Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Chapter 7 The eve of the final battle

The soul is stirring, the soul is roaring.

Calvin's psychic shield was activated by the tidal wave of attacks from the opposite side. The originally invisible color wave revealed its black nature against the backdrop and friction of his incandescent shield.

Calvin shook the long sword in his hand, and the blazing white spiritual energy covered the entire sword body like water, and burned like a flame on the edge of the blade.

The demons seemed to feel the threat, and the eyes on the tentacles opened wide and stared in Calvin's direction.

Bloody tears flowed from the cracked corners of these eyes, and a more powerful wave of psychic energy surged towards Calvin.

The steel walls in the cabin quickly decayed and aged under the impact of this corrosive force, and the several-inch-thick steel floor was instantly decayed into a rusty black color that was unusable.

Against this trend, Calvin took two more steps. The rotten floor could not bear his huge weight. He almost stepped on the ground several times. After finding the load-bearing pillar on the next floor, Calvin simply walked directly from the pillar to the wall. The tentacles jumped.

The tentacles that could no longer be avoided finally ushered in their end. Calvin, who had reached the wall, raised the sword in his hand and chopped off these evil spirits one by one who were trying to delay time to wait for their companions.

The white-gold flames made the Valkyrie of Vengeance invincible, and none of the twelve tentacles beside the wall could resist the judgment of order.

They were all burned up by the flames on the sword as soon as they were chopped down, and the echo of their howls before death seemed to be heard in the wave of psychic energy that quickly disappeared in the cabin.

In Calvin's psychic vision, the remaining tentacles no longer rushed toward this cabin. They seemed to be composed of some kind of group consciousness. Without the guidance of their companions, they lost their desire or instinct to hunt and eat.

The short battle was over, but the scene in the cabin was completely different from just now.

Calvin looked around. Except for the wall where he was, all the other directions and even the bulkheads on the ground were in disarray under the impact of the previous corrosive force.

The comrades who were originally separated by a wall were now standing not far away. The platform they were on became the only intact landing place left after the battle.

Viewed from above, the high wall that represents the inner layer of the hive now has a huge sore. The mottled rust spread like scars around the sores for an unknown distance.

At least half of the originally thick support pillars under the platform were covered in rust due to previous impacts, and the loss of its internal structural strength would only be greater than what was revealed on the outside.

After losing this important support structure, it would undoubtedly be unwise to rely solely on the strength of the ladder directly up and down the platform to bear the inhuman weight of the Gray Knights and the weight of their power armor.

Calvin carefully jumped over the load-bearing pillar exposed under the cabin and arrived at the original location of the cabin door. He stuck his head out and looked at the scenery above and below the breach, then said to his comrades:

"These tentacles are by no means its true body. I have a hunch that we will see it at the final destination. Let's go and hold on while this platform is still there. The rest of the way should not be far away."

The Gray Knights nodded, and no one raised any questions about Calvin's battle just now.

With the sharing of thought channels, the Terminators sympathized with Calvin's emotions to a certain extent, and they vaguely understood the meaning behind these tentacles.

The Interceptor brothers simply thought that Calvin was cutting off their backs, and the dead Astartes made them understand that the other party's power was so special.

So caught off guard, two whole squads of Astartes died here.

As for the final beheading, it was indeed a last resort. After all, under that level of psychic impact, the entire team would not be able to escape unless the opponent was dealt with.

The road ahead is cut off, and the entrance planned in the original plan is now clearly occupied by this kind of tentacles rooted in the entire hive building, and the rituals that may exist on the top floor of the hive are telling the Gray Knights that their time is like this urgent.

They have no choice, seizing every moment to reach the top of the hive is their most urgent goal at the moment.

Calvin didn't hesitate any more. He called up the downloaded map information from the data terminal in the Terminator power armor he was wearing.

After simply flipping the map twice, he said to his comrades beside him:

"We move laterally, first to the energy supply pipeline, and from there we go inside the pipeline."

"Where can I get to the top?" Gary Tuli, the arbiter of the Gray Knight Interceptors, asked him.

"Yes, there is a passage to the top, but the entire pipe is usually filled with high-temperature airflow, and it can only pass when the heating engine is being maintained. These things definitely appeared before the energy supply of the hive city failed, so there had been The high temperature will make them instinctively refuse to grow there," Calvin replied firmly.

The Gray Knights who had reached a consensus did not delay any longer. They walked through the pipes on the wall in a parallel direction to the mezzanine maintenance ladder with clear goals.

The road to the energy pipeline is not far away. In fact, in any building like a hive city with a huge resident population, from the perspective of the entire building design and construction at the beginning of construction, this kind of water supply and supply is to ensure the basic living standards. Investment in thermal basic supporting equipment accounts for the largest proportion of all projects.

Following the red heating branch pipes at their feet, Calvin and his team quickly arrived at the heating node on the upper level of the hive.

In the maintenance warehouse next to the huge secondary pressurization device of the heating node, Calvin got the specific location to enter the inside of the pipe.

There was no time to find the corresponding key, so Calvin roughly tore open the locked door on the heating pipe.

A group of people filed in and stood on the suspended workbench in a circle. They could see that the dry and smooth walls of the pipe confirmed Calvin's previous judgment.

The small elevator for maintenance is parked quietly at the door. Due to the working environment, the elevator's power supply is independent of other equipment. This also allows the elevator to be directly usable without adjustment when the entire nest city's heating fails.

The space of the elevator is too small, and the load designed for mortals means that the Gray Knights can only ride a maximum of three people at a time.

Calvin took the lead and walked in. The narrow remaining space in the elevator could barely accommodate one more Gray Knight. However, despite the load of the elevator and the consideration of leaving enough space for possible battles, the Gray Knights He stopped in his tracks.

They watched silently as their commander opened the way for the entire team, waiting to join him later.

Amidst the friction of hinges and steel cables, Calvin quickly reached the end point.

In his psychic vision, the surrounding environment was quite calm. Before the elevator came to a complete stop, he couldn't wait to walk out as soon as the hatch opened. After walking out of the heating pipe, he stood in the open space at the door of the pumping station and stood in the open space for himself. Be alert to the brothers who are about to arrive

There is only the last section of the road left, and the enemy we will encounter ahead is still unknown.

While waiting for the elevator to return, Calvin prayed to the Emperor on Terra.