Warhammer, but Emperor's Chosen

Even the judges prefer to use their power to overpower others. Although there are many who risk their lives, the number is relatively small.

Sarpedon asked carefully:

"Brother Titus, has he always been so brave?"

"You mean Noah?" Titus looked up at him, and Sarpedon nodded.

Titus puts it succinctly:

"He once saved two Chapter Masters during the boarding and landing battles."

Sarpedon was in awe. He didn't think Titus was joking. This inquisitor was indeed a capable man.

Chapter 70: Wise Materialist Warrior +1000

boom!

The battleship's hull was burned through by the heat, air escaped from the gap, and the boarding torpedoes were deeply embedded in the hull with a dull impact. The deadly passengers it carried rushed out from the darkness, and dull and short bursts of gunfire rang out in the corridor, shooting any killing servitors who dared to approach.

Similar things happened in the corridors of this research vessel.

Noah's team was also among them.

But unlike the Soul Drinkers who used the melta of boarding torpedoes to burn directly through the hull, the Thunderhawk gunboats flew in directly from the hangar.

The research vessel had fallen into great chaos before they landed, and the hangar hatch that had released fighter jets to attack the Stars had not been closed in time. This mistake provided excellent conditions for the Thunderhawk gunboat to land.

If there are any flaws.

That is, when they landed, all communications were cut off, and there was only chaotic static in the communication channel.

Cassia frowned slightly and warned in a low voice:

"Noah, something is wrong, the concentration of spiritual energy here is too high!"

The Mechanicus is not the Inquisition, the Mechanical Ark is not the Black Ship, and there are not so many psykers.

While not all Oilers are against psionics, they will never use psionic technology extensively on their ships.

Such a high psychic response could only be caused by the erosion of the subspace.

Perhaps it was this confusion that caused them to lose contact with other landing forces.

But if you want to say it's strange, it's actually not strange.

It is absolutely correct for the Mechanicus to join Chaos, it would be strange if they were not eroded by the Warp.

But if it is really a warp erosion...

Noah opened his treasure bag and looked at the thickness of the veil:

34.

Noah suddenly felt something was wrong and immediately changed the number to 0.

As he manually changed the thickness of the veil, the suffocating feeling of uneasiness in the air was instantly dispelled, and the hazy shadows were shrouded in light, but Titus and the others were still missing.

Noah frowned slightly and ordered:

"Don't worry about them, let's go straight to the bridge!"

He believed that no matter which team it was, when they found something was wrong, they would go to the bridge as soon as possible. Only by reaching the core of this mechanical ark could they figure out what was going on and meet up with others.

The sound of hurried footsteps echoed in the corridor. When they entered the corridor outside the hangar, the blast-proof door automatically lowered and slammed to the floor with a clang. The automatic cannon fell from the hatch opened in the ceiling, and under the control of the machine spirit, it aimed the muzzle at Noah and his group in the corridor, unscrupulously pouring ammunition at them.

Two large white tanks stepped forward with heavy steps, and the repulsion shield blocked all the ammunition that was pouring down like a storm.

The aiming rune flashed red in the tactical helmet, and Noah seized the opportunity to fire a shot.

boom!

The ceramsite armor of the autocannon was stripped off by the explosion, and even the barrel was melted by the high temperature, leaving only half of it. But even so, the machine spirit of the autocannon still poured fire from the damaged barrel, although these ammunition could no longer accurately hit Noah and Dabai, and most of the ammunition was fired randomly into the deck and wall.

Ajetta fired another shot, and a bomb blew the automatic cannon into scrap metal.

"Nono."

Noah turned his gaze to Nono, who walked forward and gently touched the door with his palm, chanting a binary chant in a low voice.

However, it is not responsive.

The binary prayer that had always worked seemed to have lost its effect.

"Can you open it?"

Facing Noah's gaze, Nono nodded gently: "Okay."

She took a step back and gave up communicating with the machine soul, because the machine soul's response was only disorderly and chaotic roars.

It's gone crazy.

In this case, she could only take some coercive measures.

Nuonuo took a half step back, took out a hot melt bomb from under his red robe and stuck it on the door.

boom!

The explosion of the hot melt bomb melted the blast-proof door into a pool of molten iron, and also successfully blew a gap in the corridor.

But Noah and his companions didn't go far before gunshots and flames appeared in the corridor. A large number of Crusaders and Killing Robots had already set up a tight defense here and were fighting stubbornly with the roadblocks piled up in the corridor.

If it were the navy, most sailors would surrender when they were boarded.

Most of them are loyal to the empire, but the people above them are ignorant.

But the Skitarii are different from the Mechanicus, they are essentially the private guards of the many sages and great sages of the Mechanicus. They don't care about the so-called empire, or even the Mechanicus as a whole, and they only protect the interests of their masters.

Boarding a research vessel is undoubtedly an infringement on the property of the Mechanicus and will naturally be met with the most severe punishment!

Clang, clang, clang!

The repulsion grid blocked almost all incoming firepower, and some of the firepower was even bounced back and hit the enemies behind the cover.

At this time, the incinerator on the back armor of the Castellan fighter was pointed at the traitors in front of him.

puff!

No bullets were fired from the muzzle, nor were there any laser or plasma lights, only pure flames.

The triply blessed promethium spurted out from the barrel of the gun, instantly filling the entire corridor in front of him.

The promethium flames roared through the corridor, clearing out everything it touched - literally.

Whether it was the Skitarii hiding behind the bunker, the bunker itself, or the explosion-proof doors at the end of the corridor dozens of meters apart in the same direction, everything in the corridor was emptied out in an instant, incinerated, evaporated, and vaporized by the high temperature of the flames. In the end, nothing was left but the air that was heated enough to roast a person.

The explosion-proof door that was lowered in the corridor also turned into a fluid of molten metal, which looked crystal clear and reflected a faint light.

The team continued to advance towards the bridge. During this time, only Nono stopped briefly in front of a Thinker that had not been damaged. He pulled out a thin cable from the mechanical right arm and connected it to the socket to obtain the intelligence contained in the Thinker.

During this process, Whipping Servants and Killing Servants constantly launched raids on them, but never achieved any results.

The whipping servitors that launched a suicidal charge towards them were smashed into pieces by the power fists of Castellan's intelligent mechas, exploding into a mist of blood and metal fragments, or were precisely blasted to pieces by plasma guns, evaporating into a puff of hot air.

The gunfire only stopped briefly when the floor was covered in blood.

Nuonuo quickly retracted the cable, looking extremely serious:

"Noah, something is wrong. The machine spirits on this ship have gone crazy!"

"What's wrong?"

Noah looked puzzled, "Isn't it inevitable that the machine soul will go crazy?"

Now that you have joined Chaos, how can you not be crazy?

Nuonuo shook his head gently and explained patiently:

"Corruption takes time. Even with Chaos contamination, it is impossible to corrupt all the Machine Souls in such a short time. The more powerful the warship, the harder it is to corrupt the Machine Soul. Even if it is corrupted, it should be to make the nature of the Machine Soul "transform". Just like turning a Space Marine into a Chaos Space Marine, although their spirit and body will be distorted, the soul itself is "unified".

"But on this ship, rather than having their minds corrupted, these machine souls are more like schizophrenia. All the machine souls' souls are split into two, representing two different souls of 'loyalty' and 'betrayal' that are constantly fighting each other. It is in this confrontation that the machine souls gradually fall into madness."

Noah mused, the Space Marines are the loyalists and the Chaos Space Marines are the betrayers.

The Loyalists may fall to Chaos and become part of the Betrayer group.

This transformation is almost irreversible, and it is impossible to surrender to Chaos and still remain loyal to the Empire.

But corruption is a gradual process. It is not something that can be done overnight to turn loyalists into traitors. It is a process.

If loyalty is likened to the past tense, then betrayal is the future tense, and what the ship is experiencing is the present continuous tense.

The machine souls on the ship possess two completely different "souls" at the same time. It seems that all the machine souls were forcibly inserted with seeds symbolizing betrayal at the same time, and these seeds took root and sprouted in a very short time, giving birth to deformed souls that compete with the original body for control of the "body".

There is nothing wrong with this in itself. From loyalty to betrayal, the process always goes through the present tense.

But that's precisely the problem, because corruption spreads so quickly!

Everything needs a medium, and corruption is no exception.

There are only two possibilities for this to happen:

Either they are in the Warp right now, or there is a massive Warp rift aboard this ship!

No matter which situation it is, it is not good news for the boarding troops on the ship, and it is even likely to lead to their annihilation.

Noah immediately ordered:

"Hurry up, we have to get to the bridge as soon as possible!"

Although he could also retreat before going too deep, he would not abandon the ship until it was absolutely necessary... and of course, there were also Titus and the Space Marines of the Soul Drinkers Chapter.

No matter what the traitor wants to do, he believes he can find the answer on the bridge!

Different from other Imperial warships.

The Ark Mechanicus is much larger.

In terms of size, the Mechanical Ark is even larger than any battleship currently in service in the Empire.

The layout of the interior space is also completely different.

Naval fleets usually require a large number of mortals to maintain, but the Mechanicus does not need mortals, they have servitors. Therefore, the Mechanicus' ships can usually cancel the traditional "living area", thus freeing up a large area to build other functional blocks, such as industry.

On the mechanical ark, this difference is even more obvious.

Its interior integrates a large number of factories and production workshops, including manufacturing plants, promethium refineries, crackling plasma reactors and laboratories, test sites, chemical barrels and gene cabins.

Rather than calling the Mechanical Ark a space battleship, it is more like a walking foundry world. Although there is still a gap in production capacity compared to a real foundry world, this Mechanical Ark is small but complete, and is enough to meet the most basic production needs.

without any exaggeration.

Such a magnificent ship is enough to make any powerful person in the empire excited.

Even the great sage of the Mechanicus may not be able to own a true mechanical ark.

If there is any flaw in this ship, it is probably that the machines in these factories are "growing" with wriggling flesh.

The fuel tanks were filled not with flammable promethium, but with smelly blood. The pipelines exposed on the surface had turned into arteries covered with "hair" and were vigorously pumping blood. Countless tentacles grew on the floor, ceiling and walls, greedily growing and spreading in all directions.

Even the gears that symbolized Ohm's Messiah were now covered in ugly flesh and blood. The flesh and blood in the gaps between the gears were crushed by the friction between each other, but new flesh and blood were also grown tirelessly.

Even though he was wearing a fully enclosed power armor, Noah could still smell the strong smell of blood, which was extremely stinky.

Although it looked normal on the outside, the degree of corruption of the ship was much more exaggerated than he had imagined.

No, maybe it's not normal outside right now either.

This kind of corruption is not necessarily the result of long-term accumulation, it is very likely to develop in an hour or even shorter. Time is meaningless to the Chaos Subspace, and the corruption of Chaos will not evolve strictly according to time.

But for humans, if they want to completely remove the pollution, it will take a long time, because they not only need to remove the flesh and blood on the surface, but also purify and bless every part, every gear, and every screw on the ship.

This long-term purification usually takes several years or even decades or hundreds of years.

Noah looked at the thickness of the veil again:

13.

This number directly reflects the degree of erosion of reality by the subspace. The thicker the veil from the subspace, the weaker the existence of reality.

Once the thickness of the veil exceeds 5, there is a chance that whispers from the warp will be heard. If it exceeds 10, the pollution will spread to the real universe, and you can even see the energy of the warp rolling in front of your eyes. And once the thickness of the veil exceeds 15, you may even be lucky enough to see all kinds of demons walking in the world. If it is higher, even the demons of the warp will appear directly in the world.

The thickness of the veil is almost close to this number. Their current situation is quite dangerous. If they are not careful, they will be corrupted by the corruption of the warp.

In order to avoid being attacked by some strange things, Noah had to manually add bricks and tiles to the laws of reality:

13→0.