Warhammer Inquisitor

Chapter 329 The Rise of the Primarch: The Last Legion
The pale light flickered under the huge dome, and the pale light seemed to come from a dying star with no temperature. The planet had already collapsed into a white dwarf star in the trillions of years, and in the final burning Lieutenant will shine his last rays on the star field that is also cold.

Under the light of this "planet" are gloomy armors, they are arranged in layers, completely protecting the steel body below them. Cast, can't even understand the physics of the armored soulless robot standing under which light.

It is an incomparably huge war machine. Its burly body stands under the incandescent lights above and around its head, but its tall and extended armor layer blocks the lights overhead, and it is chopped into pieces. Pieces of different sizes The shadow of it was cast on the underside of its burly body, silently setting off the hugeness of the war machine built by humans.

Above the shadow below the chest, the angular head was completely exposed to the light, the pale light completely illuminated its one-eyed head, and in the midst of the dazzling incandescent light, the steel head The central mechanical eye composed of countless rings and incomprehensible technological structures was dimly silent. It opened its eyes, but there was nothing called life under it.

The tall robot looked ahead to the trestle bridge that crossed the endless warehouse. The long bridge was like the bridge of the world that crossed this sea of ​​steel, allowing its passers to pass through the endless steel army. At the same time, you can overlook these sleeping iron men through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides of the long bridge.

At this moment, there was indeed a man walking on the long bridge, a golden giant, a man who saw countless memories in his mind when he saw these steel objects. The curved glass windows on the side look at what is outside.

The man named Vito Constantine was walking. He was walking on the long bridges made of steel window frames and curved glass. The huge floor-to-ceiling windows cut through the walls of the corridor, as shown on one side. Like the window, the iron man army outside was exposed to the eyes of the passers-by.

Vito was wearing golden power armor holding Helen's disc in the huge palm, and the little AI lady standing on it also had her hands behind her back, looking at the endless iron man army outside the window with Vito with those blue glowing eyes. them.

Around the giant multi-legged war machine standing outside the window, there are war beasts that are smaller in size, but they are also equipped with countless advanced weapons. Their tall bodies stand majestically in the endless sea of ​​machines. It's like mountains and islands poking out from the bottom of the sea.

Those islands are also covered with trees, diamond-shaped shooting ports, "trees" that can blow up the entire palace in the blink of an eye. in the infantry.

Vito looked down at them. Under the feet of the huge number of war beasts, there were even larger iron infantrymen who covered the entire warehouse floor like the ocean. The same kinetic energy guns, pulse guns and ion guns stand together, just like the parade phalanxes.

Vito's eyes scanned them from high up, some of the Iron Man infantry were holding firearms or advanced individual heavy weapons, others were holding weapons that looked like cold weapons, long knives, sharp axes or Spears, but trust me, you won't find them bullying after a side-by-side comparison.

The reason is very simple, it is also a cold weapon, but the savage settlements in the wild world, or the swords and spears held by the old farmers in the feudal world, are still slightly different from those held by the Necrons. , so yes, so is the "cold weapon" here.

Vito looked at a steel beast. It was a saber-toothed tiger, or at least a beast-like beast. The only beasts of its prototype were that their bodies were made of flesh and bone, and its The body is entirely composed of steel and hydraulic structures.

The razor-sharp disintegrating claws grabbed the ground with the machine closed, and could instantly pounce on it and tear open the space warrior armor, tearing the soldiers under it into splattering flesh. The mechanical eyeball hangs lifelessly, falling into a seemingly eternal slumber dimly and dull.

Vito looked at everything here, raised his eyes and looked at the end of the iron man army that could not see the end. The farthest steel long wall, depicting the old signs of the Golden Age and the Gothic font of the warehouse here stands.

"Tera - The Final High Wall Defense Plan - The Last Iron Guard." The gothic font description and branding are under the ancient eagle, which belongs to the ancient years, the last peak of mankind, under the symbol of the golden age eagle .

"Tian Ying, I remember that it was exactly the same as the imperial symbol before the Mechanicist joined the empire and changed the Tian Ying logo from a single head to a double head. Do you remember? It was during the unification war of Terra."

"Of course, of course I remember, that guy has always been very nostalgic, nostalgic for the peak of the beautiful golden age, so when the unification war began, he used the Federation's Sky Eagle logo as his logo, the logo of the Empire, probably just a picture Good thinking and Gili, although he does like to have a quirky mix of art deco from the old days with the present."

It's a kind of nostalgia in a sense, Vito thought, that guy has always been nostalgic, otherwise it wouldn't be 40 thousand years old, and the decoration style of the Empire is still Gothic and Victorian, and even older Rome. The style, that guy really is, is a surprisingly hilarious blend of sci-fi and classical.

Vito smiled bitterly when he thought of this, he smiled and lowered his head to look at the iron men below, "In addition to his nostalgia, he also kept an entire army of iron men here, and completed the iron man army with a complete range of sea, land and air, hum, he is really Nostalgia in every sense."

Vito said that he walked over the long "cross-sea" bridge. He walked over the head of the endless sleeping iron man army under his feet, and walked along the long corridor to the control room beyond the gate at the end.

He looked at the closed door in front of him. The golden eagle of the current empire was branded on the door. The steel door frame was also decorated with the kind of local tyrant gold decoration that the old man liked. He really likes gold for everything. Shiny, what is this?Same as Greenskin thinks tanks will be more aggressive if they are painted red?
With a wry smile, Vito brought Helen's CD closer to the terminal station on the side of the door, "Open the door, we're running out of time, I guess there may be a fight on the track."

"Well, you guessed right that there is a fight. The outer Imperial Navy fleet has come into contact with Chaos, and it collapsed unexpectedly."

Helen said and looked at the terminal, she just raised her hand and waved at the instrument, and the terminal immediately lit up with a flashing eagle logo and went into operation, with the eagle flashing in front of Vito. The closed door also opened.

Vito smiled and shrugged as he looked at the Skyhawk logo that slid into the door frame along with the door body after it was separated from the center, "Abaddon is still so impatient, just like his father Horus."

Speaking of Vito walking into the main control room behind the door, it is very interesting that it is much smaller compared to most of the empire's battleship bridges and hive headquarters, or even a single Titan cab. It's actually kind of unbelievably small.

You understand, as a system control room that can take over, control and coordinate all the defense systems of the entire Terra, from the ground-based air defense firepower on the ground, the orbital firepower on the orbit, and even the system control room of the position on the moon, it is a little small here. I wonder if this is a utility room where brooms and mops are stacked or something.

But here it is, Vito walked into this prototype control room, which was smaller than the larger Titan cab. He looked at the arc-shaped CNC glass windows covering the entire wall in front of him. They were in the bridge of the Sky Blade. The glass windows are exactly the same, shrouded in darkness before being activated, like a black wall.

Vito looked at the dull glass surface, then strode to the front of the terminal instrument sitting in front of the glass, Vito flipped Helen's CD with his fingers, and he looked at the silver flexibly flipped in his huge fingers. CD-ROM, "Speaking of which, it looks so similar to the Sky Blade. How about changing your skin? Just a bikini will do. I guarantee it will be very exciting based on my [-] years of experience."

"Sir, how did you jump from the issue that Terra was about to be bombed, and the entire galaxy might be leveled by Abaddon, to the issue of letting me wear a swimsuit?"

Helen's voice came out of the disc, her image had vanished with Vito's flip, but she was still in it, and this little disc carried her digital core as much as her soul.

"I'm not trying to ease the atmosphere. Anyway, it's not the first time I've saved the empire and the world, and it's not bad this time." Vito said and put Helen's CD lightly on the terminal, and he stepped back. After a few steps, he put his hands behind his back and looked at the screens in front of him that were all lit up, and the entire dark control room instantly lit up.

All the dark screens around Vito flashed, and soon the eagle logo of the Federation flashed on it. A large number of scrolling data and information windows light up on the CNC glass.

The tsunami-like torrent of data rushed out and washed on the window, as if a real tsunami hit the window of the command room at the height of the flood control dam, but Vito did not panic at all. He stood calmly in front of the data torrent, his eyes calmly looking at the chaotic pop-up windows that kept appearing and disappearing in front of him.

He has nothing to worry about, although the chaotic intensity of these data will probably allow a mechanic priest to blow up his brain at the moment of access. Before insanity goes mad, his brain processor will be burnt to charcoal.

But don't worry about it, because compared to Helen, all the tech priests these days are junk computers from the transistor age.

The AI ​​lady stood on the terminal in front of Vito, her fingers slid quickly in front of her, she quickly browsed the windows one by one and tossed them aside. With Helen's clicks and manipulation of the entire interface, the data tsunami quickly disappeared. Under control, everything started to become clear.

Vito looked at the scrolling list in front of him, which was the list of automatic system interfaces on the entire Terra. From here, he could directly take over the entire Terra's defense system, Void Shield, Railgun and the entire Starport and The Nest Network will be placed in front of this small, under the control of a finger-high artificial intelligence girl in Vito's palm.

"Sir, I need permission." Helen pushed open a lot of windows in front of her. She turned to look at Vito behind her. Vito, who was wearing a golden armor, stood in front of the screen with his hands behind his back. After nodding, he looked at the screen flashing with the Imperial Skyhawk logo in front of him. The logo was like an iron rope, covering all the control panels under it.

Vito watched the golden eagle clear his throat, he raised his head slightly and said softly, "The system recognizes the authority, the king is back."

"The authority is over, welcome back, Grand Marshal." A cold mechanical voice sounded from around the main control room. The voice sounded like that of a machine servant. Vito frowned in confusion as he heard the voice.

"Grand Marshal?"

"Don't you like it, sir?" Helen smiled and turned her head to start the operating system. With a few clicks of her finger, the whole system began to take over the work. The windows swept past quickly, and the flashing indicator switches slid along with her finger. And all lights up.

"Nonsense, it sounds like an idiot military noble of an empire who gave himself a bunch of exaggerated idiot titles. Really, anyone in the Imperial Star Army can be called Grand Marshal now. They are about to devalue it." Vito complained, looking at the window that was passing by quickly, Helen's efficiency was very fast, and the whole system was almost completely controlled.

"The system has taken over, all the orbital weapons are under my control, do I need to activate the Iron Man Corps? Their systems are all working fine, although there is some lack of energy, but I just need to charge it up."

"No, Helen, you don't need to take over the orbital system, let them continue to sleep." Vito interrupted Helen, he looked at the flickering Iron Man Legion system node beside him, it was like a keyhole , floating there like a keyhole that opens the cage of the sleeping beast.

It flickered, flickering with the ion light on its own projection, as if inviting the users here to activate it, awakening the most powerful beast ever built by man.

"Sir, aren't these iron men originally stored here by you and the Emperor, as the last resort for Terra when she is completely helpless and is about to be breached?" Helen pressed a hand on the holographic projection in front of her, but He turned his head and looked at Vito behind him in amazement.

"I think this is the last moment, I don't think I need to remind you, the power of Chaos is several times that of the guardians of Terra, and there is a large number of Astartes available, and the main defense forces on Terra are currently They are ordinary human beings, with only a very small number of Imperial Guards and Grey Knights."

"If you allow me, I can activate the Iron Man and the Smart Fleet here, so that the invading troops can be annihilated without even landing. This can minimize Terra's casualties and reduce billions, even tens of billions. casualties.”

"Then we'll have to fight another civil war. Whether it's iron man or not, it will cause the same scale of casualties. The only difference is that this time it was fought by humans themselves, just like at the end of the golden age."

Vito said calmly and looked at the starting keyhole of the Iron Man system. He turned his head decisively and looked at the other interfaces in front of him. Vito's eyes reflected the faint blue light on the CNC glass, and the dots of light beams were projected on the black on the pupil.

"If the Iron Man appeared on Terra and saved the Throne World and the Emperor, we would not be greeted with cheering celebrations, but an immediate religious schism. The Church of England clearly opposed the Emperor and regarded it as The Iron Man, who was as cursed as the devil, saved Terra and the Empire, and fell into religious confusion about what it meant, and eventually split into two factions and began to draw guns for the "new truth"."

"And the other wave of people, believe me, the confusion and the curse of Iron Man technology that led to the fall of the Dark Mechanic School will also make them have another Mars split. I guess those oil guys can blow out the parts of each other's colleagues. , the whole of Mars will be plunged into a chaotic civil war, and as Abaddon is repelled and the warp storm dissipates, the news will quickly spread throughout the empire, and all the forge worlds of the entire Mechanicum will erupt into a technological civil war like Mars, which causes casualties No smaller than what Abaddon would have done, or even bigger."

"Kaul has just reunited the group of engine oil guys, I don't want to let the great sage do it again after only two days, and this time it has to be sprayed by Guilliman for hundreds of years. That kind of thing, I've always been the only one who sprayed others, and no one sprayed me!"

Vito said righteously, although from the smile on his face it seemed that he was not that serious, Vito looked down at Helen, who was also looking at himself, "They are the choice in the last desperate situation, because as long as this method is chosen , everything that will happen after that is like the collapse of the golden age, which is completely beyond human control.”

"The Iron Man project is the last one, one of the final plans when everything must be settled and the final moment really comes, and they belong not to the present, but to the moment that must come."

Vito fell silent as he spoke, recalling the plan the Emperor had said in his mind, the crazy plan, the final moment of the final battle in his mouth.

Vito closed his eyes and let out a long sigh, while Helen frowned slightly. She looked at Vito in front of her with some anxiety, "Sir?"

"I'm fine, Helen, if you want to activate the Iron Man, at least wait for the bastard of Horus to hit the gate of the palace. It's not the last moment, but it is true that we have a battle to fight, so take over the system of Terra. "Vito opened his eyes and said firmly, he nodded slightly to Helen, who also nodded affirmatively.

The AI ​​lady turned around and faced the large number of data nodes in front of her. Her finger tapped lightly on the screen. With the touch of her finger, beams of light quickly shot to all the surrounding data nodes. The system flashed instantly, and those flashing rays of light finally re-formed into new beams and re-converged under Helen's finger.

"Helen."

"What's the matter, sir?"

"Make a subroutine and launcher that activates the Iron Man Corps, and I'll take it to face Abaddon, although I'd still rather beat that arse boy myself."

Vito smiled faintly behind Helen, and the AI ​​girl in front of him also turned her back to him, showing a faint smile where he couldn't see.

"As ordered, sir."

Helen took a deep breath and closed her eyes. She slowly raised her hands in front of Vito's eyes. As Helen raised her arms, the entire underground world shook. Vito raised his head and looked around, shaking violently. The underground structure, the whole world trembled with the rise of Helen's arm.

Bell, who was outside the dark gate, suddenly raised his head to look at the violently shaking palace dome above his head. The earthquake under his feet was shaking, as if a giant dragon buried under Terra was waking up, rising from the ground. .

All the people beside Bell raised their heads, Eisenstein and Trajan, as well as all the custodians and shadow guards around looked up at the vibrating ceiling above their heads. The lantern was shaking in the vibration, and the candle in it was shaking, shining the swaying fire on the statue's face.

On the ground, there is also a candle in the Emperor's shrine that vibrates. The devotees praying in front of it panic and look around the high-rise buildings in the vibrating hive. The crowd screams and there is a great chaos in the street. , Even the military police with guns panicked all of a sudden.

The policeman in the middle of the street stood in the chaotic crowd and looked forward with his gun in hand. He soon widened his eyes in the shadow of the rising behemoth. The panicked crowd around him also stopped and looked at the giant in the shadow that blocked the sun.

It was a turbo cannon that slowly rose from the depths of the hive. The majestic cannon as tall as a building was slowly rising from the tall buildings in the hive, like a giant tower rising from the ground.

"Where is it!" someone in the crowd shouted and pointed into the distance, and everyone on the street looked at the thing behind the huge muzzle, the second one!That is the second cannon muzzle, and not only that, there are more, more cannons are rising.

In the tremor of Terra, a huge cannon that reached the sky lifted its huge body from the shadows buried deep in the hive, and those railguns that blocked the sun cast a large shadow on the city. , projected on the residents of Terra who were standing in the streets in amazement.

They all looked at the huge cannon that covered the sky and the sun in front of them. The muzzle was aimed at the sky. Gradually, the muzzle lit up with a shining light beam. In an instant, a huge light beam shot towards the earth with the roar that shook the earth. In the sky, as the body of the giant cannon sat back and retreated under the impact, a huge shock wave shook the residents on the entire street.

They stepped back again and again, and some fell to the ground and looked up at the giant laser beam that shot through the sky. The laser pierced the sky of Terra in the blink of an eye, and shot through the imperial fleet orbiting Terra. .

The beam whizzed past the Infinite Frontier, and the scarlet beam instantly illuminated the entire bridge. Captain Cole stood on the high platform and turned his head sharply to look at the huge beam whizzing past the window.

The huge laser beam shot directly from the wide gap between the battleships, and shot through a Chaos frigate that was advancing in the distance. , the crimson laser penetrated the battleship instantly, completely pierced from the bow to the stern.

The frigate exploded and disintegrated in an instant, and the sprayed flames filled the space like blood. The exploding battleship instantly illuminated the entire night sky and illuminated the bridge of the Soul of Vengeance sailing on its side.

Abaddon's face was illuminated by the explosion of fire, and the warmaster suddenly howled as he watched the frigate that exploded and disintegrated, he raised his power claws with an almost crazy laugh, "I Accept your challenge, Vito!"

"The whole fleet is ready!" Abaddon roared and pointed his lightning claws at Terra. Almost at the same time as him, there was also Captain Cole on the Infinity Frontier. He slowly pulled out the helmet he was wearing on his waist. Naval Sabre, he raised the golden power scimitar high and then slammed down to point to the Chaos fleet in the distance.

"Fire!" Cole slammed down his saber and shouted at the same time as Abaddon, their roar turned into a roar of war, the macro cannon and the light spear began to roar, and the whistling cannonballs and laser beams bombarded each other in the universe On both sides of the curtain, in the collision of blood and fire, the defense of Terra officially began.

(End of this chapter)