Warhammer: This Galen's Heart of Steel

Chapter 8 Premonition comes true
"Why her?"

Garen murmured again in a sad tone, sighed and looked at the gloomy sky.

"Maybe it's because she and I both hate war."

"Hermione, my first impression of her was that she was an artistic girl with a sweet smile, like a little girl next door, very cute.

She came to me and the first thing she said to me was, "I hate war."

Then, she asked me to allow her to join the Vanguard.

I refused and told her that such a sweet and lovely smile should not be tarnished by war.

But she finally convinced me.

I still remember the first time she faced her enemy three months ago, a very crazy little grass.

He was obviously terrified, his hands were shaking when he cast the spell, but he was the first to attack."

Garen turned to look at the sobbing Silas and said seriously: "You should ask me why it was them."

"I can tell you, Silas, that every soldier of the Fearless Vanguard hates war, but they have to do it because they have treasures behind them that are worth everything to love and protect."

He grabbed Silas's collar and lifted him up, staring at his dilated pupils, and roared, "Tell me, do you want Hermione, Grant, and the people lying in the cemetery to die in vain?"

"No! Sir! I will tear those bastards to pieces!"

Silas, tears streaming down his face, shouted while saluting.

"What about you, Jarvan?"

Garen turned his head to look at the other side. Jarvan scratched his face and said with a wry smile: "My goal remains the same. After defeating you, I will destroy Demacia."

"."

Garen said no more, that was his choice.

The fearless pioneers slowly gathered to mourn the warriors sleeping there.

After a brief moment of silence, they all looked towards their primarch with heavy hearts, waiting for comfort.

They need to be told that this is all heroic, this is all meaningful.

"The soldiers performed their mission heroically."

"Even when faced with a force several times their own, they fearlessly drew their swords against the enemy and completed their mission at the cost of their lives."

"I offer my deepest condolences and respect to the soldiers who are buried on this land."

"The dead are gone, tomorrow will continue, warriors, the final decisive battle has arrived."

Unlike the solemn atmosphere of the battlefield, the capital of Demacia is still quiet and peaceful.

Lux wrapped her petite body in a black cloak and poked her head out of a small alley in the market. After making sure that there were no guards from the Crown Guard following her, she walked out of the alley with confidence.

There is a secret tunnel in the alley, which she and her brother dug together when they were children.

At that time, Pete was very strict in disciplining them, and they had so much homework to do every day that they could not finish it.

So, the two of them dug this small tunnel that leads directly to the market (Garen did the hard work, Lux cheered on) so that they could sneak out and play.

This tunnel has not been used for nearly ten years. Ever since Garen was ten years old, the power of the primarch in his body has been revived and he has become the benchmark for the descendants of Demacia. Pete no longer forces the two to learn those boring knowledge.

But recently, she was grounded again because of her awakened psychic powers.

Pete hired a psychic mentor for her, and she had to spend almost a whole day learning how to control her psychic powers.

Lux is very unhappy!
Lux walked briskly through the market, overwhelmed by the dazzling array of goods.

Shopping may really be an instinct engraved deep in women's genes.

"Hey! Lux, we still have things to do!"

Lux patted her fair cheeks, reminding herself not to forget her mission.

Peter was ill and had been bedridden since the third day after Galen left.

Lux remembered that her father liked the violets from the Star Flower Shop, so she sneaked out and wanted to buy a bouquet of flowers to put on her father's bedside.

When you are in a good mood, you will recover faster.

It was clearly a heartwarming act of concern for her father's health, so why did little girl Lux sneak out?
Thinking of this, Lux shuddered.

She asked her mother for permission to go out, but was not only rejected, but was also coldly locked in the room.

Walking to the door of the flower shop, Lux stood on tiptoe, with her fair chin resting on the counter table, and her short white hands raised high, holding a large bill.

"Excuse me, are there any violets?"

she asked timidly.

The clerk's heart was immediately warmed by the little girl's adorable appearance and behavior.

"Yes!" the clerk said enthusiastically.

"I want a bouquet of violets. Can I write a greeting on a card?"

"Of course, do you want it to be written by someone else or by hand?"

"I will do it myself."

The clerk quickly prepared a beautiful greeting card. Lux took the card and lay on the small chair given by the clerk. She wrote in a beautiful handwriting:

I hope dad gets well soon.
——Love you Lux

What a lovely and warm little cotton-padded jacket. I also want to have such a lovely and caring daughter in the future.

The salesgirl began to fantasize, but she actually didn't even have a boyfriend.

She carefully placed the card in the bouquet and handed it to the lovely Lux.

"Thank you~"

"You're welcome."

Lux took the flowers and walked home in small steps.

The clerk still kept her auntie smile, and waited until Lux walked away before she realized: "Did I forget to collect the money?"

Go home.

Lux strolled in the empty corridor. The whole manor was silent and her footsteps echoed in the empty corridor.

Lux tightened her collar in fear and hugged the bouquet of violets tightly in her arms. The scent of sunlight that had not yet faded from the petals made her feel at ease.

The Crownguard Manor was still magnificent, but at this moment, the luxurious decorations and countless empty rooms brought Lux an indescribable horror.

The curtains on all the windows were drawn tightly, and the only light came from the dim candlelight on the wall.

This was done by Ogasha's order to the servants, because Pete's illness was very special and he could not see the sun.

After finally reaching her father's room, she was about to knock on the door, but found that the door was ajar, and a faint strange sound came from inside, like some kind of chanting.

She curiously put her eyes to the crack in the door, her pupils dilated instantly, and her body trembled uncontrollably, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying.

in the room.

There were faint green candles lit on the candlesticks, and Ogasha had a sickly and twisted smile on her face, as if she was wearing a human skin mask of inappropriate size that would fall off at any time.

She pressed herself against her husband's chest, her pale fingers stroking his hollow cheek.

"My dear, this is the medicine given to me by the Goddess of Life. As long as we drink this, we will definitely be able to give birth to an heir of the Mianwei family, instead of letting that freak inherit everything of the Mianwei family."

As she spoke, she brought out a bowl of green medicine, and after a simple chant in praise of the goddess, she thought she would have to pry open her husband's mouth and force it in. Unexpectedly, Pete was unusually cooperative.

Pete looked at his wife who had been bewitched and corrupted by the devil with reluctance, hoping that the last bit of light in his life could illuminate the darkness in his wife's heart.

There was green liquid in the corners of his dry mouth. He said in a weak voice: "I love you. Please come back to the children."

The soft spot in her heart was touched, and tears flowed uncontrollably from the corners of Ogasha's eyes: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Her tone was sad, and she apologized repeatedly.

bang~
The noise coming from the door interrupted everything, and Ogatha's mind was once again affected by the whispers of chaos.

"who!"

Ogasha quickly walked to the door, and the corridor was empty without a trace of anyone.

She thought it was an illusion and was about to turn back when she noticed a violet petal on the ground out of the corner of her eye.

A twisted smile appeared on Ogatha's face again, and her eyes turned to the other side of the mansion, where was Lux's room.

"Lacus, my dear daughter."

"Hu-hu-"

Lux ran wildly in the empty mansion. She stopped at the corner of the corridor, gasping for breath and resting. After her heartbeat slowed down a little, she felt unusually cold.

Although there was no cold wind, rain or snow, her body was already soaked in sweet sweat due to the intense exercise and dramatic emotional ups and downs.

Coupled with the inexplicably low temperature in the room, Lux felt extremely cold.

"Lux, bad boy, where do you want to go?"

Lux's heart skipped a beat, her azure pupils constricted, and her lips trembled uncontrollably.

Ogasha's distorted and hoarse voice came from the end of the corridor. The distorted shadows were reflected on the wall by the candlelight, like some kind of distorted alien.

Without taking a rest, she turned and ran to the other side of the corridor, where there were stairs leading to the second floor. The rooms where the housekeeper and maids rested were on the east side of the second floor.

"Lacus, my dear daughter, don't you want your mother anymore?"

The voice changed several times. Sometimes it was hoarse like the roar of some monster, and sometimes it was the gentle voice of a mother.

But Lux didn't dare to stop at all. Her intuition told her that it was no longer Ogatha.

Lux had never felt that the road from the third floor to the second floor was so long. It was so long that she felt like she had been running for half an hour.

"Lacus, where do you want to go?"

The voice behind me was getting closer and closer, and gradually became more impatient.

Lux gritted her teeth and ran forward desperately, finally seeing the stairs leading to the second floor at the corner.

Her nervous heart suddenly skipped a beat and Lux ​​felt excited. She felt that she would be safe as long as she ran there.

The butler and the maids are all adults, they will definitely know what to do.

As long as you reach the second floor you'll be safe.

Lux repeated it over and over in her mind, as if repeating this sentence would speed up the journey and the speed.

She lost her balance and fell down the stairs.

Gululu~
She covered her head and climbed up. Ogasha's shadow had already reached the stairs, holding a knife-like object in her hand.

"Lacus, mom brought you a cake, come and eat it."

"hu~hu~"

Lux stepped back with fear in her eyes, struggled to get up from the ground, and ran towards the butler's room.

Knock knock knock~
"Mr. Fred, Mr. Fred, open the door quickly, Mom is acting strangely! Mr. Fred!"

No matter how hard Lux ​​knocked on the door or how loudly she shouted, there was no response from the other side of the room.

Tread. Tread.
There were footsteps coming down the stairs; she was coming.

Lux ran to the maids' room in a panic and knocked on the door.

Click! Click!
"Miss Sade, Miss Sade, are you there?"

Still no one responded, but Lux didn't give up.

"Sister Nabe, Sister Nabe, save me!"

I knocked in all the rooms, but no one responded.

Lux knelt on the ground in despair.

squeak~~
She found that the door she had knocked on before suddenly opened a crack, and a figure flashed inside.

Lux was extremely surprised and rushed in. She put both hands on the door and slammed it shut. The door handle shook violently as something outside tried to come in.

"Sister Nabei, Mom has become very abnormal. She feeds Dad strange medicine. I feel like she wants to kill me."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was no movement outside the door.

Lux's pupils suddenly contracted. A shadow was reflected on the door, and a bone-chilling breath came from behind.

Is that really Sister Nabe in the room?

"Lacus, my good daughter, come and eat cake."

Cold hands wrapped around Lux's slender waist, and a muscular face rested on her shoulder.

She turned her head slowly.

"what--!"

Big jungle, northern canyon.

Baron Nash's base is in a canyon surrounded by mountains. Garen and his fearless vanguard warriors are stationed outside the canyon, waiting for the horn of the final charge.

Two Wolf Spider heavy artillery were pushed to the front of the position. The height of this heavy artillery alone reached an astonishing six meters. After it was fully deployed, it required the joint efforts of at least twenty soldiers to operate normally.

This cumbersome operating process is exchanged for its powerful firepower. It can fire 12.7×99mm armor-piercing bullets with an extremely high rate of fire, reaching a terrifying rate of one hundred rounds per second.

It only takes one minute of free strafing to cut a mountain in half.

The huge weight caused these two killing beasts to remain silent for two full months. Fortunately, Baron Nash's territory was in the mountains paved with hard rocks, otherwise these two beasts would still be useless.

"Roar"

A shrill and terrifying roar came from the canyon, and a hideous-looking alien flew out, roaring at the sky and the earth outside.

In the blink of an eye, the wolf spider's heavy artillery started working, and bullets like light spots were fired one after another. Before the alien could see what was happening, its huge body was submerged in the hail of bullets, and torn pieces of flesh were scattered all over the ground.

"That's it?" Garen touched the hot gun barrel and said disappointedly.

As soon as he finished speaking, countless noisy and piercing roars were heard from inside the canyon, and a dark purple alien torrent gushed out of the canyon. In less than a second, it had formed an overwhelming force.

"Fire!" Galen roared.

Chu tu tu tu——

Countless armor-piercing shells, light shells, and grenades were fired at the alien torrent like a torrential rain. Faced with the huge base number, the dense rain of bullets like raindrops did not have much effect.

The fearless pioneers drew the chainswords at their waists, and the sharp teeth began to "buzz".

"kill--!"

Garen led the charge, cutting an alien that was charging at Wolf Spider's heavy artillery into two pieces.

He grasped the tongue that was secreting corrosive liquid with his right hand, pulled over an alien that was trying to attack his kidney, and smashed the alien's head with his iron fist. The hard bones immediately exploded, and green slurry splashed everywhere.

above the sky.

The black raptors swooped down towards the Fearless Vanguard's position, disregarding their own safety, and were therefore also torn to pieces by the dense fire net.

But their purpose was achieved. The blood with the beacon was inserted into the position and placed under the feet of the psychics who served as psychic turrets.

The next moment, accompanied by a strange roar, a huge purple tail broke through the earth's crust and emerged. Dozens of psychics were caught off guard and were chopped into pieces by the sharp tail blade.

(End of this chapter)