Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 289 Attack on the Shelter
"Lord Argus, trust Lord Abathur, trust the Montgomery dynasty! We cannot miss this opportunity to leave the Comoros! Do you want to be trapped in the Comoros forever? Haven't you suffered enough here? Don't you want to return to your warband?"

Burns said urgently that although the presence of the SCV gave him considerable prestige here, most survivors still chose to believe in these Astartes, and that Argus's help was essential to getting everyone to leave Comoros with them.

He needs the support of these Astartes.

After a brief silence, Argus made his decision. He truly had no one else to rely on now. Even if his own warband knew he was still alive, they would not attack Comoros again just because of him.

Furthermore, it is even less likely that the empire would launch a war against the Comoros without any benefit to it.

And Gao Yi was the only one willing to spend such a large sum of money to bring them out.

“I understand, Abathur. The humans will cooperate with you. But Burns, we don’t know if there are any spies among us. We can only tell everyone the news on the last day.”

“I understand. Our dynasty’s soldiers can be trusted. I will secretly do my best to prepare supplies.”

Burns breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Argus agree.

The constructed barracks provided at least one set of combat clothing for the more than 20,000 human survivors, and together they formed a considerable force.

Just as Argus and the others were about to leave, Abathur suddenly sensed something unusual on the creep.

One by one, the toxic fungal blankets were detonated.

“Burns, Argus, a great many Eldar are descending into the lower realms, in unprecedented numbers. You humans must also be prepared! My swarm will hold them off.”

The information transmitted from the creep allowed Abathur to immediately perceive a large number of signals that did not belong to humans or alien insects.

The sheer number of them far exceeds any previous operation against the lower classes, and a portion of these creatures are heading towards human refuges at an extremely rapid pace.

Previously, the Dark Eldar who invaded the lower levels were all individual forces that entered on bounty, but this time it is a real war.

The sheer number and scale of these events require Abathur to handle them with all his might.

The swarm of insects stationed at the bottom entrance has begun to engage the Dark Eldar, but they have failed to stop them, and the Dark Eldar forces continue to advance.

Hearing Abathur's words sent chills down their spines. They hadn't even begun their attack, and the Dark Eldar had already struck first?!
"Lord Argus?! Have we been exposed?!"

"It's impossible that we only just found out about it. How could the traitors in the shelter know so quickly? There's no way they could have gotten this information in such a short time. The location of the shelter might have been leaked long ago. It's just that the threat from the Zerg is far greater than ours, and sending troops to wipe us out would be too costly!"

But whatever the truth is, the enemy is heading towards their stronghold, and they must be prepared to fight or even relocate. Fortunately, the shelter is located deep enough, and there are Zerg obstacles along the way, so it will take a lot of time to reach their stronghold.

Thinking of their unsuspecting brethren inside the shelter, the two dared not linger and immediately mounted their Zerglings and headed towards the shelter, while Abathur began to mobilize his swarm.

Large numbers of Zerg began heading towards the location of the Dark Eldar army.

A fierce battle is raging at the entrance, with the Dark Eldar using countless slaves and modified creatures as cannon fodder.

Over the past two years, their familiarity with the Zerg wars, coupled with Tevantias's research, has confirmed that the Zerg, like the Terran swarm, require large amounts of biomass.

Melts and flamethrowers cleared away the endless creep, while slaves sacrificed their lives to detonate hidden toxic lairs, paving the way for the Dark Eldar army.

Watching the slaves being completely melted by the acid, the Dark Eldar supervising the battle felt no pity whatsoever.

The number of slaves in the Comoros is unimaginable. God knows how many slaves eked out a living in the vast Comoros region over countless years; whenever a slave-catching team was willing, they could always find slaves of various races barely surviving.

The life forms melted by the acid were quickly absorbed by the creep, while the Dark Eldar warriors behind them burned the corpses on the creep as quickly as possible.

Feeling the tremors beneath their feet and hearing countless roars coming from the darkness in the distance, the Dark Eldar knew that the main force of the Zerg was coming.

The Dark Eldar did not have much enthusiasm for the upcoming battle.

Fighting Zerg creatures doesn't inflict any painful emotions on them at all.

Meanwhile, the Dark Eldar were engaged in a bloody meat grinder with the Zerg.

Meanwhile, a group of pale-skinned ghouls were speeding through the lower levels, with no other Dark Eldar forces by their side, heading straight for the location of the human refuge.

Just as Burns and Argus suspected, there were still traitors who had joined the Dark Eldar within the Sanctuary.

Even with humanity's current predicament and the protection of the Zerg, these traitors still do not believe that humanity can survive the attack of the Dark Eldar.

The increasingly secure situation led Burns and others to establish fixed shelters that could be moved at any time, making them more complete and robust. However, it was precisely this act of establishing fixed bases that exposed their location.

During one of the raids on the Dark Eldar, the traitor left behind intelligence, marking the direction of the refuge.

Meanwhile, the pale ghouls were using their incredibly keen sense of smell to head in the direction indicated by the intelligence, searching for the scent of humans to pinpoint the exact location of the shelter.

The alien insects rushed towards them, but they did not stop. Their goal was clear: under the control of the Dark Eldar beastmasters, their only task was to locate the human refuge, not to fight.

Behind the ghouls, nearly a hundred clowns gathered and followed them. Such a large number of clowns only gathered during a gathering of clowns that occurred only once every few decades.

At the call of the Laughing God, they came from all corners of the galaxy to Comoros to help Victor consolidate his rule and complete their deal.

Meanwhile, the clowns were moving at an extremely fast speed in their holographic suits, their anti-gravity belts allowing them to control the surrounding gravity and avoid the nearby fungal carpet.

They will also help the ghouls eliminate those major threats.

The eye worms and queen worms floating nearby are the main targets for elimination.

During the previous assassination attempt on Gao Yi, Lemir learned about the special nature of these King Insects. After killing these King Insects, the attack on the ghouls by the alien insects indeed slowed down or even stopped.

And the group that attacked the human shelters this time wasn't just composed of clowns.

In a dark dimension, two hundred special creatures named Mandela are detaching themselves from the real dimension and approaching the human refuge.

The dark and gloomy environment at the bottom of society is their perfect hiding place.

These creatures living in the dark dimension could theoretically use the darkness to reach any location without light.

Imagine a completely black monster suddenly appearing in your bed—tsk tsk tsk.

(End of this chapter)