After leaving the command center, Elaine led Karn to the mechanical tower.

When they arrived at the scene, what they saw was not much different from when they first arrived, and it was also a scene that the Whisperer warriors stationed here had witnessed for nearly half a month—

The roar of the blast and the raindrops of the lasers intertwined, tearing apart any living corpse of the Iron Man who tried to break through the fire net, and gradually changing the surrounding desert terrain into a terrifying appearance filled with hot crystals and Iron Man remains, and the thick dark clouds gathered by the smoke even lingered for a long time.

A silent war, a long and protracted war, and a challenge in the face of the unknown.

To this day, the vast army of Iron Man corpses is still rushing towards the Whisperer's firepower network, as if there is an inexhaustible energy source in the tower that can produce these mechanical corpses - in contrast to the increasingly depleted ammunition reserves of the Human Empire, and the almost stacked iron man remains on the battlefield, even gradually changing the surrounding terrain.

No one knows how long this war will last, just as no one knows how many Iron Man corpses will pour out of that damn mechanical tower, and all Astarte the Bearer and the mortal auxiliaries can do is fire at them day and night, against the tired and growing chambers of the guns.

Even though almost no soldiers died at the hands of those weapons that were too outdated, they had to constantly check the condition of their weapons to see if they were on the verge of reaching their limits to avoid being blinded by the sudden burst of gun fragments.

However, even this strange situation is not too strange in the battle situation of the Human Empire against the various aliens in the stars, and it is even relatively good.

In the vast majority of cases, it is much more difficult than this level of incomprehension.

Although the tentacles of chaos cannot easily touch reality through the veil of subspace, there are too many worlds in this galaxy that are on the verge of destruction due to the ignorance of the psykers and the brutality of the alien empire, and the long old night has almost made the humans in these worlds forget what kind of transcendent status their race once had, so that the human empire that wants to save them from the aliens and psykers is quite troubled.

Among them, the most profound feelings are felt by the mortal auxiliaries, who often have to face brutal wars that are almost unimaginable to ordinary people, as soldiers who accompany the Astarte Legion on the front line.

Destroying the will and breaking the sanity are the normal crises that the vast majority of mortal auxiliaries have to face, and the blood of these heroic mortal warriors has been shed in the countless dangerous lost worlds recovered in this great expedition, and the various crises are almost innumerable.

Now, the Whisperer and its mortal auxiliaries are facing an extremely serious problem-

That is the question of replenishment in the case of such a high intensity of consumption of ammunition.

Although Colchis had impromptu full-scale industrialization during the emergency, transforming several existing large city-states into industrial metropolises with the help of the Dark Angels, the short-lived transformation was not enough to build a military factory capable of feeding a high-intensity war of attrition, and although the intensity of the battle was not high, the consumption of resources was also in progress.

What's more, the previous Colchis was just a remote, backward religious world, it did not have the basis to put into production as quickly as the casting world of Salem, neither the raw materials nor the population were far from being able to make up for the gap in the needs of the war, not to mention the mobilization of a huge expedition like Elaine, although it could be used as the recruiting home planet of the Legion of the Speakers, but it could not be used as a logistical world of the legion.

While it is true that the Waiver has a large number of logistics worlds and forging worlds, the Waiver, who has never been interested in large-scale warfare, has not actually developed those worlds much, and even the tithes paid to Terra are only at the mid-to-lower level and can be maintained to the extent that they can be maintained, not to mention supporting the home planet.

What's more, due to the particularity of the region where the parent star of the gene prototype is located, even the nearest casting world is in the star region hundreds of light-years away, and the Taiping Star Field, which is not too developed, does not have the intricate trade routes like the Extreme Star Domain to supply.

If the Whisperers run out of supplies, they will have to choose a dangerous white-knuckle battle with these ironmen who will never run out.

So, Johnson's initial concerns were not unreasonable.

According to the almost inexhaustible nature of these iron men, even a slight improvement in their technology can already pose a very high threat to a backward and remote religious world like Colchis—or even just the current tug-of-war of attrition, which is enough to drag down this extremely weak group of Wai Sayers after being split and reorganized.

Of course, there may also be the fact that the Colchis system is now enveloped by an inexplicable subspace storm, and the star system is almost impossible to effectively communicate with the outside from the inside.

And even if contact is made, the transport ships that come to the aid will be blocked by the moat-like subspace storm, and they will not be able to enter it.

If there is a blessing in the misfortune, it is that these iron men did not begin to evolve as Johnson guessed.

Of course, it may be that because their current activities have been suppressed by covering firepower, they have not been able to show the learning ability that belongs to the intelligent machine life - otherwise, the Whisperer may now have to face not only a resurrected iron man relic from the ruins, but a thriving iron man civilization.

What Elaine now sees is such a difficult mess to deal with—an unknown but endless Iron Man army, dwindling logistical supplies, and the strength of a tactical squad that he carries with him.

“… In a way, it's really a standard assault mission. ”

Looking up at the towering mechanical tower in front of her, Elaine sighed and beckoned Karn and the Astartes to get ready.

"After five minutes, the Whisperers will briefly cease fire, creating a gap for us to break into the tower—simply, that 'exit' is the only 'entrance'."

"Mind you, while the fighting power of these iron men does not pose any threat in general, everyone should be cautious, and I don't want to come back to see one of you missing."

"Next, we're going to go inside and find out."

"Keep up, my warriors."

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Iron Man dungeon, launch!

(End of chapter)