Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Another person activated the static coordinates with their mutilated body.

Anchor point established.

Far below the surface, Lawson drew his power sword: "Charge!"

……

The Iron Cage Throne, side passageway.

The boarding force did not rush forward all at once. The White Tiger elites took the lead, followed closely by the Thunder Death Squad, the Bear Guards squeezed in by bending over, and the T-series mechanical death squads, carrying decryption equipment, brought up the rear.

Lawson walked last.

This is a truly vicious iron cage.

The passage was narrow, filled with hidden compartments, and heavy gates fell one after another. Semi-mechanical demon engines were embedded in the walls, and dense junk codes interfered with everything.

The first group of Thunder Death Squad members who rushed into the unfamiliar passage were instantly shattered by the crossfire from inside the walls.

In the instant of death, swarm intelligence has already updated the firing points, traps, and wall thickness to the entire army's tactical network.

"Advance!"

The White Tiger elites formed a shield wall and pushed forward.

Upon encountering the welded gate, Xiong Wei strode forward, smashing the gate frame with three consecutive blows of his power hammer, and tearing the adamantite gate apart with his bare hands.

When encountering a blocked code, the T-series assassin extends its servo arm, physically severing and overwriting the chaotic access control.

Lawson walked in the center, his mind stirring slightly.

108 molecular-level shadow wheels roared out. The supersonic discs sliced ​​through the ceiling and ventilation ducts like a silver storm, instantly flattening the probe's cannon barrel, severing the skulls of the ambush observation posts, and turning the newly awakened demonic engines into mangled flesh and scrap metal by the chaotic blades.

This was a brutal and inhumane massacre inside the ship.

The steel warrior tried to fight like a trapped beast, but Lawson treated the iron cage as a dismantling workshop for assembly line work.

After breaking through numerous obstacles, the assault team reached the core bridge.

Three lines of defense stood in their way: an all-encompassing armored machine gun emplacement, the Terminator veterans of the plasma tortoise shell formation, and the demonic engine and the shrine of obliterated codes embedded in the walls.

"Clear the first channel."

Hundreds of Thunder Warriors roared as they charged forward, heavy bombs piercing their bodies, and even after losing both legs, they crawled on the ground throwing molten metal.

They used their lives to forcibly extinguish the first layer of fire.

"White Tiger, press down."

The Storm Shield clashed with the Terminator lines, and the two sides engaged in a close-quarters battle within five meters.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xiong Wei deployed his forces in the spacious front hall. Under the scorching heat of the demon engines, the power hammers pounded the walls, uprooting and smashing the demon engines inside.

The T-series assassins plunged data needles into the altar of obsolete codes.

The subspace virus counterattacked, attempting to burn the core, but with the support of the massive swarm's computing power, the T-series assassins expressionlessly isolated, burned, and cleared the virus layer by layer.

"boom!"

With a combined attack from the three bear guards, the main gate of refined gold collapsed with a crash.

As the smoke cleared, at the end of the long staircase, Barak Volgan sat on his iron cage throne. Thick cables bound him tightly to the warship. He was the true nerve center of this siege force.

"It was you who shattered the earth's surface," Barak's voice echoed.

Lawson stepped onto the stairs.

“But a fortress is never breached through its gates.” Barak’s mechanical fingers slid slowly across the wall.

“That’s why I’m here to dismantle the command center,” Lawson sneered.

"Killing me won't stop the explosive anchor. The countdown is irreversible."

Lawson looked up: "It didn't stop only after I killed you. It had already stopped."

Barak's one eye suddenly shrank.

In the retinal feedback, the progress bar for the explosive anchor is stuck. Far away in the core of Agrippina, Xerox and the T-series assassins have seized physical control.

This was the first time Barak had breached the defenses since the start of the war.

"Kill him!"

Battle broke out.

The throne erected a miniature void shield, and four heavily loaded mechanical arms crashed down.

Hidden turrets on both sides unleashed lasers as the remaining Terminators desperately flanked them. Barak's fingers blurred into afterimages as he attempted to manually reactivate the authorization.

"Clear the area."

White Tiger and Thunder Death Squad counterattacked Terminator, while Bear Guard held up his shield against the mechanical arm and internal cannon, opening a straight path for Lawson.

108 shadow wheels transformed into streams of light, frantically slicing through the gun control nodes and the void shield generator.

Barak seized the opportunity and the throne siege cannons opened fire.

A solid armor-piercing round accurately struck Lawson in the chest.

The immense kinetic energy slammed it into the side alloy wall, creating a deep crater.

“Your arrogance ends here.” Barak stared at the hole in the wall and continued typing.

"Click-click-click..."

The liquefied metal in the living body undulated and moved, instantly forcibly repositioning Lawson's sunken chest and broken bones.

He stepped out from behind the wall and threw away the broken power sword.

"He's starting to look like a steel warrior."

The pure [Imperial Golden Fire] was instantly drawn out and attached to 108 shadow wheels.

The golden swarm of bees rushed toward the throne, cutting off the power supply, burning out the hydraulic system, and hunting down discarded chips.

Barak was forced to divert his attention to the defense.

The progress bar at the Earth's core started jumping slowly again.

In that fraction of a second of Barak’s distraction, a mass of liquid, living metal smeared all the optical lenses on his helmet.

At the same time, the black hole projection behind Lawson suddenly expanded, and absolute gravity completely blocked subspace perception in the area.

Blinding both physically and spiritually!

The golden flames suddenly coalesced, transforming into a three-meter-long battle scythe.

The first strike was a diagonal slash from bottom to top, severing the nerve cables; the second strike was a horizontal sweep, splitting open the siege exoskeleton breastplate; the third strike was a straight thrust, piercing through the chest cavity and shattering the heart and ship's core.

The red light in Barak's single eye quickly dimmed.

[System notification: Successfully intercepted the soul of a high-level chaotic mutant.]

[Soul analysis in progress... Access granted: Supreme command authority over the Iron Cage Throne / Demolition Anchor Backup Shutdown Protocol / System-wide Evacuation Route Map / Hidden Ammunition Depot Coordinates / Orbital Detonation Termination Code.]

War blacksmith Barak Volgan has been confirmed dead.

With Barak's death, the progress bar of the Earth Core Demolition Anchor came to a complete standstill, and was subsequently reset to zero by Xerath's actions.

The deadly orbital detonation protocol of the Iron Cage Throne was also forcibly frozen by the T-series mechanical assassins.

Without the unified command and control of this shipboard brain, the entire massive flagship was completely reduced to a dead city.

"Leave no remnants of chaos behind."

“Paint this ship like a double-headed eagle.”

The White Tiger elite forces began clearing out the remaining enemy forces on the bridge and command level.

The Thunder Death Squad surged into the gun corridors, barracks, and lower passages like a tidal wave.

Xiong Wei swung his giant hammer, smashing open the armored door of the hangar and shattering the unstarted demon engines into a pile of parts.

The T-series mechanical assassins have taken full control of the flagship's power core, environmental system, and fire control matrix.

On the outer orbit, Agrippina's unified fire network locked onto all the escape pods ejected from the Iron Cage Throne.

Railguns and laser arrays fired relentlessly, blasting away anyone who tried to escape, creating bursts of despair in space.

On the surface, the combat sequence simultaneously launched the final clearing operation.

The Chaos remnants, now without command, scurried aimlessly through the ruins like headless flies, only to be felled one by one by the chainsaw axes of the Thunder Death Squad.

Behind the front lines, the Cornerstone Sequence pushed its equipment and began systematically recovering the battlefield, cleaning up the contamination, and moving the valuable armor wreckage.

……

Agrippina's wartime central command.

With the final gunshot, the last red landing wedge representing chaos on the ground was extinguished completely.

At the same time, the icon of the eight-kilometer-class flagship Iron Cage Throne, which was originally marked in red on the outer orbit, slowly flashed, eventually settling on pure white, representing absolute control.

"My lord, on Agrippina, the main force of Chaos has been completely wiped out. The Earth Core Demolition Anchor has been physically removed. The core authority of the enemy flagship, the Iron Cage Throne, has been transferred, and all compartments have been cleared."

Battlefield recovery operations are proceeding at full speed.

The Iron Cage Throne, the temporary communications layer behind the bridge.

The T-series assassins have cleared a clean area here and forcibly connected the data link to the Agrippina Planetary Fire Control Temple.

Lawson contacted Dante, the Dark Regent, hundreds of light-years away, through a suicide messenger, to inform him of the battle's outcome.

Chapter Leader Gabriel Seth of the Fleshbreakers stood beside Dante, thick black demon blood still dripping from his iconic massive two-handed chainsword, clearly having just finished an extremely brutal spaceboarding battle.

"Agrippina Main Planet, invaders cleared."

"Iron Warriors Siege Cluster, Annihilate."

"The war blacksmith Barak has been killed."

"Enemy flagship, the Iron Cage Throne, has been captured."

Dante knew exactly where Agrippina was.

He envisioned that Lawson could hold the line with that strange army of assassins, and even repel the enemy's attack.

But he never imagined that Lawson would not only flatten the Iron Warriors' siege formation head-on, but also dig out the enemy's command brain.