Chapter 88: Plague Zombies and War Hounds
The Mandela Palace where the Fallen Queen Kaligia is located is built on a low and flat crater. The dense buildings cover the entire mountain, and the original appearance of the mountain can no longer be seen.
The Ninth Brotherhood's airdrop pod landed in the auxiliary city in the north of the palace. The main force of the defense force here was sent by the Fallen Queen Kaligia to the south of the palace to fight against the Okomia Knight Titan. The auxiliary city was full of corpses of knight servants, and there was no living person.
After the people of the Ninth Brotherhood walked out of the airdrop pod, countless plague zombies surrounded them from all directions. They stumbled, and their rotten bodies kept oozing green pus and emitting disgusting poisonous gas.
After the pus or poisonous gas came into contact with the corpses on the ground, more plague zombies stood up from the ground. They were hungry for living flesh and blood, and at the same time spread the subspace plague.
The plague in the real universe is a contagious and pathogenic microorganism that will degenerate the body of the infected, causing their skin and internal organs to rot rapidly.
The zombie plague from the warp itself is a kind of psychic power. The twisted power can revive the victim's body and make the victim stay at the moment of death. The flesh is in a state of constant decay and rebirth, turning into a zombie that only knows how to eat flesh and blood.
According to the Imperial Church, loyalty to the Emperor can resist the corruption of the zombie plague. The loyalty of the infected is questionable. This is actually the faith power of the loyalists connecting to the Emperor's psychic flame.
"God Emperor, purify the filth!"
With Tai Yue's roar, the psychic bombs of the Ninth Brotherhood and the promethium flames of the battle sisters shot at the dense plague zombies.
After the psychic bombs expelled the corrupt energy of the warp plague, the warp plague lost the basis for infection, and the plague zombies became ordinary corpses again, falling on the ground like a mountain.
The promethium flame quickly destroyed the mutated flesh, preventing the plague zombies from being resurrected again under the influence of the corrupt energy.
There were too many plague zombies in the entire auxiliary city. Although Jerome and Bruce used psychic lightning and psychic fire to purify the plague zombies on a large scale, it took two loyal imperial troops a day to completely eliminate the plague zombies.
"God Emperor bless, Grand Master, the fallen queen Kalijiya will not believe in Nurgle."
Bruce said to Tai Yue at this time that no other demons of the Chaos God were seen here.
"You will know when you see her."
Tai Yue answered without comment, and then he notified everyone to continue moving forward.
The Brotherhood's Land Raider tanks and the Battle Sisters' Exorcist self-propelled rocket launchers led the way in front, and the Rhino armored personnel carriers carried the two troops along the wide passage in the palace, heading towards the main hall of the palace.
The two troops soon encountered the rebellious Knight Titan, and the War Hound Knight Titan patrolling and guarding the palace appeared in front.
The War Hound is the smallest Knight Titan. The narrow interior space does not have the mechanical throne that other Knight Titans use to connect with the driver. Instead, it is replaced by a mechanical helmet that basically does not take up the interior space.
The mechanical helmet can capture the synaptic nerve signals in the driver's brain, and then control the War Hound Knight Titan. In turn, the mechanical helmet can also affect the driver. The upper nobles can control the mechanical helmet to ensure the absolute loyalty of the lower nobles.
The Fallen Queen Caligia in the center of the palace immediately issued a hunting order to the War Hound. The sound of metal footsteps and the roar of the engine sounded, and the War Hound pounced on with mechanical legs, approaching the armored group composed of the Ninth Brotherhood and the Silver Shroud Battle Sisters like a predator.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
Dense heavy bombs were fired from the muzzle of the Land Raider tank and hit the ion shield of the War Hound.
"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!"
The Exorcist self-propelled rocket launcher fired missiles continuously, flying in the air for a while and then falling vertically. The two War Hounds staggered and fell.
At this moment, the War Hound's autocannon fired automatically, and a deafening explosion sounded on the surface of the armored vehicle.