Warhammer: Emperor's Ravenbringer

Chapter 44 The Golden Sun is Rising

After the vanguard gained an initial advantage.

Heavy transport ships landed on the planet's surface one after another.

With the support of ground firepower, knight mecha groups and tank clusters were also deployed to the battlefield.

The engine roared and the huge gun barrel moved back and forth.

The terrifying firepower poured onto one hostile target after another.

The surging mechanical waves were torn apart by the Empire's powerful firepower.

It was reduced to a wreckage with sparks and black smoke.

Intense flashes caused by explosions and flares rose from the ground, illuminating the dark sky.

In the void orbit, plasma beams, torpedoes, missiles, and pulse beams kept falling, continuously bombarding the surface.

Fighter planes roared in the sky, turning the rising black smoke into whirlpools.

The light from the engine left bright trails.

The Astartes with a genetic engine is a deadly sword.

They cut through the defenses set up by the mechanical frenzy and captured the heavily guarded fortress.

Horus was at the forefront of the battlefield and was extremely brave.

Even without the genetic engine, he is still an unstoppable god of war on the battlefield.

It can sweep away enemies with its own strength alone.

Heavy weapons couldn't lock onto his movements, and light weapons couldn't do any damage to him.

He was like a primordial savage force, wreaking havoc under the dusty sky.

The claws covered with power fields easily cut through the machines, turning them into scrapped wreckage.

Every time the hammer in his hand is swung, a blue destructive energy will be rolled up out of thin air.

Wherever Horus went, there were broken mechanical wreckage under his feet.

Behind him, he left a trail of killing burning with flames.

Horus's power soon attracted the attention of his enemies.

More powerful killing machines were sent to deal with him.

However, a Primarch is unrivaled in the Material Plane.

No matter how powerful the enemy was, they were eventually defeated by Horus.

He had a little help along the way.

A dozen ragged humans ran out from a sewer exit.

Using their crude weapons, they assisted Horus in destroying a killing weapon.

"I thought all humans were locked up in those buildings."

Horus was somewhat surprised to see the human who helped him.

"It seems that you are our compatriots from the stars. I welcome you on behalf of the survivors."

An old man with a mechanical prosthesis came out and talked to Horus.

Horus said: "My name is Horus. I am the biological son of the Lord of the Human Empire and the son he values ​​most."

"We have been ordered to liberate this planet, completely destroy these intelligent machines, and rebuild human society."

The old man bowed and then introduced himself.

"My name is Rona, I'm the elder of the fugitives, and I'm glad to meet you."

"What happened to this planet?" Horus asked. "Why were humans kept in captivity?"

"All this is the evil deeds of the governor. He used to be a good man, but later he went crazy." Rona's tone was heavy.

"Tell me more about it."

Horus looked around and saw that the battle around him was coming to an end.

The mechanical army has been defeated, and it is only a matter of time before they are annihilated.

He has plenty of time to listen to the stories of the world.

Rona did not hide anything and revealed to Horus the past of the planet Senus III.

After the advent of the Age of Strife, the number of feral psykers and mutants increased dramatically.

The world of Senus III fell into chaos, with all kinds of strange events emerging one after another.

In order to protect the people, the planet's governor at the time, despite opposition, unsealed the intelligent mother machine that should have been destroyed.

He uploaded his consciousness to the server, replacing the AI ​​of the mother machine and becoming the master of the intelligent army.

Using the army of intelligent machines, the planet's governor suppressed the unrest and restored society to its former peace.

However, it wasn't long before the planetary governor who uploaded his self-consciousness was corrupted by the hidden evil code and became the Dark Governor.

Realizing that something was not right, the human leaders responded immediately.

The intention is to eliminate the self-consciousness of the planetary governor and format the intelligent machine.

However, the Dark Governor counterattacked in advance and launched the Doomsday Judgment War.

Release various extinction weapons and turn the entire world into wasteland.

A large number of people died miserably, social order collapsed, and civilization was destroyed.

The higher-ups, realizing that humanity cannot win, prevent the Dark Governor from poisoning other worlds.

The choice was to overload the climate controllers and destroy the planet's magnetic field at both poles.

The world of Senus III is shrouded in dark clouds and electromagnetic storms all year round.

The Dark Governor, who won the war, was trapped on the surface and unable to leave the planet.

The satellites and space stations he launched into the void all lost contact due to interference from electromagnetic storms and dark clouds.

The trapped Dark Governor hated humans to the core and kept sending mechanical hunters to slaughter the survivors.

Later, it came up with a more vicious way of revenge.

Instead of exterminating the surviving humans, they began capturing and keeping them in captivity.

Those who were captured were stuffed into incubators.

The spiritual consciousness uses synaesthesia equipment to connect to the virtual world it created - Nightmare Paradise.

There are various horror copies and escape games in Nightmare Park.

Those captive humans escaped again and again, struggling constantly.

Gain hope in despair, and fall from the peak of hope into the abyss of despair.

Over and over again, without end.

Until they have a mental breakdown, become insane, or die.

When the relevant information was uploaded to the fleet, even the Emperor was shocked by such horrific atrocities.

Human beings are treated like dry batteries and reduced to puppets for entertainment.

From birth to death, we spend our time in the virtual world.

The Dark Governor is like a supreme god, dominating everything.

The Imperial forces are very powerful and the Omnic Army is no match for them.

The magnificent metal city was reduced to ruins, turning into smoke-emitting ruins.

The buildings that housed humans have been carefully preserved.

The Mechanical Sage inspected the incubators and found some tricky problems.

"These people have been living in a virtual world. If we destroy these devices rashly, it may cause them all to become idiots."

"Only by making the virtual world collapse from within and excluding these people's mental consciousness can we ensure that they can wake up normally."

"I will personally enter that so-called nightmare paradise," the Emperor said, "find the one behind it and punish him."

"Wouldn't that be too dangerous?" Waldo advised.

"No one can match my will."

The emperor was resolute.

Raven didn't try to persuade him, as he also wanted to broaden his horizons.

Get a taste of virtual fries and ketchup.

The dilapidated and rusty suspended bus shuttled through the fog.

There were twelve people in the car, five women and seven men.

They sat in the car, looking at the fog outside with expressions of fear.

They are the players of Nightmare Paradise.

Every once in a while, you have to participate in the nightmare game.

Once you fail the game, you will suffer inhumane torture until the next time you participate in the game.

This kind of life will continue until they become insane or die.

The bus moved forward like a ghost, with only the hum of its anti-gravity levitation engine making a difference.

There was total silence, no sound at all.

Finally, the bus arrived at a dark and eerie looking town.

The town was lifeless, with dried blood stains everywhere on the walls of the houses.

A tall and thin guy wearing a crow mask stood at the town's bus station, staring at the bus.

His wrists had been cut off, replaced with scissors and hooks covered in blood and rust.

[This game is a small town escape]

[Please collect tickets and escape from the town while being hunted by nightmares]

The car door opened and the players got off in order.

Then the bus started again, disappeared into the fog, and gradually went away.

"Welcome, my lovely little snacks."

Nightmare stuck out his tongue and licked the hook covered with blood and rust, his eyes shining with viciousness.

The game hasn't started yet, Nightmare is still restricted and can't do anything to the player.

But the eerie words and actions still plunged the players into deep fear.

The players are well aware that if they fail in the game and fall into the hands of the other party, they will be in a state worse than death.

【The game is coming soon! #】

【The game is coming soon@#@#￥@#】

[Program error, correcting￥￥￥]

【.】

The game prompts in front of the players were garbled, as if they had been invaded in some way.

Just as they were confused, the dark sky suddenly lit up.

Under the players' puzzled gaze, a golden sun was slowly rising, dispelling the strange fog.

PS: Daily heresy, praise the four gods
　I originally wanted to simply write about a rebellious AI keeping humans in captivity.

　　After thinking about it, I feel that this kind of plot is quite boring.

　　It would be better to write about a madman and a group of enslaved players.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)