Warhammer 40 Spring: Loyalty of the Multiverse

Chapter 168 Steel Warrior's Disgusting Warship
"How much longer will it take for the subspace engine to activate?" Klepatch's anxiety grew, and his eyelids twitched more and more violently.

If he hadn't been wearing a helmet, his brothers and ordinary people around him would probably have seen the solemn expression on his face.

“Six Terra minutes left, sir!” a mortal reported. But these words seemed to have triggered Klepatch’s anger.

He roared, "Get out of here right now!" At the same time, he reassured himself that they were just individual soldiers trying to break through the defenses, and that they shouldn't be able to breach the armor plates on the outside of the warship and get inside.

But the more I try to comfort myself, the greater my inner unease becomes.

They were sailing peacefully through the warp, escorting their target. But who could have imagined that a sudden fluctuation in warp energy would instantly turn the Astrologers on their warship into mincemeat?

Then it was flung out of subspace by a strange energy and entered the present real universe.

This is so frustrating!
Moreover, he knew that entering the subspace without a Star Speaker was tantamount to suicide!

Thinking of this, Klepatch turned his head again, frustrated, and asked sharply, "Where is the target?"

The mortal officer who reported was silent for a second or two, but Klepatch thought he had been silent for a year or two. Just as he was about to shout again, the mortal officer's report rang out, "Sir! The target is 60 kilometers away from our ship!"

Klepatch "?"

Boom boom boom boom——

A moment later, the entire ship suddenly trembled, and a series of violent explosions and impacts assaulted everyone's ears.

Everyone's expression changed simultaneously, especially the Iron Warriors, who began to move towards the source of the tremor.

"Stop the target unit!"

Klepatch is now panicking, although it's rare for something to cause such panic in the Astartes, known for their ruthlessness.

But now Klepach is genuinely panicking.

The defense system, which had long been ingrained in the very core of their legion, was activated. Terrifying audio and threatening messages were first sent to the public channel, delivering a psychological threat to Tie Hui and his men who had boarded the ship.

Meanwhile, all the modular compartments within the warship were activated. The pre-placed traps were set up one by one, waiting for the target to arrive and trigger them.

And the Steel Warriors began sending activation messages to their brothers who had been converted into engineering sergeants throughout the warship.

The so-called engineering sergeants are actually a group of steel warriors who have undergone extensive mechanical modifications.

It's the kind of creature whose chest cavity is converted into an ammunition depot, whose arms are transformed into thermoelectric cannons, and which lies in ambush throughout the warship waiting for the enemy to approach before unleashing a one-time burst of firepower, or which deliberately exposes itself to detonate the promethium fuel inside its body.

It also releases an electronic pulse to paralyze surrounding electronic equipment. This type of suicidal attack inflicted massive damage on Imperial Fist during the Steel Cage incident.

Most of the space torpedoes launched from space were destroyed, but fortunately, some surviving space torpedoes still managed to penetrate the cruiser's defenses and create a huge hole in its surface.

Tie Hui and other Astartes and mortal officers equipped with nano-cores, as well as elite armed servants, all boarded the ship individually.

Therefore, there was no large-scale dispersal of troops. The predecessor of the Black Templars, Malcado and his group, was the Imperial Fist.

The two old rivals knew each other's fighting styles inside and out. Therefore, before boarding, Malcado made a strong demand that the troops not be too dispersed.

Otherwise, in the modular warships of the Iron Warriors, it would be easy for those Iron Warriors to remotely control their weapons to isolate and surround their scattered forces. It would be like being right next to them, but the airlock separates them; all they can do is listen to their screams, unable to provide support even if they wanted to!
Furthermore, they would also use ventilation ducts and similar devices throughout the warship to release poison. Therefore, Tie Hui and his men were prepared with anti-poison measures in place.

As they broke through the void escape of the warship, the twin-mounted heavy explosive cannons and multi-barreled laser cannons on the surface of the Steel Warrior warship immediately turned around.

Fierce anti-aircraft fire swept across the landing points on the warship's armor plates. This caused great trouble and damage to Tie Hui and his men.

Several ordinary officers, in particular, were caught off guard and torn to shreds along with their nano-cores by a single explosive cannon shot.

This attack shattered their formation, forcing them to enter the warship through various breaches.

However, this also resulted in a dispersion of forces, coupled with the separate fire control compartments inside the warships. It was a complete surprise attack!

Although as their formation dispersed, the anti-aircraft weapons on the surface of the warships could not cause much damage to these individual entities.

But this forced them to disperse their forces inside the warships.

As soon as everyone entered the warship, casualty reports came through the communication system within just over ten seconds.

Just ten seconds earlier, a continuous bombardment from a twin-mounted heavy explosive cannon caused three Astartes, six mortal officers, and fifteen elite armed servitors to break away from the main force and hastily hide in a gap, entering the warship's interior.

The place they entered was not a corridor but a cabin, a cabin filled with miscellaneous items.

They had initially thought that the place they entered would be safer and less likely to be discovered by the enemy immediately.

But the storage compartment they were in changed in the next second. To their surprise, the hatch slammed shut and the entire compartment began to rotate, sealing off the breach through which they had entered the warship.

Immediately afterwards, countless automatic bomb gun arrays emerged from all around and opened fire directly on them, instantly blasting the head off an Astartes of the Ash Claws.

Of the six mortal officers, only one survived; the officer whose left arm was blown off is still alive.

Fifteen elite soldiers and armed servants formed their outer line almost instantly, acting as a shield to block the attacks, but without exception, they were all turned into mincemeat.

Fortunately, their sacrifice bought the remaining two Astartes time to break through. The activation of their internal nanocores directly condensed and aggregated the nanocores of their deceased comrades.

A massive magnetic energy cannon appeared in their hands. Activating it at maximum power, a single orange beam swept across the entire chamber!
The array of automatic bomb guns was instantly silenced by this attack, and the junk was also blasted into a wrecked state with holes everywhere.

The two surviving Astartes, along with all the nanocores and the mortal officer who had lost an arm, walked toward the corridor outside the storage warehouse.

The mortal officer was well aware of his situation, so he went ahead to scout the way. But after taking only two steps, a blue ball of light exploded out of the corridor and disappeared instantly.

Molten metal mine!

As the molten metal mine was triggered, it was as if a switch had been flipped somewhere. The walls on both sides of the corridor suddenly slid down, and rows of automatic bomb guns, with their barrels extending and rotating at intervals, opened fire on the two Astartes.

This forced them back into their original storage compartment.

As expected of the Iron Warrior, that move was truly disgusting!
……

(End of this chapter)