Halo Construct

The Marauder abandoned shooting and grabbed Groot directly, and the two immediately engaged in a grapple.

"Xenos! Give up resistance!"

The Cold Fusion Core provided powerful energy for the combat suit.

However, the Ranger's reprimand only ignited the ferocity of this group of Kroot.

"Why bother fighting one-on-one? Just slaughter them outright! On the Emperor's soil, these xenos who dare to attack humanity are already sentenced to death!"

Gao Yi's barking curse made a group of machine gunners swarm forward; even though the Kroot were physically strong, they were no match for a group of metallic brutes.

It quickly turned into a pile of shattered corpses all over the ground.

Jie Yi smiled, smiling brightly. She knew that she had won her gamble again this time; Gao Yi was by no means some down-and-out Rogue Trader, but a rising Rogue Trader.

If they could forge subsequent cooperation, she could almost imagine that her status and wealth would see a qualitative leap!

Wails continuously drifted out from inside the warehouse, which had already been torn into ruins.

Damon led two squads of Rangers to begin advancing with combat formations, mopping up the remaining resistance.

Damon found that the Rangers who had come to this world just like him were still accustomed to fighting with firearms.

Yet those who joined later in this world seemed particularly fond of melee...

Sometimes he would even hear someone shouting over the comms something along the lines of "For the God-Emperor, I am the God-Emperor's Angel of Death!"

Lai De was currently sitting on the ground leaning against a crate, his remaining right hand gripping a crystal grenade for dear life.

When he saw Damon and the others appear at the blasted-open breach of the warehouse, he hurled the bomb in his hand with all his might.

The shell ruptured, and countless sharp crystals scattered toward the surroundings.

The sharp crystal fragments pierced the combat suits, instantly felling several Rangers.

"Medic! First aid!"

The medics assigned to each company stepped forward immediately, and the nanites rapidly repaired the flesh as well as the combat suits.

Lai De had originally thought that he could take a few people down with him, but seeing the ones who had been blasted down stand up unscathed not long after, he despaired.

Damon began administering coup de grâces to the pirates who were still breathing, feeling a bit of lingering fear when he saw those servitors blown to smithereens by grenades; during his time on the ship, he had been cramming knowledge about this enemy.

He knew that the weapons carried by servitors were a type of weapon known as a meltagun, and taking a direct hit like that would leave zero chance of rescue.

However, combat had no ifs; the Marauder's firepower saturation left these servitors with no room to perform before they were blown to smithereens.

"Commander! The bastard who offended you has been found, and he's still breathing."

"Drag him out!"

Receiving the order, Damon dragged the heavily injured Lai De out of the ruins like a dead dog.

Gao Yi looked at Lai De, who was lying on the ground staring fixedly at him, and wore a smile.

"I suppose you should have anticipated this end when you offended a Rogue Trader?"

"Bah... Rogue Trader, do you think you'll come out safe and sound after attacking the Void Concordat?

Just wait for our retaliation! Watch your cargo ships and merchant vessels, who knows when they'll be completely swallowed by the Void!"

Lai De proved to be quite spirited, displaying his ferocious side to the fullest even at a time like this.

"Everyone heard it. He threatened me, a Rogue Trader granted sacred rights by the God-Emperor!

I now pronounce a death sentence in the name of the Empire, to be executed immediately!"

Hearing this, Damon immediately aimed at Lai De and then pulled the trigger.

When Lai De's head exploded, it also signaled the complete end of this operation.

And with Lai De's death, there were plenty of factions in the Landing Port eager to absorb the power and wealth generated during the Void Concordat's vacuum period; they would help Gao Yi take care of the remaining small fry.

He believed that for quite a long time, Landing Port would sing praises of Gao Yi's ruthlessness. This time was not merely about publicizing goods, but also telling everyone not to think that the newly appointed Rogue Trader was someone easy to mess with.

Without looking at the corpse on the ground any longer, Gao Yi walked into the warehouse. If Jie Yi was to be believed, this stronghold held quite a few good things, and these items were now his war spoils.

"Lord Gao Yi, please allow me to help you open their treasury!"

Jie Yi walked gracefully in front of Gao Yi and said with a bow.

"Very well, lead the way, Jie Yi."

Jie Yi walked familiarly into the warehouse and pushed aside a shelf.

She skillfully entered the password on the control panel, and the hidden door subsequently opened.

Jie Yi tactfully stepped aside.

"Great Rogue Trader, please take inventory of your war spoils!"

Stepping into the room, Gao Yi let out a mental exclamation of amazement.

The nearly thousand-square-meter warehouse was piled high with cargo; all kinds of see-the-light and hidden-from-sight constructs from alien civilizations filled the warehouse.

Gao Yi opened a crate, and what was inside turned out to be Eldar soul stones and wraithbone.

There were even cases where Ark Eldar would directly purchase such soul stones from humans, though whether they would straightaway kill the buyer after purchasing was another matter entirely.

These items were quite popular in the imperial nobility circle; they liked to craft them into art pieces, but the premise was that you had the strength, otherwise you would be in for a rough time if you were spotted by certain extremist Eldar.

Gao Yi briefly inspected a few crates, most of which were trivial goods, but as he ventured deeper, he found that his psionic perception was reacting.

Following the perception, Gao Yi walked up to a strictly sealed crate, shattered the lock on top with a single shot, and then saw nine crystal accessories emitting a brilliant purple light lying quietly inside the box.

Such a dense Warp aura...

Opening the box, Gao Yi also discovered that the interior was covered with inscriptions; this box inherently possessed the function of isolating psionics.

Gao Yi picked up a piece of crystal and discovered that the interior actually bore entirely unfamiliar text, and every single crystal was like that.

He looked at a bill of goods placed inside.

"Nomad Port... Mander Commerce..."

Nomad Port was in the Calixis Sector, similar to Landing Port, but its scale far exceeded it.

Gao Yi firmly memorized the commercial chamber's name; these crystals contained rich Warp energy, and they were one hundred percent not good things.

Gao Yi directly absorbed the internal Warp energy, a harvest of a full 9,000 psionic crystals surprising even Gao Yi himself.

Now Gao Yi could intuitively tell the depth of a certain object's connection to the Warp from the crystal quantity.

An unexpected harvest... The crystals needed for the Heavy Factory are also enough. It seems I can secretly collect these kinds of Warp items in the future.

Yet Gao Yi did not expect the Void Concordat's audacity to stop there.

When he opened the box at the very deepest part, Gao Yi instantly recognized the item inside by virtue of the original owner's memories.

"Halo Construct? Holy shit! Damon! Call the people from the Inquisition over, I know they are nearby!"

A Halo Construct was not an ordinary xenos artifact; these items came from the Halo Cluster, which was a region that had not been thoroughly explored.

This type of construct could extend a person's lifespan, allow the wearer to recover from all injuries, and even enable survival without eating or drinking.

Yet beneath such powerful effects, the negative side effects were terrifyingly abnormal.

These items, which looked like dead objects, could subtly conduct mental possession on the wearer. One year... two years... the alien soul clinging inside would ultimately make everything belonging to the user its own, turning the wearer into a man-eating monster.

This kind of monster could not be killed, nor could it be burned to death with fire, and it would even regenerate.

There were even a few Rogue Trader dynasties within the Expansion Zone tainted by this kind of construct that had been jointly and thoroughly purged by the Inquisition and the Navy, with family members burned to death by pyres down to the last one.

Not just humans, even the Eldar operating in this expansion zone would unhesitatingly kill any creature utilizing a Halo Construct.

Gao Yi had no desire to touch this sort of thing. The bastards of the Void Concordat were truly daring...