Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 575 The New Type of Gadinar Tripod Walking Mech, with Performance Comparable to the War Dog Titan
By the fourth stellar month of 869, the legions had established a foothold in the mountains and begun a brutal offensive.

The Titan Legion, the "War Griffins," gladly answered the call of their ally, Lord Nimrod, and joined the battle.

In S-4 region, a Warlord-class Titan and two Marauder-class Titans traverse a wide, pioneering road.

As the captain of the Silver Monarch, a Titan of the Warrior class, Glasner felt the machine spirit's thirst for honor.

Despite having lost fourteen War Griffin-class and thirty-five Marauder-class Titans, he was not afraid.

He longed to exact revenge on the aliens in a duel, and even more so, he craved honor.

Inside the cockpit, Glasner, connected through the thought pulse unit, felt the yearning of the machine's soul.

"Silver King, we shall journey together."

"This may be our last battle. We will use the blood of aliens to nourish every piece of holy iron."

"Captain, the sensors have detected the target." The chief operations officer's voice rang out, immediately drawing Glassner's attention to the outside world.

"Calculate the trajectory."

"Calculation complete."

"Fire!"

At his command, the cannons on the arm of the Silver Monarch emitted a rapid surge of light.

A burst of blazing red light shot out and slammed into a pig-shaped alien overlord.

The individual energy shield was shattered instantly, and the alien evaporated in an instant.

Arcs of electricity shot up from the heads of countless pig-like creatures and hurtled toward Titan.

The sound of explosions, like the destruction of a power plant's control core, echoed around the void shield.

"Suppress fire!" With Glasner's command, Apocalypse missiles roared up from the shoulder of the Marauder-class Titan on the left.

A single salvo is equivalent to the firepower of a standard Imperial artillery battery, striking the alien positions.

Boom boom boom!
The inferno tore hundreds of pig-shaped aliens to shreds, splattering their blood everywhere.

The Titans strode forward in the firelight, the roars of golden griffins tearing through the thick fog, vortexes engulfing swathes of enemies.

Drop drop!
The piercing alarm echoed in the cockpit, and the Silver Monarch swayed violently.

"The plasma reactor was damaged, and its power dropped to 83.5 percent."

Upon hearing the chief operator's report, Glasner spoke angrily.

"A cunning alien; he knows our weaknesses."

"I'm going to deal with it myself." Glasner sensed the machine spirit's rage.

"Captain, we have lost our sensors."

The experienced captain quickly came up with a solution.

"Summarize the vision of the target machine servant."

"Execute the order, consolidate the aiming servant's field of vision..."

"Compiled."

Information flowed into Glasner's mind through the thought impulse unit, forming an image on his retina.

As Glasner turned his left arm, the arm of the Silver Sovereign moved accordingly.

A dazzling beam of light shot out and slammed into the Bone Eater.

The bone-eater's three arms unleashed blinding beams of light, hissing as they hurtled towards them.

Blinding light echoed between the two enormous creatures.

The Silver Monarch trembled violently, as if it were about to capsize at any moment.

But it did not fall; it strode resolutely toward the alien. Braving the beam attack, the Silver Monarch's power claws glowed with a blinding blue light.

"die!"

The Silver Monarch's claws hissed as it cleaved through the individual energy shields, then struck the flowerbed-like top of its head with another claw.

The Silver Monarch, billowing black smoke, swayed violently, and the chief operator nervously activated the gyroscope stabilizer.

The enormous, charred object stabilized after a series of shakes.

"Captain, we have won."

As the chief operator spoke, he turned around and saw Captain Glassner's pale face and the blood at the corner of his mouth.

Titan was damaged, and Captain Glassner also suffered serious injuries due to the influence of the mind-pulse link.

"The Silver King will prevail, and glory belongs to the Griffin."

At the same moment Glasner issued his declaration of victory, a fleet of three-legged walking mechs from the Second Squadron moved forward in Operation C-11.

Wilshire gazed at the new three-legged walking mechs, which were quite different from the Gadinal versions.

In the operations of the Bad Habits Sector, all acquired Gadinar walking mechs were deployed in battle.

The pilots' lives shone brightly in the "coffin," as they killed forty-six Bone Eaters and a large number of other aliens.

The technical sergeants collected combat data.

Despite the tight schedule, the Master of the Forge still completed the main task given to him by the Black Emperor—improving the cockpit.

The cramped, dark cockpit has been expanded to allow the pilot to feel like a human being inside.

With the expansion of the cockpit, the current three-legged walking mech is the same size as the Warhound-class Titan.

The energy system is forced to consume more energy for life support and other purposes, resulting in a slight decrease in firepower compared to other Titans of the same class.

But the lives of drivers have also been effectively extended, no longer belonging to the short-lived genetic caste.

One of the biggest advantages of the Titan pilots is that, thanks to the genetic caste technology of the Gadinars, the first generation of pilots who escaped their enslaved fate were able to quickly acquire piloting skills from their genes.

The training time was significantly reduced, much shorter than the average training time for Titan crew members.

The Gardinar people's production line was fully utilized after being modified, and the eleven worlds operating at full capacity provided strong support, enabling the manufacture of sixty-one walking mechs to be completed in five years.

Wilshire watched as twenty walking mechs moved through the mountains; their three-legged structure made them more agile and stable than the Warhound Titans.

A blinding light suddenly shot into his vision as a three-legged walking mech was pierced by three beams of light.

The experimental mechs did not have time for completely new improvements, nor did they attempt to use the plasma shields of the Knight Mechs or the shield-weaving technology of the Space Dwarves, let alone try to miniaturize the Void Shield.

They have no defense systems, only the Gardinar people they carry, and a sophisticated energy weapon system.

As the three-legged walking mechs twisted their bodies, beams of energy flowed rapidly.

Brilliant beams of energy shot up and rained down on the Bone Eater.

Bang bang bang!
Amidst a series of explosions, the spreading energy shockwaves tore apart the aliens surrounding the Bone Eater, evaporating the rocks into ashes.

As another tripod walking mech was reduced to ashes, the tripod walking mech launched a second attack.

The shooting beams of energy slammed into the bone-eater's head and upper body with a hissing sound.

Eighteen light holes appeared on the towering ancient tree-like body.

The light spread rapidly across the Bone Eater, and its green body melted and disappeared.

Wilshire watched as the metal arm slammed heavily to the ground, thinking to himself.

The new type of three-legged walking mech was successfully tested.

Other legions lack the capacity to mass-produce similar weapons to combat the Bone Eaters.

The Mechanicus's Warlord-class Titans, on average, couldn't achieve a one-for-one trade with the Bone Eaters; over thirty Titan legions have already been destroyed.
(End of this chapter)