Infinite Metaverse

Chapter 718: The Great Battle of Ullanor: Three Heroes vs. Lu Bu

Two hours ago.

Ten thousand meters in the sky.

The nine Storm Eagle Nest aerospace carriers broke away from the formation one after another, flew through the clouds, lowered their altitude, and flew towards the mountain pass. Only the aerospace carrier where Qingshan Khan was located continued to float in the air as a command center, directing the battle on the ground.

Limited by the number of anti-gravity spears, the Iron Pagoda Regiment is equipped with a total of ten Storm Eagle Nest aerospace carriers. It's not that the production capacity of the Phaeton Forge World is not good, but that the anti-gravity spears provided by SHIELD are so few, so each aerospace carrier is very valuable. Fu Qinghai deployed all the aerospace carriers to Ullanor, on the one hand to test the performance of new weapons in actual combat, and on the other hand to show the importance of the decisive battle.

In terms of ship-borne weapon configuration alone, the Stormhawk's Nest Aerospace Carrier is equivalent to a super giant flying Titan, equipped with void shield generators, as well as Titan weapons such as volcano cannons, earthquake cannons, plasma incinerators, and laser blasters. However, compared to Titans, the Aerospace Carrier needs to leave space for the ship-borne hangar and the landing platform for fighter gunboats, so it cannot be filled with main and secondary weapons like Titans.

Six of the nine aerospace carriers came directly to the battlefield of the pass and began to drop precision-guided bombs to bomb the orc army. At the same time, the ship-borne weapons also aimed at the orcs' ancient giants. The other three aerospace carriers quickly passed over the towering mountains, releasing a group of black dots during the process. This dense black dot quickly fell into the mountains and disappeared.

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Among the rolling mountains.

The reconnaissance tactical teams drawn from various companies were commonly known as the "Ghost Team". As the turbofans of the jetpacks roared and extinguished, the boots of the Ghost Team members stepped on the soft hillside full of fallen leaves, humus and orc mycelium. After landing smoothly, these Space Marines equipped with a variety of tactical eyepieces and bird-beak breathing valves immediately picked up the pulse bolt guns equipped with long-tube silencers and began to spread around the landing point.

At the same time, along with these Space Marines, a group of peculiarly shaped intelligent mechas equipped with anti-gravity generators and a pair of jet turbofans also landed on the surface. They were Voltarax intelligent mechas, also known as "vulture-type intelligent mechas," all-weather reconnaissance and strike drones that belonged exclusively to the Iron Pagoda. At this moment, this group of large armed drones were suspended around the Space Marines, and the fan blades made a buzzing sound like a swarm of bees.

Each member of the Ghost Squad is equipped with three intelligent robot soldiers. After the Space Marines give orders to the armed drones, these intelligent robot soldiers quickly rise in altitude, turn into small black dots, and eventually disappear in the sky within the range of naked eye sight, helping the Space Marines to further expand their reconnaissance range in the complex mountainous terrain.

Wait until you have reconnoitred the surroundings and confirmed that it is safe.

The squad's sergeant raised a fist.

The Ghost Team maintained radio silence and did not use communication channels, even encrypted internal channels, until the firefight began, but instead used tactical sign language.

The Space Marine officer turned to face his team members and made a new gesture. The members of the Ghost Squad gathered together again and pressed a raised button on their arm armor.

After a moment of blurred light and shadow.

The Space Marine's figure disappeared into thin air.

The forest returned to silence, with the chirping of insects and birds mixed with the rustling of leaves in the wind. Only the slight misalignment of light and shadow caused by movement, and the depressions of shoe prints on the soft fallen leaves, could reveal a little clue of these invisible warriors.

…

Several ghost teams entered the mountains around the pass, just like dropping a drop of ink into a glass of water. The black ink quickly dissipated and merged completely with the transparent water.

At this point, switching to the perspective of a Ghost Squad Space Marine, you will find that there are multiple boxes on the eyepiece retina screen, each of which displays a different real-time picture - except for his own field of view, the pictures in other boxes are all high-altitude reconnaissance images provided by the Voltarax intelligent mecha, which is equivalent to observing four screens at the same time.

In the real world, some top professional e-sports players claim to be able to switch screens seven times a second, showing the difference in their information processing ability compared to ordinary players. For the Ghost Squad equipped with intelligent robot soldiers, it is not just as simple as switching screens quickly. They need to multitask and observe the situation from multiple different perspectives at the same time, and also be able to merge and construct the images from different perspectives in their minds - the modified organ of the MODOK Brain gives the new alien space marines such powerful spatial imagination and information processing capabilities.

The complex and unfamiliar mountainous terrain cannot become a difficulty or obstacle for the Space Marines. On the contrary, with the support of various powerful equipment, such an environment makes them more comfortable.

For example, right now, this Space Marine was crouching behind a dense bush under the cover of optical invisibility, his eyes fixed on a wooden tower not far away. This was a watchtower made of a few steel plates and a lot of wooden stakes. A burly orc was sitting behind the fence holding a big gun, yawning with his fangs and mouth, looking bored.

A very easy to handle sentinel?

It's not that simple.

Through the images sent back by three Voltarax intelligent mechas, the Space Marines could see: just a few hundred meters east of the wooden observation tower, three fart spirits were hiding in the dense tree canopy; and two kilometers southwest of the wooden observation tower, in a small cave on the steep cliff, a pair of thick green hands holding a telescope tube stretched out from between the leaves.

The Space Marine thought to himself:

"The more orcs there are, the smarter they become."

However, all of this was visible in the infrared imaging field of view of the Voltarax intelligent robot's aiming array. The three fart spirits in the treetops and the orc in the cave were all clearly projected on the upper left and right corners of the retina screen.

The Space Marine crouched behind the bushes, quietly raised his gun, and aimed at the unsuspecting Orc sentry on the watchtower. At the same time, the two intelligent robot soldiers in the sky were rapidly descending and approaching the other two hidden sentries.

“Buzz buzz buzz—”

The hum of the rotors quickly grew louder as they descended from the sky.

The Space Marine gently squeezed the trigger.

“Bang!”

The orc's head on the wooden lookout tower exploded.

At the same time, an Arc Blaster equipped by the intelligent robot also opened fire, and the thick white lightning bursting out from the end of the weapon instantly blew the tree canopy in front of it and the three fart spirits in the tree canopy into a charred ball. Another intelligent robot fell from the sky and shot a "crackling" winding lightning at the cliff cave, and the orc inside twitched and died without a sound.

The Voltarax robot is equipped with an Arc Blaster and two Havoc Missile Launchers. In terms of firepower, it is not inferior to any drone of the Tau Empire. The only problem is that the robot is much larger than the drone.

After killing one visible sentry and two hidden sentries at the same time, the Space Marine stopped where he was and listened quietly. The sound of electric arcs tearing the air and the crisp sound of bombs shattering skulls were all masked by the creaking of tree trunks and rustling of leaves when the wind blew.

The Space Marines issued new orders.

The two intelligent robot soldiers flew into the sky again.

In a complex environment like a mountainous area, the data link between the intelligent robot and the Space Marines may be disconnected at any time, if the distance exceeds a certain limit or there is magnetic interference. However, the reason why the intelligent robot is an intelligent robot, rather than a remote-controlled drone or robot, is that the intelligent robot has an intelligent cortex and a certain degree of intelligence similar to that of a domesticated animal. Even if the link with the Space Marine is disconnected, it can still fight autonomously according to the previously issued instructions, and conduct hunting or reconnaissance.

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A valley somewhere among the mountains.

No. 56 stood behind the bushes on the hillside, looking at a launch site in the valley below. Rows of triangular launch racks stood in the center of the site. Some technicians and slaves were busy around the racks, making preparations before the launch. From the open cave warehouses on both sides of the valley, it can be seen that there are still a large number of missiles piled up in the caves.

The missiles on the launcher were not uniform in size, with different lengths, thicknesses, and shapes, but the general length was between 15 and 25 meters. Based on his military common sense, No. 56 guessed that these missiles were medium-range missiles with a range of less than 3,000 kilometers, which was more than enough to cover the pass from the landing site to the Gogo Garden.

Void Shield Wall cannot stop slow-moving missiles.

"Target found and confirmed, A-04."

Number 56 whispered the following tactics:

"Team Three will go around from the east side of the valley, and Team Two will follow me to break in from the west side of the valley. Remember, our goal is to destroy all of the Orcs' missile launch facilities in the shortest possible time. If the Orcs escape, don't worry about it. Do you understand?"

"clear."

The two captains responded in a low voice and led their respective team members away. As the light and shadows flickered and changed rapidly, the Space Marines merged into the surrounding dead branches and fallen leaves and bushes again.

At this time, on the cliffs surrounding the valley, the branches of the trees were shaking slightly. Ghost Team No. 3 was quickly detouring to the designated location and quietly clearing out the orcs they encountered along the way.

No. 56 zoomed into the eyepiece and saw an orc cavalryman patrolling on the edge of the cliff on a Squig War Pig. The strong orc leaned down and tried to calm the Squig War Pig, which was inexplicably restless under his crotch. The Squig War Pig kept moving its nose, as if it had smelled something.

Suddenly, a blurry shadow appeared behind him. The Squig War Boar turned around abruptly, and the orc on the saddle was beheaded by the power sword before he could react. The war pig under his crotch had just opened its tusk-like mouth when the Space Marine stabbed it in the upper jaw with his backhand, piercing through the pig's brain and crown, and the tip of the sword emerged from the top of the war pig's head.

The Space Marine drew back his power blade, opened his arms and took a step forward, catching the falling corpse of the strong headless greenskin, and held down the fat gray war pig that was bleeding and falling with his knees. He gently laid the orc and the war pig on the ground, then grabbed one with each hand and dragged him towards the dense woods behind him.

Number 56 felt relieved when he saw this.

The Ghost Squad moved quickly and cleanly.

However, No. 56 had just felt relieved for a second.

"boom----"

A deafening and violent explosion sounded from afar. The invisible impact in the air quickly swept across the rolling mountains and dense forests. Circles of circular ripples appeared on the treetops of the dense forests, and a mushroom cloud slowly rose between the distant mountains.

Number 56 stared into the distance in a daze for a second.

Then he reacted and looked down quickly.

Sure enough, at the missile launch site in the valley, the busy orcs also heard the explosion in the distance. They raised their heads in confusion and looked around. Then an orc tech raised his mechanical prosthesis and roared, and all the orcs in the valley followed it and picked up their weapons and took action.

"Hold!"

Number 56 cursed inwardly and no longer cared about the radio silence. He directly opened the communication channel and gave the order:

"No more detours, attack directly!"

"receive."

The Ghost Team No. 3, which had made a half-circle, emerged from the woods. Two heavy weapons members took out the Fat Man launcher, stuffed a row of micro-nuclear bombs into it, and then fired continuously into the valley. With muffled "puff puff" sounds, the black micro-nuclear bombs the size of melons were thrown into the missile launch site.

“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”

A small mushroom cloud also rose in the valley. The orcs were blown to pieces by the sudden attack, their bodies twisted and broken by the repeated impacts from all directions. But even the explosion of a miniature nuclear bomb plus the detonation of the missile on the launcher were not as exaggerated as the explosion in the distance.

Then the jet packs behind the two Ghost teams roared and started up, spewing out surging air currents and flames to propel the Space Marines to leap up from the hillsides and cliffs, and dropped from the sky with weapons in hand, landing on the chaotic launch site, and began to slaughter the orcs running around and destroy the launch facilities.

Number 56 ignored the battle situation in the valley.

He narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance.

That seems to be the area that Sartrefan is in charge of.

He opened the encrypted communication channel and tried to ask:

"Satfalan, Satfalan, can you hear me? What's going on over there? Why is there such a loud noise?"

“Sizzle, s ...…”

The only response on the communication channel was noise.

Most likely it's just signal interference.

But No. 56 had a bad feeling in his heart.

He is a psychic and he believes in this kind of premonition.

Number 56 glanced down at the launch site. The battle in the valley was completely one-sided. The members of the Ghost Squad were all elite members of the new and all-alien Space Marines. Although the orcs were numerous, their hastily organized resistance had little effect.

"Is it okay for you to leave this valley to me?"

Number 56 asked the two captains.

"No problem, sir."

The answer I received was steady and firm.

"OK."

No. 56 nodded slightly, looking into the distance, looking at the place where the smoke from the explosion rose, and silently reviewed the three principles that must be followed when casting this spell:

“Purpose, determination, and composure.”

After adjusting his mindset, No. 56 began to cast this spell, which he was not very familiar with yet:

"Disapparation!"

After whispering the spell, his body and power armor twisted into a whirlpool in the blink of an eye like clothes in a washing machine. He shrank into a small black dot and disappeared in an instant.

"Apparation!"

At the same time, on the distant hilltop, accompanied by a burst of small and large explosions, No. 56 recovered from the twisted and tangled state. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva to suppress the urge to vomit, just like the experience of the first time he cast the Disapparation Spell, the whole person felt like passing through a narrow and tight rubber tube, which was very uncomfortable.

Fifty-six looked down the mountain and saw a larger launch site. It was not the crude missile launch racks of the past, but rows of dark missile silos. Not to mention the difference in size, the former was tilted for launch, while the latter was vertical for launch, and the technical content was different. The launch site in front of him obviously had a higher strategic value.

At this time, the launch site was ablaze with flames and explosions. He saw the Ghost Squad members fighting hard with the orcs, and the unfired missiles were constantly being detonated.

The launch site was filled with black smoke, and No. 56 had to zoom in to try to find the figure of the Raven Guard. As expected, he found Satfaran among a pile of orc corpses. The assassin stood alone beside a launch silo with a diameter of more than five meters, without a helmet, with disheveled hair, panting, and covered in blood. On the other side of the launch silo, there seemed to be a huge figure standing, surrounded by black smoke, and No. 56 could not see clearly what it was.

Until a gust of wind blew away the black smoke.

The moment when No. 56 saw clearly.

His breath almost choked him.

Beast!?

How could there be a wild beast here?

…

Sartrefan also wanted to know this question.

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But he didn't have time to think about anything else at the moment.

Both of his hearts were pounding. The tremendous psychological pressure forced his nerves and muscles to tense. He stared at the huge monster in front of him, not daring to look away for even half a second, for fear that the monster would suddenly explode in the blink of an eye.

The beast, face a beast.

Sartre Fran had never felt such pressure before.

As a senior officer in the inner circle of the chapter, Satfaran knew that there was more than one beast. He had also seen the battle video recorded by the eyepiece of Qingshan Khan's power armor. Four chapter commanders fought the beast at the same time, and in the end one died and two were seriously injured. They barely injured the beast and finally killed it by luck with the explosion.

Although I have seen it in the first-person video.

But when he was face to face with a beast.

Only then can you feel this suffocating pressure.

In contrast to his nervousness.

The giant orc opposite him was calm and composed.

"You are a little clever, but not enough, human."

The beast uttered a low Gothic language, raised his hands calmly and unfastened the two metal buckles on his shoulders, and the outer armor that was blackened and melted by the high temperature of the explosion fell off with a clang. He looked at Satfaran with interest, staring at the invisible dagger in the Raven Guard's hand, and said:

"Your weapon reminds me of those corrupted bean sprouts."

The dark matter dagger in Satfaran's hand was a gift from Qingshan Khan, a dark elf from Svartalfheim in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the Warhammer 40K universe, the race that also masters dark matter technology is the Dark Eldar. The beast recognized the material composition of this invisible dagger at a glance, which means that he has come into contact with the Dark Eldar and may have even killed many of them.

Sartre said nothing.

Still staring at the beast.

The Raven Guard Assassin is not a talkative person.

Whether in peacetime or in battle.

All he could think about was how to defeat this monster.

Or how to escape from this dangerous place.

Ten minutes ago, Satfaran led three ghost teams to sneak into the Orc missile launch base. Using his psychic invisibility ability, the Raven Guard easily assassinated the Orc leader and the Orc Tech Boss in the base. But he never expected that there was a beast in this place.

As soon as Sartefaran encountered the beast, he realized that he was no match for this monster. He originally wanted to use the missile in the silo to explode to kill the giant orc, but the opponent easily saw through his trap and only a little bit of the armor shell was affected by the explosion.

Sartefaran knew that he had a weapon on his waist that might be able to cause harm to the beast, but he didn't dare to reach out and touch it, or even to look at it out of the corner of his eye. He was afraid that the clever green-skinned monster in front of him would notice his subtle movements and see through his secret methods once again.

Powerful enemies are not scary.

The scary thing is that this enemy is very smart.

Sartrefan felt that he had reached the end of his rope.

He is not dead yet.

Just because the Beast thought he was a bit amusing.

Just at this moment.

A short incantation suddenly sounded from behind the beast:

"Stupefy!" (Faints)

A streak of red flame shot out from the Alpha Space Marine's fingertips and penetrated the beast's back. However, the beast only blinked slightly before reacting to the sneak attack. It turned around at an incredibly fast speed and swung at it. The cement and gravel exploded, and No. 56 rolled over in a panic to avoid the attack.

Number 56 lay on the ground and stretched out his finger again:

"Impedimenta!" (There are many obstacles)

The air around the beast suddenly became like some kind of gelatinous substance, tightly wrapping and sticking to him. However, the giant orc broke free with just a slight struggle, and before No. 56 could roll over and stand up, he threw the short-handled axe in his hand, and the axe blade spun and chopped his thigh joint, nailing him to the ground.

"ah!"

Number 56 screamed and fell to the ground.

"Your tricks have no effect on me, wizard."

The Beast said, smiling and straightening up.

No. 56 knew that the beast had strong vitality, so he did not consider using a lethal spell at all, but he still underestimated the beast's psychic resistance. The beast was able to see through Satfaran's psychic invisibility, which meant that it was likely that it had a very powerful psychic attribute like the Primarch.

But at the moment the beast turned around, Satfaran did not choose to take the opportunity to escape, but jumped up and jumped over the silo, holding the invisible blade high in his hand.

Without even turning his head, the Beast reached back a hand and grabbed the flying Raven Guard with his palm. His five fingers clenched tightly in an instant, as if the Space Marine had actively crashed into his palm.

“Mmmmm… Crunch…”

Sartrefan's pale face turned red.

He heard the cracking of breastplate and bone.

The assassin desperately stabbed the beast's arm with his dagger. The invisible blade easily cut through the green skin, and large streams of bright red blood flowed out. However, the beast just smiled and raised his hand in front of him, ignoring the pain in his arm, admiring the last struggle of this Space Marine before his death. Thick plasma flowed out of Satfaran's mouth uncontrollably, flowing down his chin and hanging down to his chest. It was his crushed internal organs that overflowed his esophagus and trachea.

“Hoo-hoo—”

A sharp whistle suddenly sounded in the sky.

The beast looked up and saw a flaming meteor in broad daylight coming straight at him at an extremely fast speed, so he subconsciously raised his other elbow to block it. Then a huge impact, burning and severe pain came along his arm, and the flaming meteor hit his arm and spread apart, revealing its true body wrapped in flames - a skeleton Space Marine with orange and yellow flames burning all over his body, holding a flaming chainsaw sword in his hand, and carrying a jet pack that spewed out raging flames.

"Accept your judgment, alien!!"

The flaming skull opened its jaw and roared hoarsely.

The Evil Spirit Judgment had no effect on the beast, but facing this meteor-like attack that was comparable to a cannonball, the beast barely took a step back. Number 56, who was nailed to the ground, seized this momentary opportunity, raised his hand and shouted a spell:

"Glisseo!"

This time the target of the spell was not the wild beast, but the ground where the wild beast was about to step on. The rough, hardened ground covered with gravel instantly turned into a smooth mirror with almost no friction under the effect of magic.

“Slurp—”

The beast only took a step back, but was caught off guard and slipped. Its huge body lost its balance and fell backwards. Its other foot subconsciously tried to step back to support itself. Number 56, who was lying on the ground, followed suit and shouted another spell:

"Deprimo!" (The house collapsed and the ground sank)

The beast stepped its other foot into the suddenly collapsed pit.

The giant orc failed to stand firmly twice and completely lost his balance. He grabbed Satfaran with one hand and staggered to try to regain his balance, while putting the other hand in front of his head.

“Kill kill kill kill kill kill!”

At the same time, the flames gushing out of the turbofan behind the Ghost Rider Kalamanda kept pushing him forward, and the enchanted flame chain sword was swung into a wheel of fire, slashing at the beast frantically.

Several deep burnt wounds appeared on the beast's arms and face. The intense pain of the evil spirit fire that touched its soul made it even more manic. It swung its arms vigorously to slap the annoying flaming skeleton in front of it, staggered two steps and finally regained its footing.

The Sartrefan that he had been holding in his palm had now turned into a gray-gold sphere.

"Goodbye, alien."

The Raven Guard finally spoke its first words.

He threw the activated grenade gently forward.

Number 56 opened his eyes wide when he saw this.

"Incarcerous!"

In a hurry, he only thought of this spell.

The beast instinctively sensed the danger and loosened his hand to try to slap away the strange gray-gold sphere. However, the Raven Guard Assassin had already counted down the final seconds with the grenade in his hand, and it exploded almost the moment it was thrown.

There is no sound.

The grenade exploded and created a sphere composed of uneven black particles out of thin air. The sphere expanded and then quickly collapsed, turning into a dark and boundless void, which quickly pulled in, absorbed and swallowed all the surrounding matter, including light.

This black hole suddenly appeared and then disappeared suddenly.

It only existed for less than a second.

Half of the beast's head and raised arm.

Suddenly, it disappeared in the black hole.

The lower half of Sartre's body also disappeared.

However, at the same time as the black hole was formed, a magic rope shot out from the tip of No. 56's index finger. The rope tightly bound the Raven Guard's neck and narrowly pulled Satfaran's upper body out from the edge of the black hole that swallowed everything.

“Plop!”

Only half of Sartrefraan was left and fell to the ground.

His face was pale and his eyes were wide open, and he had completely lost consciousness.

The broken organs in the abdomen were scattered all over the ground along the broken body.

The beast still stood there motionless.

Two-thirds of its giant head was missing.

The edge of the gap is an almost perfect arc.

The flames on Kalamanda's body retracted into the power armor. The Midnight Lord first used force to pull out the giant axe that was nailed to No. 56's knee. No. 56 rolled on the ground with a hissing sound in pain. Then Kalamanda rushed to the body of Satfaran and observed it for a moment, then shouted anxiously into the communication channel of the neck armor:

"Khan, Khan, send down a Thunderhawk!"

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