Nemesis-class Cruise Knight
Nimrod's golden wings closed, and dozens of particle weapons shot out at the Necrodermis, only to be deflected.
With a flap of his wings, he instantly flew to the head of a three-legged mech.
The Sword of Vaul swung, a flash of blue-white light, and the heavy metal head crashed to the ground.
After landing, Nimrod continued his attack to the left without stopping.
At the same time, he still had the energy to look at the Knight Mech of Gios Veroni that had suddenly appeared on his right.
At Nimrod's behest, the Sage of Meizuo built a precious Nemesis-class Cruise Knight for Gios.
In memory of the Veroni family's extermination of their native False Gods on the Moon II of their home planet, Planet Dametus III, Gios named it the God-Eater.
The name is exactly the same as the one in Nimrod's memory, except that the construction time was more than a century earlier.
Subsequently, Rosicky Czech replaced the God-Eater with Heaven's Punishment-class Reactor, making up for the only shortcoming of the Nemesis-class Cruise Knight.
The Nemesis-class Cruise Knight's reactor is unstable and prone to radiation leakage.
Most pilots underwent cybernetic modifications by the Adeptus Mechanicus to reduce their flesh and blood percentage and avoid death from radiation in battle.
The Ion Curtain of the God-Eater withstood a barrage of particle beams fired from the Tripod Walker.
As a custom-designed mech from the Adeptus Mechanicus, it is equipped with a large amount of powerful technological equipment, enabling it to engage a wide range of targets, from light infantry to super-heavy tanks.
Unlike other Knight Mech with Ion Shield, the Nemesis-class Cruise Knight's body is completely encased in a particle the Veil.
It requires no active control and possesses stronger defensive capabilities.
Gios sensed the burning fighting spirit of the Machine Spirit, which, like himself, yearned to prove its strength in battle.
With a sudden thought, he increased the magnification of the Auspex and applied thermal detection filters in layers on the standard view.
Runes danced across his retina as the Prince of Veroni rapidly read the scrolling messages.
Gios activated the Communicator, guiding Veroni's Knight Mech.
"Thirty-four targets, enemy formation is dense, cover fire strike."
He raised his right arm, Lightning Cannon shot out a dazzling arc of electricity 580 meters in the direction of one o'clock.
Without waiting for feedback or for the Lightning Cannon to recharge, Gios strode forward.
He longed to repay Lord Nimrod for rescuing Dametus and to seize glory from the master he served.
Gios's desire was transmitted through neural links to his Mechanical Throne, the reactor of the God-Eater roared and howled, and the Hades Siege Claw on his left arm roared as it tore through the shield.
The lowered Twin-linked Flamer spew out molten, blazing flames.
The pilot of the three-legged mech, Gardinal, was instantly engulfed in flames.
The surrounding three-legged mechs immediately focused their firepower on the God-Eater, launching an attack on the God-Eater, which had broken into their lines and was charging like a bull.
Gios raised the automatic signal flag to its highest point and held his Touch Glove high.
"For Veroni, for the Monarch!"
"Loyalty and honor!"
The Hades Siege Claw slashed down, smashing through the Particle Power Blade.
The passionate voice of Knight Veroni rang out from the Communicator.
"For Veroni, for the Monarch!"
"Loyalty and honor!"
The shouts subsided. Unlike other families, the Veroni knights did not shout frequently during battle; they were more somber.
The Knight Mech fired a second barrage at the target, Gios's Auspex was filled with flashes.
The signal device crackled in the gale, God-Eater strode forward, its body spinning in the process, the Hades Siege Claw tearing through the enemy's flanks.
Through the strategic map, Gios saw the runes of the Veroni Knights rapidly approaching, launching an attack on the enemy.
He also noted that Veroni's runes were still below and continuing to decrease, indicating that the Tripod Walker still had a numerical advantage.
Gios knew that without the Primarch personally leading his guard to attack the enemy, the Knight of Veroni would not have had the chance to achieve victory on his own.
Despite Veroni's green runes steadily increasing on the strategic distribution map, it was still a fierce battle.
Gios decided to launch a new attack to gain the upper hand, and he shouted the order into the Communicator.
"Sacred Maintainer, I need you to provide maintenance promptly."
Behind the Veroni Knight Mech, after the High Sacred Maintainer replied to his prince, he focused intently on real-time data updates and monitored 142 systems.
Besides the knights being repaired and trained in the family territory, Veroni deployed all the mechs currently available to join the expedition.
His responsibility was to monitor the battlefield situation while preserving Veroni's strength as much as possible.
To this end, the High Sacred Maintainer uses some of its mental computing capabilities for communication between the Crawler and the Communicator Network, encompassing both the Veroni Communication Network and the Allied Network.
Most of the computing power was used to continuously monitor various parameters of the Veroni mech:
Mech shell integrity, shield strength, system operation status...
The High Sacred Maintainer saw that Veroni's knights formed a spearhead centered on the signal flag of the God-Eater.
Green Spear, moving in perfect unison, thrust towards the enemy's heavily fortified positions.
The runes from both sides flashed wildly, filling his eyes like a meteor shower.
The gray and green runes vanished rapidly, like fireworks.
Among the many runes, the brightest one was the God-Eater; the other green runes, in groups of five, crashed into the gray rune.
In the midst of the intertwined tearing and biting, some or two will be broken.
The God-Eater ventured alone into the gray center, while the surrounding enemies disappeared one by one.
After the gray runes faded, star-like runes flashed wildly, filling his eyes with orange and red.
One of the runes lit up in the center of his eye, Auspex of the High Sacred Maintainer, immediately focused highly, with most of its computing power analyzing and displaying the priority target.
His primary monitoring target was naturally the God-Eater, which was also the primary task he assigned to the Crawler Machine Spirit.
The High Sacred Maintainer spent five megabytes of computation to complete the data analysis.
The Ion Curtain system is damaged.
The Blessed Auto-Repair Icon has been activated; the God-Eater's mechs are now self-repairing non-fatal damage.
The High Sacred Maintainer was reassigned, and the computational load allocated to the God-Eater was higher than normal.
He turned on his Communicator and first sent a reminder to the God-Eater.
"Prince Gios, you must stop and restart the Ion Curtain."
At the same time, he selected the most damaged Knight Mech for his Crawler and assigned them tasks.
"Car number two, Bitter Bamboo."
"..."
The voice of the High Sacred Maintainer brought Gios back to reality. He loosened his grip on the Touch Glove, allowing his slightly trembling arm to gradually calm down.
He examined the strategic distribution map again and smiled when he saw the green runes flip over onto the gray ones.
Gios gripped the Touch Glove again; the Machine Spirit's feedback told him he could rejoin the battle.
Just as he was about to launch a new offensive, the voice of the High Sacred Maintainer suddenly rang out in the communication channel.
"An anomaly detected."
Gios's Auspex immediately focused on the target marked by the High Sacred Maintainer. Countless flashes of light streaked past, the image updated in real time, vibrated violently, and then disappeared, tilting.
Prince Veroni watched in horror as more than twenty green runes vanished in an instant.
Gios was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses and looked at the restored gray runes, seeing the three-legged mechanical body displayed on the screen.
His eyes widened involuntarily, and he murmured:
What is that?