The White Temple is a very mysterious war group. Not only is there no record of its founding time, but there are even very few combat records. It seems that the entire war group has been squatting on its home star, the Sanctuary Star in the Sun Star Domain, all year round.
superior.
As a "stay-at-home" chapter, the style of the White Templars is very puzzling, because even if the Astartes are not performing tasks, they will go on their own to protect the Empire and seek glory.
However, most of the time the White Templars only responded to calls from nearby areas and rarely appeared outside the Sun Star Territory. The few large-scale battles they recorded were against the Greenskins.
It stands to reason that such a war group with low intensity of war should have many veterans who have been fighting for hundreds or even thousands of years.
But in fact, every time the White Templar attacks, a large number of new recruits will appear in the battle group, and many of the previous veterans have disappeared without a trace - in the eyes of outsiders, the entire White Templar rarely sees people who have served for more than 10 years.
Four hundred years of warriors.
This is a very strange phenomenon. The Inquisition even suspected that the other party had not followed the holy scriptures and investigated it, but did not come up with any results.
Soshyan was also quite interested in such a war group.
When it comes to the top 8, it is no longer the previous model. All the redundant arenas have been removed, leaving only one large arena where 8 groups of players compete on the stage one after another.
With the removal of the redundant arena, the viewing platform has also been moved and has become closer than before. It can be seen very clearly even without a monitor.
Ustad and Mutali are the second group to fight, and the first group is the Black Templars versus the Tianshi Chapter.
After the Horus Heresy, Dorn, the Primarch of the Imperial Fists, agreed to Guilliman's plan for a second army formation, and his beloved Legion was split into several sub-legions.
Among the new battle groups born this time, the most powerful is the Black Templar.
Dorn gave the most essential power of the Imperial Fists, including his flagship, to his beloved son Sigismund, who was also the first Grand Marshal of the Black Templars.
Sigismund refused to abide by the Codex Astartes, believing that the code written by the Ultramarines Primarch was an insult to his own Primarch's teachings.
So he chose to lead his warriors into the depths of space, dedicated to defeating the enemies of the empire, and began the greatest expedition in the history of the empire - this war has not ended yet, and has lasted for ten thousand years.
The Black Templars abandoned their homeworlds for founding sub-chapters, and instead of founding a single monastery like most Space Marine Chapters did, decided to establish a Chapter garrison on each conquered world for future expeditions.
, recruit new comrades.
It is said that only the Grand Marshal knows the full number of Black Templars, but according to the Inquisition, their actual number is close to 6,000 Space Marines, which can be said to be the most powerful chapter in the Empire at present.
Therefore, Soshiyang had to admit that as the most powerful force in the Imperial Fist system, the Black Templar was indeed full of capable people. The champion of the Tianshi Chapter only lasted five minutes before being defeated by the Paladins.
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Soon, the second group of two players appeared on the arena.
Mutali, the champion of the White Temple, also looks like a young face, but he is a little more gloomy and calm than Ustad, giving him the characteristics of some experienced warriors.
His armor is milky white, his shoulder armor and chest are black, and his coat of arms is an eight-pointed white cross, which is somewhat similar to the Black Temple.
Mutali held a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, looking at Ustad without saying a word.
Ustad then slowly drew out his sword, put it upright in front of his forehead, and nodded lightly at the opponent - this was the most basic battlefield etiquette that Thor taught him.
"start!"
After the referee gave the order, the two began to circle each other flexibly, trying to find an opportunity in their opponent, a weakness that could be exploited.
Suddenly, Ustad swung his sword, drew an arc of light, and attacked downwards.
Mutali deflected the sword with his shield and then launched a counterattack.
Through the instantaneous alternation of attack and defense, both sides of the battle are testing their opponents' combat skills.
Just from this round of fighting, Ustad knew that the opponent was very difficult to deal with. If it dragged on, without the protection of a shield, he would definitely have more flaws than the opponent.
"coming!"
So he roared, rushed over, and stabbed at Mutali's lower body, trying to catch him off guard.
Mutali easily blocked the blow, then turned from defense to offense and slashed at Ustad's abdomen.
Ustad raised his sword and reluctantly took the move, but at the same time his body lost balance at that moment. The opponent quickly caught this mistake and hit Ustad hard with his shield, knocking him down.
land.
But then Mutali did not pursue the victory, but stopped the attack, allowing Ustad to stand up again.
"You are indeed awesome, brother."
In fact, this fall was actually a trap set by Ustad. If the opponent dared to pursue him, his second sword would take the opportunity to sneak attack from below.
This technique is called "hiding the sword" by Thor, and it can only be tried when facing a powerful enemy that is extremely difficult to defeat.
But Ustad didn't expect that the opponent would actually see through it and not launch a reckless pursuit.
So he could only hold the second sword in his hand and use another tactic.
"Your swordsmanship is very strange."
At this time, Mutali, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke with a clear voice.
"It's hard to imagine that this kind of swift and elegant swordsmanship, with a hint of sinisterness, was inherited from the Imperial Fist."
"Oh, times will change, people will change, and swordsmanship... will naturally change too."
After saying that, Ustad rushed towards his opponent.
The next moment, their swords collided with each other, and the hilts were locked together.
But when Ustad tried to swing out his secondary sword, he was once again pushed away by the opponent's shield.
He waved the sharp sword in his hand and struck forward, but his opponent still easily deflected the attack.
But Ustad did not put away his sword and stop. Instead, he launched another attack at a dizzying speed. The two swords drew confusing sword shadows on his hands. Each attack was faster and more fierce than the last one, leaving no room for Mu.
There was a moment of sluggishness in the tower.
This is Ustad's second tactic - saturation attack.
In a short period of time, at the cost of consuming a huge amount of physical energy, attack as many times as possible to pressure the opponent's defense, forcing the opponent to reveal flaws.
Sure enough, Mutali began to retreat step by step. He was already unable to parry Ustad's attacks like the wind and waves, and he could only huddle behind his shield.
Even so, many scars began to appear on his power armor.
On the many viewing platforms, the chapter leaders or chapter representatives also sighed after seeing Ustad's violent double-sword combos.
"Good...fast sword!"
"A very rare master of double swords. I haven't seen such a master in about two hundred years... The last time I saw him, it was the second company commander of the Ultramarines."
"And if you look carefully, he seems to be hitting hard, but in fact the angle of each attack is very tricky. It is already difficult for Mutali to cope. He could block nine swords with ten swords before, but now he can block nine swords with ten swords.
Even five swords can't stop it."
"But doing this requires a lot of physical strength. I don't think I can last long."
However, in the crowd of spectators, Huberto Silver, the Chapter Master of the Sons of Dorne Chapter, looked confused.