Warhammer: Empire Reboot

The first layer features a ground-hugging shadow wheel specifically designed to target the legs.

Vampires, Fleshhounds, and Bloodcrushers—once they enter the area of ​​effect, their legs below the knees are chopped off.

The demon will not die immediately as a result.

However, their charging speed was cut off.

The second layer uses a waist-to-abdomen shadow wheel to sweep across dense areas.

They don't chase individual targets; instead, they move against the direction of the demon horde's advance, slicing through bodies piece by piece so that the demons behind them can trample into the chaotic pile of corpses.

The third level involves using high-altitude shadow wheels to hunt down heavy targets.

The muzzle of the skull cannon.

The joints of a brass scorpion.

The wings of a bloodthirsty maniac.

The reaction core of the Demon Engine.

All were individually marked.

In the past, Lawson had to choose among these goals.

Now, the quantity is sufficient to cover all priorities.

The golden flame storm plunged into the sea of ​​blood.

The battlefield, more than 200 kilometers ahead of the Fourth Furnace Zone, was simultaneously divided by silver and gold.

The demon tide is no longer just being blocked.

It was peeled open.

The vampire in the front row was still wielding his sword, but his legs had already disappeared.

They fell forward, their bodies cut in two by the second layer of shadow wheels.

The flesh-and-blood hounds leaped up from behind, and just as they cleared the pile of corpses, the shadow wheel in the sky folded downwards and passed through the skull.

Just as a skull cannon was being loaded, three shrapnels simultaneously entered the breech.

Golden flames burned inside the cannon.

The next second, the entire brass cannon exploded into pieces.

The brass scorpion turned, attempting to sweep away the shadow wheel with its blood-fire melt flow.

There are too many shadow wheels.

Twenty mortars are positioned ahead to attract enemy fire.

Seven were cut into the abdomen from the back.

The other eleven went in along the leg joints.

It only crawled forward three steps before all eight of its legs broke off.

A bloodthirsty berserker swooped down from the edge of the rift.

In the past, Lawson would have needed to concentrate thirty-six shadow wheels to deal with it.

Now, the seventy-two shadow wheels have already surrounded it before it even hits the ground.

The golden flames severed its wing bones, cut open its horn crest, severed its wrists, and finally burrowed into its chest, igniting its very essence.

When the Great Demon crashed into the ground, it was already a corpse.

The core sequence fire control network was adjusted accordingly.

The railguns were no longer wasted on ordinary demons, but instead redirected to blood sacrifice nodes and heavy demon swarms.

Xiong Wei no longer went around putting out fires; he was only responsible for smashing any heavy targets that slipped through the net back into the Shadow Wheel's coverage area.

The power armored assassins used the static force field to jump around continuously, launching a surprise attack on the node behind the demon.

For the first time in eleven days, Khorne was struck by a blank.

In some areas below the rift, the demons' replenishment rate cannot keep up with Lawson's cutting speed.

The crimson tsunami was brutally plowed into furrows by the golden flame storm.

Lawson hangs high in the air.

"Khorne".

"You can fill this place with as many demons as you have."

"I'd like to see whether your sea of ​​blood dries up first, or my meat grinder stops first."

"Whoever can't hold on any longer will kneel down and call me 'father'."

Chapter 176 Xiong Wei upgrades his position on the front lines, Khorne, will you retreat or not?

At the other end of the crimson crack, there was a sudden moment of silence.

In Agrippina's northern hemisphere, the once overwhelming hordes of vampires continued their charge, the flesh hounds still pounced on the defenses like a red flood, and the skull cannons continued to smash burning skulls against the surface fortifications.

The swarm intelligence detected the anomaly.

The rate at which low-level demons surge out has slowed.

The churning of the sea of ​​blood deep within the rift slowed down.

A certain high-density brass reaction is accumulating behind the crack.

It seems that something more violent is being dragged from the depths of the Blood God's bronze throne onto the battlefield.

Lawson's smile faded.

Even though Khorne disdains intrigue, He would never tolerate His sea of ​​blood becoming fodder for His enemies forever.

"coming."

The next moment, footsteps echoed from the depths of the crack.

Like a series of brass battering rams, they are striking the earth on the blood-red wasteland of the warp.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

The crimson light at the edge of the crack gradually darkened, replaced by a heavy brass color.

Then, the first monster squeezed out of the crack.

Standing five meters tall, its body resembles an enlarged and distorted version of the Khorne demon, or a butcher statue cast alive in brass.

Its entire body is covered by a thick brass exoskeleton.

His shoulder armor was studded with skulls, his chest bore a burning eight-fold blood mark, and his back was dragged by chains and a broken battle flag.

Its head had no flesh and blood, only a brass mask.

A vertical crack appeared in the center of the mask, inside which blood and fire churned like a furnace.

It held a giant, decapitated axe in both hands.

After the first monster landed, it did not immediately pounce on the nearest living creature like a normal Khorne demon would.

look up.

Looking into the distance at the array of towers that seem to pierce the sky, one can see the Thinker's Towers.

The second one, the third one, the fourth one...

More and more brass demons are emerging from the cracks.

Eight hundred and eighty-eight heads.

Instead of pouncing on the nearest living creature upon landing like ordinary vampires, they formed eight wedge-shaped lines below the crevice. Ordinary vampires circled around their feet, fleshhounds crouched low, and skull cannons remained further back.

The entire demon horde was actually making way for this bronze-clad army.

Lawson frowned slightly.

He had never seen such a terrifying demon.

It was neither a Blood Crusher Cavalry, nor a Skull Cannon, nor a low-ranking minion of a Bloodthirsty Demon, nor any of the conventional Khorne units that had appeared in the memories of the World Eaters, Iron Warriors, and Death Guards.

[Unknown Khorne Heavy Armor Entity.]

[Tentative name: The Brass Skull Breaker.]

Average height: 5.1 meters.

Average weight: Approximately 9.7 tons.

[Surface material: High-concentration kyrion-blessed brass.]

[Psionic attachment efficiency decreased.]

[Charge Direction: Thinker Array, Orbital Cannon Fire Control Center, Outer Energy Distribution Station of the Grand Forging Temple.]

As Lawson watched their path, a slow smile crept onto his lips.

"You've gotten smarter, huh?"

These brass monsters have a very clear objective.

What they're targeting is the industrial nerve of Agrippina, this meat grinder.

Khorne may not have known Lawson's true resource loop, but he had already seen the key to this war.

As long as the Thinker Array, Fire Control Center, and outer nodes of the Grand Forging Temple are destroyed, Lawson's slaughter efficiency will be slowed down.

Blood God is not incapable of adapting.

He simply disdained the schemes of mortals.

The group of bronze skull fragments before us were the answer that Khorne had temporarily deployed for the battlefields of Lawson and Agrippina.