Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 1015 08.1014: 'Severus's Brainwashing'

The medical nuns exchanged glances, and finally, their eyes all fell on Sister Diana.

Arabella was still on land and couldn't return in time. The court official oversaw and was responsible for all matters concerning the Sisters on the ship.

"Shield Guard sisters, hold the infirmary! The rest of you, follow me!"

Boom!Boom!
Two battle nuns wielding massive, sturdy shields immediately blocked the door to the infirmary, their power swords humming in their hands.

"Kill these high lords' lackeys! Justice belongs to Severus!!"

A huge horde of soldiers clad in red armor surged into the "Swift Skyhawk" like a flood bursting its banks.

Mixed among them were Severus Shock Guard soldiers clad in heavy armor and wielding Hellfire Guns.

They were the royal guards sent by the rebellious emperor to Pompey, and also Pompey's last trump card.

Their orders were to destroy the enemy's bridge and deliver victory to their Emperor.

In reality, Pompey was merely using them to buy precious time for the Duke's Pride to disengage from the subspace.

hum! ——

The roar of the chainsaw sword echoed throughout the entire bridge defense zone.

The Holy Rose Battle Sisters, on duty at the bridge guard post, armed with bolt-action muskets and chainsaw swords, bravely charged towards the surging Severus rebels.

The chainsaw blade swung up and down, sending limbs flying.

Beside them, the remaining naval security force, the stormtroopers, had also been fully engaged in the battle.

But many of their colleagues were still on military missions on the ground and had not returned.

Therefore, the number of security personnel on the bridge at this moment is nearly two-thirds less than before.

The Swift Skyhawk is in an extremely dangerous situation.

If the enemy were to breach the defensive line formed by the naval security forces and the combat nuns in a short period of time, the warship's command center would be completely lost before the armed sailors could reach the bridge from the barracks below.

The Severus boarded the ship at the lower end of the bridge.

The space here is relatively open, allowing the troops boarding the ship to launch attacks both downwards and upwards simultaneously.

If it weren't for the guidance of a traitor within the Imperial Navy, probably very few people would know about this excellent, yet also the weakest, point of entry.

"It's all your fault!! It's all because you used your guns to support the high lords who levied exorbitant taxes and levies, plunging us into endless suffering!!!" A female soldier from Severus, with a ferocious face, screamed as she charged toward a Holy Rose Sister who was guarding the passageway leading up to the bridge.

(When Severus rebelled, he had already launched a long and fanatical indoctrination campaign among the people, and the Duchy had already entered a state of total mobilization during the Battle of the Spinning Front.)
The hateful words she uttered startled the Holy Rose Battle Sister, whose eyes beneath her helmet were filled with incomprehension.

"Put down your weapons! It's not too late to turn back now!" she warned the charging female soldier from Severus, her chainsaw sword roaring once more as she aimed her bolt pistol at the woman.

"You forcibly requisitioned our food, causing my child to starve to death! Now, you must atone for my poor child!!!" The crazed female soldier grabbed a laser gun with the eagle emblem worn off, and aimed the gleaming bayonet straight at the nun's chest.

(Severus laser gun; much of the military equipment was distributed to the army after the Eagle Union was erased from the military depots of the occupied Empire world.)
boom!
puff.

A muffled gunshot rang out as a bolt-action bullet pierced the attacker's heart with pinpoint accuracy and exploded violently on the body of a Severan rebel behind her.

Although she had pulled the trigger, the Holy Rose Sister still couldn't understand what kind of tragedy she was talking about.

What could possibly turn a human into this hideous demon?
In that moment of distraction...

Jiong!
An extremely powerful shockwave shot towards the nun.

Her body reacted instinctively, leaping forward, but it was as if she had hit an invisible wall, and she was thrown away violently.

"Clear the target! Charge! Take her down and break through here!" The Severus shock troops, hiding in the rear, were using the lives of ordinary infantry as expendable resources to keep advancing.

Their shock hell guns require no precise aiming in the narrow corridors.

Simply activate shock mode, pull the trigger and charge forward; anyone who stands in their way will be instantly knocked down by the powerful shockwave.

They quickly took control of the corridor and were preparing to break through to the upper levels.

As a shock soldier stepped over the stunned, power-armored combat nun, he switched his Hellfire Gun to high-penetration mode, preparing to execute her.

A giant sword engulfed in raging flames descended from the sky, cleaving open the forehead of the shock soldier who was standing on the nun's breastplate, preparing to carry out the execution.

Diana, the court lady, leaped into the air, wielding her flaming greatsword with both hands, carving a deadly vacuum into the enemy ranks. Immediately afterward, more battle nuns rushed down from the upper floor.

"Sister Haya! Being distracted in battle will kill you and your sister who is fighting alongside you!" the court official roared angrily.

"I'm sorry, Officer... that woman just said some things... that really upset me. I'm sorry." The nun, whose head was buzzing, was grabbed by the handle of her power backpack by another nun and dragged behind the cover for emergency assistance.

"The world is full of suffering, and perhaps we cannot save everyone."

The court official calmed down a bit and said earnestly to Sister Haya, "But what we can do is bring the Emperor's glory to those who are suffering."

Keep fighting! We can't let them break through from here! The infirmary is right above us! Inside, there's a woman about to become a mother! Today, we must protect these two lives!

"Yes, Your Excellency! I will not hesitate any longer."

After taking two deep breaths of highly concentrated oxygen from the breathing apparatus in the hands of the medical nun, the nun picked up her chainsaw sword again and stood up.
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Bang bang bang bang!

In the void, the Swift Skyhawk was enduring a storm of attacks from the Duke's Pride.

The ship was subjected to constant and violent bombardment, and the deck shook violently as if it were a living thing.

But she continued her relentless attack on the enemy's engine.

Before her, a harbinger of an impending subspace rift appeared—a purple nebula flashing with ominous lightning.

Faced with the threat of the approaching enemy escort ships, Captain Kretschmer of E-99 ordered the captain of the attack ship E-103 to retreat immediately to avoid being surrounded by the escort ships.

But he himself remained unmoved, and simply had the officers on the bridge continue to calculate the escape route of Severus's flagship, the "Prince of the Duke".

"Captain! Enemy escort ships, 307 kilometers away!" the lookout officer shouted to Captain Kretschmer.

He heard it, but gave no response. He personally joined in calculating the enemy ships' course.

"Scattered over 7,500 kilometers, left axis correction ±3 degrees." He stared intently at the target, and without any machine assistance, he recited a series of precise parameters solely through mental calculation.

"Parameters have been corrected!"

"One hundred and twenty-seven kilometers!!!" The watchman at the lookout post shouted, his voice cracking.

"Torpedo launched."

Lieutenant Colonel Kretzmer once again raised his ever-present binoculars and looked at the trajectory of the torpedo launch.

In his mind, an invisible line was drawn, stretching straight to the "Duke's Pride" that was making its final evasive maneuvers.

[It will take fifty-seven seconds to hit...] He worried whether his torpedoes would be able to hit the target in time before the Duke's Pride could be forced to disengage.

boom! ! !
Just as the torpedo was launched, a Sword-class escort ship speeding in pursuit collided violently with the E-99 attack ship, which was in stealth mode in the shadow field.

The surface of the attack ship flickered a few times, revealing its hull, which was twisted and deformed from the impact.

(End of this chapter)