Chapter 976, The Silent Nun

Chapter 976, The Silent Nun

If the arrival of the Imperial Guards was primarily intended to express the attitude of this political force, then the two hundred or so Imperial Guards soldiers, while a formidable fighting force, were more symbolic than practical.

After all, in this battle, if we can win, we can win even without the Imperial Guards; if we lose... the Imperial Guards can only play a backup role at most.

This does serve as a safety net.

The Imperial Guard officer in charge likely possesses the combat strength of a Chosen Champion. Among the two hundred or so Imperial Guards, there is one with the strength of a Chosen Champion, more than thirty are Battle Group Champions, and the rest are all at the Company Champion level.

The "level" mentioned here refers to the corresponding rank of Space Marine.

In reality, the proportion of Divine Chosen Champions among the Imperial Guards is indeed very high, reaching approximately two to three per thousand; the number of Battle Group Champions reaches about five to ten percent. The rest are almost all at the level of Company Champions.

This proportion is far more terrifying than that of Space Marines.

Saying that the Imperial Guard could fight a hundred times more Space Marines might be an exaggeration; but fighting ten times more Space Marines would be more than enough.

This group of Imperial Guards alone could probably handle four or five Divine Lords and Great Demons.
In addition, Robert and Gu Jing will deal with Magnus and the Weaver of Fate. Furthermore, the Infinite Chapter and its numerous sub-chapters also have chapter champions and even Chosen Champions. The latter, such as Nero, the Grand Master of the Infinite Chapter, or Terrible, the Chief Investigator, can also handle some powerful demons…

In that instant, Gu Jing's mind raced. If things really developed into the worst possible situation he wanted to see, even with the arrival of the nine Divine Venerables and Myriad Transformations Demon Lords led by the Fate Weaver, the human side wouldn't be entirely without the strength to fight back.

However, if it really comes to that, who knows how much sacrifice will be made, and who will ultimately win the battle.

More importantly, the consequences of losing are extremely severe.

It's not just about the losses in the army, the loss of manpower, and the loss of top experts. More importantly, if the demons were to conquer the moon, they could potentially pull the entire moon into the warp. Or, to use a more common term used by the Empire in the past, to 'hellify' the moon.

After the blasphemous ritual, the 'hellified' moon will possess the dual nature of both subspace and the real universe. The endless stream of demons can then truly swarm forth from here.

Using the moon as a springboard and base, they can directly attack Holy Terra.

What is the current state of Holy Terra?
It was clearly in a terrible state.

Otherwise, the Moon, the most important satellite fortress of Holy Terra, wouldn't be in such a state of disrepair.

There must be a large amount of Chaos corruption brewing on Holy Terra, and the current riots and wars on Terra are very likely related to this Chaos corruption. It's even possible that some of Terra's rulers have secretly embraced Chaos. Otherwise, it's hard to explain why, during the previous lunar unrest, the Solar Legion, which appeared to be clearly corrupted by Khorne, turned into organized traitors; and why the Marines, in their previous orders, showed signs of following instructions from the Ministry of Military Affairs.

At that time, the Chaos Demon army that launched an offensive from the moon, along with the high-ranking traitors on Holy Terra, will destroy the fortress from within... Even if Terra still has complete defenses, the founding Golden Knights, the Imperial Guard of Ten Thousand Men, and many other elite troops and trump cards, the outcome will probably not be much better under the long siege in the future.

Even if Robert and Gu Jing manage to escape this time, and even if the alliance can assemble a large army to launch another campaign, no one knows if it will be in time. Even if it is in time, the cost of war will be extremely high.

Therefore, to avoid this chain reaction of worsening consequences, they had no choice but to either stop the great demons from entering now and banish Magnus, or, if they were released, to do everything in their power to defeat them here.

We cannot retreat now.

That's why it's said that the Imperial Guards were a safety net.

A safety net is certainly needed, but before that, the Silent Sisters brought by the Imperial Guard, and the Alliance Spellbreakers emerging from the newly erected miniature veil spirit gate, must play a crucial role.

As these 'Unleashed Ones' who could suppress the warp continued to advance, every warp demon that approached them had its strength greatly suppressed—if it weren't for Magnus, these demons wouldn't have been able to maintain their existing form and would have been directly driven back to their warp lair by the Unleashed Ones and the Silent Sisters.

But Magnus wasn't having an easy time either. In addition to facing Robert and resisting Gu Jing's constant breakthroughs in his psychic energy to close the warp rift, he was also being suppressed by nearly a hundred Silent Sisters and Unseen Ones, which clearly affected his psychic energy circulation.

There is a play!

Magnus was clearly aware of the seriousness of the problem.

He roared, and his vile filth stirred up a vast horde of demons, which surged toward those who did not escape.

Even if each of them suffers severe injury and suppression when they get close, as if they are throwing their lives away in vain, they still have to go; those surviving Tzeentch followers, and even the Khorne puppets of the Solar Army whose minds were stolen by Magnus after his appearance, were also used.

They are not warp demons, and they will not be suppressed by the Unseen Ones when they get close.

However, at this moment, the two hundred or so imperial guards, led by the civil officials, formed an insurmountable golden defensive line, firmly withstanding all the impacts.

Even when the first Divine Lord of Myriad Transformations managed to emerge from the subspace rift and attack them, it failed to harm the Unseen Ones and the Silent Sisters.

On the contrary, when its ability to mobilize subspace energy was restricted, it was instead driven out by two powerful champions of the Imperial Guard.

In the ensuing assault, the Imperial Guard even escorted the Unseen and the Silent Sisters to places very close to the warp rifts.

Whenever they approach a place, a rift will close; whenever a rift closes, the time it takes for the Great Demon God to be summoned will be delayed.

And when they finally seized an opportunity, under the protection of the Imperial Guard, they suddenly arrived very close to Magnus, and even this 'divine abomination', who could be considered the most powerful in terms of spiritual energy, was somewhat suppressed.

(End of this chapter)