As long as you die, you are invincible, but in 40K

This is not a duel of honor, but a war to exterminate all aliens at all costs.

So he doesn't mind some less honorable but more efficient means.

The officer reacted the fastest and focused his attention on the three big blue guys leaping into the boat. However, the attention that this unexpected surprise attack could attract was also within the tactical plan.

When his sight was focused on the Space Marines, the tail compartment of the Thunderhawk gunship that passed by the airship suddenly popped open in his blind spot.

A Wolf Spider sentry gun, pointing outward, is revealed through the opened hatch.

Its two black heavy bolters began to spew out flames without hesitation, spraying deadly bombs at the opponent, targeting the Dark Eldar officer.

Although it all seems like a long story, it actually happened in just a blink of an eye.

By the time the officer keenly realized that the big man in the white helmet opposite him did not seem to be attacking him, it was already too late.

The heavy bomb hit the outside of his armor like a sudden, dull punch. The armor, suddenly dented by the explosion, faithfully transmitted the impact back.

As a "noble" true son, he has good protective equipment, even enough to withstand continuous direct fire from heavy bombs in a short period of time.

But that doesn't mean it can help him withstand the violent rain of bullets unscathed.

When the officer was attacked and hit by the first heavy bomb, the blunt force caused him to be slowed down for only a moment.

However, when facing a Space Marine at such close range, just this one moment is completely enough to be fatal.

The chainsaw sword with its rotating blade cut into the officer's neck, breaking through the weak point between the helmet and the armor almost without any hindrance.

When the metal barrier was gone, his neck was cut by the sharp blade of the single molecule, and his head flew off as the outer shell protecting the saw blade pressed in and expanded.

His expression still remained solemn at the moment he realized something was wrong.

However, the target of this attack was not him; he was merely a casualty in the attack path.

The falling sword split a conspiracy warrior who had just drawn his sword in the next moment, and blood and flesh splattered everywhere.

The airship, which can accommodate ten people, has now lost one-fifth of its crew.

On the other side, while all this was happening, Osgus had already landed.

Facing the elite conspiracy fighters rushing towards him, he first took a step sideways when facing the closer enemy, so that the black scimitar in his hand, which was supposed to cut his spine, only scratched his side.

Hard ceramic steel armor and tight reinforced muscles.

All this slowed down the scimitar that was cutting into his muscles.

When the conspiracy soldier wanted to draw his sword, Ogsger's free hand had already grabbed his face, and then he crushed his helmet and skull together, and a red and white liquid mixed with brain matter and blood flowed out from between his fingers.

Exchanging injury for speed is certainly not just about having nothing to do.

Because the first enemy failed to delay Osgus at all, there was a momentary gap in the joint attack between the two enemies, which should have been a smooth connection.

This gap allowed Osgus to swing his chainsaw sword with his other hand and collide with the blade of the second enemy's scimitar before it hit his body.

As a Primaris Space Marine, he already had an advantage in strength, and the blow he swung with his full arms was as powerful as a mountain. This powerful blow directly smashed the scimitar in half, and even the Conspiracy soldier holding the scimitar was left open by the huge force.

He kicked out without hesitation, and the metal sole of the power armor collided with his black armor with a dull sound, causing his body to fly backwards.

Unfortunately for the conspiracy fighter who had just flown out of the airship, this wasn't a boxing ring, and the consequences of being kicked out weren't just a scream of pain from the fall.

Of course, Benson was not idle either.

He did not jump directly onto the ship, but instead used the reopened magnetic module to climb to the bottom of the airship, climbed to its tail, and held a hot melt bomb in his hand.

In other directions, the other airships did not want to support the main ship, but it was too troublesome for the Arc'teryx fighter jets that crashed into the team and started fighting with them.

This sacred design, which dates back thousands of years, is no less powerful than a professional interceptor. With the Valkyries harassing them, the Raider Bikes and other airships suddenly found themselves gradually losing ground in the fight.

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Chapter 125: Lightning Speed ​​Slide

Command between airships was taken over by lieutenants on other airships after the death of an officer.

As the battle situation gradually fell into disadvantage, he was caught in a dilemma.

If he ran away, with so many people dying and nothing gained, the top leaders of the conspiracy would definitely not let him go so easily.

But if I don't run, it doesn't look like I can win.

The adjutant looked up at the distant horizon

At this time, the figures of various ships had already appeared there, and it seemed that they only needed to accelerate one more time to get closer.

In the end, the adjutant gritted his teeth and decided to hold on for a while longer, at least to allow the Venom aircraft in front to board the ship and take a look.

Soon, the news that the target ship was approaching was transmitted back.

When the order was given, the tide caused by the energy fluctuations began to roll at the front of several Rippers.

On the muzzles of the storm vortex projectors at the front of those airships, obscure dark lights flickered and intertwined with each other as reality split.

The next moment, the violent energy was completely dissipated in an instant.

This is not a sign of calming down, but an abnormality that has found an outlet before launch.

At that moment, the originally soft and scattered sunlight seemed to begin to dim.

Several dazzling white "arcs" that exceeded the speed of light... no, it should be said that they exceeded the constraints of the real universe and connected the muzzle of the gun with the target it was pointing at.

It shouldn't even be called emission, but rather some more direct form of action, of which the arc-shaped rays that appear to be missiles are merely a secondary effect.

another side.

Where the arc touched, the once solid wall of reality began to collapse, and the membrane between it and the subspace was rapidly weakening.

Eventually, the two converged.

The suffocating black color began to expand rapidly from a singular point, like the pupil of some giant creature opening, except that there was nothing in the eye socket.

This is the rift between reality and the warp.

The hard and heavy ceramic shell of the ship was shattered like a piece of paper as the space where it landed collapsed. Under the gaze of everyone, the extreme blackness that could make people feel nauseous and dizzy at the mere sight of it began to expand in a circle.

Fortunately, even if an airship is used as a delivery platform, its energy output is not enough to fully supply this dangerous weapon.

It only lasted for a short while, leaving several extremely smooth cracks on the hull, and then those cracks closed up as quickly as they came.

However, although the opening was not very big, it was enough to allow the venom aircraft to invade.

Outer layer.

When the missiles could not lock onto the aircraft, the anti-aircraft guns on the transport ships could not threaten the Venom aircraft at all. The anti-aircraft firepower network composed of dozens of light chains and continuous laser beams was broken through in an instant.

Once they got into the fleet, the final distance was just a blink of an eye for these high-speed objects.

More than a dozen Venoms rushed into the largest ship in the fleet without any hindrance, the flagship with a gold-plated exterior...which was also the transport ship that carried the most troops.

That's right, it's not a command ship.

Recall the description of the armed carrier not long ago, its appearance was that of an "ordinary" ship among the fleet.

Putting aside other matters, even if the nobles themselves didn't care about safety, how could the Mechanicus allow the ship transporting the War Titan to take any more risks? To them, all the other ships in the fleet were just meat shields for the Titan.

Not to mention the flagship, even if they agreed to serve as the command ship, it was only because those nobles would bring their elite guards with them.

Therefore, this prominent position naturally fell on the heads of other ships.

In order to give some surprises to the enemies who planned to board the flagship and decapitate them, a transport ship with the largest volume and the most troop capacity naturally became the flagship.

After rushing directly into the hull, dozens of conspiracy group fighters jumped out of the venom aircraft as soon as they entered the gap, fearing that others would snatch all their heads.

However, when they landed and stood firm, their expressions gradually changed from ferocious to helpless.

Looking at the army green bullets piled up in every corner and even the corridors, they felt for the first time in their lives that this color was so terrifying.

However, not everyone was so unlucky. There were also gaps through which the Dark Eldar entered that led to some narrow areas, allowing those cabal fighters with decent skills to hold out for a little longer with the help of the terrain.

If subsequent airship support could catch up in these places, they might be able to rush deeper into the ship, capture some people, and then evacuate on vehicles.

Unfortunately, when they sent a message back, saying that there was a great victory ahead and they would rather die than be the only one to die, the adjutant, who knew the nature of his subordinates well, gave the order to retreat without hesitation.

Are you kidding? If things are really going well, would you still ask me to come and share?

So, after struggling for a while, although some casualties were inflicted, their star dart gun ammunition was limited, while the Empire's big heads were endless.

Each of them could kill ten people, or even twenty or thirty people, but the ship had a thousand times the advantage in military strength.

With the enemy reinforcements seemingly endless, and the messages from the surviving Cabal fighters on the ship to the rear falling on deaf ears, these Eldar finally realized the situation they were facing.

After repeated attempts to return to the boarding point failed, the fear of death... or rather, the fear of being killed by an unspeakable existence in the warp, led them to take one action: surrender.

Unlike crazy Chaos cultists or Space Marines, they do not worship Slaanesh, nor are they twisted by Slaanesh. It is even better to say that they are more "pure" than normal Ark Eldar.

Their unscrupulous actions and madness are only for the purpose of abducting and torturing other suffering souls, making them replace themselves, so as to delay the time of being sucked away by Slaanesh as much as possible.

After realizing that death was inevitable if they continued to persevere, these conspiracy fighters chose to slide down on their knees without hesitation - this action was not impossible.

Although the Empire hates all aliens indiscriminately... there are also nobles who want to hide a few Eldar slaves to vent their dark desires, so in some markets, these aliens are very expensive.

If it were the Astra Militarum, it would be fine, but the other side could tell at a glance that most of them were just PDFs. In this case, surrender was completely feasible. The nobles in charge of the command probably wouldn't mind having a few more living collectibles or high-value goods.

Sure enough, after expressing the intention to surrender, the other party temporarily stopped attacking.

Faced with this abnormal situation, the officers on the front line certainly realized its value.

It's not about commercial value.

But logically speaking, these aliens usually do not target transport fleets. After all, what is inside a fleet is like opening a blind box, and the risk is too high. Their abnormal behavior today may be due to other inducements.

However, both sides are aware that this is just a brief calm before the storm, and the final outcome will still be decided by the top leaders.

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Chapter 126: Should I follow the monkey’s advice?

Outside, after the adjutant issued the evacuation order, the remaining airships began to leave at a rapid speed.

To be honest, the Dark Eldar were also puzzled by the attack on the Empire.

More than 200 of them chased a lone Eldar for unknown reasons all the way here, and even before the attack they carefully checked the ships that had passed through this route before. The results showed that they were all transport ships filled with a large number of civilians, with only a small number of soldiers.

But why is it that the defense force of the Eldar is so tight?

Forget about being tight. That defense network of aircraft could be broken through normally. But an enemy plane suddenly appeared out of nowhere and tied up all the original anti-aircraft fighters in one encounter.

Fortunately, he finally found an opportunity to lead his men to jump onto the main ship and retrieved the chief officer's body before it exploded. His death was still intact, so he could go back and ask the Haemolect physician to resurrect him.

With this person taking the blame, the punishment should be much better.

At last.

The crash of a Raven marked the end of the battle. The remaining two Ravens, each injured, barely escaped from the battle and chased after the group of airships that had already fled far away.

During the air battle, several Raider Bikes and more than a dozen airships crashed, resulting in the deaths of at least dozens of Dark Eldar. However, the price the fleet paid for this was the loss of more than two-thirds of the Valkyrie formation, and four of the twelve Archaeopteryxes crashed in the fight.

This was after completing the decapitation and fighting against a group of airships that were not specifically designed for anti-aircraft operations.

It is not difficult to imagine how the battle between the two sides would have turned out if all four Ravens had not been abducted at the beginning.

When the battered Thunderhawk gunboat returned to the command ship and landed, the first thing Atwood had to deal with was the surrender of the remaining dozen or so Dark Eldar.

First, he arranged for Osgus, who was already unconscious due to the poison, to receive treatment. After thinking for a while, Atwood decided to consult other people's opinions.

Although past experience told him that the best option was to annihilate these aliens on the spot, the various strange phenomena since his father woke up made him rationally tell him that some of his previous experience was no longer applicable.

Even Captain Calgar sought cooperation with the hostile Eldar on this planet. Those Eldar had done far worse crimes than the current Black Eldar's attack on the transport fleet.

They wiped out an entire Stormtrooper regiment and even made their way directly to the venue where the planet's highest-level administrative meeting was held.

If Captain Calgar had not arrived at that time, and the participants were him, several other chapter masters and their honor guards, the planet's high-level administrative officials would have been slaughtered.

Even if such a situation occurs, we can consider a temporary reconciliation with the aliens, so it is not a bad idea to consider using these aliens when necessary.

This idea prompted Atwood to invite senior executives for a short meeting.

The results of the meeting were quickly announced: surrender was acceptable, but complete aliens were not.