Warhammer 40k: Melee Warriors

"Shouldn't you wake up Fei Ling? She's the best knight I've ever met, with a strong spirit, courage, and wisdom."

"That's because you haven't met me yet."

The machine spirit cursed under its breath, "Didn't run into you? What a big mouth!"

Koji pulled Feiling off the mechanical throne, wiped his blood on her back, and sat down on it, spreading his legs to provide Feiling with a place to sit.

Seeing that Komi was so persistent, Knight Soul sighed. He controlled the cable to explore Komi's back, and after searching for a while, he realized that he had not made the corresponding modifications at all.

"You don't even have a neural interface, what use are you?!" Knight Soul screamed.

Komi gave a smug smile that seemed arrogant to the Knight Machine Soul. He reached behind him, grabbed the swaying cables, wrapped them around his arm several times, and pinched the lightning-fast neural connectors in his palm.

"What are you doing...?"

Before the Knight Soul issue even arose, he felt a powerful soul flowing into the Knight's body along the cable, a feeling he had never experienced before.

In Knight Mechs, the Mech Soul is the true master, while the pilot is merely an external brain that restricts the Mech Soul.

In the past, the machine spirit surrounded the pilot's soul, and the pilot had to prove his ability to gain the machine spirit's recognition and cooperation. Now, however, it is Komi's soul that surrounds the machine spirit. Even if the pilot is unwilling, he has to be coerced by Komi's soul and do things he doesn't want to do.

At this moment, Koji didn't care about the Knight Mech's astonishment. He only knew that his sudden idea was really feasible, and compared to controlling an Ark, controlling a wounded Knight Mech was much simpler and easier. Koji didn't feel that this thing brought any burden to his soul.

"rise!"

Gu Jian gripped the interface and pulled it upwards, forcibly getting the heavily damaged knight mech back to its feet. This made Ma Wen, who was supporting the battlefield from afar, widen her eyes and secretly admire Fei Ling's tenacity.

Unfortunately, Fei Ling still didn't wake up. She was curled up between Gu Jian's legs, her head resting on his knees, unconscious. This was a treatment that even Fei Tia didn't receive.

"Wait... the pressure is too much." Knight Soul pleaded with Komi not to be so rough, he felt that his injured leg was about to break.

"You talk too much nonsense, just bear with it!" Koji cursed the Knight Soul's nagging, then gathered all the souls he had gathered on the battlefield into his hand and channeled them into the cable. He wanted to summon the Armor of Markus and have this soul armor draped over the Knight.

With his superhuman soul control, Komi successfully covered the knight with his soul, and even used his soul to heal the knight's obvious injuries.

The Pride of Iris emits a faint white light that draws the attention of the entire battlefield, like a leader of the fallen, about to launch a vengeful charge against the Twisted Titan.

At this moment, Knight Soul was speechless. He stared blankly as Gu Jian somewhat awkwardly controlled the knight to move forward. After taking five steps, he became proficient in some of the knight mech's performance.

Buzzing...

The chainsaw sword, which slays demons and vanquishes enemies, rang out once again. Komi was also extremely excited; for him, controlling such a knight in battle was incredibly interesting.

"Dogel, I'm here to kill you!" Komi shouted, controlling the knight to stride forward, his pace quickening until a patrol-class knight was moving at the speed of a squire-class knight.

Beneath this incredible speed, something even more inexplicable was happening. Solid rivets and gears, shrouded in the soul, became ethereal and exceptionally flexible. The thousands of parts that made up the knight stretched and elongated in motion, like living flesh, allowing this mechanical giant to perform actions that were impossible before.

The momentum of the charge of the Pride of Iris made Dojeel, who had just felt victory was in his grasp, grit his teeth. He controlled the growing flesh and blood of the Twisted Titan to attack the knight. This flesh and blood intertwined in the air and turned into long whips carrying enormous power. A single touch could knock the knight's mech back hundreds of meters!

Komi was not afraid at all. He had complete control over everything about the knight and felt the surging power flowing with his own will. He seized the opportunity and swung the chainsaw sword fiercely. The sharp serrations were wrapped with pale souls, and before they even touched the flesh and blood whips, they began to peel away the chaotic power that seeped into them.

Puff puff puff...

The flesh-and-blood whip was easily cleaved, and a large amount of blood mixed with oil splattered onto the Pride of Iris, then flowed down the Soul Armor to both sides, completely unable to contaminate the knight's outer shell.

Cut one off, and there will be many more!

Koken did not let up, swinging his chainsaw back and forth to cut the flesh whips one by one. Then, seizing the opportunity of the fifth attack, he strode forward and deliberately lured all the flesh whips to gather in front of the knight.

Seeing hundreds of whips forming an impenetrable wall, the Knight Soul once again complained about Komi's recklessness. He said, "Your performance just now was indeed good, but you lack the ability to observe the battlefield. Didn't you realize that you were about to be surrounded by these whips? Even if you could cut ten in one go, the remaining whips would tear us to shreds! Felix would never make such a mistake! Now hand over control to me, and I can still dodge if I try!"

"Just cut them all in half, why are you dodging!"

Ignoring the machine spirit's advice, Komi used his soul to powerfully suppress the machine spirit's control over his body and bravely went forward. At that moment, he seemed to hear Dogel's cowardly sigh of relief.

Chapter 551: Investment Failure, Debt Collectors at the Door

The knight's desperate slash was utterly powerless compared to the surging wall of whips. The machine spirit also remained silent, resigned to its fate. Although it did not kill the twisted titan, it at least died on the way to the front lines, which was not a disgrace to the thousands of honors it had won in the past.

In this battlefield, only Komi had complete confidence in his attack, and the attack did not disappoint him.

boom!

The thunderous sound, unlike the sound of a whip being sliced ​​through, echoed throughout the battlefield. Even the main cannon fire of an Emperor-class Titan could not compare to the earth-shattering sound of this attack.

The long whip of flesh and blood that had formed a high wall exploded and disintegrated inch by inch, turning into clumps of soft, rotten flesh that flew into the sky and then fell to every corner of the factory.

At this moment, Dorjeer was stunned. He stared in disbelief, his eyes twitching, completely unable to comprehend how the knight could break through all the whips he had tried so hard to control with a single blow.

Could it be that the Corpse King has truly set his sights on him? On that Saint Otto? But how could that be? The great Dark Gods have all said that the Corpse King is too busy to care for himself; he is merely a desiccated corpse trapped on his throne, living a life worse than death!

Impossible... impossible...

Dorjeer muttered with trembling lips, but the more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed. Even being inside the Twisted Titan couldn't give him any sense of security at this moment.

The soldiers who witnessed this miracle were in high spirits. Some of them shouted wildly that this was a miracle sent by the Savior, and ordered them to completely end the chaos on Iron Star today.

"Forward! Forward! Forward!"

The soldiers charged forward, shouting as they charged. The chaotic, corrupting aura emanating from the twisted Titan was momentarily unable to withstand the roars of their voices.

Knight Soul was also in shock. He had experienced that attack most deeply. The power unleashed by that single slash was deeply engraved in his heart, and he would never forget it in his lifetime.

The lingerie that had just given him such a stellar performance didn't seem so appealing anymore...

"Who exactly are you...?"

The Machine Soul wanted to ask Komi if he had done anything wrong or was carrying any technological relics that Komi didn't know about, but Komi was only thinking about killing the Twisted Titan. He drove the Knight forward, stepping on the flesh and blood left by the whip, like an invincible blade. No matter how much Dogel struggled, he couldn't slow down his pace.

"Don't come any closer! Don't come any closer! You damned cursed creature!" Dojeel roared, and the Twisted Titan, gripped by his terror, leaned back.

Komi once again embarked on the broken path that led to the heart of the twisted Titan, and leaped at the end.

The final stretch towards the heart of the twisted titan was no easy feat; with each heartbeat, a storm of chaotic energy surged through the knight.

It was only thanks to Komi's soul that the Knight's mech was protected; otherwise, with such a high concentration of chaotic energy, even if Dogel hadn't intervened, the souls of Filin and the Knight's mech would have fallen into endless murmurs and distortions.

Before the Soul Armor was stripped away by the increasingly dense chaotic energy, the knight's chainsword pierced the heart of the Twisted Titan, killing this nightmarish machine that had desecrated nature.

The Twisted Titan didn't even howl; it tilted its head back and disintegrated. Dorjeel, who was hidden inside, was crushed to death by the collapsing flesh and steel. The furnace that cast the Titan's body also collapsed after letting out a groan of unbearable pressure, smashing deep pits into the factory floor.

Komi controlled the knight to dig out of the Titan's wreckage. The knight was covered in blood, a sight too painful to look at. Komi raised his chainsaw sword and used the knight's megaphone to announce that they had won the final victory in this arduous battle.

"Yay! Savior! Saint is invincible!" The soldiers also raised their weapons to celebrate that they had saved the planet from falling into hell, but at that moment, the dead Titan's body emitted a strange gurgling sound.

Is Dorjeer not quite dead yet?

Komi turned around and saw a phantom of a demon floating behind the knight. The demon seemed uninterested in Komi and instead searched the remains of the Titan.

"Ah, you're here."

As soon as the demon spoke, Koji immediately understood the demon's allegiance. He was not under the command of the Four Gods, but a debt collector serving Vashtor. Clearly, he wanted to recoup the investment in building the Twisted Titan from Dorjel.

Dorjeer's soul was held in the demon's hand. He tried to beg for mercy and explain in terror, but the demon gave him no chance and stuffed his fingers into his mouth to start calculating the score.

"You promised to dedicate this world to the Lord, and now I see only utter failure in you. I believe you are unable to fulfill your promise, so I will take my own measures to recoup our losses." The demonic hand reached into Dorjeel's soul, expanding it with a single stroke. It coldly and arrogantly destroyed Dorjeel's soul, using it as the core to send all the remaining living beings in this world into the warp, to eternally toil in Vashtor's hellish factory.

The demon's attitude of not treating himself as a human naturally angered Koken. In the City of Flawlessness alone, he imprisoned many demons of higher status than this demon to work for him.

"Hey! Did I give you permission to steal my prey?" Koji said coldly. The demon rolled his eyes and immediately laughed when he saw that it was a small knight talking to him.

"Insignificant mortal, weak machine. Have you been blinded by this iron coffin? I can turn your machine into a tormenting cage whenever I want."

"Oh? You're amazing." Komi narrowed his eyes and tugged on the cable, making the chainsaw sword explode with an even louder sound.

"Looks like you really want to die." The demon shook his head at Koji's stupidity, then glared at him, and countless pieces of junk code flowed into the knight's body along with his gaze.

Ha... Let's get lost in the madness of noisy gibberish.

The demon, picturing the knight's wretched state as he struggled in agony, turned his gaze back to continue extracting the last vestige of value from Dorjeel's soul.

"Aren't you getting excited too soon?"

The sound suddenly came, and the demon was startled. He turned around and found that the knight had not been paralyzed by the impact of the waste code. Instead, he had restrained the waste code in the Avenger Gatling gun with its barrel tilted and unable to move.

"what?"

The demon was shocked. He had never seen anyone resist the onslaught of obfuscated code so easily. Even the highly intelligent Iron Men built during the golden age of humanity would take several minutes to completely erase the obfuscated code.

However, how could Komi tell this debt-collecting demon about the cooperation between Markas and Vashtor? He simply opened the rift to the pure white hall, intending to take in this demon who regarded him as nothing and cast him into bricks.

Chapter 552: Vashtor, who follows the rules

"Dog! Mimi! You two, cripple this guy and bring him here!"

With a thought in his mind, two demons lurking in the darkness pounced on him from the left and right. One bit the demon's throat, while the other bound the demon's lower body tightly, rendering it unable to move.

"Let me tell you, if you touch me, my family won't let you get away with it!" the demon screamed, all his previous arrogance and disdain vanished.

Gu Jian pursed his lips and slowly replied, "I understand, it's just the employee rights in your contract."

"How do you know about the contract...who exactly are you?"

"Who am I? I am Saint Otto, the Savior's Walker!"

The Komi chainsaw slashed down fiercely, capturing the demon's soul amidst the demon's scream.

While Vashtor was busy in the Tau Empire, he also noticed that a demonic soul that owed him countless debts had suddenly disappeared from his senses. He raised his head and looked up at the smooth, flat ceiling.

At this moment, Vashtor did not reveal his true form, but instead resided in the body of a Tu clan technician of the Tau Empire. This technician was a complete radical in the Tu clan. In order to improve the technology of the Tau Empire, he abandoned all morality and conscience, and only used the most indifferent eyes to search for the data that had been obtained at the cost of countless lives, and to think about where this data could push the Tau Empire.

Although the Tau Empire preached a path of supreme good based on harmony, the Aether, as the ruler, also knew that some evil was necessary. Therefore, they did not criticize the Tu clan technician's behavior, but simply moved his work underground to be carried out secretly.

As a great demon born from brutal technology, Vashtor admired engineers and scientists who would stop at nothing to pursue progress. Although the souls of the Tau people were indeed as thin as Markars said, making him feel that these people were no different from the dead, Vashtor still found an opportunity to corrupt this Tu clan technician and turn him into a puppet for his activities in the Tau Empire.

During this time, he did not forget Markarth's warning. He focused on his research, restrained his demonic nature, carefully dealt with the Aetherians' inquiries, and avoided the Krutians with their keen sense of smell.

He has now firmly established himself in the Tau Empire and indirectly propelled the Tau Empire to launch one expansion operation after another, allowing this nascent interstellar civilization to occupy 85% of their barren star sector.

Now only the orcs of the Red Sun District remain to be dealt with. Once these warlike creatures are wiped out by the Tau Empire's army and the planets teeming with their spores are burned to the ground, Vashtor will guide the Tau Empire across the Gulf of Damocles to seize profits in the war between the Tau Empire and the human empire.

As a warmonger operating behind the scenes, Vashtor knew exactly how to escalate a war and tempt both sides to abandon their conscience and use the terrible weapons he provided.

"What's that noise..." Vashtor stared at the ceiling for a long time until the bee beside him beeped, reminding him that his silence would affect the product's results. Vashtor then came to his senses and decided to finish his work before considering the disappearance of the demon employees.

As an ambitious man determined to become the fifth god of chaos, Vashtor possesses abilities matching his ambition; the intricate and complex machines in his hands are no different from sandcastles built by children.

If he wanted, he could advance the technological capabilities of the Tau Empire by hundreds of years in a matter of seconds. The reason he was dawdling in this private laboratory was simply to avoid alerting the Aethers.

You can be a genius, but you can't be this genius, can you?

The mechanical bees guarding him were also improvements made by Vastor after reviewing the engineering results of the Tu clan technicians. They were cheaper, more intelligent, and could almost be regarded as talking companion pets, rather than the servo skulls that were rampant in the Mechanicus, which operated solely by pre-written logic codes.

Of course, Vashtor did this not out of kindness, but simply because, like a rancher, he hoped that his herds could reproduce more and better, so he provided some help.