From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 592 The situation is clear

As Qasim's mixed squad began to advance toward the warehouse area, Ancy Sekurt, hiding in the shadows of the alley, was holding his breath.

Her indigo skin almost blended into the wall in the dim light, and only her amber eyes were fixed on the unimaginable battle outside the alley.

Every move made by the Iron Warriors and the World Eaters in their clash seemed to be wrapped in the power of thunder and lightning, and the sparks from the collision between the Power Sword and the Chain Axe seemed to splash onto the wall at the alley entrance.

To a Twi'lek like her who had never seen an Astartes, this was a re-enactment of a war from myth.

Roar--!
A creepy roar suddenly came from the right.

? !
Anxi shuddered all over, and saw a bloody dog ​​sticking its ferocious head out from the corner of the alley.

This thing looked like a skinned hound, its exposed muscle tissue covered with throbbing blood vessels, and saliva dripping from its fangs, corroding the metal ground and producing wisps of white smoke.

What's even more terrifying is its eyes. There are no pupils at all, only two balls of burning blood-red flames.

The bloodhound's nostrils flared violently, apparently having caught her "horrified" scent.

Anxi's tentacles instinctively straightened and his right hand reached for the vibrating dagger at his waist.

When the monster pounced on her, she rolled sideways to avoid it, and the metal trash can she was leaning on was torn into pieces by the bloodhound's sharp claws.

"damn it!"

Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!

While cursing, she pulled out her blaster pistol and fired three shots. The scarlet energy beam burned black wounds on the bloodhound, but it only made the monster more violent.

It kicked up its hind legs and pounced again. Anxi could even smell the stench of rotten blood and sulfur.

At the critical moment, she suddenly pushed against the wall to gain leverage and leaped up in the opposite direction, with the vibrating dagger drawing a deadly arc in the air.

The blade accurately cut into the bloodhound's cervical vertebrae, and the high-frequency vibrating blade separated the tough muscle fibers like cutting butter.

Roar--!
The monster let out a shrill wail, but its strong vitality allowed it to still turn its head and bite.

Ancy landed again and without hesitation put the blaster against its blood-red eyeball and pulled the trigger.

Bang!
The bloodhound's head exploded like a ripe fruit, and sticky black blood splattered all over her face.

vomit--!!

Anxi felt a strong nausea and stepped back quickly, giving him a chance to take a closer look at the still twitching corpse.

Looking closely, this monster is not a product of natural evolution at all—

Its skeleton was twisted in an unnatural shape, with tiny bone spurs growing on some joints and metal fragments embedded in its muscle fibers, as if it had been forcibly modified by some evil force.

The most disgusting thing is that even though it is dead, those exposed blood vessels are still wriggling strangely, and finally, the blood dog's corpse turns into smelly black water.

"What the hell is this?"

She wiped the blood from her face, her tentacles curling in disgust.

As a mercenary who had traveled to dozens of star systems, she had never seen a creation that violated the laws of nature so much.

Boom.Boom!

There was a deafening explosion outside the alley, and the shock wave made the entire alley tremble.

Anxi immediately concluded that this hiding place was no longer safe, and she quickly crouched down and moved towards the alley entrance.

Swish~——Swish——!
As soon as we rushed out of the alley, a series of micro missiles whizzed past our heads.

Without thinking, Anxi rushed into a half-collapsed shop on the roadside. Almost at the moment she rushed in, the entire alley behind her was engulfed by the flames of the explosion.

The display shelves in the store collapsed one after another in the shock wave, and all kinds of goods fell from the shelves like raindrops.

"cough cough"

She groped in the thick smoke and dust, trying to stand up, but suddenly her whole body froze.

Boom, boom!

Because outside the shop, there was a heavy sound of metal friction.

I saw a huge shadow about two and a half meters tall slowly emerging from the thick smoke.

To Anxi it was a giant, but to the Iron Warrior, what she saw was a World Eater that had lost its entire left arm, with its broken and exposed flesh and blood still wriggling.

Its power armor was covered with cracks, and half of the many skull decorations inlaid on the breastplate had been broken, but the pair of blood-red eyes looking through the eyepieces were still terrifying.

"Another little mouse"

A hoarse voice came out from the helmet, with the harsh texture of metallic friction.

Only then did Anxi notice that the chainsaw axe in the other party's right hand had stopped working, and the axe blade was covered with solidified blood plasma.

Moreover, the opponent had already noticed her presence, so she immediately opened fire, with several energy beams accurately hitting the opponent's exposed neck.

However, these attacks only leave shallow burn marks on the abnormally proliferating stratum corneum.

"hehe."

The World Eater let out a blood-curdling laugh and swung his axe to chop through the metal shelves that blocked his way.

The harsh sound of metal shelves being split by chainsaw axes echoed in the small shop, twisted metal fragments rained down around Anxi, and damaged power armor spewed out turbid steam with the breath of the World Eater.

"Nice try, little one."

The World Eater kicked aside the shattered remains of the shelf, its heavy magnetic boots leaving deep indentations in the ground.

Om-!
Anxi's right hand trembled unconsciously, and the vibrating dagger also made a high-frequency buzzing sound, and the blood stains on the blade were shaken into tiny blood beads and scattered.

Her amber pupils narrowed into a thin line as she quickly scanned the surroundings for possible escape routes.

As an experienced mercenary, she knew very well that in the face of such an absolute power gap, the only chance of survival was to create chaos and then escape.

When the World Eater approached within five meters, Anxi suddenly jumped up.

Her indigo body became a blurry afterimage in the dim light, and her vibrating dagger went straight for the exposed hydraulic pipeline on the opponent's left knee.

This attack condensed all her combat experience. The angle was tricky and the speed was amazing. The blade was pointing directly at the most vulnerable joint of the power armor.

However, just as the tip of the knife was about to hit her, the opponent's remaining left hand suddenly stretched out at incredible speed, and the rough metal fingers grasped the base of her right tentacle like a pair of pliers.

"what!"

The heart-wrenching pain instantly penetrated Anxi's nerve defenses.

The tentacles were the most sensitive and vulnerable part of the Twi'lek, and the severe pain at this moment caused a blinding white light to flash before her eyes.

Her body was easily lifted until it was level with the broken helmet visor.

Through the broken eyepiece, she saw a pair of eyes burning with blood-red flames, and black smoke seeping from the gaps in the helmet blew towards her with the stench of sulfur.

"Your fear smells delicious." The monster began to chant some kind of blasphemous spell, the syllables distorted so that they did not sound like the sound that could be produced by a living creature's throat.

Anxi was horrified to find that the tip of the tentacle that was caught was turning black at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a strange feeling of numbness was spreading rapidly along the nervous system.

She struggled desperately to stab the other person's wrist with the dagger, but found that her movements became slower and slower, as if she was moving in sticky resin.

Even more frightening, she began to hear voices not coming from the outside world, but whispers directly in her mind.

The voice promised power, promised revenge, if she would only give up resistance.
Just when consciousness was about to sink into the abyss of darkness, the whole world was suddenly filled with dazzling firelight.

Boom——!
The entire wall of the store was reduced to dust in the deafening explosion, and the shock wave blew away all the remaining items on the shelves.

In Anxi's blurred vision, three steel-gray giants came in the smoke, and their power armor glowed with a cold metallic luster under the firelight.

"Put her down, traitor."

The leading soldier held the grenade launcher horizontally, the muzzle flashing a dangerous red light. The emblem on his shoulder armor was particularly eye-catching in the smoke, and the tactical number etched on the power backpack showed his identity - Sergeant Qasim, commander of the tactical team.

The World Eater's spell came to an abrupt end.

He threw Anxi into the corner like a rag doll. His broken left arm suddenly twisted and deformed, and dozens of bone spurs covered with mucus grew out from the fracture.

"You've come just in time, you lackeys of the false emperor! The Blood God is eager for--"

Clang clang clang!
Several explosive shells hit his chest at the same time.

The severely injured berserker didn't even have time to finish his curse before he was blown into two pieces by the concentrated fire attack.

Anxi huddled in the corner, trembling as he watched the Iron Warriors handle the scene with terrifying efficiency.

They cautiously approached the still twitching upper and lower body, and accurately fired bolts at every suspicious piece of flesh and blood tissue. When a plasma cannon completely vaporized the pieces of flesh that were trying to reassemble, the entire execution process was over.

"civilian?"

As Cassim crouched down, the powered joints made a slight hydraulic sound.

The scanner on his helmet made a slight buzzing sound, and the crimson eyepiece reflected Anxi's pale face.

"Twi'lek. Interesting." His voice was unusually cold after being processed through the helmet filter. "Can you stand up? We need to move immediately."

Anxi opened his mouth, but found that his vocal cords were temporarily deaf due to excessive shock.

She could only nod stiffly, trying to express her condition with body language.

It was not until then that she noticed that her right hand was still tightly gripping the vibrating dagger, her knuckles turning white from excessive force.

What's worse, the tentacle that was contaminated by the blasphemous power had completely lost consciousness and hung on its shoulder like a dead snake, in stark contrast to the other healthy indigo tentacle. Finally, it could not hold on and fell into a coma.

Cassim's helmet screen scanned the Twi'lek woman's vital signs, and the data stream projection was constantly refreshed.

"Heart rate 40, blood pressure plummeting, neurotoxin pollution"

He whispered the readings, and the fingers in the power armor gently opened Anxi's eyelids, revealing the dilating pupils, and continued: "Typical symptoms of warp corrosion."

"Execution, Sergeant?"

The recruit behind him had raised his bolter, the muzzle locked on Anxi's forehead.

Cassim was silent for a moment, his eyes sweeping over the vibrating dagger in his hand.

This Twi'lek woman was able to survive the onslaught of Chaos creatures, and even briefly engage the World Eaters, so whether it was due to her psionic potential or sheer combat skill, she deserves further evaluation.

"No." He stood up. "Let the Hell Paratroopers carry him, and let the pharmacists quarantine him. The disinfectant prepared by the Inquisition contains the flower of purity, so he should be able to be saved."

"Yes."

Soon, two fully armed Hell's Paratroopers arrived and placed Ancy on a makeshift stretcher.

One of them noticed the dagger still tightly grasped in her hand, and when he tried to remove it, he found that her knuckles were too stiff to pry open.

"Bring the weapons with you," Qasim ordered, and continued, "Sangheili team, I need your cooperation to continue advancing."

"Ah~! No problem."

Five elite veterans had already occupied the entrance to the warehouse area. Their armor, painted the same steel grey, still bore scorch marks from the previous battle, but the energy weapons in their hands still flashed dangerous light.

The Elite Captain raised his jaw and uttered the unique battle cry of the Sangheili clan: "Blood and honor go together."

At this moment, the gate of the warehouse area had already been twisted and deformed, and was covered with traces of violent destruction.

When Qasim and his men cleared the last obstacle, they were greeted by a strong smell of blood and desperate cries.

Thousands of slaves of different races were chained to the wall, while dozens of vampires were playing a cruel "game" among them, slowly cutting off human limbs with serrated long knives.

"Deal with these bastards."

Cassim's voice was like ice.

The battle broke out in an instant and ended just as quickly.

The Iron Warriors' accurate explosives blew half of the vampires' heads into pieces, and the elite veterans' energy swords drew graceful arcs, cutting the remaining demons in half.

The rescued slaves stared blankly at their savior who suddenly appeared, and only woke up from their dream when their chains were cut by power weapons.

"God is God." A strong Zabrak man knelt on the ground, trembling and stroking his wrist that had been freed.

"Not a god," Kasim corrected, his voice sounding particularly majestic, "but the Iron Warriors of the Human Empire."

At this point, the entire warehouse area was declared cleared.

The surviving slaves huddled together, looking at these giant warriors with a mixture of awe and fear.

A little Twi'lek girl even boldly reached out and touched the elite captain's armor, then immediately retracted her fingers as if she had been electrocuted.

At this moment, the roar of the transport boat's engine was heard from the sky.

A Luna transport boat slowly landed on the open space outside the warehouse. When the rear hatch was fully opened, more than two hundred fully armed auxiliary troops ran out in a line.

They quickly took over the defenses, setting up heavy hard-light machine guns and plasma turrets in key locations.

"Sergeant, the pharmacist sent a report." At this time, the recruit reported to Qasim: "The Twi'lek woman is in stable condition."

"it is good."

Cassim nodded slightly. He looked in the direction of the transport boat, then turned back to look at the frightened slaves, and continued:
"Notify the platoon leader that we have completed the capture of the objective and can set up a temporary base here."

"Yes."

At this moment, looking down from the sky, the battle in the entire Port of Cotheran has gradually become clear.

Not only did Cassim's tactical team gain something, but the entire Iron Warriors' combat platoon eliminated a large number of traitors, heretics and demons almost at the same time.

Furthermore, with the control of Fular's near-Earth orbit falling into the hands of the First Fleet, it was only a matter of time before the World Eaters and other scum entrenched on the surface were completely wiped out by them.
(End of this chapter)