a battlefield. The Penitent Legionnaires who had been gathered together had become the executioners set on destroying this hive city, and believers in The Emperor were using His name to persecute those unwilling to stand with them in the streets.
"This is such bullshit... I haven't seen a single blasphemous symbol. How did these people turn traitor?"
Taro could not make sense of it. He and Dumb-Dumb were currently hiding inside a house as he poked his head out to observe the street.
A barrage of stray rounds came flying in, striking above Taro's head and showering him with glass shards.
The Penitent Legion was now fighting the newly formed Imperial Guard troops being trained within the hive city. On one side were fanatical, untrained worshippers; on the other were green recruits caught completely off guard.
It was a battle between two equally worthless sides...
The Penitent Legion's charge was worse than even those blockheads from Krieg. They did not even know how to spread out to cross a fire lane before regrouping behind cover.
"Hold the line! For The Emperor! The Throne will accept no traitors!"
The commissar in his peaked cap executed several recruits. Perhaps they had tried to flee, or perhaps they had been timid in battle and failed to unleash their rage against the traitors.
Heads blasted to pieces by bolt pistols were more terrifying than the Penitent Legion's stray bullets. The Imperial Guard commissar held far more terror over these recruits than the worshippers wrapped in scripture.
"Dumb-Dumb wants food."
"Fine, fine. Let's go. I'm done resting."
At Dumb-Dumb's urging, Taro led him out through the doorway. These Imperial Guardsmen could stay here and help draw fire for him. He and Dumb-Dumb now needed to sneak