Warhammer 40 Spring: Loyalty of the Multiverse

Chapter 102 Attack
The tens of thousands of tiny propulsion nozzles hidden at the seams of the armor burst forth instantly, their speed even leaving a clearly visible contrail in the smoke.

A lightning-fast punch slammed into Badr's face before he could react. With a loud thud, Badr flew backward, tumbling and rolling several times across the hexagonal floor before finally crashing into the holographic projection of the starry sky wall. Having delivered the punch, Hoddle stood sideways, looking down at the sprawled Badr. "Between you and me, who truly is the guardian and continuation of the Yuanxing civilization?"

The sharp ridges extending from the sides of Hoddle's triangular pyramid-shaped head armor twitched slightly and then extended even further.

What sets it apart is its head armor, which is sharply defined and incredibly smooth. If it weren't attached to the body, you wouldn't even be able to tell its left from its right if you just removed it. It lacks any distinctive features like eyes or a mouth, only a surface as black as an abyss.

"We never expected that Parks and the others would still need our support in the end! We underestimated the Combine. But that's fine too. Once Project Ark is fully implemented, we will completely inherit all of Asgard's legacy. Let the great..."

"Have you said enough?"

Baldr, who was slowly getting up from the ground, angrily interrupted Hodr's speech. He said, "I don't care about anything else. I want to know why you activated the shield, and... where is Hea?"

Standing in mid-air, Hoddle waved his hand, and large swaths of black smoke around him seemed to come alive, flowing from all directions like small rivers to gather behind him, forming a large shield with various splicing marks.

"Tsk tsk tsk... To be honest, you've truly exceeded our expectations. But that doesn't matter anymore, the civilization of Yuanxing will ultimately depend on us to protect it! As for the question you asked, that's naturally Elder Gas's decision. Although I don't belong to Asgard, I still have to listen to the elders' council before the Ark Project begins!"

Hodl opened his palm, and countless nanoparticles began to slowly condense. In the instant a jet-black longsword crackling with lightning appeared, he grasped it, and with a flourish, the tip of the blade pointed directly at Baldl, who had stood up in front of him.

At the same time, the large circular shield behind him instantly shattered into the shape of a boomerang, spinning rapidly around him and cutting through the air with a whooshing sound.

"But none of that matters anymore! Now it's time to end things for you!"

……

"Full speed ahead, deploy force field generators and plasma shields. Boarding squad, prepare!" Tie Hui had no experience commanding space battles, but in his previous life he had come across the side-to-side bombardment tactics of ancient warships.

Gers was very excited; he felt like he was about to fly.

Feilian was the first to be pushed off the warship, and he immediately started the engine while riding on it. He accelerated to Mach 10 in a short instant. Due to the weightlessness of space, his entire body straightened up. One hand gripped the steering wheel, and the other held the chainsaw sword, twirling it like a bandit from ancient Terra who had seen the Gold and Silver Maidens.

At the same time, he was yelling strangely, "Oh ho! For the Khan, for the Emperor! Wa ho~"

In no time, countless electromagnetic and laser weapons rained down upon the area. But none of this mattered. Thanks to Astartes' rapid reaction time, most of them were dodged, and those that weren't were blocked by the hastily installed deflection shield field.

Meanwhile, the Thunderhawk gunboats and boarding torpedoes behind them were ready. The Thunder fighters were launched first and sped towards the enemy fleet ahead.

Meanwhile, the Assassins' warships on the opposite side were also targeting these four strangely shaped warships with a large number of electromagnetic and laser weapons.

In the pitch-black space, countless red and blue rays intertwined, forming a vast net more dazzling than a rainbow, encircling the four warships.

However, the attacks were easily intercepted by the shields of the four warships. At the bows of the two foremost battle barges, the energy gathered by the quadruple plasma lances erupted in a dazzling burst of light, unleashing a massive beam of light with a range of up to 10 kilometers that slammed directly into the surface of the Assar's Ark-class battleship. After several seconds of continuous bombardment, the entire surface of the warship seemed to ripple with water, the ripples converging towards the impacted surface.

These are the nano-silicon alloy armors repairing the attacked surface.

But looking at the surface that was gradually turning red, this was clearly of no use.

The 3.2-kilometer-long battleship, reverse-engineered from the "Holy Ark" of the Type II civilization that crashed on the surface of Yuanxing, was pierced by a large hole in just three seconds. The next second, as if time had frozen, the battleship exploded at the hole, blowing itself in two.

Only two minutes have passed since the two sides began fighting. The Assassins have already lost a valuable Ark-class battleship.

When Gureed saw this scene in the flagship's command center, his pupils contracted sharply, and his gloved fingers tightened so much that they scratched a deep dent into the seat.

He felt fear now. Was this the power of a Level 2 civilization?

A single, conventional energy attack destroyed their most powerful battleship.

"Immediately notify the Cicada-class corvettes to advance and intercept the enemy's attack. Simultaneously, release the mechanical legion. Tell those bastards at Twilight to stop playing dead. Otherwise, once Project Ark is executed, they won't get a single penny of the Golden Palace's legacy. And let the secret branch of the Hevag Agency..."

boom--

A violent explosion rang out, accompanied by a violent shaking of the entire warship. Sparks even appeared in some corners of the command room where Gured was located.

"How is this going?"

"General, our flagship has been hit!" A technician in equipment quickly pulled up a 3D image of the entire warship and said, looking at the flashing red warning area.

"What about the mechanical legion?"

"Except for a few that managed to escape in time, the rest were destroyed by enemy warships before they even left the ship. We..."

"Reporting, General! An unknown target is hurtling towards our warships at high speed." Another urgent voice rang in his ears. Gureed could no longer maintain his self-assured, all-powerful demeanor.

"Send Thor to destroy it immediately!"

"But General, it's dusk..."

Upon hearing the word "twilight" again, Gureed became even more enraged. He gritted his teeth, pointed at the explorer, and said viciously, "Tell them! As long as the elders of the Golden Palace haven't left Yuanxing, not even for a second, these beggars have to obey!"

"Yes!"

Deep within Asgard, a barefoot man wearing a white hooded robe slowly opened his emotionless eyes.

The next moment, a mechanical voice, its eyes reddening, slowly uttered, "Asgard has been integrated into the AI ​​network... Midgard network system received... Thor AI signal detected..."

Immediately following, inside the incubation chamber of one of the demi-human fleet's warships, which was being repeatedly rubbed and ground to the ground by Tie Hui and his group, a blue-haired youth connected to a respirator and various tubes suddenly opened his eyes. The next moment, countless bubbles surged out, as if the nutrient solution inside the incubation chamber had turned into boiling water.

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(End of this chapter)