"Courage and honor."
"Courage and honor!"
"For Father and His Majesty the Emperor. Commence battle."
When the Marines emerged onto the battlefield from their drop pods, they brought hope to the Imperial forces.
And true delight to the Orks.
The larger a war grew, the more pleasure the Orks took from it.
Even as thousands of Ork Boyz fell beneath bolter fire, the Orks only grew more excited.
"WAAAAGH!! A bigger WAAAAAAAGH!! Da Space Marines is 'ere!!"
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!"
The Orks charged the Ultramarines.
"Throne of Terra..."
The tide of war turned in an instant.
The moment the Space Marines appeared, the Orks were slaughtered.
That was not killing. It was extermination.
The Space Marines killed far more Orks in barely thirty seconds than thousands of Guardsmen had managed to kill over ten minutes of fighting.
Even though I knew what Space Marines were, I felt a shudder run through me.
"Fear the wrath of the Chapter!"
"He is our protector and our shield..."
"May He be with us. I am hatred. I am wrath. I am His sword."
"Courage and honor. For the Primarch and His Majesty the Emperor!"
"Exterminate the xenos scum! Kill them all!"
Whenever the Marines roared their battle cries, the Guardsmen's morale rose with them.
I shot down a Shoota Boy that had been aiming for me and shouted at my squad.
"The Emperor's angels have come! You bastards! Come on, let's fight!"
My squadmates, their spirits raised as expected, poured lasgun fire into the Orks.
"Don't get carried away! Five men to a team, just like we were trained—focus fire on them one at a time!"
Even Space Marines were not invincible.
I issued orders to my squad and sniped as many Orks as I could that approached the Marines or fired at them.
As I kept sniping for some time, I spotted an Ork crawling toward a Marine who was firing a heavy bolter at the Orks far ahead.
When I shot the crawling creature through the head, the Marine turned his head.
The instant the Marine looked at me, I felt my entire body stiffen.
The Marine looked at me once, checked the corpse of the Ork that had been crawling toward him, then nodded.
By reflex, I snapped off a salute.
Then I went back to killing Orks. Again and again.
The war was moving at a frantic pace.
Upon receiving reports that Gargants were being assembled, Guilliman committed seven additional Chapters.
It became a massive crusade, with 1,207 Firstborn and 538 Primaris deployed.
Orbital bombardments and Marine drop pods rained down across the entire planet.
Every Astra Militarum regiment holding out across the front received the support of a company, while bikes and Land Speeders raided every Ork supply base.
And one after another, the Ork fleets that felt the WAAAGH! and rushed toward the planet were crushed by the Indomitus Crusade fleet.
"Find their leader at all costs!"
You had to kill the Orks' head.
Otherwise, they would rise again.
Within a week, we would purge this planet of Orks.
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