Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 119 Time Loop Warhead
Dozens of Crusaders belonging to the Mechanicus were quickly defeated in the long-range battle with the Necrons. Those organized Immortals possessed terrifying destructive power in long-range combat.

The weapons of the Skitarii from the Adeptus Mechanicus can often only leave an inconspicuous bullet hole or a melt mark on the reinforced living metal of the Necrons. The bodies of the Immortals are far more solid than those of the Necrons warriors.

They showed their ability to think calmly. The immortals formed a well-organized military formation and strangled the crusaders who rashly rushed out of their positions to protect them from all angles.

For some reason, Luo Xi could even see a hint of the pleasure of killing and the joy of humiliating the enemy on the faces of these iron skeletons.

"They were once flesh and blood creatures, but they came to hate and resent flesh and blood humans."

The bolters in the hands of the Warsmith, Nikona and others never stopped firing. The firepower network released by the basilisks had little effect on the Necrons.

They seemed to have a response plan for this kind of brutal range bombing. Their special stance defense greatly weakened the kinetic energy of the bombing. Even if they were hit at close range, they could only be blown into the soil, and then the living metal would squirm and return to its original state.

Their iconic living metal bodies give humans a great sense of oppression. Even for aliens with strong vitality like the Greenskins, it can be considered a fatal injury. When facing the Necrons, it can only delay time.

It only takes tens of seconds for the knocked-down Necrons to recover their damaged parts through the self-healing of the living metal.

"Replace the explosive bomb."

Hill calmly gave the order, and the Ultramarines divided half of their forces to continue suppressing the advancing Necrons, while the other half replaced the new type of bombs that arrived in Sosa with Roche and others.

Bolters are the most common ranged weapon used by Space Marines, and their ammunition is not limited to standard bolt rounds.

Those standard .75 caliber bombs consisting of depleted deuterium cores and diamond warheads are enough to deal with ordinary aliens, but they are not enough to face the Necrons.

When prepared, Space Marines will often switch to a type of explosive bomb that is more suitable for battlefield conditions.

Dantioch's bolter fires Infernal Bolters, which are bombs that have a depleted deuterium core replaced with oxyphosphorus gel, producing an extremely hot chemical fire at the target.

The Necrons hit by this incinerating bomb fell into a sea of ​​promethium fire. They looked as hideous and terrifying as evil spirits entangled in the flames of hell.

The high-temperature flames burned the living metal. Even the strongest living metal was constantly melting and deforming. The Undead Immortal's unwilling half body melted and collapsed in the sea of ​​fire.

However, Sharokin and his companions used another, rarer type of bomb. A small amount of antimatter was bound inside these bombs by a strong magnetic field. As the bombs exploded on the living metal of the Necrons, the antimatter exposed to the positive matter immediately underwent a material reaction.

The horrific explosion tore apart the body of the Necron. At the deepest part, the micro-vacuum created by the annihilation of positive and negative matter instantly crushed its remains into one piece.

"They are not completely dead. I detected traces of data transmission. They have a system similar to rebirth."

Although Luo Xi did not directly participate in the battle, he had been using the intelligent computer to analyze the battlefield model.

Those Immortals who fell completely and could not recover were seemingly killed by the Space Marines, but in fact the data in their bodies had been transferred to a certain location.

In other words, as long as they are given a little more time, these Necrons will be able to complete their rebirth and return to the battlefield with another body.

"This is simply a rogue style of play. Can these damn metal skeletons really not afford to lose?"

Luo Xi rarely cursed loudly, while thinking about how to crack the rebirth protocol of these immortals.

"Time. They have mastered a part of time technology. Once an individual dies and cannot be repaired, the consciousness controlling the body will be uploaded to a certain intermediate terminal for resurrection."

As the Necrons drew closer, the Immortals and the Tomb Spiders mixed in among them destroyed the human positions, turrets and armored vehicles with flashing Gauss weapons and burning white light.

They had a clear purpose, focusing on destroying those heavy vehicles that had the ability to threaten the living metal body and the artificial turrets located on the high walls.

Screams of auxiliary soldiers were heard from the turret surrounded by Gauss weapons, and then their bodies began to peel off and decompose layer by layer, and they died miserably.

"You and Dantioch must go first. Only the two of you have cracked the secret of the Pharos device. You must not be lost in Sosa."

Hill turned back from the front edge of the position, his face serious, and no tone of negotiation. "You let an Iron Warrior escape from your own position!"

The War Blacksmith also retorted bluntly. His voice was hoarse, but it revealed an unshakable determination.

The Necrons' Immortals advanced in groups, forming rows and rows, each with their own target, pulling the trigger to kill the chosen enemy.

And among these terrifying undead spirits, there are some even more terrifying monsters approaching.

They were only partially humanoid, with their lower bodies replaced by three sharp, slender living metal limbs, their armored skeletons with slender spines, and their upper bodies wielding two huge, dark green war weapons similar to sabers.

That special green weapon is not the same as humans' decomposition field weapons, but a kind of undead-only weapon called Phase Blade.

Through scanning and analysis by the intelligent brain, Luo Xi concluded that this seemed to be some kind of technology involving the rapid conversion of matter between different planes.

In just one second, this phase blade transformed through objects countless times, which meant that no matter what was in front of it, it would be sliced ​​smoothly.

This is a more dangerous weapon than the power sword. The decomposition field can be blocked by the adamantium armor, but this phase blade is enough to cut through the adamantium.

"Damn it, you're the only ones who know time technology, right? I know it, too!"

The intelligent brain in the space orbit mobilized a special STC template in the storage room, which contained the results of human research in the field of time.

In the heyday of human technology, the field of time technology has already been involved.

As far as Luo Xi knew, the Human Alliance had a special warship equipped with a time engine.

Once a warship suffers irreparable damage in a war, it can activate its time engine to adjust its own timeline and jump back to a point in time that did not happen.

This is considered cutting-edge technology for humans who are Gold Saints, and Roche does not intend to touch upon the realm of time too much.

He is self-aware that playing with time is extremely risky, and he will not use ancient technology that he cannot fully understand and master unless it is necessary.

But now, the necessary moment has obviously arrived.

Under the control of the intelligent computer, the Time STC quickly produced a batch of special bombs containing a trace of time technology. The material printer produced these weapons specifically targeting the Necrons like an assembly line.

Within a minute, boxes of bombs containing the time loop core were delivered to the Space Marines.

The time loop cores they contain can disrupt and destroy the Necrons' resurrection process.

Although Luo Xi didn't know whether doing so would completely kill a Necron, at least these damn iron skeletons would not get up again until the end of the war.

Nikonna immediately replaced the explosive bomb that had just been produced from the STC template. With shooting skills more accurate than machines, he hit the most flamboyant three-legged monster among the Immortals.

The Necrons' Scorpion Destroyer was hit in the head by a Raven Guard, the bomb entering through its eye socket, penetrating the living metal and exploding in the processing core.

Time was distorted, and although the distortion was extremely subtle, it still interfered with the Necrons' difficult rebirth protocols.

The cycle of time caused their resurrection process to go into chaos. This Wild Scorpion Destroyer that had killed many mortal auxiliary troops seemed to have completely crashed, blocking the immortals' path forward.

"Great, it works!" Hill laughed.

"Let these damn metal lumps die once and for all!" the war blacksmith said with great enthusiasm.

(End of this chapter)