The Bizarre Adventures of Cloud Hammer

Apu looked at the front battlefield in the distance. Now everything was developing according to the battle plan. The orcs' front-line troops were retreating step by step. It depended on whether the war boss would draw troops from other areas to support.

"Luochen, have you found the location of the war boss?" Apu contacted Luochen. According to common sense, the war boss must be on the battlefield.

"The exact location cannot be determined." Luochen could only vaguely see the location of the war boss. Some force was blocking his psychic perception, so he chose to ask Gloria for off-field assistance.

"Gloria said there's a noteworthy energy source. I think the war boss is within range of that energy source."

"Energy source? This war boss has some good stuff on him."

Luochen’s inability to determine the exact location of the war boss may be related to this energy source.

"Gloria, text me the location."

Xianyu and Eryu were not there, so Apu had to lead the beheading. Awei was not as strong as the two in terms of martial arts, but he was still a top-level Astartes, so he still had some skills.

"Location sent."

After receiving the location sent by Gloria, Apu ordered most of the Terminators to go to the defense facilities inside the position and cooperate with the Astartes troops outside. He took five Terminators to explore the location of the energy source.

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Inside the Stormbird, Brother Ou was monitoring every move on the battlefield through a holographic map. According to his calculations, the orcish troops could only hold out for thirty minutes at most, and without reinforcements the orcish front would be defeated.

Afterwards, in a chain reaction, a considerable part of the area occupied by the orcs will be lost, and the Imperial Guard will begin to gain the advantage and initiative. Although they cannot quickly wipe out the orcs, they don't have to worry about the development of the orcs if they drag it out. They only need to slowly nibble away at them, or wait for the imperial support to arrive and wipe out the orcs in one fell swoop.

So what should you do with this war boss? Do you just let yourself get scalded and slowly bleed to death, or do you mobilize troops from other areas to hold on to this wave?

But when the defenders in other areas are transferred away, the Orcs' orbital defense positions will become empty. If they are taken advantage of at this time, the Orcs will only die faster under the orbital firepower.

After all, when the Nebula Hammer arrived, the balance of power had already tilted, and the defeat of this orc force was only a matter of time.

"A new orc force has been observed approaching." Gloria marked the location of the new orc force on the holographic map.

"It was still a bad move, but that's normal. I'm going to die sooner or later, so I might as well take a gamble."

Ou Ge informed the imperial troops of the arrival of the orc troops and asked them to be prepared to engage the enemy so as not to be caught off guard by the newly emerged enemy.

"Xianyu, Eryu, you can go up now." Brother Ou said to the two people who had been waiting on the communication channel.

"I got it. The progress is really fast. I thought I would have to wait until tomorrow." Xianyu said.

"You'll have to ask how Lawp got the Knight Family to move so quickly."

"Are we the only ones here?" Eryu asked. He and Xianyu each led a tactical team. It would take some time to deal with such a large orbital defense position.

"You are not the only ones. A squadron of Space Wolves is heading towards your location and should be arriving soon."

How could the Space Wolves not get involved in something like destroying the position? They also sent a tactical team there.

"I saw them, too."

Xianyu saw the approaching wild wolves, and the one leading them was Eivor.

"Hahahaha—I'm here, Brother Setface."

Chapter 39 Who are you, Lao Deng?

"Brother Eivor, aren't you the commander of the Wild Wolves? Why are you here instead of leading the troops on the front lines?"

Eivor is the leader of the Dalian branch of the Space Wolves. Although he may be a little abstract from time to time, he is never vague on major issues and has an excellent personal resume. If the Dalian Wolf Lord passes away, Eivor is very likely to be the next Wolf Lord.

"I've given command to Hake and Freed. Besides, we still have your Chapter Master, Uldren."

With an Ultramarines controlling the battle, Eivor has nothing to worry about on the front line. Besides, she's a bit tired of commanding and driving vehicles on the front line this year, so it's time for a change of taste.

"But you guys really take it seriously. You even sent Brother Eryu, the champion of the chapter."

Because it was a covert operation, Eryu did not wear the Hades, but the double swords on his waist still allowed Eivor to recognize him at a glance.

Eryu just nodded without saying anything. It was not because he was aloof, but because Eryu was afraid that he would be exposed if he opened his mouth.

"It's almost time. Is there anyone among you Wild Wolves who can do stealth?" Xianyu asked. The Nebula Hammer Regiment was well equipped, but it lacked someone who specialized in stealth. Although Appu and Ou Ge, two all-rounders, could do both, and Luochen could use psychic power to hide himself, there was no real stealth master.

"What is stealth?"

The expected answer is that perhaps there is indeed someone good at stealth in the Space Wolves, but this person will never be in the Dalian where Eivor is.

"Indeed, then we can only use another stealth method."

"Another way to sneak?"

Eivor was puzzled. How many ways are there to sneak?

Of all the Legions Astartes, the Raven Guard and the Night Lords specialize in stealth, though their methods differ significantly.

The stealth of the Night Lords is a skill. They will use various methods to hide themselves in places where the enemy cannot see them, and then launch a surprise attack, which is in line with the traditional sense of stealth.

Although the Raven Guard also need to hone their stealth skills, they are truly talented players compared to the Night Lords. If the Night Lords hide themselves in the shadows, then the Raven Guard literally blend into the shadows. You never know how many Raven Guard are hiding in a shadow. The Raven Guard's stealth masters can even walk in front of the enemy without being discovered. It is more like metaphysical invisibility than stealth.

The Raven Guard's ability stems from the Raven Lord Corax, and it was because of this talent that the Primarch of the Night Lords, Konrad Curze, once expressed his jealousy.

If the shadow could love me as much as it loves Corax, what a perfect monster I would be!

In a sense, the Alpha Legion can be considered a semi-stealth legion, but they are more focused on disguise and infiltration rather than hiding in the shadows.

So how do we distinguish these three legions based on their styles? It's actually very simple.

When attacking a planet, if you wake up the next day to find that the enemy's command has died silently, then this is the Raven Guard.

If the enemy's command is not only dead, but also skinned and hung outside along with their families, and their screams before death are still playing on the channel, then this is the Night Lord.

If a rebellion suddenly breaks out within the enemy, and the original command level all die in the rebellion, but the mastermind of the rebellion disappears after they surrender to you, then this is Alpha.

But no matter which stealth method is used, Xianyu and others are unable to do it now, so they choose the simplest one of "stealth".

First, find an entrance to the orbital defense position, then kill all the surrounding orcs before sounding the alarm!

Killing everyone who sees you is also a perfect stealth!

"What? I'm pretty good at stealth."

With Gloria's help in searching for the enemy, Xianyu did not miss any of the orcs on his side.

"Is there any difference between this and a frontal attack?" Er Yu complained.

"I think this is stealth, then this is stealth! What era is it in? Are we still using traditional stealth?"

Waaagh——!!!

The alarm of the orbital defense position sounded, and then Xianyu and Eryu heard Eivor say embarrassedly in the communication channel:

"Sorry, brother, we made a mistake here."

Eryu looked at Xianyu, and Xianyu made a little bear hand-spreading gesture. It wasn't him who was discovered first.

"Let's just attack as planned."

Eryu had never expected to avoid being discovered. He and Xianyu's original plan was to attack head-on. Otherwise, why would their two strongest men come here? Wasn't it just to be able to attack head-on?

"Brother Eivor, the plan has changed. Let's just charge in." Xianyu said in the channel.

"Hahaha, this should have happened a long time ago."

Gunshots and explosions rang out, and Xianyu and others began to fight against the orc troops remaining in the orbital defense position.

After kicking over the charging fart spirit and splitting the orc's head with an axe, Eivor, who had eliminated the enemy in front of him, observed the battle between Xianyu and Eryu. Both of them were killing the enemy with extremely high efficiency, but their fighting styles were completely different.

"What a terrible swordsmanship."

Eivor couldn't help but sigh. Eryu's swordsmanship made him feel the horror intuitively. At the same time, he was also wondering which faction's swordsmanship this was.

Imperial Fists/Black Templars? No, the Sons of Dorn don't have that much elegance with their swords.

Ultramarines? Not really. That's not the style of the Smurfs.

White scars? That's even worse.

Eivor couldn't tell the difference between Eryu's swordsmanship and his own, so he decided to think in a different direction and start with Eryu's weapon.

Based on the various information revealed by the Nebula Hammer so far, if Eivor's guess is correct, this kind of ritual weapon-like saber should be a unique weapon of a certain legion during the Great Crusade, just like the Frost Blade of the Space Wolves.

The Great Crusade, unlike the known Loyalists’ superb swordsmanship, their silent character is most likely caused by changes in the Legion. Isn’t the answer obvious when you think about it this way?

The Third Legion - The Emperor's Children.

Eivor had long thought that the Nebula Hammer was most likely composed of a group of old guys from various legions during the Great Crusade. Their equipment and weapons were mostly standard equipment from the Legion era. On the night he was drinking with Xianyu, Xianyu revealed that the Nebula Hammer had experienced a long journey through the Warp. After breaking out of the Warp, everything outside had changed. Their past and glory had also been swept into the coffin of history by time, and no one knew where they were buried.

When asked about the battle that Xianyu remembers most, he said:

"I witnessed his fall, heard his cries, and saw his remains. I was grieved and furious... but I could do nothing, nothing..."

The wild wolves who heard this at the time were all silent. The heavy pressure made them almost suffocate. They didn't dare to think about which battle Xianyu was talking about. That was definitely not something that they, the wolf cubs, should know.

Eivor also realized that this didn't seem to be an ordinary old Deng.

He now thinks that the other party's speaking of this matter was also a reminder to him, reminding him not to delve too deeply into it, and that some things really cannot be said openly.

Even if the other person really wants to say it, do you dare to listen?

It is not difficult to understand why there are people from the Nebula Hammer Rebel Legion, because the group does not represent the individual. There are also loyalists in the Rebel Legion, but the blood of these loyal people basically dried up on Isstvan III. Very few loyal people survived by chance. In order to cut off from the traitors, they became Black Shields and proved their loyalty in the Great Heresy.

Eryu suddenly turned around and threw a dagger at Eivor. The dagger passed by Eivor and stabbed into the eyes of the orc who was trying to launch a sneak attack from behind.

Eivor let his thoughts return to the battle, but his mouth kept talking.

"I know, I know. Brother Eryu, can you tell me how you practiced your swordsmanship?"

Galam Gang'e, whose age he couldn't even remember, was the war boss of the Orc forces on Aterius. He was born in the Octarius Orc Empire and belonged to the Goff clan.

When Galam was still an orc boy, his jaw was broken in a battle. The pain boy (orc doctor) in the tribe made him a new jaw with a piece of scrap iron. From then on, Galam was called Steel Jaw.

After a series of Waaagh!s, Galam replaced its former boss as the new war boss. Like other war bosses in Octares, Galam's goal was naturally to become the Great Demon Lord of Octares, but it obviously failed, otherwise it would not appear in Artorius.

When Galam was driven out of Octares, he was like a stray dog, but he vowed to become the orc among orcs, the boss among bosses, and then return to Octares to take back everything that belonged to him, and finally become the strongest, most powerful and waaaghest demon king.

In the following decades, Galam and its forces roamed around in the Extreme Star Field. It fought against shrimps, bean sprouts, and all kinds of strange creatures. During this period, it also annexed many orc forces. A few years before the invasion of Atreus, Galam's power had increased a lot.

But Galam thought that this was too slow. At this rate, he would have to wait until the end of time to return to Octares, so he had to find an opponent who was neither too strong nor too weak. It would be best if he could fight with him for a long time so that his men could also develop for a long time.

In the end, Galam chose Atreus. The knights shrimp living on this planet were excellent whetstones. The cunning Galam had already considered the support of the shrimp, and he had the confidence to fight together with the shrimp who came to support him.

Galam is so confident, all thanks to this magical weapon in his hand!

This artifact was obtained by Galam during a thrilling Waaagh. The artifact has enormous energy and can assemble machinery at an extremely fast speed as long as there are materials. Galam was able to own such a large number of war machines because of this artifact, and he also relied on the miracle of Gomao to conquer many subordinates.

In the years before the invasion of Atreus, everything went according to Galam's plan. It drove away the shrimp's spaceships and built orbital defense positions. It had suffered a lot of losses from these cannon barrels. As long as these cannon barrels were there, the shrimp's spaceships would not dare to run over its head.

Later, Galam heard that Can was coming. Can was very powerful, but not as powerful as the powerful Galam. Galam would not reveal his whereabouts to Shrimp and Can.

Gah~ No matter whether it is fat shrimp, thin shrimp or canned shrimp, it all tastes good.

But the situation has changed today. The cunning shrimp got some powerful big guys and weapons, as well as new cans, from somewhere, and beat his men to a pulp. The front-line positions are also in danger. In order to keep the positions, Galam can only transfer troops from other places. With the shrimp's frontal offensive so strong, there shouldn't be any extra troops to launch a sneak attack, right?

boom--!

Apu led the Terminator team to kill all the people in the scrap iron castle where the energy source was located and blew open a door inside.

"This must be the war boss."

Apu walked in and saw Galam sitting in the middle. This war boss, with its heavy armor, was nearly four meters tall. There was also a core with green light in the center of the armor, which should be the energy source that Gloria mentioned.

Galam was surrounded by only a few heavily armored guards, many of whom had been sent out before and were killed by Apu on the way.

"Waaagh! I... am Galam, tell me... my name... now!" Galam shouted in high Gothic.

"I am Abaddon of Changshu, remember this!" Apu replied to Galam in Orcish.

"what?"

The can spoke in orcish, which made Galam unable to react for a moment. This was exactly what Appu wanted. He fired the storm bolter and took the initiative to attack the opponent.

“Waaagh!?”

Galam immediately protected his face. The explosive shells hit his armor, and iron chips flew everywhere. A explosive shell passed through the gap and hit his lower handle, but it only made his head shake.

The shooting stopped, and the number of heavy-armored bosses around Galam, which was originally small, now decreased even more. It roared and rushed towards Apu and the Terminator team with the remaining brothers, and the two sides started a close combat.

On the front battlefield, the disadvantage was reversed after the arrival of the orc reinforcements, and the casualties of the imperial army began to increase.

Awei couldn't remember how many orc units he had killed. While killing the orcs, he was also helping the imperial army and knights to rescue. The vehicle he was controlling was also hit by the orcs. If the oil man saw this, he would probably be so angry that he would vomit blood.

"Is Xianyu still not well? We can't bear it if we keep fighting like this." Awei asked Brother Ou. Regardless of winning or losing, the losses will be very serious if the fight continues here.

"They're almost done over there, just hold on for a while."

Brother Ou was also anxious. The number of orc support troops was more than expected. If they continued to fight, the losses would exceed expectations.