Warhammer 40 A New Hope

"Metal! Planting! Machinery!"

"They are blasphemers! They will anger the gods!"

"Kill them! Destroy their evil creations! Sacrifice them to the 'Original God'!"

Dozens of people wearing animal skins and holding primitive metal or even stone and wooden weapons shuttled through the woods, shouting unclear slogans and approaching the residence of the [Star Knights].

"Warriors! Kill these blasphemers! The gods will bless the bravest warriors!"

Under the guidance of a person who looked like a sacrificer, a strong man holding a metal sledgehammer and wearing a metal mask on his face rushed out of the woods first, followed by the sound of grenade launchers.

boom!

Paji

The fanatical and 'brave' warrior's upper body was immediately shattered in front of everyone else's eyes, his internal organs and flesh were splattered everywhere, and his lower body flew a long distance due to inertia before falling to the ground.

Several of the slower attackers who were traveling with him, perhaps not noticing the tragic scene or failing to brake in time, also rushed out of the woods and were subsequently shattered by the grenade bullets.

Those who saw their companions die instantly stopped and did not dare to walk out of the woods that could hide their bodies.

"Don't be afraid, the gods will raise the mist to protect his believers!"

As the priest shouted and waved the crude scepter in his hand, a thick smoke appeared and began to spread outward.

[Psychic reaction detected, that person is indeed a psychic] (Idel)

[The fog is spreading, but it has little effect on our vision] (Lorak)

[Everyone listen to my orders, switch to melee weapons, and be as merciful as possible, we need a labor force] (Lorak)

[Their wooden spears can't penetrate our armor...right?] (Im)

[That's a game, recruit. Besides, it's best if the Chapter Master doesn't hear you say this] (Idel)

[New situation, the psychic cast a spell again, a little red light appeared on other people, it might be some excitement and violence spell] (Muro)

After the report from observer Muro, those people shouted again, rushed out of the woods where they were hiding, and rushed towards the nearby residential area shrouded in fog.

Then, they collided head-on with the demigod warriors who were attacking them.

boom!

One invader was smashed to pieces by the fast-moving Space Marine, and another who rushed up had his arm chopped off by a knife and fell to the ground.

Several arrows flew towards him, hitting the heavy power armor and bouncing away without leaving even a mark.

This is not a game. It is impossible for primitive arrows and spears to penetrate power armor. Under overwhelming strength, these primitive invaders have no ability to resist at all.

Maybe against those who are holding 3K era or so, with little armor, this kind of attack can be successful, but what about these 40K era, demigod warriors wearing power armor? They just stand there and you can't hit them.

One after another, the invaders were killed or incapacitated. Even with the help of the tribal priests' berserker technique, the invaders began to become timid - their bodies were directly shattered or their brains were directly gone, so it didn't matter whether they felt pain or not.

Those who were still alive tried to escape, but facing the Space Marines who could move at a maximum speed of 60 km/h, they could not get away. The people of the [Astral Knights] would not let them escape either, as they were the labor force they needed.

At this time, the tribal priest who had been observing at the edge of the battlefield also noticed something was wrong and was about to escape, but he had been spotted by Lorak.

"Damn you blasphemer!"

Sizzle——!

A bolt of lightning shot out from the sacrificial staff and directly hit the giant warrior rushing towards it, but it had no effect at all.

Seeing this, the priest squeezed out the last of his mental strength, gathered a scorching fireball, and smashed it at the enemy who was not far away from him.

Just when he thought the enemy in front of him would be burned to death by the flames, Lorak simply waved his hand, dispersed the incoming fireball, and the tactical dagger in his hand pierced directly into his chest.

puff!

The huge blade pierced the priest's chest. There was still an expression of disbelief on his face. He couldn't believe that his attack had no effect on the enemy in front of him.

Brush - tear it!

The tactical dagger slashed horizontally, splitting the priest's body in two, and his internal organs and blood flowed to the ground.

"This is Lorak, enemy psyker killed."

With the death of the enemy psychic, the remaining attackers lost the courage to continue fighting. They dropped their weapons, knelt on the ground, and waited for the giants to deal with them.

[Star Knight]'s first battle, or rather massacre, in the new world ended in a complete victory.

166. Event: Demihuman Caravan

The attack from the cannibal troops was just a minor episode. These primitive enemies posed no threat to the [Star Knights].

Next, under the witness of Chapter Master Thad, the Space Marines interrogated the surviving enemies and learned that there was a primitive tribe nearby that lived purely on hunting and gathering.

The tribe hates all farming, complex construction and machinery, which they consider to be blasphemy against their gods.

It was this tribe that, with the help of a priest with certain psychic powers, plundered the outsiders who originally lived here, and captured all the people living there for blood sacrifice and consumption.

After learning the exact location of their tribe through torture, Captain Sad personally led two new recruits to the tribe, killed all those who dared to resist, and took the rest back to their residence as prisoners and slaves.

The whole process was almost unhindered. As a fearless mecha, THAAD carried heavy melee weapons and thick armor that those primitive people could not penetrate. The battle lasted only a few minutes from the start to the end.

The technical sergeants and mechanical priests put shackles and bomb collars on all the laborers so that they would obey their orders obediently. In the future, they will be prisoners and slaves of this settlement, paying the price for their past cannibalism throughout their lives while providing some labor for this settlement.

Some disabled people will be transformed into mechanical slaves to pay the price for their past actions in another way and form.

However, due to the limited number of settlements, there are not many slaves who can produce precision parts. Now the [Astral Knights] are beginning to lack those finely processed parts.

However, the situation took a turn for the better a week after the tribal invasion.

A caravan arrived near the settlement.

. . . . . .

A group of huge, bulky, densely haired ankylosaurs were slowly walking towards the settlement, carrying packages of cargo.

This is a caravan of nearly a hundred people, with dozens of guards carrying 3K era firearms. The members of the caravan all look like humanoid creatures.

After a week of hibernation, Chapter Master Thad was awakened again, ready to negotiate and make a decision with the arriving caravan.

"Have you changed people?" A short, hooded caravan member came to the technical sergeant. Judging from the voice, it should be a woman. "You are really tall..."

"You defeated the Macrophagous Tribe?"

"They are a big trouble. They are just a bunch of barbarians, but they have a psychic priest..."

The girl in front of him was chattering, which made Idel, the negotiator, a little stunned - after all, on their side, they had never seen a few merchants who dared to do so. After all, no matter how poor a [Star Knight] was, he was still a Space Marine.

"Oh, sorry, I talked too much without realizing it." The girl realized her mistake, stopped talking, and lifted her hood. "My name is Shu Fei, and I'm a businessman in Snow White City."

"...demi-human?" Idel said, looking at the girl with mouse ears and tail, who was only about the height of his knees.

"Yes, I am a genetically modified human. It's okay to call us sub-humans, although some people call us rat people or something like that." The girl who called herself Rat Fei said. "Let me tell you, these ears and tail are not easy to place when sleeping..."

"..."

Looking at the demi-human girl in front of him, Idel silently began to scan her body, and the results showed that her overall skeleton had shrunk a lot, and her metabolism was faster than that of ordinary people, which also gave them a shorter lifespan, agile body and sharp brain.

"...We need a lot of smelted metals and finely processed parts." After a little thought, Idel decided not to worry about the biological form issue for the time being.

On the one hand, this is not conducive to their mission. On the other hand, there are also sub-humans in the Empire. In addition, there is Zhang Yi's repeated instructions before the mission begins and there is a precedent of integrating alien creatures in another universe.

"Metals and parts? We don't have much, but they're not cheap." Shu Fei said. "We accept silver or gold, and we also accept barter. We don't accept credit."

"We need as much intelligence as possible." Idel said. "As for the equivalent required for the transaction, you don't need to worry..."

Afterwards, Idel brought the demi-human girl into the house and met with the commander of the THAAD regiment.

"A... demihuman merchant? Humph!" The fearless old soldier with a weird temper, who is also the current chapter leader of the [Astral Knights], snorted coldly, his tone full of contempt and disdain.

However, because of Zhang Yi's repeated warnings before, THAAD did not say much. He also knew that on this planet, if they wanted to complete their mission, it would be extremely unwise to make enemies with the local residents.

As for the contemptuous voice coming from the white and blue "coffin" in front of him, Shu Fei, who had round ears, did not react too much, as if he was used to it.

Piles of metal plates, processed parts, and some mechanical and electronic creations were placed on the open space in the residence. Mechanic Priest 321 and Technical Sergeant were checking these goods one by one.

"Poor alloy plates have substandard strength and other aspects, and are not suitable for major uses." (321)

"This is the best metal our city can produce. If you want something better, you have to go to the people at [Axis Security]. Their stuff is extremely expensive." (Shu Fei)

"The error of the parts is too large to be used directly in our construction and assembly. Further polishing and modification are required." (Idel)

"These parts are enough to make a low-level spacecraft, okay? What do you need to make that requires such high precision? A star destroyer?" (Shu Fei)

Although the two 40K era 'technicians' were very demanding on the 'atomic level' for the parts and metal materials brought by the caravan (some forging worlds in 40K can really perform atomic level processing), they still bought everything in the end - after all, these were the only things that could be used at this stage, so they had to make do with it.

Afterwards, Shu Fei also told Idel and others the information she knew about the forces on this planet.

The first is the [Tianzhou Security] she mentioned before - a security company that is said to have a certain reputation in the [Shining World] (although Shu Fei doesn’t know much about the so-called [Shining World]).

They only have one settlement on this planet, and their main business is to provide security or firepower services to all intelligent races. They have extremely high-tech weapons and equipment and vehicles. At the same time, they also sell a small amount of their equipment or weapons.

However, there has been no news from [Tianzhou Security] in the past six months, and I don’t know what happened.

Then there is the force to which Shu Fei lives in [Snow White City] - the Federation, a loose alliance of cities that embraces all friendly intelligent races, whether they are pure humans or sub-humans like him who have undergone genetic modification.

Next is the rare mechanical race, a group of machines that hunt all intelligent creatures.

Finally, those scattered primitive tribes with different beliefs were grouped together. They could not be considered a force at all. After all, they would fight among themselves for no reason, leaving corpses all over the ground.

"Those mechanical tribes are dangerous, but there's no need to worry. Grandpa said their leader is broken and there's no way to unite all the mechanical monsters to attack together. There's no need to be afraid of the scattered and undisciplined mechanical tribes..."

"I do know a little about what you call the [Interstellar Empire]. They did come here many years ago, but that was a long time ago. Grandpa said that our planet was abandoned..."

"I also know about the outsiders from the stars. Every once in a while, someone would build a so-called spaceship and try to leave this planet. But Grandpa said that because there is no [warp drive], all those who left have never returned."

"As for the psychic power you mentioned, it is an ability that only a very small number of people possess, and most people with psychic power can only do a few small things. Very few people can really use it for life, production, or even combat."

The information Shu Fei knew was not much, but it was enough. After sorting it out, he would try to send it to the fleet if they had not gone far.

Just when Idel and others were discussing how to arrange future actions and goals after obtaining this information, the chattering girl suddenly said that there was a mission and hoped that the people from the [Star Knights] could take it up.

"There is a huge monster roaming around our city..."

"Grandpa said that it was the result of excessive genetic modification and transformation. He hunted everything around the city, including living things like us..."

"People call it..."

"【Wendigo】"

167. Tzeentch’s Plan

"Finally I was let out!" Zhang Yi shouted as he walked on a street in Night City in the dark.

"I wrote a bunch of reports, damn, the Emperor, is that necessary?" Zhang Yi said as he walked down the street. "I can't beat the Custodians or the Space Marines, I'm just a few kidney-drainers..."

"And I don't believe there aren't a few Space Marines from the Night Lords following me..."

"It seems that Sefer was transferred to another place to perform tasks due to dereliction of duty... Is this true or not..."

"Never mind, I have to think about what to do with this free time..."

"Want to meet Victor, the best 'cyborg doctor' in Night City? I don't need to install a cyborg, so it's not appropriate to ask him..."

"Then let's go see Jack? V should be active now..."

"Or try those Cyberpunk-exclusive foods that are all 'technological and tough'?"

"I need to think about it..."

. . . . . .

Terra Palace

"Hmm... these reports are like ghost paintings." The emperor, who was still sitting on the golden throne, looked at the report Zhang Yi had presented not long ago and said, "Although I don't actually need these things, I just want to play a trick on him."

Zhang Yi's report was thrown aside. At this time, the kitten walked to the throne.

"My Lord..."

"I don't understand why I agreed to let him out?"

"...Yes..."

"He is no longer that fragile little guy. It is foreseeable that he will lead his offspring to the battlefield one day in the future..." said the Emperor. "And we cannot protect him forever..."

"But, his..."

"His arm, isn't it?" The Emperor once again interrupted his commander of the Custodians. "The triple seal is very solid. This is the result of a joint inspection by three powerful psychics..."

"Besides, that's exactly what he needs..."