The Creators: From Night City

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But all of this was in vain.

You could say that those who believe in terrorism are a bunch of brutes, but while they may be brutes, they are not stupid.

Giving up ranged attacks results in extreme ranged defense.

Khorne's blessing caused boundless bloodlust to rapidly spread across the battlefield, and the brass armor, adorned with numerous terrifying skulls, possessed astonishing resistance to ranged attacks.

These demons were like a herd of thick-skinned, bloodthirsty bulls. In formation, they braved the fierce firepower and charged into the 264th Regiment's position.

In the ensuing close-quarters combat, the second company's defenses collapsed instantly without a doubt.

The towering Bloodletting Demons were ferocious and brutal, their battle banners covered in blood and entrails. They led squads of Bloodletting Demons like meat grinders, sweeping across trench after trench and bunker after bunker.

There were no intact corpses; after the demons ravaged the land, only mangled limbs and pieces of flesh remained.

The soldiers' morale collapsed instantly.

The company commander, who was directing the troops from the rear, did not fire to stop the soldiers' rout. Instead, he spat out his cigarette butt, drew his chainsaw from his waist, and led his guards in a brave charge, preparing to engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat.

The political commissar, holding a pistol with explosive charges, led the soldiers who dared to charge forward in close succession.

However, before the bloodlust could truly ignite, several soldiers were driven to madness by the escalating conflict. Although the others overcame their fear with bravery, they could not defeat the demons' blades.

Like a sandcastle beneath a raging wave, the soldiers were instantly slaughtered, their blood splattering everywhere, unable to even halt the demonic tide of battle. The company commander's courage did not bring about a reversal; his chainsaw sword was easily parried by a bloodletting demon, and the subsequent attack mercilessly beheaded him. His fresh head, as a trophy of this tyrannical beast, was casually hung at his waist.

It was identical to the other heads.

Even with the elite strength of the Cardiacs, the battle line collapsed instantly, and the entire front was quickly lost.

After desperately running out of bullets, the company commander watched the one-sided massacre and had no choice but to issue the order to retreat.

But there was no way to retreat anymore.

The entire company of routed soldiers could only flee into the abandoned mine.

The sounds of fighting quickly subsided, and the outcome of the decisive victory was naturally without any suspense.

The victorious Bloodletting Demons were suddenly freed from the inexplicable order of war. Their thirst for blood and slaughter drove them headlong into the abandoned mine, searching for any target that could be killed.

With the war over, the remaining humans instantly entered a battle royale phase.

.........

In the darkness, Corporal Emil Reiner held his breath and gestured to Sergeant Kasper Hoffmann beside him to be quiet and not make any noise.

Together with a new recruit, Model, the three of them were members of the Heavy Bomb Shot Squad 4. At this moment, they were huddled together, hiding in a crevice among a pile of ore scrap, watching anxiously as wave after wave of enemies searched for them.

In this abandoned mine, there was little they could do but pray to the emperor that they would not be discovered by these brutal demons.

Several heart-wrenching screams echoed from afar, reverberating through the cave and refracting through numerous corners, becoming ethereal and distorted, yet still allowing the listener to feel the pain and torment within.

Whether it was the emperor's blessing or simply good luck, the three of them managed to evade several waves of enemy searches while hiding in this filthy mine wasteland.

The enemy walked right past them, yet for some reason, they couldn't detect them even though they were right next to them.

Just as Emil Reiner was about to stretch his numb legs, the earth suddenly shook.

Then came a huge roar from outside the mine, so loud it sounded like a volcano cannon was firing right in your ear.

The sudden change immediately alerted the Bloodletting Demons who were searching everywhere, and wave after wave of demons surged out of the factory.

One heavy footstep after another sounded, and the thick stench of blood wafted into the three men's nostrils, making them almost suffocate.

The clanging brass armor rubbed against each other as the demon moved, emitting a piercing, chilling sound.

The invisible pressure was testing their hearts; Emil Reiner's hands and feet were trembling so much that he could no longer hold a gun.

However, the three of them still dared not breathe or move.

A bloodletting demon, clearly having just completed a 'hunt,' passed by, its body still dripping with fresh blood.

Its 'hunt' was clearly very fruitful, with at least seven or eight heads hanging from its waist, swaying as it moved forward.

To be honest, the scene was so terrifying to ordinary people that the recruit named Model suddenly became agitated for some reason and accidentally touched the ore next to him, making a slight noise.

And that sound was fatal at that moment.

In an instant, as if doused with cold water, as if embracing ice in the dead of winter, Emil Reiner raised his laser gun the instant the demon turned his head.

He could die, but he wouldn't submit to execution. He wanted to shove the gun in his hand into the other man's mouth and teach him a lesson.

The Bloodletting Demon grinned maliciously, preparing to draw his knife and go forward to check the situation, when suddenly a series of chaotic footsteps came from around the corner.

Under the watchful eyes of both sides, Jiang Bing walked in as if no one else was around, carrying a compass-like instrument, followed by a large group of defeated soldiers.

The sudden appearance of numerous prey excited the bloodletting demon, which rushed forward and began to slash and slaughter indiscriminately.

Jiang Bing snatched the blazing Hellblade without even looking up, and sliced ​​it in half as easily as chopping vegetables, forcing the opponent to lower his head so he could decapitate him with a second blow.

The death of a demon did not affect Jiang Bing in the slightest. On the contrary, the fact that the pile of ore where the three fleeing soldiers were hiding successfully triggered the compass-like instrument changed his expression.

"There really is a black stone vein here."

The first thing Emil Reiner did after being rescued was to give Model, who had almost killed the two of them, a hard elbow, only to find that the man was kneeling beside the Bloodletter's corpse, trying to rip one of its heads off from the brass chains.

Emil Reiner was also very familiar with that young and pretty face. This head belonged to their platoon leader, Elise Junker, who had only been in office for two months. She was a top student at the Loyalty Academy and also the dream girl of recruit Model.

Of course, she was also the dream girl of him and the entire heavy firepower squad.

Chapter 1093 Resurrection from the Dead, Light Returned from the Dark

Life is often just like that, full of helplessness.

Even Jiang Bing has many things he can't do.

The more a person knows, the more they realize how little they know; the more things they can do, the more they understand how little they can actually accomplish.

The resurrection of the dead is something beyond reason and unlikely for ordinary people, but for Jiang Bing, there is still some explanation.

Model, who was lying on the ground in distress, was driven away by an invisible force. The brass chain around the Bloodletter's waist suddenly floated up and came to Jiang Bing.

The string of heads above looked like a braid of garlic at first glance, but the strong smell of blood assaulted the nostrils and made people nauseous.

The biggest challenge in resurrecting the dead in the Warhammer world is how to retrieve the souls of the deceased.

After death, the souls of ordinary people quickly cross the 'veil' between the two worlds and merge into the emotional vortex of the subspace, just like a drop of water merging into the sea, or a maggot leaping into a cesspool full of maggots, disappearing without a trace.

Of course, there are ways to find it, but it will take a lot of effort.

But the current situation is somewhat special.

The Khorne warriors, including the Bloodletters, do not collect the ears of the defeated, nor do they collect teeth like the Ork, not only because decapitation is the ultimate symbol of violence, but also because the head is often associated with the 'soul'.

The brass chains in front of Jiang Bing, imbued with horrific power, not only strung the heads of the dead but also bound their wailing souls.

Demons do not only toy with the bodies of their enemies; in fact, it is the desecration of the soul that is the origin of their evil label.

If Jiang Bing had not appeared, the souls of these Cardia soldiers would have been eternally bound in their heads, gradually corrupted by chaos, distorted into twisted subspace entities, or bound beneath the bronze throne, tormented for eternity, never to be reincarnated.

But at this moment, these bound souls were of great help to him.

Skipping the step of retrieving a soul from a cesspool, creating a body and placing the soul in such a trivial matter was a piece of cake for Jiang Bing.

Even if what's standing here right now is just a clone, the same applies.

Golden flames ignited, instantly melting the brass chains originating from the Blood-Grinding Plains and the Brass Fortress, and seven heads floated neatly in front of Jiang Bing.

When you're out and about, you can't let your guard down. Now that he's taken up the position of 'Om Messiah', Jiang Bing's work attitude is still very proper.

Therefore, the 'big-headed' soldiers favored by Om Messiah did not grow flesh and blood wildly, but their bodies were reshaped by the endless nano-elements surging from Jiang Bing's palm.

During this haphazard 'casting', Boss Jiang's bad habit of piling up materials suddenly resurfaced.

Under the watchful eyes of a group of surviving soldiers, he pondered for a moment, then suddenly waved towards the pile of discarded ore.

Without warning, under the empowerment of the physical authority usurped from the Void Dragon, the massive and heavy ore silently collapsed on its own, turning into dust and revealing the 'treasure' it contained.

The tiny black stones, hidden within these minerals, have only now been able to see the light of day again.

This is also why the three Kadia soldiers were able to hide among them without being discovered by the keen-sensed Bloodletters; the Blackstone's natural anti-psychic properties hindered the demons' perception.

The mountain of ore yielded only a watermelon-sized piece of black stone ore. Compared to the black stone obelisks and fortresses the Necromancers frequently forged—which could pierce through the clouds and were clearly visible from the orbit of the planet Cadia—its size was insignificant. However, this amount was more than enough to 'forge' seven new bodies.

The black stone ore of varying sizes was instantly shattered by an invisible force, and then transformed into a cloud of mineral mist shimmering with purple lightning under Jiang Bing's recharging, merging into the seven rapidly forming bodies.

The knowledge of black stone applications obtained from the necromancers in space flowed rapidly through Jiang Bing's mind, and on each body, numerous complex patterns incorporating necromancer technology were rapidly taking shape.

Jiang Bing's current attempt is very simple. He wants to use black stone as material and the bodies of seven people as carriers to forge a miniature anti-spiritual energy device, a movable 'spirit exorcism zone' mortal node, just like a movable obelisk of the dead.

In the shimmering light, life is reborn, and the seven souls of the dead, whose souls had been left behind, are able to return to the world of the living.

The Cadia soldiers, led by Emil Reyna, witnessed this scene with an indescribable fervor, reciting prayers from the "Imperial Proverbs".

However, most people's eyes kept involuntarily glancing at the seven 'Recasters'.

There's no other reason than that Jiang Bing was rescued, but he didn't consider clothes when he sculpted his body. And among these seven people, there was even a female heavy firepower platoon leader.

Let's ask ourselves, if we don't look now, when will we?

Of course, this is also directly related to the cool appearance of these seven new bodies.

The body sculpted with nano-elements perfectly replicates pores and hair one-to-one, while retaining the original texture and color of silver metal.

This resulted in the seven people's bodies being cast from metal and flesh, both sacred and bizarre.

The specks of purple electric arcs, passing through mysterious grooves and patterns, occasionally flickered within, maximizing the sense of mystery and majesty.

However, the scream Jiang Bing had imagined did not occur. Platoon leader Elise Junker was an outstanding graduate of the Loyalty Academy, while this was Warhammer Cardia, a place where war raged endlessly and where life-or-death battles were commonplace. Mere lust and shame could not shake the opponent's will in the slightest.

Of course, you still need to wear clothes, otherwise you might attract unwanted attention.

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Edoria is one of the worlds protected by the Cardia Fortress world, located on the flank of Cardia and the Eye of Fear, and is a very important component of the Cardia Chaos Defense System.

Naturally, it also encountered a fierce attack from the Chaos Fleet.

Over thousands of years of fierce fighting, the Cardia Defense Sphere has established a complete and mature military command system responsible for the daily defense and combat readiness of the entire sector.

The highest command level is the Cardia Council.

This group consists of the Supreme Marshal, the fortress lords of each planet (i.e., the true supreme commanders of planetary defense), the commander of Blackrock Fortress, and the highest administrative officials of each agency.

Below the Lord of the Fortress responsible for planetary defense are the Regional Defense Commanders, who are in charge of overseeing a particular continent or key geographical region. Below them are the Commanders of the Star Guardian Army Groups, which are assigned to their respective war zones, depending on the situation. And below them are the various native Cardian legions.

News of the annihilation of the 264th Cardia Legion quickly reached the Hellgate Planetary Defense Missile Silo Command, and news of the presence of Khorne demons in this theater immediately caught the attention of high command.

Experienced commanders are well aware of the destructive power of these war-mongers.

As a result, the matter was immediately reported and alarmed the Astartes Chapter, which was coordinating the defense in the area.

Soon, several RAND assault boats crossed the hilltop, carrying several Astartes scouts, and stopped on high ground near the abandoned mine.

Chapter 1094 The Strange Battlefield That Rises from the Ground

"Brother Botgar, what's wrong?"

A black Astartes dismounted from his hovermobile and approached the combat brother on lookout duty, asking a question.

“I see a spire, Brother Ratama.”

"A spire?"

"Yes, and a tidal wave of demons."

Latama eagerly poked his head out, only to be immediately shocked by the battle below.

Along a semi-circular defensive line, countless firing points were firing, their flames illuminating an area of ​​dozens of meters in radius.

A large number of Chaos minions were firing wildly at the entrance to the abandoned mine with all sorts of miscellaneous weapons, but they were blocked by a thick shield.

"Void Shield?!" Ratamar flexed his wrists, his astonishment evident.

"How could a void shield possibly be deployed in a place like this?!"

"Look there," Botega pointed out, as if pointing the way.

A towering structure, exuding precision and mystery, stands in the very center of the Void Shield. The tower is clearly not yet completed, but it is already tens of meters high.

Its construction method is also unique. Instead of building it layer by layer with bricks and stones, it grows as a whole, like a living organism, enveloped by flowing nano-elements.

A real weapon of war suddenly opened fire. The Dreadnought Tank's massive slaughter cannon created a roar like an avalanche. The psionic pre-detonation fuse exploded before the shell reached the Void Shield, creating a huge fireball.

Although the attack did not cause any casualties, it achieved its purpose of covering the ground troops' advance.