Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 992 (08.991): The Battle for the Control Tower

"Requesting fire support! Requesting fire support!"

"There are enemies moving around the corner! Use grenades to force them back!"

"Cover my left flank! I'm advancing!"

The airport control tower's ground floor hall had now been transformed into a bloody meat grinder.

The smell of blood and gunpowder mingled in this enclosed building.

High-energy laser beams, like deadly red spider webs, crisscross wildly in a wide space, and each flash could mean the loss of a life.

The marble floor was already pitted and cratered by the explosion and shrapnel, and the shattered reinforced glass and twisted alloy office furniture formed simple yet deadly obstacles.

The Hell Soldiers who assault the tower are clad in the Empire’s finest mortal armor, armed with the deadliest weapons the arsenal can provide, along with an almost unlimited supply of grenades and various throwables.

However, the control tower was filled with Severus's rebels, who were on high alert.

Their sheer numbers, combined with the sturdy internal structures of their makeshift fortifications, transformed this open area into a death zone.

Valina knew that a forced assault would only result in unnecessary casualties.

She quickly devised a multi-pronged encirclement tactic. At the same time, she dispatched one of her most skilled, daring, and experienced veteran subordinates as a suicide squad to break through the enemy's defenses from the front.

A senior sergeant major, wearing a scarlet beret strapped to his shoulder armor with a Molle strap, slowly emerged from the billowing smoke and flames.

He wore heavy assault-type power armor, with an additional piece of homemade laminated steel armor cut from warship armor hanging in front of him.

He walked with extraordinary heaviness, like a moving sculpture.

The power backpack roared laboriously, its heat dissipation efficiency maximized to drive the transmission support exoskeleton and assist the wearer in wielding such heavy armor.

He held a Gatling-style laser rapid-fire cannon, usually only used by naval boarding force heavy gunners, with its six barrels spinning at high speed driven by miniature motors, emitting a teeth-grinding hum.

He was the warhammer that pierced the enemy's heart.

Om-!
The Gatling-style laser cannon unleashed devastating firepower at a terrifying rate of 3400 rounds per minute, firing directly forward.

The weak laser guns in the hands of the Severus soldiers were completely ineffective against the thick layer of terracotta armor.

His face was almost flawless at this moment.

The heavy weapons and additional armor he wore were each carried by several Hell Soldiers before the parachute drop, and were assembled for him after landing.

Its ferocious rate of fire and terrifying armor, almost like a miniature Astartes, make it virtually unstoppable in close-quarters combat, like a dump truck.

Behind him followed closely the Hellsoldier, providing flank cover.

Further back, several scouts were equipped with grenade launchers used by the boarding grenadiers as their secondary weapons, ready to provide indirect fire support at any time.

Severus's soldiers were pinned down behind the marble service counter, alloy office cabinets, and the Thinker array by the extremely high rate of fire.

They frantically requested reinforcements, but their shouts sounded utterly powerless against the shockwaves generated by the high-frequency laser beam tearing through the air. "Hold on! Hold on! The shockwave corps is coming to our aid!"

A group of better-equipped Severus shock troops rushed down the stairs from the second floor.

They quickly built a new line of defense at the corner of the stairs, relying on the sturdy railing.

Some of them were even equipped with the Focused Shock Hellfire Gun—a weapon that fires a high-energy laser beam with a powerful shockwave, strong enough to knock back an Astartes warrior in power armor, and enough to knock down a mortal in one blow. In close combat, being knocked down means death.

Their captain held up two fingers, pointing at the heavily armored warrior who was slowly walking out of the corridor, a figure resembling a mobile fortress.

Several shock soldiers immediately began to aim, the barrels of their weapons emitting an ominous red glow due to the gathering of energy.

Valina immediately spotted the several unusually bright heat sources using the tactical thermal imaging system built into her power armor helmet.

"Team Two! Take out the high-threat target I marked!"

As she spoke, the target lock in her goggles had already landed on the head of one of the shock soldiers.

She calmly pulled the trigger, and a high-energy laser beam precisely blew his head off.

The scouts advancing alongside her immediately opened fire with rapid-fire mode, launching a calm and deadly suppressive barrage at the top of the stairs.

Although the Severus Shock Soldiers wore better armor than ordinary soldiers, the Hellfire Gun's terrifying power could easily pierce their flesh, even without using its high-penetration mode.

Therefore, although both sides appear to be equipped with similar weapons, Hellsoldier only needs to use its absolute rate of fire to launch a fierce attack and suppress the enemy, unlike Severus Shock Trooper who has to carefully consider how to effectively penetrate the enemy's defenses.

Several Hell Soldiers simultaneously fired at the stairwell, high-energy laser beams striking the marble railing, burning large white marks and scattering stone chips everywhere.

The shock troops abandoned the foolish idea of ​​exchanging fire, but they knew that if the intruders wanted to get upstairs, they would have to use this only staircase! They had already blocked the elevator leading to the upper floor with heavy objects.

Boom!dong dong!

Several crisp, muffled thuds completely shattered the illusions of the Severus shock troops.

Three high-explosive grenades roared out of the launcher, tracing precise parabolic arcs through the air.

The Hell Soldier, equipped with a grenade launcher, retrieved his Hell Gun, took the grenade launcher from his back, and fired a high-explosive fragmentation grenade towards the corner of the stairs.

A series of violent explosions rang out, followed by a waterfall of scarlet blood flowing down the stairwell, accompanied by severed limbs and fragments emitting black smoke as they rolled down with a "plop plop".

Valina seized the opportunity to rush into the hall, performed a tactical roll, and hid behind a fallen alloy filing cabinet.

She raised her gun and decisively opened fire on a Severus shock soldier on the second floor who was leaning out and preparing to shoot downwards.

A piercing scream rang out, and a human body emitting blue smoke tumbled over the fence and plummeted heavily from above, landing sprawled on the ground with a loud thud, its warm blood staining the shattered tiles beneath it.

Having gained a precious moment to catch her breath, Valina looked out through the arched glass window, several meters high and already shattered, at the battlefield shrouded in a hail of bullets and the roar of aircraft, and let out a long sigh.

Suddenly, she saw bursts of light shooting into the sky on the distant horizon. Her extensive military experience immediately told her that a larger and more brutal conflict must have taken place there.

(End of this chapter)