Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 49: The Rogue Merchant Defeats the Space Marines!

"Draw the chainswords! Inject the stimulants! For the dynasty, for the God-Emperor! Charge!"

After seeing that these Astartes were not invincible, everyone regained their courage.

Stimulants put a heavy strain on the mind, so Damon advised everyone to use them with caution unless absolutely necessary, but now was clearly the time to use them.

With the injection of stimulants, the Rangers forgot their fear, their strength and speed increased again, and they engaged in a melee with the enemy.

The combat uniforms gave these Rangers an overwhelming advantage when facing ordinary Chaos cultists, and they only seemed somewhat powerless when facing the Word Bearers and the three possessed warriors.

But the battle was not without results. The Rangers, wearing ceramic steel combat uniforms, exchanged wounds and lives for wounds, fighting against this group of traitors.

Some fire bats even rushed towards the Word Bearers with the intention of dying together. They had melta grenades in their hands. When the Word Bearers were unaware of these fire bats, they directly detonated the grenades and ignited the plasma energy tanks behind them. The flames, comparable to melta, completely devoured the fire bats and a Word Bearer.

The Word Bearers became more and more frightened as the battle went on. Could it be that during the time they had been in the Warp, they had traveled through time and space, and the Empire's mortal troops had become like this?
When Ian saw the enchanted warrior rushing towards him, he was about to cast a psychic spell again when the Khorne enchanted warrior rushed in front of him. He used all his strength to strike Ian, and although he didn't break his shield directly, he still knocked him into the ruins on the side.

A huge cloud of dust rose up but Ian didn't get up.

Without Ian's suppression, these enchanted warriors became more unscrupulous. The blood of the loyalists was constantly spilled on the Pilgrim Square, and the blood splashed on the holy statue of the God-Emperor as if it was shedding tears of blood.

Gao Yi watched the battle in front of him under the protection of Damon and Weil.

"Why don't the Astartes seem that fast? Shouldn't the possessed warriors be stronger after the demons seize control of their bodies? Why do they seem to be only this good?"

At this moment, Gao Yi's eyes did not slow down in everything on the battlefield, but he found that he could easily capture the movements of these traitors.

Gao Yi seemed to realize something, but because the battle was so intense, he had no time to observe the changes in his psychic crystal.

When Gao Yi checked, he found that his balance had reached 25.

This huge sum of money directly doubled the size of his subspace projection.

As this enormous subspace force was purified, the power that fed back into his body was even more astonishing.

At this time, Gao Yi's physical strength may have exceeded his imagination.

The enchanted warrior also sensed Gao Yi's gaze, and the contemptuous look made him even more angry. He originally wanted to kill Ian directly, but at this moment he felt that he had found a more valuable head.

The combat uniform was different from others, and Damon Uville had a nervous look on his face.

"Could he be the Rogue Trader? If we remove his skull, the Blood God will surely like it even more!"

The enchanted warrior changed his target and stopped attacking Ian, but rushed towards Gao Yi.

"Captain! Run! He's targeting us! I'll cover you!"

Will hurriedly protected Gao Yi behind him and urged Gao Yi to escape. Even though the opponent was an Astartes, he knew he was no match for him, but he still planned to fight. Damon also looked at the charging enchanted warrior with a serious expression. He had never seen such a strange humanoid warrior.

The loyalists around also noticed the abnormality and rushed to rescue immediately.

"Run?! Can you run away? Charge with me and kill him!!"

"What are you talking about? How is this possible?!" At this time, Weier just thought Gao Yi was talking nonsense.

But before he could stop Gao Yi, Gao Yi rushed out at incredible speed.

"So fast!"

Even the enchanted warrior was shocked by Gao Yi's speed, but Gao Yi's charge made the Khorne demon even more excited.

"Weak mortal! I admire your courage! Fight! Awesome!"

The evil god Khorne prefers sacrifices gained through pure combat rather than easily obtained skulls.

"Slow... so slow..." After entering combat state, Gao Yi felt that his senses were further enhanced.

With both sides sprinting at full speed, they arrived at each other's side in the blink of an eye.

The enchanted warrior raised his claws and slashed at Gao Yi with all his strength.

Will watched all this with wide eyes.

"captain!"

In his mind, it was impossible for Gao Yi to block the opponent's attack with his mortal body.

But what no one expected was that Gao Yi was completely unharmed, while the enchanted warrior's claws flew high into the sky...

There are mortals in the Empire who can defeat the Astartes in close combat, but most of these people can no longer be called simple humans.

The powerful sages of the Mechanicus can do it, as can powerful warriors who have been enhanced with various genes and implanted with powerful implants and wear force feedback armor. Not to mention those blessed by the God-Emperor, but the flesh of ordinary humans has its limits.

But Weil knew that Gao Yi had only undergone the most basic genetic enhancement and he didn't even have an implant in his body.

The enchanted warrior looked at his disappearing arm in disbelief. His eyes could barely see Gao Yi's movements, but his body couldn't keep up?

"Is this guy really still human?!"

What frightened the demon the most was that not only his arm was chopped off, but also part of his soul. He even felt that the closer he got to Gao Yi, the weaker his connection with the Word Bearer's body became.

Like a powerful signal interference, it made the enchanted warrior's body more and more clumsy.

In the eyes of the demon, Gao Yi's projection in the subspace appeared before him.

Countless tentacles are reaching out to the demon's soul.

"No...you are not human, you are definitely not human!"

It was also the first time that Gao Yi truly realized the strength of his body and his combat level. At this moment, he did not need any skills. Just relying on the strength of this body and the reaction speed was enough to get rid of the opponent if the opponent had no other means.

When Gao Yi had a clearer understanding of his own strength, his fighting style became more unrestrained.

The adamantium combat suit allows Gao Yi to withstand the attacks of enchanted warriors.

Every time he slashed at the enchanted warrior's body, the enchanted warrior felt that a part of his soul was being pulled out, and Gao Yi was weakening his connection with the warp. Gao Yi's punch on his chest even directly shattered the armor of his power armor.

"You are a soulless person?!"

The Khorne demon in the body of the possessed warrior was afraid. He originally knew that as long as he fought with all his strength, even if he died, the evil god Khorne would allow him to be reborn in the warp. But when the fear of complete death enveloped him, the power given to him by Khorne also left him.

As one side gained strength while the other lost, the enchanted warrior completely lost the possibility of victory and escape.

Looking at the increasingly weak enchanted warrior, Gao Yi swung his most deadly sword and chopped off his head. The demon's soul was completely destroyed, and the Word Bearer's body also lost its vitality.

Looking at the huge corpse lying on the ground, Will came to his senses and realized that all this was true.

"Win, win?" Will stood there in a daze.

The two sides had exchanged dozens of moves, but in Will's eyes, only two or three seconds had passed.

The Rogue Trader ultimately managed to slay a renegade Astartes, completely possessed by the demon, in direct combat? It was enough to become a legend across the Expanse.

When the remaining two enchanted warriors saw their most powerful battle brother being killed by Gao Yi, they couldn't believe what was happening before their eyes.

"No! There's something wrong with this human in front of me!! He might be the chosen one of the Corpse King!"

(End of this chapter)