Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 15 Howard's Risky Decision
"My Lord, Boleslaw's Nest Tower is in that direction."

Bukayo came to Nimrod and pointed to the right front.

"My Lord, my full name is Bukayo Arshavin. My family was massacred by King Boleslaw on trumped-up charges. He was only interested in my printing business."

"I had no choice but to flee to the Lower Nest. If I hadn't met you, I would still be worried about food."

Ninglu nodded slightly. No wonder the boy seemed so mature beyond his age. It turned out that he was born in Shangchao and received a good education.

The freight elevator quickly went back and forth, sending 840 men to the upper nest. Ning Lu suddenly heard the sound of a vehicle moving.

He immediately grabbed a nearby metal pillar and rushed towards the direction where the sound came from.

When Nimrod jumped and ran, he showed agility that was inconsistent with his giant body. Obstacles such as containers in the freight area did not cause any hindrance to his running.

He leaped into the air, swung the dry metal pole in his hand, and knocked the leading vehicle of the convoy away.

The overturned truck knocked down two trucks.

When Bukayo first arrived at the scene, he saw dozens of trucks all knocked over by their owners.

Even though I had expected it, I was still shocked by this scene and stood there in a daze.

Nimrod realized that he could not wait any longer. His advantage was not military strength, but time.

Once the enemy reacts, the troops they can mobilize are thousands of times more than those waiting for transportation. More importantly, they can also ask for help from the Mechanicus.

Nimrod did not want to expend all his loyal forces in the conquest of the Tezwok hive. This was just the beginning.

He gave an order to Rawlslev who came rushing over, "Leave eight teams to guard the elevator entrance."

"Everyone else, follow me and attack the Nest Tower."

"Yes, my lord."

Rawlslev immediately accepted the order. If someone had told him a month ago that they would need less than 800 people to attack the royal nest tower, he would have just laughed at that person and called him crazy.

But if that person was Nimrod, a giant as tall as a god, he firmly believed that this would definitely be possible.

Ning Lu had just led his team away when a luxury car with a golden lightning emblem painted on the side arrived late.

Kaminsky, who had just been promoted from private butler to butler of the Finder family, leaned back in the leather chair and closed his eyes to rest.

His personal secretary suddenly screamed, "Master Butler, is there an accident at the freight station?"

"what?"

Kaminsky opened his eyes in dissatisfaction, and then saw the flames burning in front of him.

"Damn it, retreat quickly."

The butler secretly thanked his lucky stare that he had prepared a dinner and let the freight convoy leave first, so he was lucky enough to escape.

A moment later, Howard received the message and immediately switched the communication channel of the family intelligence officer.

"The family freight convoy has been attacked, and I need you to find out what happened immediately."

He switched back to the Guard channel, "Assemble the family's armed forces."

After hanging up the call, he frowned.

"Braylon?"

"No! He's just a piece of crap."

"Estupinian, it's possible, perhaps even possible, that the royal family themselves are involved. This wouldn't be the first time they've seized property. Perhaps the Fifth Arbitrator is just a puppet, pushed by Bolesław."

The blond noble boy stood up and walked around the desk a few times.

Just then, a beeping sound was heard.

Howard took a deep breath before answering the call from the intelligence officer. "My Lord, my men retrieved surveillance footage from the freight station and discovered a force of less than a thousand men rapidly advancing. They've already annihilated several Hive City security forces."

"Is their target our nest tower?"

"No, my lord. Judging from their route, their target is the royal nest tower."

Howard was stunned and asked in surprise.

"what?"

He suspected that he was hallucinating. Only the craziest people would attack the royal nest tower.

He remembered reading in his family history that there was once a family that used all its elite troops, more than 60,000 people, to attack the Nest Tower, but they couldn't even break through to the Nest Tower.

The attacking team now only has a thousand people.

"My lord, their leader is very special. I have never seen a human that tall. I think you should take a look."

Howard took out the data pad and checked the images sent by the intelligence officer.

His blue pupils shrank. He had thought it was just a two-meter-tall strong man, but now he saw through the image that even Ogrin was much shorter than him.

When he saw the man's majestic face after slow motion processing, he suddenly felt a sense of familiarity.

In Howard's mind, a handsome young man's face was enlarged and overlapped with the giant's face. He exclaimed in surprise.

"Nimrod!"

"How did he become like this?"

The blond noble was surprised to recognize Nimrod, and was then shocked to see him slaughtering the hive guard troops with a fighting style that was completely different from what he had imagined.

He crashed directly into the oncoming vehicle, smashing the speeder into pieces and scattering metal debris all over the ground.

He picked up a guard like a chicken and threw him into the air, smashing him into the automaton bee equipped with a logging gun.

Several words came to Howard's mind: simple, brutal, efficient, cold, ruthless, and unstoppable.

Nimrod was not a man, he was a god of war.

Howard snapped out of his shock. Now was not the time to marvel.

The key is how the Finder family should react.

[Even if Nimrod's armed uprising failed, the Bolesław family would suffer heavy losses.

Considering the way they act, they will definitely pass on the losses and seize the assets of other families. This is also a deterrent measure after the unrest.

Working backwards from his route, we can pinpoint the Khanty-Mansi Dome, and therefore me, and even my previous request for his help in the defense will be linked to it.]
Howard clenched his fists. He realized that the Boleslaw family would use him as a scapegoat, accusing him of providing information to Nimrod or even being the mastermind behind the incident.

The truth has never been important. As long as the fact that the Nest People attacked the Nest Tower is covered up, the prestige of the royal family can continue to be maintained.

Howard clenched his fists and made a risky decision - to join Nimrod's team and attack the Boleslaw family who were sucking blood from the Finder family.

Nimrod gave him the courage to make a decision. In less than four minutes while he was watching the video, the giant had actually killed his way through the defenses of a street and was only 5.2 kilometers away from the royal nest tower.

Nimrod also encountered trouble for the first time when Howard led the Finder family guards in vehicles and marched towards the Boleslaw family's nest tower.

The four fixed turrets opened fire, and a devastating volley of mortar fire covered his line.

Amidst the deafening explosion, dozens of battle-hardened gang members were torn apart by the shock wave like broken sandbags.

"spread!"

"Take cover!"

Ningluo shouted loudly and rushed towards the turret in the rain of bullets.

(End of this chapter)