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

Chapter 491 Ahriman: I'm numb (Please subscribe)
As soon as the war blacksmith's order came down, the adjutant excitedly began to act.

They were trying to help their brother legion fight against the attack of the false emperor, so firing at the Thousand-foot Light... should be reasonable, right?
Regardless of whether it is reasonable or not, the initiative is already in their hands.

For the Warmaster! Fire at the Thousand Sons!
Even if the case was brought to the Warmaster, the Iron Warriors would still be in the right. In war, artillery fire is indiscriminate, and if anyone was accidentally injured, it was just bad luck.

The huge Iron Blood cruised in the void, pointing its side at the Imperial reinforcements coming from outside the galaxy. The excellent fire control system immediately locked onto the Radiance... the Mechanicus battleship behind it.

"Open fire!" the city-breaker gave the order.

The densely packed macrocannon array on the side of the Queen of Glory began to turn, the black muzzles were calibrated and locked, and then the huge macrocannons ejected deadly physical ammunition.

In an instant, thousands of macro cannons exploded at the same time. The weapon system designed by Perturabo himself maintained an extremely consistent fire output. The weapon array was roaring at every moment, and the clever recoil distribution prevented the battleship from losing its center of gravity.

The Iron Lord of Olympia was indeed a genius. His talent and ability for machinery surpassed that of most humans. However, such a great man fell to the camp of Horus because of his inner imbalance.

If the Iron Warriors and the Imperial Fists defended Terra together, even if Horus's army rushed in all at once, they would inevitably be smashed and bloodied in the defense of steel and stone.

Roche had already discovered the enemy's counterattack, but he was not greedy and continued to command the fleet to surround the Thousand Sons' Queen of Glory and the accompanying fleet, and adopted a defensive tactic against the Iron Warriors.

More than a dozen Mechanicus warships stood in front of the Iron Warriors. They did not have very powerful means of attack, but they had a powerful void shield system that exceeded the theoretical configuration.

Luo Xi positioned them as frigates. The void shield generator he modified could produce void shields comparable to the level of the Queen of Glory. When these frigates were connected together, they almost built a high wall in the universe.

The bombardment from the Iron Blood directly hit the void shield. These ultra-high-speed physical ammunition directly triggered the defensive function of the void shield. Only some illusory ripples seemed to be rippling in the dark universe, and then the macro cannon was transferred to somewhere in the subspace.

Some of the large number of macro-cannon shells released by the Iron Blood were "inadvertently" deflected into the Thousand Sons' fleet. These powerful and lethal weapons actually played a big role on the warships of the Thousand Sons Legion.

In a blink of an eye, those horrifying metal warheads attacked from behind the Thousand Light, while the Thousand Sons Legion mainly deployed its void shields on the side of the Imperial fleet.

Even for a Queen of Glory-class battleship like the Thousand-foot Light, the more than ten-meter-thick composite metal armor was shattered and deformed by the heavy blow of the macro cannon.

For the Iron Warriors who place special emphasis on firepower output, there will naturally be more than just a few types of macro cannons.

The heavy shells fired by the Huangquan type macro cannon containing refined gold cores have powerful armor-piercing capabilities. The warhead of this special macro cannon shell continuously sharpens itself during the armor-piercing process, and can also use the ultra-high temperature generated by the impact to soften the armor at the impact point and reduce the defense strength.

These giant shells weighing thousands of tons smashed directly into the cabin of the Radiance, reducing all the passages, pipelines, energy lines and mortal crew members inside that were blocking the way to ashes.

Even a battleship of the Queen of Glory class would still tremble violently when hit by a macro cannon, shaking and oscillating like being hit by the iron fist of a heavy boxer.

The highly charged ionized deuterium atomic shells fired by the disintegration macrocannon will release powerful electromagnetic pulses, overloading and paralyzing all electronic systems within range.

Suddenly, a large area of ​​the Radiance was without power, and even the automatic defense system began to go offline under this heavy blow.

The Astartes defending in the flagship were already confused. Ahriman's face was extremely ugly. He had tried his best to protect every battle brother, and even did the shameful thing of letting the Iron Warriors be scapegoats.

The Chief Wizard does not care about these empty honors. If killing all the Iron Warriors can lift the flesh-mutation curse that plagues the Thousand Sons, then he will not hesitate to use psychic spells to tear apart every cousin.

Just now, when the macro-cannon hit their warship, his psychic sense had lost contact with nine of the Thousand Sons Astartes.

They had not yet perished at the hands of the enemy's boarding troops, but were instead blown to ashes by the Iron Warriors in the rear with macro cannons.

This absurd feeling of being manipulated by fate filled Ahriman with fury. Surges of lightning swirled around him, and the Chief Sorcerer's eyes blazed with psychic energy. He grasped his staff and charged directly toward the fateful enemies. "My premonition was correct, but who blocked my foresight?" Ahriman felt a vague suspicion, but he had no concrete evidence.

"But no matter who you are, you need to pay for my brother's death!"

Ahriman's words caused the darkness to dissipate, and psychic lightning split the Warp evils roaming the Manifestation of Radiance.

He danced with the storm, and the demon's fearful roar came in waves from the darkness, getting farther and farther away.

The Radiance was making an emergency evasive maneuver. They dispersed their precious energy and raised a void shield on the side facing away from the Iron Warriors.

"Sons of Perturabo! What are you doing? This is pure murder!"

The Thousand Sons issued a severe protest and accountability to the Iron Warriors, angrily blaming their sudden attack for causing damage to the Thousand Sons Legion.

The Iron Warriors also sent a regretful apology: "Our captain made a mistake in command, which caused the macro cannon to accidentally injure you. He has now been executed by us."

The Thousand Sons were filled with anger and fury, but for a moment they could not think of any vicious words to scold each other.

Damn it, these sons of Perturabo who only know how to fight changed the Thousand Sons' original excuses and gave them back.

However, they no longer have the time and energy to argue with the Iron Warriors. The constant alarm and distress signals coming from the battleships further indicate that the situation is worsening. Those damn pseudo-emperor's lackeys have already landed on their battleships.

Furthermore, the enemy's advance was incredibly fast, and Ahriman could sense that their mortal auxiliary troops were constantly being killed under the enemy's assault.

He originally thought that these mortals could at least slow down the enemy's attack, but he didn't expect that these rubbish couldn't even do that.

Ahriman, who used psychic magic to quickly rush to the battlefield, soon found out what had caused heavy damage to their mortal auxiliary army.

A large number of fully armed iron men appeared in front of him. Those intelligent machines with scarlet eyes and equipped with high-energy weapons that were still emitting flames were causing a massacre.

When machines focus on killing, war becomes a very boring thing, because everything looks like the routine slaughter of livestock on an assembly line.

There was no heroic sacrifice, no charge to the front, only exchange of injuries and lives.

As soon as Ahriman showed his head, dozens of Gauss rays and arc beams shot towards him, entangled with the psychic shield released by the chief wizard.

A huge energy shock wave exploded, and the surrounding corpses and broken metal plates were instantly blown away.

The Iron Man discovered this more valuable hunting target, and under the command of the Node Iron Man, he immediately abandoned other enemies and began to mobilize forces to encircle and kill the Thousand Sons who appeared.

"The Iron Man of Hate?" exclaimed Ahriman.

"The false emperor is indeed a liar. Even we, the Astartes Legionaries who have been deployed into the warp, will not use the Abomination Iron Man."

The chief wizard looked at the dozens of iron infantrymen in front of him without any fear. With the support of psychic energy, he floated in the air and immediately released countless psychic arcs to start a counterattack.

(End of this chapter)