Chapter 165, Death of the Warlord (6k, please subscribe!)
Kuangya was a little surprised.
He really didn't expect that those shrimps would dare to charge forward.
In fact, the shrimps we met along the way were all quite brave, and almost all of them were able to fight to the death with them despite the huge casualties. It was a pity that they were a little weak, otherwise it would be more exciting to kill them.
But even so, those brave soldiers are doing their best to avoid close combat with them, and instead hope to delay them layer by layer, use long-range firepower, reduce their numbers, and hope to hold on until the final victory with greater numerical advantage.
This was the first time they encountered someone who dared to take the initiative to charge at them.
Quite interesting.
But Kuangya didn't think there was anything to worry about.
Maybe they have some special methods, but it doesn’t matter. Come on, I, the Wild Fang Warlord, am fearless!
He used violent rockets and melta cannons to once again achieve remarkable results, and then in the fierce exchange of fire between the two sides, some shrimp rushed forward.
He took the axe hanging from his back and chopped it off with just one sweep. Three shrimps were cut in half.
Then, more shrimps rushed over.
But the human soldiers who rushed to his face were somewhat at a loss. Facing a nearly three-meter-tall steel giant who could be fired at by machine guns without much trouble, what could they do even if they rushed up? Could bullets penetrate the armor at close range, or could bayonets penetrate it?
However, the soldiers also have a solution.
Kuang Ya saw that some people were carrying bombs.
But it was meaningless. In front of him, there was no chance to detonate the bomb. The little shrimp obviously underestimated Kuang Ya's reaction and speed. With a body nearly three meters tall, he moved like lightning. With just one kick, the chest of the human soldier collapsed and the whole person flew several meters away.
Then another soldier picked up the explosive pack from the corpse and rushed over, and even pulled the fuse in advance, but this time he couldn't even get close, and was hit by a bullet from six or seven meters away. The explosive pack that was pulled in advance did explode, but the heat wave and shock wave from a few meters away certainly couldn't do anything to Kuang Ya, and even killed two human soldiers nearby.
Overall, the charge of human soldiers was heroic and tragic, but it seemed... meaningless.
Instead of killing more greenskins, the casualties became particularly heavy, as if they were dying in vain.
If things continue like this, it won’t be long before everyone is dead.
Kuangya thought so too, and felt that the opposing commander had lost his mind and was even dumber than the dumbest guy in the tribe.
As soon as he finished thinking this, he was hit hard.
Two beams of azure light shot out from the formation of human soldiers.
These two rays of light were definitely not ordinary means of attack. Their impact penetrated his armor, leaving two smoking holes on his chest and head.
This was real damage, especially the bullet to the head, which was heartbreaking.
However, what the armor couldn't protect against, his skull did.
There was no hole in his head, but he could feel a lot of pain in his forehead and it felt like his bones were broken.
The chest was hit more thoroughly, injuring the respiratory system.
Even for him, these two blows must have been very serious injuries.
Not fatal, but painful.
His damaged respiratory system made his breath taste fishy-sweet; his fractured forehead made him feel dizzy.
In a trance, he saw two small guys wearing blood-red power armor, standing about seventy meters away from him. The fully charged light from the plasma guns in their hands had not yet subsided.
At the same time, two smaller guys also wearing blood-red power armor had rushed to a position only ten meters away from him.
Why didn't I see it before?
Such a large target would be extremely conspicuous even if mixed in among the charging human soldiers. It would be impossible not to see it as long as you had eyes.
However, at this moment he had no time to figure out the reason.
At close range, the two small guys had already raised their weapons.
The one rushing forward was wearing a black skull helmet and holding a scepter. He was the chief priest of the Phoenix, Nicola Rizzo!
He raised his staff and smashed it on Genie Crazyfang's head.
Caught off guard, Kuangya could only barely dodge back, while at the same time swinging his battle axe with all his might, engaging in a head-on fight with the chief priest.
Draw.
Being injured and suddenly attacked, the two were evenly matched. The gravity field scepter in Rizzo's hand broke Kuangya's blocking posture, but he himself was unbalanced and took two steps back under the huge force.
But he wasn't the only one on the raid.
Martins, holding a chainsword, followed closely behind, and took this opportunity to slash him hard in the chest.
Crazy Fang's heavy chest armor was cut into pieces by the chainsaw.
The previous heavy blow from the charged plasma gun not only penetrated his chest armor and damaged his lungs, but also made the chest armor more brittle.
If it weren't for this prerequisite, the chainsaw sword in Martins' hand would hardly have had such a good striking effect.
A huge wound appeared on his breastplate, and the greenskin's smelly blood gushed out from the wound.
But just when Martins was about to make another attempt to cut the orc commander in half from the chest with this sword, a huge force came from his waist.
Gurney Wildfang kicked Martins away.
His physical strength was so great that even a fully-armored Space Marine was kicked several meters away and half fell to the ground with this kick.
At the same time, Crazy Fang twisted his body and tried to aim the melta cannon on his shoulder at Nicola Rizzo, who was being entangled by a killing canister that pounced on him.
If this shot hits hard, the power of the melta cannon will be enough to kill the chief priest with one shot.
However, this did not become a reality.
When he tried to aim, he suddenly found that he couldn't move his body. There was a magical force that formed a restraint, making his movements slow down.
He managed to pull down the melta cannon with difficulty, but it fired into the sky instead, creating a large hole in the ceiling and revealing the upper levels.
At this moment, the two Space Marines in the distance also took action. The plasma guns in their hands completed charging again and fired at the killing tank that was entangled with Rizzo.
The killing tanks don't have the same level of resistance to attacks as their Overseers. Their armor is far less thick than that of the Overseers, and the plasma beams that pass through the armor are attenuated very little. The flesh of the greenskins or fart spirits that are "sewn" into the killing tanks is not as strong as their foreheads. After being shot through the chest, there will be no strong muscle contraction to stop the blood flow immediately, and the remaining organs will also find it difficult to continue to function.
With two shots, the killer tank was killed and Rizzo was freed.
There were several greenskins trying to stop them from coming up, but the human soldiers who followed the Space Marines bravely fought with them with bayonets. Although they were quickly slaughtered, more soldiers came up and even knocked over the greenskins, shooting bullets at their eyes and stabbing bayonets at their necks and heads.
The sacrifices of these soldiers and the results they achieved completely liberated Rizzo once again.
He swung his hammer again, knocking over a killing tank that was trying to raise its machine gun to fire at the crowd at close range. The gravity field staff hit its chest armor hard, denting it.
Turning around again, the old priest looked at Gurney Wildfang and raised the gravity field scepter in his hand.
He was mumbling something, and if you listened carefully, you would find that it was the content of the Emperor's Holy Records. And this really made him more determined, and the power of swinging his weapon became stronger.
The hammer hit Kuang Ya's chest hard, completely smashing the breastplate that had already been torn to pieces by the chainsaw sword, and possibly breaking one or more of Kuang Ya's ribs.
Soon after, Martins followed, ready to chop down with his chainsword again.
"roar!"
Faced with life and death, the orc commander let out a deafening roar!
A strange power burst out from his body and first broke through the power that imprisoned his body.
Gu Hang, who was hiding farther away, groaned and blood oozed out of his mouth, nose and ears.
Previously, he was the one who used mind tampering to make the Greenskin Overlord ignore the four Space Marines approaching with the infantry. The four Phoenixes thus gained a very good first-mover opportunity and successfully inflicted heavy damage to the Orc Overlord.
Later, after Genie Crazyfang dealt with the first wave of attacks and tried to take out Rizzo with his shoulder-mounted melta cannon, it was him again who used advanced telekinesis control to stop Crazyfang's attack and allowed him to fire an anti-aircraft cannon.
But he did all this not without a price, he felt very heavy pressure. When he tampered with the mind, he could feel that there was a magical power in the head of this warlord, which kept his brain in a violent but rational state. It was quite difficult to disrupt the thinking of such a brain, and it took him a lot of time.
It was precisely because of this that he had to delay the time for the Space Marines to accompany the charge, causing more ordinary soldiers' lives to be lost at this crossroads.
When he was controlling Kuang Ya's body with telekinesis, he felt like he was wrestling with a tank - no, after upgrading, his spiritual attribute reached 20 points, and he also got more specialized advanced telekinesis control, he even felt that he could overturn a lion tank in one breath. But on Kuang Ya's body, he could only barely restrict his movements.
This is also expected. Being able to achieve this level and help the Space Marines to play a good supporting role is enough.
Originally, Rizzo and Martins had achieved excellent results in close combat, but when they saw that the terrifying armored beast was about to be killed, something went wrong.
What is this burst of power?
It's very similar to psychic power, but violent, uncontrollable, and full of strange ideas...
Is this the so-called waagh energy, waagh force field?
A kind of psychic power that is unique to the green-skinned orcs, a kind of idealistic power. Their technology that can really be done just because they think it can be done, essentially comes from this?
And in the case of a powerful green-skinned individual like the Orc Fleet Marshal, this power can even be transformed into substance, strengthening his body, and in turn providing powerful burst capabilities at critical moments.
The spiritual power that Gu Hang used to cover the orc commander was destroyed by this energy, and it also caused him severe backlash damage.
However, Gu Hang didn't care about his injuries at all.
Seeing the explosive energy, the greenskin who was originally seriously injured became full of energy. He kicked Martins away and fought with Rizzo with his axe again.
This time, Rizzo had no advantage at all and his body was knocked to the side.
Kuangya took advantage of the situation and chopped three times with his axe, knocking Pastor Rizzo to the ground. He didn't even frown when two plasma beams hit him.
Rizzo, who had taken on three axes from Crazy Fang, had his scepter knocked aside and lay on the ground barely breathing.
Just as he raised the axe and prepared to chop off the head of this big red-skinned shrimp with another blow, Gu Hang's spiritual power surged again and imprisoned his right arm.
Despite being seriously injured, he still managed to do this. Of course, Gu Hang's injuries became more serious. More blood flowed from his mouth, nose, and ears, and even his eyes were bleeding.
But he still successfully restricted the actions of the orc warlord and saved the life of old priest Rizzo.
At this moment, Martins, who was kicked away for the second time, rushed back again. He roared and slashed the chainsaw sword at the broken chest of the orc commander again.
However, the chainsaw sword was blocked by Kuangya's left arm.
His big steel clawed hands grasped Martins' chainsaw sword.
The chainsaw made a crackling sound, and produced extremely brilliant sparks between it and Crazy Fang's steel claws, but the two of them were actually in a stalemate.
The situation came to a standstill for a moment.
Gu Hang has already realized that something is wrong.
He could only control the arm of Kuangya holding the axe, and he couldn't control it for long. Once he lost his strength here, the situation would change immediately.
There has to be a further solution to the problem.
He had another trick: to further stimulate his psychic power, give up the control of the right arm of the mad tooth holding the axe, and instead control him to resist Martins's steel claws. In this way, Martins would have the opportunity to use the chainsaw sword to directly cut open the chest of the orc warlord and kill him.
But if he lost control of the axe, old Reverend Rizzo's head would be chopped off.
Do you want to do this?
Gu Hang knew there was no room for hesitation and he had to make a decision immediately.
But before that, there's another variable.
His psychic power sensed a person who appeared at the hole in the ceiling that had been created when Crazy Fang's melta cannon deflected the target.
He was a human soldier, wearing the uniform of the Governor's Legion of Angry Owl Star. Judging from the armband, he belonged to the 3rd Independent Regiment.
The battle outside the core engine power cabin should not have involved the 3rd Independent Regiment. When mobilizing troops, time was too tight and there was no time to mobilize more troops.
That person's appearance here was obviously an accident and a coincidence.
But he may be able to pull off a big surprise.
…
After an entire company was wiped out, Lacroxia, as the highest-ranking officer among the remaining seven, became the temporary commander. He didn't know where to go, let alone where the company's original mission target was.
He could only hold on to a simple idea and take the remaining six people and try to go to the place where the battle was taking place, hoping to find a serious officer, and then join up with him and hand over the leadership responsibility that he had to bear.
But along the way, they basically only encountered completed battles, but did not see any living officers.
One of the battlefields looked the most tragic, with piles of corpses.
They passed through and picked up several weapons.
Lacroxia knew that the electromagnetic rifles in the hands of those elite Marines were much more powerful than their G9A assault rifles.
As for the original gun, I didn't dare to throw it away. If I threw away the gun, I would be punished by military law. However, it wouldn't be a crime to pick up a few more guns and take them back, right?
And they picked up more than just rifles. They also found two individual hot melt bombs from a dead Marine who had only half of his body left.
It’s a great thing I’ve never seen before, but after fumbling with it for a few times, I roughly knew how to operate it - although I can’t guarantee that it’s correct, after all, I don’t dare to really try it.
Then they continued on their journey, and halfway through, they heard even more intense gunfire.
Lacroxia set out there again with his men, vowing to hand over the command responsibilities.
"I am only suitable to be a soldier, not an officer."
That's what he thought.
The reason why this thought became stronger was that even when leading the team to the place where the fighting was most intense, he could still lead the team astray.
They arrived, but were embarrassed to find that the intense gunfire seemed to come from right under their feet.
The environment inside the starship was too complicated, unlike the surface, which only had one floor. When they reached a higher floor, it was empty, and they couldn't find anyone to go down to join the battle or to find a higher-level leader.
However, there is always a way out. Just as he and his six men were trying to find a way down like headless flies, a red beam of light shot through the ground not far away from them.
Hey, isn’t there a place to go down?
The metal structures there turned red, and the power of the melta cannon was fierce.
After a while, when the temperature was not so high, he carefully approached the big hole with a diameter of about one meter and two.
The hole was not this big at the beginning, it melted into this size in just a few seconds.
He peeked down through the hole and saw a Space Marine in red power armor and a skull-shaped helmet lying at the feet of a huge steel greenskin. There was another Space Marine who seemed to be about to chop someone with a chainsword, but was blocked by a hand.
He recognized that the two Space Marines he saw were from the Phoenix Regiment. Although he had only seen them from afar on the battlefield outside the Garbage Town, the impression they left on people was too deep.
But even such Space Marines were caught in a tough battle. How terrifying was that huge green-skinned giant?
However, that guy seemed to have reached his limit. He couldn't chop down with his axe in one hand, and blocked his chainsaw sword with the other hand...
Looking at this scene, Lacroxia hesitated for a second, or two.
Then he made a decision.
It turns out that I am not suitable to be an officer, but only a soldier.
And as a soldier, what should I do now?
He took out the individual thermal-melt bomb he had picked up earlier, tore off the sticky protective cover on the back, turned on the safety, and saw a countdown in red letters on it.
Then, he jumped down from the hole holding the bomb and landed on the shoulders of the green-skinned orc.
He weighed only 70 to 80 kilograms, and when he landed on the green-skinned giant, the other party did not move at all. But of course he did not expect to sit on the other party to death, but he quickly attached the individual hot melt bomb to the bloody chest of the green-skinned giant, and then he lost his balance and fell from his shoulder, knocking him unconscious.
Just as he was confused, he felt a huge force coming from behind his neck. A big hand grabbed the back of his collar and pulled him backwards. As the head was spinning, he also saw the Space Marine who had fallen at the feet of the green-skinned giant was dragged backwards by some invisible force.
A moment later, he heard an explosion.
Is this the sound of a melta bomb exploding? First there's a crackle, then a muffled sound, and then a gurgling sound...
When the force pulling his collar stopped, he didn't care about his painful back, half climbed up, and looked not far away, only to see that the steel giant had turned fiery red. His limbs and head were fine, but inside the destroyed armor on his chest, it seemed as if a continuously burning red sun appeared, emitting light.
The power of the melta bomb caused extremely high temperatures to expand outward. The iron armor on the orc commander was one of the most advanced technologies of the Irontooth Clan, and it was not so easy to melt, but the flesh and blood inside was different.
In a moment, his chest and abdomen were almost burned out.
His huge body twisted a few times in vain, and then became completely motionless.
Lacroxia looked at this scene in a daze.
Suddenly his vision was blocked and a large shadow covered him.
Looking up, he saw the person who had just pulled him by the back of his collar and ran away - the Space Marine holding a chainsword.
The Space Marine's big hand touched his head and said, "You are a hero. Can you tell me what you were thinking before you jumped down?"
"Well……"
Lacroxia was still a little dazed, and he didn't know how to answer this question.
The moment before he jumped? He didn't think about anything, but his mind wasn't completely blank. If he had to give an answer, it would be the meaningless question that kept running through his mind when he was sitting on the transport ship, gazing back at his hometown, the Wrathful Owl, in the starry sky, and sleeping in the extremely narrow and closed cabin on the Quintet:
“I wonder about the value of life.”
He answered the Space Marine's question quite seriously.
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This chapter has six thousand words.
Today’s update is added!
In addition, although I update a stable 4,000 words every day, scheduled at 11:00 noon, I really don't have any manuscripts saved. The manuscripts are all written by staying up late the night before, and this chapter was finished at 4:30.
If I don’t have any manuscripts saved, I’ll be really exhausted... I’ll write more on weekends and try to avoid this situation.
I'll post it on time first, and I'll correct the typos after I wake up...
(End of this chapter)
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