Warhammer: Empire Reboot

"Snapped!"

The golden helmet suddenly swerved.

The nearly three-meter-tall body of Tawana was spun halfway around by this slap.

His combat boots had carved two arc-shaped scratches into the metal floor beneath his feet.

Er Gou's voice boomed in the control room.

"You fucking bastard, stand up straight and talk to me!"

"You bastard from Terra, do you even know what rules are?!"

PS: 1.3 words updated today.

Chapter 253 Imperial Guards, go guard the gate!

Taiwa's mind went blank for half a second after being slapped.

Er Gou's slap was incredibly powerful.

The mortise and tenon joints of Tawar's crooked helmet made a grating sound.

The world in his field of vision swayed slightly as his head turned before regaining its balance.

Then Tawar flew into a rage!

He fought his way through the blood and fire of the Great Expedition to this day, and no one has ever dared to leave such a mark on his face.

They are the Imperial Guards, the emperor's closest personal guards!

Within the entire empire's military hierarchy, only the Emperor himself and the Primarch stand above them.

They all deserve to be killed!

Taiwa gripped his spear tightly, turned the tip around, and thrust it straight at Er Gou's throat!

The remaining three guards attacked almost simultaneously, rushing towards the group of personal guards surrounding Lawson.

There were twelve members of the Lawson Guard present.

They are all top-tier combatants who have been personally and specifically enhanced countless times by Lawson.

Two dogs and three dogs led the way, followed closely by the remaining ten.

In terms of lineage alone, the Imperial Guard is a creation at the pinnacle of the Empire, more sophisticated than the Astartes, and second only to the Primarch.

But Er Gou and his men were not ordinary guards.

The targeted reinforcement of swarm intelligence has been superimposed on them too many times, pushing the reinforcement of each single organ—eyes, heart, bones, cerebellum, reflex arc, and cerebral cortex—to its limit.

Under Lawson's system, his basic physical body had already surpassed that of the Imperial Guard, and he was also wrapped in a level two chitinous inner armor and elite Terminator heavy armor.

The outcome was almost a foregone conclusion.

San Gou grabbed the shaft of the spear that Taiwa had thrust at him and twisted it with his backhand.

"Bring it to you!"

Even the Imperial Guard's grip strength couldn't hold up against the Three Dogs; the spear shaft was forcibly twisted from Taiwa's hand and flew to the side.

"Disarm these bastards!" Er Gou roared.

Faced with this group of guards who were superior to them in every aspect, the three Imperial Guards had their slingshots and halberds disarmed within the first ten seconds of the melee.

Even without weapons, the Imperial Guard's power armor still provides formidable defense, but without the added firepower of weapons, their numerical disadvantage means they can't make much of a difference.

The guards grabbed the power hammers and the backs of their shields, targeting the joints and seams of their armor.

The golden adamantite armor was sturdy, but it couldn't withstand the combined heavy blows from more than a dozen sixth-tier bodies.

After three consecutive heavy blows, Taiva's right shoulder armor shattered completely, revealing the deformed inner lining underneath.

Another Imperial Guard was struck on the knee by the handle of a hammer by San Gou, and fell to his knees.

Taiwa struggled to stand up, but two guards held him down by the shoulders, and a third man smashed the handle of a hammer into the armored joint at the back of his neck.

That finally made him behave.

The space was filled with the sickeningly terrifying sounds of attacks.

After a few minutes of fighting, all four Imperial Guards collapsed to the ground, their power armor in disarray, temporarily unable to resist.

Er Gou beckoned people forward and began to strip off the Imperial Guards' armor.

This job is not easy. The locking mechanism of the adamantite armor is extremely complex and cannot be disassembled by ordinary people.

But the Guards are experienced in dealing with captured equipment; after all, that's how they got started, and they've stripped countless Chaos power armor pieces, so they know exactly how to do it.

Even though the Imperial Guard's power armor was more complex, the nearby T-series units had all sorts of tools, and with their cooperation, it only took a few minutes. A few minutes later, the four sets of golden armor were removed piece by piece and tossed aside.

The four men, now without armor protection, had their hands tied behind their backs and were securely bound with live metal chains.

Er Gou dusted off his hands and turned to look at Lawson.

"Boss, the assassin has been caught. What should we do with him?"

Taiwa roared, "We are not assassins!"

Er Gou slapped him again: "You're pointing a weapon at our boss, and you're not assassins? I suspect you're Chaos spies!"

"Whoa, they've defected to the Chaos's Imperial Guard!"

"The courtroom is fucking blind!"

Lawson glanced at Teva, who was being pinned to the ground.

The Imperial Guard company commander showed no sign of yielding; his eyes were filled with nothing but rage.

"Let's bring Vigilant Star back first."

As Teva was being carried out of the underground laboratory passage by two guards, the battle in space was nearing its end.

The wreckage of the Deathguard's plague warship plummeted from the tracks, trailing black smoke.

On the horizon, several heavy warships painted in dark gold could be seen regrouping, their hulls spewing out blazing white propulsion tail flames.

The surface of the ground made Taiwa's eyes widen even more!

The battlefield, which had been scorched by the Death Guard and the Brass Dragon mutants, has now been completely cleared.

Dozens of enormous figures were marching in orderly formation, crushing the remaining plague warrior positions and pushing their way through.

Teva had seen snippets about this creation in the Empire’s classified intelligence briefings.

Heavy Bear Guards, an assault unit under the Dark Side Master, can tear apart knight mechs with their bare hands and withstand Khorne heavy armor units head-on.

Seeing it with my own eyes now, the textual descriptions in that briefing seem ridiculously pale.

This was a one-sided battle.

A bear guard's tower shield slammed head-on into a squad of plague warriors attempting to regroup, flattening the chaos power armor along with the flesh inside.

Another bear guard's power axe landed on the head of a brass dragon mutant, splitting the three-meter-tall monster in two from head to toe, with dark purple flesh and blood splattering more than ten meters away.

In the sky, swarms of fighter jets roared past, and Raptor fighters were conducting precision bombing of the remaining plague strongholds on the ground, destroying all enemy heavy units.

At an even lower altitude, a heavy motorcycle formation was hunting down the scattered remnants of the brass dragon army. Once caught, they would be smashed into a cloud of blood mist.

In the distance, more foundational sequences were rapidly clearing the battlefield.

In a very short time, the situation on the entire planet has been brought under Lawson's control.

"This……"

A royal guard standing next to Taiwa murmured to himself.

"Company commander, are we really going to be mistaken for rebels? We're the Imperial Guard!"

On the battlefield not far away, the bodies of the fallen Imperial Guards and the Silent Sisters had already been collected.

Er Gou said coldly, "Don't be too moved. This is purely humanitarianism from the same Imperial camp. Their ashes will be taken back for burial."

"But your assassination attempt on the boss isn't over yet!"

Taiva's Adam's apple bobbed, but he ultimately said nothing.

Lawson then walked up from the direction of the underground laboratory.

The outcome of the battle is no longer in doubt. All the warships brought by Mortarion have been destroyed, and these plague warriors will also be wiped out.

Mortalian was imprisoned in the Seventh Blackrock Fortress, disconnected from the warp, so even Nurgle couldn't locate him.

As for the laboratories on this planet, they naturally have to be destroyed.

Next, Er Gou and San Gou escorted the four Imperial Guards, whose hands were tied behind their backs, into the teleportation node.

When she opened her eyes again, she was already on the deck outside the mid-level command room of the Saints Harbor on Vigilant Star.

The four, including Taiwa, were taken to the Royal Court.

Lawson retrieved the data extracted from the Taiva warship's logs using swarm intelligence.

The holographic projection unfolds, and the battle records of Planet Casadur are played back frame by frame.

Sedora was pierced through the heart by a spear, the Brass Dragon rebels were wiped out, and then there were the three hundred and twenty fallen original cast recruits on the landing field.

The projection froze on that image.

Brand new power armor, unworn paint, and a corpse that never resisted.

Looking at the video, Lawson turned to Teva and asked:

"These recruits have never been in contact with any members of the Brass Dragons, never entered the fortress, and showed no abnormalities in their corruption detection. What is your reason for killing them?"

Even with his hands still bound behind his back by chains, Tawar maintained the standard Imperial Guard posture.

"Their genetic seed comes from the third originator."

"Sharing the same bloodline as the Brass Dragon, corruption can be latent and hidden. Sage Caul's purity detection coverage is 99.7%, leaving only a 0.3% chance of betrayal! Therefore..."

“So, for a probability of 0.3, you killed these 300-plus original recruits,” Lawson finished for him.

"This is the duty of the Imperial Guards."

Taiva said firmly, "The Emperor established us to choose the safest option between 'potentially problematic' and 'absolutely no problem.' You think it's cruel because you're not responsible for the Empire's survival."