Warhammer: I don't want to be a stinky can! ! !

Chapter 756 199. Try Again

How weak.

How boring~

[If you can't keep quiet yourself, I can help you poison your voice, Conrad Coates.]

[You lack the necessary sense of humor, Mortarion - you should learn to amuse yourself more often.]

【…】

In the dark dungeon corridor, Mortarion had to choose between hitting Konrad's head with a scythe or keeping silent. He decisively chose to use physical means, and naturally, Konrad, holding a bunch of Tau skulls, dodged smoothly.

If you still make so much noise,

Mortarion calmly withdrew his scythe. He missed, so nothing happened.

[I don't mind sending you and your legion into the heart of the Tau Empire right away. I think you would be happy with that - but maybe the kids you like will die there. They may not be as lucky as Sevix.]

[You are still as vicious as ever, Mortarion.]

Conrad hissed in resentment as he dodged into the shadows above the ceiling.
One or two of the skulls in his arms fell out, the blue heads of the Tau falling at Mortarion's feet, their eyes wide open, as if they had suffered unimaginable torture in their lives, and then were crushed carelessly by the Lord of Death.

Click.

【I was telling a joke. You have a very limited sense of humor, Conrad.】

Are Hades and Karas the only ones who understand his humor?

[You are just like that bastard Robouti Guilliman, you only threaten me with my offspring... You are so vicious, Mortarion, you deserve to be treated like this.]

This time, Mortarion chose to take out the Dark Lantern from his waist and fired it upwards. After a quick charging buzz, Conrad fell down with a scream, and his heads were scattered all over the ground.

Mortarion didn't care. He reached out and grabbed the Night Lord's collar, who had fallen to the ground, and then dragged him into the dungeon.

Perhaps it was because they had seen so many similar scenes together during their journey that the Death Guard and the Night Lords were no longer surprised. When they saw Mortarion coming, the Death Guard guarding the dungeon saluted them and then slowly opened the door.

[Which one do you want to try first? ]

Mortarion asked calmly. The tall Primarch glanced at the shivering Tau who shrank back into the corner of the simple and cold dungeon, and threw Konrad out casually.

These Tau were captured from various burned Tau ships, used to test drugs on Mortarion and to keep Conrad from bothering Mortarion occasionally.

Therefore, most of the people here are from the Air Caste and the Fire Caste. After confirming that there is no difference in the general genetic direction between the Earth Caste and the other clans, one or two Earth Castes have been thrown into stasis fields by Mortarion. These are what he left for the Mechanicus and Hades.

The Water Caste were even rarer, almost non-existent - and because most of them could speak Human language, most of the captives Mortarion captured were killed by Konrad Curze, and the remaining high-ranking Water Caste was imprisoned in solitary confinement by Mortarion.

【Giggle, giggle, giggle.】

According to Hades' joke, the Death Guard is a very energy-saving legion after all, and the normal areas have very little lighting, not to mention the Death Guard's dungeon, where there is only a small necessary lamp emitting a faint light.

For those Tau people with poor eyesight, they were horrified to see a dark and thin monster crawling twistedly from the center of the dungeon and making inhuman sounds. If there were Tau people who understood human language among them, they would be able to tell that the monster was speaking human words.

【Starting from the Fire Clan. 】

Conrad hissed. He enjoyed watching these panicked little things scream, so he deliberately crawled over and watched the gathered Tau huddle together in even greater fear—

It's really touching. These Titans will even gather the disabled in the center, with the strong individuals on the periphery.

Conrad thought casually, he grabbed a Fire Clan member's head with his sharp claws, in the Primarch's hands, the Tau was like a doll, the usually calm and brave Fire Clan member seemed to be frightened at this moment, it wanted to scream, but Conrad stretched out his tongue and licked it in time, and most of the Tau's face immediately melted with a hiss, revealing the flesh and bones underneath.

【really weird. 】

Conrad said that he accidentally broke the head of the doll in his hand, and the Fire Clan member fell limply, and the Lord of Night had to change his target again.

[Their physical strength is even lower than that of ordinary humans. ]

【Yes. 】

Mortarion replied nonchalantly that he had no interest in watching Konrad play the cat-and-mouse game. Unless there was extreme hatred or tactical necessity, Mortarion preferred to kill the opponent directly.

【The secret lies in their technology. 】

That's why Hades needs these little blue guys.

The Pale Lord pulled out the bottles and jars from his waist. The test tubes emitting an ominous aura flickered between his fingers.

[What confuses me is that they are not sensitive to psionics and the Warp. ]

This, Mortarion said, meant that he could no longer add some little masterpiece of numerology to the potions, but would have to work from the physical pharmacology and toxicology.

Conrad smacked his lips and put down another corpse. The Lord of Night closed his eyes, and finally opened them again.

【indeed,】

Conrad said that warriors had emerged among the Tau people. The two tallest Tau people stood up and cursed at them. Conrad heard that they were accusing them of being inhumane.

But judging by their actions, it looked like they didn't want to fight Conrad.

For more fun, Conrad suddenly jumped into the ceiling, then stretched out his long arms from the ceiling and pulled these little guys up. The Titans huddled together in fear, looking up, but could only see a bloody black.

Soon, the screams and bloody corpses of their fellow tribesmen turned into rain and fell down.

【pity,】

The Lord of the Night commented,

[Such a race with high morals but fragile...if their souls were deeper, they would be the real darlings of Comoros.]

Perhaps there would be no need for the Empire, the Dark Eldar would simply capture the Tau and exterminate them.

But unfortunately, the Tau are weak psychics, which is probably why the Dark Eldar didn't try to arrest them, but... the Eldar themselves have already been exterminated.

Conrad chuckled again at the thought.

【…】

Comoros, the destroyed city of sin. Mortarion sometimes thought that if Comoros had not been destroyed, perhaps he could hide his identity and go to Comoros for some fun.

After all, biotechnology in Comoros has reached a whole new level.

But Commorragh was destroyed, just as Mortarion was imprisoned at his desk.

【then. 】

Death said, Conrad took the potion in his hand, and the Lord of Night let go of it, and a light mist immediately rose from the ground.

[This is prepared according to your request.]

Mortarion finally became interested at this point. He stared at the Tau with interest, observing the olfactory slits on their foreheads and the changes in their skin.

[Hallucinations, amplified senses, lowered IQ, and poorer control of limbs. ]

Mortarion stroked his chin thoughtfully, watching Konrad jump around in a pile of small insects, splashing their juices everywhere.

This was used by Conrad to infiltrate the rear, so it is slightly lacking in corrosiveness - after all, the protectiveness of the mechas equipped by the Tau in the rear would be worse.

But if he wanted to use it on the front lines... Mortarion would need to corrode the armor of the Tau soldiers so that his potion could touch their flesh.

Only when Mortarion has three potions on his waist that are specifically designed to deal with the Tau will he sound the charge. ………………………………

【Vision Enclave】

"Be optimistic, soldier."

Inside the scarlet mecha XV8, the tall Titanium UI was encouraging his comrades. After all, after the Falling Sun, everything had become less optimistic.

Falling Day - happened just three days ago. Three days ago, the fleet of the Human Empire seemed to appear out of thin air, and then directly decapitated all the Tau ships that were far away from the planetary protection circle at a superluminal speed that was unimaginable to the Tau.

It's unimaginable, it's unimaginable.

On some planets with good observation conditions, the Titans could even see with their naked eyes the small bright dots in the space - that was the Guardian-class mothership they were so proud of, which ended its life in a burst of fire.

This was a calamity for the Tau who had just successfully defeated the Imperial Raven Guard under the command of Commander Shadowsun.

What was even more difficult for the Titans to accept was that their observation matrix sent them even more shocking images.

A pale and terrifying giant ship is now swaggering across the star regions of Farsighted Enclave and the Bay of Damocles. Apparently, the Empire has claimed this star region as its own and does not believe that the Tau have the ability to defeat them.

They are right.

In the short term, the Tau were indeed unable to muster a navy to fight the Empire. They could only stand on the ground and watch the Imperial ships approach the planet's defenses little by little like a threat.

Within a day, planetary transportation between Farsight Enclave and the Bay of Damocles was completely cut off. Now the planets were isolated from each other, looking at each other from afar but unable to support each other.

The situation was urgent, so in a narrow corner far away from the Human Empire, Farsight personally took a small boat with extremely strong stealth capabilities to negotiate an alliance with the Tau Empire. Just now, their planet had received a notice of alliance between the Farsight Enclave and the Tau Empire.

For the purpose of maintaining stability, the last image sent back by the Guardian-class mothership was not made public. Even Commander Ying Yang claimed that he felt dizzy after seeing that image.

The footage was immediately transmitted back to the core of the Tau Empire. On the core planet, all the Ethers saw the footage. Before the rest of the Tau people realized what was happening, the Ethers already knew - a war of extinction was waiting for them.

…………

"This shouldn't be the case."

Said an Ether with bright blue skin. Its forehead was smooth and full, with a blue gem attached to the top of its olfactory slit. Its face looked very ugly.

"Why did the Human Empire send out so many troops?"

In response to it was the debate of the Ethers. Perhaps ordinary Tau people would not understand what this was, but as the highest leadership of an empire, the Ethers knew it all at the first sight of the scene.

But first, they need to resolve the termination application from their allies - the day after the Fall, the two races submitted an application to terminate the alliance to the Ether, and more allies are obviously watching them.

In the face of absolute external threats, the alien races are obviously not as "united" as the Titanium.

The Ethers are now facing a dilemma. If they do not agree to terminate the contract, these unscrupulous aliens will definitely try to cause unrest in the Tau Empire to force the Tau to terminate the contract with them.

If we agree to terminate the contract directly, the remaining allies will probably flee away immediately.

This is extremely bad.

For the Tau, some of their allies have ultra-long-range navigation capabilities, which means that they can retreat directly when the Human Empire concentrates its firepower to attack the Tau, but the Tau who have not yet unlocked ultra-long-range navigation cannot do so.

Despair spread among the Ethers. After a day and a night of debate, despite opposition and doubt, the Ethers finally reached certain decisions, and the Tau Empire began to mobilize.

The day after the Ethers left the meeting, all the Earth Castes within the ultra-long-range navigation areas of the Tau Empire were assembled.

If the Tau Empire is doomed to fail, then they must at least leave behind a spark of hope, just as they did back then.

........................

"Lord Farsight has formed an alliance with Lord Shadowsun. We will fight together under the guidance of the Greater Good."

UI wearing XV8 said, but even so, the display panel of its combat suit showed that its soldiers were now in an anxious state.

This is understandable. In fact, the UI is also very uneasy. The fleet of the Tau was directly defeated and crushed, and the human empire even seemed to be confused.

Their fleets were wandering around in the airspace, seemingly trying to find the "real" naval forces of the Tau.

Humans don't even take their navy seriously.

The huge gap in strength made the soldiers on the front line nervous, but out of UI's duty, it had to comfort its soldiers.

"The enemy's fleet is not approaching our planet. They are still afraid of the shield generators and artillery arrays we have set up in the planet's orbit. Our planetary defense network is enough to stop them. If they want to cross it, they will have to pay a heavy price."

…………

[The first planet, you go first or me? ]

【? ! 】

[When did you become so kind, Mortarion?]

[Just a test. I think their planetary warfare shouldn't be as weak as their naval warfare. It's just a test and it's gone.]

Mortarion hadn't even finished his fight yet.

It's over.

This outcome made Mortarion wonder whether he should send a weaker army into the battlefield next time instead of sending the Death Guard directly.

【…】

【Hehehe, let's draw lots then... Mortarion. 】

………………

"Even if they penetrate our defenses, the already severely damaged enemy army will not be able to withstand our attack. Under the leadership of Lord Farsight and Lord Shadowsun, we will annihilate the enemy at a very small cost, just like every victory we have had before—"

The sky suddenly became bright and dark, and the soldier facing ui suddenly raised his hand tremblingly, pointed to the sky behind ui, and made an unknown sound from his mouth.

?

ui turned its head slowly, and within the system's auxiliary vision that was sounding the emergency, it saw countless alien ships falling into the atmosphere along with the fragments of the artillery array in the planet's orbit.

However, those alien ships seemed to look like charging knights, rushing towards the earth.

………………

【Ah, it’s me. 】

Mortarion raised the Tau bone with his fingertips, and it was obvious that the goddess of fate was guiding him to fight quickly and decisively.

…………

In the dim command room, the Grim Reaper casually opened the star map. Then, he poured the poison he carried with him onto the small planet.

Everything was so orderly and a little boring, except that the background music was still Conrad's strange screams.

On the first day of the war, the Imperium of Man destroyed all Tau ships in Farsight Enclave and Damocles Bay and declared war on the Tau Empire.

On the third day of the war, under the leadership of Mortarion, the Human Empire began to attempt to attack the Tau planets.

(End of this chapter)