Chapter 270: Iron Warriors: My Father Is Here to Kill Ten and Spare One Again??

Belisarius Cawl had never experienced such a feeling.

A grand, massive, and intense will suddenly surged into his body.

What a will that was! His own soul and every mechanical component on his body expressed submission to that will.

Power appeared out of nowhere and flooded into his chassis. His mind had never been so clear. Some damaged, forgotten memories suddenly reappeared from the storage units. Those lost knowledge returned to Belisarius Cawl's mind.

In a trance, Belisarius Cawl felt the gaze cast down from the High Heaven.

That blue figure stood within the High Heaven, a deep, desolate pocket hanging on his belly.

Belisarius Cawl seemed to feel some kind of gaze coming from that pocket.

He could not help but look into that pocket, feeling his own soul falling into it.

He saw an era full of glory. He saw an era where mechanical creations were extremely advanced. He saw

The might of the God-Emperor of Mankind supported that era. Countless technological creations beyond current human understanding were born in that era. The corrupting power of the Warp did not exist in that era. Only reason, technology, and development shone in that era.

It was a sacred era not in the same space-time as this galaxy, nor within the Warp.

Cawl could not help but want to fall into that white pocket and go to that era.

"It is not time yet, Cawl."

"The sacred time of the 22nd century has not yet closed the loop."

A refusal sounded from the pocket. Belisarius Cawl recognized who the owner of that voice was—

Immediately, the illusion before Belisarius Cawl's eyes vanished abruptly.

But the will that descended upon Cawl still remained.

"Cawl, can you hear my voice?"

Zhou Yun's voice sounded within Belisarius Cawl's will.

He had just tried calling out to Cawl several times, but for some reason, Cawl remained standing there in a daze.

Belisarius Cawl nodded slightly, lowered his head, and said in his heart: "I can hear you, Lord Zhou Yun."

Seeing that Cawl finally had a reaction, Zhou Yun nodded lightly.

He could feel that his will had connected with Cawl's consciousness. Even the knowledge reserve Cawl had accumulated over ten thousand years was opened to him.

But Zhou Yun had no mood to study these things for now.

He quickly informed Belisarius Cawl of what he wanted to do.

Eve Reni had told Belisarius Cawl that only her Old Woman's Sword, conveying Inade's Power of Death, could reverse life and death.

This was, of course, wrong.

According to Sanguinius's previous statement, Zhou Yun could also do it, and Zhou Yun could even corrupt Roboute Ji Li Man to a certain extent through this.

This was something Inade found difficult to do. He was not yet strong enough to corrupt a scion of the Hua Di Huang. At most, he could leave some little tricks on Ji Li Man.

But the power related to the Power of Death within Zhou Yun happened to be forcibly stuffed in by the Hua Di Huang. Corrupting Roboute Ji Li Man would be much easier.

So, there was no need for Eve Reni at all. Zhou Yun's Hand could also achieve similar things.

Listening to Zhou Yun's plan, Belisarius Cawl's eyes flickered slightly with points of light.

The entire Macragge roared amidst the war.

Warlord Titans stood tall among the mountains. Those monsters, corrupted by the power of Chaos demons and turned into half-flesh, half-machine forms, recklessly unleashed their firepower.

Apocalypse-class missiles attached with demons tore through the sky, causing a tremor on the void shields of the Hera Fortress, making the seven mountain ranges where the entire fortress stood shake.

Smaller Punisher-class Warbringer Titans strode with their giant feet. Hot industrial poison gas constantly rose from their bodies covered in vicious iron spikes. The Predator Volcano Cannons emitted piercing shrieks, as if billions of souls were wailing within them.

Many war machines belonging to the Ultramarines outside the fortresses exploded in this outpouring of firepower and collapsed into molten lava.

Warhound-class Titans inscribed with the Iron Warriors' runes were even smaller and more agile. They sprinted at full speed, like wild dogs magnified hundreds or thousands of times, racing across the battlefield and rapidly approaching the Ultramarines' positions from the flanks.

Meanwhile, the Knight Houses that came to support the Ultramarines quickly formed formations.

But even the Dominus-class Knights found it difficult to resist in the face of the enemy's Titan formations.

Calth's roar resounded on the first line of the city walls. Countless blue, white, black, and yellow energy spheres exploded on the void shield before him.

Raptors belonging to the Night Lords fell from the half-sky, bringing shrieks and roars.

But as soon as they landed on the city walls, they were torn in half by Calth's power fist.

The invasion of the Black Legion was becoming increasingly fierce. Iron Warriors, Night Lords, Word Bearers... more and more traitors appeared on the battlefield.

But what truly made Calth feel troubled was not these traitor Astartes.

It was the Titans standing on the mountains not far away.

According to Diglis's prophecy, before launching the Thirteenth Black Crusade, Abaddon the Despoiler received help from one person.

The Primarch of the traitor legion Iron Warriors, the Lord of Iron, Perturabo.

Although this Primarch did not directly participate in Abaddon's actions, he provided Abaddon with a large number of war machines and daemon engines.

Those Titans standing on the ground of Macragge were part of them.

One Warlord, three Punisher-class Warbringers, three Predator-class, and six Warhounds.

The Black Legion caught the Ultramarines off guard. A large amount of support had not yet arrived at Macragge.

These thirteen Titans standing before the Hera Fortress became an obstacle that the Ultramarines could almost not cross.

The Adeptus Mechanicus claimed that every Titan was an incarnation of the will of the God-Emperor of Mankind, a true machine of the gods.

And now, Calth wished he could use his Ultramarine fists to drag up the iron lump body of a Tech-Priest and question him: Why does the God-Emperor of Mankind not quickly manifest his power to destroy all these Titans that defy His will?!

Just as Calth was cursing,

a Predator Titan successfully found a flaw amidst the Ultramarines' artillery fire. It quickly strode with its iron feet, charging towards the Hera Fortress protected by the void shield, accompanied by the constantly shaking ground.

It waved its giant power fist like a claw, easily tearing apart the bodies of two Crusader-class Knights that tried to stop it like a mantis blocking a cart. It grabbed their bodies and threw them heavily towards the Hera Fortress.

The steel bodies of the Crusader Knights collided with the void shield, causing tidal wave-like surges to rise on the void shield.

Those two Crusader Knights flickered constantly in the gap between the Warp and the material universe, and were finally torn apart into several fragments by force and scattered.

And that even larger Marauder-class Titan had already charged up to the Void Shield of the Helia Fortress,

At that moment, Karga had nearly prepared himself for the first line of defense of the Helia Fortress to be breached—

Suddenly, the Void Shield flickered,

It was not the Void Shield of the Helia Fortress, but the Void Shield on that Marauder Titan's body that flickered, and then abruptly went dark,

This startled Karga, and what followed left him even more bewildered,

A searing and massive defensive laser beam descended from the sky,

The scorching laser instantly pierced through the spine of the Marauder-class Titan, tearing apart that steel-cast body,

The Marauder Titan crashed heavily onto the ground, and for a moment the earthquake shook the entire battlefield,

Karga immediately looked toward the direction the laser had been fired from, only to see that in that direction there was only a Storm Crow gunship bearing the symbol of the Adeptus Astartes hovering in the air

A single Storm Crow fired a beam powerful enough to destroy a Titan???

Compared to Karga, the surrounding Iron Warriors were even more dumbfounded,

The frequency and rate of fire of that laser... why does this look like the design of their own Primarch, Perturabo??

Could it be that their father has once again become dissatisfied with them?!

So dissatisfied that he has even begun directly culling the Titans, killing one out of ten?!

For a moment, a brief panic spread among the Iron Warriors.

Zhou Yun on the Storm Crow lightly wiped the sweat from his forehead,

The thirteen Titans that had defected to Chaos housed a great number of demons within them, suffering extraordinary corruption, and their machine spirits had grown to a terrifying degree,

Although he had previously controlled the machine spirit of the Blade of Glory, that had been with the cooperation of the Blade of Glory itself and without any corruption,

To control these thirteen Titans, Zhou Yun still had to suppress as much as possible the demonic wills housed within them,

But—

The ceaseless battles between machines erupting on the battlefield, the countless loyal or not-yet-overly-corrupted machine spirits roaring and bellowing,

As well as the living beings that kept dying and the dead buried on Macragge over the past ten thousand years,

All of these were providing Zhou Yun with power; he felt that the power he had obtained from the two sub-warp domains of Malicious Art and Erosion Destruction was also continuously growing

A Warbringer-class Nemesis Titan suddenly twisted its body, breaking free from the Adeptus Astartes' fire net, and took aim at the Storm Crow gunship in midair—

"Protect that Storm Crow!!!" Karga roared,

Yet before his voice had even fallen, the Warbringer-class Nemesis Titan unleashed its searing Marauder Volcano Cannon,

Almost in an instant, that Storm Crow, along with its passengers, was swallowed by the scorching blaze,

Yet a situation that horrified everyone on the battlefield occurred,

The Storm Crow under the Marauder Volcano Cannon had only been melted away for the greater part, and that greater part was actually rapidly healing, restoring itself to its original state in the blink of an eye—Zha Yan De Gong,

Not only this Storm Crow, the same situation occurred within the Storm Crow as well; the passengers seemed to have suffered no harm, and seemed to have had their life and death reversed in an instant,

This was the authority Zhou Yun had obtained from the domain of Erosion Destruction—as long as people were still dying on the battlefield, he could draw power from death, continuously repairing himself, and he could even extend this power beyond his own body, covering those around him,

Further, aided by the authority of the domain of Malicious Art, he could also extend this power to nearby machines,

This range was not large, at most enough to cover this gunship.

Most of the people on the Storm Crow did not even react to what had just happened,

Only Belisarius Cawl softly chanted the Binary Canticles, Celestine let out a gasp, and Euphemia's eyes were filled with astonishment,

And Zhou Yun cast his gaze upon the remaining twelve Titans,

The movements of those twelve Titans instantly became laggy,

Zhou Yun seized that momentary window, aiming the Mechanicus device in his hand at the largest Warlord-class Titan

"Mechanicus device, Warlord-class Titan."

Zhou Yun pressed the button and leaped down from the Storm Crow.

(End of this chapter)