Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Chapter 309 The Great Rift Heals, the Emperor Delegates Power

boom!

Holy golden flames swept across the entire council hall.

The Black Legion veterans, who had surrounded the area from both sides, were engulfed in flames along with their power armor, the chaotic enchantments and souls on their armor surfaces peeling away in the golden fire.

Abaddon bravely charged out of the inferno despite the blast wave.

The battle blade, crackling with ethereal arcs that seemed to tear through dimensions, cleaved straight for the Emperor's head!

Abaddon's blade bounced back the instant it made contact, and he staggered back several steps due to the recoil, his iron boots carving two furrows into the adamantite floor.

Before he could regain his balance, the emperor's figure had already appeared in front of him as if by teleportation.

Click!

The heavy battle blade, forged in the Omen Ark's forge with heavy metals and demonic essence, broke off from the middle of its spine.

The golden sword light continued its momentum, slashing diagonally downwards and cleaving open Abaddon's left shoulder armor.

Blood gushed from the torn seams of his armor, staining the war commander's insignia on his chest.

The gap in strength is so vast that no further testing is needed.

Abaddon looked at the broken blade, now only half intact, and a cold smile crept across his face.

He casually tossed the broken sword at his feet.

He knew that this was the end of it all.

Years ago on Vigilant Planet, Lawson's giant axe fell on his head. It was only when the four Chaos Gods reached out from the depths of the Aether that he was pulled back from the dead end into the Warp.

At this very moment, the gaze of the four gods rests upon the Ark of Ominous Signs.

But no divine power dared to interfere with reality anymore.

The war general, who had ruled over demons for millennia, lowered his body and gripped the electric claws on his left arm.

"The Black Legion..."

Abaddon took a deep breath and let out his last growl: "Forward!"

Boots shattered the ground as the black-clad warrior launched his final, desperate charge.

The emperor watched the figure rushing towards him.

puff.

The golden blade sliced ​​into Abaddon's right shoulder and emerged from his left waist and abdomen.

The Terminator armor was sliced ​​in two like paper before the Divine Blade.

Abaddon's body propelled him forward several more steps due to inertia.

A golden line ran across his torso, and then, holy flames burst forth from the incision.

Abaddon lowered his head, looking at his body turning into particles of light, and muttered to himself, "It's over."

Golden flames engulfed his entire body.

Black Warrior Abaddon fell on his final charge.

There will never be another fourteenth Black Expedition.

The dozen or so Black Legion veterans remaining in the council hall stared at the spot where the war general had turned to ashes. They remained silent for a moment in the deathly silence of the hall, then raised the explosive guns in their hands.

The emperor spoke calmly: "Then let's all come to an end together."

Golden flames roared and swept through, annihilating the last batch of Chaos Lords in the hall.

……

After the smoke cleared in the main hall, Lawson strolled forward, glanced at the command post, then raised his right hand and snapped his fingers in mid-air.

Snapped.

A sudden, agonizing groan erupted from the interior of the entire Ominous Ark.

Lawson's real authority spread along the keel network of the warship.

He merely gave a new physical definition to the material constants of this region; the welding points between tens of thousands of armor plates no longer possessed the binding force of the metal lattice.

The mutated alloy, hardened by the flesh and blood of demons, reverted to its amorphous mineral state.

The gravitational balance of the twelve anti-gravity load-bearing nodes that support the operation of the entire ark has been reduced to zero.

Click...

A fissure several kilometers long opened up directly beneath the bridge and then spread out like a spider web to all the compartments of the ark.

This flagship, traversing the stars, was like a giant city whose supporting pillars had been removed, beginning to disintegrate layer by layer from the inside out in deep space.

The super-gold armor, stretching for tens of kilometers, detached from the keel, and the Hongpao turret, along with its base, floated into the void, while the internal corridors broke and collapsed one after another.

Tens of thousands of Chaos Guards and War Clan cultivators, who had not yet reacted, fell into the vacuum along with the deck beneath their feet.

As for those mutated warriors whose bodies and powered armor were fused together, their microscopic molecular bonds collapsed the instant the authority of reality swept over them, and their bodies and armor turned into sand, dissipating into gray-white dust in just a few seconds and disappearing into deep space.

The dome and floor of the Ominous Ark collapsed.

The Emperor and Lawson stood side by side on the void coordinates that originally belonged to the council hall.

All around was a pitch-black, cold universe.

In the far distance, the etheric storm of the Eye of Fear resembled a massive wound piercing the sea of ​​stars.

Within the visible airspace, hundreds of Black Legion warships had already detected the flagship's unusual movements.

"Ominous Ark disintegrates!"

"Locate the core debris area!"

"All guns, fire at full power!!"

The news of the commander's fall had not yet reached every warship, but the fleet's tactical formation had already completed the fire control switch immediately.

Hundreds of cruisers and strike barges adjusted their posture, shipborne light lances began to charge, and the macro gun array raised its muzzle in unison.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Hundreds of spears tore through the deep sky, and tens of thousands of heavy cannon shells, trailing flames, covered the airspace where the two were located like a meteor shower. Behind them, dozens of thermonuclear torpedoes and plasma fireballs roared in.

Such a salvo from the fleet would be enough to melt the crust of a small satellite into magma.

Lawson remained calm and casually made a gesture with his right hand in the air.

Space curvature reconstruction.

When the first beam of light approached within a hundred meters of the two, the originally straight high-energy beam deflected outward at a large angle.

Hundreds of light spears, powerful enough to pierce the earth's crust, outlined an arc of light around the two, sliding along the spacetime path bent by Lawson towards the deep space on both sides.

As for the massive cannonballs rushing towards them, Lawson simply stretched the local spatial scale in front of them.

The solid metal bullet, which seemed to be getting close, could not physically cross those final few hundred meters.

Then, with a slight flick of his finger, the microscopic inertial vector was deflected in the opposite direction.

Thousands upon thousands of shells turned around in mid-air, whistling through the air as they crashed back into the Black Legion's own formation!

Rumble!!

In the distance, the void shields of several Chaos Cruisers shattered one after another, their armor plates blasted into fireballs by friendly fire.

The emperor looked down at his feet.

Although the surrounding area is absolute zero and a vacuum, within a ten-meter radius of the two people, gravity remains constant at a standard level, the air pressure is stable within the optimal range, and the temperature is comfortable.

The emperor raised his war boots and stomped them in the air, feeling as if he were walking on flat ground.

The human lord sheathed his sword, a hint of a smile flashing in his eyes: "It seems that from now on, I'll have to get used to standing in your territory on the front lines."

Lawson responded, "It's not a matter of who is dependent on whom; we're just fighting side by side for the survival of humanity."

The emperor was silent for a moment, then nodded: "For the sake of humanity."

The two looked back into deep space.

The Black Legion's fleet formation had begun to crumble, with some warships realizing that conventional firepower was meaningless and starting to try to break away from the fire net and disperse.

Lawson brought up the swarm network and coldly observed the enemy beacons on the star map.

In the past few years, with the Eye of Terror locked down by the Seventh Blackrock Fortress and 120 Battle Moons, Abaddon has gathered all of the Black Legion's ships around the Ominous Ark in order to maintain morale.

This also saved Lawson the trouble of clearing out each star system one by one.

"Since we've gathered all of you here, let's clean it up today."

Lawson's real authority spread out like a net, following the coordinates of each warship marked by the swarm.

A few light-seconds later, the first Chaos heavy cruiser, which was preparing to turn, shuddered.

Alarms sounded inside the bridge. Although the engines were operating at full power, the tensile strength of the main keel, which was bearing the acceleration along the ship's centerline, was reduced by 90% in an instant by Lawson.

collapse!

Under the backlash of the engine thrust, the warship, which was several kilometers long, was torn in two from the waist.

The second battlecruiser to attempt to evade, Rosen, reset the relative inertial constants of its bow and stern.

The bow completed a 30-degree sharp turn, while the stern maintained its original high-speed straight-line motion.

The entire warship was twisted into a metal braid by its own momentum in space, and then disintegrated in a burst of fire.

The third warship activated the Geller force field, attempting to plunge into the subspace rift.

However, its physical coordinates were welded shut by Lawson with the power of reality, and space refused to be torn apart.

The overloaded warp drive could not release its energy and instantly turned into a supernova in the belly of the warship, blasting the entire ship into countless fragments.

The entire deep space collapsed physically.

The rebel fleet emptied all its weapons, but all the beams and ammunition slid away when they entered Lawson's area of ​​effect. Meanwhile, the warships themselves disintegrated one after another due to the disorder of the laws of physics, without any external bombardment.

The emperor stood with his hands behind his back in the void, watching this steel graveyard take shape.