Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Whisper of Temptation
Despite shouting a heroic battle cry, Greyhunter did not attack again, but activated the electromagnetic attachment device on his boots and staggered up the wall, apparently trying to detour back to the enemy body to attack. Admittedly, this is a good idea, as the top armor is slightly weaker than the frontal armor and is closer to the vital position.
The effect of the hot melt bomb just now was not very good. Although the hydraulic power system on one leg was blown up, the monster Demon Engine was not completely powered by machinery, and with the demonic flesh wrapped around the mechanical leg, that leg still retained a certain amount of athletic ability, and was not completely paralyzed.
However, as soon as Grey Hunter left, I was the only one left standing in front of the enemy. Although Ashvarya had come up with a hot bomb to help, looking up at the two cannons on the body of the Demon Engine that were aiming at us, I felt that the nun had come up to make a mess. The Force Feedback Power Armor is a beat slower than the Space Marine's Neural Access Armor, and the dodge efficiency is much worse, and I don't think the nun can survive the various attacks of the Demon Engine. As for resisting with armor, the Terminator warrior lying on the corpse has already set a very cautionary example for us.
So I dragged the little nun behind me and forced her down, keeping myself in a crouching position so that my whole body was hidden behind the storm shield. In the next moment, a torrential rain of fire poured in, unleashing countless ominous dark red flames on my side, knocking huge dissolution dents into the steel floor. The Storm Shield I relied on was naturally shot one after another, and although it did not have the impact effect of physical ammunition, the cable attached to my arm suddenly began to burn, indicating that the power of the Storm Shield had automatically increased to an extraordinary height. If it continues, as one of the highest level crystallizations of Imperial technology, the Storm Shield may be able to sustain it, but the battery backpack on my back is only temporarily used to recharge, and it may explode due to overload.
I have seen a lot of overheating and self-detonation in the defense forces when the battle is raging.
But at this time, the magic flame that came to me was condensed by the chaotic energy of the subspace, and my psionic shield can easily deal with physical ammunition, and it also has a certain effect on conventional energy such as laser plasma, but it is vulnerable in the face of chaotic subspace energy, and it can easily be broken down and collapsed. At this point, I had no other way to deal with it than the Storm Shield.
Ashwarya poked her head out in a hail of bullets to glance at it, then dropped the molten bomb over. Through the gap in the shield, I could see that although the bomb was roughly in the right direction and smashed into the demonic engine, the electromagnetic device could not be applied to the demon's muscles, and it could not be absorbed and fell down, exploding into a cloud of fireworks that did no damage to anyone.
Luckily, my teammates aren't all ineffective like Battle Nun. As I managed to attract a few seconds of fire in front of me, Tooth was able to take his aim with great care, and the laser cannon fired once, hitting the main body of the Demon Engine and carving a small smoking hole in the frontal armor. The same individual laser cannon, due to the stronger function of the Space Marine power backpack and higher shooting accuracy, its combat effectiveness is completely different from that in the hands of the defense forces. In the hands of the Defence Forces, laser cannons are more often used against light vehicles of the Chimera class, and against main battle tanks, they still choose to attack side armor or track load wheels, and rarely attack head-on. And this demon engine is a little stronger than the Riemann Ruth tank.
However, even if the laser cannon has more firepower, it still can't deal severe damage to the demon engine. Unlike purely mechanical vehicles, the Demon Engine will not be disabled by a broken gear or lever, will not be reduced in combat effectiveness due to the death of a crew member, and will not be able to burst into a grand fireworks due to the death of ammunition. A wound the size of an arm, as insignificant to its massive body as a human being pricked with a needle, not only did not paralyze it, but provoked its anger.
With a tooth-aching sound of steel grinding, the ugly chaos machine lifted its body a little higher, aimed its muzzle at the fangs, and the small-caliber rapid-fire cannon stopped firing. I could feel the abnormal high-energy condensation, and it looked like it was ready to use the main cannon.
No longer suppressed by fire, I think I should step forward and do something about it.
How should a psychic person fight against such a large mechanical creation? Just as this thought flashed through my mind, a clear vision suddenly appeared before my eyes.
It was a battlefield of fighting, with smoke and corpses, burning steel wreckage all over the ground, and countless vague human figures fighting back and forth. Among the vague figures, only one image was clear: a giant in shining armor and long fiery red hair, taller than everyone around him, with only one eye on his impressive face. The giant seemed to be nearly three meters tall, and in the distance in front of him was a behemoth almost thirty or even forty meters tall, with countless barrels and blades strewn across its ugly and hideous steel body, this alien mechanical creature was sprayed with flames and deadly cannonballs, and it walked and trampled all the way, shattering the human soldiers and machinery around it, even the fortress-like Rand raider heavy chariot could not stop it for a moment. But the god-majestic one-eyed, red-haired giant stopped the enemy's pace with a single arm, causing its armor and artillery to crumble and fall one by one, and finally collapse into a larger mass of burning ruins......
Magnus, the genetic prototype of the Legion of a Thousand Sons, a one-eyed, red-haired giant, and one of the Empire's most eminent psionic mentors...... This information flashed through my mind.
These things are clearly absolute taboo in the Empire, and even mentioning the name is an unforgivable sin. But at this moment, a whisper echoed deep in my heart:
Learn from him, throw away your clumsy and ugly weapon, and use your talents to defeat your enemies! What can I do......
But that's cursed witchcraft! The tragic fate of Magnus and Chiko has served as a warning to everyone who tries to learn witchcraft! My reason tells me so.
Then again, if I cast the spell with all my might, it wouldn't be too difficult to shred this Iron Demon. It's big and sturdy, but it's still a lot smaller than the Thunderhawk gunboat, and the multi-legged shape isn't at all as stable as the Thunderhawk, and even if I can't shatter its body, I can at least tear off those mechanical legs and feet.
However, this is the territory of the Inquisition, and the Battle Nun is crouching close to me, and the space wolf not far behind me is also one of the people who hate witchcraft. Rashly wielding powerful psionic powers in such an environment? I'm not that stupid!
Standing up, I dragged the hammer backwards, raised my shield diagonally and charged forward.
"Die, demon! For the emperor! I roared and slammed the hammer to break one of the demonic engine's mechanical legs.
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