Warhammer: Empire Reboot

O'Showa never touched that door again after that.

But he knew how to open it.

The key to unlocking it was simple: a lot of blood.

The equatorial theater of Assamolo has been embroiled in a three-way battle for over two months, and blood has seeped into the land.

Within a radius of tens of kilometers around Daxingtai, the ground was stained a deeper dark red.

Oshowah walked to the archway and plunged the tip of the Dawnblade into his left palm.

Blue Tau blood dripped onto the runes on the base of the archway.

The runes lit up, and the Great Star Platform began to tremble.

One by one, the dormant runes on the ground were lit up, and the dark red light converged towards the archway along the lines.

The darkness inside the archway began to surge.

That wasn't darkness; it was subspace.

The door opened.

A roar came from the archway.

Then the demon rushed out.

Vampires, fleshhounds, Khorne warriors, bloodthirsty freaks—thousands upon thousands of demonic entities poured out of the archway like a blood-red flood breaking through a dam.

They roared and pounced on the nearest living creature, killing anything in sight, friend or foe.

Several dreadnoughts lunged at O'Showa.

Oshovar's Dawnblade flashed, cleaving all three hounds in two. But more demons poured out of the door, their numbers increasing exponentially.

O'Shovar jumped backward, using the jet engines of his armor to escape the archway.

His plan was simple: let the demons wear down Lawson's army, and while they were in the chaos, let the remnants of the Farseeing Enclave retreat from the flanks and escape the battlefield.

This is a desperate and costly plan.

He knew these demons would also slaughter his Tau warriors.

However, compared to being completely wiped out by Lawson, allowing some people to escape in the chaos is the only option that can still preserve the seed.

The demon army poured out of the warp gate in an endless stream.

Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.

The crimson tide of demons spread out around the Great Star Platform, like an expanding sea of ​​blood.

At the top of an ancient statue, Lawson watched this scene.

His eyes lit up.

Lawson is still far from the next genetic leap in terms of subspace energy.

After being suppressed for four years, the chaotic forces on the dark side of the Empire have become much weaker, and their rate of acquiring warp energy is getting slower and slower.

He had even begun to consider whether to lead the fleet to block the exit of the Eye of Terror, kill Chaos, and farm energy.

Now, the Foresight Commander has opened a warp portal and delivered energy to him.

What a good person!

Lawson ordered: "The entire army shall retreat three kilometers, leaving a buffer zone with a radius of three kilometers centered on Daxingtai."

The three battle groups, White Tiger, Red Dragon, and Yazi, which were advancing towards Daxingtai, simultaneously slowed down and orderly disengaged from contact.

The hurricane formation withdrew from its forward position, freeing up ground space around the Great Star Platform.

The throughput of a subspace gate depends on the pressure difference on both sides of the gate.

The more open the space on this side of the door, the less resistance there is, and the faster the demons will pour out.

If Lawson's troops stand guard at the entrance and kill the demons, the demons will die as soon as they come out, and the corpses and remains blocking the entrance will actually slow down the rate at which the demons continue to pour out.

What Lawson wants is for as many demons as possible to enter the real universe.

Every demon is a walking reservoir of warp energy.

Once a creature is killed, the system intercepts and purifies its soul essence, converting it into subspace energy points.

The more demons you have, the more points you get.

Lawson had no intention of wasting a single gram of ore.

The three-kilometer buffer zone was cleared within two minutes.

The hordes of demons emerging from the warp gates finally gained ample space to spread.

The crimson tide gushed out from the archway, spreading in all directions from the Great Star Platform as its center.

Khorne demons of all shapes and sizes spread across the dark red desert, their density increasing.

The number of demons swelled to hundreds of thousands within ten minutes and was still growing rapidly.

The other side of the warp gate appears to connect to an extremely large demon colony, possibly an outer layer of the Khorne Bronze Domain.

enough.

Lawson raised his right hand.

"The entire army has switched to annihilation mode."

Static force fields were activated simultaneously at twelve locations behind the battlefield.

Another 90,000 Xiong Wei stepped out from the light screen.

Five-meter-tall steel behemoths emerged from the light screen in dense battle formations, one after another.

They wield a refractive field shield, part of their anti-gravity centurion heavy armor, in their left hand, and a powered hammer or powered battle axe in their right.

With their sixth-order gene template bodies encased in heavy armor, plus the double protection of level two chitinous inner armor, each Bear Guard is a walking fortress.

Ninety thousand foot fortifications.

The bear guard formation unfolded at the edge of the buffer zone, forming an arc-shaped steel shield wall.

The tower shields stood upright, shoulder to shoulder, stretching for nearly ten kilometers from left to right flank.

Then the demon horde crashed in.

The first wave is the vampires.

These basic Khorne infantrymen are about three meters tall, their bodies covered in rough scales and crimson muscles, wielding demonic iron swords. The vampires' fighting style is extremely primitive: charge, hack and slash, then charge again.

Thirty thousand vampires roared and pounced on the Bear Guard Shield Wall.

The shield wall remained unmoved.

The first row of vampires' demonic iron swords struck the refraction field tower shield, the force field dispersing the impact energy across the entire shield before it bounced off. Immediately afterwards, the powered giant hammer behind the shield wall slammed down over the top of the shield.

With the nine-ton bear guard and the hydraulic amplification of the centurion's heavy armor, the kinetic energy of a single hammer blow is enough to crush the frontal armor of a tank.

The vampire's head, along with half of his body, exploded into a bloody mist under the hammer.

The vampires' corpses piled up like a small mountain in front of the shield wall.

The demon's black blood flowed in streams, trickling through the gaps at the base of the shield wall.

The swarm intelligence controlled the rhythm, so precisely that each shield caught the impact at the optimal angle, and each hammer struck the demon's most vulnerable spot.

Something even larger began to emerge from the demon tide.

The fleshhound was the size of a giant warhorse, with powerful limbs and breathing out scorching subspace energy.

They burst forth from the gaps in the vampire ranks at incredible speed, attempting to smash through the shield wall with their impact.

A flesh-and-blood hound rammed into the tower shield of a bear guard at full speed.

The five-meter-tall bear guard was knocked back a step.

The sixth-order gene template, combined with his nine-ton weight and the magnetic anchoring of the centurion's heavy armor, allowed him to remain standing firm even after withstanding an impact equivalent to a light tank ramming at full speed.

Then he grabbed the hound's upper jaw with his free right hand, his fingers wedging into the devil's teeth.

The hound struggled frantically, its sharp teeth sending sparks flying from the bear guard's gloves.

Xiong Wei exerted force with his arm.

The hound's upper and lower jaws were forcibly pried open.

The sound of a jaw breaking was clearly audible amidst the battlefield noise. Xiong Wei tossed the hound's carcass behind him; the Taotie Warband's recovery team was already waiting there.

An even greater demon has appeared.

The bloodthirsty demon was covered in brass armor and wielded a double-handled demon axe.

This demon is listed in the Empire's threat level as "requires heavy vehicles or Space Marine Terminator squads to deal with."

A dozen bloodthirsty berserkers charged from the rear of the demon horde to the front.

They are about the same size as the bear guards.

The battle finally shifted from a crushing defeat to a direct confrontation.

A bloodthirsty berserker simultaneously swung its twin axes at a bear guard's tower shield.

The weight and force of the Demon Axe were enough to cut through the frontal armor of an Imperial standard tank, and the refractive field experienced a brief overload flash after being subjected to double the impact.

But Xiong Wei did not give it a second chance.

Two bear guards attacked simultaneously. One used a power toxe to break the Bloodthirsty Berserker's right knee joint, while the other used a power hammer to strike its exposed nape after it lost its balance.

The Imperial Golden Flame attached to the hammerhead detonated the moment it touched the demon's flesh, blasting the bloodthirsty berserker's head and half of his spine into carbonized fragments.

The core tactic of the 90,000 Xiong Wei members, who share the same swarm mentality, when facing high-level demons is to gang up on them.

One bear guard held the front, while bear guards on both sides attacked from the flanks and behind.

When even greater demons, such as the Khorne Chariot and high-ranking Blood God servants, appeared, the scale of the gang fight expanded from three to five, ten, or even twenty people.

Twenty five-meter-tall, sixth-tier bear guards circled a ten-meter-tall demon warhorse, taking turns firing at it, the scene resembling twenty blacksmiths hammering a piece of red-hot metal.

The shield wall is advancing slowly but relentlessly.

The demon's corpse transformed from the hill at their feet into a surging sea of ​​carnage.