Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 508 06.0507: "Cat and Bird"

"This is the Sharp Fang Pathfinder Squadron. We have found a path to the Hostile's bridge."

"Well done, Sharp Fang Pathfinder Team, upload the specific coordinates. Our main force will be there soon."

"It's coming up—"

Suddenly, a tactical knife flew over at high speed and pierced the hand of the Kroot signalman along with the communication equipment.

"Enemy attack!"

The Kroot immediately raised their guns and aimed in the direction of the thrown knife.

puff!
A muscular man wearing black armor and with a silver armor with a chain on his right arm appeared from the opposite direction and directly pushed up with his elbow.

The enormous force of the genetically modified warrior, combined with the iconic silver arm armor of the Death Watch, created an impact that directly broke the spine of a Kroot in two.

The other Kroot reacted immediately, swinging the swords on their pulse rifles at Brother Korchagin, but he was quick-eyed and quick-handed, grabbing the barrel of the gun and sweeping his steel legs at the counterattack with agility and strength that no mortal could achieve.

With a crisp sound, the Kroot with a broken leg was forced to the ground by him, and the tactical knife in his hand quickly cut through its throat.

The Kroot people nearby rushed forward and tried to kill the genetically modified warrior.

If they were Astartes who had just been promoted from recruits, their actions might indeed pose a considerable threat, but it was different for Brother Korchagin.

He is a Raven Guard, a veteran Raven Guard from the Deathwatch.

He was well aware of the characteristics of these aliens, so he was able to specifically play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, and respond with swift close combat that was outstanding among the Astartes. His fists, feet, elbows, arms, and every inch of muscle became his weapon.

Every swing and collision of the Death Watch arm armor, which is wrapped in chains and shining silver, can bring a heart-wrenching death to the alien in the physical sense.

The two middle-aged Kroot looked at each other, then rushed forward together in unison, swinging their pulse rifles with swords at Brother Korchagin.

Pole!
Brother Korchagin crushed the head of the Kroot he caught with one hand, and the orange-yellow juice splashed everywhere, hanging on the eagle on his chest, sticky and disgusting.

Faced with the enemy's charge, he responded quickly.

boom!boom!
The large hands clamped down on the pulse rifle that was swinging towards his eyes and yanked it back.

puff!

The blade was thrust into another Kroot's giant eyeball, much to the surprise of the pulse rifle-wielding Kroot.

Just as the Death Watch Astartes was about to counterattack on another enemy, the Kroot behind him pounced on him.

The single-molecule tactical knife, which was the size of a machete for ordinary people, spun in his silver hand at a speed that was difficult for mortal eyes to see, dragging a shadow on his fingertips.

laugh!
Without turning his head, he accurately grabbed the tactical knife and stabbed the alien in the chest.

Astarte pushed the corpse behind him away with force and pulled out the tactical knife stained with orange blood from the corpse. When he was about to deal with the alien who was about to pull the trigger of the pulse rifle at him, the alien let go of the pulse rifle.

He took advantage of the situation to distance himself from him and threw the poisonous stinger from his hand at Brother Korchagin at an extremely fast speed.

The latter dodged sideways, and although he successfully avoided the despicable hidden weapon that could kill with one strike, Krut also pulled out his plasma ball bomb - he wanted to die with it.

Just as the Kroot were about to press the detonation switch.

"Meow meow!!!"

A half-cat girl pushed open the grille of the ventilation duct and fell from the sky.

The grille hit the Kroot, catching it off guard. The heavy grille continued to roll down, hitting its large webbed hands and knocking down the unactivated bomb. Yoyo followed closely, scratching the Kroot's face with its sharp hand claws, making threatening noises and shrinking its eyes into slits, looking very scary.

This sudden attack from the sky also happened to scare the Kroot people.

It screamed in horror, its face torn and bleeding.

In the past years of the Kroot's evolution, they, as bird-like aliens, once had a natural enemy, which was a cat-like alien like Yoyo.

The fear engraved in the DNA of these creatures triggers their most primitive risk-avoidance instinct when faced with attacks from such creatures.

The Kroot panicked and made the most primitive resistance amid the burning pain on their faces, slapping Yoyo in vain.

Brother Korchagin pulled the Kroot up, and the half-cat girl jumped away from the face of the panicked and bristling Kroot.

Astarte lifted the Kroot horizontally above his head, then shouted loudly and exerted force with both hands.

pat!

The Kroot's spine was broken and he let out a miserable cry. Without the support and connection of his bones, Astarte tore him in two at the waist with another strong tear.

He placed the body, which was broken into two pieces, on the deck, which was stained with orange blood, and shook off the residual liquid on his hands.

The Raven Guard wearing a raven-shaped helmet looked silently at the half-cat girl who was huddled aside, her fur still ruffled, staring at him with a wary look.

Then he slowly took off his helmet, revealing his face.

"Thank you for your help, Demi-human," he said.

When Yoyo saw that it was the big guy she had seen at the captain's dining table, her pupils changed from vertical to round.

"Oh, it's you. Hello, big guy." She was wearing the Epic crew uniform and still politely returned the greeting.

"Who taught you the hiding skill?" After thinking for a while, Brother Korchagin finally expressed his doubts.

"Yoyo doesn't have a teacher." Yoyo blinked and looked at Astarte with clear eyes:
"In the nest, if you don't have anything to eat, you will starve. You can only steal from the big house of the ugly and fierce fat man. The fat man is very fierce and fierce. Anyone who steals will die if he is caught by him."

"…You have talent, so it's best not to let it go to waste. If you ever want to learn how to infiltrate, you can come find me."

After saying this, Brother Korchagin put on his raven-shaped helmet again and gradually disappeared into the darkness.

Yoyo didn't quite understand what Brother Korchagin meant. She tilted her head and tried to think, and her tail behind her swayed naturally.

Finally, she shrugged, gave up thinking, decided to turn around and ask the captain directly, and then went back into the ventilation duct.
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A large group of fully armed Imperial Navy soldiers rushed into the Epic and, together with the Skitarii who blocked the Kroot's offensive like a solid shield, began to make a big dumpling.

The Epic had a complete onboard closed-circuit network. Horatio only needed to find a safe place and insert Iron Hand's dendrites into the bulkhead data hole for daily inspection and maintenance. He could then use his captain's authority to easily retrieve information from the ship's closed-circuit television network.

Although the entire interior of the Epic inherited the intricate design tradition of Imperial battleships, no one dared to say that he was really familiar with everything, but when he "ate" the information, the fog of war in each cabin faded away.

Horatio could easily see the situation in every cabin and corridor where there were probes, truly achieving the goal of "a captain should know his warship well".

In the dark vision, Horatio narrowed his eyes dangerously and looked at the Kroot chieftain who was leading his strong men to rush towards the bridge of the Epic.

They were very close. After wandering around for so long and suffering so many casualties, they finally found the approximate location of the bridge.

It's a pity that it wandered around in the battleship maze and took so much cost and time to find the bridge, while Horatio, the captain, only needed 10 minutes to get close to it.

"Sergeant Major Valina, bring the Hell Scouts and follow me. We will intercept the alien leader from a shortcut." His expression at this moment had turned into a sneer before the final hunt.

(End of this chapter)