Mountain peak base.
Braving heavy anti-air fire and the pursuit of Tyranid and Ork aerial units, ultimately less than half of the transports returned safely.
However, at this moment, whether it was Sith and Fanros's team that had fled back to the base, or the defenders who had stayed behind, there was not a hint of relief on their faces. Instead, without even time to rest, they immediately picked up their weapons and turned to join the resistance.
With the support of the returning teams, Omiya's firepower finally managed to barely suppress the surging enemy horde.
Fanros withdrew his gaze from the front line, feeling somewhat awkward.
Because the ones holding the front line were no longer the troops Fanros had brought with him, but the recruits Sith had been training at Omiya for several months.
However, the several Omiya groups that had set out were now mostly shattered, their numbers sharply reduced.
But perhaps it was just his imagination; after glancing at them twice, Fanros's seasoned eyes still felt that these surviving Omiya soldiers...
Why did they feel even tougher than the Penitent Storm Troopers of his own Inquisition?!
Doubt surfaced in his heart, and his brow even furrowed because this little episode was too 'bizarre'.
It wasn't until the roar of a transport plane came from behind again that Fanros hurriedly pulled his attention back.
After all, compared to this little episode, finding a way to get Sith out alive was the top priority.
A transport plane had finished refueling with promethium, and its jet engines, having received not a moment's rest, spewed rolling waves of heat from their glowing red interiors.
Ana was leading some of the Black Watch into the transport, while Sith stood at the doorway, facing the crowd that remained.
Yet, unlike Sith, who was about to leave, those remaining behind cast looks of concern at him.
Fanros gazed at the dense array of various anti-air defenses below the mountain and the massive biological projectiles sweeping across the sky in the distance.
Coupled with the battlecruiser in orbit that felt like it was about to crash at any moment, no one would truly envy him for taking off at a time like this.
As Ana and the others successfully boarded, facing the remaining Fanros, as well as his own original team of Bruno, Davi Luo, and the vast majority of the Black Watch, Sith stood at the hatch of the ascending transport and calmly comforted them:
"I'll be back to pick you all up in a while."
Fanros: "..."
Astartes, Battle Sisters: "..."
The crowd fell silent; even the Imperial Guardsmen lowered their gazes slightly upon hearing this.
After all, in this situation, everyone felt there was no need for that.
Only when the transport had completely cleared the ground and the waves of heat dissipated did the crowd look up again, watching the transport, which had no cover, preparing to force its way through the alien interception to reach the battlecruiser.
As they watched, seeing the large number of Ork fighter planes and the cloud of biological projectiles converging around it, when a cloud suddenly changed direction and seemed like a giant maw that abruptly swallowed the transport, everyone reflexively frowned and closed their eyes. Fanros even felt his heart stop beating for a moment.
It wasn't until a long while had passed without the flash of an explosion that the crowd cautiously looked up again, seeing a ball of golden and red light tightly enveloping the transport.
A constant stream of blessings from the God-Emperor and Khorne was being applied to the transport through Sith's gilded silver armor and the red sword.
Under the protection of this dual-colored light, although corrosive plasma and large-caliber projectiles kept exploding around it, the transport still stumbled its way into space.
Only when the transport passed through the rolling smoke and entered the battlecruiser did the people below lower their heads again, their faces filled with confusion as to how the God-Emperor could have two kinds of blessing lights.
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