Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Black demon blood pooled on the ground, forming lakes. With each step the shield wall took, it trod on several layers of demon remains.

The Flying Bear Brigade provided fire support at a low altitude of fifty to one hundred meters above the shield wall.

Three thousand Flying Bears formed three alternating firing lines, continuously unleashing Shattering Spike missiles and molten bombs upon the rear of the demon horde. Those demons that were pouring out of the warp gate and had not yet reached the shield wall were blasted into pieces under the aerial firepower.

The raptor formation provides strategic-level fire suppression at an altitude of 12,000 meters.

One hundred and sixty Raptors were divided into four attack waves, taking turns diving to an altitude of three thousand meters to release guided munitions, targeting the occasional giant units emerging from the demon horde.

The Demon Engine, Blood Chariot, and Khorne's Bloodthirsty Half-Beast were destroyed before they even got close to the Shield Wall.

Behind the entire battlefield, millions of foundational units have deployed dense artillery arrays.

Heavy mortars, rocket launchers, and rapid-fire anti-aircraft guns are all coordinated by a swarm fire control system, forming a barrage network covering the entire war zone.

It hits exactly where you point it.

From the moment the swarm intelligence marks the target to the moment the shell lands, the delay is no more than 0.5 seconds.

Air, ground, and long-range artillery fire were coordinated seamlessly.

O'Shovar, watching from a distance, observed all of this through the optical system of his armor.

He wore an extremely complex expression.

For three hundred years, the Ancient Gate on Assamolo has been the deepest fear in Oshova's heart.

During that expedition, the seal on the door was only slightly disturbed, and the leaked demons killed two-thirds of his companions.

He spent three hundred years convincing himself never to touch that door, defining the Beast of Moro as an absolute taboo that the Farseeing Enclave must never touch.

Now, in despair, he opened the door, hoping that the terrifying creatures pouring out would buy him time to escape.

Then he saw how the army of the human empire treated the being he had feared most for three hundred years.

Use shield walls to crush, use giant hammers to smash, use missiles to bombard, and use artillery fire to wash over.

Like processing incoming materials on a production line, one batch comes in, another is smashed, another is cleaned, and then the next batch is ready to be received.

Those five-meter-tall behemoths were terrifying units that had never appeared in the battlefield records of the Tau race.

He acted as if he were doing a routine training session in front of the demon.

Their coordination is so precise that even the most advanced AI collaborative system in the Titanium family is ashamed of itself.

Their morale remained at a constant level from beginning to end, unaffected by the pressure of the battlefield.

When did the human empire become so terrifying?

Oshova's intelligence system has been continuously updating assessments of the Empire's military strength over the past three centuries.

The Imperial Space Marines are powerful but limited in number, the Imperial Star Forces are numerous but of varying quality, and the Imperial bureaucracy is corrupt and inefficient, hindering military operations—these are all reliable conclusions that have been repeatedly verified.

But the army before him completely overturned his understanding.

It combines the individual qualities of a Space Marine with the sheer size of the Asgardian Army, while also possessing a synergistic ability that transcends both and almost defies the laws of physics.

O'Showa looked at the blue dots representing his own forces on the tactical holographic projection.

The Tau Clan's Crisis Armor Squadron has less than 600 units remaining.

Only eighty Tide Armor units remain, and only six of the Eight Foresight Generals are left.

The fleet was blockaded in orbit, and the ground was surrounded by hurricanes and battle sequences.

Just then, the atmosphere on the battlefield suddenly changed.

The fighting spirit is high.

Lawson's psionic energy covered the entire battlefield.

This created an amplification effect that permeated the air.

All combat warriors' attack power and defensive resilience increased by 10% within the same second.

On the battlefield, it had the effect of igniting a barrel of gunpowder.

Xiong Wei, who was confronting the Bloodthirsty Berserker, suddenly exerted his strength. The balance of power that was originally evenly matched was instantly broken. Xiong Wei's power hammer smashed down with 10% more force. The Bloodthirsty Berserker's brass armor went from barely being able to withstand the extra force to shattering directly.

The bear guards, who were using their tower shields to withstand the onslaught of the flesh hounds, were now more stable. The 10% increase in defensive resilience gave their bones and muscle fibers an extra layer of cushioning when under pressure. The impact that would have originally made them take a step back now only made them sway slightly.

The combat sequence, currently engaged in melee combat with vampires using power swords, swung their swords even faster. The 10% attack boost had significantly increased the speed of their muscle contractions, allowing the blades to penetrate a few millimeters deeper into the demon's flesh. This difference of a few millimeters often meant the difference between a fatal blow and a serious injury.

"kill."

The shield wall surged forward with a roar.

Ninety thousand voices converged into a deafening roar that shook the earth, like a giant engine being ignited simultaneously.

The shield wall's advance speed changed from a steady advance to a crushing charge.

The demons are still emerging.

But the rate at which they emerged could not keep up with the rate at which they were being eliminated.

The Tau warriors were now surrounded by 20,000 Hurricane motorcycles in an encirclement about five kilometers in diameter.

The motorcycle formation rotated around the encirclement at a fixed speed, with the vehicle-mounted weapons pointing inwards. Any armored vehicle attempting to break out would be fired at simultaneously from three directions.

The Tau's long-range firepower advantage was completely limited at this distance. The Hurricane motorcycle was too fast; by the time the plasma rifle's fire control system locked onto a motorcycle, it had already moved hundreds of meters.

While the firepower of the motorcycle formation is not very destructive per shot, the barrage of hundreds of vehicles firing simultaneously is enough to suppress the advance of the Crisis Armor.

The encirclement is slowly shrinking.

The remaining six of the Eight Visionaries surrounded O'Showa.

Karen's left arm was blown off, Morak's jet engine on the back of his armor was emitting black smoke, and the other four also had varying degrees of combat damage.

“Commander,” Karen requested permission to engage, “I’ll lead the Royal Guard in a charge. Create an opening, and you can…”

"We can't break through."

O'Showa interrupted him, "You see how they coordinate. You rush in from this side, and the gap on the other side is filled in a fraction of a second. These motorcycles are controlled by the same brain."

"Then we..."

"Wait."

O'Showa is waiting for someone.

A static force field was activated in the open space between the encirclement and the Tau forces' positions.

The hurricane formation automatically made way for them.

Lawson descended from the sky.

He raised the Claw of Horus, its five blades pointing towards the Tau forces' position at the center of the encirclement, and towards Oshowar.

"Come here and die."

O'Shovar looked at the human figure a hundred meters away through the armor's optical system.

It is one meter shorter than the Tau Clan's Crisis Armor and only one-third the size of the armor.

Judging by appearance alone, he looks like a child standing among a group of giants.

But O'Showa's tactical instincts told him that this man could easily kill him.

It was as easy as killing that thirty-meter-tall demon prince.

Karen had already raised her plasma rifle and aimed it at Lawson.

"Commander, I'll hold him off!" Morak's armor engines were running at full power, ready to charge.

O'Showa stood in front of the two of them.

"Go back."

"commander……"

"I said step back."

Oshowa reached out and removed the helmet from his armor.

The dark red sunlight shone on his aged, scarred, blue face.

"Human General, I think there's a misunderstanding between us. We can negotiate."

O'Shovar's voice cut through the smoke of battle and the howls of demons, reaching Lawson's ears.

Lawson withdrew the Claw of Horus.

Five dark gold finger blades hung back to his side.

This action brought a collective sigh of relief to the Tau armored troops in the encirclement; at least the other side was willing to listen.

Lawson said, "I only accept unconditional surrender."

O'Shovar's expression changed slightly.

Unconditional surrender means handing over one's fate entirely to the other side; the survival of the race, the disposal of the population, the ownership of technology, and the division of territory are all decided by the victor.

"General."

O'Shovar said as calmly as possible, "Your communications mention two soldiers going missing in this system, but this has absolutely nothing to do with the Vision Enclave. We can even assist you in the search. The Vision Enclave has been operating in this system for hundreds of years and knows the terrain of every planet like the back of its hand. If your people have been kidnapped by orcs or chaos, we are more capable than anyone else of helping you find them."

O'Showa is testing the waters.

He steered the conversation back to Lawson's initial demand for the missing soldiers, attempting to narrow the negotiation framework to "help find them in exchange for a peaceful withdrawal."

If Lawson really is just looking for someone, then there's room for negotiation.

Then he saw Lawson raise the Claw of Horus once more.

This time, the five finger blades did not point at Oshowa, but instead slowly traced an arc, sweeping across the entire starry sky from left to right.

"This is not what I want to hear."

"Don't try to play tricks on me, Commander of Foresight. Your enclave has five star systems and one hundred and twenty habitable planets. Such a place should belong to the Empire."

"Human General".

O'Shovar looked directly at Lawson: "Are you sure you want to do this? There has never been a large-scale military conflict between the Vision Enclave and the Empire. If you wage a full-scale war against us, you will be waging war against the entire Tau Empire."

O'Showa knew it was an empty card.

The relationship between the Visionary Enclave and the Tau Empire's homeland has been completely broken after Anvana's cold-blooded reply.