Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 67 The Eve Of The Final Battle

Chapter 7 The Eve of the Final Battle
The soul is stirring, the soul is roaring.

Calvin's psychic shield was activated in the tide-like attack on the opposite side. The originally invisible wave also revealed its black essence under the background and friction of his incandescent shield.

Calvin shook the long sword in his hand. Blazing white psychic energy covered the entire body of the sword like flowing water, and burned fiercely on the edge of the blade like a flame.

The demons seemed to feel the threat, and the eyes on the tentacles opened wide and stared in Calvin's direction.

Bloody tears flowed from the cracked corners of these eyes, and a more powerful wave of spiritual energy rushed towards Calvin like a torrent.

Under the impact of this corrosive force, the steel walls in the cabin quickly decayed and aged, and the several-inch-thick steel floor was decayed into an unusable rusty black in an instant.

Going against this wave, Calvin took two more steps. The rotten floor could not bear his huge weight, and he almost stepped on the air several times. After Calvin found the load-bearing pillars on the next floor, he simply walked directly from the pillars to the wall. Tentacles jump.

The tentacles, which could no longer be avoided, finally ushered in their doom. Calvin, who had reached the wall, raised the long sword in his hand, and chopped off the evil one by one, who tried to wait for their companions for a while.

The platinum flame made the Valkyrie's long sword invincible, and none of the twelve tentacles by the wall could resist the judgment from order.

They were all burned up by the flames of the sword as soon as they were cut down, and the echo of their dying howls seemed to be heard in the rapidly disappearing wave of psionic energy in the cabin.

In Calvin's psychic vision, the remaining tentacles no longer rushed towards this cabin. They seemed to be composed of some kind of group consciousness. Without the guidance of their companions, they lost their desire or instinct to hunt and eat.

The short battle is over, but the scene in the cabin is completely different from just now.

Calvin looked around, except for the wall he was on, the rest of the direction, even the bulkheads on the ground, were crumbling under the impact of the previous corrosive force.

The comrades who were originally separated by a wall were standing not far away at this time.The platform they were on became the only remaining intact resting place after the battle.

From a height, the high wall representing the inner layer of the hive capital now has a huge sore.The mottled rust spread like a scar around a sore.

Under the previous impact, at least half of the originally thick supporting colonnade under the platform was covered with rust, and the loss of its internal structural strength would only be greater than what was revealed on the outside.

After losing this important support structure, it is undoubtedly an unwise behavior to rely on the strength of the direct step ladders on and off the platform to bear the inhuman weight of the Gray Knights and the weight of the power armor.

Calvin carefully jumped over the load-bearing pillars exposed under the cabin, and came to the original cabin door.He poked his head out to look at the scenery up and down the breach and said to his comrades:

"These tentacles are by no means its main body. I have a hunch that we will see it at the final destination. Let's go, take advantage of this platform and persist. The rest of the road should not be far away."

The gray knights nodded, no one questioned Calvin's battle just now.

With the sharing of thought channels, the terminators empathized with Calvin's emotions to a certain extent, and they vaguely understood the meaning behind these tentacles.

The Interceptor brothers simply thought that Calvin was cutting off for them, and those dead Astartes made them understand that the other party's power is so special.

So caught off guard, the Astartes, who had more than two entire squads, also died here.

As for the final beheading, it was indeed a last resort. After all, under the impact of that level of psychic energy, the entire team would not be able to escape unless the opponent was dealt with.

The way forward is broken, the originally planned entrance is now clearly occupied by this kind of tentacles rooted in the entire Hive City building, and the ritual that may exist on the top of the Hive City tells the Gray Knights that their time is so urgent.

They had no choice, and it was their most urgent goal right now to reach the top floor of the Hive Capital as soon as possible.

Calvin didn't hesitate any longer. He called up the downloaded map information from the data terminal in the Terminator power armor he was wearing.

After simply flipping the map twice, he said to the comrades around him:

"We move laterally, first to the energy supply pipeline, and from there we go inside the pipeline."

"Where can it lead to the top floor?" Garituri, the arbitrator of the Gray Knight Interceptor, asked him.

"Yes, there is also a passage leading to the top floor, but usually the entire duct is filled with high-temperature air, which can only pass through when the heating engine is maintained. These things definitely appeared before the hive city's energy supply failed, so there has always been The high temperature kept would make them instinctively refuse to grow there." Calvin replied firmly.

The gray knights who had reached a consensus did not delay any longer, and they walked toward the parallel direction of the mezzanine maintenance ladder through the pipes on the wall with a clear goal.

The way to the energy pipeline is not far away. In fact, any nest is in a building with a huge resident population. From the perspective of the entire building design and construction at the beginning of construction, this kind of water supply and supply to ensure basic living standards The investment in hot basic supporting equipment is the largest category of all projects.

Walking along the red heating branch pipeline under their feet, Calvin and his party quickly reached the heating node on the upper floor of the hive.

In the maintenance warehouse next to the huge secondary pressurization device of the heating node, Calvin got the specific location to enter the inside of the pipeline.

Without time to find the corresponding key, Calvin roughly tore open the locked door on the heating pipe.

A group of people filed in and stood on the suspended workbench surrounded by a circle. They could see the dry and smooth pipe wall inside the pipe, which also confirmed Calvin's previous judgment.

The small elevator for maintenance is parked quietly at the door. Due to the working environment, the power supply of the elevator is independent of other equipment, which also makes the elevator in a state that can be directly used without adjustment when the heat supply of the entire nest fails.

The space of the elevator is too small, and the load designed for mortals also allows the Gray Knights to take no more than three people at a time.

Calvin walked in first, and the narrow remaining space in the elevator could barely accommodate another gray knight, but considering the load of the elevator and the consideration of leaving enough room for possible battles, the gray knights He stopped his steps.

They watched silently as their commander opened the way for the entire group, waiting to join him later.

With the sound of friction between hinges and steel cables, Calvin quickly reached the finish line.

In his psychic field of vision, the surrounding environment was fairly calm. Before the elevator came to a complete stop, he couldn't wait to get out as soon as the cabin door opened. Brothers who are about to arrive on the alert

There is only the last section of the road left, and the enemies ahead are still unknown.

While waiting for the elevator to return, Calvin prayed to the Emperor in Terra.

(End of this chapter)