Warhammer 40: Doom

Chapter 207 Night Clash
The Night Guardian stood on the street, surrounded by scattered rocks and twisted steel.

He was a veteran, clad in steel-colored power armor and wielding a dimensional spear.

“Your opponent is me,” he said, twirling the spear between his fingers in a flourish, his deep growl echoing through the streets, piercing the smoke of battle, “Alien scum!”

The automated mechs detected the overlord of Ran Dan, determined that they could not contend with him, and immediately called for support from nearby high-end combat forces.

Before the squad was wiped out, Night Guard reinforcements arrived.

The tall warriors who came to reinforce him made the Ran Dan Overlord feel a sense of pressure.

The human was a few inches taller than the Space Marine, and his power armor had a strange beauty—both ancient and advanced.

He held a glowing spear, showing no sign of tension, as if he were strolling leisurely through a broken garden.

"Who are you?" the Overlord Ran Dan asked, a sense of unease emanating from the folds of its brain-like body.

Although the bio-armor detected no threat, instincts were screaming warnings: the humans before them were anything but simple.

It obeys its inner instincts, activates its bionic visual system to its maximum, and uses various bionic systems to lock onto the human in front of it.

"Night Guardian, the watcher before dawn." The Night Guardian introduced himself, raised his spear, and stepped forward, "You are also the omen of death hanging high above you."

As the Night Guardian moved, the Overlord of Ran Dan jumped back like a startled toad.

Inside the bio-armor, the overlord secreted a large amount of brain fluid, its mental state stretched to the limit.

In its mental perception, the Night Guardian's emotions were as calm as still water, yet as heavy as iron.

The moment he took his first step, although his mental state remained unchanged, his sense of biological crisis suddenly surged.

The bio-powered armor heaved violently, as if bearing invisible pressure for its operator.

"Ultimately, they are cowardly aliens driven by instinct." The Night Guard shook his head, his deep voice calm and still, yet filled with profound contempt.

He strode closer, raising his hand and shouting sharply, "Auxiliary troops, retreat!"

Nur's auxiliary troops relaxed; the arrival of their equal forces meant they had a chance to survive.

No one dislikes living. Even if one has the courage to die, the joy in one's heart is real when there is hope to live.

The scene was beyond their control; a powerful overlord of Ran Dan was not someone ordinary people could touch.

The squad leader helped up his surviving teammates, took away the usable automated robots, and retreated to the side.

The despised overlord Ran Dan, seeing the remnants of the human army about to leave, was enraged and made a move to give chase.

"I advise you not to have any ideas about them."

Before Ran Dan Overlord could take a full-range step, he heard another chilling sound.

The bio-armor remained frozen in place, and the overlord decided not to make any rash moves.

"I'm just focusing my attention on the human warriors," Ran Dan comforted herself inwardly.

Ran Dan, who considers himself a race superior to humans, would never admit that he felt fear towards a human before even engaging in combat.

Taking advantage of the human soldiers' retreat, it dropped its plasma gun and walked over to the elite warriors to pick up their melee weapons.

This time, the Night Guard did not stop the alien's actions, but watched it quietly, waiting for the auxiliary forces to withdraw.

Ran Dan, the overlord, activated the disintegration force field, and two bone scimitars in his hands emitted a lightning-like brilliance.

It seemed that the weapon gave it power, and when it looked at the Night Guard again, its mental power was filled with killing intent!
"Screech!" Another terrifying roar rang out.

A visible sonic attack swept across, scattering the faded old flags hanging in the street.

The overlord's abdomen trembled, unleashing a piercing shriek that tore through the air.

The sound waves swept across the street, rusted steel beams cracked and collapsed, and sand and gravel shot out like bullets, but the Night Guard remained unmoved.

A veteran of the Night Guard, a seasoned soldier who survived the War of Truth, possesses an unyielding heart and an unimaginably resilient soul.

The overlord's intimidating roar didn't even make him raise an eyebrow.

But the Night Guardian did not underestimate it, and still mustered all his mental strength to defend against the alien's bizarre nerve attacks.

Even when he was a cadet, he gave his all against any opponent, and the learning from the War Academy was ingrained in his very being.

“Weak and powerless.” As the mortals departed, the Night Guard rested his spear in his hand and fired dimensional rays at the aliens.

The dimensional ray traveling at the speed of light, combined with the Night Guardian's reaction speed, left the Overlord of Ran Dan with no time to dodge. "Despicable human!" the Overlord roared in his mental fluctuations as one of his omnidirectional legs was severed by the light-speed weapon.

It had just abandoned its long-range weapons, thinking that humanity was about to engage in a duel of honor.

The remaining omnidirectional legs were fully extended, and Ran Dan Overlord did his best to close the distance between the two to avoid being hit by long-range shots.

That weapon was too bizarre; the shield was completely useless, and it instantly sliced ​​off the attacked part.

"Instead of running away, you're actively approaching me?" the Night Guardian retorted, his gaze fixed on Overlord Ran Dan.

The alien has amazing mobility, using its omnidirectional legs to climb onto buildings along the street and crawling along walls like a spider.

It moves very fast, moving at supersonic speeds, and its evasive maneuvers are very agile.

The Night Guard raised his spear; he could have accurately hit the alien, but after thinking it over, he gave up shooting.

He held his spear in front of him, adopting a defensive stance, and waited for close combat with the alien.

Night Guardians are professional warriors who are well-versed in various military strategies and tactics.

The end of the battle was merely the prelude to the war—the Night Watchers knew that the real carnage was yet to come.

Even if the enemy before them is defeated, the coordinates of Randan's home planet, the territory of the empire... remain a mystery shrouding humanity.

Of all the information available, the Empire knew very little about Randan, while Randan knew a great deal about the human Empire.

The Randan Overlord before them was the first Overlord encountered by the Nur forces. The Night Guard wanted to gather more intelligence in preparation for the next war.

"Humans, die!" The moment he made the decision, the Overlord of Ran Dan let out a mental shriek and leaped down from the sky.

It raised its bone blade high, and with the force of splitting Mount Hua, used the force of its fall to cleave the human in two.

This move was powerful and heavy, but the Night Guardian saw a thousand flaws in it.

With its defenses wide open, its lower limbs and chest exposed, a single spear thrust could kill the alien; even without doing anything, simply raising the spear would cause the alien to crash into it and die.

The Night Guard shook his head inwardly. He held his spear horizontally, using the shaft to block the alien's downward strike.

Hey~
The bone spear collided with the spear shaft, producing a clear, melodious sound, and the technique changed instantly.

The specially treated spear blocked the disintegration force field, and the Night Guardian released his right hand instantly. The spear's tail hit the ground, and the alien bone blade slid down, smashing into the ground and splitting the bluestone floor.

Ran Dan, the overlord, unleashed his ferocity once more, brandishing his blade horizontally as if to sweep across, but both bone blades were blocked by the spears that were inches away, making it impossible for him to exert force again.

When its first strike failed, it once again activated its omnidirectional legs, pulling itself to the optimal range of motion, and used its blade to swiftly attack the spear, rendering the long weapon ineffective.

The overlord of Ran Dan made the right decision. He wielded two bone blades with great force, surrounded by lightning and thunder, and kept slashing at the humans in front of him.

A clanging sound rang out, and the millimeter-precise swing of the blade stirred up a strong gust of wind beside the battle, the blade carrying a powerful sound astonishing force.

"I understand." After another clash, the Night Guard sighed, his spear shaking off Ran Dan's twin blades.

Ran Dan leaped backward, moving to a suitable distance—a distance from which she could quickly attack and defend against human long-range fire.

Its bio-armor is breathing; a high-intensity attack is imminent, and it needs to cool down its bio-armor.

"What have you figured out?" the overlord asked eagerly.

In the swift attack just now, every all-out attack he launched was easily neutralized by the human warriors.

After a fierce battle, I was mentally exhausted and my bio-armor needed rest.

The human warriors on the other side, who were taking the hits, looked very relaxed, without the slightest sign of fatigue.

"I understand the lowliness of the aliens; they have no fighting power whatsoever." The Night Guard shook his head, his contempt undisguised.

After a short but intense battle, the Night Guardians discovered that the aliens' attacks, though seemingly fierce, were actually completely unpredictable, relying entirely on the high performance of their bio-armor to overwhelm their opponents.

This kind of fighting style will naturally result in a one-sided crushing defeat when encountering creatures whose abilities are inferior to Ran Dan's.

However, if they encounter warriors of the same level, such as Space Marines, they will be killed by skilled warriors after several rounds of one-on-one combat.

"Force?" The Overlord of Ran Dan thought he must have misheard, or perhaps the human in front of him had misheard.

It re-sensed its surroundings, and the nerve tentacles extending from its body felt a continuous flow of power emanating from the bio-armor.

What is this if not force?
“I now know the fragility of your race. You may die.”

(End of this chapter)