The Bizarre Adventures of the Oil Man, but Starting with Warhammer 32K

This was not good news, and the Chapter Masters present were sad but also glad that they had not chosen to follow the Black Templars.

They wanted to find out more about the situation, but Leon, noticing Dorne's unusual movements after he returned to the Fearless, quickly changed the subject.

He was afraid that if Dorn continued to listen, he would send the Phalanx to the Black Templars.

Magnaric brought with him five hundred Astartes, but more important than his numbers was the symbolism of a full Black Templars Crusade.

Compared to the previous situation where only the Black Templar named Lancelot followed, the arrival of Magnaric strengthened the legitimacy of the Final Wall.

Also not to be overlooked is the Iron Knights Chapter, which brought with it seven hundred Astartes.

Malfoy, the Chapter Master of the Iron Knights, was not particularly prominent. They were formed from a siege-proficient unit within the Imperial Fists, and their greatest strength was taking on tough challenges.

However, Leon did not know them from the siege battle. He knew the reason why the Iron Knights were not only because they would win the championship of the Blade Feast for two consecutive years, but more importantly, this regiment had been serving the Inquisition for a long time.

This is not because the Iron Knights recognize those hyenas, but because in the original history, all the Imperial Fist chapters owed the Inquisition a "favor" during the Beast Wars.

The paradox of the Beast Wars is that the Imperium does need a legion-level force to fight the Orks, but a legion-level Astartes is indeed not a force that the Imperium can bear without the Emperor and Primarch.

The Imperial Fists, more sensible than before, disbanded the Last Wall after the Beast War, but the High Lords still held them in fear.

Not only did they constantly seek out trouble during the Beast War, aiming to prematurely disband the Final Wall, but after the end of Wangorich's dictatorship, the rebuilt High Lords Council gradually stripped the Imperial Fists of their power.

In the end, even the mighty Terra Guard was forbidden from entering Terra, and anyone who wanted to reach the surface of Terra had to report to the High Lord.

The Inquisition maneuvered to make the situation of the Imperial Fists less dire. The price was that the Imperial Fists had to frequently respond to the call of the Inquisition, and even the Death Watch, which was formed by the Imperial Fists during the Beast War, almost became the private army of the Xenos Inquisition.

This forced dependence resulted in the Imperial Fists being unable to even stand up for the Celestial Lions Chapter when they were destroyed by the Inquisition, and they had to rely entirely on the Black Templars to hold the fort.

The Beast Wars was the last glory of the Imperial Fists, but also the beginning of their decline.

But Leon is here, and he will not let the outcome of this war become what it was.

Even if the sons of Dorne wanted to become thugs to make friends with someone, they had to have the surname Li.

The Iron Knights brought 700 Astartes with them, and with the 500 Black Templars, the total number of Astartes gathered at the High Walls reached 2,500.

With the addition of these new forces, Li Ang is confident that he can lead them to a completely different path from the original one.

At his request, the Astartes began their final preparations for the battle. However, in addition to them, the Astra Militarum on the ground was equally important in order to win the Astartes a chance to behead the Orks and delay the main force of the Orks.

This important force was headed by the Titan Legion of "Gate of Destiny," which provided heavy firepower. After parting ways with Maxim, Leon finally found its leader.

"You are a very busy man indeed."

Christina complained, "You only think of me when you need Titan?"

Li Ang glanced at her strangely: "What else?"

Christina crossed her arms across her chest, looking like she wanted to say something but couldn't.

The scene was a little awkward for a moment until Leon turned the topic to the Thor mecha.

"The Thunder Gods are going into actual combat for the first time. What do you think of it?"

Christina's attention shifted to the topic that interested him more: "Its firepower configuration is impressive. While it lacks the ability to engage in decisive battles between Titans, the saturation bombardment efficiency provided by its quadruple 250mm cannons even exceeds that of the Warlord-class Titan, making it an excellent battlefield support unit."

"Does that sound like approval?"

"If its energy consumption weren't as astonishing as its firepower efficiency, that would be true."

Lei Shen performed well in clearing the Skitarii on Mars, and was able to cope with the battle against the Warlord-class Titan. However, this was largely due to Vashtol, who destroyed the Martian logistics system, so that the Martians had no desire to continue the battle.

If they were willing to delay a little longer, the Thor mecha would be the first to crash.

Li Ang is here to solve this problem.

He dismantled the original shield generator of the Thor mecha, made some improvements to the place where the shield generator was placed, and finally installed the void shield produced by the void shield production line looted from Mars.

After several shooting tests, the void shield that can block all energy weapons only needs to occupy about 30% of the energy supply of the ion reactor under normal circumstances.

This means that Leon even has enough redundancy to upgrade other equipment on Thor, such as increasing the power of the pair of Thor's hammer plasma cannons on its arms.

Li Ang could only sigh that this defensive weapon was considered outrageous even in all science fiction works.

"We still have to use our hammer method to deal with the hammer."

But switching to the Void Shield wasn't entirely beneficial. Christina, standing by, sharply raised the question:

"If you switch to a void shield that can only defend against high-speed and energy weapons, how do you plan to deal with physical weapons that can penetrate the void shield?"

Unlike the meticulously crafted Titan, in pursuit of mass production, Thor's adamantine armor plates are just common goods coming off the assembly line. Compared with the materials used in the Titan, the purity is greatly reduced.

If Thor is targeted by enough low-speed physical weapons, he will likely be turned into a pile of scrap metal in one round of concentrated fire.

"What are you going to do? Continue to strengthen the thickness of Thor's armor?"

"No, that would be too bulky, and adding defenses would also affect production. I have another way to solve the problem."

Leon walked up to a half-broken Thor.

It was the one that had been half-destroyed on the battlefield after a Titan pierced its shield. Through its half-melted outer armor, Leon could see its exposed core pipelines.

Although it is a modular casting, the damage to this extent cannot be repaired by simply replacing two parts.

The only way to restore the Thor's combat effectiveness was to return it to the factory for repairs. However, the factory where it was manufactured was far away in Maxim, so the production line was not brought along.

Christina looked at Leon curiously as he took out a stone from his arms: "What are you doing?"

"I'm repairing it."

The idea of ​​returning the iron stone to the factory for repairs was something that only a priest limited by worldly thinking would think of. Leon planned to put the iron stone that Captain Cooper had previously given him to good use.

This Iron Hand relic is essentially a product of the Necrons. The so-called Iron Stone is actually a data hard drive that incorporates some of the working principles of the Necromancer Scarab.

The Necromancer Scarab is the most basic decomposer and builder of the Necrons. Although it can be seen on the battlefield, its actual function is to decompose any matter into energy and use it to build Necrons buildings.

It's no surprise that the Iron Hands possess this relic. After all, the prosthetic hand that Headless Senior Fernus received after defeating a silver-white dragon on Medusa was made of living metal. The Iron Hands, hence the name, have long been inextricably linked to the Necrons.

However, the Iron Hands did not know that the stone originated from the Necrons.

All they knew was that if they injected enough energy into it, it would slowly repair the machine—this was essentially the same process by which the scarab constructed buildings after receiving energy.

Leon had no idea about this stone at first, until he was enlightened by the power of the Void Dragon and understood what it was.

As inventors among the C'tan, a large portion of the Necrons' technology is the legacy of the Void Dragon.

Even though the power of the Void Dragon couldn't directly impart this knowledge to Leon, under the guidance of the same origin, Leon figured out the technical details faster than he could optimize his soul stone-based psychic technology.

He pressed the iron stone onto the half-melted outer armor of the Thor mecha. The iron stone began to vibrate, and fine silver lines appeared on its surface.

Soon, those lines spread out like living things, turning into countless tiny silver threads that seeped into the cracks and damaged parts of the mecha.

At first, it was just a subtle sound of metal scraping against metal, but it quickly grew more intense. Wherever the threads touched, it felt as if millions of beetles were gnawing and reconstructing the fabric. Thor's charred armor began to peel away, revealing layers of new metal beneath.

It was not a simple repair, but a process that was almost like "growth", and its efficiency and speed far exceeded the imperial manual labor.

Tie Shou felt that the maintenance of this thing was slow simply because Tie Shi didn't know what they were going to repair. It could only obtain materials on the battlefield and perform operations randomly according to the principle of "I just think I'll make this thing move anyway."

Compared to Iron Hand, which could only simply inject energy and expect it to repair itself, Leon injected Thor's complete production template into Iron Stone's program.

Of course, it cannot build Thor independently with this, but at least it knows what it should look like and how to build it, so its efficiency is naturally doubled.

Not only the outer armor, but also the accumulated metals were broken down into basic particle flows by the iron and stone, and the damage inside the Thunder God was also filled.

Broken pipes were reconnected, melted barrels were regenerated from the inside, and most importantly, even the Imperial Eagle emblem was meticulously restored without any error.

Christina looked at Leon in surprise: "Where did you get this alien witchcraft?"

"It's just science we haven't understood yet. From now on it will be called the Immortality Program."

Li Ang corrected.

"Then you better not let the other oil men see you. Otherwise, they'll either bring their armies and burn you as a technological heretic, or they'll have to kneel down and call you the God of All Machines."

"When we are strong enough, they will naturally consider the latter."

Li Ang replied. He watched the iron stone decompose the metal materials piled up in the venue and consume them all. He was not completely satisfied with this technology in his heart.

“The material loss is quite high.”

The Necrons' incredible construction methods and energy consumption ratios are closely related to their use of Black Stone energy and Living Metal.

While their technology works just as well with ordinary metals, it's not as impressive in every way.

"Next, we'll have to try to find a method for producing Living Metal. Although Living Metal isn't very strong, it should be possible to construct a complete immortality program."

Of course, even if it is not complete, the immortality program, which is only in its initial form, has actual strategic value.

When a brand new Thor mecha appeared in front of Christina, she subconsciously glanced at the time that had passed.

In just six hours, the Thor, who was originally supposed to be sent back to the factory for repairs, had recovered to his best condition before the battle.

This time means that as long as the enemy is not completely destroyed, it will be subjected to endless attacks from this steel behemoth.

In an empire where wars were measured in years, Christina couldn't imagine how effective such technology could be.

Although the material loss is huge, the difficulty of transporting raw materials is much lower than transporting another ship of troops.

If the place where the war takes place has a certain industrial base, they can even use local materials directly.

Christina will have a Titan Legion that will never be short of men.

"I will program this into every Thor later. You will be needed to support the frontline on the Battle Moon."

Li Ang said.

"When do we start this war?"

"It's now."

Chapter 209: March into the Moon.

Three days after the Crusade's defeat, the Final Wall's fleet set sail from Mars orbit.

Leon didn't mind making more preparations, but according to Occam's report, the remaining crusades on the surface were almost completely wiped out.

Occam also provided an interesting piece of information: "Those orcs are evolving."

"Evolution? What does that mean?"

"Literally, if you don't want to come down and face green-skinned guys whose combat effectiveness starts at the level of a leader, you'd better start as soon as possible."

Just as Xie Ri said, the Battle Moon's inaction is a humiliation to humanity.

When the unbearable high lords sent out the Crusade Army to fall into the trap, the orcs' success was verified by the death of humans.

This made all the orcs feel very "Waaaagh!", so all the greenskins became cunning in their thinking and began to grow stronger. Even the fart spirit could fight with an ordinary adult man.

If these Crusaders who can still absorb some of the orcs' energy are allowed to be destroyed, the High Wall will eventually have to face the entire and strengthened orcs.

They can only strike now.

Occam was mixed in the "meteorite belt" formed by the destroyed merchant ships and reached the surface by hiding inside the wreckage of a ship.

Although this method is clever, it has no reference value for large-scale operations.

Any tricks would not work on such a battlefield; they had to fight the orcs with real guns and swords.

Command of the fleet was transferred to Matt Horner.

Since he didn't want to hand over the command to Lansong, this young general was the only commander on Leon's side with experience in large fleet operations.

The honor of commanding the Phalanx is not something everyone has, but Horner appears to be very calm.

Under his command, the High Wall finally advanced in the form of three echelons - the Phalanx was in the front to provide cover for the entire fleet, the battleships were the second array, and the transport ships in the third echelon were the focus of this attack.

The orcs on Battle Moon were unaware of the approach of the Final Wall, but the size of the Phalanx meant that the attack would be completely unseen.

Seeing a huge monster almost as big as himself approaching him, Battle Moon, who was originally concentrating on throwing garbage on Terra, was awakened.

The orks above howled and turned their guns, and the artillery batteries spread across the battle moon began to concentrate their fire on the fleet attacking them.

Only a very small number of these artillery pieces could pose a threat to the fleet. With the Phalanx at the forefront, most of the firepower was intercepted by the void shield of this ancient warship.

The fleet also retaliated, but these attacks were also blocked by the orcs' bubble shields.

In the initial encounter, neither the Final Wall's fleet nor the Battle Moon can do anything to the other.

However, Leon didn't expect to shatter a moon with just macro cannons and light spears. In the end, the High Wall's combined fleet exchanged fire while using themselves to shield the Astra Militarum transport ships behind them, ensuring they remained intact.

"When can we launch the landing fleet?"

Kurland asked.

"It's difficult, Lord Kurland. It's not just the orcs we're facing. We also have the debris belt left behind by the Crusade."