Warhammer 40 Spring: Loyalty of the Multiverse

Chapter 136 Shark Strikes
While the Nanocores of the Shark Chapter might have more stringent manufacturing requirements, another type of Nanocore could allow all Astartes within several chapters to be fully equipped with them within a century.

Furthermore, Archsage Yuramirs has already ordered the mass production of nanocores. This will be completed once the final data collection for this planetary individual assault mission is finished.

Then we can build them in batches!

As they got closer to the original star, the gravity emanating from the entire planet caused Tiberos and his companions to descend at an increasingly faster rate.

Tiberos and his crew, still not satisfied, increased the thrust of the engine behind them, propelling him even faster as he hurtled towards the surface of the planet.

Only after they entered the atmosphere did the temperature around their bodies rise rapidly, and a red-hot, iron-like gleam appeared on their head armor.

Their power armor had already formed a fixed connection with the nanosurface armor. As they fell, the temperature around them increased due to friction between the armor and the air.

The falling alarm began to sound inside the helmet at just the right time! But Tiberius ignored it and continued to increase the thrust as it plummeted downwards.

The distance displayed inside the helmet gradually decreased until it reached an altitude of five thousand meters. The anti-gravity mechanism built into the nanocore armor activated, causing the entire armor to pause abruptly in mid-air, as if it had hit a wall.

Immediately afterward, Tiberius and his team removed the nano-armor from the surface of their power armor. The extremely high temperatures caused by the descent had loosened the armor's surface, significantly reducing its defensive capabilities. Therefore, once they reached a more stable environment, they needed to remove the armor and reassemble it.

Although the process would take a few seconds, the Tech Priest had already told him that the final data collection was underway, so he could manipulate the nanocore at will.

As the nanoarmor was deactivated, Astartes' own weight caused it to slowly descend, but before the descent speed could pick up, the nanoarmor suddenly reformed on the surface of his power armor.

The anti-gravity activation caused him to hover in the air again, like a shark in the ocean of the sky. He bent over, head down, and the engine on his back started up again, propelling him towards the ground.

Their target had already been identified!

The nanotech soldiers are now located on the mountain where the Ark was discovered. Thanks to Astartes' superhuman vision and the enhanced vision provided by their power armor and nanotech armor, they can now clearly see that the once barren mountain, which was only covered with various rocks, is now covered with a purple ocean.

"We have locked onto the target. Maintain real-time communication!" Tiberius shouted several times into the communication channel until the mechanical priest's somewhat noisy mechanical voice finally answered. Only then did he turn all his attention to the mountain peak a few dozen kilometers ahead.

Wearing the old model - the Unyielding Tactical Dreadnought armor, Tiberius's armor was so unique that many of the power armor modifications used on ordinary soldiers of the Shark Chapter did not make changes to his armor.

However, its overall shape remains largely the same as other Astartes. This makes it look like a larger shark when it's flying in the air.

The difference lies in the half-skeletonized head, as candid as a corpse. As the absolute leader of the Astartes Chapter, the Mechanicus made some subtle modifications to Tiberius's nanocore when creating it.

For example, the scalp armor of the Terminator armor was changed to resemble a shark with its jaws wide open. In some poorly lit places, it even looks like a half-skeletonized head inside the gaping maw of a shark.

Combined with the Raven Guard's original fighting style, Tiberius's appearance at this moment was undoubtedly the most terrifying he had ever looked.

The power claws on their hands were crackling with hunger and thirst, yearning to drink the blood and flesh of their enemies to quench the thirst and hunger of their machine soul.

But just ahead of them, in everyone's sight, a bright yellow light, like a cross, suddenly flashed.

"Dodge!"

Tiberos's years of combat experience immediately made him realize what this was, and he roared to warn his comrades behind him who hadn't noticed. *Sizzle—*

A tremendous crackling sound of electricity ripped through the sky, and a thick, orange-red beam of light shot straight toward their location.

Its speed and power were so great that the air within a radius of several hundred meters trembled, making it appear to the naked eye as if the space itself was being distorted by the intense heat.

Everyone quickly dodged and conjured nano shields to protect themselves. However, this was useless; the shields shattered into particles and dissipated, and the armor on the side of their bodies closest to the beam of light turned completely red.

Despite the protection of their power armor, they still felt a burning pain on that patch of skin.

Even through the thick tactical fearless armor, Tiberius could feel a heat rising from his skin that was different from the heat on other parts of his body.

Therefore, it is conceivable how powerful the attack was!

The orange beam of light gradually thinned after the attack and eventually dissipated into the air. However, fine electric currents began to flicker in the air intermittently.

"Everyone..." Tiberos was about to speak when he saw the attack had ended, but then he noticed several orange-yellow cross lights shining at the original attack site.

Before he could even utter the words "take cover," several more beams of light struck. The group began to scramble for cover, simultaneously launching a dense barrage of flash smoke missiles that exploded into a massive cloud of smoke a few meters ahead, obscuring their figures. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the group lowered their altitude and flew towards the ground.

This time, Tiberius did not request an orbital strike because they wanted to capture the so-called World Tree Seed and the five nanobots alive.

Otherwise, a single communication call, or a single shot from a spear, could turn the entire mountain into a giant crater.

The attacks continued until everyone was about five or six meters above the ground, at which point the attacks gradually ceased.

shhhhhh...

Just then, countless whooshing sounds came from their side, and they saw a dense array of rhomboid ice spikes shooting towards them at high speed.

Tiberius merely glanced at it and then ignored it. With an attack like that, trying to break through his armor was a joke.
Just leave it to the others to handle!

Upon seeing this, the Astartes behind him conjured shields, grabbed their explosive guns, locked onto the source of the attack through their visors, and fired several explosive rounds.

Dozens of meters away, a middle-aged man with completely blackish-purple pupils was blown to pieces.

"Watch out! The enemy seems to have the ability to control mutants!" Everyone had already seen the face of that person. Searching their memories, they knew it was Ace, the effeminate mutant from Muspel.

"Simultaneous search reveals that the greatest threats also include Nova, the Mia siblings, and the wind-attribute mutant Yar..."

"No need for further explanation! We'll deal with whatever comes our way, wipe them all out!" Tiberius was very confident; he looked down on these so-called mutants!

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(End of this chapter)