Warhammer 40 Spring: Loyalty of the Multiverse

Chapter 124 Combat
"Not bad, strong enough! Finally, I feel you're a bit stronger than your brother in the video." Lumir praised him playfully, but Luo Xia, already caught up in the moment, didn't pick up on the sarcasm in his words. Instead, he laughed and said, "Of course! With my current strength, I'm already a nanotech soldier. That old bastard Luo Lie was blind back then!"

Lumir tilted his head and cracked his neck. "I think so too, but right now I need to complete my mission... which is to beat you down!"

Seeing Luo Xia rushing towards him, he dodged the attack by sidestepping, and then slammed a heavy punch into Luo Xia's temple.

Although he held back his power, the attack still triggered an alarm from Rorschach's AI.

But Rorschach seemed unaffected. He shook his head and continued charging forward!

Lumir grinned at this!
He was about to take a step when his expression changed drastically. Countless nano-missiles, trailing blue contrails, were hurtling towards him from his back as he charged forward.

The sheer number of nano-missiles nearly blocked all his escape routes, forcing him to summon nano-protection to counteract the terrifying explosion.

Although the shield could negate the damage, Lumir still proactively deactivated the shield and took one or two nanite missiles head-on.

When the dust settled, he knelt on one knee, clutching his chest and abdomen, giving the impression that he had been injured.

Before the smoke had even cleared, Rorschach swung his sword without hesitation. The AI ​​inside the armor had already automatically locked onto the enemy's location.

It even precisely marks which part of the enemy to strike to cause greater damage or kill them instantly.

The slash tore through the air, whistling through the wind, and hurtled towards Lumir's neck. Lumir grinned slightly, and the engine exhaust armor behind him opened. He seemed to teleport, retreating several meters backward, dodging the seemingly fatal blow.

Meanwhile, the teeth on his forehead and chin, which resembled the large mouth of a sharkskin basin, fell off on their own and floated in the air.

Toothed Dart!

With a thought from Lumir, these toothed darts, as if alive, spun and flew through the air, shooting towards Rorschach who was charging towards him.

Seeing the darts hurtling towards him, Rorschach didn't hesitate and slashed at one of them with his sword. But the moment the blade touched it, a violent explosion engulfed him.

Meanwhile, the darts that were still flying around seized the opportunity and shot over, resulting in a continuous series of explosions.

This made Lumir, who was still standing still, a little worried. What if that one blow killed the kid?!

This weapon was specially developed by the Great Sage Yuramirs as a ranged attack. Although it cannot damage Astartes of the same level, slowing them down and even inflicting a delay of half a second on others is a decisive victory.

Looking at the blue fireballs that were still occasionally flickering in the smoke of the explosion, Lumir muttered with some worry, "This shouldn't be the case. The Great Sage said that this weapon's attack power isn't strong!"

Whoosh—hiss—

Amidst the still swirling smoke, a certain area suddenly collapsed inwards, causing Lumir's pupils to contract sharply.

Immediately afterwards, the collapsing smoke suddenly dispersed in all directions like a city gate being smashed open, and a beam of orange-red energy shot straight towards them.

Lumir had already begun to dodge to the side when he saw the smoke suddenly collapse inward. Years of combat experience told him that this must be the smoke effect produced by a high-energy weapon attack.

Based on previous analysis of the nano-soldiers, the only thing that can cause them any damage is the beam of light that these nano-soldiers attack with all their might!
While not fatal, it was still best to dodge. After all, if his power armor were hit by that beam, it would still suffer some damage and become dirty. At that moment, the smoke was dispersed by the high-temperature beam. The source of the beam was Rorschach's head armor. Just like Tyr's attack before!
At that moment, Rorschach twisted his head as the beam of light slid around like a cutter, melting all the armor plates, transparent steel, and steel walls it passed through, dripping with gradually cooling liquid.

Lumir dodged the beam of light following him. A powerful strike smashed through the engine nozzle behind the transparent steel armor, sending it soaring into the sky.

The beam of light gradually disappeared as he flew into the sky. A few breaths later, Rorschach slowly walked to the breach and looked up at Lumir flying in the air.

Rorschach's engine nozzles opened, and he flew over as well. The nano-scimitar in his hand suddenly grew larger and slashed fiercely at Lumir, who was floating in the air.

Lumir, not to be outdone, deployed nanoblades from his forearm, blocking the incoming nano-scimitar with a cross-shaped attack.

His dorsal fin was also deployed to aid him in aerial combat.

The engine behind him began to increase its power, and he charged towards Rorschach. Rorschach's nano-scimitar, which he swung without any chance to dodge, was repeatedly blocked by Lumir's nano-arm blades.

Seeing this, Rorschach didn't use any other techniques, but continued his attack with the nanoblades. This made Lumir, who was getting closer and closer to him, sense something was wrong.

You should know that this guy's arrogance, self-righteousness, and inferiority complex, once brought to the surface, can easily expose weaknesses in battle.

But as the Golden Viper's biological son, having experienced so many life-or-death battles, how could he possibly reveal such an obvious flaw?

Sure enough, the next moment he saw the head that had been watching his body sway from side to side. He saw light gathering in the center of the head, and a beam of light shot straight towards him.

At this moment, the two of them were less than 10 meters apart.

Lumir tried to dodge, but Astartes' already cumbersome body made it impossible for him to completely evade the attack with a sudden turn in such a short time.

Astartes's incredibly fast reaction speed left him helpless as the attack struck his left arm directly.

The immense force sent his entire body staggering backward. The surface nano-armor had been destroyed, and even the inner ceramic power armor showed signs of severe dirt and softening.

The black shell accurately reflected the current state of Tao Gang's power armor, which infuriated him!
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"Looks like this experiment went well! But it did consume a lot of resources, adding so many functions to you tiger sharks!" Hart Neff looked at Tiberos, who was sitting happily to the side, with some displeasure.

"The functionality is indeed good, but we still need to develop a universal one. Otherwise, we'll have to differentiate between each battle group and even each unit type... Ah, for us at this stage, the consumption is just too great!" Tie Hui said, watching the battle scene on the screen where the two sides were constantly intertwining and slashing through the air.

"Maybe we could equip some of the veterans or the company commander with these!" Malcado said enviously, watching the battle on the screen. He also hoped that his own battle group could have its own custom-made nanocores, instead of using the generic kind.

Sage Huierdan diligently recorded the requests made by the various powerful figures. However, the Great Sage Yuramirs beside him remarked, "If that's the case... when we return, we might not have enough resources to produce these specific nanocores!"

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(End of this chapter)