Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 362 Gene Ascension Warrior
At this moment, Fletcher looked confident of victory.

The surviving Ultramarines, the Rangers, began firing at the extinction remnants.

Guilliman's honor guard desperately stood in front of him.

Bombs, spikes, plasma and other types of munitions seemed poised to engulf these extinct remnants of the machine.

However, its deflecting shield blocked all the attacks.

One robotic arm after another was raised.

The weapons from the Golden Age began to show their power.

Phosphate weapons, nerve-splitting guns, and gravity weapons.

Neither combat suits nor power armor can withstand the damage it causes.

Rangers hit by phosphate weapons are instantly reduced to ashes, while those hit by the nerve-splitting gun die instantly.

The gravity reversal caused by the gravity projector lifted the two Ultra Warriors into the air before slamming them heavily to the ground.

The two powerful Ultramarines were instantly reduced to a mixture of power armor fragments and flesh.

The Ultramariner, wielding a Storm Shield and a Power Sword, attempted to defeat his opponent in close combat, but was completely overwhelmed in terms of strength.

The mechanical arm, imbued with a force field, slammed into the Storm Shield, instantly forcing the Ultramariner to his knees and causing the force field on the Storm Shield to overload and collapse.
However, their power swords were unable to completely cut through the armor of the Extinction Relic for the time being.

One after another, Ultra Warriors fell, and the Extinction Relic had completely gained the upper hand in both strength and long-range firepower.

Ten Extinction Relics rushed towards Guilliman, while the remaining seven went straight for Gao Yi. Fletcher left only three to protect himself.

The seven degraded Extinction Relics in the hands of the Dark Angel were enough to hold off Corald Coz, the Primarch of Midnight Wraith.

When Guilliman clashed with these extinction remnants, he realized that these machines were not only powerful in long-range firepower, but also even more difficult to deal with in close combat.

Something that can be used as a trump card by one's own brother, the Lion King, must be truly powerful.

Although the Emperor's Sword could damage it, its nanometal armor was rapidly repairing itself.

The powerful analytical capabilities of the intelligent combat system kept Guilliman busy, and every second they began to predict Guilliman's next move.

Even at the risk of injury, Guilliman charged toward Gao Yi.

Gao Yi is too important to the current empire; in fact, it could be said that even if he were to die, Gao Yi could not be allowed to die.

"Gao Yi! I'll hold them off! You retreat first! These guys are too dangerous!"

Guilliman roared as well, and with all his might, the flames from the Emperor's Sword halted the advance of the Extinction Relic.

But when Guilliman turned to look at Gao Yi, he found that Gao Yi was still standing in the same spot.

Aside from the initial shock, Gao Yi's face no longer showed any panic.

Indeed, Gao Yi's own combat abilities or strength have hardly ever been shown to outsiders.

At present, Gao Yi's strongest abilities, apart from Doom, all originate from the subspace and the suppression of the subspace.

Faced with these technologically created beings in the real universe, Gao Yi felt that summoning DOOM might not be useful.

This is why Gao Yi constantly pursues technological breakthroughs in the physical world.

If he summoned Doom, Gao Yi believed he could definitely kill the psionicist in front of him.

The opponent's psionic energy is strong, but only for a regular individual; it's not comparable to a god of war. However, based on past experiences summoning Doom, the opponent might not necessarily help him deal with these more threatening Extinction Remnants. In this situation, the demons and warp energy surging from Sintiera would be more attractive to Doom.

From the beginning, Doom was neither obeying Gao Yi nor helping him. Doom's appearance was only to hunt down anything related to the warp in the vicinity.

But things are different now. Besides Doom, Gao Yi has other methods at his disposal.

Before coming to Sintira, in order to test how much combat power the super-strong genetic traits could bring, Pavian had already carried out expedited modifications on Damon and the other 5 Night Guards as requested by Gao Yi.

These powerful genetic traits require a significant amount of resources and time, and only these can be accomplished in the short term.

But it's enough.

The Extinction Machine has begun to hold back Guilliman and is bypassing him, heading towards Gao Yi.

Upon seeing the approaching Extinction Relics, Damon and the five Night Guardians immediately went to meet them.

"Gao Yi! Your Night Guards can't stop them! Get out of here! Use the fleet to deal with these enemies!"

This was the most effective method Guilliman believed to be.

But Guilliman discovered that the Extinction Machine's originally rapid movements had begun to slow down.

The threat alarm device inside the Extinction Relic Machine seemed to have sensed the threat posed by Damon and his group.

They no longer blindly attack, tearing the enemy apart with close combat.

Instead, they once again attempted to use anti-gravity weapons to crush Damon and his companions into mincemeat.

But to everyone's surprise, the anti-gravity weapon failed this time.
Even the surrounding ground has shattered due to gravity far exceeding that of a planet.

Damon and his companions seemed to defy the laws of physics, firmly fixed to the ground. Even the hundredfold gravity applied to them did not cause their bodies to collapse.

It even seems that they haven't reached their limit yet.

Damon and his men continued their charge.

Gravity weapons weren't as effective against Ultramarines and Rangers; they only slightly slowed down the charge.

Seeing that the gravity weapon was ineffective, the nerve-disintegrating gun and the phosphate weapon also began firing again.

However, physical strength brought not only increased attack power, but also increased agility. They actually managed to dodge directly by relying on their physical speed.

Damon even used his physical strength to grab a collapsed palace pillar and throw it directly at the Extinction Relic!

Guilliman's eyes widened as well. He knew that these Night Guards were originally very strong. As Gao Yi's closest guard, it was hard to imagine that this was a force that had only been established for a few years, even if it was originally very strong.

However, the strength he is showing now is clearly far beyond what he showed before.

Damon rushed to an Extinction Relic machine and threw a punch with all his might, creating a deafening sonic boom.

When Damon's powerful punch landed, the Extinction Relic was sent flying.

After receiving the Super Strength trait, Damon managed to shatter the armor on the chest of the Extinction Relic, which even a power sword couldn't easily penetrate, with a single punch.
Fletcher's eyes widened at the sight.
Is this for real? He shattered the armor of an Extinction Relic machine with a single punch, without using any weapons? Is that really something that can be done with sheer physical strength?!
He had never seen anything so outrageous in his time. He could tell that Guilliman was very strong. After all, he was one of the rulers of this era, and someone who could wield a top-tier artifact like the Emperor's Sword must have been one of the strongest in terms of individual combat power in this era.

But it's not enough that there's only one individual here; a bunch of weirdos like Damon have also emerged. Is that reasonable?

This is completely different from what he learned from those navigators! Weren't those beings called Astartes supposed to represent the limits of current human genetic technology?!
What about these people who suppress the Extinction Relics through close combat and physical strength?!

(End of this chapter)