Chapter 97: Send You a Bolter Round

The scout squad sergeant, through his eyepiece, locked onto the attacking enemy—another Ogryn covered in black armor, wielding a black metal rod.

The moment he locked onto the target, he pulled the trigger.

Immediately after, the three scouts beside him and the two veterans in the rear row between them pulled their triggers almost simultaneously.

The Ogryn psyker raised a hand, and the warheads stopped several meters away from him.

He grabbed and pushed, and the bullets shot back.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The bullets pierced the power armor, and instantly, a scout fell into a pool of blood.

At this moment, a black figure darted out.

The "Hunter" reacted at the first opportunity; Sanchez immediately launched a Rapid charge. He was faster than before, and his control over his body was also stronger.

While sprinting, the "Hunter" flashed repeatedly, dodging the large stones falling from above.

Rumble!

The giant stones landed, and the entire cavern trembled as a result.

Although the Ogryn psyker's attack did not hit the Seventh Captain, it separated him from the Order Shadow warriors.

The ground tremors did not have the slightest effect on the "Hunter"; he swiftly rushed in front of the Ogryn psyker and slashed with his sword.

The psyker was still an Ogryn, and a much sturdier one than his kin at that; he swung his staff to meet the attack.

Sanchez did not force a clash. He keenly judged from the wind generated by the Ogryn's weapon swing that even though the "Hunter" had slightly increased his own strength, it was still inferior to the Ogryn's brute force.

He stepped to the side with his left foot, nimbly avoiding the attack.

At the same time, with his supernatural perspective, he captured the weakness exposed by the Ogryn's forward-leaning body after the strike missed; the armor at his neck was thinner.

【For the sake of smooth breathing and eating.】

The Order Shadow reached a conclusion; he immediately turned his Chainsword and launched a Rapid strike, following the 23rd rule of "Osber-Waya" that he had witnessed the Gene-Father use.

The Chainsword hacked into the Ogryn's exposed neck, and amidst a roar, it severed the psyker's head.

Just as the Seventh Captain used "Warp Insight" to capture the Ogryn psyker's weakness and kill the enemy in one blow, Arsena and the Legion's psykers also found a solution with the Techmarines.

They used special runes to write mysterious prayers on the eye screens, disabling the projection function.

Ninglu immediately distributed all the Spy Flies to the ten companies and issued an order to spread them evenly across the entire area and search while advancing.

Arsena and the five psykers of the First Company each held an eye screen with a polyhedral eye structure, injecting their psychic power into them to establish a psychic link.

Immediately, the hundreds of mosaic micro-screens on the eye screens lit up, and the Vibration Crystal Mechanical Devices linked to them awakened.

They took flight like a swarm of flies, emitting a buzzing sound.

The six swarms spread out in different directions, covering every area within a radius of twenty kilometers in an instant.

The Primarch's black eyes swept across the six eye screens.

His superhuman perception captured the hundreds of images on each eye screen.

Thousands of images converged in his mind, undergoing interpretation and analysis processed by his superhuman brain.

Five seconds later, he had already formed a picture in his mind.

After piecing together the overhead perspectives provided by the Spy Flies, the known area appeared as a fan shape.

The land under Ninglu's feet, at the outermost arc of the fan shape, had gullies formed by mountain rocks that tightened inward.

【The signal here is abnormal, so there should be a source of influence; it should be in the central area.】

After the Primarch judged the situation, he issued an order.

"Three o'clock direction, advance."

The First Company warriors marched toward the central area, leaving hill after hill behind them.

The Company Captains and Lieutenants of the other companies, after some interpretation and analysis, also locked onto the central direction and led their teams forward.

If viewed from high above, one could see ten black dragons advancing toward the center of the nearly circular mountainous area.

Along the way, each team encountered Ogryn psykers continuously; the time between encounters grew shorter, the numbers grew larger, and their power grew stronger.

As the battle progressed, the Order Shadows keenly discovered that although these Ogryns possessed psychic powers, they did not have the combat intelligence to match them.

They followed a certain fixed "program" to cast spells; as long as one figured out the pattern of the Ogryn psyker's attacks during the first few waves of encounters, one could carry out targeted responses and strikes.

The advancement speed of each company increased significantly, especially the First Company personally led by Ninglu.

On the fifth solar day of stepping into the mountainous area, he led the team to the destination.

It was a bottomless pit; even the Primarch's perception did not find its limit.

But Ninglu still perceived a strange phenomenon: the entire dark pit and the "passageway" leading downward were trembling at a certain faint frequency, and this vibration frequency was faintly increasing.

The Primarch also noticed that ultrasonic waves were escaping from the pit; the position where he stood at the moment was imperceptible, but it was clearly audible deep inside.

Ninglu looked up toward the distance, and the pit under his feet outlined a complete shape in his mind.

Ogryns were like ants, either going up or down.

The entire pit was like a large cauldron, with the arc-shaped mountain rock passageway gradually narrowing downward.

"Move out."

Ninglu issued the order and was the first to step forward, walking down the black metal crystal slope.

After descending more than a thousand meters, the psykers in the team and the Lieutenants such as Saisake and Dixon frowned almost simultaneously.

They perceived a slight vibration in their ears as well as the vibration under their feet.

"It's Magnetic Resonance," Arsena found the answer in the books he had read and explained to everyone, "In areas rich in magnetism, it will cause a certain natural resonance phenomenon to occur."

"This phenomenon is called Magnetic Resonance; signal interference, ultrasonic waves, and ground tremor phenomena are all common types."

"Perhaps it is because of this phenomenon that the Ogryns were affected, leading them to possess psychic powers."

Arsena shrugged, "Although I haven't seen relevant records, it is not impossible."

"Part of what you said is correct," Ninglu shook his head slightly, "but not entirely. At the center of the pit, there is a giant black crystal; it has undergone a peculiar transformation during countless years of resonance."

"It is a piece of psychic resonance material; it is what allowed the Ogryns to gain psychic powers."

Ninglu spoke to this point, his tone suddenly changing, and he shouted loudly.

"Psychic Shield!"

The five Order Shadow psykers did not hesitate at all; they immediately executed the Gene-Father's command, unleashing their Psychic Shields downward with full force.

Arsena reacted quickly, only a moment behind, pressing his left hand down to release a Field Shield.

The next instant, as if magma were erupting, psychic flames spewed out from below.

Psychic energies collided, and a harsh crackling sound rang out in the air.

Ninglu's eyes locked onto a tall, pitch-black Ogryn; he had the same height as Horus, and he was the most powerful Ogryn in the deep pit.

He leaped from the crystal, and the psychic flames, like a rocket, lifted his body in a Rapid ascent.

Ninglu sensed that he was continuously drawing energy from the crystal; he must be killed immediately.

The Primarch leaped, head-first, diving into the deep pit.

"Briber" shouted in mid-air, calling out to the massive yet still shorter-than-him Ogryn, "Little one, here's a bolter round for you."

(End of chapter)