Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 606 06.0605: "Use magic to defeat technology"

In the dangerous battlefield where energy beams and explosive arrows were flying everywhere, the air was filled with a tense and depressing atmosphere.

But this oppressive atmosphere could not take away Horatio's calmness as he thought about his response strategy.

[Since becoming the captain of the Epic, I have been fighting in a situation where the enemy is in the open and I am in the dark. Now the situation is reversed. So, if I put myself in their shoes, what kind of situation should the Epic avoid when it activates the Shadow Field?]
[…Yes.]
He quickly turned around and looked at the psychic girl behind him: "Xiaomei, I need you."

This novel address made Mei Lun unable to react at first. She was immersed in her own thoughts. When she realized that the young man in front of her was calling her, she raised her head with a little surprise, with a trace of doubt on her face, as if asking: "Captain, are you calling me?"

"I need your strength."

"How can I help you?" she responded hastily, feeling a little ashamed and scared for her previous neglect.

"Listen, there are two tasks that only you can complete."

Seeing that the girl looked a little nervous, Horatio took off his helmet with one hand and gently patted the girl's thin shoulder with the other hand. He looked into her eyes and said, "You are the key to the success of our entire operation."

"Please give the order, Captain, I will definitely complete it!" Melon's hand holding the staff turned slightly white due to the force, and the hesitation in his eyes was gradually replaced by determination.

"Xiaomei, do you have any psychic power that can be released over a wide area?"

"I'm currently trying to master a large-scale psionic spell that's...not very controllable."

“Can you show it to me?”

"Yes, but I suggest that you keep your warriors under the protection of the power of faith, otherwise serious accidental injuries may occur."

[Is it so horrible?] Horatio complained in his mind.

"Okay, help me use the astropathic communication to contact the Epic, and have the boarding team replace it with a Holy Rose Angel who can use the power of faith. The power backpack must carry the Holy Light Force Field Generator of the Shrine."

"Yes, Captain!" Melon closed his eyes and transmitted the cold psychic power to his cane. The psychic power flickered with a faint light, like a star in the night sky. Although weak, it was full of hope.

"Activation: Psionic Attunement (Primary): Consume one grid of energy, and you can manipulate and utilize all low- and medium-level psionic powers within a 25-meter radius around you for a period of time, while increasing (for psionicists) or decreasing (for soulless ones) two grids of corruption."

Horatio raised his iron hand and tried to synchronize a little bit of power with the Alpha Psychic in front of him, and the corruption bar immediately rose by two bars.

Corruption: 7/9
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At the launch platform, the Shark assault boat was preparing to launch, and a tense atmosphere filled the air.

Suddenly, the ongoing launch process was urgently stopped.

After some communication, the scheduled boarding location was redefined, and several combat nuns carrying heavy shrine holy light generators replaced the shotgunners with bolters.

"Boarding assault! Start!" With the order, the Shark assault boat flew towards the 'Red October' with a blue wake.

In Red October.

As the Hell's Vanguard Assault Team headed towards the energy cabin, they pushed aside the burnt corpse on the operating table and quickly entered the override code.

Click, boom!

As the sound of a power outage echoed in the cabin, everything fell into darkness.

"What are humans doing? They actually cut off the power themselves." This made the fire warriors in the stealth combat suits very confused.

"We already have optical stealth, and darkness will only make our operations more convenient - turn on thermal imaging."

The leader of the Fire Warrior Special Operations Team issued a command. Beep, beep! A swarm of tactical drones equipped with scanners flew towards them.

Their flight paths are neat and orderly.

Beep! The egg-shaped mecha looked at the flying scanning tactical drone bee and felt very familiar with it. The external perception camera on the combat suit did not find any problems at first, until...

A Fire Warrior assault member saw the enlarged drone in his combat uniform, with the Empire's iconic mark of purity floating on it.

There was a flash of astonishment in his eyes.

"There's something wrong with these tactical drone bees!" he shouted in panic.

Buzz! The stealth combat suit immediately raised the energy burst gun and pointed it at the tactical drone bee, with a dangerous light flashing at the muzzle.

A magnetic levitation sound suddenly sounded from behind it. It was a servo skull floating in the air with an inscription engraved on its forehead.

The skull slammed into the invisible combat suit at such a fast speed that the AI ​​had no time to react.

"Cough cough!" The Fire Warrior operator felt his body shake violently, and the UI in front of him showed that some limbs of the combat suit were damaged, but it was not to the level of completely losing combat effectiveness.

Just as he recovered from the attack and tried to destroy the strange drone on his forehead, a fully charged plasma beam hit it.

A large black hole appeared on the white egg body, and the combat suit shook and fell down.

"Kill one!" Valina was wearing the black cloak given to them by Brother Korchagin. This was a cloak produced by the Raven Guard using a unique craftsmanship. It could hide itself in a variety of environments and greatly reduce the probability of being detected in a dark environment.

Each of these elite soldiers specially trained by Brother Korchagin was equipped with such a night-time stealth cloak.

The scouts were like ghosts in the night, quietly approaching the enemy and delivering a fatal blow.

"Now we can compete fairly, asshole." Valina cursed with a sneer and began to charge up for the next round.

Although these stealth combat suits have excellent optical stealth effects, in the pure darkness, the Hell's Vanguards gave up the traditional visual combat method.

'You have the technology, but I can't?'

They released a servoskull designed by Latti from the Hell Sniper's power backpack. The skull was equipped with an auspex, a psychic radar that could reveal the enemy's position at short range, just like turning on X-ray vision.

Although the scan lasted for a short time, the moment the Hell's Vanguards saw the outline of the golden psychic markings, the detected stealth combat suits were marked with the familiar red color.

"Captain, can you see our position?!" The Hell's Vanguards, who were once suppressed by the invisible combat suits, finally saw the dawn of victory.

Although the two sides could not establish real-time communication due to interference, the Hell's Spies knew that the captain could see their every move.

[Although Psychic Synchronization cannot be applied to a strong target like an Alpha-class Psychic, it is still possible to temporarily expand the range of the Hand of Command by borrowing some "scraps".]
After borrowing a certain amount of psychic energy from Melon, Horatio was able to finally see the situation of Louise and Valina from a bird's-eye view.

They sent a team to cut off the power supply, while others used cloaks to spread out and hide in the surrounding area, using tactical drone bees and servo skulls to engage in special warfare with the enemy in the dark environment.

And they actually managed to ambush and destroy two stealth combat suits that came too close to them.

"Reinforcements have arrived!" Sister Arabella's voice came from behind, accompanied by the whistling of explosive arrows cutting through the air. The advancing combat uniforms immediately stopped, turned their guns, and fired at the incoming imperial reinforcements.

(End of this chapter)