Warhammer: Empire Reboot

The Black Legion fleet was the first to open the belly hatches.

The densely packed boarding torpedoes were launched by the electromagnetic catapult, turning into a dark red meteor rushing towards the Seventh Blackrock Fortress.

More Chaos Warriors joined the charge.

Millions of small targets quickly filled the void.

Looking out from the Seventh Blackrock Fortress, it no longer resembled a normal boarding operation, but rather a black planet being bombarded by a meteor shower.

The fortress's main weapon began charging again.

Hundreds of geometric spires slowly adjusted their angles, and dazzling spheres of energy emerged between the spires.

The Blackrock Death Ray swept across the void, instantly obliterating the boarding torpedoes, fighters, and transport ships in a straight line. Two Chaos Cruisers behind it, unable to evade in time, were also grazed, their warp engines shutting down, and they drifted toward the edge of the rift like dead whales.

But more landing units surged past from both sides of the death ray.

Even if you destroy 100,000 out of a million targets, you'll still have 900,000 left.

Abaddon did not send out his true elite troops immediately.

The first to storm the fortress were a group of vampires who had been forcibly attached to the airdrop pod using a small sacrificial array.

They were merely probes, used to confirm the strength of the suppression within Blackrock Fortress.

Chaos runes briefly lit up in the corridor.

The crimson light twisted, and a dozen vampires stepped out from the sacrificial array, their brass longswords dragging across the black stone ground.

Following behind were two even larger Khorne demons, their backs almost touching the ceiling of the corridor, their giant axes burning with flames brought from the Blood God's domain.

The moment they stood firm, the entire corridor changed.

The geometric patterns on the black stone wall lit up simultaneously.

An invisible repulsive force pressed down on the demon's body from all directions, like thousands of unseen knives simultaneously severing its connection with the warp.

The flames on the vampire's body were the first to go out.

The brass longsword lost its bloody sheen, and the hard demon muscles quickly withered away.

They tried to charge forward with a roar, but with each step they took, a layer of dark red ash would peel off their bodies.

In just a few seconds, all the dozen or so vampires knelt down, their heads, limbs and torsos collapsing like sand sculptures weathered for thousands of years.

Those two great demons held out even longer.

They slammed their giant axes into the ground, attempting to maintain their form through sheer brute force.

Blackrock Corridor ignored their struggles and increased the suppression frequency once again.

The great demon's wings turned to ashes first, followed by flesh and shell, and finally only two twisted skeletons remained.

The skeleton remained in place for another second before scattering across the ground.

Far away in the Pacific Starfield, Lawson glanced at the surveillance footage through the swarm network.

He sneered, "Motalian was as weak as an old dog inside. A bunch of warp remnants dared to trespass into my absolute materialist domain."

After he finished speaking, he continued to deal with the war in the Pacific Starfield.

He doesn't need to take over the Eye of Fear personally for the time being.

The swarm intelligence has adjusted its defense mode based on the composition of the first wave of landing units.

Abaddon also witnessed the entire process of the demon's disappearance.

The probe yielded the most valuable conclusion: the interior of the Seventh Blackrock Fortress is a true forbidden zone of magic.

Demons cannot maintain a physical form.

Witchcraft will be suppressed.

Warp blessings attached to equipment may become a burden once inside a fortress.

Abaddon immediately cut off the landing sequence of all demon units.

All the demon engines were left outside the ship, Chaos Wizards were not allowed to enter the fortress, and the Warbands that relied on mutation and blessing to survive were also withdrawn.

Those who were actually sent into the second wave of boarding torpedoes were the oldest and most dangerous veterans of the Black Legion.

They deactivated the warp amulets on their armor, severed the psionic circuits of their demonic weapons, and replaced them with bomb guns, melt guns, chainsaw axes, and purely physical ammunition.

When the Blackrock Field stripped away the blessing, these people did not become useless.

On the contrary, the Black Legion has a large number of veterans who have survived from the Great Crusade and the Horus Rebellion to the present day.

They once fought as the true Astartes Legion, conquering countless worlds before the blessing of demons became commonplace.

The warp made them stronger, and also led many to gradually become dependent on rage and distortion.

Now that all these things have become ineffective inside Blackrock Fortress, the pure fighting instincts that have been dormant for millennia have been reawakened.

The counterattack from Blackrock Fortress has just begun.

The first batch of black stone crystal structures surged in from the end of the corridor.

Those things were only the size of a fist, shaped like constantly rotating polyhedral fragments, but there were so many of them that they resembled a swarm of black bees.

They moved at high speed along the walls, floors, and dome, maintaining precise intervals between each other, and what they released was not ordinary psionic attacks, but phase oscillations generated by the polarity changes of the blackstone.

A single crystal pulse can only leave a burn mark on the surface of the Terminator armor.

Stacking tens of thousands of them at the same time produces completely different effects.

The air in front of the Black Legion veteran distorted rapidly, the electronic components inside the Terminator armor began to overheat, and the ceramic steel surface turned dark red.

The Terminator at the forefront used his heavy shield to withstand the pulse. The temperature inside the shield exceeded its limit within seconds, and the edges even began to melt.

The Terminator team tore through the first swarm of crystal bees with extremely high efficiency.

However, the Seventh Blackrock Fortress is not an ordinary warship.

As the swarm's thinking shifted, the entire corridor suddenly flipped over.

The walls parted silently, the floor rotated ninety degrees to the side, and the passageway that was originally meant for moving forward became a deep vertical well.

The direction of gravity changed accordingly, and several Terminators were thrown violently towards the new "ground," their armor, weighing tens of tons, crashing against the black stone wall with a heavy thud.

Before they could regroup, the passage was closed at both ends.

A low rumble came from the depths of the corridor.

Several enormous polyhedral geometric machines rolled out of the darkness. They had no fixed heads or limbs, and their shells were made of a large number of interlocking black stone plates that constantly disassembled and reassembled as they moved.

One moment it resembles a rolling crystal with a diameter of ten meters, and the next it unfolds into a war construct with six supporting arms, whose combat power is no less than that of a fearless mech.

A Terminator raises his molten gun and fires; the incandescent jet strikes the surface of the polyhedron but is dispersed by the tilting plates.

The geometric guard spun around, its entire body crashing into the Terminator ranks like a giant battering ram.

The two veterans at the front were knocked off the ground and into the air.

The second geometrical guard deploys from the side.

A deep, dark light shone between the black stone plates, and a phase impact slammed into the Terminator's chest at close range.

Inside, Astartes was as if it had been pierced by an invisible hammer, its internal organs and reinforced bones shattering simultaneously.

The veteran who had survived the Horus Rebellion coughed up blood, raised his molten ladle, pressed it against the gap in the geometric guard's plates, and pulled the trigger.

A white light burst forth from inside the structure, blasting away several pieces of the black stone shell. His companions behind him immediately used their power gauntlets to smash into the gap.

A pure physical battle erupts within the maze!

The Terminator veterans relied on their millennia of combat experience, crossfire, and heavy armor to force their way forward, while the Black Rock Guardians constantly changed their form, using gravity flips, wall reorganization, and geometric structures to block the formation.

Whenever a Chaos Veteran thinks he has broken through a passage, the wall in front of him will rotate again, sending him into another, deeper kill zone.

On the other hand, Vashtor also gave up on allowing the demon engine to enter the fortress.

The useless code cannot defeat UR-025, and the demon form will be quickly erased after entering the Black Stone Field.

The creator of this demonic engine was left with only one primitive method.

Large numbers of Dark Mechanicus priests, cyborg slaves, and technical legions that had not undergone deep demonic possession were crammed into armored landing pods and launched outside the Seventh Blackrock Fortress.

After successfully logging in, these Dark Mechanicus priests did not search for an internal entrance.

They lay directly on the outer shell of the fortress and drilled holes.

Heavy-duty thermal drill bits adhered to the surface of the black stone, atomic cutters burned deep along the geometric patterns, and semi-mechanical laborers dragged bundles of physical cables to force physical probes into the outer energy nodes.

Vashtor has already seen where the real danger lies in the Black Rock.

Blackrock is not only capable of suppressing the warp.

By changing the arrangement, resonant frequency, and energy polarity, it can also amplify the power of subspace.

If a local lattice can be accessed at the physical level, even if the entire fortress cannot be captured, the polarity of a region may be reversed first.

Once a gap appears in the anti-subspace field, demons, wizards, and teleportation arrays can resume their function.

This is a truly dangerous method.

After several Dark Mechanicus priests successfully connected to the outer node, the patterns in some parts of Blackrock Fortress flickered briefly.

The suppression field fluctuated slightly within a range of less than 100 meters, and a small demon sealed inside the detector even grew half of its face back.

Swarm intelligence immediately prioritizes external defense.

Tens of thousands of static light curtains lit up simultaneously along the outer shell, and the XV8 series, which had been deployed inside and waiting for orders, stepped in in an organized manner.

The Dark Mechanic priest didn't even have time to pull out the probe.

The first round of firepower has been suppressed.

Patches of light swept across the black stone's outer shell.

Plasma jets melted through thick vacuum armor, and micro-missiles drilled into the makeshift engineering site erected by the priest, blowing up the thermal drilling machine, cables, and access devices.

A Dark Mechanic Sage deployed six mechanical arms, attempting to use an energy shield to block the firepower.

Two XV8s launched themselves forward from different directions, their intersecting plasma cannons simultaneously hitting the edge of the shield.

The moment the energy barrier shattered, the third XV8 landed in front of it, and the thermal cutter on the robotic arm sliced ​​from the top of its head all the way to its chest cavity.

The Technologist was split lengthwise.