Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 459 Nemesis-Type Patrol Knight

Ninglu's golden wings closed, and dozens of particle weapons shot out at the living metal, only to be deflected.

With a flap of his wings, he instantly flew to the head of a three-legged mech.

The sword of Vaal swung, a blue-white light flashed, and the heavy metal head fell to the ground.

After landing, Ning Lu continued his attack to the left without stopping.

At the same time, he still had the energy to look at the knight mech of Gios Veroni that had suddenly appeared on his right.

At Nimrod's behest, the sages of Mezoa built a precious Nemesis-type wandering knight for Geos.

In memory of the family of Veroni, who annihilated the native false god of their home planet, the second moon of Dametus III, Gios named it the God Eater.

The name is exactly the same as the one in Tong Ninglu's memory, except that the construction time was more than a century earlier.

Subsequently, Rosicky Cech replaced the God Eater's reactor with a Heavenly Punishment-class reactor, making up for the only shortcoming of the Nemesis-type Ranger.

The Nemesis-type Cruiser's reactor is unstable and prone to radiation leakage.

Most pilots underwent cybernetic modifications by the Mechanicus to reduce their flesh and blood percentage and avoid death from radiation in battle.

The ion barrier of the Devourer withstood a barrage of particle beams fired from the three-legged walking mech.

As a custom-designed mech from the Mechanics Guild, it is equipped with a large amount of powerful technological equipment, enabling it to engage a wide range of targets, from light infantry to super-heavy tanks.

Unlike other knight mechs with ion shields, the Nemesis-type Ranger's body is completely encased in a particle curtain.

It requires no active control and has stronger defensive capabilities.

Geos sensed the burning fighting spirit of the machine soul, which, like him, yearned to prove its strength in battle.

With a sudden thought, he increased the magnification of the oracle and added thermal detection filters layered on the standard view.

Runes danced across his retina as the Prince of Veroni rapidly read the scrolling messages.

Gios activated the communicator and guided Veroni's knight mech.

"Thirty-four targets, the enemy formation is dense, and they are under heavy fire."

He raised his right arm, and the lightning cannon shot out a dazzling arc of electricity 580 meters away in the direction of one o'clock.

Without waiting for feedback or for the lightning cannon to recharge, Gios strode forward.

He longed to repay Lord Nimrod for rescuing Dametus and to seize glory from the master he served.

Gios's desire was transmitted through the neural link to his mechanical throne, the reactor of the Devourer roared and howled, and the Hades' siege claw on his left arm roared as it tore through the shield.

The lowered twin flamethrowers spew out molten flames.

The pilot of the three-legged mech, Gadinar, was instantly engulfed in flames.

The surrounding three-legged mechs immediately focused their firepower on the Devourer, launching an attack on the Devourer, which had broken into their lines and was charging like a bull.

Gios raised the automatic signal flag to its highest point and held his touch glove high.

"For Veroni, for the King."

"Loyalty and honor!"

The Hades' siege claws slashed down, smashing through the particle light blades.

The passionate voice of Knight Veroni rang out from the communicator.

"For Veroni, for the King."

"Loyalty and honor!"

The shouts subsided. Unlike other families, the Veroni knights did not shout frequently during battle; they were more somber.

The knight mech fired a second barrage at the target, and Geos's oracle was filled with flashes.

The signal device crackled in the gale, and the Devourer strode forward, its body turning in the process, tearing apart the enemy's side with its Hades Siege Claws.

Through the strategic map, Geos saw the runes of the Veroni Knights rapidly approaching, launching an attack on the enemy.

He also noted that Veroni's runes were still below and were decreasing, indicating that the three-legged walking mechs still had a numerical advantage.

Gios knew that without the Primarch personally leading his guard to attack the enemy, Knight Veroni had no chance of achieving victory on his own. Although Veroni's green runes were steadily rising on the strategic map, it was still a fierce battle.

Gios decided to launch a new attack to gain the upper hand, and he shouted the order into the communicator.

"Relic maintainers, I need you to provide maintenance promptly."

Behind the Veroni Knight mech, after the High Relic Veboss replied to his prince, he focused intently on real-time data updates and monitored 142 systems.

In addition to repairing and training the knights in the family territory, Veroni deployed all the mechs currently available to join the expedition.

His responsibility was to monitor the battlefield situation while preserving Veroni's strength as much as possible.

To this end, the High Relic Guardian uses some of its mental computing capabilities for communication between the Creepers and the Communicator Network, covering both the Veroni Communication Network and the Allied Network.

Most of the computing power was used to continuously monitor various parameters of the Veroni mech:

Mech shell integrity, shield strength, system operation status...

The High Relic Vyborg saw that Veroni's knights formed a spearhead centered on the signal flag of the Devourer of Gods.

Green spears, in perfect unison, thrust towards the enemy's heavily fortified positions.

The runes from both sides flashed wildly, filling his eyes like a meteor shower.

The gray and green runes disappeared rapidly, like fireworks.

Among the many runes, the brightest one was the Devourer of Gods, while the other green runes, in groups of five, crashed into the gray rune.

In the midst of the intertwined tearing and biting, some or two will be broken.

The God Eater ventures alone into the gray center, while the surrounding enemies disappear one by one.

After the gray runes faded, star-like runes flashed wildly, and orange and red filled his eyes.

One of the runes lit up in the center of his eyes, and the bird divination instrument of the high-level holy relic, the Vives, immediately focused highly, with most of its computing power analyzing and displaying the priority target.

His primary monitoring target was naturally the Devourer, which was also the primary task he assigned to the Crawler Machine Soul.

After consuming five megabytes of computation, the High Relic Guardian completed the data analysis.

The ion curtain system is damaged.

The Blessed Automatic Repair Icon has been activated; the Devourer's mechs are now self-repairing non-fatal damage.

The High Relic Guardian was reassigned, and the computational load allocated to the Devourer was higher than normal.

He turned on his communicator and first sent a reminder to the Devourer.

“Prince Geos, you must stop and restart the ion curtain.”

At the same time, he selected the most damaged knight mechs for his crawlers and assigned them tasks.

"Car number two, Kuzhu".

"..."

The voice of the High Relic Vivetor brought Gios back to reality. He loosened his grip on the touch gloves, allowing his slightly trembling arm to gradually calm down.

He examined the strategic distribution map again and smiled when he saw the green runes flip over onto the gray ones.

Gios gripped the touch glove again, and the feedback from the machine spirit told him that he could rejoin the battle.

Just as he was about to launch a new offensive, the voice of the High-Ranking Holy Relic Protector suddenly rang out in the communication channel.

"An anomaly detected."

Gios's bird divination instrument immediately focused on the target marked by the high-level holy relic, Viborg. Countless flashes of light streaked past, the image updated in real time, vibrated violently, and then disappeared at an angle.

Prince Veroni watched in horror as more than twenty green runes vanished in an instant.

Gios was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses and looked at the restored gray runes, seeing the three-legged mechanical body displayed on the screen.

His eyes widened involuntarily, and he murmured:

"what is that?"

(End of this chapter)