From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 438: Attack and Defense of Enkos Archives
These city police were scattered during this crisis, but they still put up sporadic resistance.

Amid the chaos, city councillors are gradually letting go of their bottom line.

They also let in the wilderness mercenaries outside the city and promised to give them permanent residence in the city as long as they could drive out the enemies of the generals.

These wilderness mercenaries are residents of scattered settlements outside the beacon city of Enkos.

A group of fierce guys armed with various weapons. The residents of Enkos used to contemptuously call these guys barbarians, but now they, the civilized people, have to rely on the help of these barbarians.

Will these city councilors fulfill their promise to grant these wilderness mercenaries city residency? Yes, as long as Enkos can continue to exist.

As the remaining forces from various places rushed to help, fierce fighting broke out in the city.

Gunfire, explosions, screams, these made the city, which was already precarious under the attack of the Destroyer, even more vulnerable. Many high-rise buildings survived the horrific bombardment, but collapsed in the subsequent battles between the city police, defense company teams and the airborne corps.

The forces that were able to launch a rescue operation were now caught in a fierce battle from which they could hardly escape.

Bullets and artillery shells were not particularly effective when hitting the thick armor. Even the steel needle shells fired by the electromagnetic cannon of the Pioneer nuclear tank could not successfully penetrate the thick armor.

Often after breaking the surface composite armor, it will be blocked by the gelatinous protective layer under the composite armor.

What a terrifying defensive power this is.

Fortunately, their weapons are not completely impenetrable, so there is at least a glimmer of hope.

These composite armors, created with great effort by the ratmen engineers, have many advantages, but once they are successfully broken, they will no longer be as strong as before and will shatter and fall off like ceramics.

The buffer layer under the composite armor can block the steel needle shells of the electromagnetic gun, but it cannot block the attacks of rockets and large-caliber bullets.

The Gerbils could only truly harm the soldiers of the airborne regiment after successfully breaking through the defense using the Pioneer tanks.

Of course, these elite and extremely expensive ratmen warriors cannot be allowed to attack at will. The gerbils can indeed break through the defenses of these monsters, but at the same time, they must pay a price.

A new batch of weapons support arrived, dropped from outer space by another Comet-class transport ship.

Like a cannonball hitting the ground heavily, a weapon airdrop successfully hit a Pioneer tank that was firing in a narrow street. At that moment, the sturdy tank suddenly dented from the turret, collapsed and deformed, and fierce electric sparks burst out from the tank.

There's going to be an explosion. This is a nuclear tank.

The city police gathered behind the tank began to flee frantically, and screams of fear rang out on the field, but this did not stop the huge figure facing them from retreating. They abandoned the vehicles that were temporarily serving as shields and strode forward. The flattened nuclear tank had begun to explode violently, and electric sparks sprayed out indiscriminately, covering all the surrounding areas.

The figure striding forward was engulfed by the fierce electric sparks until a horrific explosion sounded.

The small fission engine in the Pioneer nuclear tank exploded with a loud bang, and a small mushroom cloud rose again in the city. The city police who had escaped the disaster by hiding showed their heads at this moment.

Obviously, it was definitely dead. In their inherent impression, nothing could survive a small nuclear explosion.

The Pioneer tanks of Jiandun Defense Company are all old models. They have not been equipped with more advanced fusion engines. They also have design flaws and are very likely to explode when the tanks are severely damaged.

This is a point that the Shield Defense Company has always been criticized for, but at this time, the surviving city policemen wish that the design flaws of the fusion engine on this old Pioneer could be a little bigger, and the power of the explosion could be a little stronger, so that they can finally kill the horrible monster completely.

It’s a pity that they couldn’t get what they wanted.

The fire had not yet gone out, and the heavy and terrifying footsteps sounded again, accompanied by the harsh sound of metal tearing.

A huge figure emerged from the small nuclear explosion, and the composite armor all over his body seemed to be melting and solidifying again. His movements were a little more stiff, and every step he took was accompanied by a harsh creaking sound. But he finally walked out, like a devil walking out of hell, or like an immortal demon.

One of the two scarlet electronic eyes had gone out, while the other one flickered in a sudden change, flickering on and off, until a huge metal arm hit the helmet hard, and the flickering electronic eye stabilized, turning scarlet.

At this moment, before even waiting for this damn devil to raise the weapons taken from the nuclear explosion, the morale of these city police officers was collapsing.

In fear and despair, he dropped his weapon and started running wildly, wanting to get away from this devil, this tall figure.

However, the tall figure that walked out of the nuclear explosion did not show any intention of letting them go.

He raised the huge shotgun in his hand. This was a highly effective killing weapon that used a compressed gas tank and magic power to instantly fire a large number of armor-piercing steel nails.

With every step forward, the guns in their hands made a loud roar, and one or more city police officers fell down.

The guy who was hit by this gun often didn't even have a complete corpse left. His body was beaten into a pool of minced meat in an instant, leaving a pool of blood at the place where he was hit.

A city policeman who escaped into the store was a young gerbil boy. He huddled in the store in fear, covering his ears, losing his courage, just wanting to survive.

But that scarlet eye was right in front of him. He raised the huge gun in his hand with a slow movement and pulled the trigger calmly. Another scarlet mark was imprinted on the ground and the wall.

The killing was completed.

This tall figure took a step outside, and you could actually see that he was not in a good condition. He was steaming all over, and the melted composite armor was still flowing.

The worst thing was that the backpack carrying the life support system on his back was damaged.

Step by step, he left the bloody narrow street. As the sunlight shone down, he came to a main road in the center of the city.

But his movements became increasingly stiff, and slower, until he stopped completely. The damaged life support system made him completely unable to resist the terrifying radiation that was deadly enough. Inside this exaggerated and terrifying armor, curled up was a poor guy with blood slowly flowing out of his body.

This half-dissolved power armor became his coffin, and he finally paused on the wide street like a statue.

Soon after, a large number of airborne corps soldiers appeared here. They gathered together and marched with heavy steps towards another target location. The main force of the Shield Defense Company and all the remaining city police in the city were rushing there.

They want to annihilate the other side.

Heavy steps were taken one after another, but no one paid any attention to his companion who stood there without moving.

The rats don't care about death. Their views on life and death are very indifferent. They don't care about the death of their enemies, the death of their companions, or their own death.

They fear death, but never care about things that are already dead.

It's a strange, indescribable state.

Cowardly and indifferent.

………….

Nkosi, Urban Coordination Bureau, this is the heart of the city.

Fortunately, the archives were not melted into boiling lava by the ratmen's unethical cannon, but unfortunately, the Enkos City Archives was still affected, and one third of the entire building disappeared. Fortunately, the most precious set of mainframes in the archives were not affected, but unfortunately, the enemy set their sights on this place, but fortunately, the gerbils' own power was also converging here.

One thing that many gerbils in this wasteland agree on is that the rise of Enkos is largely due to the fact that the city has preserved a strong artificial intelligence that survived the golden age.

Once upon a time, the Gerbil Civilization of the Golden Age had developed to the point where it used intelligent AI to coordinate the resources of the entire civilization, until the outbreak of the subspace invasion.

Their artificial intelligence and virtual reality network were too deeply bound together. The moment those chaotic things invaded, their AI also had problems when the second world of the gerbils was blown up.

Mistakes occur, limits are breached, rebellion occurs, and even the gerbils turn against themselves.

No one was spared, and all the AI ​​intelligences contaminated by the subspace went crazy. That terrible turmoil ended with a nuclear war that almost covered the entire world. The surviving gerbils almost destroyed all the strong artificial intelligence in the world.

But there are exceptions to everything, such as Enkos, the founder of this city, a group of survivors of the golden age, who brought an uncontaminated artificial intelligence out of the shelter.

They named this artificial intelligence Hope.

They see it as hope for the Gerbil People.

Although their ideals were greatly reduced in the end, and in the end only the progressive city of Enkos rose from the wasteland, this hope also played an unparalleled key role in the establishment and development of Enkos.

Without his coordination, computing power, and impartial interpretation of order based on rules, this progressive city that inherited the shadow of the golden age would never have been built.

Therefore, at the first moment of this crisis, those city councillors dispatched almost all their forces to the City Coordination Bureau. They would take back this "hope" at all costs!

Of course, their actions were also observed by the rat people, so the airborne soldiers of the entire city rushed in this direction.

Half an hour later, the rats will try to break through the chaotic magnetic field left over from the nuclear explosion and attempt to drop more power into the city.

Nkosi's city councillors have given up on saving the city, but they are determined to take away the Coordinating Authority, which is Nkosi's only hope for reconstruction.

The Ratman Airborne Regiment received the order and successfully gathered together.

About five minutes later, the two sides will officially meet. This will be an important turning point, and a fierce offensive and defensive battle will officially begin.

At the gate of the archives, a large number of vehicles were piled up, blocking the road. Firepower was uniformly set up at high places. In several huge blasting pits, the Pioneer nuclear tanks were paused, covering the body of the tank, leaving only the turret and the black muzzle exposed.

Several sets of nuclear batteries were even buried in key locations.

Although the city councilors of Enkos also wanted to take Hope away as soon as possible, the collapsed structure and melted metal in the Destroyer's bombardment became obstacles for them to reach the underground machine room smoothly.

Once, for safety reasons, they placed the units in a heavy secret room deep underground, but now, this has become an obstacle for them.

In the chaos, they have mobilized most of the engineering forces, but the cleanup of the collapsed tunnels and ruins is still so slow.

There is nothing that can be done about it. The delicate "hope" cannot withstand the bombardment.

Outside the archives, the Ratman Airborne Corps has already engaged in combat with the defense company's consultants and the city police.

Explosions continued to sound.

These tall guys were constantly advancing, with the ones holding exaggeratedly large shields in their hands at the forefront, and the Pioneer tanks hiding in the explosion pits began to fire.

A terrifying armor-piercing shell wrapped in electric light hit the shield in the hand of the leader hard. With an extremely harsh sound, the leader was pushed to slide backwards. The armor on his feet kept rubbing against the hard road, and he was pushed for a considerable distance before slowly stopping.

This shell failed to penetrate the heavy shield in this guy's hand. The huge steel needle embedded in the center of the shield was particularly eye-catching. He shook the heavy shield in his hand, which was as heavy as a safe door. The guy who took the shell raised his head, and his pair of scarlet electronic eyes entered the sight of everyone on the opposite side. He continued to take heavy steps forward as if nothing had happened.

The shock this brings is difficult to describe. All we can say is that the high cost of the power armor does have its reasons.

(End of this chapter)