Infinite Stream Metaverse

Chapter 429

Three massacre-class conventional cruisers.

Quietly hovering in the void.

This is the capture of Qiao Shida's jumping gang.

Because most of them are redesigned from scratch, there are still very obvious differences in shape and style between chaos warships and imperial warships.Both have a similar design layout, including fins under the hull, rear bridge, starboard and deck layout, and bow layout of the weapon array.

But there are obvious differences.The design style of the Chaos battleship is relatively simple. It does not have the complicated decoration of church elements like the imperial battleship. Generally speaking, the two are probably the difference between the Gothic style and the Baroque style.The Ganaku is a triangular shape protruding outward. The Chaos Battleship has a sharp and flat bow, but it is not the "Σ" armored bow of the Imperial Battleship, so it cannot hit the enemy ship at will.

In addition to these three slaughter-class cruisers, the Iron Buddha battle group once captured the underworld-class heavy cruiser, which is also a chaos battleship.Since these Chaos battleships belong to the Chaos Space Marines, they have been modified accordingly to have the functions required by the Space Marines-transportation decks, drop pod launch ports, orbital bombing capabilities, torpedo tubes or launch Assault craft and launchers. The flight deck of the Thunderhawk gunship.

The total space and energy of a warship are limited, and what is available is what is given. If these additional functional facilities serving the space fighters are installed, the array of other weapons will have to be reduced.Generally speaking, a strike cruiser the size of a regular cruiser has only as much firepower as a light cruiser, and correspondingly, a strike cruiser the size of a heavy cruiser has only as much firepower as a conventional cruiser.

However, the armor and speed of strike cruisers are generally not weakened, and even enhanced, which is the key to their ability to perform "strike" missions.

The Tiao Gang captured the bridges of the three warships and paralyzed their command center, but there is still a lot of cleaning work to be done to completely capture the three warships.Control key parts - such as the sublight drive and the subspace drive.Find and kill all Chaos Space Marines, identify and eliminate all mortal crew members—whether they are Chaos followers or captured slaves, the latter often have a chance of survival, and the former will not be tolerated.The three battleships already belonged to the battle group, and it was necessary to prevent the enemy from deliberately destroying the key facilities of the battleships.

Compared to naval warships, Space Marine warships and warships of the forces of Chaos usually use a large number of servitors to replace mortal crews. This is a good thing, and the chapter does not have to worry about killing too many crews and leaving no one to pilot the warship.

After some cleanup, no one may control the weapon array, but it is still no problem to barely drive back to the Marquez King Star area, and then they will undergo deeper cleaning, transformation, and strengthening at the Phaeton Forge World Airport.

After recovering the "Broken Army Golden Armor" and Mr. Brother, leaving behind the slow battle barge, Fu Qinghai personally boarded a strike cruiser, led a company and two imperial transport ships, and went to pursue the escaped transport cruiser. .

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Ni De Lena Secondary Sector.

Giro galaxy.

The transport cruiser of the Draconis family had just arrived here, and soon recognized that there was a rebel naval force in the galaxy—another transport cruiser.And they are very familiar with the markings on that battleship.

"The Vixstrike family."

Viscount Sunderland gritted his teeth and said.

"We know them?"

Zofia asked her adoptive mother in a low voice.

Mrs. Janiko explained in a low voice:
"The knights of the Vikstrike family are one of the most loyal servants of the rebellious Titan Legion Deathskull Legion. They are fanatical believers of the God of Mechanics, and they are a family of knights who followed the expedition fleet to conquer the Iron Belt. They are loyal to the foundry leader, But it is this unquestioning devotion and supreme obedience that eventually lead them to the deepest degradation."

Zofia seemed to understand.

In fact, to put it simply, traitors like the Vikstrike Knight Family and the Kulissatai Titan Legion are inextricably linked to the Deathskull Legion. The former is the vassal knight family of the Death Skull Legion, and the later The latter was established with the assistance of the Titans, which were part of the Deathskull Legion split.Are they loyal?They are very loyal, but they are loyal to the wrong target-the Deathskull Legion is the hard core of Warmaster Horus and Karb Hal.

The Draconis family discovered that the transport cruiser of the Vickers family was launching a cross-orbit lander towards an industrial world. I don't know if it was an illusion. They seemed to be a little panicked and released the lander in a hurry. The battleship then immediately sails out of orbit.

"They want to take over that industrial world?"

Many knight pilots gathered on the bridge.

asked a lord of the family.

"I do not know."

Viscount Sunderland narrowed his eyes and said:

"However, now that we have found this shameful depraved family, then we will start our first battle in the sub-sector of Nidelina with this group of plundering knights."

The patriarch said in a deep voice:

"Assemble, ready to ride!"

"Yes, my lord!"

The family knights responded in unison.

……

Viscount Sunderland came to the lower cabin.

Find the long-awaited Nemonix Sage.

"Dear sage."

Viscount Sunderland whispered:

"Thank you for helping us."

"You're welcome, Viscount."

The Nemonix sage said with a smile:

"We belong to the same world of knights, and it is the duty of our sect to assist knight families in their battles."

Unlike the ruler sage, who always only appears as an electronic ghost image, the Nemonix sage reveals his true face in front of the Viscount Sunderland. He is an ordinary technical priest, just like all other technical priests.

In the war of the Iron Ring, the "Data Supervision" sect of the Nemonix Sages has been doing nothing but refusing to contribute. Just before the Draconis family went out to fight, they suddenly found the owner, Viscount Sunderland, and expressed his willingness to help.

And said that this is the request of the ruling sage.

Viscount Sunderland is very clear: they are trying to please themselves and want to change their minds in this way. However, these small favors will not change his determination at all. The Draconis family will definitely leave the Mechanicus.

"We will come to that industrial world, then defeat the group of fallen knights, and regain the empire's territory."

Viscount Sunderland said.

"I wish you success, Viscount."

The Nemonix sage smiled.

Viscount Sunderland nodded and said nothing more.

Lead a group of pilots to the mechanical throne.

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The consistent thinking of Warhammer 40K is.

The imperial camp also has the chaotic camp.

There have been Chaos Space Marines corresponding to Space Marines, and of course there are Chaos Knights corresponding to Imperial Knights.

There are three types of imperial knights: families loyal to the government of Terra, families loyal to the Adeptus Mechanicus, and Liberty Blades.

There are also three kinds of Chaos Knights: the apostate family loyal to the Chaos Space Marine Corps and the Purgatory Family loyal to the Dark Mechanicus. There are also wandering knights in the Chaos Knights, similar to the Empire's Freedom Blade, called the "Blade of Fear".

Every Chaos Knight is a distorted reflection of an Imperial Knight.Knight Mechs were originally created using standard template structures in the Dark Age of Technology, and over the years and centuries, Chaos energies had seeped into the War Engine, torturing its machine spirit, causing them to mutate profoundly as machines.

Janiko told Zofia:

Where once the Knight Mech and its pilot were a shining beacon, now the Chaos Knight and its fallen nobles form a symbiotic beast of rage and hatred.Only the most powerful of the Fallen Pilots can communicate with the Mechanic Throne without going mad in the process.Those who survived by chance, will also become tortured creatures.

"31 knights, forming five spear formations."

The chief knight taught by example to his adopted daughter:
"The battle will start in a while, you must follow me closely and cover my left flank, understand?"

"I understand, Your Highness Janeko."

Zofia nodded.

The two climbed into the knight mecha respectively.

This time Zofia failed to pilot the "Rage of Fire", and she was stuffed into the cockpit of an attendant-level knight.The steed is an agile mech made of plastic steel and adamantium, a broadsword squire called the Bloodhound, with a chainsword at the end of one arm and a A set of heat spears, a double-barreled melta weapon, and a stump gun on top, that's all she has.Its Machine Soul greeted its new owner with a cautious roar.

There are not as many models of knight attendants as there are formal knights. There are only two types in total—broad sword attendants and handle ring attendants. The attendant automatic gun is equivalent to a cavalry archer specializing in long-range output.

Zofia's five senses began to expand with a dizzying shock, the external viewfinder and auspicious array began to operate, and the instruments in the cockpit and the images outside the cockpit gradually overlapped.Her field of vision is panoramic, with increased width and depth, and with a single glance she can see what mortals around her would take more effort to see clearly.

At the same time, a large amount of data was refreshed and scrolled on her retina display, her sound array communicator was awakened, and the information in the open communication channel was directly sent to her ears.For those unprepared, such an intense sensory input can lead to catastrophic psychological trauma and even death.But for Zofia, she had completed the link with a bigger, stronger, more majestic and burly mech hunter, and she didn't feel any discomfort at all. The extra effect of adrenaline would only make her excited and make her whole body All trembling.

The cross-orbit lander deploys.

Each spear array stepped out of the hatch one by one.

Madame Janiko leads a spear formation.

The Viscount Sunderland leads a spear formation.

The Draconis family is on the ride!
This is an industrial world with complex terrain. The city is full of wide tunnels and giant mines left by the mining industry, which are enough to withstand orbital bombing.In such an environment, the bird divination instrument was not very sensitive, and the imperial knights spread out to carefully expand the search area.

Scan the surrounding ruins of the broken and uninhabited city.

This place has already been plundered.

Viscount Sunderland came to a conclusion.

Why are they here?

Thinking of the transport cruiser that hastily lowered the cross-orbit lander and then quickly left the orbit of the planet-the Viscount has ordered the family warship to pursue it.

What does the enemy seem to be avoiding?
Viscount Sunderland thought to himself.

"Ahead, an energy signal has been detected!"

The voice of the knight squire interrupted his thoughts.

A troop of fallen knights emerged from the tunnel.

"Wilter XI, damn traitor."

Half black gray and half dark green armor painting, the sharp sword pierces the family coat of arms of the black skull wrapped in white gears from top to bottom. After confirming the identity of the opponent, the Viscount Sunderland turned on the loudspeaker and said in a cold voice Name.

"Draconis, why are you?"

The opponent seemed a little surprised, as if he didn't expect to encounter another team of imperial knights here.

"Fate makes us meet again, I want to purify you, ugly things that blaspheme chivalry."

Viscount Sunderland said coldly.

"Yes, destiny..."

The other said with a sigh.

On both sides of the confrontation, the main forces of the Draconis family are patrolling knights, and only the owner, Viscount Sunderland, is driving a castle master knight.The main force of the Vickerstriker family is the plunder knight, and the head of the house, Wilt XI, drives a tyrant knight, which can be said to be a well-matched opponent.

The head of the opponent's knight mecha was like a slender metal skull, with a raised jaw and a big mouth with fangs hanging down.The fallen knight raised his right hand, holding an interstellar warrior in the lightning gauntlet. This interstellar warrior was wearing a black and gold color power armor, without a helmet, and his head seemed to be in a state of suspended animation.Then the Thunderstrike gauntlet crushed the ceramite and plastic steel, and the Space Marine's superhuman flesh spurted from the gaps in the armor.The fallen knight slowly smeared the corpses of the space warriors on his uneven, spiked armor. The pieces of meat and armor hung between the welded spikes and the gaps between the skull chains, and some of them fell down.

Viscount Sunderland watched this scene silently.

This heinous provocation and blasphemy.

"I thought it would be these guys who came."

The other leader smiled and said:

"It caused me to prepare a prisoner in advance, it was really a wink to the blind man, it's a pity, it's a pity..."

Zofia stared at the black gold power armor.

How do you feel...a little familiar?
"Your existence itself is a desecration of responsibility and honor! Don't try to provoke us through this kind of behavior, Wilt XI, today is your death day!"

Viscount Sunderland announced loudly, raised his chainsaw sword, switched back to the communication channel, and shouted:
"All knights, follow me...vomit!"

There was a sudden change in the communication channel, and all the knights heard it. The viscount's voice changed suddenly, and he seemed to be vomiting. The voice was extremely tragic, as if he was about to spit out all the internal organs, and he was still scratching his throat hard.

"I... vomit, vomit, wow—"

There was a heart-piercing, splintering sound of vomiting.

All the imperial knights were stunned.

I was a little overwhelmed for a while.

In the distance, the fallen knights on the edge of the tunnel were also stunned. The leader, Wilt XI, tilted his head, and the receptors and detectors on the knight's head kept flickering. When he found the castle master knight on the opposite side, he suddenly began to tremble. Thick and corrupt pus and mucus seeped out from every gap in the mecha.

Then there were wriggling white maggots and buzzing black mosquitoes. The maggots kept falling, and the mosquitoes rose up and surrounded the cloud of flies.Then, the steel began to become diseased, the surface of the armor bulged and grew spots of boils, the castle master knight trembled, the pus flowing on his body began to bubble, and the exhaust vent behind him was emitting a steady stream of green foul-smelling miasma.

"This is... Nurgle?"

The well-informed Wilt XI spoke to himself.

"Om-"

A piercing scream accompanied by severe pain swept through the communication channels of all the imperial knights. Zofia felt blood roaring in her temples, and the iron ring on her forehead suddenly became extremely heavy, making her unable to breathe.

"It's Chaos Waste Code!"

Janiko screamed:

"Zofia, disconnect the communication link!"

After a long period of continuous training, Zofia did not think much, almost subconsciously, manually disconnected the communication link, and the sound in her ears disappeared with a "click".The pink-haired girl looked around, and was shocked to find that many knight mechas also showed the same symptoms as the castle master knight.

"boom--"

The Knight of the Fortress suddenly raised his right arm, pointed the city breaker cannon at a patrolling knight who was still normal, and fired brazenly. The ion shield of the patrolling knight was facing the Chaos Knight in front, completely unaware of the attack from the side, and was caught off guard Suddenly, a burst of sparks erupted from the cabin, and it staggered and fell down.

Before the two sides fought.

Imperial knights have begun to kill each other.

"Boom! Boom boom!"

The body of the castle master knight began to be covered with rust and patina, and the group of Shieldbreaker missile launchers on his back sprayed missiles indiscriminately towards the surroundings.Several knight mechas that had also mutated turned their chainsaws and surrounded the "Flame of Fire", and the chief knight was instantly besieged by three knight mechas!

"Zi-bum-Keng!"

"Fire's Fury" cut the sawtooth blade with a sword.

A loud roar came from the loudspeaker:

"Run, Zofia, run!"

Helpless and fear filled her heart, Zofia stared blankly at Mrs. Janiko being surrounded, and the gigantic castle master knight turned around and raised her weapon.In the distance, a group of Chaos Knights are running towards this side with their legs open...

Relying on his superb fighting skills, the chief knight manipulated the "Rage of Fire" to pierce the mutant knight with a single sword.

"Run, Zofia!"

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"Tack, tick, tick..."

Dark and dark night sky with raindrops falling.

Drops rippled in the puddles among the ruins.

A broadsword attendant walked alone by the side of the road.

Zofia's face was dull, and she walked in a daze.

She almost forgot how she escaped from that cruel and chaotic battlefield in the end.Those imperial knights who suffered from some kind of "infected mutation" completely forgot the combat skills they had mastered, and fought with an animal-like instinct, wielding their weapons in a disorderly manner.At the last moment when he left the battlefield, "Bloodhound" looked back and saw that "Fury of Fire" was overwhelmed by many mutant knights... Then he raised his left arm and shot through a mutant knight who was trying to chase him The mech's leg joints let it fall to the ground.

"His Royal Highness Janeko, Mrs. Janeko..."

Zofia muttered softly to herself.

Suddenly, she closed her eyes.

"Mommy mommy……"

Although her senses are still in sync with the broadsword attendants, and even though her body and vision still exist as a knight mecha, when she closes her eyes, she can still clearly feel two lines of heat flowing down her cheeks. slide.

The nights in the industrial world are stiller.

The tiny flames that occasionally lit up in the distance, like a cluster of will-o'-the-wisps in the dark, faltered and went out.

Zofia drove the knight attendants and walked another seven or eight kilometers, advancing along an ancient main road.Abandoned delivery trucks are scattered about, rusted from prolonged exposure.A factory she had just seen in the distance was now closer, only about a kilometer away.There is no command, no goal, no direction... She doesn't know if there are any survivors in the knight family, not to mention a spear formation, even if there is only one knight attendant.

She just walked aimlessly.

The factory-like building is so huge that knight squires can even pass under it.No one knows what it once built.Given the size of the factory, it may have even produced Titan components or battleship shells.However it is simply marked as "Abandoned D-26" on the map.

"Drip drip drip!"

The voice of the bird divination instrument sounded harshly.

The threatening alarm sent her into a panic.

"what is that?"

"Bloodhound" turned around cautiously, and the girl's heart immediately sank.A twisted humanoid machine stood in the distance, just at the edge of her auspicious detection range.It was almost twice her size, about the size of the Castle Knight the Viscount was driving.However, this is not the noble armor of the Draconis family, it is painted in vivid green and black, and has a black skull pierced by a black sword in relief, set in white gears.Bloody chains wrapped around its head.The chainsaw weapon on his arm was still dripping with blood.

It was the Reaver Knight of House Vickerstrike.

Zofia's eyes widened suddenly.

The fallen knight started walking towards her.This kind of approach is slow and easy, with a little leisurely movement of the legs, as if a carnivorous animal is not interested in its prey.

"A lonely little terrier. Are you afraid of death, dog? Just escaped from your master?"

Every time the giant war machine moved a step towards her, "Bloodhound" involuntarily took a step back.

"All I fear is not doing my duty. Cowardice is the root of the corruption of heretics like you."

She did her best to keep her voice ferocious, but it wasn't ideal.At this moment, how much she yearns for her companion of the Broadsword, or "Fire's Rage."Although Zofia is talented and trained hard, the enemy in front of him is not an opponent of the same level at all. The huge size gap between the looting knight and the broadsword attendant can smooth out all differences in pilot quality, and the opponent is also impossible Is a rookie.

A heat spear can destroy it.

Zofia thought in her heart:
However, the range of the melta weapon is too short. If you manipulate the broadsword attendant to be within the optimal range, you will face the danger of the enemy closing the distance at an explosive speed.

"Hahahahaha..."

The fallen knight burst into cruel laughter:

"You are so timid!"

"Well, well, it's always a pleasure to crush a mean scrap dealer like you."

He tapped his carapace with his fist:

"I am the 'faith breaker', and I swear on the name of the Vikstrike family." There was a well-designed mocking etiquette in his words. "That way you'll know who your death is, won't you, puppy?"

"I am the broadsword attendant of the Draconis family, a twisted monster who sold out his soul, yuck!"

Zofia scolded.

At the same time, we are thinking quickly about countermeasures.

"The Draconis family?"

The fallen knight laughed:

"You may well be the last of your family to fall. A lost dog, a true loner."

"Shut up you idiot."

The pink-haired girl thought of her adoptive mother.

Angrily snapped:
"You are a bunch of rotten maggots."

"You can abuse as much as you want, guys who don't know how to respect gods. You don't need to miss them too much. I will end your pain as soon as possible and give you a decent way to die."

Without further warning, the Reaver Knight charged, rushing down the road toward her, crushing the delivery truck with ease with its giant mechanical foot.

Bloodhound turned and galloped down the road, her desire for vengeance imploring her to silence the traitor with arms, but there was no point in dying here, and the Knights of the Broad stood no chance.So, she desperately tried to find a way to escape the Marauding Knights.She thought the only possibility was to return quickly to the factory and hide somewhere in the factory complex.

The good news is that the squire is slightly faster.When she was running, she could hear the sound of the traitor's heavy logging gun, and the bullets hit her armor with large sparks. She felt the blunt sensation of being hit on her back like raindrops. The god of machine prayed, prayed that the bullets would not get into any gaps and gaps.

Behind her, a cascade of small car wrecks and the crashing sounds of transport vehicles suggested that the Chaos Knight's impatient desire for destruction was about to be unleashed.The Reaver Knight grabbed a small car and threw it in her direction with a wave.Fortunately, the car did not hit, but rolled and slid on the road, causing a lot of sparks.She is smaller in size and constantly jumps around, avoiding surrounding obstacles, so as not to be tripped and overtaken.

The gate leading to the factory area is close at hand, and it is closed from top to bottom. Due to the huge scale of the building, it can accommodate broadsword attendants, and "Bloodhound" leans over the breach and enters the dark factory area.Her sensor suite and auspicious data immediately supplemented her lack of vision. Huge machines were shadowed everywhere, whose purpose she couldn't see. Some machines were as huge as hills, and the spaces between streets and alleys were filled with dust.

There are corpses everywhere, fallen long ago, leaving only a pile of bones and metal frames.Their robes and flesh have long since rotted away.Some production machinery was damaged, walls and columns were destroyed.Not even the huge skeletal cogs symbolizing the Mechanicus, this place has been contested, not just abandoned.

A loud bang came from behind.

The Marauder Knights also came in.

This traitor couldn't squeeze around like the Bloodhound, and could only smash the way forward, the decayed metal crumbling and collapsing under the attack.A moment later, the huge body of the looting knight emerged from the flying debris, but he suddenly realized that he had lost the trace of the broadsword attendant.

The factory is quiet.

The readings of the augury were also normal.

"Hehe, playing tricks like this with me?"

The fallen knight smiled and began to look around.

"Come out, come out, little hound." The fallen knight coaxed, the distorted and inhuman voice was particularly harsh in the silence. "I'll make your death a little easier."

The inside of the factory area is still quiet.

"What are you hiding?"

cried the fallen knight.

"Being the last link in a series of failures? You can't save the world! But I'm surprised that the steel ring can last so long with such mediocre guarding power. Look at you, and Run and hide, and in the end you can't even save yourself."

"You're just a knight squire, without your mentor knight, you don't even know what to do, do you? Just a toy that can only obey orders. What are you? Poor pathetic back-up? Special A bred genetic hound? A dirty mud leg with a high self-esteem?"

The fallen knight continued to knock on her psychological defense.

"You're a farmer, I can tell you, your rude low Gothic accent. If you have the courage to face me, the puppy will die with its owner. You think you have a great destiny, you are destined to To have more? Ridiculous. You're nothing more than a crippled slave who begs your master for scraps. Now they're dead and you're nothing."

The fallen knight continued.

He thought Zofia was an ordinary servant, and wanted to humiliate her and anger her in this way, but he didn't understand the relationship between Zofia and Janiko at all, which completely surpassed the special relationship between ordinary knights and servants .

The Marauding Knight strolled across a covered bridge.

Suddenly, there was a loud shout above his head:
"The time has come, traitor!"

Broadsword servants descended from the sky.

Hot molten flames spewed out.

The Chaos Plunder Knight, who was mentally prepared, shifted the ion shield to the top of his head, raised his lightning gauntlet and swung it upwards, but he didn't expect that he was not aimed at him by the muzzle of the melta cannon, but a pile of monsters with the promethium logo on the side. giant water tank.

"boom--"

The explosion of the water tank broke the structure of the fixed corridor bridge. The huge impact sent the two knight mechas flying sideways. The attendant was petite, and the covered bridge hit the back of the plundering knight first, and broke into two pieces to form a triangular arch bridge support structure. The "Bloodhound" happened to be lying in this small gap.

The evolution of this series of things exceeded Zofia's expectations, and she did not plan so many steps.

But she reacted very quickly. While the looting knight was still lying on the ground, she immediately kicked her legs out of the corridor bridge, stood up with one hand on the ground, swung the rotating chainsword, and ruthlessly pierced the looting knight's back armor and The gap between the skulls.

"Zizizi Kaka..."

Take it out, take it out, take it out...

Zofia roared in her mouth:

"Ahhhhh, die to me!"

Until blood mixed with engine oil gushes out of it.

Blood flowed slowly, covering the entire ground.

Zofia finally stopped breathing.

"Ha ha……"

The looting knight remained silent.

I killed a Marauder Knight.

The words echoed in Zofia's mind.

I fucking... actually...

Killed a looting knight?
Although there is an element of luck, no, almost all of it is luck, but...if the family is still there, if the mother is still there, with this military exploits, she can be directly promoted to become a formal knight, and becoming a chief knight is also just around the corner.

After panting for a long time, "Bloodhound" straightened up, turned around and walked towards the factory gate.

The knight squire just got out of the breach in the wall.

Immediately startled.

Outside the factory, six plundering knights of the Vikstrike family stood in a semi-enclosed circle, waiting quietly for her.

She didn't know that long before the looting knight entered the factory, it had already notified the other looting knights to come and surround it.

It’s over.

That was the only thought on Zofia's mind.

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(End of this chapter)