Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 329

  Chapter 329 Rise of the Primarch: The Last Legion

Pale lights flickered under the huge dome, and the pale light seemed to come from a dying star without temperature. Shine his last rays of light on that already icy star field.

Under the light of this "planet" are cold armors. They are arranged one after another, completely protecting the steel body below them. Cast, unable to even comprehend the physics of which armored soulless robot stands under the light.

It was an incomparably huge war machine. Its burly body stood above its head and under the incandescent lights all around. However, its tall and four-sided external armor layer blocked the lights above its head, and it was chopped into pieces, with pieces of different sizes The shadows cast on the underside of its burly body silently set off the hugeness of the war machine built by humans.

Above the shadow under the chest, the angular head was completely exposed to the light, and the pale light completely illuminated the head with only one eye. In the center of the dazzling incandescent light, the steel head The mechanical eye in the center, composed of countless rings and incomprehensible technological structures, was dimly silent. It opened its eyes, but there was nothing that could be called life under it.

The tall robot looked ahead and crossed the trestle bridge above the endless warehouse. The long bridge was like a world bridge across this sea of ​​steel, allowing its passers-by to pass unimpeded from above the boundless steel army. Pass through, and at the same time overlook these sleeping iron men through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides of the long bridge.

At this moment, there is indeed a person walking on the long bridge, a golden giant, a man who has countless memories in his mind when he sees these steel objects. The curved glass windows on the side looked out.

The man named Vito Constantine was walking on those long bridges made of steel window frames and curved glass. The huge floor-to-ceiling windows cut the walls of the corridor, as shown one by one. The window reveals the Iron Man army outside to the eyes of those who pass through it.

Vito held Helen's disc in his huge palm wearing golden power armor, and the little artificial intelligence lady standing on it also had her hands behind her back, looking out of the window with Vito at the endless Iron Man Legion with her glowing blue eyes. them.

Around the giant multi-legged war machine standing outside the window, there are war behemoths that are smaller in size but also equipped with countless advanced weapons. Their tall bodies stand majestically in the endless sea of ​​machines, It's like mountains and islands protruding from the bottom of the sea one by one.

Those islands are also covered with trees, diamond-shaped shooting openings, "trees" that can blow up the entire palace in the blink of an eye, they just stand like that, stepping their huge supporting feet on the endless iron man below them In the infantry.

Vito looked down on them. Under the feet of those huge war beasts, there were even more iron infantrymen covering the entire floor of the huge warehouse like an ocean. Those bipedal or beast-like steel soldiers held handfuls of memory The same kinetic energy guns, pulse guns and ion guns stand together, just like a parade phalanx.

Vito's eyes scanned them from high above. Some of the iron infantry were holding guns or advanced individual heavy weapons, while others were holding weapons that looked like cold weapons, such as long knives, sharp axes or Spears, but trust me, you won't think they're easy to bully after comparing them horizontally.

Because the reason is very simple, it is also a cold weapon, but the barbarian settlements in the wild world, or the swords and spears held by the old peasants in the feudal world, are still slightly different from those held by the Necrons. , so yes, so is the "cold weapon" here.

Vito looked at a steel beast, a saber-toothed tiger, or at least a beast-like beast, the only thing that resembled the beasts it was based on was that its body was made of flesh and bone, and its The body is entirely composed of steel and hydraulic structures.

The sharp disintegrating claws are closed and grab the ground, they can pounce on the space warrior in an instant, and then tear the armor of the space fighters, and tear the fighters under them into splashing rotten flesh. The sharp teeth are also quietly closed in its mouth, the steel face The mechanical eyeballs hung lifelessly, falling into a seemingly eternal sleep in a dim and lightless state.

Vito looked at everything here. He raised his eyes and looked at the end of the endless iron man army. The silver-gray and iron-colored ocean stretched to the end of his field of vision. There was no end in sight, only the The farthest long steel wall depicts the ancient signs of the golden age and the Gothic fonts to which the warehouses belong.

   "TerrThe Final High Wall Defense Plan-The Last Iron Guard." Gothic font description and imprinted under the ancient sky eagle, which belonged to the ancient times, the last peak of human beings, under the logo of the golden age sky eagle.

   "That day Eagle, I remember that I joined the Empire with the Mechanicus and changed the logo of the Sky Eagle from a single head to a double head. Do you remember it? It was during the Terra unification war."

"Of course, of course I remember, that guy has always been very nostalgic, nostalgic for the pinnacle of the wonderful golden age, so when the unification war started, he used the Federation's Skyhawk logo as his logo, the logo of the empire, probably a picture Good to think about and Geely, although he does enjoy a quirky mix of Art Deco from the olden days of the past and the present."

In a sense, it can be regarded as a kind of nostalgia, Vito thought, that guy has always been nostalgic, otherwise it wouldn't be 40 thousand years, the decoration style of the empire is still Gothic and Victorian, or even the older Rome The style, what a guy, is a surprisingly unorthodox mix of sci-fi and classic.

Vito smiled wryly when he thought of this, and he smiled and lowered his head to look at the iron men below, "He still has a whole legion of iron men here in addition to nostalgia, completing the army of iron men with a complete range of sea, land and air. Nostalgia in every sense of the word."

   Vito walked across the long "secrossing" long bridge as he spoke. He walked over the endless sleeping Iron Man army at his feet, and walked along the long corridor to the main control room at the other end of the gate.

He looked at the closed door in front of him, the golden sky eagle of the empire had already been branded on the door, and the steel door frame was also decorated with the local tyrant gold decoration that the old man liked, he really liked gold in everything. Shiny, what is this? It's the same as the green skin thinking that the tank will be more fierce if it is painted red?

  Vito smiled wryly and brought Helen's disc closer to the terminal beside the gate, "Open the door, we don't have much time, I guess there may have been a fight on the track."

   "Well, you did guess right that a fight broke out. The Imperial Navy fleet on the periphery has already engaged with Chaos, and it collapsed unexpectedly."

As Helen spoke, she looked towards the terminal. She just raised her hand and waved towards the instrument, and the terminal immediately lit up and started to operate with a flashing eagle logo. With the flashing of the eagle, Vito The closed door also opened.

  Vito looked at the front parting from the center, and shrugged with a smile as the door body slid to the sides with the Aquila logo in the door frame, "Abadon is still so impatient, just like his father Horus."

Speaking of Vito, he walked into the main control room behind the door. Interestingly, compared with most of the empire's warship bridges and hive headquarters, this place is much smaller, It's actually unbelievably small.

You know, as a system master control room that can take over, control and coordinate all the defense systems of Terra, from the ground-based anti-aircraft firepower on the ground, the orbital firepower on the orbit, and even the position on the moon, the smallness here is a bit overwhelming. I wonder if this is a utility room where brooms and mops are piled up or something.

But here it is. Vito walked into this prototype control room, which is smaller than the larger Titan cab. He looked at the arc-shaped CNC glass windows covering the entire wall in front of him. The glass windows are exactly the same, and before being activated, they are shrouded in darkness, like a black wall.

Vito looked at the dull glass surface, and then strode to the front of the terminal equipment in front of the glass. Vito flipped Helen's disc with his fingers, and he looked at the silver that was flexibly flipped in his huge fingers. CD, "By the way, look, this place looks so similar to the Skyblade. How did I think about changing the skin for you before? Just a bikini is fine. I guarantee it will be exciting enough with my 40,000 years of experience."

   "Sir, how did you jump from the question that Terra is about to be bombed, and the entire galaxy may be flattened by Abaddon in no time, to the question of letting me wear a swimsuit?"

  Helen's voice came out from the disc. Her image had disappeared due to Vito's flipping, but she was still in it. This small disc carried her digital core, just like it carried her soul.

"I'm here to lighten the atmosphere. Anyway, it's not the first time I've saved the empire and the world, and it's not too bad this time." Vito said and gently placed Helen's CD on the terminal, and he stepped back. After a few steps, he put his hands behind his back and looked at the screens that were all lit up in front of him, and the entire dark master control room lit up instantly.

All the dark screens around Vito flickered, and the eagle logo of the Federation flashed briefly on it, accompanied by the huge eagle logo that almost covered the entire field of vision flashed, in front of Vito A large number of scrolling data and information windows lit up on the CNC glass.

The torrent of data, like a burst tsunami, rushed out and washed over the window, as if a real tsunami hit the window of the command room at the height of the flood control dam, but Vito didn't panic at all, He stood calmly in front of the torrent of data, his eyes calmly watching the chaotic pop-up windows that kept appearing and disappearing in front of him.

He has nothing to worry about, although the chaotic intensity of these data probably makes a priest of Mechanicum blow up his brain the moment he connects, physically blowing up, after being completely overwhelmed by these crazy data tsunami His brain's processors would be charred before insanity.

   But I am not worried about this problem, because compared with Helen, all the technical priests now are the broken computers of the transistor era.

The artificial intelligence lady stood on the terminal in front of Vito, and her fingers quickly slid in front of her. She quickly browsed the windows one by one and threw them aside. With Helen's clicking and controlling the data tsunami of the entire interface, the tsunami of data quickly disappeared. Once under control, everything began to become clearer.

Vito looked at the scrolling list in front of him, which was the list of automatic system interfaces on the entire Terra. From here, he could directly take over the entire Terra defense system, void shield, rail gun, and the entire star port and The hive network will be placed in front of this small, under the control of a finger-tall artificial intelligence girl in Vito's palm.

"Sir, I need permission." Helen pushed away a large number of windows in front of her. She turned to look at Vito behind her. Vito, who was wearing golden armor, stood in front of the screen with his hands behind his back. After nodding, he looked at the screen with the Imperial Skyhawk logo flashing in front of him. The logo was like an iron chain, covering all the control panels under it.

  Vito looked at the golden sky eagle and cleared his throat. He raised his head slightly and said softly, "The system recognizes authority, the king is back."

  "Privilege is complete, welcome back, Generalissimo." A cold mechanical voice sounded from all around the main control room, the voice sounded like a servant, and Vito frowned one eye in bewilderment hearing the voice.

   "Generalissimo?"

"Don't you like it? Sir." Helen smiled and turned her head to start the operating system. With a few taps of her fingers, the entire system began to take over. One window after another quickly passed by, and the blinking indicator switch slid along with her fingers. And all light up.

"Nonsense, it sounds like a bunch of pompous and idiotic titles that some idiot military aristocrats of the empire gave themselves. Really, anyone in the Imperial Star Militia can now be called Grand Marshal. It's about to be depreciated by them.” Vito complained and looked at the window that was passing by in front of him, Helen's efficiency was very fast, and the entire system was almost under control.

   "The system has taken over, and all orbital weapons are under my control. Do I need to activate the Iron Man Legion? Their systems are all functioning normally, although there are some energy shortages, but I just need to recharge it."

"No, Helen, you don't need to take over the track system, just let them continue to sleep." Vito interrupted Helen and said, looking at the blinking Iron Legion system node beside him, it seemed like a keyhole , floating there like a keyhole opening a cage of sleeping beasts.

  It is flickering, using the ion light on its own projection to flicker, as if inviting the users here to activate it, awakening the most powerful beast that humans have ever created.

"Sir, aren't these iron men stored here by you and the Emperor, as a last resort when Terra is completely isolated and about to be breached?" Helen pressed one hand on the holographic projection in front of her, but But he turned his head and looked at Vito behind him in surprise.

"I think this is the last moment, and I don't think I need to remind you that the power of Chaos is several times that of the defenders of Terra, and there are a large number of Astartes forces at their disposal, and the main defensive force on Terra is currently They are ordinary humans, only a handful of Custodians and Gray Knights."

"If you allow, I can completely activate the Iron Man and Smart Fleet here, so that the invasion force can be wiped out without even landing, which can minimize the casualties of Terra, reducing billions, or even tens of billions casualties."

   "Then we'll have to fight another civil war, which will cause the same scale of casualties whether it is fought with Iron Man or not. The only difference is that this time it is fought by humans themselves, just like at the end of the Golden Age."

Vito said calmly and looked at the start keyhole of the Iron Man system. He turned his head resolutely to look at the other interfaces in front of him. Vito's eyes reflected the faint blue light on the CNC glass, and the dots of beams projected on the black on the pupil.

"If the Iron Man appears on Terra and saves the throne world and the Emperor, we will not be greeted with cheers and celebrations, but a religious schism that will occur immediately. The National Church clearly opposes the Emperor and regards The iron man, who is the same cursed thing as the devil, saved Terra and the empire, fell into religious confusion about what it meant, and finally split into two factions and began to draw guns for the "new truth."

"And another wave of people, believe me, the curse of Iron Man technology that confused and caused the fall of the Dark Mechanicus will also cause them to have another Mars split. I guess those oil guys can blow out the parts of each other's colleagues. , the entire Mars will fall into a chaotic civil war. As Abaddon is repelled by the warp storm and dissipates, the news will spread quickly throughout the empire. All the forge worlds of the entire Mechanicus will break out of a technical civil war like Mars, which will cause casualties No smaller than what Abaddon would cause, and even larger."

"Kauer has just brought the group of oil guys back together, I don't want to let the great sage do it again after only two days, and this time I have to be sprayed by Guilliman for hundreds of years That kind, I have always been the only one who criticizes others, and no one else criticizes me!"

Vito said sternly, although from the smile on his face it seems that he is not so serious, Vito looked down at Helen who was also looking at himself, "They are the last choice in the desperate situation, because as long as you choose this method , Everything that will happen afterwards is like the collapse of the golden age, completely out of human control."

   "The Iron Man project is the last one. When everything is bound to settle and the final moment really arrives, it is one of the final plans. They don't belong to the present, but belong to the moment that must come."

   Vito fell silent as he spoke, recalling in his mind the plan that the Emperor said, that crazy plan, the final moment of the final battle that he said.

  Vito closed his eyes and let out a long sigh, while Helen on one side frowned slightly. She looked at Vito in front of her with some worry, "Sir?"

"I'm fine, Helen, if you want to activate Iron Man, at least you have to wait until that **** from Horus hits the gate of the palace. It's not the last moment, but we do have a battle to fight, so take over Terra's system. Vito opened his eyes and said firmly, he nodded slightly to Helen, and the latter nodded affirmatively in response.

Ms. Artificial Intelligence turned around to face a large number of data nodes in front of her. She tapped lightly on the screen with her fingers. Following the touch of her fingers, beams of light quickly shot to all the surrounding data nodes. All the systems flickered in an instant, and those flickering lights finally re-formed into new light beams and converged under Helen's fingers.

   "Helen."

   "What is it, sir?"

   "Make a subroutine and starter that can activate the Iron Man Legion. I will take it to face Abaddon, although I still prefer to beat that brat myself."

  Vito smiled lightly behind Helen, and the artificial intelligence girl in front of him also turned his back to him, showing a faint smile where he couldn't see.

   "Yes, sir."

Helen took a deep breath and closed her eyes. She slowly raised her hands in front of Vito's eyes. As Helen raised her arms, the whole underground world shook. Vito raised his head and looked around violently. The underground structure, the whole world trembled with the rise of Helen's arm.

Bell outside the dark gate suddenly raised his head and looked at the violently shaking palace dome above his head. The great earthquake under his feet was shaking, as if a giant dragon buried deep under Terra was waking up, and it was rising from under the earth. .

Everyone around Bell raised their heads. Eisenstein, Trajan, and all the Custodians and Shadow Guards looked up at the vibrating ceiling above their heads. The statues in the dungeon were hanging The lantern was shaking in the vibration, and the candle within it was also trembling while shaking, shining the shaking fire light on the statue's face.

And on the ground, there was also a candle in the emperor's shrine that was shaking, and the praying believers in front of it looked around in panic at the shaking high-rise buildings around the hive city, and the crowd screamed and there was a big chaos on the street , Even the gendarmes with guns panicked.

The gendarme in the middle of the street stood in the chaotic crowd and looked forward with a gun. He quickly widened his eyes under the shadow of the rising behemoth. The gendarme stared blankly at the giant creation rising from the ground. The panicked crowd around him also stopped to look at the giant in the shadow that blocked the sun.

  It was a turbo cannon slowly rising from the depths of the hive capital. The majestic cannon as tall as a building was slowly rising from the tall buildings of the hive capital, like a giant tower rising from the ground.

   "Where is there!" Someone in the crowd yelled and pointed to the distance, and everyone on the street looked at the thing behind the huge muzzle, the second one! That is the second cannon, and not only that, there are more, more cannons are rising.

Amid the tremors throughout Terra, giant cannons lifted their huge bodies from the shadows buried deep in the hive city, and those rail guns that blocked the sun cast a large shadow on the city. , projected onto the astonished inhabitants of Terra who stood in the streets.

They all looked at the giant cannon that covered the sky and the sun in front of them. The muzzle was aimed at the sky, and gradually a shining beam of light lit up from the muzzle. In an instant, a huge beam of light shot towards the sky with the roar that shook the earth. In the sky, as the body of the cannon receded under the impact force, a huge shock wave shook the residents of the entire street.

They stepped back again and again, and some fell to the ground and looked up at the huge laser beam that shot through the sky. The laser pierced through the sky of Terra in the blink of an eye, and shot through the imperial fleet orbiting Terra. .

  The beam whizzed by the side of the Infinite Frontier, and the scarlet beam instantly illuminated the entire bridge. Standing on the high platform, Captain Cole suddenly turned his head to look at the huge beam whizzing past the window

The huge laser beam directly shot through a chaotic frigate that was advancing in the distance from the wide gap between the battleships. The void shield of the battleship flickered like a scream and then stopped abruptly for a moment, breaking the shield instantly. , the crimson laser pierced through the battleship instantly, completely piercing through it from bow to tail.

  The frigate exploded and disintegrated in an instant, and the flames sprayed out filled the space like blood. The exploding battleship instantly illuminated the entire night sky and illuminated the bridge of the Vengeful Spirit sailing on its side.

The face of Abaddon Company was illuminated by the flames of the explosion, and the Warmaster suddenly howled when he saw the frigate that exploded and disintegrated. He laughed with an almost crazy laugh and raised his power claw, "I Accept your challenge, Vito!"

"The whole fleet is ready!" Abaddon roared and pointed his lightning claws at Terra, and Captain Cole on the Infinite Frontier was pointing at each other almost at the same time. Navy saber, he raised the golden powered scimitar, then swung it down and pointed at the Chaos fleet in the distance.

"Fire!" Cole slashed off his saber and shouted at the same time as Abaddon, their roars turned into roars of war, macro cannons and light spears began to roar, roaring shells and laser beams bombarded each other in the universe On both sides of the curtain, in the collision of blood and fire, the battle to defend Terra officially began.

  (end of this chapter)

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