Within the gravity range of the dwarf planet, among the wreckage of the warship that became space junk, the Teutonic Knights was parked, and not far from the starboard side of "her", there was also a Covenant Technology ship parked.
The ship is shaped like a whale and is about more than 900 meters long. Its specifications are almost the same as the Steadfast class. When compared to the human fleet, it should also belong to the same class of frigates as the Steadfast class.
This is a frigate that was detected by Magnus using his psychic powers and commanded by an elite family.
But "her" situation is not optimistic.
The hull was so devastated and so badly damaged that it was difficult to maintain internal air pressure.
It can be seen that if the Teutonic Knight had not joined the melee, then "she" would have already merged into the nearby wreckage.
But the ending of sinking is still inevitable.
So four purple, sleek-looking transport planes, carrying the last survivors, abandoned the ship and boarded the allied Teutonic Knights.
Inside the hangar…
"Ouch! Ouch!"
"Please cooperate with the inspection, thank you for your cooperation."
"ah!!"
"For your own safety, don't move."
The scene is not too chaotic.
Technicians wearing white clothing and mechanical skeletons are patiently conducting routine inspections and disinfection procedures on the elites, grunts, jackals, and a long-necked jellyfish-like engineer.
Responsible for maintaining order are hundreds of Honor Guards equipped with Terminator power armor, Paladins of the Dark Angels and Sekhmet of Thutmose, as well as the Auxiliary Army of the Dark Angels.
Following the style of the original body and the entire legion, the name comes from Sekhmet, the ancient Egyptian goddess of war and medicine, and its Terminator power armor also has obvious ancient Egyptian characteristics.
In terms of weapon matching, it is a bit monotonous compared to the Honor Guards of other legions, because the Sekhmets prefer to use psychic warfare.
After the technicians completed the regular procedures, they gave this group of alien allies a certain amount of freedom and started working on the transport aircraft and carrier-based aircraft of Covenant Technology.
A rough count.
Only less than two hundred survived successfully, with Grunts and Jackals accounting for the majority. The remainder were more than twenty blue-armored elites and the only yellow-armored elite.
Due to being "backstabbed" by the Jiralhanae and the Prophet, coupled with the incident of obtaining the City of Charity from Moore and Wadami, and now being rescued by the Teutonic Knights, this group of young elites have no intention of
Human respect far outweighs vigilance.
Jackals and Grunts don't have too many ideas and just want to follow the elites they respect. As for the engineer...
He is very interested in the decks of human technology, carrier-based aircraft, transport boats, and even the Terminators of the Honor Guard, and wants to study them carefully.
at this time.
outside the crowd.
"Um…"
Leon, who had his hands crossed in front of his breastplate, after listening to what Magnus had just said, groaned and looked to his brother for a positive answer:
"If there is nothing wrong with my ears, then you just said that the interior of the dwarf planet is hollow?"
"Yes." Magnus did not deny: "And fierce battles are still going on on the surface and in the inner world. The troops of the Covenant Empire are fighting a group of..."
At this point, Magnus' tone increased: "A group of creatures that cannot perceive with spiritual energy are fighting, and I only feel endless hunger from them.
For example, for life, for memory? Or for emotions, we have a strong appetite, but if we want to know more, we can only rush to the dwarf planet to find out in person."
"Memories and emotions?" Leon frowned inadvertently and said in a deep voice: "It seems that there are indeed unknown Zerg species below that my father mentioned."
"Maybe."
"No matter what, let's try to get some useful information from the Sangheili commander first."
"good."
As the two original bodies spoke, they walked through the crowd and approached the elite commander wearing yellow armor under the extremely astonished eyes of the gnolls and grunts.
He approached and stopped, and Magnus negotiated with the other party: "Hello, I am the human Primarch Magnus, and this person next to me is the Primarch Leon. What exactly happened on this planet?"
“…”
Looking at the two giants who were more than four and a half meters tall, especially the giant with short brown-red hair (Magnus), could actually speak human language that even he could understand, the yellow-armored elite fell into great shock.
.
Fortunately, this commander had a strong psychological acceptance. After a moment, he put his right hand into a fist in front of his chest, showed enough respect and introduced himself:
"It's an honor to have the help of two primarchs. I am the captain of the Fervent Prayer, Voltha Vokembe, and I am also the supreme commander of the ship's forces.
In fact, before you humans arrived here..."
Next, an elite commander named Volsa shared the intelligence he knew with Leon and Magnus.
The Red and White Queens called the galaxy they were in Corinth, but the Covenant Empire called it the "Peak Divine Realm".
Because the hollow dwarf planet that Magnus sensed was the celestial-level fortress and shield world built by the Forerunners.
at first.
Calculated by converting it into the Earth year commonly used by humans, the Covenant Empire knew about the existence of the Corinth Galaxy as early as four years ago.
But this galaxy gives the Covenant Empire a very desolate, barren, and low development value impression.
Fortunately, the dwarf planet in the second orbit showed a surface environment suitable for biological habitation and attracted the close attention of the Supreme Council.
Afterwards, the Supreme Council dispatched a large number of scientific research and engineering teams to conduct comprehensive inspections and studies.
The first anomaly that manifested itself was that Covenant technology was unable to explore the geology of this dwarf planet. It seemed that there was some kind of shielding measure, making the ground below the surface full of unknowns.
After that.
The engineering team tried the most primitive excavation methods and found that the dwarf planet was surrounded by an all-metal crust.
Digging out the familiar metal structure, let the Supreme Council realize that this is a celestial body built by the Forerunners.
The news caused a sensation.
After all, the largest "legacy" of the Forerunners possessed by the Covenant Empire is the City of High Charity, so the City of High Charity is regarded as the capital.
The discovery of this shield world, which was several times larger than the City of High Charity, made the Supreme Council intend to move the capital.
It's just that the cracking process was very slow, and it took three and a half years to get inside.
And once you try to use the high-energy rays of the battleship to conduct violent excavation, you will be locked by the automatic artillery on the surface of the shield world.
Even with energy shields, the battleship cannot withstand an easy hit from the cannon.
Through this, Covenant's scientific research and engineering teams understand that the shield world is still functioning normally.
In order to avoid a stronger counterattack, the Covenant Empire had to give up violence and rely on the engineers to crack it.
But the progress is still slow and can be said to be approximately zero.
Until more than twenty Earth days ago.
It exactly corresponds to the time node when Lara Croft's archaeological team opened the ruins of Methrein.
The opening of the Mesrein ruins not only allowed the priests to discover the existence of humans, but also caused an entrance to be opened in the equatorial area of the shield world, finally allowing the covenant people to enter the interior of the shield world.
However, Volsa does not know what the inner earth world looks like, because his authority is not enough to enter the shield world.
As for the current turbid appearance, it is inseparable from the battle between their elite clan and the Jiralhanae.
As the pinnacle of the Corinthian galaxy, the Covenant Empire naturally deployed twelve elite fleets.
However, the civil war caused by High Charity quickly spread to the entire Covenant Empire.
The Jiralhanae fleet stationed in the Corinth galaxy also followed the orders secretly issued by the three priests and quickly attacked the elite side with twice the number of advantages.
Although they were caught off guard, the elites, who were good at guerrilla tactics and also liked to join gangs, managed to fight the Jiralhanae fleet reciprocally.
During this time.
The elite troops who remained on the surface of the shield world were slaughtered by the regular troops of the Covenant Empire led by the Jiralhanae with an absolute numerical advantage.
In order to completely annihilate the elite fleet, the Jiralhanae shouted to Volsa and the others that they would release the weapons created by "my god".
But Walsa said that after the Jiralhanae was released, the other party's communications fell into a panic, and the most common words they monitored were "Requesting support!".
Instead of providing any help, the weapons of "My God" dragged the regular troops led by the Jiralhanae into another quagmire.
Even so, the elite fleet and the Jiralhanae fleet still fought a lose-lose battle. Without the "foreign aid" of the Teutonic Knights, the Jiralhanae fleet would have eliminated all the elites at the cost of a tragic victory.
…
Weapons made by the Forerunners?
After listening to Volsa's description, Magnus frowned slightly, thought for a moment, and suggested to Leon:
"First upload the information you have learned so far to the Red Queen, and then prepare your and my guards to go to the surface entrance at the equator."
"good."
Leon responded without objection and turned around to leave.
Magnus bowed his head slightly and expressed his gratitude to Volsa: "Thank you very much, Captain, for the information. We will handle everything from now on."
"You're welcome, this is what you should do as an ally." Volsa shook his head lightly.
Immediately afterwards, the elite commander raised his fisted right hand and became quite angry and said:
"Dear Magnus, if you want to land on the ground, you must take me and my men with you! I want to avenge the dead compatriots!"
"I can understand your feelings, but for your sake and our safety, please stay on the Teutonic Knights." Magnus declined politely.
"Well... okay, then please." Volsa had no choice but to give up.
End the conversation.
The auxiliaries led the group of survivors to an area on the edge of the hangar so they could rest.
Leon used the Teutonic Knight's repeater and power armor to upload the information to the Red Queen, asking her to convey the current situation of the Corinthian system to her father before arranging the landing on the surface.
Shortly after.
The Teutonic Knights sailed out of the area full of battleship wreckage, gradually approached the shield world, and finally "parked" at more than 40 kilometers above the ground while maintaining the shield world's rotation speed.
Immediately afterwards.
A large transport boat, escorted by four Viking fighter planes, left the hangar of the Teutonic Knights, passed through the turbid atmosphere, and headed for the equatorial entrance that can lead to the inner world of the earth.
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Shield world equator.
A darkness approaching nothingness shrouds the area on the backside of the sun.
On the calm seaside, there is a large military base of the Covenant Empire.
The strong light emitted from the base, instead of lighting up the place and giving the creatures a sense of security when facing darkness, may instead be swallowed by "darkness" at any time.
It can lead to the inner world of the earth, like an open super giant gate entrance, located not far to the west of this base.
"Ah...!" He screamed in a lung-splitting voice.
"Gulu...!" and the gagging sounds of some kind of creature chewing and swallowing echoed inside and outside the base.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Suddenly, dense blue and green plasma cannons flashed in the east corner of the base.
Take a closer look.
I saw several covenant combat teams fleeing toward a fortress without any discipline.
As they ran, they swung the muzzles behind them, regardless of accuracy and heat dissipation. At the same time, in order to vent their uncontrollable anxiety and fear, they frantically pulled the triggers and tilted the plasma cannons towards the "enemy".
Look closely at their faces.
Each and every one of them seemed to have encountered a ghost, showing an extremely frightening expression.
Even a few unruly Jiralhanae were panting heavily, running to the front of the team without any regard for "for my tribe" or "for my god", to gain more chances for them to survive.
"Ho~----!"
At this moment, an "elite" monster roared out from the right side of the team, swung "his" thick right arm, and rushed straight towards a Jiralhanae.
"Bang!"
The "Elite" actually managed to break through the energy shield in one fell swoop with just a vigorous swing of his right arm. The strength was not diminished at all, and it knocked away the Jiralhanae that had lost its shield.
"Poof!" Blood spurted out immediately.
The Jiralhanae, which weighed nearly half a ton, flew more than ten meters in a perfect arc, and finally passed out, losing its ability to fight first.
The "elite" who finished dealing with a Jiralhanae didn't seem satisfied, and chose to rush into the enemy group alone.
"Deal with it!" shouted the well-armored Jiralhanae commander.
Everything happened so fast that the covenant combat team had no time to react, so they had to stop their escape and had no choice but to deal with this "elite" first.
"The body should lie down properly!"
"Roar! Damn Sangheili, they won't stop even if they die!"
The Jiralhanae were the first to react, shouting and cursing, pointing the muzzles of their plasma rifles forward, and shooting wildly at the "Elites".
"Yeah! Yeah!"
The gnolls and grunts also shouted, forcing themselves to overcome their fear and assist their commander in the attack.
"Roar…"
The "elite" resisted the concentrated fire attack for several seconds, and finally lay down on the ground with a roar.
Seeing that he was successfully knocked down, the covenant soldiers finally saw clearly this "elite" whose strength, speed and vitality were extremely exaggerated.
"His" figure is twisted and twisted, looking very awkward and uncoordinated.
The skin exposed outside the armor is sticky and earthy green. There are dense wriggling tentacles and tentacles on the head and neck. The right arm is deformed and twisted into a huge whip-like tissue.