Warhammer: Empire Reboot

"Rejected," Barak scoffed.

Iron Warriors may accept defeat, but the Fourth Legion's doctrine dictates that an enemy fortress must never survive intact.

"Issue the final order."

Barak transmitted the signal directly to the remaining Thinkers on the surface via neural links: "The remaining forces of the Sixth Landing Wedge are to advance across the entire front, abandon defense, and relentlessly pursue the enemy's battle order. Chaos Knights and Demon Engines are to execute suicidal counter-charges."

"Sir, that's sending them to their deaths."

"That is precisely their value."

Barak's single eye flashed with a cruel, cold light. "Notify the Earth's core drilling team to advance the 'Earth's Core Blasting Anchor' toward the Earth's core energy spine at all costs."

"Iron Cage Throne, upload the final brute-force authorization password."

He stared at the metallic planet on the star map. "If surface authorization is blocked, the flagship will cut off the life support system, fully charge the payload, and prepare to carry out an orbital detonation, heading straight for Agrippina's equatorial core."

"They've reclaimed the surface, so let him guard a cracked dead star."

……

Agrippina, the main star, ahead of the sixth landing wedge.

Chaos' last line of defense opened fire.

Tens of thousands of rebel Astraklan soldiers, mutated slaves, and cultists were driven out of the trenches by slingshot guns.

Their goal was not victory, but to fill Agrippina's fire control field of vision with mountains of corpses and to drain the enemy's ammunition pool with flesh and blood.

The Butcher and Iron Demon engines crawled out from the two side bunkers, and five surviving Chaos Knight mechs pressed forward under heavy fire.

Behind the position, twelve giant abandoned code towers were activated at full power, and black subspace logic viruses swept across the battlefield in a radial pattern, impacting Agrippina's defense network.

Fifty thousand enhanced Thunder Death Warriors, like a black torrent bursting its banks, crashed head-on into the chaotic sea of ​​slave soldiers.

Six thousand heavily armored bear guards split into two groups, forming a metal wall, and roared as they pressed forward.

A thousand elite White Tiger warriors, hidden in the storm, are ready to carry out a mobile decapitation strike at any moment.

The battle instantly intensified.

The Thunder Warriors charged into the rebel ranks like red-hot knives slicing through rotting flesh.

The Chaos Slaves raised their heavy riot shields in an attempt to slow the charge, but the front-line assassins didn't fire a single shot.

They crashed into the shield wall at a speed of 70 kilometers per hour.

In the instant the slave soldiers lost their balance, the assassin grabbed the edge of the shield with one hand, and with a muffled cracking sound of bones breaking, forcibly overturned the man and shield together.

When faced with a welded-on armored door, the suicide soldier would pull the chainsaw axe motor to its overload limit, braving the spraying sparks, and saw a crack in the half-meter-thick armor.

A slave overseer fired heavy explosives, one of which blew flesh and blood off the side of one of the assassins.

But the soldier didn't even flinch, braving the hail of bullets to rush in front of the foreman, shoving the gun barrel directly into the gap in the foreman's helmet and pulling the trigger.

Suicide squad members can be injured or killed in action.

As one platoon of suicide soldiers was sliced ​​apart by the laser net, the ranks behind them, like a painless meat grinder, unhesitatingly trampled over the remains of their comrades, continuing to unleash a hail of bullets from the same firing point and angle.

The front line didn't pause for even a millisecond.

The steel warriors, hiding behind the iron cage bunker, watched this scene with cold sweat seeping from their gun-gripping hands.

"Charge! Crush the infantry!"

Three Chaos Knights, supported by their Demon Engines, launched a counter-attack.

Having learned from past mistakes, the Chaos Knight's lower body was covered with anti-assault explosive reactive armor, and its accompanying molten turrets were firmly locked onto the ground.

The first group of Xiong Wei went to greet them.

"boom!"

Just as the foremost bear guard raised his shield to his left leg, his reactive armor detonated. The violent explosion, mixed with molten heat, instantly burned through the centurion's heavy armor of one of the bear guards.

The bear guard, whose chest was burned through, let out a low growl and forcefully wedged his massive body and tower shield into the path of the knight's mech as it was about to land.

He used his own life to force Chaos Knight to pause for half a second.

Just this half-second.

The Thunder Death Squad slid into the minefield, stepping on the captured armor wreckage, and precisely detonated the molten metal, causing a chain reaction of explosions that overturned the accompanying Demon Engine.

At the same time, the rear-line engineering troops received the unified fire network command and pressed the detonator.

"Crack!"

The solidified rock beneath the Chaos Knight's feet had long been hollowed out for support. The ground collapsed with a deafening roar, and the heavy mech's left leg sank into a five-meter-deep crater.

The fourth and fifth bears, propelled by the anti-gravity thrust, leaped high into the air, their powered hammers slamming into the exposed hydraulic columns with a sonic boom. The main shaft broke.

Dozens of suicide bombers swarmed onto the fuselage like maggots clinging to bones, stuffing high-explosive molten metal into the heat dissipation vents on the back.

Violence is direct, carrying a suffocating physical weight.

……

Modrak, the surface deputy commander and siege lord, watched the battle lines crumble through the surveillance cameras.

He decisively led his elite Terminator Guard to retreat to the secondary command fortress, sixty meters underground.

All he needs to do is stay inside this tortoise shell and buy time for the Earth's core explosive anchor.

This anti-powered armor killing array has only one narrow entrance, the corridor is filled with crossfire ports and plasma traps, and at the depths are two-meter-thick adamantite blast doors.

Fifteen Terminators lined up in ambush, and the anti-teleportation anchor was operating at full power, enough to tear any jumper apart.

Modrak stared at the blast door at the entrance.

Time passed, and the corridor remained silent.

A chill ran through Modrak's heart, and he looked up abruptly.

"boom!"

The life support passage on the left side of the fortress was breached by a directional blast.

With the terrifying computing power of swarm intelligence, Lawson deduced the structural weaknesses of the fortress by analyzing the distribution of surface firepower and the trajectory of ammunition movements.

Instead of crawling through the narrow pipe, the hundred White Tiger assassins used high-explosive thermal melting to directly melt through the rock strata above.

They fell like hammers from the sky, crashing down on the flank and rear of the Terminator ambush formation.

The moment it landed, the white tiger formed a shield wall.

Terminator turned around in shock and anger and opened fire, the heavy bombs creating blue ripples on the Storm Shield.

"For Perturabo!" Modrak roared, piloting his siege exoskeleton and wielding a giant drill as he charged into the battle, smashing a White Tiger warrior away.

As a siege lord, his combat power is terrifying.

But the White Tiger assassins had no intention of engaging in one-on-one combat. The three captains simultaneously attacked from three blind spots.

Just as Modrak was about to force his way around, the Hellbrass Power Axe transformed into a cold light, cleaving through the thick adamantite armor on his chest.

Modrak stood frozen in place, staring at the expressionless White Tiger Captain, black blood trickling from the corner of his mouth as he let out a chilling laugh:

"You've killed the wrong person."

……

Modrak was killed in battle, and the surface secondary fortress was captured.

Logically, without supreme command, the position should be completely paralyzed. However, the alarm bells from the wartime command center in Losen were extremely high.

The electronic voice of the Xbox blared urgently:

"My lord! The protocol for the Earth Core Blasting Anchor has been physically locked. Modrak is not the ultimate authorizer; the surface is merely the execution terminal!"

"The people who truly hold the key to authorization are in space."

The encrypted signal source was locked on the holographic star map.

Lawson instantly understood. The old fox Barak had never set foot on the surface. He sat in his space flagship, using Agrippina as a chessboard, and using surface troops to cover the demolition anchor.

Lawson issued two extremely simple instructions:

"The ship has been found."

"Nail it in."

……

Agrippina's unified fire network instantly changed the logic.

The orbital scanning matrix concentrates computing power to frantically search the ruins.

The Iron Cage Throne was well hidden, its engine glow extinguished, concealed behind the wreckage of the space station and the Void Shield buoys.

Blindly firing can lead to being lured by false targets, while using the Earth's magnetic railgun may accidentally damage the ring defense line.

Lawson chose the oldest solution in the Warhammer universe.

To board the ship.

"Loading solid armor-piercing torpedoes."

The specially designed boarding torpedo was pushed into the launch silo, and the extremely compressed crew compartment carried only two suicide soldiers.

"emission."

The torpedo, trailing a hundred-meter-long plume of flame, hurtled toward outer orbit with terrifying acceleration.

The Iron Cage Throne's air defense network opened instantly, with thousands of interceptor missiles and lasers weaving together into a net.

The torpedoes weaved through the wreckage, their ablation-resistant armor pierced, and their tail fins trembled.

Just as it was about to be intercepted, the Agrippina surface air defense array and the railgun opened fire simultaneously.

They used extremely precise cross-missile interception to detonate all the chaotic firepower attempting to intercept them in mid-air.

They managed to carve out a narrow, physics-limit-level survival passage for the torpedo within the airtight air defense network.

"boom!!"

The armor-piercing torpedo slammed into the side of the Iron Cage Throne. Amidst the severe deformation, two suicide soldiers acting as anchor points climbed out of the hatch.

A suicide soldier, with both legs severed, clung tightly to the broken automatic turret to provide cover;