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In contrast to the ongoing resistance on the front lines, the main city was in complete chaos. Sages destroyed machinery and committed suicide in despair. Their dying radio waves completely disrupted communications, and even the temporary Grand Sage could not be contacted.
Hades pondered for a moment,
Go to the eastern front and stop those sages from spreading the rust plague.
Hades stopped, turned around, and shouted at the sages hanging beside the Death Guard.
"Who is the highest-ranking among you? I need him to assist me in giving orders to the other members of the Mechanicus!"
Hades, who was like a god, spoke, and the group that looked like they were just scavengers was instantly in turmoil. From Hades' perspective, a person who was unconscious was floating on the red river.
Staring at the sage who was clearly unconscious due to the suppression of the Black Domain's power, Hades fell silent and quietly withdrew the Black Domain.
"Sir, she is the commander-in-chief of the western front. Please wait a moment."
With the Dark Domain suddenly gone, the Sages became noticeably more active, and Hades watched as they fixed the Sages with wrenches and screws.
One sage is electrocuting the unconscious sage, while another sage is waking her up with a physical slap.
Hades remained silent for a moment, then ordered the Death Guards to continue their forced march.
Finally, thanks to the tireless efforts of the sages, the sage awoke.
"My lord!"
As he spoke, the sage broke free from the support of those around him and immediately prostrated himself in worship—
"stop!"
Hades grabbed her by the arm and said, "I need you to give orders to the other fronts, do you understand?"
"Understood, my lord!" The sage quickly opened the communication channel. Hades, who had saved the remnants of the western front, already held an unshakeable place in her heart.
Look at the road they came from; withered black rust has paved a path through the wasteland, like an axe cleaving through giant waves.
[It's me, Lann, ER1. Support has arrived. It's the Death Guard Legion. Immediately hand over command to the Death Guard. Repeat, hand over command, highest order.]
[QOP, has your brain been rusted to the point of madness???]
Hades joined the radio wave without any hesitation.
[Lan, ER1, this is Hades, commander of the Death Guard. The Death Guard has now regained control of two-thirds of the Ruster system.]
[By order of Legion Commander Mortarian, I have led the 7th Death Guard Company to support your campaign to protect the capital.]
A hissing sound came from the other end of the channel, like a mocking laugh—
[Wait, what's your radio wave location? You're on the western battlefield? It's all rusty there, how are you sending radio waves?!]
I can stop the spread of rust.
The other side fell silent; in a battle where every second counts, this was a long silence.
[QOP, in the name of the God of Machines, I swear, what that guy just said was true.]
It's absolutely true, this man, he can do it, he can do it!
[To reiterate, you two, relinquish command. The Death Guard will join your operations.]
The reason the alien races haven't launched a large-scale attack yet is because the Death Guard's fleet is dragging them along in the skies, replenishing their forces.
Hades took a deep breath.
[I am a master foundry myself, and I fully understand the Mechanicus's fighting style. We understand your determination to defend your capital to the death.]
It was precisely because of this understanding that we broke through the battle lines ahead of time to provide support.
【.】
[The command key has been sent to you, Lord Hades.]
[We've lost contact with the temporary High Priest in the main city. ER1 and I are just putting up a last-ditch effort. Commander of the Death Guard, I hope you and your army succeed.]
We will.
Hades spoke, "First thing, Lann, stop the spread of rust. We're heading to the eastern front to provide support. Until then, hold on."
While arguing with the sages, Hades was not idle. He began broadcasting signals throughout the city that reinforcements had arrived and ordered the sages to stop destroying the machinery.
The wrath of the Death Guard descended upon the battlefield.
Silent warriors joined the battle, and in coordination with the firepower of the Christian Guard, these highly mobile soldiers successfully held off and annihilated the enemy forces.
Under the cover of the Seventh Company, Hades opened the Dark Domain and successfully created a situation where he stood alone on the vast battlefield. Around Hades, rust and life withered away together.
The rust that had been gradually taking over the battle receded as the tide went out, revealing the bones beneath the water.
Now the mechanical sages, who were initially skeptical, had nothing to say. This was no ordinary feat; only the powerful psionicists in ancient texts possessed such might.
But Hades is not a psionicist. Unlike the psionicists despised by the Cult of Mechanics, his power does not bring chaos.
On the contrary, he calmed the chaos and disorder.
In any case, aside from the sages on the western front who were driven mad by the rust, the rest of the sages did indeed submit after Hades displayed his extraordinary personal abilities.
The alien invasion was temporarily repelled. Hades walked through the trenches, planning the next steps. The eastern and northern fronts could be held, and the eastern entrance, which served as a passage for large vehicles, would become the next strategic point.
Following behind Hades, the sage Lan En, having witnessed Hades' abilities, felt as if he had finally found someone to rely on, and began to recount the entire battle in a rambling manner.
The alien attack was sudden and without warning; these Memanic aliens tore through the galactic defenses with firepower far exceeding that of Just.
The space station responsible for defense was directly destroyed by a massive amount of ammunition. Then, due to the arrogance of the original Great Sage, the planet's defensive laser array aimed at the wrong target, directly leading to the fall of Ruster.
The Mechanicus sent out their original Titans and Knights, but the opposing side also sent out corresponding heavy vehicles, which far outnumbered them. Forced to make a trade, the Mechanicus chose to exchange as many vehicles as possible to take down the opposing side's heavy vehicles.
The landing vehicle platforms on the other side were destroyed as a result. Later, the Death Guard fleet prevented them from rebuilding the platforms, forcing the other side to fight them with the light infantry they had initially deployed.
At first, they were able to repel the enemy with the city's original defenses, but as rust spread, these weapons and defenses began to malfunction to varying degrees.
Without the cover of heavy firepower, the city began to fall.
The battle lines were slowly crumbling, and the temporary Great Sage, unable to receive any news of reinforcements, finally chose to give up.
Despair and chaos seeped into people's hearts like rust; defeat was inevitable.
The Great Sage ordered the factories on the southern front to be destroyed, while the soldiers on the southern front returned to the city to sabotage them. The Great Sage himself went to the World Forge in the center of the city.
"He wants to trigger the self-destruct program of the world's melting pot."
"Lord Hades, Lord from the Death Guard, allow me to make an excessive request."
Lann trembled as he tried to grab Hades, but Hades wasn't the type to drape a cloth over his back for no reason, so Lann's mechanical limbs awkwardly retracted.
"Please stop the Great Sage Ra. I tried to communicate with him, but all my requests were rejected."
"If the World's Furnace were destroyed, the aftershocks from its reactor explosion would destroy the entire city."
Hades was startled.
"Such an important matter, didn't any of you stop him? Or at least ask him to postpone his actions?!"
Or at least let me know beforehand? You were so focused on defending the city that you turned around and your hometown got bombed?!
The sage behind him flinched.
"Before your arrival, our circuits were not very stable, and the rust may have affected our thinking."
Hades took a deep breath. Calm down, stay calm. There is indeed disorder in the warp here, and their souls and minds may indeed have been affected to some extent.
“Give me a detailed map to get there, and your authorization key.”
"Now, immediately, right away."
Hades' voice, tinged with barely suppressed anger, rang out.
Inside the furnace, fiery red liquid bubbled and steam rose, and the great sage's corpse hung above the steamer, mangled beyond recognition.
"God, if you still insist on abandoning us, where should we go?!"
"Was Ruster's fate truly to vanish under the iron hooves of foreign tribes? Were all the efforts of thousands of years so utterly insignificant?"
The great sage cried out in despair, trying to obtain even the slightest sign or miracle, but there was nothing there except for increasingly chaotic thoughts; the place was empty.
Hopefully not here.
Finally, La was filled with despair. The muffled thuds seemed to be coming from the corridor. He must be hallucinating, but at this moment, the alien army might have already entered the main city.
The sage stood before the control panel, trembling as he began to input the key.
It was as if the sage's pain had attracted the supreme being, and above the furnace, the great sage's corpse began to twist.
It's time for Him to make His appearance. These ignorant geeks don't understand real machinery at all. Machinery is made up of transactions with order, pain, and soul.
They completely misunderstand the power of the Heart of Plague, foolishly treating it as just an ordinary mechanical core.
And it was precisely these people who were completely incapable of learning and thinking who formed the industrial foundation of a foolish empire. Whenever he thought of this, Vashtor couldn't help but laugh.
To Vashtor's dissatisfaction, however, the apothecary named Radon was not on Ruster's main planet at the moment. After hastily completing the agreement, the apothecary had disappeared without a trace.
Even though the pharmacist respected Him greatly, that was all.
There wasn't enough despair and pain, and people's emotions were even beginning to calm down. Being in a place where the physical barriers of the universe were originally quite thick was not good news.
But that's enough for His incarnation to manifest here; a little pointless trick is all it takes for these blindly loyal people, deceived by lies for thousands of years, to kneel in worship.
Praise Him aloud! Lord of all furnaces, God of machines, Creator of machinery, bestow His power upon us!
The sage's corpse began to twist, cables wriggled and extended their cores, metal blocks creaked, and current crackled as it formed His power. The electrical waves in the hall became disordered, and blasphemous marks appeared on every screen.
Ra watched in utter panic, the sage at a loss, shouting the name of the gods, a blasphemous hiss of electricity ringing out—
“My believers—”
"boom!"
"Stop it!!!"
The heavily locked doors were suddenly flung open, and Hades strode into the hall, behind him lay countless alien corpses.
The dark aura quickly enveloped the entire space like a thick fog. Fearing he wouldn't be able to keep up with the self-destruction, Hades simply controlled the dark aura to a concentration that would just cause someone to lose consciousness.
As soon as they entered the Dark Domain, all signs of subspace in the room vanished instantly, and the currents and magnetic fields began to operate according to the rules of physics again.
Hades, holding the obituary, cautiously approached the Sage Ra. He could sense the strong warp energy that had just filled the area, but because the Dark Domain had devoured everything so quickly, he hadn't seen the truth about the murderer.
And this doesn't quite seem like the feeling Nurgle gave him? It doesn't seem like the feeling he had for other gods either?
Hades felt as if a huge cloud of metallic vapor had rushed in.
The only things in the hall were the bright liquid fuel of the furnace and the sage's corpse swaying on the furnace.
Judging from the degree to which the corpse swayed, Hades was certain that the fallen sage Ra had performed some acts of desecration on the body.
Hades silently checked for a week, confirming that the self-destruct program had not been activated, before finally breathing a sigh of relief and reclaiming the Dark Domain.
"You cursed outsider, you will sooner or later face the judgment of the rules!!!"
A violent screech erupted from the Great Sage's corpse!
Hades was startled and immediately opened the Dark Domain, and the world returned to silence.
Only the sage's corpse still sways.
Huh?
Which subspace creature is this?
Hades took a breath, hiss, had he missed something?
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