Warhammer, but Emperor's Chosen

Before Hobotov could finish his words, a dull sound of a grenade launcher instantly broke the silence on the bridge.

Chapter 69 Dark Mechanicus

The dull sound of gunfire caught everyone off guard.

They were clearly still negotiating one second ago, but a gunfight broke out the next second.

Krull thought that the Inquisitor lacked patience and tried to shoot to intimidate the Mechanicus Magus. But when he saw the situation clearly, the bolt that briefly froze in front of Noah, was blocked by the force field of the Rose Beads, and landed on the deck with a crisp sound, as well as the Turtle Guard with smoking muzzle next to the Mechanicus Magus, his mind went blank.

The one who fired the shot was not the Inquisitor's men, but the Mechanicus's Aokai Guards?

The Inquisitor dared to shoot the Grand Magus of the Mechanicus because as the largest violent law enforcement agency in the Empire, the Inquisition had the confidence to do so!

But what right do you have for the Mechanicus?

How dare you assassinate an inquisitor in front of so many people?

Before Krull could figure out the situation, Sarpedon, a Space Marine, reacted quickly and threw a punch at the Grand Magus of the Mechanicus!

Regardless of the current situation, it was the Mechanicus who took the first action, and they tried to assassinate an Inquisitor.

Then even if he beat the oil guy to death on the spot, he would have enough reasons!

"Wait, this is a mistake..."

Hobotov's electronic eyes flickered red, and he was obviously frightened by the sudden change. He hurriedly spoke out to try to explain.

But it was too late. Regardless of whether this was a misunderstanding or not, Sarpedon had to sit back and watch the Mechanicus' assassination!

boom!

The Space Marine's fist was blocked by the force field shield built into the Oiler's body. The binary alarm suddenly alerted the great sage, who raised the power axe in his hand and tried to fight back. But Sarpedon is not just a Space Marine, he is also the chief think tank of the Soul Drinker Chapter!

Almost at the same time as he threw the punch, a surge of psychic energy rushed towards the oil man's brain.

Even though these oilers have transformed their bodies to be almost inhuman, most of them will keep relatively intact wetware. Even if they don't have wetware, it doesn't matter. In front of psychic power, whether it is a living body or metal, it is treated equally.

The impact of psychic energy made the oil man's brain fall into a trance, and taking advantage of this opportunity, Sarpedon smashed the oil man's force field shield with a punch, accompanied by a crisp cracking sound, and the huge fist slammed into his face and knocked him to the ground.

Even if this great sage has some kind of mine in his crotch that can blow up the Dreadnaught, Sarpedon will not give him the chance to use it!

Bang bang bang bang!

At the same time, the bridge was filled with the sound of gunfire.

The reaction of the Battle Sisters and Space Marines was no slower than Sarpedon. While he was punching Hobotov, they also opened fire to suppress the two Assassin's Guards and other Mechanicus members carried by Hobotov.

In just a few seconds, all the people brought by Hobotov fell in a pool of engine oil, and their bodies were sizzling with electricity.

"The weapon array has locked onto the enemy ship!"

Nono's cold voice echoed in the bridge.

Even though he had just been assassinated, Noah's expression remained calm. He did not order to open fire in anger because of the assassination. He just said calmly:

"Send an astropathic signal to the Mechanicus' ships, demanding that they remove their void shields and surrender, otherwise we will open fire immediately!"

Krull has regained his composure from the fear and solemnly promised:

"Sir, the Navy will fully cooperate with you to eliminate the traitors of the Mechanicus!"

No matter what is going on, it’s always a good idea to take sides first!

As for how to stand on the side? Of course, he would help whoever has the bigger fist.

In the empire, you can be an incompetent waste, but you must learn to stand on the right side!

"he died."

Sarpedon bent down to examine the body of the great sage, his face looking somewhat grim.

Although he intended to kill Hobotov, he did not intend to kill him. He intended to kill him because he would be easily killed if he did not, but he did not expect that the Great Sage's transformed body would be so fragile!

There is definitely something wrong!

Noah frowned when he heard this.

He didn't think that it was Hobotov who tried to assassinate him just now, after all, they were clearly negotiating at the time.

Even if they really wanted to fall out, why did they choose this time?

But the assassination did happen.

Even a great sage like Hobotov died so easily. How can you be called a great sage if you die so easily?

This is such a coincidence, it seems like a long-planned conspiracy!

White was operating the Thinker Array, his tone was somewhat suspicious:

"Sir, we have received a reply from the Mechanicus. They sent us a string of codes..."

Zizizi! !

The signal channel was drowned out by noisy, harsh, buzzing static noise. Sharp, painful strange sounds echoed in the communication, roaring in Noah's ears like a storm, forcing him to cover his ears in pain.

"It's a waste code attack!" Nono shouted a warning, but her voice was hard to hear amid the harsh warnings from the bridge.

The screen of the Thinker Array was filled with a large amount of useless codes, and an eight-pointed star pattern was displayed on the tactical panel.

"traitor!"

Sarpedon's face was filled with anger that was difficult to conceal. He originally thought that the Mechanicus was just greedy for money and took the Spear of Souls from them. But if this matter involved Chaos, the nature of it would have completely changed, because it meant that the Chapter's holy relic was now in the hands of Chaos's great enemy!

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Noah slowly typed a question mark, his brows furrowed even deeper.

YYSY, he had some understanding of the Soul Drinkers. He knew that this was a chapter that was schemed against by Tzeentch and had a rough fate. He also knew that this incident would cause the Soul Drinkers to betray the Empire.

But the question is, why did the Mechanicus have problems first? What does this have to do with you?

And he didn't do anything, did he? Didn't he just accidentally kill your great sage?

This is because your great sage fired the first shot, so he can only be regarded as counterattacking in self-defense. Moreover, the murderer was Sarpedon, so what does it have to do with Noah?

It's just that a great sage died. Can't we talk about the rest slowly?

Why did you guys flip the table? Can't you afford to play?

Even if you have a heart of glass inside your iron body, even if you want to launch a useless attack, why would you throw the eight-pointed star in your face?

Are you so blatant? Are you afraid that others don't know that you are Chaos Traitors?

Although anyone with a discerning eye can see that there are many doubts, now is not the time to think about them.

Noah gathered his thoughts and looked at the Sound Array Master:

"White, report the situation."

"Captain, we have lost control of this battleship. Only the void shield array is still running. Father Nono is trying to remove the pollution and regain control of the battleship, but this will take some time..."

boom!

The ship suddenly trembled violently, and a dazzling light burst out from the porthole. It was the flash caused by the void shield blocking the artillery attack.

no doubt.

The Mechanicum's warships are firing on them!

The Mechanicus' sneak attack caught everyone off guard. The Constellation, which was in danger of being disabled, was unable to fight back, but the Constellation was not the only one here!

As the Mechanicus refused to surrender and opened fire, the Soul Drinkers were the first to respond. While the broadside macroguns of the strike cruiser fired fiercely, more than a dozen antique shuttles and boarding torpedoes also flew from the hangar of the star fortress to the Mechanicus' warships.

Although this belated boarding was cancelled many times, it was finally forced to go ahead.

The naval fleet finally came to its senses and began to fiercely fight back against the Mechanicus' warships!

Although the Mechanicus' fleet was at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, as they had only one capital ship and three frigates.

The only problem is that this Mechanicus warship numbered 674-XU28 is a large armed scientific research vessel.

This large armed research vessel usually has another name:

Mechanical Ark.

Although nominally a research vessel and performing scientific research, thanks to the ancient technology possessed by the Mechanicus, the firepower of any Mechanicus research vessel far exceeds that of an Imperial warship of the same size. The firepower configuration is simply insane!

After all, although the main job of a research vessel is scientific research, it is reasonable to install a small number of weapon arrays to protect its own scientific research results.

The most common plasma macrocannon array carried on the Mechanical Ark alone is more than one level more advanced than the Imperial Navy's macrocannon, and the void shield is also incredibly powerful!

Even a battleship is just a little brother in front of the mechanical ark.

It was precisely because of the powerful Void Shield that the research vessel remained undefeated even in the face of siege from multiple parties. On the contrary, the Void Shields of several naval ships were overloaded, and they had to withdraw from the battle urgently to avoid being destroyed, and then re-join the battle after the Void Shields were restarted.

In fact, if the Stars had not attracted most of the research vessel's firepower, the navy's ships would not have been simply shattered by their void shields.

The purpose of the Mechanicus was also very clear, they wanted to take advantage of the opportunity when the Stars were attacked by the waste code to sink it, so they focused their fire on the Stars first. But they had calculated everything, but they did not expect that the void shield of the Stars would be so thick.

But if there was anything strange, it was that although the Mechanicus had been firing fiercely, they had not used the nova cannon on the bow of the ship, nor the light spear array.

This caused the Mechanicus to miss the best opportunity to counterattack, and failed to seize the opportunity when the navy ships' void shields were overloaded to destroy them. Just like this inexplicable naval battle, the tactics of the Mechanicus also seemed inexplicable. They seemed to be neither aiming to destroy the Imperial fleet nor to escape.

The communication channel of the Stars was no longer filled with strange sounds mixed with screams and roars. After a burst of static electricity, Nono's voice was heard:

"Control has been taken back!"

White's reports followed:

"Your Excellency, we have restored communications with other friendly forces. The Navy asked us whether to completely destroy the Mechanicus research vessel. The Soul Drinkers reported that they lost contact with the boarding Space Marines ten minutes ago."

Noah thought for a moment and gave the order:

"Let the navy prioritize destroying the void shield and weapon systems, but never destroy the engine, lest it cause a secondary explosion that destroys the entire ship."

The Space Marines of the Soul Regiment are still on board. If the ship is really blown up, the possibility of these people surviving is really slim.

Moreover, Noah was quite honest, he admitted that he coveted the body of the Mechanical Ark. Since the Mechanicus had already rebelled, he could imprison the ship in his basement with peace of mind, how could he imprison it if it blew up?

After a pause, Noah gave another order:

"Sergeant Titus, lead your team to prepare for boarding. We have to find out what happened up there!"

Sarpedon took a step forward and said in a low voice:

"Sir Noah, I'm applying to join the boarding team. My battle brothers are all on board!"

"can."

Noah nodded slightly and did not refuse.

At this time, the research ship had been besieged by a large number of naval ships for a long time. Even though it had a powerful void shield array, it had its limits after all. Not long after the Stars joined the battle, its almost indestructible void shield was finally shattered by multiple rounds of nova cannon explosions, and the balance of victory was destined to tilt.

When the nova cannon shattered the research ship's void shield, the light spear attack followed. The scorching rays streaked through the cold void, accurately hitting the weapon arrays on its side strings and spine, and piercing through it in a brilliant explosion!

No matter how powerful its void shield is, the strength of its hull will never be able to withstand a volley of light spears.

If you can, then let’s have another round!

After a volley of light spears, this huge research vessel was half destroyed in the successive explosions. All its turrets had been destroyed by the light spears, leaving only the engine still rumbling, pushing it to cruise in space.

But this is of no avail. Having lost the protection of the void shield and without the weapon array to fight back, the research vessel is now like a fish on the chopping board. It is destined to be unable to escape the encirclement and can only be slaughtered.

If not now, when?

"Captain, the Thunder Eagle is ready." White reported respectfully.

"White, you will be in charge from now on."

After giving the order, Noah put on his power sword, held the plasma gun, and went to the hangar accompanied by Nono and several Baymax.

A Thunderhawk gunship is on standby in the hangar.

Titus, his team, and Sarpedon were already in another Thunderhawk waiting to take off.

When they learned from the communication channel that Noah would also join the boarding, Titus was no longer surprised, but Sarpedon looked a little surprised.

Although it is a traditional skill in the Empire for commanders to take the lead in boarding, this tradition is usually limited to space marines, and it is rare to see a naval captain or an Astra Militarum commander taking the lead in boarding.

After all, the combat effectiveness of Space Marine commanders is indeed far superior to that of other battle brothers, but the combat effectiveness of most Astra Militarum commanders or naval captains is really not much stronger than the big heads filling the line. They honestly stay in the rear to command the troops, and help each other more.