Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Vashtor's explosive energy poured into the network of dimensional rifts he had created.

The main road of the network is sturdy.

The ancient sage's craftsmanship has withstood the test of tens of millions of years, and the core channel will not be destroyed by an impact of this magnitude.

But the network is not impenetrable everywhere.

In some areas of the Milky Way, the network channels are severely damaged.

The erosion of warp storms, the destruction of chaotic forces, and the excavation by the fallen Eldar have made the Web Dao extremely vulnerable at certain nodes.

The area around the Eye of Fear is one of the most vulnerable areas.

The web there resembled a spider web that had been burned.

The main road is still there, but the branch roads are riddled with holes.

The ancient runes that maintained the integrity of the passage have long since failed, leaving only the spiritual bone framework later repaired by the Eldar to barely hold it up.

The Usvive Ark world has been wandering near the Eye of Terror for many years; it is the Eldar Ark closest to Chaos of all.

The Prophet Council of Usvi chose this location because of their mission; they believed it was their responsibility to monitor the movements of the Eye of Fear and to issue an early warning as soon as the threat of chaos escalated.

This mission made the prophets of Usvi the most powerful group of psionic beings in the galaxy.

Having been exposed to the subspace radiation of the Eye of Fear for many years, their psychic perception has been honed to its extreme.

But this also exposes Usvi's net gate to the most dangerous position.

The explosive energy of Vashtor traveled along the net channel and struck the core net channel gate of the Usvi Ark.

It has existed for tens of thousands of years and is the lifeline of the Usvi Ark.

"boom!!!"

The net gate of Usvi was blown to pieces in an instant.

The Council of Prophets of Usvi's Ark can foresee the orcs' WAAAGH, the invasion of Chaos, the migration routes of the Tyranids, and the awakening cycle of the undead.

But Vashtor used unprecedented methods.

A poorly made key, cobbled together from subspace forces and fragments of ancient beings, exploded out of control in the interdimensional space.

There is no precedent for this kind of event; this path does not exist in the thread of fate.

The disaster struck without warning.

The shockwave from the shattering of the net gate spread throughout the entire ark.

The skeletal structure of Usvi—walls, ceiling, floor, and passageways—resonated shrilly under impact.

The Bone Soul Realm circuits deep within the Ark experienced widespread overload, causing the souls of millions of Spirit Race ancestors to scream within the circuits.

Then, the shattered net gate turned into a hole.

Endless demons poured in from the cave.

As the demonic engine crashed into the Webway Hall of the Usvi Ark, the Black Guardians guarding the hall were trying to plug the breach.

The Black Guardians of Usvi are the most elite warriors on the Ark.

The first demon engine was destroyed. The spirit bone warhead pierced its armor, and golden flames ignited the demon core inside.

But there are too many of them.

For every one destroyed, three more are put in place.

The Black Guard's firepower is starting to become insufficient.

Then the Chaos Space Marines arrived.

The Iron Skeleton Apostle wore power armor modified by the Dark Mechanicus and had demonic enhancement components implanted in his body.

Their combat power is significantly higher than that of ordinary Chaos Space Marines, and they are completely obedient to Vashtor's orders.

Iron Skeleton Apostles poured in from the gaps in the Demon Engine, firing both bomb guns and chain blades simultaneously.

The first breach has been torn in the Black Guard's lines.

The opening expanded rapidly.

More Chaos forces poured in.

Cultists, mutants, and mechanical constructs possessed by demons.

They poured into the internal passages of the Usvi Ark through the gap, like a flood rushing into an anthill.

The prophets of Usvi finally recovered from their shock.

The Council of Prophets convened urgently, and the twelve great prophets simultaneously deployed psionic barriers in an attempt to establish a defensive line inside the ark.

The corridors inside the Ark had become a meat grinder.

The bone wall was shattered by the bombs, and its elegant curved structure was torn to pieces by the mechanical claws of the demon engine.

The corpses of Eldar warriors and the remains of Chaos creations mingled together, blocking the passage.

The Prophet Council was forced to retreat.

As they retreated, they unleashed psionic storms, wiping out swathes of the pursuing Chaos forces.

But the troops immediately filled in.

The breach was not sealed, and reinforcements from Chaos continued to arrive.

Even more terrifying is the Bone Soul Realm.

The Dark Mechanicus equipment carried by the Iron Skeleton Apostles was inserted into the Bone Soul Realm circuit node of the Ark.

Black metal pipes pierced through the spirit bone wall, directly connecting to the circuit.

The chaotic pollution seeped into the Bone Soul Realm along the pipeline, like venom injected into blood vessels.

The souls of the Spirit Race ancestors in the Bone Soul Realm began to scream.

Those ancestors of the Spirit Race who had slept for thousands of years struggled painfully under the corrosive influence of Chaos. Some of their souls were twisted and torn apart, while others were forcibly extracted from their circuits and turned into fuel for Chaos.

The Usvi Ark is bleeding.

In the star field near the Eye of Fear, the outer shell of the Usvi Ark began to show abnormalities.

From the outside, the Usvi Ark resembled a severely wounded giant beast, slowly circling in the void, its wounds constantly widening.

Inside the Ark, the Prophet Council had retreated to the core area.

Of the twelve great prophets, only eight remain capable of fighting.

The other four were knocked down by the overload backlash of the Bone Soul Circuit during the psychic battle, and their souls suffered irreversible damage.

The Black Guard suffered over 60% casualties.

The evacuation of civilian areas is still underway, but the Chaos forces have already infiltrated the residential areas.

Eldar civilians ran down the corridor, followed by the metallic footsteps of demonic engines and the blasting of Ironbone Apostles' explosive guns.

Some corridors have been sealed off.

The eldest prophet, Karaden, stood before the entrance to the core area, his witch's staff unleashing a continuous storm of psionic energy.

In her psychic vision, the threads of fate of the Usvi Ark were breaking one by one.

As Karaden gazed at the vanishing future, he felt true despair for the first time in his long career as a prophet.

The Ark of Usvi, the proudest city of prophets in the galaxy, is dying.

Karaden looked at the other chieftains and prophets: "Has the plea for help been sent? When will our reinforcements arrive?"

"We responded, but they won't be here soon! We don't have time!"

The prophets looked at each other in bewilderment. One of them gritted his teeth and said, "There is still one way: we can ask the Sealholder of the Empire for help through Saim-Han!"

(The Regent and the Thirteenth Aunt)

P.S.: 1.2 words updated today.

Chapter 245 A Daring Demon! He actually impersonated an innocent Spirit Clan girl!

Guilliman is very busy.

Lawson was equally busy, though he had a swarm mentality to handle the endless trivialities of the Empire's dark side.

But there are still many things that require his personal attention.

For example, in the world of Vol's Tomb, where they fought Vashtor last time, the undead overlord Somtathek went into hiding after returning.

It took several years to find the main tomb world of Somtatec.

The necromancer was hiding too well.

The Necropolis in space doesn't have an atmosphere, heat radiation, or communication signals like the planets in the Empire.

A dormant tomb world, almost indistinguishable from an ordinary dead star from the outside, with gravitational characteristics exactly the same as a rocky planet of the same size.

Its surface is covered with cosmic dust and meteorite craters accumulated over billions of years, while the underground tombs are compressed to frequency bands undetectable by conventional sensors using dimensional folding technology.

The Vol's Tomb world had previously only revealed an outer outpost.

Unlike the main burial chamber of Somtatec, which has been dormant for millions of years, it has been completely integrated into the noise of the background universe.

The cornerstone sequence was investigated using a fan-shaped search pattern.

The search covered three surrounding star sectors and thousands of planets.

They gained nothing in the first two years.

The necromancer's disguise skills were more sophisticated than Lawson had anticipated.

Ordinary sensors cannot detect it, and psionic detection is also compromised by the necromancy's anti-psionic shielding.

The breakthrough came in the third year.

An ordinary-looking rocky planet, located on the edge of the sector containing the Vol's Tomb world, is surrounded by an asteroid belt. From the outside, it appears to be nothing but a dead rock.

But when the swarm intelligence adjusted the sensor frequency using calibration parameters, the dimensional folding space beneath the Earth's surface was revealed like a curtain being lifted.