Warhammer 40 Spring: Loyalty of the Multiverse

Chapter 108 Powerful Nano-Soldiers

The monomolecular dagger that Basharol thrust into mid-air was deflected by a sudden attack.

Turning his head, he saw Luo Zu, who had already stood up, still in a firing stance with both hands holding a gun. The wisps of smoke rising from the muzzle proved that the attack had just been launched by him.

"For a... inferior android! Ha!" Barthol was genuinely annoyed by Luo Zu's repeated interruptions.

He simply couldn't imagine that these androids and humans were mortal enemies. Yet now they were able to unite, although he could understand that it was due to their sudden appearance!
But this still left him somewhat bewildered as to why humans would treat their androids as equals.

It's important to know that within the Empire, among those dark and forbidden technologies, lies the technology of creating artificial humans. However, this technology existed both before and after the Emperor ascended the Golden Throne.

This technology is strictly forbidden and sealed away, by both the Mechanicus and the Empire. Discovery of it would result in utter destruction!

Even those traitors who sided with Chaos abhorred this technology, because they felt it was a defilement of humanity's purity!
After all, both sides consider themselves human! And elites among humans at that!

If Iron Shield hadn't given specific instructions before the battle, and if the Emperor hadn't nodded in agreement, Basharol and his men would have already started firing their bombardment guns and hacking away with their chainsaws.

But their repeated concessions resulted in this situation.

With a flick of his wrist, the combat dagger flew out. Before Luo Zu could react, a flash of cold light appeared, and his arm fell straight down into the blood-stained corridor.

"Ah—" Luo Zu collapsed to the ground, clutching his wound and screaming in pain. But he still gritted his teeth and shouted, "Attack!"

Just as Barthol was about to step forward to retrieve his combat dagger, he paused, startled by these words. Although he didn't understand what they meant, his years of combat experience told him that he had fallen into a trap.

He immediately turned around and reached for the power sword.

boom--

But before his fingers could even touch the hilt of the power sword, a terrifying explosive attack instantly swept across the open space.

Even Basharol was thrown aside by the force of the attack.

As the smoke cleared, Hera's figure slowly floated in through the broken wall of the warship. The breach in the wall behind her immediately triggered the ship's alarms to sound, and all the lights turned flashing red.

All the air and objects in this space were swept up by the air surging into outer space and ejected from the breach in the warship.

"Unknown civilization detected! Threat level - extremely high! Eliminate immediately...Program error...Arrest!" Hera appeared on the scene, her armored head scanning the area before finally locking onto Barthol, who had just regained his footing.

An electronic voice immediately emanated from within the armor, instantly putting Basharol on alert. He had reviewed all the files on personnel who needed to be captured alive, including the image of this pink nanotech soldier.

But the current situation no longer allowed him to capture the enemy alive. Without saying a word, he raised the explosive gun on his wrist and unleashed a violent roar.

A barrage of explosive projectiles hurtled towards Hera, who was preparing to attack, but suddenly layers of nano shields appeared in front of her.

After several explosive bombs shattered the first layer of nano shield, subsequent bombs followed immediately.

Instead of rushing forward from behind the shield, Hera opened her hand and swung it sharply. Several floating weapons unfurled their sharp edges and accelerated, thrusting towards Barthol's waist from the side and below.

The Terminator armor's deflecting shield can deflect most attacks aimed at it, but it's most effective against energy and laser-based attacks.

It does not have a better defensive capability against physical attacks than against energy attacks.

Furthermore, the Terminator armor's thickness temporarily restricted Barthol's mobility. This prevented Barthol from dodging, forcing him to take one attack head-on and then punch another incoming service weapon, deflecting it off course.

The floating weapon that struck the Terminator's armor was firmly embedded in it. Fortunately, it didn't pierce through, leaving only a few centimeters of deep mark.

It was incredibly powerful; he reached out and pulled it off, throwing it at Hera in the distance. But then several more floating weapons, resembling ropes, attacked him.

It couldn't be broken by hitting it, and even if it was torn, it could split into two movable pieces like an earthworm. This threw him into a panic.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Hera suddenly waved her hand, and several iron rings rushed over, tightly locking Barthol's joints.

Seeing this, Hera turned her attention to the power sword that could be stuck into Baldr's body. Suddenly, a mechanical tentacle, like a scorpion's tail, extended from the floating ring behind her head and gripped the hilt of the power sword.

With a sudden upward lift, the power sword was drawn and presented in front of her. The built-in core AI began to scan the power sword hovering in front of her.

"Unknown metal, unknown script... Miniature fusion device detected... Capable of disrupting electromagnetic bonds between atoms. The nanocore has no defensive capabilities!"

Baldr, having had his power sword removed, successfully transformed into a ball of light. Two or three seconds later, Baldr reappeared in the same spot, clad in dark purple armor!

"Data being detected... Connected to planetary energy extraction device terminal... Receiving planetary data... Reception complete, defense core, activate!"

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"Damn it..." Tie Hui spat at Hoy Ki, who was pinned to the ground by a power sword. His face was grim as he watched the video of everything happening inside the warship and all the intelligence on Planet Elcia.

Damn it, looks like they really got played! He really wanted to curse "Coastline," why set up so many traps if they didn't have the money?

And he was absolutely certain that this brat, Parks Mimir, knew all of this. In the original story, he had even confidently told Shak, who had been to Xun Shang, "The Asars' hidden resources on Xun Shang have long been plundered by the Purple Mist!"

This is the truth, of course, but it's telling the truth with your eyes closed. It's 10000 times more despicable than lying through your teeth!
"Kill him for me!" he yelled into the communicator at Hart Nef. The deafening sound of a bomb gun firing came through the communicator almost immediately after he finished speaking.

Xun—Prison cell.

The moment Hart Neff and his men received the order, they pulled the triggers of their bomb guns. Twenty Astartes bombs rained down on Pax, who was sitting in the hover chair.

The chair exploded instantly, scattering debris everywhere. Parks' small body, who was sitting on it, turned into a pool of blood and gore all around.

Hart Neff stepped forward and threw a molten metal bomb, then turned and activated his communicator. "Target eliminated, sir!"

"Go and support Basharol immediately!"

"Yes!"

After hanging up with Hart Nef, Tie Hui opened Adrian Malcardo's communication channel. Before Adrian Malcardo could even salute, Tie Hui said directly, "Send us the videos and portraits of Heya Edas and Torres from the Assassins. Then immediately go and support Barshalor."

"Yes!"

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At this moment, Basharol felt very frustrated, even though he had managed to block the incoming floating weapon in time.

However, the pink nanobot Hera instantly detached from the semi-circular device behind his head, transforming into several enormous iron hoops that locked his wrists, joints, and limbs, as well as his waist and abdomen.

This prevented him from effectively unleashing his power. To fully release one's power, all parts of the body and joints need to work together seamlessly, like an interlocking chain, to maximize force and inflict maximum damage on the enemy. But now, all the key parts of his body used for generating power were tightly bound, making it impossible for him to break free of these restraints using the strength of any single part of his body.

He watched as two nanobots slowly approached him. The pink one was even carrying his power sword.

This scene made his eyes bloodshot, and he roared inwardly that if he could return safely this time, he would make those gear-like kids change his settings, or else he would remove their memory carriers and roast them over a fire.

Meanwhile, the boy "Luo Zu," who had caused him to become so miserable, gritted his teeth and used his other intact arm to angrily fire a weapon at Hera.

Only now did he realize he had been tricked. Bluebird had deceived him... or rather, someone had impersonated Bluebird and deceived him!

"Unknown civilization entity has been captured; dismantling has begun..."

boom--

Another massive explosion occurred, and Hera, whose palm was crackling with electricity, was drawn to the commotion and turned to look at one side of the passage.

A densely packed army of ordinary human auxiliary soldiers charged and fired laser guns rapidly towards the scene.

Baldr and Hera were forced to activate their nano-shields by the laser attacks. At the same time, the Ark's AI immediately analyzed the attacked areas, and the nano-armor that was hit by the lasers showed varying degrees of wear and tear on its surface.

At the same horizontal level, the armor height of the attacked parts is much lower than that of the unattacked parts.

However, for nano-soldiers who possess near-limitless energy, these losses can be repaired by the energy of their nano-cells in a very short time. But if too many of these attacks are fired at them at once, they could very well melt through their armor.

The mortal auxiliary soldiers charged and fired their guns, while simultaneously drawing monomolecular bayonets from their waists and attaching them to their laser guns.

At the same time, a flash of red light appeared in Baldr's eyes behind Heraclius. He turned and charged towards the mortal support soldiers, his nanoblade materializing in his hand. With a single side slash, three mortal support soldiers were cut in half at the waist.

The mortal auxiliary troops who were still charging forward were cleaved in two at the waist by his left and right slashes. Blood splattered on the surrounding warship walls, but not a drop of blood stained Baldr's armor.

The ruthless and efficient killing silenced everyone watching the warship's monitoring system.

Hera glanced at it briefly, and after confirming that Baldr could handle it, she raised her power sword.

Now she needs to dismantle this iron shell, analyze the technology of this unknown civilization, and then have the Ark of the Sacred Relic test and replicate it, ultimately integrating it into their nano-core.

boom--

The sound of a bomb gun firing echoed through the cabins of the Thunderhawk gunship. A Kraken armor-piercing bomb shot straight from the muzzle, pierced through space, entered the breach in the warship, and precisely struck Hera's nano-core on her back!
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The armor on the mortal support soldiers was easily sliced ​​through like butter by the final form of the nanotech soldiers.

It wasn't until Badr cleaved another charging mortal auxiliary soldier in two that the other mortal auxiliary soldier, under Badr's cover, finally got close enough to drop to the ground and pounce on him, clinging tightly to Badr's leg.

"For the Emperor!" the mortal auxiliary soldier shouted, then closed his eyes tightly and clung to the leg, refusing to let go.

This startled Badr, who was preparing to continue the attack. He glanced down, then suddenly kicked out, sending the mortal auxiliary soldier crashing into the wall of the warship, creating a dent.

The mortal auxiliary soldier coughed up blood. His breathing mask was knocked off and fell to the ground by the massive amount of blood and fragments of internal organs.

During this brief lull, several ordinary auxiliary soldiers, armed with laser guns fitted with monomolecular bayonets, stabbed Badr in various parts of his body.

The combined momentum of the mortal-assisted army's charge, along with the previous attacks, allowed these monomolecular bayonets to easily pierce the nano-armor.

The moment Badr's AI system detected the attack, it raised the danger level of the strange army in front of it.

With a flick of his longsword, the mortal auxiliary soldiers who attacked him became the dead beneath his blade.

Immediately afterwards, countless nanoblades appeared behind him, raining down like arrows, pinning the mortal auxiliary soldiers in the passageway to the armored panels of the warship corridor.

The battlefield fell silent for a moment. Apart from the whistling wind, there were no other noises.

However, upon closer listening, one could still hear some rhythmic impact sounds gradually amplifying.

The sounds of impact in the other corridors of the warship eventually turned into the sound of countless heavy objects stomping on the ground.

"High-threat target detected. Adjust threat unit," Badr's mechanical voice announced. Simultaneously, several circular locking indicators on the armored display in his head began to lock onto various locations and converge towards the center.

Meanwhile, standing still, purple energy slowly gathered in the center of Baldr's head, his gaze fixed on the center of the intersection at the end of the passage.

As the locking symbols on the screen slowly converged to the center, Badr anticipated this, and the purple energy sphere instantly released a purple laser beam, blasting towards the center of the intersection.

Karl, who had just rushed out of the passage and arrived at the center of the intersection with his boarding shield, didn't even turn his body. He directly took the energy attack head-on with the boarding shield held to the side of his body.

The terrifying impact sent Karl flying sideways and backward, crashing hard into the sharp-angled slope of the intersection.

The immense impact triggered an alarm inside the power armor, and Karl's internal organs ruptured under the force.

The terrifying energy carried such high temperatures that even a large area of ​​the boarding shield hanging on his arm had melted.

Fortunately, due to his hard training, he reacted extremely quickly when attacked, curling his entire body behind the boarding shield.

Therefore, although the surface of his armor was exposed to high temperatures and triggered a high-temperature warning, it did not suffer serious damage.

Karl wanted to curse. He never imagined that his first battle as an Astartes would end in such a pathetic manner... and then fail so miserably.

This is truly embarrassing!
Moreover, the great emperor was shining upon him, and even the mortal auxiliary troops were so enraged by the sight of the emperor that they charged forward with unwavering ferocity.

And they achieved tremendous results!

But now, he, an Astartes, was taken down in a single encounter.

These damn... androids!

Not knowing what to call him, and having to temporarily use familiar technical terms instead, Karl's anger erupted to its extreme at this moment.

He forced himself to sit up, looking at the boarding shield in his hand, which had melted and deformed beyond recognition due to the high temperature. He immediately drew his chainsaw sword from his waist and charged towards Baldr in the distance.

boom--

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(End of this chapter)