Warhammer 40 A New Hope

"Even if it's not enough to pose a threat?"

"...You are aware that the Inquisition has suspected you of believing in Khorne more than once, right?"

"I would rather believe in DOM or Kratos than Khorne. They are no better at fighting than that kobold."

. . . . . .

Under the firepower of an armored vehicle modified from an engineering combat suit and a [Manta] armored transport vehicle, the Earth Clan, who were the first to receive a response from the Human Empire, broke through the blockade of the Fire Clan, rushed out of the city, and headed towards the human landing site they had detected.

The distance between the landing site and the Tau city was not far, so the [Manta] armored transport vehicle came nearby and was stopped by the alert mechanical race.

The huge [Fortress] locked onto the stopped Tau vehicle, all missile bays were opened, and the railguns were preheated. At the same time, several humanoid [Archons] surrounded them and used mechanical voices to order everyone to disarm and leave the vehicle.

The fleeing Tau were very cooperative. The Earth Caste engineers took off their combat uniforms, obeyed orders, stood aside, and waited for their fate - because this was their only chance to escape from this planet, this nightmare.

Not long after, Kerr and others arrived and met an Earth Clan engineer who was leading dozens of ordinary Titanium people. Arriving with them was a spirit lizard priest named Duma.

"Everyone kneel on the ground with their hands on their heads and accept the inspection."

Duma is a group of special newly hatched lizard priests. In addition to the abilities of ordinary lizard priests, they also have a very special ability - sensitivity to chaos.

Squatting on the shoulder of Technical Sergeant Fal, Duma carefully observed every Tau kneeling on the ground, feeling the possible aura of chaos on them.

"No problem." Duma said to Fal, but then he suddenly stood up and looked at the Devil Fish who was listening not far away. "There!"

The vehicle that had been quietly parked suddenly moved, and the rapid-fire cannon under the vehicle fired at the kneeling Tau refugees, and all missiles were fired at the same time.

In an instant, the few Tau refugees who were already in small numbers suffered heavy casualties due to this sudden attack. The missiles fired by the [Manta] were shot down by the Mechanoids, and then Kerr and others concentrated their fire to destroy the Tau vehicle.

"Only that one?"

"No, no more."

The Tu clan member who led the team looked at the broken bodies of his compatriots and couldn't believe it - he had checked many times before coming, so why did this happen?

"Welcome to the Novice Village, Noseless One." Kerr said to the collapsed Earth Clan members. "Out there, it's all high-end games."

. . . . . .

Northwest of landing site

"Skull for skull, blood sacrifice..."

"Shut up! You keep saying the same things over and over again!"

A heavy blow from the Decomposition Field Hammer knocked the bloody Khorne Space Marine to the ground, and then he hit him with another blow.

The assault team led by Wu Mo and the nearby Mechanical forces successfully intercepted a squad of Khorne Space Marines and an unknown number of human Chaos Cultists who broke through from the direction of the mountains.

The advantage in equipment allowed Wu Mo and his men to defeat the enemy's Space Marines almost without any damage, and cooperate with their own mechanical troops to suppress the remaining human Chaos believers.

These fallen humans who shouted the name of Khorne were unable to resist Wu Mo and his men with only the automatic guns and a few heavy weapons in their hands, and were quickly defeated.

Wu Mo learned from a captured human believer that these were just cannon fodder lured by Tzeentch.

[Khorne is fooled by Tzeentch every day, right?] Kerr said in the communicator

"They dug a tunnel. A mixed force of Tau and Chaos will soon attack the remaining city from this direction." Wu Mo responded. "If he is not lying, this force will destroy the remaining Tau city."

【What about the others? 】 (Kerr)

"I don't know, but there should be someone inside the city." Wu Mo said. "Jianqi's rhetoric is the same as always."

"Are we going to retreat now?"

[No, we are here to fight back] Kerr said [We need to find out what Tzeentch wants to do]

"Why not make a bigger fuss?"

351. Pathfinder's External Combat (Part )

The Tau soldiers who had abandoned the Greater Good, or whose beliefs had been distorted, painted new symbols on their armor or combat uniforms - the symbols of Tzeentch.

The Greater Good has been twisted to become part of Tzeentch's power, and these people don't see anything wrong with it.

They maintained their previous fanaticism, launching a "liquidation" against all those who disobeyed them, or those who were considered to be "heretics", even their own compatriots.

However, the enemies that came later once again dampened their enthusiasm and made them understand a truth once again - even if they changed their masters, they would still be cannon fodder in this dark and cruel world, and this would never change...

"For the Ancient Sage!"

Phew—bang!

A group of monitor lizards equipped with large jetpacks dropped from the sky like meteorites and smashed directly onto the Tau vehicles, knocking them to the ground and ripping off their gun barrels.

Om-!

The giant lizard's specially made power gauntlet made a buzzing sound, and its heavy punches directly knocked down the surrounding rebellious Tau soldiers like cutting wheat.

biubiubiu——!

Enemies at a longer distance pulled the trigger at the intruder, and dozens of pulse bombs were fired at the huge creatures.

Ding ding ding－－!

The transparent shield blocked the incoming attacks, and these Tau attacks failed to achieve any effect other than consuming the energy of the energy shield.

roar--!

The small and swift cold lizard roared and ran towards the enemy in front of it, and the pulse guns in the hands of the Tau immediately changed direction and fired at those creatures.

The not-so-dense firepower network was not able to eliminate all the cold lizards. There were still a large number of cold lizards rushing in front of them. Their reinforced sharp teeth pierced through their combat uniforms and tore them off along with their flesh and blood.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!

At this time, a large number of bombs appeared in the air, almost covering the entire front line where fierce fighting was taking place.

Several XV88 "Broadside Gun" combat suits, regardless of the damage to friendly forces, used their powerful firepower to carpet bomb all enemy targets within range.

Boom boom boom boom--!

There were continuous explosions, and the earth was shaking.

After the flames and smoke from the explosion dissipated, the corpses scattered all over the ground proved that the attack was very effective.

bite--

At this moment, a soft light spread out, and then the fallen giant lizards, cold lizards and lizard warriors slowly stood up again.

Not only that, the wounds of these Lizardmen troops, who were left with only their last breath in the previous missile bombardment, began to heal, their scales grew back, and their broken limbs began to regenerate.

[Ankylosaurus·High Power Resurrection Crystal]

The Tau ranged units in the rear could not understand what was happening before their eyes, just as they could not understand the mysterious warp spell released by the Tzeentch demons or believers not long ago.

However, on the battlefield, they would not have time to understand what was happening.

Biu－－!

The scorching rays burned through the armor of the heavy combat suits and ignited the flesh and blood of the creatures inside, causing them to fall down before they could even utter a wail.

[Ancient Triceratops·Heavy Mobile Armed Platform]

[Skin Lizard·Sun Lance]

The heavily armored and further modulated behemoth moved forward slowly with heavy and steady steps. On the platform fixed on its back, the Skin Lizards holding special melta sniper rifles were firing at the enemy's heavy units at various tricky angles.

Seeing the local giant titanium unit appearing on the battlefield, they attacked it immediately, but all of them were blocked by a layer of transparent energy shield.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh－－!

Several gleaming crystals were thrown from the direction of the Lizardmen and landed accurately in the Titanium camp. The next second, the crystals exploded and a large amount of electric light shot out.

【Eight Winds Magic Crystal Bomb (Lightning Chain)】

"Charge! For the Ancient Saints!"

【Battlefield-level group invisibility】

As the air twisted slightly, thousands of armored lizard riders, armed with chainsaw swords and other melee weapons, appeared near the Tau position and rushed towards them.

The nearest Tau soldiers immediately prepared to counterattack, but then discovered that the aiming system built into their armor was not able to assist them in aiming at this moment.

Some of the Tau soldiers reacted quickly, immediately turning off their auxiliary devices and aiming and shooting with their eyes, but another problem arose - among the thousands of enemy cavalry, at least half were illusions.

[Itaza Optical Interference Device]

The illusion, which was almost indistinguishable from a real entity, attracted a great deal of the firepower of the Tau forces. Even if a few attacks hit the real target, they were blocked by the shield formed by the [Shield Belts] they carried.

The Lizardmen cavalry rushed in like a sharp knife, piercing into the Tau positions and starting a massacre, just like they had done before against Tzeentch's troops.

"This is Ku-Rees (the lizardman veteran who follows the priest of Kua-Kua-T in XCOM2). We have basically suppressed the Tau enemies in this direction, but more enemies including Tzeentch demons are converging in our direction."

[This is Loken. I have received your message. We are luring Khorne's troops here. Please be prepared to support and retreat.]

"Roger that, hot-blood."

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Near the last remaining Tau city

A gigantic thunder lizard was standing quietly near the Tau city. It was so huge that it could form a small forest monster on its back. It was captured and tamed by the lizardmen after they successfully obtained an ancient relic.

The current leader of the Lizardmen, Lord Kroka, personally organized a transformation ceremony for it together with dozens of magic toad priests, and moved a temple onto its back, turning it into a living mobile fortress.

At the same time, an experimental secret weapon against chaos was also transferred to it...

"This planet has been completely infiltrated by Chaos, and there is no way to save it." The leader of the Lizardmen here, and also an old friend of the Pathfinder Corps, Master Kwa Kwat, said while sitting in the temple. "These pathetic young races have no idea that their every move is being observed by Chaos from beginning to end..."

"Their 'luck' was given by charity..."

"The Chaos enemy will soon find us. We must be ready to leave at any time."

"But we can't just leave like this. The Eldar's prophecy says that if we don't care about the lives of the Tau, it will have a bad impact on the human empire." said Kerr, the chapter master of the Pathfinder Legion.

"The impact has already begun. A broken, polluted dark god is being conceived," said Kwa Kuaat. "When all the Tau are slaughtered and sacrificed, he will be complete and bring another disaster to this galaxy..."

"Because the four evil gods were sealed, the secondary evil gods who were ready to make a move are also fighting for the control of this new evil god."

"Is this the reason why the Four Evil Gods' subordinates attacked the Tau?"

"Not all..."

"So the Tau can't just ignore it."

boom--!

At this moment, in the only remaining Titanium city, another explosion was heard, meaning another chaos.

"...How are we supposed to take care of this..." Kerr felt a bit of a headache.

According to the preliminary investigation, the entire Tau city is in chaos, and a large part of the chaos is due to the ordinary Tau people who have been frightened.

Although the Tau are not completely ignorant of the demons in the Warp, it can be said that the ordinary Tau people have basically never come into contact with the Warp.

The previous full-scale invasion of this home world by demons has completely destroyed their will to resist and order. Even without the demons' instigation and fanning the flames, they are still in panic and confusion.

"We can't take everyone away, it's too dangerous." Kerr said. "It's very likely that there are hidden followers of the evil god among them..."

"But if we take them all, it might cause chaos. And if we have to selectively take some with us, which ones should we choose?"

"Why not let them decide for themselves~" Master Kwa Kwat said. "In the form of combat."

"To survive or to perish is up to them to decide~"

352. Pathfinder's External Combat (Part )

Kwa-Kwat's plan was simple: to bring these remaining Tau into the fight - the purpose of doing so was to cleanse any Tau who might have been tempted by Chaos.

Because of the special nature of the Pathfinder Legion, potential Chaos Cultists are more likely to show up in battle in exchange for the possibility of capturing Pathfinder Space Marines alive - if they can't catch a big one, a small one will do.

Doing so would also reduce the number of people needed to investigate to a certain extent - there weren't many Skinks like Duma who could effectively identify potential Chaos Cultists.

The Lizardmen troops led by Kor Reiss made the already chaotic situation even more chaotic and further intensified the conflict between Khorne and Tzeentch.

At the same time, Ku Reis and his companions also discovered something else - Tzeentch's purpose might not just be to gain control of the lesser evil god who was not yet fully born and was born based on the 'Greater Good', but they also have a deeper, unknown conspiracy.

But at this stage, we still don't know what these guys are trying to do. More in-depth investigation can only wait until the Blood Angels' Space Marines arrive.

Kerr led his brothers into the only surviving Tau city, and as the Kwa-Kwat Toad Priest had said, he demanded that the surviving Tau on the planet join the fight against Tzeentch's attack.

Naturally, some of the Tau people would have objections to doing this, but the result of their objections was that they would be purged without hesitation, on the charge of treason.

Once the terrified Tau had calmed down, Kerr explained to them that there might be Chaos followers among them, and told them that this was why they were asked to join the battle - to lure out those potential traitors.