Chapter 37

In addition, there are rumors that the empire's large laser weapons such as volcano cannons have also successfully used various technologies derived from this device, although the derivatives of these technologies have made these large lasers less powerful than ordinary laser guns. Considerable, but with the help of new technology, it has multiple optimization blessings such as longer range, easier manufacturing methods, lower energy load, faster rate of fire without reducing power, and more difficulty in overload explosion. , the manufacturing cost and difficulty of using large laser weapons have plummeted, and some large laser weapons have begun to fly into ordinary Astra Militarum troops - although it may take hundreds of years for most of the Astra Militarum troops to popularize them It is a task that can only be completed, but everyone familiar with the matter understands that once the Astra Militarum completes the installation of large-scale laser weapons with the support of this technology, it will be more difficult for the enemies of the Empire to face the heavy blow of the Imperial Hammer.

"This technology is enough to fundamentally change many corrupt war situations in the empire. If back then... forget it, maybe things would have been even worse."

Robert Guilliman, the Regent of the Empire, said these words after being silent for almost a second after observing the destructive power of the light spear volleys of the battleships that used new technology.

Eighty-three. External Chapter——Shadow Wolf

From a personal emotional point of view, Baron Blood Rose does not like the hive city.

He hated the sound of air or liquid flowing in the pipes that always lingered in his ears, and the dim lamps that would flicker from time to time - all these sounds and lights would always remind him of what he had already done. The past that should be abandoned, recalling the time when he was 'chosen' by his former captain who was too dead to die - although he waved the dagger without hesitation at that time, after becoming an Astartes for so long, The stunned expression of his friend who was about to die would still flash before his eyes from time to time, which always made him feel an inexplicable nausea, as if some shadow that he had abandoned for a long time was once again entangled in him. The body is average.

However, Baron Blood Rose also likes hive cities very much. A hive city, especially one located in a remote star region of the empire that does not even have a space auspicious array, is always helpful to his warband - —As a descendant of the Midnight Haunter, using fear to conquer

The empire's defenseless hive cities suppressed, then descended, massacred, plundered, and then took away the trophies, stuffed some of them into the warehouses of their own war gang's boats, and then dragged other parts of them to the black market. The process of selling has become something more familiar to him than breathing - and every time he descends to the hive and completes the main tasks, Baron Blood Rose always has the opportunity to bring the ruler of the hive with him. They', Shi Shiran went to the highest level of the hive city, watched the midnight sky of the hive city world, and talked about some things that only nobles should discuss - of course, what are the remaining hive city rulers he brought with him? Several organs, or only a few organs, were never within the scope of Baron Blood Rose's consideration.

And today, under the midnight moonlight of this hive world, Baron Blood Rose is still doing his favorite thing. He is standing on several empty pieces of skin where the outline of something like a 'person' can probably be captured. Next to him, he raised his head slightly, looking at the twinkling stars in the sky, happily singing some poems full of anxiety in Nostramo - this low Gothic language was because of the betrayal of Konrad Coates. , has long since become a language that only the Night Lords have the opportunity to learn, and Baron Blood Rose has always been proud of being able to speak this language in a wandering way.

"Sir, Brother Arnold's communication was suddenly interrupted."

Just when Baron Blood Rose was immersed in his hobbies and gained a brief moment of peace, the voices of his war gang members suddenly came from the communication channel.

"Huh? The communication was interrupted? Brother Lauder, could you please describe the situation in detail?"

The Baron Blood Rose, whose interest was interrupted, repeated the word doubtfully, and then casually tore off the most valuable part of the skin of the person next to him.

He moved his neck slightly and put his helmet back on his power armor. Then, the Night Lord jumped lightly and gracefully from the dome of the Gothic building in the nest city that was close to 90 degrees, and easily passed through the intricate passages below. In the blink of an eye, his figure Just integrated into the hive city.

"Ten minutes ago, when Brother Arnold, who was working with me as a team, was searching alone in a material warehouse in the Middle Nest area we were responsible for, he told me that he found something on the alloy wall of his warehouse that didn't look like something a mortal would be able to save. traces."

"And he followed the trail?"

Baron Blood Rose, who had already entered a ventilation duct and headed towards the location that Lauder threw to him, frowned slightly - in fact, there is a probability that there are some traces in any hive that "cannot be left by mortals" It’s all 100%, because the hive city itself is a special blind box in a sense. Unless it is completely wiped out, you will never know what weird things will be in your hive city - so , the act of rashly following such traces is itself a recipe for death.

"No, I couldn't contact him again after that."

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The dark corridor, the air full of old and rotten atmosphere, endless supplies, and the rustling sound of something running.

Although some simple autonomous machines are still working tenaciously, maintaining the temperature, air humidity, and chemical content in the air as much as possible, even though there are still several cameras struggling to eat the lines. The current inside worked hard to send every bit of information they could capture in the warehouse to the guard room. However, their efforts now have no meaning to this hive world.

Several Night Lords Astartes belonging to Baron Bloodrose's warband lurked themselves near this warehouse where they could not be easily discovered, and carefully controlled all nearby strategic points - it is true that these Night Lords were becoming Night Lords. Before, they were basically scum among scum, and although these Night Lords called each other brothers, in fact there was no brotherhood at all - however, because Arnold's disappearance was so abnormal, they all nearby They put down their 'work' and followed the request of their war gang leader and came to this warehouse that they had already raided once, ready to find out who this veteran who had been crawling around in the universe for almost a hundred years was. How did you lose yourself? According to the plan, they will have to plunder this hive world for at least half of the Terra moon before returning to their ship. If this matter is not investigated clearly...

The Night Lord likes to make his enemies disappear inexplicably and then spread this fear. However, the Night Lord never likes to be the object of being 'disappeared'.

"Brother Lauder, have you discovered anything?"

When Baron Blood Rose arrived at the scene of the incident, it was Laud who first informed him of the incident - a man who wore power armor made up of two types of power armor parts before becoming the Night Lord. The pale man who was once the most trustworthy 'debt collector' of a gang boss in a hive world has been investigating this warehouse for almost half of Terra. Of course, Baron Blood Rose also knows that he is knowingly asking questions. After all, if it is true, I found some clues, and the war gang communication channel will definitely not be so silent now.

"I am almost certain that the Arnold brothers are in danger, except for a little blood and the Arnold brothers

Apart from the fragments of power armor on his body, there is only this crack on the wall - I have enough reason to believe that this is the mark discovered by the Arnold brothers. "

After responding gloomily to his war gang leader, the pale-faced giant wearing old power armor with fresh trophies hanging on it turned slightly sideways and showed the traces that led to the disappearance of their battle brothers, and the blood Baron Rose didn't say much, strode to the wall, stretched out his hand, and touched it carefully.

".....Lightning Claw."

A few seconds later, Baron Blood Rose spit out the most likely source of the marks on the wall. At the same time, new doubts began to emerge in his mind - as the descendants of the Midnight Haunter, the Lightning Claw has always been their favorite weapon, and Arnold He was a Night Lord after all, so how could he not realize what had drawn these scars on the wall?

"Do you think Brother Arnold can't recognize the damage caused by the Lightning Claw?"

After once again confirming that the marks on the wall were most likely caused by lightning claws, the hazy voice of Baron Blood Rose sounded in the communication channel.

"If he loses the ability to communicate with us within two seconds of finding the trace - then he may not be able to identify the source of the trace."

Lauder spoke in a low voice.

"So Brother Loud, you're saying that Brother Arnold encountered something unexpected less than two seconds after seeing this mark - and failed to even send the final warning?"

Baron Blood Rose took a breath and quickly began to simulate in his mind how long it would take him to defeat his subordinate if he attacked Arnold in actual combat. After thinking for a while, the Night Lord judged that unless Arnold was bare-handed, the time he fought with him could never be less than twenty seconds. Moreover, regardless of whether Arnold was bare-handed or not, he and Arnold fought with each other. It is absolutely impossible to leave only such a small trace in the area.

"yes."

Lauder, who saw what was written on the face of Baron Blood Rose, nodded slightly, confirming the answer of his war gang boss, although he also knew that this answer was extremely outrageous.

"Ropol, Camoro, you two come in and investigate this warehouse with us. In addition, Kes, you choose someone and go with him to see if the mortal surveillance has captured any clues."

After thinking for a few seconds, Baron Blood Rose quickly made a series of personnel arrangements - the leader of the Night Lords war gang knew that the time they could plunder in this hive world was not infinite, so he had to quickly To find an explanation for Arnold's disappearance that would at least convince others to stabilize the morale of the military, if he couldn't...

What choice will a group of scum and criminals make? As the biggest scumbag in this war gang, Baron Blood Rose, is it still unclear?

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The path leading to the guard room of the warehouse is not very easy.

Considering that in most cases, the guards can only squat alone in the guard room to guard the warehouse, and although the middle nest area is not as rich in martial arts as the places further down, it is not a harmonious and beautiful place, so leading to The passage in the guard room is not only winding and narrow, but the lighting is also extremely dim - all this is so that if something happens, the guard can hold on for as long as possible to possibly sound the alarm.

However, in front of the Night Lords, all this is just empty talk - before Kes brought another Midnight Lord to this small room, the guards inside had already been skinned and cramped, and the dismantled corpses were like A red roasted goose was hung somewhere in the middle nest - when the two Night Lords stepped into the room, the few skeletons that had been removed and thrown into the room screamed at the right time. The clicking sound was like the last sigh of a victim.

"You go to the door and I'll check the video."

After arranging for his teammates to squat at the door, Kes opened the still intact console and retrieved the data inside. He was convinced that it would only take a minute at most to find him out of this mortal thing. Desired intelligence data. Although in his opinion, this was a complete waste of time - how could mortal equipment capture traces of a being that could kill a Night Lord?

Then at the next moment, an indescribable feeling froze him - although this feeling only lasted for an extreme moment, Kes, who had been struggling on the battlefield for a long time, knew that as a midnight wanderer, Heirs who follow their inner intuition can often live longer!

"brother?"

Driven by the feeling, Kes turned around and stared at the half-open door of the guard room. While calling his teammates gently on the communication channel, he tightened his grip on his melee weapon. At the same time, all the muscle groups in his body were tense to the point of exerting force. At the critical point, he entered the best fighting state - his senses and his power armor told him that the darkness outside the door was normal, but Kes's intuition was telling him that something big had happened!

No answer.

"brother?"

A head rolled into the room with a gurgling sound and rolled to the feet of Chris. His battle brother stared at him with his eyes fixed on him - before Chris had time to warn Baron Blood Rose, the light in the small room turned on.

The sudden extinguishment, and the thicker darkness that even the Night Lord could not adapt to, swallowed up the room.

Then, there was a short scream.

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Something was wrong, very wrong.

About two days ago, Baron Blood Rose had dealt with the disappearance of his battle brothers as a somewhat troublesome but not very troublesome incident, but now he has begun to feel at a loss - in fact, in Kes After the body fragments of another Night Lord appeared in places where they shouldn't be, he should have realized that the situation had escalated. However, some bad arrogance made him just let the battle brothers form a trio, and continued According to the investigation, the most direct effect of this is that in the past two days, the remains of some Night Lords have appeared in strange places.

"What's your rank?"

Seeing the remains of the battle brothers belonging to his war gang being pulled out from a pipe in front of him, Baron Blood Rose's voice was a little hoarse as he gathered as many members of his war gang as he could contact around him.

"The sixth one, and we're not sure what's going on with the battle brothers we haven't contacted yet."

Ropol answered his leader's question softly, and Baron Blood Rose noticed that his teeth were rubbing slightly.

"Although... I don't want to describe it this way, there is no doubt that something is 'hunting' us, just like we are 'hunting' those mortals."

Lauder, who had been following Baron Blood Rose to investigate, sounded pale - he didn't want to use this word to describe their current situation, but now he had a vague feeling.

"So what do we do now? Retreat, get back to the ship with everything we can carry? We haven't even made it back on this trip..."

Before Camorro finished speaking, his head suddenly exploded into a ball of blood - as if his helmet was made of paper - when the Blood Rose Baron and his battle brothers waited according to the angle of the bullet. When they calculated the direction of the sniper attack and looked over there, all they saw was the "empty" hive complex.

"Ultra-range sniper, I think I know who our opponent is."

Although the bodies of his subordinates were still slowly flowing with blood around him, Baron Blood Rose, who felt that he had finally caught the attacker's heel, had a gloomy smile on his face. He waved his hand to signal the remaining The Night Lord who was following him approached him.

"Let's go hunting for the raven."

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Deep black power armor with a color that almost interprets the word shadow itself.

Although it was operating, there was no sound at all. There was no doubt that it was some kind of Seiko flight backpack.

A pair of lightning claws lingering with bright electric light.

With...the Space Wolves logo on the shoulder.

When the shadows in an alley of the hive city were disturbed, and easily penetrated the two hearts of Lord, the last battle brother beside Baron Bloodrose, who had been hunting the Raven Guard for a day and a half and suffered heavy losses, Baron Blood Rose felt the dance of Death's scythe and immediately took the correct tactical action, allowing himself to avoid the decomposing claws coming towards him. At the same time, he also used a bomb directed towards the shadow to briefly tear open the shadow itself, revealing a human figure standing in the shadow - as he expected, the one who attacked him was an Aspen Tate, to his surprise, the Astartes who attacked him were not the Raven Guard.

"...Space Wolves?"

Staring at the logo on the shoulder of the Astartes in front of him, Baron Blood Rose felt that his mouth was a little dry. The ambusher who caused catastrophic losses to his warband was a Space Wolves Astartes? I, the descendant of the Midnight Haunter, was actually forced into this field by a space wolf?

"...."

He didn't get an answer, because the Astartes in front of him merged into the shadow of the hive again the moment the bolt fire disappeared. Baron Blood Rose, realizing what his opponent was doing, immediately raised the 120% Attention, while nervously observing every movement in the shadow, he also moved his steps and moved out of the alley. Admittedly, this environment is also considered the home field for the Midnight Lord, but considering that the opponent is a ghost, you don't know. Why is there a guy who wears the Space Wolves logo but uses Raven Guard tactics and can still come and go in the shadows...

Baron Blood Rose suddenly felt that fighting in a well-lit place might not be a bad choice. After all, the successive deaths of his battle brothers had proved one thing, and that was—

In the shadow, is the world of my current enemy! Playing an ambush by yourself is just a joke in front of this Astartes who knows what is going on!

"I thought that the descendants of Konrad Curze all liked the shadows. It seems that enough fear can make you flying rats appear in the light."

However, before Baron Blood Rose could take a breath before sliding to a relatively bright place, the voice coming from the shadows made him stop angrily. Just as he was about to use his graceful

When the Nostramo language counterattacked this guy from who knows what group, he saw that he had walked to the opposite side of him silently, standing in the dividing line between light and shadow.

"Take up your weapons, traitor, this is your last chance to survive."

The lightning claws lit up and arcs of electricity began to dance across them.

Volume: Minoite's Redemption

1. Hammer guys who received new commissions

"Fire, for the Emperor!!"

"Aha, bugs, I hope you like the smell of your burntness!"

"For five hundred worlds!!!"

Fierce war cries echoed in the headphones, explosive bombs filled with the Emperor's wrath were fired wildly, the crazy Tyranid swarms were shattered into minced meat in the sky, and the Emperor's Angel of Death was advancing steadily——

On the oversized computer screen at Big E's house.

"Big E, recently GW has officially put Tai Ritian and his story into the official world view of 40K. So, in the timeline you know, is there really such a NB double God of EK?"

In Big E's luxurious villa, several hammer guys were playing the beta version of Star Marine 2 that Big E had obtained through some channels, experiencing the powerful pleasure of mowing the grass, and blowing blowjobs with Big E. Of course, Liang Feifan's words earned him a subtle look from Big E, who was controlling Titus to use his chainsword to fight a Tyranid swarm node unit.

"How should I put it? The character of Titus can be said to exist or not. He exists because the Ultramarines have indeed achieved the results achieved in the Space Marine series of games and made a series of heart-stirring actions. The epic story says that he does not exist because these things are not something that one or two Ultramarines can do, but are the glory that many Ultramarines have achieved successively.”

"So, Titus is actually a 'collection of Ultramarines'? So is the protagonist of the Bolter?"

"That's understandable."

While answering the political commissar sister, Big E controlled Titus to make a maneuver, sweeping and killing all the Tyranid swarms that were rushing towards him, and sent them to the west. Seeing Big E's happy face, the God of Choice rubbed his chin and thought of another question.

"Then, games like Undertide, Space Hulk, Necromunda Bounty Hunter, and even Warhammer Mobile, which are only licensed by GW, do they have "corresponding" deeds in the 40K world?"

"Maybe, but you also know that I can't pay attention to every detail in every hive - of course, if they do have corresponding stories, there is absolutely no chance that Sai will appear in Necromunda. "Fu's wanted order."

When this cold joke was told, the Emperor had already completed the combat content of this chapter of Starfighter 2. When the Hammers thought of the particularly eye-catching thing among the wanted posters on the wall in the Necromunda game, they all nodded with sympathy - even though Necromunda itself is a very important hive world and has a close relationship with the Imperial Fists, but the First Legion of the Empire, who is afraid that their little secrets will be leaked, will know that the information of a guy who "carries the sword of the Primarch, distinguishes loyalty and treachery with two guns, white robes are better than snow, and great piety cannot be described" has been leaked, and the wanted poster is still hung in the bounty area with great fanfare. I'm afraid that a bunch of black technology things will arrive at the door of Necromunda tomorrow - well, although the Lion King has returned now, it seems that Cypher is still a part of the DA's biggest secret...

"So So, Big E, did you give any orders to Cypher? Didn't Thirteenth Master try to backstab you? Why was he let go? "

However, when it comes to Cypher, the Hammers' thoughts diverge to places related to him - there is no doubt that the mysterious character of Cypher itself has a certain attraction to the Hammers, and figuring out what big things this guy is doing is something that the Hammers who study the plot and background online are very happy to do - and Big E, as the person involved, must know something. If Big E personally gives the answer...

"Guess?"

Faced with the questions of the Hammers, Big E showed a mysterious smile on his face, and then closed Starfighter 2 and opened another game Dark Tide.

"Let's play a few games of Dark Tide? This game looks pretty good, but I really don't want to play too many random games. They always give me a big job when I don't expect it."

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"I have received the new prayer."

After the Hammers played a few games of Dark Tide with Big E and were successfully impressed by Big E's luck, they all said that they understood why Big E had a good impression of this game and strongly pointed out that if they continued like this, they would end their friendship. Only then did a satisfied 40K human emperor give up the operation of showing off his good character, arranged refreshments, and started to talk to the Hammers about business. Realizing that there was a new task refreshment, the Hammers who were still mumbling before immediately put aside the idea of ​​"giving Big E a killer whale" and sat around the huge table at Big E's house, listening to Big E's description attentively.

"The one who initiated the prayer this time is an Inquisitor..."

"Wait? The Inquisition?"

Hearing the identity of the source of the prayer from Big E, the political commissar frowned

——For the Hammermen who observe the world of Warhammer 40K from a super-dimensional perspective, although they all know that the Inquisition is a necessary evil for the existence of the Empire of 40K, or in other words, the Empire itself is a bloated creation composed of a bunch of necessary evils that allow humans to survive, but this does not mean that the Hammermen like the Inquisition.

"Yes, an inquisitor, who fought to the last moment of his life on a planet that had fallen into a demon world and was certain that it could not be saved, and perished with the world in the extermination order he ordered - his prayer was the last sound when the extermination order was issued."

"Ah this...?"

"After realizing that the world could not be saved, he used the extermination order to blow himself and the planet up on the surface of the planet?"

"Wait, Big E, so the time point of his prayer is the critical point of the extermination order, wouldn't we be sent back by the extermination order within three seconds if we went there? What's the use of us going there?"

"After you stirred up two rounds of 40K timelines and created some future lines that were beyond GW's description but had been anchored, my ability was slightly upgraded - now, for your advent time period, I can already adjust it to a certain extent - of course, this is not without cost."

Big E took a sip of happy water slowly, and Hammer's heart jumped involuntarily when he heard the cost in Big E's mouth.