Kingdom Come: Deliverance, but Warhammer 40k

Chapter 88 Disaster

boom!

The old man uttered his last word as he spoke.

A deafening roar erupted overhead, and the entire steel structure of the maintenance area trembled violently without warning.

The heavy-duty spotlights hanging upside down swayed violently, their dim, flickering light sweeping back and forth between the crumbling walls and the panicked crowd.

Under the interplay of light and shadow, everyone's shadows were stretched and shortened on the steel deck, like a chaotic dance of demons.

Above the dome.

Several rusted iron plates were the first to break free from the aging load-bearing beams.

The metal plate tumbled and fell freely, colliding repeatedly with the intricate network of pipes in mid-air, scraping out blinding sparks, before finally crashing onto the lower deck, kicking up a large cloud of gray-black dust.

Followed by.

A second tremor followed.

The tremors were far greater than before, as if the entire ship was groaning.

The steel deck beneath everyone's feet rippled and undulated like waves due to the vibrations, and the iron toolboxes on the maintenance platform lost their balance and overturned.

The people below were thrown into the ground, fleeing in terror.

A mechanical priest who was repairing equipment lost his balance, and the energy battery he was holding slipped from his grasp.

It rolled across the sloping ground and finally crashed into a pile of messy scrap metal, exploding in a burst of bright blue sparks that burned the wounded.

The scene was a complete mess, but the disaster was far from over.

Another thud echoed above their heads—as if a solid, colossal beast had fallen from the sky.

Before the echo had even faded, another terrifying sound rang out.

The source of the impact did not remain in place; instead, it began to move.

That indescribable behemoth was galloping across the deck, right above everyone's heads.

Every time it lands, the entire top of the plant will sag downwards.

The exposed metal skeleton groaned under the strain.

Large pieces of iron filings and asbestos fragments kept falling from the seams.

Several of the main crossbeams that support the ship's structure even produced severe bending sounds, as if they would break completely at any moment.

Orion looked up at the crumbling dome.

"What is that thing again—"

Clearly, no one present could answer his question.

boom-!!

Directly in front, a core load-bearing column several meters thick suddenly made a loud noise, and the entire column began to bend inward. The protective armor plates that were originally riveted to the outside of the column were bulged layer by layer by the pressure, and rivets as thick as an adult's thumb flew out one after another, shooting out like fragments in all directions.

In the end, the steel column completed its mission.

Having lost its most crucial support point, a large area of the upper deck began to collapse towards the maintenance area.

Tons of horizontal steel beams and gravel peeled off one after another.

"Evacuate! Everyone evacuate from here!"

"Protect the captain!"

Aldrick gave a desperate command, but it was no match for the sounds of collapse all around him.

In the chaotic crowd, the leg of a low-ranking mechanical priest was crushed under the pieces of a corpse. Another priest next to him extended a servo mechanical arm from his back, severed his last remaining fleshy leg, and dragged him backward.

The two priests had just stepped out of the danger zone when a solid steel plate, large enough to cover a quarter of a basketball court, crashed down on their heads.

Their work platform immediately turned into a pile of unrecognizable iron lumps.

In another corner.

The two seriously injured members of the Honor Guard were too badly wounded to move.

They had just straightened up when the broken beam, weighing thousands of tons, fell down.

The sturdy ceramic power armor was flattened like paper in the face of absolute mass.

Thick, fresh blood slowly seeped out through the cracks.

The violent tremors, like the end of the world, lasted for a full ten minutes before gradually subsiding.

The thick smoke and dust kicked up by the collapse filled the entire hall.

The acrid smoke and dust severely limited everyone's vision.

The only good news is...

The ship's automated defense system, which had been dormant, was finally restarted at this time.

The automated turrets, hidden deep within the metal walls, broke through the camouflage armor one by one and rose into the air.

The mechanical cannon muzzle began to automatically adjust its direction.

The thousands of armed mechs deployed at the edge of the hall also ended their standby state with the help of the mechanical priest.

Each of them picked up their attached fuming guns and slowly drove into the depths of the thick smoke.

Electronic sounds echoed continuously among the ruins.

But not long afterward—a blinding flash of lightning suddenly appeared.

A massive black shadow emerged from the depths of the smoke, its limbs stretching out like a battering ram.

Before the two heavily armed servants at the very front could react, they were forcibly torn apart from the middle.

The shattered armor and the mechanical internal organs, still connected to the wiring, flew into the air together.

But more servants launched a counterattack.

High-energy laser beams plunged into the dense smoke and dust one after another, exploding into bursts of fire.

The flashing and exploding sparks of electricity briefly illuminated the eerie outline hidden deep within the smoke and dust for a few seconds.

It was a deformed body that was exaggeratedly tall, reaching the height of four or five stories.

Countless human torsos and limbs were forcibly stitched together by a desecrated force, transforming into a moving mountain of flesh.

The thick limbs intertwined and twisted like the roots of a thousand-year-old tree, supporting the bloated body.

One by one, human heads that were clearly not completely dead were embedded in the surface of those dark red tumors in painful and twisted postures, their lips still opening and closing silently.

Before the crowd behind could even see the nightmarish details, the electric light from the lighting was extinguished completely in the sparks.

Followed by.

The wreckage of a machine servant, severed at the waist and missing most of its upper body, was thrown out like a sandbag, landing directly in front of the evacuating crowd and even carving a deep trench in the steel plate.

The billowing smoke and dust were parted on both sides by a gust of foul wind.

The enormous aggregate finally emerged, fully exposed to everyone's view.

"A Chaos Egg? ————"

Orion muttered to himself, unable to believe what he was seeing. "The ascension failed? Or has their ritual been completed?"

The elderly man gave his final assessment with a tone of disgust.

"How ugly."

The automatic cannon fired first, and the heavy shell accurately hit the monster's chest.

The blast wave shredded large chunks of rotting flesh, along with several human faces, into dust.

But this completely enraged it.

The monster emitted a roar composed of hundreds of sounds.

Its entire body crashed wildly into the repair area.

It smashed through the wall, and a newly repaired weapons rack flew into the air.

During the charge, more than a dozen abyss-like gashes split open on the monster's body.

Dozens of pale, human arms of varying lengths reached out from the gaps.

A guard who fell behind the evacuation team had no time to dodge before his calves, waist, and neck were firmly gripped by more than a dozen pale hands.

"No--!"

His desperate cries came to an abrupt end.

He was dragged into the monster's body.

The torn flesh closed swiftly, like a giant mouth that had finished eating, leaving not a single piece of fabric behind.

A moment later.

On the smooth part of the monster's left shoulder, a throbbing, fresh tumor suddenly bulged outward.

As the flesh was pulled apart, the face of the fallen soldier slowly emerged from the tumor.

Retaining the terror of dying, the lower half of his mouth had uncontrollably stretched to both sides, joining the chorus of frenzied, neurotic laughter.

But this monster's abilities seem to go far beyond these. As new memories flood in, another instinct is added to its ignorant and insane consciousness: a heavy bomb gun is swallowed whole.

As flesh churned, the gun barrel pierced the skin again, with countless fascia wrapping around it.

A gun barrel driven by flesh and blood slowly turned its direction.

The corrosive bombs, trailing ghastly green contrails, indiscriminately and wildly sprayed bullets at the crowd that had not yet evacuated. Deafening explosions lit up the sky one after another, and the rolling shockwaves engulfed several mechanical servants who were unable to dodge in time, turning them into charred parts.

"Aldrick!"

Orion drew his power sword with a backhand motion.

"Take that girl away from here!"

"Owner-

"That's an order!"

The old man had already rushed out, his power armor's thrusters activated at full power.

His cloak billowed behind him, forming the shape of a battle flag.

"Ugly thing!"

He roared and raised his sword.

"Your opponent is here!"

The soldiers' voices echoed through the hall.

The monster's hundreds of murky eyes all turned and looked at the little person.