Adeptus Mechanicus Individual Combat Power Ceiling
In the northern part of the Galaxy, beyond the radiant glow of Astronomican, lies the Rangdan Galaxy.
Perturabo was not on his Iron Blood; he was in the central quadrant command room of the Ramillies-class Star Fortress, which had been placed under his command by Nimrod and would belong to him after the war.
The interface on the back of his head connected to the Cogitator array he had personally modified, and a torrent of data surged through his mind.
The torpedo launcher seemed to be an extension of his body, spewing out swarms of fish.
Perturabo, all by himself, accomplished the command and coordination work that would normally require an entire corps of officers led by a fleet admiral.
He even controlled every single torpedo, and even destroying a Gloriana-class Battleship would be difficult against the countless drones.
Runes leaped, collided, and vanished in Perturabo's mind, revealing an ever-changing artistic landscape.
Everything is under control.
The thought had barely formed when a discordant white sword-shaped rune suddenly appeared.
"[The Jaghatai warships are so fast.]" Perturabo's admiration flashed by, his brow furrowed.
One after another, white runes burst in haphazardly.
They were like a sudden whirlwind, surging yet chaotic.
Black and iron-gray runes flowed in, easing the frown on Perturabo's brow.
His Trident- commanded Iron Blood and his brother Nimrod's Shadow of the Throne both executed his battle plans perfectly.
Perturabo stared at the black runes, a slight smile playing on his lips, which he forcibly suppressed before fully lifting them.
Perturabo ignored the drifting white runes; at least they could draw some of the fire.
He repeatedly adjusted the deployment disrupted by the white whirlwind, rapidly relaying orders to the other warships.
Black, Purple, gray rock color...
Following the predetermined plan, a large number of runes moved along the predetermined trajectory, striding towards the red target.
The Red Mechanicus Ark, the Xana Punisher.
Anakaris Scoria stared at the approaching evil planet on the holographic star map.
He saw the sacred creation of Omnissiah — the Ramillies-class Star Fortress —enter the orbit of the evil Xenos's creation— the Artificial War Satellite.
Three Gloriana-class Battleships —black, iron-grey, and white—arrived at orbit and joined the bombardment.
Anakaris launched a series of binary codes into the entire Xana fleet within his Thought Space.
Our target is the evil Homeworld of the Xenos, and Lord Nimrod has granted my request to unleash punishment.
Omnissiah gave me Revelation, and the algorithm of victory and punishment!
Omnissiah has unleashed his wrath; any Xenos that blasphemes against the God of All Machines must be Purification!
Anakaris highlighted his role, turning Lord Nimrod's orders into credit for his own achievements.
This is not betrayal, but a necessity to serve Lord Nimrod.
He needed greater prestige to climb the spiderweb-like power structure of Xana.
A cacophony of binary thoughts surged through the Thought Space.
In the name of Omnissiah, punish blasphemy!
Sage Scoria will lead us to victory!
Sage Scoria, the Mandated Punishers of Omnissiah!
Anakaris was delighted to see that more and more people were praising him.
Not only the Sages under his command, but also thirty-six Sages from different schools of thought who had never met before.
The red Craftworld formed an attack formation in high orbit, Omnissiah's servants aimed thousands of weapons at the planet below.
The Xana Punisher fired the first shot, its dazzling light falling like the finger of the God of All Machines.
The lava bombs bombarded relentlessly, striking and hammering like the piston-driven hammer of Omnissiah.
Every Rangdan Xenos on the surface witnessed the collision of the cannonballs with the energy shield, the dazzling energy explosions tearing apart the dark sky and setting off a sky full of scorching marks.
As Anakaris stepped onto the evil land of Rangdan Xenos, his prosthetic eye swung.
The earth melted and was poured into a glass plain, and the black smoke from the Purification sacred fire rose into view.
He waved the Wodiah Scepter and pointed it to the place where the Auspex showed a high concentration of life signals—the misty mountains.
The orbital bombardment had little effect, and the Aether readings there were significantly higher than normal.
Anakaris's mechanical body stomped through the flames and crushed the vitrified rocks as he raised a servo arm high on his back.
"We are the royal guard of the God of All Machines, we are the hand of His wrath!"
The Melta Cannon unleashed a torrent of flames, vaporizing more than a dozen Xenos.
The tiger-shaped Overlord crackled and popped as it burst out of the sea of fire.
The second arm rose up like a python.
The Photon Piercer Cannon shone with a blinding light, making the glass-like ground gleam and turning the red robe a deep crimson.
A dazzling beam of light shot out, piercing through bursts of flame and slamming into the individual's energy shield.
With a sound like a balloon bursting, the beam of light pierced through the energy shield and penetrated the chest of the tiger-shaped body.
Winged soldiers whistled as they flew through the air.
The Phosphor Blaster spat out streaks of fire, sweeping away the deep fog.
The pig-shaped Xenos lying on the ground immediately had arcs of electricity rising from its head.
Flames and lightning collided, producing a series of explosive sounds.
Anakaris raised his third arm, and the Graviton Cannon's mark pressed close to the ground.
With a loud bang, an invisible shockwave shook his metallic body.
The projected gravitational shockwave struck the ground and then rose up like an expanding bubble.
The armor encasing the pig-shaped Xenos was shattered into dust by the gravitational wave, its massive body torn apart and scattered.
As one bubble after another rose, the winged soldiers continued to swoop down, unleashing the wrath of the God of All Machines.
The Electronic Familiar surrounding Anakaris — Servo-skull personally modified by the Sage himself—suddenly began to hum.
A series of dangerous runes lit up on the display module in Anakaris's Strategist Array, and the analysis module completed its Analysis in an instant.
The Knights of Malinax leaped out from both sides of the Mechanicum Custodians.
The Avenger Gatling Cannon emitted a piercing scream, and a torrent of bullets swept towards the towering tree-like body that appeared.
The thermal cannons roared in unison, the shockwaves whistling through the air as they slammed into the Bone-Eaters.
Anakaris was no longer as powerless as he had been against the Bone-Eater in Xana; his Electronic Familiar swept over the Bone-Eater again and again.
The Strategist Array's analysis module continuously performs iterative analysis, which is then transmitted to the knights of the Malinax family via the communication array.
Anakaris is like a giant Cogitator, orchestrating the entire battlefield while simultaneously launching attacks on the enemy.
The fourth and fifth arms rose, Phase Plasma Beams and Conversion Beams shot out, bombarding the silver-white body along with the photon beams.
As the energy shield shattered, a barrage of bullets fired by the sixth-armed Rad-Eradicator struck the Brain-Eaters's body.
The Brain-Eaters's flesh and blood rapidly turned black and fell off, and the spreading radiation storm turned hundreds of Xenos in the vicinity into charred corpses.
Rumble!
The burning Bone-Eater fell like mountains, their scattered branches turning the area within hundreds of meters into a sea of fire, and thousands of Xenos were burned to ashes.
Anakaris received feedback from the Strategist Array's analysis module that he had lost fifteen Knight Mech.
Two more units than he had budgeted.
As the Strategist Array updated the combat data, the Electronic Familiars' piercing screech echoed through the ground with a rumbling sound.
Anakaris saw a dozen or so constructs rush out, and he immediately marked them with runes, assigning them to the Knights of Malinax.
His seventh and eighth arms rose, and Maxim Bolter and Rotary Gatling roared as they unleashed a barrage of bullets.
Eight arms equipped with ranged weapons launched a simultaneous attack on the worm-like body shrouded in a gray cloak.
Beams, phase rays, plasma melt flow...
A vast expanse of charred maggots covered the body of the Slaugth Destroyer.
Slaugth Destroyer bent over, dodging left and right, but still couldn't completely avoid the surging firestorm.
He raised the Necrotic Staff, from which a burst of emerald green light shot out.
Anakaris's physical arm simultaneously raised the Wodiah Scepter in his hand.
Ancient technological weapons have reappeared in the world, shining once again on the battlefield after ten thousand years.
Boom!
A series of explosions rang out, and the blinding light of the explosions engulfed everything on the battlefield.
The energy turbulence tore a Knight Mech, two Brain-Eaters, and hundreds of Xenos to pieces.
Anakaris strode toward the Slaugth Destroyer, his eight ranged weapons surging wildly.
The Necrotic Cloak melted into ashes, leaving a charred mark behind Slaugth.
Behind Anakaris, the ninth and tenth arms swung.
The Power Fist flashed with a blue light, and the Chainfist' motor hissed.
Slaugth's chest exploded, and his head was ripped apart.
Anakaris's last two arms moved, simultaneously inserting Melta Bomb and Rad Bomb into the exposed viscous fluid cavity.
With a loud bang, the maggots exploded.
The Slaugth Destroyer was blown to smithereens.