However, with each step, the air seemed to be filled with more and more charges, and strange halos crackled along the fruits on the statue, mysterious moans echoing around Astat.
As they approached the pile of corpses, Talos found them buried in a huge spiral.
The curved lines are composed of a series of carefully crafted runes, each carved on the floor with plasma torches filled with solidified blood.
The symbols stinged his eyes, and as he tried to concentrate, there seemed to be a jagged needle piercing into his brain.
The longer he stared at the spiral, the stronger the effect was.
The surviving bugs have abandoned their crazy attacks, retreating from Astart in an irregular circle, lurking outside the attack range of the Chainsaw Sword to wait for the opportunity.
The members of the squad continued their bloody work, carefully shooting monsters with their explosive pistols.
The energy of death continued to fuel the vortex and further ignited the invisible flame.
Talos gritted his teeth and endured the increasingly severe pain in his head, leading his squad forward step by step.
They were now ten meters away from the pile of corpses. He could see that each corpse had been coated with its own runes, coated with a layer of translucent mucus, glowing slightly in the strange energy that flashed above his head.
When the ball lightning flashed, the prophet caught a glimpse of a certain mark on the edge of a statue more than ten meters above the pile of corpses.
But before he could focus on what it was, the bugs suddenly turned around and rushed towards his squad.
An ominous premonition seized Talos.
"not good!"
However, before he could shout a warning, all the remaining bugs were blown to pieces.
The next second, their death energy hit the ether like a hammer, and the suppressed power in the room burst out.
As the barrier between reality and ether began to collapse, Talos felt the dislocation of space sharply intensified, and he staggered, as the mental shock absorber was about to overload, the spike of pain pierced into his brain.
In front of him, the pile of corpses seemed to be held by an invisible big hand, and were piled up into the shape of an arch.
At the same time, Talos finally sounded what the symbol was-
“…Holy Blood Angel!”
At this moment, in the distant Barr Galaxy, Mephisto, who was looking down and flipping through the book, seemed to feel something. He raised his head suddenly, and his pale and thin face had a corpse-like texture under the glimmer of the candle.
This is his holy hall, a grand hall of anti-psychic energy. The huge plasma generator hangs thousands of the most dangerous think tank ban books in the air. The buzzing sounds of its operation stirs the air, like the engine room of a warship.
He himself sat in a relatively quiet corner of the hall, with a brass desk in front of him.
The brass candlestick placed in the middle of the desktop will shine brightly on the surrounding haze and darkness - the flat surface of the desk has been flickering and shining.
Suddenly, a blood slave appeared from the darkness. He was wearing a red robe, his face hidden in the shadow, and bowed and whispered:
"Mr. Dante is here."
"Please come in."
The blood slave bent over nodded and quickly retreated back to the shadow.
Then, Mephisto turned his gaze to the ancient books in front of him, which was a dense scroll that he accidentally discovered while sorting out the battle group archives. There was no signer on it, but there was a symbol that made him very upset.
Although he didn't recognize this symbol, Mephisto's intuition told him that this thing was dangerous.
Then he looked through ancient books and was surprised to find that it actually recorded an old story from the Legion era. At the same time, he also realized what that symbol represents.
This secret volume is not without the signatories, the symbol is its name. In the Battle of the Holy Blood Angels, it has an extremely special status, and people usually call it "San Gillino".
Soon, Dante, in his robe, walked into the Holy Hall.
"Is there anything to ask me for?"
After saying hello, Dante sat on the chair opposite Mephisto and leaned back into the back of the chair.
Mephisto nodded and pushed the scroll in front of Dante.
“I found this while sorting out the files.”
Dante frowned and flipped open the scroll. As he gradually looked back, the expression on his face became more and more shocked.
"This...is something like this!?"
"There is no record in the history of the battle group. Obviously, the Primrose did not want anyone to know about it."
The reason why Dante was so surprised was that this secret volume actually recorded a demon, a powerful demon who had been active in the Horus Rebellion era - Mardale.
It turned out that in the late period of the Great Rebellion, San Gilles, the Triple Primrose, who had converged in Markulag, Kiriman and Ryan tried to break through the Storm of Destruction toward Terra. On the way, they encountered the "Road of Destruction" controlled by the Demon Madell, and then the battle broke out in the Daven Galaxy. As a result, San Gilles was trapped in a portal on the altar that caused Horus to fall.
In the portal, the angel sees the illusion of the Emperor congratulating him on defeating Horus and saving the empire, but the angel defeats the illusion.
After the trick was revealed, Madell summoned his army of demons and tried to force San Gilles to serve the evil god of Chaos with force. They gave him a choice: replace Horus as the Chaos War Commander, otherwise he would die.
San Gilles resisted the temptation and launched a fierce battle with Madell. In the end, the battle was interrupted by the intervention of Primros Kiliman, Zhuangson and the Saint Blood Guard. The demon army was defeated, but San Gilles and Madell were also severely damaged and trapped in the portal.
At a critical moment, someone appeared and replaced San Gilles at the portal, released San Gilles, and disappeared with Madell.
According to the way this secret volume was written, it was obvious that this person was San Gillino. The last explanation in the book was that it sealed Mardale back to its "first place of birth".
“This place is…”
The last part of the secret scroll was written a bit sloppy, but Dante had not understood what the place written in Balvin was called after reading it for a long time.
Mephisto leaned towards the copper table and waved his hand to call out a holographic image: the detailed star map jumped into Dante's eyes.
"Paishang Star, a dead world located in the Pandora Galaxy of the Extreme Star Domain."
Dante glanced at the star map and tried to outline the distance from the Pluto Galaxy where Barr was located to the Pandora Galaxy.
There is no doubt that the two are very far away.
"Very good, this will be very useful information for the battle group."
"Captain of the Battle Team, this is not as simple as a piece of information."
Dante looked at Mephisto in confusion.
"Is there any secret here?"
"Not a secret."
Mephisto knew that Dante had just gone out to perform the task and returned not long after he had not received the message there, so he took out a data board.
"The Star Words received a briefing from the Navy Star Zone Base a week ago, something happened to Pai Shangxing."