Warhammer 40K in a box

Chapter 78: The Cunning Cryptid

The main long-range weapon equipped by Margaret's Templar Knights is a rapid-fire cannon. Compared with weapons such as melta cannons and light spears, it looks a bit too simple, even very old and traditional.

After all, humans had invented kinetic artillery as early as the 1K era.

More than 40,000 years have passed, but humans are still using this ancient weapon.

But we have to admit that this ancient method of using the kinetic energy generated by combustion and explosion to propel projectiles and cause damage is still very useful even in an era when evil spirits are everywhere 40,000 years later.

Margaret simply raised her weapon and fired a shot at the closed tomb door, and then saw cracks appear on the door made of black stone.

However, as the gate to a Necron tomb, this door is thick enough that it is difficult to blast it open with the firepower of a knight mecha alone.

Fortunately, the bombardment was effective, proving that the stone door was not indestructible, so Margaret contacted Mainna and General Gregory in the rear and asked them to send people to install thermal bombs to break the door.

Although she could use artillery to force open the door, the ammunition carried by the knight mecha was limited and it was not worth wasting it; secondly, such a bombardment would take a lot of time and would not be conducive to rescuing the trapped Chen Xi and his group.

As for the weapons equipped by the knights and squires? Their weapons were not used for this purpose, and their power was much inferior, so they could not open the tomb door.

General Gregory quickly sent a team of soldiers carrying a large number of thermal bombs.

While waiting for the soldiers to place the melta bombs, Margaret noticed that they all had a special metal badge on their chests.

Margaret has been working with the Defense Force to deal with the Skinners for some time, so she is very clear about the meaning of this badge. These soldiers are the elite of the Defense Force.

Margaret also recognized that one of the soldiers, who held the rank of sergeant, was named Dmitri, an elite veteran who had gone into the city sewers several times to hunt aliens.

The team of soldiers he led were all elite soldiers who had carried out at least one alien hunting mission.
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When Margaret and Dmitri tried to break the door with the melta bomb, the fierce battle in the tomb had reached a fever pitch.

After the Crusaders suffered considerable casualties in the early stages, the two sages quickly analyzed the enemy's characteristics and quickly adjusted their strategic deployment.

With the help of the battle sisters, they further stabilized the front line and began to fight back with the powerful weapons of the Crusaders in their hands.

It has to be said that the Mechanicus has good stuff. Even the galvanic rifle in the hands of an ordinary Skitarii Ranger can cause considerable and effective damage to the Necrons.

Not to mention the gravity cannon, a terrifying weapon that can directly crush the metal body of a Necromancer.

This weapon that can distort gravity is particularly useful when dealing with small targets like scarabs. Basically, a single shot can crush a large number of them.

Moreover, because of Chen Xi's previous reminders and warnings, these two sages brought down a lot of their best treasures. Therefore, as they gradually stabilized their position, they were able to resist the attacks of the Necrons and even had enough energy to clear out some Necron teleportation hubs around them.

While the Necrons primarily used portals to deploy their forces, they did possess a form of teleportation technology. These metal ribs were incredibly skilled in this area, possessing a teleportation device on every Necron, allowing them to be transported back to the Necronomicon Vault for repair when nearly destroyed, and then returned to the battlefield in the same manner.

Even if the core is destroyed, the minds of these Necrons will be uploaded into the Rebirth Protocol and resurrected in another new body.

It is also because of this that the Necrons are not afraid of a war of attrition, and the Necrons are never the losers in a stalemate with them.

So at the beginning, Chen Xi asked the two sages to send out an elite team to destroy the portal and rebirth protocol of the Undead Tomb in order to interrupt the opponent's continuous reinforcement of troops.

However, he did not expect that the last tomb exploration would wake up the owner of this undead tomb.

Through the previous psychic prophecies, Chen Xi captured a lot of information. By analyzing this information, he finally figured out why he was ambushed.

To put it simply, the owner of this necromancer tomb, a Necromancer crypt technician, was woken up once by the wandering trader more than eighty years ago. He then hired a Death Mark sniper to guard his tomb. Once someone breaks in, the Death Mark sniper will wake up the sleeping crypt technician to prevent him from being robbed again.

Then, Chen Xi's last intrusion and the stasis tomb destroyed by a melta bomb before Olivia left attracted the attention of the Death Mark sniper, and caused him to awaken the Tomb Technician.

The scene before Chen Xi left when he saw the entire tomb seeming to wake up was not an illusion, but the tomb technician was really waking up the entire tomb after getting up.

Afterwards, for reasons unknown, the Cryptid did not awaken his army to attack the humans aboard Rostov II, but instead emptied the entire tomb and set it as a trap.

When Chen Xi and his men arrived here again, the assassination by the Death Mark sniper was just a signal. The tomb technician who received the signal teleported all his troops here and closed the stone door of the tomb, trying to catch Chen Xi and his men in one fell swoop.

It was precisely because of seeing these that Chen Xi promptly prepared the entire team for battle, thus avoiding being caught off guard by the Necrons.

However, he discovered it a little too late and failed to stop the other party from closing the tomb door in time, which made them temporarily trapped in the tomb and they could only fight the other party head-on.

Not only that, even the two teams sent out were eliminated by the Death Mark snipers.

After all, it is somewhat difficult for Rustseekers and Infiltrators to fight against Deathmark Snipers.

"You two, have you found a way to open the door? If we can't go out, we will be trapped here to death." Chen Xi did not urge them, but also sent inquiries to the two sages.

After stabilizing the front, the two began to crack the tomb door, but it seems that their progress is somewhat slow.

"Don't rush us. The technology of these aliens is very complicated. It will take some time to crack it." Olivia replied to Chen Xi. Of course, she also knew that the tomb door had to be opened as soon as possible, but this matter really could not be rushed.

(End of this chapter)