Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 606 The Resilient Death Guard, whose Will Could Not Match My Unyielding Spirit
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On Druun's orbit, Ethan, who had just met the Father of Genetics and become a "fighter," gazed at the deathly gray warships and vehicles from the black stormbird.

"Death Guardian".

He muttered to himself, unconsciously clenching his fists. He recalled again how he was chained up like livestock.

Mortarian dragged him along, stumbling forward, intending to burn him alive in front of the Barbarosians.

Ethan, lost in his memories, suddenly felt his eyelids grow heavy and his head feel sluggish.

Ethan immediately realized that what had entered his mind was the image of the enslaved people mentioned in the documents his father had sent to the shadowy order of war.

They try to infiltrate their own minds and manipulate themselves.

Enslaves live in the warp and are attracted to psionicists, especially untrained ones, whose projections draw them in like beacons.

But he is an indomitable psychic personally trained by the think tank director, and he has endured the trials of Prospero's psychic-eating bees.

Ethan instantly ascended to the third level of the Thelma state of mind, and his blurred consciousness instantly became clear.

The Unyielding Psionicist drew his Force Field Staff, and a mountain peak proudly appeared in his eyes—his own warp-space phenomenon.

An indomitable will was infused with surging subspace energy, which gathered at the summit and shot out from his eyes.

A scorching blade of spiritual energy shot out rapidly along the spreading consciousness.

The mental blade flew 2.5 kilometers in an instant, shooting towards the jellyfish-like creature with one eye and twelve tentacles on the ground.

bang bang bang...

The jellyfish creature killed by the mind attack, along with ten human puppets that attacked the helipad from a hundred meters in front of it, fell simultaneously.

The Unyielding Psionicist confirmed that he had achieved his first victory, a new gift he would present to his father.

His primary areas of ability involve the mind and prophecy.

In terms of mind, unlike the "Tianxiao School" of "Qianzi" which focuses on mind reading and mind transmission, he focuses on mental attacks.

Unlike those in the psychic and prophetic systems, his will plays a dominant role in the use of psychic energy, rather than the subspace energy he can mobilize.

[A good start.]
Ethan understood why his father had mobilized the think tank to come to Druun.

They and their slaves will find each other.

Psionic attacks are also an effective way to kill enslaved beings.

After deducing his father's intentions, Ethan immediately realized that this was another test the think tank would face after the war with Randan.

Fortunately, Lord Thomas has always valued the cultivation of willpower in the think tank, and his requirements are getting higher and higher.

Now, apprentices are required to master the first level of Thelma, compilers the second level, and scribes and above master the third level.

More than two-thirds of the think tanks, after being transferred to Mankola, also gained control of the "Griffin's Roar."
As Ethan pondered this, he felt a tremor beneath his feet. After stepping off the deck, he looked up at the sky.

The deathly gray stormbird spun out of control in the air.

Mind control!

Ordinary slavers can only control puppets that are fifty meters long, but my father said that Druun has now become a world of slavers.

A powerful entity, like when it tried to control me just now, can reach objects several kilometers away.
Ethan stared at the crashing, deathly gray stormbird. "Death Guardian, Resilient?"

On the fourteenth day after arriving in Druon, Ethan, together with the 3rd Company of the 11th Regiment, launched an attack on the north side of Rohanpton.

Company Commander Chambers said to the think tank beside him, "The 7th Company of the 'Death Guard' is also targeting Roehampton; they are attacking from the south side of the hive."

Ethan gripped his force field staff tightly. [Finally, are we about to meet?]
He wanted to reach the city center before the Death Guard, but he did not make that request to Chambers.

Ethan knew that the "Death Guard" was organized into seven companies, with the seventh company being a combat company with nearly seven thousand men.

After the "Randan War", the 11th Regiment recovered to 28,500 men. However, the regiment had ten companies, and the 3rd Company had 2,900 men, less than half the size of the 7th Company.

The Vostonia-type command vehicle rumbled along, and Ethan turned his gaze to the window.

Ahead, apart from the "Shadow of Order" and the "Iron Hand," the West Karan tanks, which have not yet entered the other eighteen legions, are not only being deployed on a large scale, but new variants have also appeared.

The Sikaran longbow-type battleships manufactured in Vostonia were positioned at the front of the battle line.

Inside the hive fortress, the puppets of the enslaved unleash a barrage of projectiles.

But it missed; the swift-moving Sikaran longbow swept past, leaving the cannonball behind.

The earth trembled, and smoke filled the air.

The neutron flux warhead, which the Mechanicus refused to use, soared into the air and crashed down on the steel walls of the hive city.

The entire city wall burst into flames, vibrating in the neutron shockwave.

Ethan saw cracks appear on the steel exterior wall and spread rapidly.

At the bottom of the nest city, gaping portals appeared, wide enough for armored vehicles to pass through.

Sikaran's longbow flew forward at high speed, the neutron flux warhead precisely destroying the fortress, and the bunker and fortress turned to ashes in the flames.

The Vostonian rhinoceros then drove into Roehampton Nest City.

Ethan got out of the car and looked around.

The black vehicle sped along the wide avenue, its side-mounted laser cannons firing dazzling beams of light.

Some faltered, while others collapsed in droves like clumsy dancers, human puppets falling to the ground.

The speed that the Sikaran longbow was so proud of allowed it to leave unscathed after the attack, like an arrow.

“Roehampton is clean and bright, quite different from other worldly hives.” Chambers looked around, glimpsing the city’s former glory from the buildings that had survived the war.

"A benchmark of great expeditions, a beacon of human civilization, no wonder the Emperor sent three legions."

Ethan watched as the towering buildings rose from the ground, neat, orderly, and bright compared to the crowded and chaotic buildings of Upper Nest in the Nest World.

He nodded in agreement, “Only the exemplary city of Vostonia, and Arga and Kos can compare to it.”

Ethan immediately thought of the other legions, "There's also Tizka and Macurag."

"Advance!" Chambers withdrew his gaze and gave the order.

The faster the bribers run and clear away the aliens, the more intact this beacon of civilization will remain.

The neat, white buildings were quickly left behind.

Suddenly, he saw a black Sikaran tank explode without being hit by artillery fire.

The black armor disintegrated with a crash, but the driver and gunner seemed completely unaware, melting into their seats.

[Slaves!]
Ethan, an unyielding psionicist, was the first to sense an enslaver. Mountain peaks appeared in his eyes as he raised his staff high.

Rumble!
A clash of minds unfolds in a supernatural realm, stirring up towering waves in the sea of ​​souls.

Tentacles extend from beneath the sea, winding their way towards the mountain peaks.

While Ethan was engaged in a mental battle with his slaves, Chambers also began to act.

While maintaining his third state of mind, he felt evil tentacles enveloping his head like drills, trying to force their way in.

Having undergone three rounds of mental reinforcement, the "briber" swayed slightly before regaining his footing.

He suddenly tilted his head back and let out a deafening roar. The Shadow of Order keenly heard a slight tremor behind the building on the left.

He immediately took a step and rushed in that direction.

What came into his view was a radiant creature, suspended above the crowd like a pocket, as if floating in mid-air.

Its shape is pear-like, resembling the giant ticks of Vostochny nests.

It's like an embryo, but it has a jaw.

Tentacles dangled from the face-like tissue.

The “briber” raised his explosive gun and fired a barrage of bullets at the enslaved.

The explosive gift crashed into the shimmering light screen, and the "Bribery and Weakening" boosted the diamond warhead, piercing through the psionic shield like it was being shot into a curtain of water.

boom!
The enslavers smashed into more than twenty human puppets, and Chambers turned and left.

The shadow of order had keenly sensed that they fell at the same moment their enslavers died, ending their enslaved fate.

Indeed, as my lord said, there is no need to consider the lives of the Druuns.

They were already walking puppets when they were enslaved.
At the same time, on the edge of the city center.

Nathaniel Garro of the 7th Company of the Death Guard led his squad in a charge alongside the combat company commander.

His company commander's voice rang out in the company's sound channel: "Unwavering will, Death Guards."

"His swift and decisive actions leave the wizarding brats in the dust."

Galo frowned slightly as he listened to the synchronized roars from the sound array channel.

He raised his explosive gun and unleashed a roaring four-round burst of explosives, which struck the leaping humans.

Galo switched the team's communication channel and spoke calmly and forcefully.

"We are the death guards, we are the artisans of war, we seek no vanity, only duty."

Galo's squad moved steadily, unlike the other Death Guards who were in a hurry.

He watched as the deathly gray armor surged through the blood mist, and the combat boots trod over mangled limbs.

"Two o'clock, five hundred meters," Garo commanded loudly. He saw two Death Guards suddenly open fire as the shimmering creature appeared, killing the other fighting brothers.

He raised his explosive gun and fired a barrage of bullets at the abominable alien.

The bomb collided with an invisible, distorting force field, bent and twisted, and detonated in mid-air.

bang bang bang...

"cover!"

"Garo shouted, and he strode forward, passing two squads and disappearing into a building."

boom!
The deathly gray armor crashed through the wall, and blue light slashed towards the jellyfish creature.

The disintegrating force field hissed as it tore the alien into a scattering mass of light.

After landing, Galo continued walking.

"support!"

He saw in mid-air a colossal creature with seven eyes, suspended in mid-air. It was much larger than the two-meter-tall alien and as tall as a four-story building.

Below him stood fifteen humans.

One of the human hands spewed out a dazzling arc of electricity.

As he swung his sword, dazzling electricity coursed through the bodies of the two ashen figures.

The armor shattered, and the body split open.

The company commander's guards raised their guns and fired.

Another psychic, enveloped in light, raised his hands, and a psychic field rose up.

Amid a series of explosions, the combat company commander raised his sickle and charged forward.

Gara was astonished to see that the combat company commander seemed to be performing in slow motion.

The deathly gray figure moved slower and slower, the scythe became increasingly decelerated.

[The company commander has been taken into custody.]
Galo caught up with the guards and together they charged toward the company commander.

A streak of flame came hurtling towards him, and he knew he was in trouble, so he quickly rolled away to dodge.

Flames engulfed more than a dozen Death Guards, the fire waves churning within their deathly gray armor.

The explosion sent Gara flying, and as he tumbled through the air, he looked toward the combat company commander.

He twisted the sickle and slashed down at the back of the neck.

At the same moment that Garo thought the combat company commander would be sacrificed, in Ethan's mind, twelve tentacles emerged from the sea and firmly entangled the mountain peak.

Ethan's mouth stopped abruptly.

Chains flashed through his mind, along with Mortarian's merciless silhouette.

I will not yield to those who enslave me!
The indomitable psychic roared in his mind, his will enveloping the entire mountain.

The mountain peaks trembled, and the tentacles shattered.

The Unyielding Psionicist suddenly opened its mouth and let out a deafening roar: "Roar!"

Golden light erupted from his throat, and the deafening roar of the "Griffin's Roar" drowned out the explosion of the shells, which resounded in the minds of all living things within a kilometer radius.

Ethan's gaze shifted from the bodies of the enslaved psionicists who had been lying on top of their corpses to the combat company commander, where he saw the scythe slip from his grasp.

Poisoned blades tear through powered armor.

[Even the most resilient Deathguard cannot match my unyielding spirit.]
Garo struggled to his feet and saw the company commander's guards raising their scythes and charging toward the alien corpse.

"He's mine," a voice suddenly rang in his mind, and he saw Ethan raising his Force Field Staff, standing in front of the alien corpse.

"Get out of the way! I'm going to blast him to pieces and avenge the company commander!" the Barbarosian guard captain shouted, looking with disgust at the corpses of the think tank and the psionic monster.

“I have avenged your company commander,” Ethan’s voice was calm but firm. “Is all you’re capable of is taking your anger out on a corpse?”

As Galo watched the black-armored figure appear in the distance, and saw the captain of the guard angrily raise his scythe, he frowned slightly.

He stepped forward and said to the guards, "As he said, he has avenged the company commander and is entitled to the spoils."

"Don't get cocky, wizard brat."

The captain of the guard put away his scythe, and together with his guards, carried the body of the combat company commander and turned to leave.

　PS: Starting from Sequence 5, advancement requires a ritual. All humans in Druun have been enslaved and turned into puppets, which does not meet the requirements for the ritual.

　　Nimrod will be promoted to "Chaos Mentor" in the next conquest war.

　　The number of "Death Guardians" was calculated by working backwards from the 95,000 people who were present before the grand birthday celebration.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)