Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 567 06.0566: "Light of Dawn"

"Look at me, bastard!" Horatio cursed viciously when he came to his senses.

Arabella's consecration bomb flew past his ear.

The bullet infused with holy water exploded with silver flames on the demon's forehead, causing the abomination's mental clamp on him to relax for a moment.

Horatio took the opportunity to roll away, and with a heart-wrenching scream, he turned his head and found that the Punishment Mech had been entangled by the growing flesh and blood vines.

The tentacles extending from the wall were frantically injecting pink-purple mucus into the body of the Redeemer imprisoned in the mecha. The servo motors in the joints of the mecha entangled by the gelatinous flesh and blood vines made an overloaded wail.

“0111010101“Error!”“Error!”…

Chaos Corruption Detected! Initiating Ultimate Protocol! Self-Destruct Protocol Activated!"

As the Mechanicus' binary prayer hummed, a blood-red light suddenly burst out from the eyes of the prisoners on the Punishment Mech.

"Connection confirmed! Pain is the blessing of the God-Emperor." A cold mechanical voice sounded, and the hot-melt core built into the mecha flashed a light.

"Captain! Watch out! It's going to self-destruct!"

At Sister Arabella's prompting, Horatio retreated into the protective force field of the Icon's Holy Light.

The demon host sensed the threat, and the six spinal whips suddenly gathered into a cocoon to protect itself.

But it could only protect itself - after a flash of blinding white light, the organic growth layer in the entire corridor was completely carbonized, and the air was filled with ashes.

This unexpected change also disrupted the demon host's posture.

"Get out of my battleship...!" Horatio drove the Iron Hand, and with the enhanced power of the Power Fist and the perception of the predicted moves by the omen fragments, he swung the chainsword and charged forward again.

This time, the sword finally penetrated the chest of the unsuspecting demon without any hindrance, but it felt dull when it touched a hard object.

He saw a heart gleaming with a crystal-like luster beneath the tight gelatinous muscles. Every beat refracted a kaleidoscope of enchanting colors, and every refracted light weaved a new fable of decadence.

Arabella, holding a flamethrower pistol, attacked from the flank: "That is the psychic core of the demon host! It must be reduced to ashes! We must..."

The voice of the pure angel stopped abruptly.

Horatio turned his head and was horrified to find that all the movements of the Pure Angels had stopped in an instant - in Horatio's eyes, rose vines emerged from the gaps in their armor, and the peak hormone secretion data of friendly units were scrolling frantically on the visor display screen.

A smile appeared on the demon host's mutilated face, and its vocal cords vibrated the entire ship structure: "Welcome to the eternal feast, little sparks."

"This is my battleship, you bastard should get out!"

In a rage, his iron hand loosened the hilt of the chainsaw sword, and he gathered his fingers into a cone, piercing through the tight gelatinous flesh and blood, and stabbed into the chest cavity of the demon host.

The moment the fingertips touched the psychic core, mottled purple stripes began to appear on the surface of the entire iron hand, and the corrupted grids grew at a speed visible to the naked eye. The warning prompts continued to echo in Horatio's mind.

The urgent warning made his heart tighten, as if his heart was being suffocated by a devil's claw.

But in order to control his mind at the critical moment and not let this evil spirit invade his heart and usurp his reason, he pretended to be calm on his face and silently recited the words of consecration from the "Words of the Emperor".

The rose beads swinging around the waist were doing their best to protect the owner's body from evil energy. Their color changed from the original silver-white to purple and black, and they were almost unable to hold on.

At the critical moment, he finally spoke.

"You made a mistake." He forced a smile, letting the warp energy linger on the surface of the iron hand. "You are indeed an evil spirit of the High Heaven, but my iron hand is not ordinary either."

『Confirmed: Son of Darkness』『Status: Activated』

Energy: 3/9

『Psychic Power: 4/9』

Corruption: 6/9

"Soul Fire: 13360/15614"

"Warning: High psychic energy environment detected, corruption is rising! Estimated to reach the danger threshold in 6 minutes! Please leave the high psychic energy environment as soon as possible! "

Starting from now and slowly rising to level 9, it will take at least 6 minutes at the current rate of increase.

And these six minutes of continuous suppression of corruption might be enough for him to deal with this Warp evil at this close range.

[May the Divine Emperor and Patriarch Speyer bless you...]
Activate: Power Fist

As the kinetic device built into the Iron Fist roared as the "Power Fist" was activated, Horatio grabbed it with one hand and forcibly pulled the psychic core out of the mortal body that had become a hollow shell.

The psychic core that was forcibly stripped away screamed like mental pollution in the air.

Horatio used his last bit of strength to throw the evil black and purple heart at Arabella: "Use the consecrated fire! Burn it!"

When the demon host's heart was taken out, Arabella and the other Angels of Justice were able to break free from mental control, the illusion in front of Horatio disappeared, and the purple rose on the Angel of Justice's silver armor seemed to have never existed from the beginning to the end.

Golden flames spurted out from Arabella's fingertips and rushed towards the heart that was flying into the air.

When the psychic core passed through the blazing pillar of psychic fire, most of the people present held their heads in agony, the loud noise of millions of souls wailing at the same time created a huge wave in their minds.

The demon host's body began to collapse, and its six compound eyes exploded one after another.

Before disappearing completely, Horatio heard an ethereal female voice that spanned dimensions whispering, "Your soul... is delicious... we will... meet again... Son of Darkness... Successor of the Corpse King... The balancer of this world... Your soul will eventually belong to Sally... Hahahahaha!"

The voice seemed very familiar to him, so familiar that he himself seemed to have seen it somewhere before.

Also at this moment.

After banishing this demon.

Horatio was sweating and panting, his heart pounding, as if he had been awakened from a nightmare. A... horrible, long nightmare.

As he was gasping for breath, he wiped the sweat from his forehead and found that after his iron hand absorbed the soul fire of the demon host, it increased the progress of the soul fire by a large grid, allowing him to upgrade again.

In addition, a new skill branch called "Subspace Advancer" also emerged.

"Subspace Advancer (Primary): When the user performs a subspace jump, or his vehicle performs a subspace shuttle, the time consumed is reduced by 15%; when an emergency subspace jump is performed, the probability of "getting lost in the subspace" is reduced by 15%."

[A good skill. For a captain of an Imperial Navy attack ship who needs to use subspace jumps to ensure his elusiveness, this skill is very useful.

Especially after upgrading to a high level, it is extremely meaningful for oneself and even the fleet under one's command to greatly save the subspace navigation time, and the unexpected attack carried out by oneself will also have significant results. ]
After some comparison and thought, Horatio chose to activate this skill on the branch tree.

He believed that it wouldn't be long before the blessing brought by this skill would come in handy.

Just as this skill glowed with a black-gold luster after being activated by Horatio, the voice of First Captain Archie was clearly heard from the rose beads that had restored communication:
"Captain! The Crosby family reports that we have broken through the subspace turbulence! We see the light of the Astronomican!"

(End of this chapter)