Angron's roar thundered across the battlefield, his heavy, slow steps carrying an unstoppable sense of oppression.
His crimson gaze pierced through the swirling smoke, locking onto the retreating mortals and Li Feng.
Celestine's broken body lay on the ground, her golden glow dimming.
Her holy sword was stuck in the shattered earth, alone, as if mourning her defeat.
Angron looked down at the figure that once represented the Emperor's will, letting out a low, evil laugh.
"Sanguinius's Daughter? Nothing more than that!" He suddenly lifted a foot and stomped down without hesitation.
Accompanied by a deafening... "Splat~"
Celestine's head was crushed along with the ground, blood, feathers, and holy light mingled, emitting a complex sensation.
The battlefield fell into a deathly silence, with only Angron's heavy breathing and footsteps remaining.
He gave no one a chance to breathe, raising his burning chainaxe again and pointing it at the retreating troops in the distance.
At the same time, the Imperial Guard on the front line had quickly regrouped, with armored vehicles, heavy artillery, and Leman Russ Tanks forming a new defensive line.
Accompanied by piercing alarms, a large number of Soldiers surged onto the defensive line, attempting to halt Angron's advance.
"Fire for effect! All turrets target! Fire!" The Commander's order thundered through the communication channel.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Countless explosions erupted at Angron's feet, the flames and dust they kicked up seemingly devouring the entire world.
However, when the smoke cleared, that terrifying figure still stood unyielding.
Angron advanced, his massive axe swinging out, unleashing a fierce storm of fire that instantly reduced the front-row Salamanders to scrap metal.
Any Soldier who approached, before they even had a chance to fire, was torn to shreds by the axe's shockwave.
"We can't stop him!" A Imperial Guard Soldier cried out in terror, his voice filled with despair.
Angron gave them no chance.
He suddenly leaped up, his massive figure descending from the sky, landing in the center of the armored convoy.
The shockwave instantly destroyed the axles of all vehicles and overturned several nearby Astra Militarum Leman Russ Tanks.
The ground cracked open, forming a giant crater.
"Da da da da!" Not far away, a machine gun on a Puma armored vehicle poured a storm of metal towards Angron.
As the launcher deployed, a'Spike' anti-tank missile flew directly towards Angron.
Just as the missile was about to hit Angron, an unexpected thing happened, startling both Li Feng and the armored crew... Li Feng's mouth dropped open into an 'O' shape from shock.
Angron caught the incoming anti-tank missile with his bare hands, then crushed it with a single hand.
The explosion directly blew off one of Angron's arms.
Angron sneered, then swung his Chainsword and threw it directly at the Puma.
The Chainsword created a sonic boom the moment it was thrown by Angron, crashing heavily onto the Puma.
The armored vehicle was not sliced open by the Chainsword, but was directly overturned.
The armored crew inside immediately climbed out of the hatch and retreated to the rear.
Just then, Angron suddenly noticed a red laser shining into his eyes... He looked down to see his body covered in red laser beams...
In the distance, Commissar Cain looked at Angron, who was like a "God of Slaughter," through his binoculars, and immediately said: "Artillery ready! Fire!"
All Imperial Guard artillery positions, towed M777 155mm howitzers, PCL-155 truck-mounted howitzers, M142 HIMARS rocket launchers... "Boom—!!!"
Thousands of artillery pieces fired almost simultaneously, the deafening roar instantly tearing the air, shaking the earth.
Shells, rockets, and incendiary bombs rained down like a deluge, a dense barrage covering the area where Angron stood.
The sky was dyed blood-red by fire and smoke, and the entire battlefield was engulfed by violent shockwaves.
From a distance, Angron's position had almost become an inferno, with dust kicked up tens of meters high by the explosions, like a thick wall completely sealing off the entire area.
The continuous explosions roared like the enraged earth, stinging the eardrums of countless Soldiers, and even the communicators were filled with piercing static.
"Don't stop!" Cain commanded through the communication channel, his voice cold and decisive.
"Maintain suppressing fire! Blast that monster to ashes!"
High-explosive shells, anti-tank missiles, and incendiary napalm continued to cover the target area, the flames and shockwaves of the explosions even forcing the Soldiers in the rear to retreat a few steps.
In just a few minutes, the ground around Angron had been melted into charred magma by the high temperatures, the entire area resembling hell itself.
"Is he dead?" Fides stood behind the defensive line, gripping the Chainsword in her hand, her voice trembling almost imperceptibly.
Her gaze was fixed on the distant area ablaze with fire, hope and fear igniting simultaneously in her heart.
"Don't get your hopes up too high," Li Feng responded coldly, his gaze also never leaving the sea of fire.
"Angron isn't an ordinary guy; Sanguinius nearly tore Terra apart just to banish Angron."
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