Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 319 Mind Control Breaks the Nerve Collar

The expeditionary fleet remained calm, as the Primarch had already warned Randan about the tactics before the battle.

In the fleet's simulated sanctuary, officers on each warship were making rapid calculations.

All duplicate ship readings were counted repeatedly, two, three, and so on.

After hundreds of calculations, all the enemy ships that overlapped with the expeditionary fleet were identified.

The expeditionary fleet launched a counterattack.

The remaining dozens of warships, including the Shadow of Royal Power, launched an attack on the Randan warship.

Ninglu noted that, due to the numerical superiority of the Randan warships, they held an absolute advantage in the devastating naval gun battles.

Many more warships are unable to perform large-scale jumps because their real-world anchor points are already occupied and their subspace vectors are interfered with by the shadows.

The warships, eager to return to reality, were unable to join the battle on a large scale. Only the captains risked their lives to direct the warships to enter the vortex-Morse in a few scattered ways.

Ninglu did not issue an order for the Glory Queen-class battleship to break into the enemy fleet and tear open a gap using its stronger void shield.

While this was the most effective method in the past, there are now better options.

The Ramirez-class Starfortress demonstrated its true nature as a fleet killer, unleashing a terrifying barrage of guns at the Randan warships.

A dense barrage of gunfire from the side guns covered dozens of enemy ships.

The exploding shells, like melting fingers, gripped the Randan warships, crushing them one by one.

The first wave of attacks by the Ramirez-class Starfortress destroyed twelve enemy ships, five of which were equivalent to Imperial capital ships.

The Starfortress attack tore a gap in the Randan fleet, and the terrifying firepower immediately drew retaliatory attacks from enemy ships, who were both terrified and enraged.

More than a hundred Randan warships locked onto the Ramirez, their Shadow Bombers roaring as they unleashed a dense barrage of white lightning at the Star Fortress.

Dense white lightning bolts rained down on the shields of the North, West, and East districts like a storm.

Compared to the Ramirez-class star fortress that Lucius is building on Mars and the Forge World, the version named Vostoria is far more powerful.

The entire Ramirez-class fortress is comparable to a small satellite, with each quadrant containing a hive-sized structure protected by a fortress-class energy shield more powerful than the Void Shield.

Its heart is composed of multiple punishment-level reactors, capable of supporting the void behemoth's near-unlimited demand for energy.

The fortress-level energy shield flickered continuously amidst the devastating barrage of dense electric shocks, yet it never became overloaded.

The Ramirez responded to the foolish alien warships that dared to challenge it with a barrage of bullets.

Each devastating barrage destroyed a dozen or so alien warships.

The Imperial fleet advanced under the cover of fire from the Ramirez-class star fortress.

Their vacated positions allowed more and more black warships to join the battlefield.

On the second day of the Void War, the number of expeditionary fleet warships that entered the star system was already comparable to the remaining Randan warships.

After confirming that the Imperial Fleet had gained an absolute advantage, Ninglu rose from his command throne.

"Prepare to board."

He intends to seize a Randan capital ship as a trophy to study the technology of falsifying readings and the Shadow Blast.

The Glory Queen-class battleship recklessly rammed into the fleeing Randan fleet, launching a barrage of gauntlet-shaped assault boats at a nearly unscathed alien capital ship.

The pilots pushed the rocket engines and afterburners to maximum power, and the gauntlet-shaped assault boats charged toward the Randan warship at incredible speed.

Compared to other methods such as boarding torpedoes, the biggest advantage of the gauntlet-shaped assault boat is its speed and protection, while its disadvantage is its range.

Because of Nimrod's presence, the gauntlet assault boat he was on, which could originally carry ten Astartes, now only has six additional Order Shadows.

Porti, a member of the 7th Order of the Cataclysm, was one of them. He earned his place in the Honor Guard thanks to his outstanding performance in the Battle of Incaladion.

The price he paid was that all the salamander meat he was allocated ended up in his Katachon wolf's belly.

Porti was excited to be fighting alongside the father of genetics for the first time.

His body was pinned to the seat by several retractable inertial restraint clamps, awaiting the moment of impact.

The pilot in the cockpit kept pulling the control stick.

The black gauntlet-shaped assault boat dodged attacks from the Shadow Destroyer, weaving through white lightning bolts.

On the display screen in front of the pilot, the distance numbers rapidly decreased: 194 kilometers... 85 kilometers... 3 kilometers.

A bolt of lightning struck the cockpit.

The bulletproof shields crackled and flickered, and the entire gauntlet-shaped assault boat shook violently.

The pilot's gaze was resolute as he shouted, "Prepare for an impact!"

The assault ram slammed into the Randan warship like a heavy punch wearing a boxing glove.

The front and upper parts of the gauntlet smashed through the spikes, and the assault boat slammed into the Randan warship due to inertia.

A massive, molten metal jet spewed forth blazing flames, slamming into the ship's hull and burning a crack in it.

The two Fiery Flame missile launchers on the wings fired a dense barrage of bullets at the Randan alien.

Ninglu spread his golden wings and leaped out of the gauntlet-shaped assault boat first.

From the air, he saw countless large, grotesque, fur-covered wolf-headed men commanding human slaves to launch attacks. Each human wore a collar around their neck.

Ninglu knew that it was a neural collar, which was how the Randan Xenomorph enslaved countless humans.

The Primarch's consciousness spread out instantly, his thoughts reaching out to each and every human slave like tentacles.

Nimrod unearthed many mysteries from the mind of the Osiris Mind Controlling Seed, enabling him to perform more sophisticated operations in mind control.

A psionic tentacle formed from a thought probed into the mind of a emaciated human slave clad in yellow armor.

The nerve collar worn around the neck of human slaves, a metal ring around the back of the neck, has a metal nail embedded in the spine.

The metal nails were crafted by Randan's psionic artisans, and the psionic field they emitted pierced the minds of the human slaves.

When the Randan alien uses psychic energy to issue commands, the psychic energy fluctuations stimulate the neural collar, forcing the slaves to obey.

In this way, Ran Dan was able to enslave countless races to make up for his lack of manpower.

The consciousness spread out by the Primarch of Genes, its tentacles piercing into the enslaved consciousness of humanity, collided with the psionic field.

The moment the psionic energies collided, the Primarch immediately gained the upper hand.

His countless psionic tentacles lashed at the neural collars that bound the human slaves' brains, shattering them.

Thump thump thump…

One by one, humans fell to the ground.

Nimrod drew the Spear of Dionysus and infused it with psionic energy.

The spear whistled as it struck the overlord's personal energy shield, which was taller than the other wolf-headed, humanoid aliens.

Ran Dan Overlord's personal energy shield crackled and then shattered to his disbelief.

Ninglu channeled his spiritual power, pushing his palms repeatedly, creating a series of amber-colored viscous liquids that enveloped several human slaves.

He deliberately reserved several human slaves, without stunning them, and used "imprisonment" to bind them in order to study the complete neural collar.

Porti, who rushed into the ship via the hull slide, raised his explosive gun and launched an attack on the alien.

With a deafening roar, the explosion tore the alien's body apart.

Six honor guards focused their fire, killing a Randan warrior, when suddenly a dark shadow flashed in their eyes.

The Ran Dan warrior leaped swiftly, his crystal sword, gleaming with light, piercing the abdomen of a black-armored warrior in front of him.

Polti recognized him as a member of the Honor Guard from the Tenth Chapter.

He and other members of the honor guard immediately unleashed a barrage of bullets at the Randan warriors.

The bombs hissed as they struck the gleaming energy shield.

Boom boom boom!
The energy field rippled like waves, and sparks flew everywhere.

Polti saw yet another member of the Honor Guard beheaded by the alien with a single sword strike. He slung his explosive gun over his shoulder and drew his sharp, bird-headed, half-serrated power sword.

He swung his demonic claws, the charged blade spinning rapidly, striking the Randan warrior's personal energy shield with the seventh cleaving technique of "Osberh-Vaya".

The Randan warriors wielded their serrated crystal swords and launched a fierce attack.

The energy fields of the two weapons collided, and the bursts of energy light converged and then immediately separated.

Polti was forced to retreat repeatedly by the fierce attacks of the Randan warriors.

He narrowly avoided the attack and launched a counterattack with all his might. His charged sword struck the energy shield several times, but failed to cause any damage.

Despite the unfavorable situation, he did not lose confidence.

Before and after becoming a shadow of order, Polti encountered dangerous creatures in the forests of Katachán.

He repeatedly triumphed over the strong with the weak, hunting down powerful creatures.

Polti knew that every powerful creature has a weakness.

He calmly and patiently searched for an opportunity. After dozens of strikes, when he narrowly avoided another vicious sword, his eyes suddenly became deep and profound.

Polti immediately seized the weakness of the Randan warrior. He ducked to avoid the fierce slash and charged his sword towards the enemy's right leg.

The disintegrating force field cleaved through the crack in the energy shield and pierced the right leg of the Randan warrior.

[I awakened the "Warp Insight" taught to me by my father.]
Polti used the second backhand thrust of "Osberh-Vaya," his power sword spinning like a serpent, dodging the intercepting crystal blades and piercing the abdomen of the Randan warrior.

With a loud bang, the body of the Ran Dan warrior fell to the ground.

Ninglu led his team forward, gathering more and more members of the Honor Guard. At the same time, the flagship of the Eighth Battle Group, the Blade, also launched boarding torpedoes at the locked target under the order of Thierry Vieira.

Pierre, grandson of Mika Wright, the chief swordsman of Cassell, was among the first to become a member of the Shadow of Order from Cassell.

His family's exceptional swordsmanship allowed him to demonstrate his abilities even during his time as a recruit.

As the captain, he led the assault team in a boarding maneuver against the Randan warship.

Fifty boarding torpedoes, hidden among a dense array of torpedoes, bombarded the Randan warship.

(End of this chapter)