Warhammer: Empire Reboot

The twelve powered armor suits came back to life.

This means that Lawson now has high-level combat power by his side.

Lawson then turned his attention to the seven Chaos Power Armors that had been retrieved.

The seven Chaos Armor suits sustained varying degrees of combat damage during the raid: helmets shattered by explosives, and neck armor pierced by power swords.

None of them were intact.

However, the Chaos Armor and the Imperial Armor share the same underlying architecture; they were originally standard power armors taken with them when they defected from the Empire.

Using the same cross-assembly logic, the technical team selected the best-preserved parts from the seven broken shells and pieced together the complete shell.

This round is more complex than assembling the remnants of the Empire's armor.

Due to millennia of mutations, some components of the Chaos Armor have developed subtle dimensional deviations, requiring manual adaptation by the technical team.

Living metals once again played a crucial role here.

Between two components that are not perfectly matched in size, a layer of living metal is injected as a smart spacer. Its nano-adaptive properties automatically fill the gap and bond the interfaces on both sides together at the molecular level.

Ultimately, four complete power armor suits were pieced together from the seven fragments of the Chaos Armor.

After being purified from the armory, coated with living metal inside and out, having the swarm mind take over the control system, and being repainted, these four suits of armor are almost indistinguishable from the previous twelve Imperial modified suits in appearance and performance.

Matte tiger-striped base coat, white tiger relief on the chest, with subtle metallic scales.

Only upon close inspection can one notice that the shoulder armor of these four suits is slightly wider than that of the standard MK VII. This is a modification made in the original design of the Chaos Carapace to accommodate the mutated shoulder joints; the mutation disappeared after purification, but the physical structure remained.

Lawson didn't pay attention to this detail.

Wider shoulder armor means thicker ceramic steel plates, which actually provides better protection.

Twelve plus four.

Sixteen suits of powered armor.

Sixteen Class A captains were selected as the first batch of wearers.

Lawson himself didn't have the armor yet, so he had already set his sights on the Chaos Warrior Commander. His power armor was of better quality and materials, making it the perfect fit for modifying the Tiger King armor.

With the help of swarm intelligence, they completed basic adaptive training in less than six hours. The adaptive learning properties of living metal compressed this process from several weeks, which usually takes Astartes, to just a few hours.

By the end of the sixth hour, the sixteen Class A captains were able to perform all the basic tactical maneuvers in their power armor.

Lawson didn't keep them waiting long.

"A3, lead the team out. Target: the orc patrol area on the east side of deck 73. Test combat performance."

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Chapter 68 The Power Armored Assassins' First Test of Skill

East side of deck 73.

This area is the outer perimeter of Gorgar's army's marching route, and small groups of orcs who have broken away from the main force roam around here.

The swarm intelligence approach locked onto the target ten minutes ago.

A patrol of about sixty orc lads and three Norberts was moving eastward along a side passage about five meters wide.

Sixteen armored warriors were positioned in an ambush formation at a T-shaped intersection in the passageway.

Six men blocked the front, while ten men lay in ambush in the flank passage.

Lawson monitored the entire process using swarm intelligence.

The orc patrol came face-to-face with the frontal fire of six power armored figures the moment they turned the corner of the corridor.

Six heavy bomb guns fired simultaneously.

The heavy bomb gun is a standard heavy weapon for power armor. Its recoil is enough to break the shoulder bone of an unarmored human, but thanks to the power armor's servo muscle bundles, the firing posture is as stable as a rock.

In the five-meter-wide passage, the density of twelve heavy bombs made any attempt to dodge a joke.

The eight orc boys in the front row were instantly blasted to pieces by the barrage of comments.

Dark green bits of flesh and bone fragments splattered onto the ceiling.

The first Norber was hit in the left chest and right leg by two heavy bombs in the first salvo.

The bomb in his left chest shattered three ribs, but Norber's secondary heart and redundant organs allowed him to remain standing.

The explosive blast in its right leg shattered its knee joint, and it let out a deafening roar.

"WAAAGH! Big guys! Lots of big guys! Come on, let's fight!"

Dragging its broken leg, it raised the power machete, which was longer than its body, and charged toward the nearest power armor.

Jia San took a step forward.

The force field was activated as the power sword was drawn from the waist.

The pale blue energy blade shone like lightning under the dark red corridor lighting.

Jia San's sword clashed with Norber's cleaver in mid-air.

During the last raid on the Chaos stronghold, Jia San parried the Chaos Warrior's chain axe, and was knocked back half a step by the force of the axe.

This time, Norber's full-force slash landed on the blade of the power sword.

Jia San remained completely still.

Jia San used the same hand that he was using to block to press down, slamming Norber's machete into the ground.

Then the power sword flips and slashes down from above.

The blade, amplified by the force field, cut into the gap in Norber's right shoulder, moving downwards, slicing through his collarbone, pectoral muscles, and three ribs, until it was stopped by his spine.

Norber’s right arm, along with half of his shoulder, was separated from his torso.

It glanced down at its severed right arm, then used its remaining left hand to grab the blade of the power sword of the third warrior, just as the Chaos Warrior had done before.

But Jia San did not let go this time.

Servo muscle bundle full power output.

Jia San, holding the hilt of the sword, pulled the power sword horizontally to the left.

Norber’s left palm was sliced ​​open by the force field blade, and his five thick fingers fell off neatly from the base of his palm like radishes that had been peeled with a knife.

Jia San pulled the power sword from Norber's body, then thrust it back, piercing through its throat.

Norbert fell.

From the moment of engagement to the kill, it took four seconds.

The last time, without power armor, it took three Class A captains twelve seconds to take down one Norber.

After donning the power armor, one-on-one, four seconds.

After seeing Norber killed in one blow, the remaining thirty-odd orc boys charged forward even more frantically.

Their large blades struck the terracotta plates of the power armor, and the living metal hardened instantly at the point of contact, causing the blades to bounce off without leaving even a visible mark on the armor.

Their deadly bullets struck the power armor's chest plate at a distance of less than five meters. The bullets shattered into a pile of scrap metal on the terracotta surface. The scales of the living metal flashed briefly at the point of impact before returning to normal.

The power armor's counterattack was devastating.

Armor 5 launched its charge from the flank passage, its 320-kilogram power armor crashing into the orcs' flank at full speed.

The first orc boy was sent flying five meters by the shoulder armor of Armor Five, his ribs shattered, and he was already dead when he landed.

Jia Qi's chainsaw sword carved a bloody path through the orcs.

The high-speed chainsaw blade, amplified by the servo, pierced the orc's carapace and flesh as easily as cutting cork. The dark green blood was pulverized into a mist by the high-speed rotation of the chainsaw, filling the corridor.

The swarm intelligence coordination made the actions of the sixteen power armor wearers resemble a precise killing assembly line.

No two people attacked the same target.

There is no blind spot in terms of firepower.

Each wearer's firing arc perfectly aligns with that of the two adjacent wearers, forming a fire network with no blind spots.

In the narrow passageways of a wrecked ship, this level of coordination was even more terrifying than the tactical coordination of the Astartes.

Swarm intelligence provides nanosecond-level real-time data sharing.

Every wearer knows the precise location, firing direction, current target, and next move of the other fifteen people at any given moment.

Sixty orc boys plus three Norberts.

From the first gunshot to the last orc falling, less than a minute passed.

Our casualties: zero.

The twelve power armors were subjected to more than twenty slashes and six iron bullet hits.

No structural damage was caused anywhere.

Within three minutes of the battle ending, the living metal outer layer automatically repaired all shallow scratches.

Lawson observed the entire process from the base using swarm intelligence.

The corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

The combat performance of the sixteen power armor suits exceeded his expectations.

Armored assassins and unarmored assassins are not on the same level of combat power.

Especially in the environment of a wrecked ship, the advantages of powered armor are amplified to the extreme.

The confined space limits the number of enemies that can be deployed, while the power armor's firepower and protection are overwhelming in one-on-one to one-on-three exchange ratios.

The coordination of swarm intelligence ensured that the sixteen people would never be surrounded.

These sixteen steel giants are like sixteen mobile fortresses in the passageway of the wrecked ship.

Over the following week, sixteen power armor suits were deployed to even larger-scale battles.

They operate in conjunction with regular hunting squads, with the power armor serving as the spearhead, responsible for frontal breakthroughs and eliminating high-value targets.

Ordinary suicide soldiers formed the encirclement, responsible for blocking, harvesting, and resupplying ammunition.

This tactical combination is equally effective when facing demons.