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Chapter 315 Rusty Blade Legion
The Cult of Mechanics was truly invested in this Psionic Warmaster Titan. In just one month, a Titan legion with fifty war engines was deployed to the Rostov Subsector and thrown into the Battle of Kharkov.

The legion that arrived did not have any resounding name. It was a new legion that had been established for less than a thousand years. It was a garrison legion that the Mechanicus had set up as a side project when it was expanding the frontiers of the Empire and establishing the new Forged World.

This Titan Legion, known as Rustblade, is a Tier 3 legion according to Martian military standards. The entire legion has a total of eighty war engines, and this time they have brought out most of their resources to participate in the war.

Besides the Warlord-class Titan serving as the legion's lead aircraft, they also had three Warbringer-class and five Marauder-class aircraft, all of which were brought along this time. The others were Warhounds of different models.

It's fair to say that the Cult of Mechanics has really gone all out in this matter.

As agreed with Kaul, Chen Xi allowed the Titan Legion to evacuate the psychic warmaster Titan from the planet after the legion arrived in Kharkov and entered the battlefield.

The Mechanics were overjoyed, and Caul even personally transported the artifacts in his own Foundry Ark.

They had no choice but to take it seriously. In the month before the Rustblade Legion arrived, the Space Necromancers launched several more attacks. To stabilize the front line, Chen Xi activated the Psionic Warmaster three times, each time making the crew members' hearts pound.

In the final instance, the Necromancers seemed intent on destroying this crucial war engine of the Empire, deploying a Doomsday Phalanx composed of several Doomsday Floating Stone Towers in an attempt to destroy the Psionic Warmaster Titan.

Furthermore, in order to limit the psychic power of the Psionic Titans, they specifically set up four black stone obelisks to seal and isolate the power of the Psionic Titans.

This was also the most dangerous battle Chen Xi encountered while controlling the psychic titan. The power of the Blackstone Obelisk was indeed formidable, and the power of the psychic warlord titan was suppressed, making it almost impossible to unleash powerful psychic spells.

The space necromancer units fighting the Psionic General had their shields specifically reinforced, so while the gravity cannons weren't entirely ineffective, they were unlikely to be destroyed in a short time.

The Doomsday Floating Stone Tower was also extremely powerful, even overloading the seven-layered Void Shield of a Warmaster-level Titan. During the battle, four of the twelve Void Shield generators were destroyed.

The sages of the Mechanicus who were watching the battle nearly suffered a cardiac arrest, and were just short of calling in the fleet for orbital bombardment to snatch back this precious divine machine.

However, Chen Xi remained calm and simply activated the Psionic Annihilation Cannon installed on the left arm of the Psionic Warlord.

This is an ancient and powerful weapon originating from the Dark Ages. Its operating principle is to extract the power of the psionic beings imprisoned within the psionic Titan, amplify it, and then tear open the veil of reality, thereby opening a rift to the warp.

Although the Blackrock Obelisk's suppression prevented the Psionic Warmaster Titan from unleashing powerful psionic spells, it didn't completely sever his connection with the warp.

So when Chen Xi activated this weapon, it only took a little longer to charge and drew a little more power from the psionicist.

It eventually started up.

A terrifying subspace rift appeared directly in front of a doomsday floating stone tower and sucked it in in the blink of an eye.

Immediately, the rift expanded, engulfing several other Doomsday Floating Stone Towers within a radius of several hundred meters. Several Black Stone Obelisks attempted to suppress and seal the subspace rift, but how could Chen Xi let such a precious opportunity slip by?

Because the subspace rift was torn open, the subspace energy was quickly replenished. Chen Xi then condensed a powerful surge of spiritual energy, lifted several black stone obelisks around him, and threw them toward the subspace rift.

This isn't some powerful combat psychic ability; any awakened psychic, whose psychic level isn't so low that they can't manifest it, would know this move.

The weakest can only move small items like cups or cigarettes, while the average can only drag something like a Lemanrus. Only someone as powerful as Master Ma can move a planet.

However, Chen Xi did not need to move the planet; he only needed to throw the black stone obelisks into the subspace rift.

With the power of the psychic warlord Titan, this is something that can be easily done.

Ultimately, the Necromancer's ambush ended with all the Doomstone Towers and Blackstone Obelisks being thrown into the warp rift.

After Chen Xi controlled the Psionic War Titan back to his own position, the group of tech enthusiasts from the Cult of Mechanics rushed over as if their mothers had died, kowtowing repeatedly to the Titan and burning countless incense sticks, almost as if they were going to use an incense burner to fumigate the entire Titan.

The damaged Void Shield launcher was dismantled and repaired immediately. Kaul personally took charge of the repairs, and anyone who could participate in the repairs had to have at least a Sage title in the relevant field to assist.

Those who are not sages in the relevant field can only stand aside and watch; those who do not even have the title of sage are directly forced to kowtow.

With such a costless investment, the four sets of Void Shields were quickly repaired and then put back in a grand ceremony.

After repairing the Void Shield of the Psionic Warmaster Titan, the Cult of Mechanics rushed to Chen Xi's office almost immediately, slamming their fists on his desk and demanding that this precious machine be put back into battle.

For the Cult of Mechanics, Chen Xi sending this psionic warmaster titan to the battlefield was like using the Imperial Seal of the State to crack walnuts—a complete waste!
Chen Xi certainly wouldn't agree to their demands. In any case, as far as he was concerned, the psychic war general Titan could be repaired even if it was destroyed on the battlefield. He wasn't really heartbroken if it was damaged. He would only consider how long it would take for the thing to self-repair and what he would need to fill the gap in combat power during the self-repair period.

After all, a machine with a score of several thousand points has enough points for Chen Xi to build an Astartes Legion.

As for whether a Warband or a Warmaster-class Titan is more effective, that's a matter of opinion.

In head-on combat, a fully equipped Astartes Chapter may not be less effective than a Titan, but when facing particularly tough targets, a Titan is undoubtedly more useful than a Chapter.

The specific choice of which resources to use is a significant challenge for commanders, requiring them to make reasonable adjustments based on different battlefield situations.

However, under normal circumstances, Imperial commanders don't have such happy troubles; they usually lack this and that, and can only fill in the gaps with the Star Guardians' big heads.

(End of this chapter)