Chapter 147: Killing the Chief Iron Lord

Facing the ambush from above, Ninglu raised his arm to meet it, his golden energy field colliding with the metal spider leg wrapped in red light.

Boom!

The Power Fist gained the upper hand in the energy collision, and the massive body of the Chief Iron Lord was heaved up by the impact.

"Have a bolter round!"

The two spider legs on the Chief Iron Lord's chest immediately sprang out, blocking in front of him.

Just as he thought he would block the black-armored giant's attack like before, the bolter round with the "Bribe/Weaken" effect detonated.

A momentary lag appeared in the logic circuits of the Chief Iron Lord's data crystal; he did not understand why, for two attacks where the sensor scan results were identical and the energy properties and readings were exactly the same, the lethality was completely different.

Ninglu seized the opportunity, infused his spirituality into the Power Fist, and swung his arm.

【"Exile"?】

He did not feel the dragging force he experienced when releasing "Death"; the fist unleashed a majestic power that blasted the metallic body into the air.

During his spare time, Ninglu had experimented in the training cage and confirmed that by infusing spirituality, the gauntlet would release extraordinary abilities of the "Judge" pathway, but he could not choose them actively, at least not yet.

The power of the extraordinary ability was related to the amount of spirituality he infused.

In his spare time, Ninglu would place the Power Fist into the third space of the "Kingdom of Disorder" to establish a connection, but because he had to wear it from time to time, he had not yet established a full connection.

As the Primarch pondered, he caught sight of the Chief Iron Lord, who had been knocked into the air and was tumbling downward, his mind naturally outlining the trajectory of the metallic body's flight.

This transcended calculations of flight paths and gravity, acting as a near-intuitive perception.

Ninglu flashed, rushing toward where the Chief Iron Lord was falling; he took three steps, leaped into the air, and thrust his sword upward following the 4th strike of "Osberh-Waya".

The Power Sword, flickering with dazzling blue light, pierced into the metallic body whose defenses had been weakened by "Bribe".

The Disruption Field crackled, shredding the Chief Iron Lord's nearly fully metallic skull.

Rumble!

The massive metallic remains slammed into the ground, crushing the Iron Lord Guard who had rushed over, instantly killing several tech-nobles.

The death of the Chief Iron Lord dealt a major blow to the morale of the tech-nobles and spider warriors; in their logic circuits, the Iron Lord was the most powerful existence, and no one could defeat them.

But the Chief Iron Lord had died at the hands of the black-armored giant, and the pilots in the aircraft saw the black lightning flashing rapidly, one tech-noble after another being "slashed down".

Witnessing all this made them suspect they were in a nightmare.

The tech-nobles on the ground felt even more as if they were facing Death itself; after their resistance lasted for a moment, it completely collapsed.

The first tech-noble knelt on the ground to surrender, triggering a chain reaction.

The spider soldiers also threw down their weapons one after another, surrendering to the black-armored warriors.

Two apothecaries in the Honor Guard confirmed that five Honor Guard members had suffered fatal injuries in the battle and could not be recovered, so they informed the Techmarine to bury them in Dreadnoughts.

The oldest Dreadnoughts could be traced back to the "Age of Strife"; when powerful warriors could not be recovered, they were not mercifully killed, but granted the honor of continuing to fight.

The old prototype Dreadnoughts of the "Unification War" could be piloted by non-Astartes warriors, but later only Space Marines and Custodes could be buried inside.

Each Dreadnought housed a living organism, permanently connected to the machine through a form of thought-drive unit.

Once buried in a Dreadnought, a Space Marine could never leave the metal tomb, destined to experience endless battle until destroyed.

Considering that the Order Shadows selected to become extraordinary beings were all excellent warriors, Ninglu decided that after they died, they would be buried in Dreadnoughts to continue serving the Legion.

The extraordinary characteristics would not disappear because of this; it would not be too late to recover them after they were completely dead.

After occupying the first tower of Necromunda, the Primarch ordered the Honor Guard to rest, and he himself found the Chief Iron Lord's treasury.

Ninglu glanced at the alloy door, saw the flickering data crystal, and after confirming he lacked the ability to crack it, he decided to "pick the lock" with violence.

Golden light shone, and he slammed his fist into the door.

The heavy alloy door was shattered by the Disruption Field.

Ninglu stepped inside, walking into the treasury of the most powerful person in the Spider Alliance.

After walking around, he found a total of twenty-four Potion Materials flickering with dazzling light.

Among them, fifteen cybernetic eyes were the main materials for the "Perfecter" pathway Sequence 7 "Appraiser".

【I didn't expect to collect the Potion Materials for "Appraiser" so quickly; Luoxiji has only just promoted to the sequence "Archaeologist", and the other Techmarines are still "Knower"s.】

Ninglu also found nine modular octagonal gears; each side of the gear had eight teeth, interlocking and rotating according to a specific pattern, and the rotation pattern of each side was completely different.

【Not Potion Materials I know, but they shouldn't be high-sequence Potion Materials either.

Gears, the "Perfecter" pathway's Sequence 6 "Mechanical Expert", also known as "Gear Master", "Mechanical Creation Expert", or "Artisan"—these gears are very likely the Potion Materials for "Mechanical Expert".】

Just as Ninglu sent the Potion Materials back to the "Kingdom of Disorder", at the seventh tower, the Fifth Legion of the Fourth Legion fought their way through and bumped into the Seventh Iron Lord.

The Chapter Master led the honor guard and Auxilia, responsible for attacking the second tower, while the First through Sixth Companies were responsible for attacking the third through eighth towers respectively.

The Company Captain of the Fourth Legion's Fifth Legion led the guard to launch a decisive battle against the Seventh Iron Lord and his tech-noble guards.

The cunning Seventh Iron Lord, seeing his subordinates falling one after another, decided to use the Fishman Artifact he had found while excavating underground ruins.

He had not thought of using it before; this was his trump card prepared for the final battle when he launched an offensive against the Chief Iron Lord.

But the power of the black-armored warriors exceeded the estimates of his logic circuits; if he didn't use the trump card, he wouldn't survive today.

A pair of cockroach-like metal tentacles deep in the Seventh Iron Lord's chest tapped against his abdomen.

The metal plate opened, and the cockroach tentacles pulled out a metal ball from inside, throwing it with force at the Fifth Legion Company Captain holding a Power Axe.

The metal ball smashed at the feet of the Company Captain, and silver liquid rolled and spread rapidly.

The Company Captain and three Lieutenants were about to dodge, but found their feet tightly bound to the ground; at the same time, the Seventh Iron Lord appeared before him, the Mantis Blade rotating in a fierce horizontal slash.

The Company Captain realized he could not dodge, and before dying, he threw the Power Axe in his hand with all his might.

The spinning Power Axe hacked fiercely into the Seventh Iron Lord's exposed abdomen.

Amidst a dull, loud thud, the Company Captain, the Lieutenants, and the Seventh Iron Lord's corpse fell to the ground simultaneously.

Having lost the Company Captain and three Lieutenants, the Captains of each squad quickly discussed the result on the command channel.

"Kion, the Company Captain previously relayed the orders issued by the Primarch at the war council."

"You once served as the Gene-Father's honor guard and are a Royal Court Member serving him, so you should temporarily serve as Commander."

"Very well."

Kion took over command and directed the purge of the techno-nobles.

After the eight Steel Lords met their Death, the Spider Alliance collapsed completely; although pockets of resistance remained, they could no longer halt the pace of the Eleventh Legion's conquest.

The Order Shadow seized control of six star systems and the Portals between them, and Ninglu immediately dispatched teams to scout the lower levels of the towers, searching for the giant spiders and other peculiar creatures from local legends.

Although the towers were not referred to as Hive Cities according to the cultural customs of the Imperium, in reality, every tower was a Hive City, and the Primarch believed that the bizarre Hive City creatures of Necromunda already existed.

At the same moment, in the Saltor System, the Faceless launched a swift offensive, recapturing the node marked B-25 from the Orcs.

(End of this chapter)