Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 506 06.0505: "Gun from the 'ally'"

The Epic's forward spine is also designed with a passage leading to the bridge.

"Captain, this is torpedo officer Fideo. I am acting in command. Everything is normal on the bridge and there is no emergency." The cheerful, short, blond young lieutenant reported to Captain Horatio while sitting in his seat.

"I remind you, Fideo, that you have the command of the battleship guard. If any aliens dare to invade the bridge, crush their attempts without mercy."

"Of course, Captain."

The order to 'all aboard' was certainly not meant to be taken literally, meaning to take everyone aboard.

There are still officers and warrant officers on duty on the bridge, manning various departments of the bridge to deal with emergencies.

It is also guarded by a troop of red-clad marine infantry recruited from the Vegas district of Abyss Port.

——This group of guards is the last barrier of the bridge and will not be transferred away from the bridge under any circumstances.

The soldiers of the Marine Guard will live and die with the bridge, and will only hold this one position. Anywhere else has nothing to do with them.

But Letty promised Horatio that if even a single Kroot sneaked onto his bridge and desecrated his command seat, she would apologise to him with all her heart.

Although he didn't know why Lati was so confident, nor why he issued such a strange military order. He didn't even say anything yet, he just hoped that Lati could let the Skitarii cooperate with the warship guards to intercept the Kroots attacking the bridge, and wait for him to lead the team back to fight a beautiful annihilation battle, that's all.

But since she said so, Horatio felt comfortable handing over most of the defensive tasks to her.

When the Kroot who were heading towards the bridge rushed to the bottom of the bridge and prepared to invade by elevator.

A small object blocked them.

"Tactical drone bees?" The Kroot stopped and looked at each other.

The tactical drone beeped and circled leisurely in the air, as if to express its intention to lead the way for them.

This familiar little thing finally cheered up the invading Kroot people a little.

"Could it be that a Fire Warrior ally has successfully infiltrated this ship?" This conjecture made the Kroot Shaman who led the team very excited.

The appearance of friendly units inside the Imperial battleship was extremely familiar to Kroot, even if they were blue-skinned guys who always curbed their nature in the name of supervision.

The shaman immediately raised his staff, signaling the follow-up troops to follow the drones.

The Tactical Drone beeped and flew forward.

It flew above, with the Kroot following behind.

After walking around for who knows how far, they finally came to a relatively open area.

“So little guy, where are our fire warrior allies?” The shaman was a little confused and raised his hand to signal his men to stop and no longer follow.

The Tactical Drone beeped. Soon, around the corner, an XV8 Crisis Combat Suit stepped out.

The Kroot Shaman smacked his beak with satisfaction, his tense heart relaxed, and he put his doubts behind him.

- Even if the Imperials could somehow control the tactical drone bees they kept at a distance, they would not be able to control the XV8 'Crisis' battle suit.

The Kroot Shaman saluted the XV8 'Danger' Battlesuit.

"Dear allies, you are finally here." He greeted them in the official language of the Tau Empire, which he was relatively proficient in but with a strange accent.

"It seems that you, as smart as you are, have already taken the lead in infiltrating the Imperials' new warship."

The red square head of XV8's 'Crisis' battlesuit nodded, and the built-in speaker said, "Although this battleship is small, it is very cleverly designed and can be called an engineering masterpiece. Capturing it will bring great advantages."

A large group of tactical drones carrying plasma carbines flew in from all corners and assembled in the venue. Although it was a bit strange not to see other Tau fire warriors wearing combat armor, the Tau's combat methods were flexible and varied, especially the troops in the commerce-breaking fleet, which did not follow the usual path.

Perhaps it was because too many people would make them easily noticed, so they only sent out elite soldiers in combat uniforms. The driver must be extraordinary to be able to control so many drones.

No matter what strange sights appear, the cunning Kroot Shaman, who is good at guessing the minds of the enemy and himself, can always find reasonable reasons to convince himself.

"Allies, let's attack the bridge together. With so many troops, I believe we can catch the Imperial bridge defenders off guard and force them to flee in panic!"

The square head of XV8's 'Crisis' battle suit began to shake his head again, and the speaker said, "I'm afraid not. The situation is worse than you think."

In fact, this "head" is not a real head, but a lens placed on the top of the combat suit. The nodding and shaking movements are to lock the targets in front of him one by one.

After distributing all target attack signals to the surrounding tactical drone swarms floating in the air, XV8's 'Crisis' combat suit took a step forward, and the weapons on his arms began to charge secretly.

The Kroot Shaman was completely unaware of the deadly threat before him and continued to ask, "Why do you say that?"

"You have been fooled and you have no idea."

"Who fooled us?"

"Me." The battle suit's built-in voice generator said without any emotion.

The duration of the conversation was very well controlled. As soon as the words were spoken, the ion cannon had just finished charging. The surging rotor fired an ion beam at an extremely high rate of fire, instantly mowing down the alien in front of it like mowing the grass.

The surrounding tactical drones had already surrounded the entire group of Kroot, and the ion carbines hanging below them fired mercilessly at these aliens, sharing the workload with the combat suits in order to annihilate the enemy in the shortest time possible.

The entire battle on the front ridge could not be called a back-and-forth battle, it was clearly a bloody automated slaughter.

The battle ended quickly. The swarm of tactical drones was large enough and its firepower was fierce enough. The burnt corpses of the Kroot people were piled on the gray and cold deck, forming a soft but disgusting carpet.

“How could this happen…” The Kroot Shaman, whose abdomen was pierced by an ion beam, fell to the ground, covering the wound and trying to push back the intestines that flowed out of the burned hole.

The stomach and intestines are filled with the flesh and blood of the dead and are being digested.

“Who are you…?”

XV8's 'Crisis' battlesuit remained silent this time.

It raised its "titanium orange" metal feet and stepped on the alien.

This is its response with action—"Died to Aliens!"
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Behind the Kroots, Horatio arrived at the docking station with an elite vanguard force.

More than four platoons of troops, nearly 600 elite boarding team members, suddenly came from behind the siege defense platoon and launched a beautiful surprise attack.

Those Kroot who tried to climb up were highlighted by Horatio through his commanding hand, and they were shot down one after another with a row of uniform pulse incendiary guns firing.

"Captain, you're here at last." Leidos's two prosthetic iron hands were covered in blood, some of which was his, as well as the Kroot's orange slime.

Seeing the captain, he wiped the blood and sweat from his head and said while panting.

"Well done, Leidos. Are all the Kroot inside?"

"Yes, sorry, we couldn't hold the gate."

The automatic loading device installed by Latti on Horatio Ironhand pushed open the cylinder of the bolt pistol. The ejector automatically pushed out the empty smoking shell and filled it with a new bolt.

"No, you did a great job." Horatio looked at the bodies that fell all the way from the docking station, and his tone turned cold: "Now, we just need to close the door and beat the dog."

(End of this chapter)