Warhammer 40 Spring: Loyalty of the Multiverse

Chapter 178 Summary after the war
Klepatch suddenly swung his power axe, deflecting the incoming power sword to the side.

However, the nano-length straight blades that had already thrust forward instead pierced his chest and abdomen. They went straight into his body along the seam between the chest and abdominal armor, and blood even slowly flowed out along the blades.

How serious is the injury?
It's very serious; so many weapons have pierced his body. And these are weapons that can freely change shape; multiple internal organs have suffered severe damage.

Even though the power armor has already started injecting the medication, it has only delayed the final result a little.

Although Tie Hui's insidious attack was blocked, his follow-up move worked. Klepach, who had come to the side and was watching quietly, leaning on his power axe as a cane, bent over and coughed up several mouthfuls of blood.

With a slight smile, the nano-core is activated!

The pain and subsequent damage that Klepatch had just been suppressed by the drug surged up again in an instant.

This secondary pain caused him to groan, as Tie Hui controlled several nano-straight blades to decompose and reconstruct within Klepatch's body!

Furthermore, a small fragment of the combat dagger, from which the toxins had been extracted, remained within his body.

Although it suffered considerable losses, the damage to its subsequent organs was sufficient! And most importantly, the nanotoxins contained in those straight blades began to attack the cells in its body.

Although Astartes' own immune system would eventually eliminate these few nanotoxins, in the current battlefield, this situation was enough to kill him!

"Despicable!" Klepatch took a deep breath, enduring the pain, and suddenly leaned back, staggering back a few steps before regaining his balance.

He reached out and clenched his fist, and the nanoblades embedded in Klepatch's body slowly turned to ash and dissipated. Only the monomolecular blades remained, falling to the ground with a crisp sound.

"Your brothers are almost all dead, surrender!" Tie Hui was planning to capture a few Iron Warriors alive, and this one seemed like a good fit. He also wanted to know the whole story behind this suddenly appearing Iron Warrior warship.

"The False Emperor's lackeys!" Klepach also noticed the changes on the battlefield. In a nearby cabin, his brothers were almost all slaughtered.

Several Iron Warriors even stood back to back, holding their boarding shields, watching the Astartes closing in.

But what awaited them was a barrage of magnetic energy cannon fire.

Tie Hui was speechless as the guy continued his incessant chatter. "What on earth is your warship doing? Where are you going?"

Klepach scoffed, "You'll never know. This will be the key to the War General's defeat of the False Emperor."

"Alright then!" Tie Hui shrugged, unconcerned. "Since you won't tell us, we'll just go see for ourselves. At worst, we'll have those tech geeks take it apart and analyze it!"

As he spoke, he twirled the power sword in his hand, creating a flourish. "Anyway, since this is the key, we definitely need to get our hands on it to make it useful. Whether we can figure out its function or not, we'll take it apart and study it for you. That way, our goal will be achieved!"

As he spoke, he clenched his fist, and the nanotoxins within Klepach's body suddenly erupted. This stuff wasn't fatal to Astartes; what was truly causing him pain now were the fragments of the combat daggers remaining inside his body.

As the nanotoxins erupted, these neurotoxins extracted from the fragments surged wildly throughout Klepatch's body, propelled by the nanotoxins. They simultaneously stimulated his nerves in every joint and part of his body, causing him excruciating pain—like ants crawling into his body and gnawing at his organs—that made his pupils contract instantly. The intense pain even caused his brain to shut down for several seconds.

Taking advantage of those few seconds, Tie Hui strolled leisurely to his side, still brandishing his power sword. Looking down at the nearly unconscious Klepatch, he said, "Your brains are truly utterly stupid!"

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The boarding action ended quickly, from the moment the two sides detected each other until the cleanup of the battlefield.

Only three Terran hours had passed, a short time, but far too long for Astartes.

This was especially true for the Astartes, highlighting their incompetence in fighting the enemy.

After all, with just one cruiser and a few dozen Iron Warriors, their strength resulted in the loss of 27 loyal Imperial Angels. Among them, 13 were Astartes with nanite cores.

As for the Mechanicus's servants and mortal auxiliary troops, they are countless.

"The losses were quite significant, and this was our first time fighting against an Astartes of similar level since we integrated the nanocore. Many of our tactics were still based on the Holy Scriptures and our respective traditional tactics." At this moment, everyone had gathered in the conference hall, discussing the post-battle report and summary.

In particular, Tie Hui immediately pointed out the shortcomings of the vanguard Astartes in this battle. He also deeply understood this, as he had also integrated a nano-core.

"Our long-range firepower is severely lacking, especially when we're operating individually. We can't board enemy warships by penetrating their armor surfaces. We can only sneak in through the ship's unique vents and pipes. This greatly limits our flexibility!" Barthol also noticed the shortcomings of the Vanguard Astartes during this battle. After merging the Vanguard, they had initially thought that future boarding maneuvers and orbital drops would allow them to conduct solo assaults without external assistance.

However, when it came to actually boarding the ship, they were at a loss. Although they could traverse the void, the thick armor of the warship was something they simply couldn't penetrate.

They can only enter after the thermal torpedoes blast a breach in their defenses. As for entering through the warship's unique entrance...

Don't even think about it. How could the enemy not have considered that possibility? Especially the Iron Warriors, they must have deployed heavy troops and heavy firepower in those places!
The first time might be a surprise, but as time goes on and the wars continue, the enemy will figure them out.

When the time comes, we will deploy heavy firepower and troops everywhere specifically to counter their surprise attack, and they will be walking into a trap.

"This problem has to be solved! Damn it, we tried to board their ship, but we can't even get on board!" Tiberos said indignantly.

Once inside the warship, he thoroughly enjoyed slaughtering the steel warriors. However, the exchange of fire between the two sides outside and inside was incredibly frustrating for him.

The armor plates on the surface of warships, sigh, they're impossible to penetrate! Once inside, in long-range firefights, sigh, we can't compete!
Fortunately, the close combat that followed gave him some psychological comfort, otherwise he would definitely have gone crazy.

Yuramirs noted down all these issues, but he was somewhat speechless at the suggestion from these big guys to allow a single soldier to break through the armor of a warship.

If she had that kind of skill, she would have become a casting general long ago. Why would she need to whimper in this remote casting world?
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(End of this chapter)