kingnovel Chapter 488 Shotgun
Chapter 488 Shotgun
The moment she saw the imperial guard carrying the Sister of Silence, a new expression appeared on the face of the woman who had always been indifferent in the face of the giant demon.
The expression was extremely complex, a blend of a lot of anger, a small amount of contempt, and a final pinch of sadness.
This emotion was not directed solely at this imperial guard, but at more, more, and more existences.
Or perhaps it could be said that there are only a few beings in this universe who do not incur her wrath.
After stopping, the Imperial Guard grabbed the power spear and tried to stand up, but his knees fell down again just as they left the ground, so he continued to maintain a half-kneeling posture.
The overall temperature of the Aurus Power Armour rose, but this was not a sign of overload. Instead, it was the waste heat generated by the Power Armour itself and the Custodes during combat. Compared to the Space Marines' Power Armour, the Aurus Power Armour equipped by the Custodes was more advanced, so there were no heat dissipation vents as a weakness. Instead, an advanced circulation system allowed the heat to be released through the surface of the Power Armour.
At the same time, the life threads tailored for each Imperial Guard took advantage of this break to once again conduct a comprehensive inspection of the Imperial Guards inside, and released a large amount of medicine in the form of vaporized spray or penetrant liquid, allowing the Imperial Guards' combat effectiveness to quickly return to its proper level.
At this time, the Imperial Guards who were still fighting on the Spirit of Vengeance might have more drugs in their bodies than their own blood.
The woman had originally completed the cleansing of the local area of the Spirit of Vengeance where she was, but the Imperial Guards broke through the wall due to the attack, and the power of Chaos poured in again from other areas.
The proliferating flesh and blood covered the walls and floors, reality began to distort, and countless monsters that only appeared in people's wildest fantasies gradually broke through the boundary between reality and illusion, and sighs and whispers from the warp reappeared.
Even under the feet of the Imperial Guard, countless tiny black tentacles extended from the fleshy floor. The tentacles clung to the surface of the Imperial Guard's power armor and climbed upwards rapidly, like a layer of continuously growing black afterbirth, wrapping the Imperial Guard completely.
Afterwards, this layer of afterbirth that wrapped the imperial guards, along with the imperial guards inside, began to slowly sink into the ground.
The woman finally couldn't bear it anymore, she swung the Morning Star Hammer, splashing out a wall of fire. The wall of fire moved forward like a wave, pushing away all the blasphemous things along the way and burning them.
"boom!"
The wall of fire penetrated the Imperial Guards, and the black afterbirth wrapped around them cracked and shattered. Although the Imperial Guards inside also withstood the attack, most of the power of the attack was blocked by the black afterbirth and power armor. The Imperial Guards inside were not injured, and the damage to the power armor was within an acceptable range.
However, at this time, many spiral marks had appeared on the surface of the imperial guard's power armor, which was caused by the corrosion of the black afterbirth, and the corpse of the Sister of Silence in his hand was corroded and riddled with holes, almost falling apart.
If he was not wearing the most advanced power armor, if an ordinary Space Marine came here, he would have melted into liquid and become the nourishment of Chaos.
Although the woman's attack helped the Imperial Guards break free, their calves were already deeply embedded in the ground. After another chance to catch their breath, the Imperial Guards pulled their legs out of the ground, but the black substance was still stuck to their calves like sticky asphalt. However, they were then burned clean by the Imperial Guards' flame weapons.
Only then did the imperial guard officially escape danger and regain his combat effectiveness.
The reason why this imperial guard was so passive just now was because he was exhausted and needed a short rest to recover his fighting strength.
Advanced genetic technology and tailor-made Aurus power armor allow a Guard to recover from exhaustion to full combat effectiveness in just a few breaths.
But at this point in time, on the Spirit of Vengeance, this little breathing time is enough to become a fatal flaw.
If the woman had not rescued him, this imperial guard would have died in the battle.
After getting up, the imperial guard did not say anything to the woman. Perhaps it was because he did not have time, or perhaps he thought it was natural for the woman to help him, or perhaps he did not care. In any case, after checking the integrity of his equipment, he casually folded the broken body of the Sister of Silence in his hand into a position that was more convenient to carry, and prepared to return to the battlefield.
But when the imperial guards were about to leave, the woman called out to him:
"Hey! Stop!"
The Imperial Guard stopped but did not look back, because what the woman wanted to say might be related to the war situation. Therefore, the Imperial Guard was willing to spend some time on the woman, but that did not mean his patience was unlimited.
The woman reached into her pocket and pulled out a black prism about ten centimeters long and with an inner diameter of about three centimeters.
She pressed the prism's secret switch, and the prism activated and opened outward, and emerald green energy began to flow through the gaps.
Then the woman threw the prism towards the guard. The guard had no sight of the prism, but he determined the location of the thrown object by hearing alone and caught it in mid-air.
When the woman threw the prism, Hai Weiyan, who was observing from a higher level, shook her head helplessly.
"Throw away that meaningless corpse." The woman spoke to the Custodian in an imperative tone. Her tone seemed to be frozen with ice and held undisguised hostility. If the two had met outside instead of on the Spirit of Vengeance, they would probably have been fighting by now.
After taking the prism, the guard quickly understood its function, and then he really did as the woman said, and gently placed the body of the Silence Sister, who was already in a shattered state, on the ground.
However, the Imperial Guard was not obeying the woman's orders. The Imperial Guard would not obey the orders of anyone other than the Lord of Mankind. It was just that the woman's orders happened to be in line with his judgment of the situation. Even if the woman did not speak, he would abandon the body of the Sister of Silence after obtaining the Prism.
After putting down the body, the Imperial Guards no longer hesitated and rushed to the line that once belonged to him. The woman just snorted coldly and said, "Your death had better be worthy of humanity's investment in you."
After the Imperial Guards left, the woman also slowly retreated, because this was not her battlefield. She just passed by and cleaned up this place while fighting the Chaos enemies. From a strategic point of view, this place has no value.
But just when Howard thought she was going to leave, the woman stopped again, then turned her head to look at the place where Howard and Hai Wei'an were staying and observing.
The barrel of her shotgun dragged on the ground, and as she turned her head to lock on Howard and Hevian, she kicked the barrel with her heel, and the shotgun swung like the hand of a clock, the firing pin hitting the primer as it turned from perpendicular to parallel to the ground.
"boom!"
The bullet was fired, but the target was not Howard and Hai Wei'an, but a noise point belonging to another unknown observer in the same space.
The woman never used the shotgun in combat, but since a gun appears in a story, it must be fired.