Chapter 625: The Hou in a Downward Trend

Sixth Defense Zone Outer City.

As the first Deacon Temple was destroyed, many of the Hou warriors' puppets on the battlefield lost control, being blown into fragments by the humans' fierce firepower or struck in the head by laser beams.

Inside the current Hou Bishop Temple, the White-Robed Bishop felt extremely heavy-hearted, especially seeing that of the 10 deacons originally under his command, only three remained now.

Fortunately, his fanatical Believers had not suffered too many losses; they had simply wiped out a force of about 50 people with swift momentum at the very beginning of the war, and had not joined the battlefield since.

The White-Robed Bishop's gaze turned toward the main culprit of this war—Heertui!

He was actually still alive!

Sensing the White-Robed Bishop's gaze, Heertui felt a chill down his back and couldn't help but shiver.

Why did it feel like the Bishop's gaze toward him was strange? Was it an illusion? He didn't seem to have done anything wrong recently, right?

Niexi, standing to the side, did not feel any sense of urgency; he was very satisfied with this hunt.

The fighting will displayed by those human soldiers made the entire hunt full of uncertainty, and until the very last moment of their lives, those human soldiers were thinking about how to kill the enemy before them.

It was just that Niexi was now curious about the "Emperor" those soldiers shouted about; what kind of person could make these human soldiers use their lives to prove their Loyalty?

If he could hunt down that "Emperor," that would certainly be very interesting!

"Now that Yingzhou has not only completely taken the Sixth Defense Zone Inner City but also destroyed half the buildings in the Outer City, and only three Deacon Sanctuaries remain, Niexi, shouldn't you let those Decaying Legion soldiers hunting outside gather to defend against the humans' offensive?"

The White-Robed Bishop extended his left hand, the eye in the center of his palm looking toward Niexi, and spoke in a grim tone.

"Bishop Tannuo, you know that once my subordinates find valuable prey, they become very excited. You should also understand that if our Decaying Legion hadn't been hunting those human soldiers all along, would you even have three Deacon Sanctuaries left?"

Niexi dismissively rubbed his stomach with his right hand, a glob of viscous fluid occasionally oozing from the gap in his belly.

Inside the Bishop Temple, the rotting flesh on the dome squirmed, and the eyeball in Bishop Tannuo's palm suddenly burst with bloodshot veins.

"Regiment Commander Niexi, your Legion soldiers have indeed hunted many human soldiers, but those soldiers have no impact on the overall battle situation at all!"

The viscous fluid in Niexi's belly suddenly boiled, making a gurgling sound.

"Bishop Tannuo, you should know that the number of human soldiers is limited. As long as my soldiers keep hunting those human soldiers, their speed of advance will become slower and slower.

Furthermore, I haven't seen those tall humans in silver-white Armor I mentioned before. They haven't run into me, otherwise, they would have a hard time!"

Thinking of the soldiers in his Legion whose energy components had been destroyed, the vast majority had been killed by those tall humans in silver-white Armor.

Niexi extended his bone-spur-wrapped fingers and traced a spiked tactical map on the floor.

Just then, Heertui and the other two Hou deacons all had their expressions change drastically at the same time.

"Bishop! Those humans have started attacking the Temple again!"

Heertui hurriedly bowed and saluted, speaking in a rushed tone.

Bishop Tannuo looked at Niexi, waiting for the other's reply.

"Fine, fine, fine. I will deal with two of the squads; how about you deal with the remaining one?"

Bishop Tannuo nodded and said bluntly.

"It's a deal!"

Niexi sneered, then stood up and left the Bishop Temple.

Heertui and the other two Hou deacons also cut off their connection with the puppets and returned to their respective Deacon Sanctuaries.

Outside the Sixth Defense Zone Outer City Hou Deacon Temple.

The stationed Hou warriors were nervously guarding the surroundings; just a moment ago, several rounds of shelling had landed around their encampment, shattering quite a few of the Temple's walls.

But after several rounds of shelling, no human soldiers launched an attack, yet this kept the Hou warriors' nerves stretched to the limit.

"These cunning humans must be trying to launch a surprise attack while we relax our spirits; this is their usual tactic! Do not slack off! Report any abnormalities directly!"

A Hou officer patted the dust off his Armor and shouted to the alert Hou warriors, then pointed to the Hou warrior operating the Energy Cannon.

"Energy Cannon over there, watch the sky! This time the humans have fighter jets providing aerial fire support, pay attention!"

"Yes!"

The Hou officer hadn't expected those humans to have actually transported fighter jets here!

This was the rhythm of them preparing to fight to the death; it had to be taken seriously!

Just then, a group of human soldiers wearing gas masks suddenly rushed out from the distance, and accompanied by sharp whistles, these human soldiers began to charge toward this side.

"Are these humans idiots? Launching a charge without any cover? No matter how many of them there are, do they have more than us? Open fire!"

Seeing this scene, the Hou officer immediately ordered to open fire.

Beams of green energy flew out from the defensive works of the encampment, and many of the Krieg soldiers charging at the front fell under the attack of the energy beams.

And the Krieg Commissar in the rear, watching the Krieg soldiers charging onto the battlefield one after another, only felt that this was the easiest campaign he had ever been in charge of.

He remembered the Task the Emperor gave to the Death Korps of Krieg was to attract the attention of the Temple garrison forces.

And the Krieg Captain believed that what could best attract the Alien's attention was a direct charge, not letting the opponent have any other thoughts.

It had to be said that this method was indeed effective. Accompanied by the artillery array in the rear, which had already adjusted its firing angles, starting to bombard repeatedly, the Hou troops stationed outside the Temple had to dodge the shelling while attacking the Krieg soldiers who were getting closer and closer.

"Third Squad, go reinforce the gap on the west side!"

The Hou officer Keluoz kicked away a severed arm blocking his path, the green energy patterns on his black Armor lighting up.

Before his voice had even faded, a Krieg soldier rushed into the encampment, his Lucius Pattern 98 Lasgun firing rapidly, killing two Hou warriors.

When this Krieg soldier turned to attack this Hou officer, he saw an opening appear in the officer's palm, and a Bone Blade with green energy attached to its surface flew out, hitting the Krieg soldier's throat.

Seeing this human soldier fall to the ground, the Hou officer walked up, wanting to see what was going on with the Energy Weapon in the human soldier's hand, only to hear the crisp sound of a pin being pulled on the opponent's body.

"Hm? This is... I..."

The Hou officer had just reacted when he was already swallowed by the explosion. Just as the Hou officer was blown away, he seemed to see a fighter jet appear in the sky, and accompanied by several heavy thuds of landing, the Hou officer's consciousness returned to his main body.

The Hou warrior operating the Energy Cannon had just grabbed the handle when his entire head was blown apart.

"For the Emperor!"

The deafening roar pierced through the sound of the explosion. Claudius put away his smoking Bolter and said to Aurelian in front of him.

"Is it here?"

"Mm, act according to the plan; the Emperor wants us to eliminate the Alien entity here as quickly as possible!"