Fierce Battle in the Tomb

The massive explosion shook the entire tomb. Watching the falling rocks and dust from above, Chen Xi wasn't worried about the tomb collapsing, but rather that Ovilia would awaken more Necrons.

He hadn't explored the full extent of this tomb, but just this stasis chamber alone contained fifty Necron Warriors. This made it hard for Chen Xi not to worry about how dangerous the tomb was.

After all, if those fifty Necron Warriors were awakened, the people he had with him now wouldn't be able to stop them.

Neither their Gauss Weapons nor their regenerating bodies made of Living Metal were something Chen Xi's squad of Sisters of Battle could handle.

Fighting them head-on here would only lead to total annihilation.

So, even though the Sisters of Battle squad had destroyed two Canoptek Spiders, Chen Xi still urged Ovilia, "Pack up anything important you can carry, we're leaving!"

Although, based on the current situation, their actions didn't seem to have awakened the Necrons in the tomb, he decided to retreat to avoid any unforeseen complications.

"No! Give me a little more time!" Ovilia wailed.

The Magos was currently lying on the ground in an unseemly manner, obsessively staring at the intricate mechanical structures beneath the blasted floor of the stasis chamber, trying to figure out how they had been operating for sixty million years.

But Chen Xi didn't indulge her at all. While having the Sisters of Battle prepare to retreat, he coldly said, "If you don't leave, I'll have to leave you here."

"One hour! Just one more hour! I've already sent the Servitors from the mine down here, they can take more things away!" Ovilia didn't care about much at this point. She even forcibly controlled the mining Servitors from the mine above through viruses and commands, regardless of whether they were suitable, and had them come down to move everything they could.

"I'm afraid there isn't an hour. I'll give you five minutes at most," Chen Xi urged, constantly looking at both ends of the passage, wary of any Necrons that might appear.

"No, how can I move everything in five minutes! I need at least fifty minutes!" Ovilia haggled with Chen Xi while using her mechanical arms to help her dismantle the things she thought were important.

However, Chen Xi didn't argue with her, but continued to urge, "We have to leave. The explosion just now may have already activated the tomb's defense system. I don't want to be drowned by countless undead machines!"

"No, no, no! Just give me half an hour, and I can completely dismantle this stasis chamber! With this, I can replicate this stasis technology! It's even enough to support a Forge World! You have to help me!" Ovilia pleaded like a bleeding cuckoo, without any of the pride of a Tech-priest.

Ovilia felt like an adventurer who had fallen into a treasure vault full of gold mountains but was told they could only take one gold coin. The technology contained in this Necron tomb was simply beyond her imagination.

Just this blasted stasis chamber was enough for her to study for a hundred years, and even earn the title of Fabricator Locum and become a High Sage!

If she could obtain the title of Fabricator Locum and become a High Sage, she would be able to return to the Forge World and use it as a base to take revenge on the Forge Master who exiled her, and take back everything that was hers!

"We don't have half an hour, we have to leave now." Although Ovilia's appearance was very sympathetic, and Chen Xi hoped to give her more time to scavenge the place, as the runes on the tomb walls gradually lit up, Chen Xi knew they really had to go. "The tomb's defense mechanisms have been awakened. If we don't leave, we're all going to die here!"

With that, Chen Xi reached out to pull Ovilia away.

He really didn't have the leeway to wait for Ovilia to get up and leave on her own.

As for waiting for a Tech-priest to give up the alien technology within reach, stand up, and know when to quit?

Forget it, impossible.

At this time, the Servitors she had summoned had also arrived here, wielding the mining equipment originally used to mine Blackstone, cutting and disassembling the stasis chamber, looking like they really intended to dismantle the entire chamber.

The arrival of these Servitors immediately dispelled Chen Xi's possibility of forcibly taking Ovilia away.

Seeing this, Chen Xi could only take a step back and said, "Magos Ovilia, you have fifteen minutes to dismantle what you think is important. We can't take everything away! You need to face reality!"

"Twenty minutes! Twenty minutes! This is my final bottom line!" Ovilia shouted, and then assured Chen Xi, "As long as you help me secure twenty minutes, I can provide you with the equipment for an Astra Militarum light infantry regiment!"

"One thousand sets of Sisters of Battle equipment!" Chen Xi decisively bargained.

"Deal!" Ovilia decisively accepted Chen Xi's price.

Chen Xi's teeth ached when he heard how decisive she was. He had asked for too little.

However, being able to get a thousand sets of Sisters of Battle equipment was worth the price for him, so he could only say with a bit of helplessness, "Twenty minutes, I won't wait a second longer! Also, have your Combat Servitors come and help with the defense!"

With that, he divided the Sisters of Battle squad into two groups of five, positioned on either side of the passage, defending against any enemies that might appear.

Ovilia didn't say much at this time, having the Servitors speed up the dismantling and moving of various items, while also handing over all the Combat Servitors she had brought to Chen Xi.

Twenty minutes passed in the blink of an eye. The Necron tomb's defense mechanisms also reacted to Chen Xi and their destructive behavior. An ambush by three Tomb Spyders resulted in the death of one Sister of Battle on the spot, and Ovilia's Combat Servitors were almost completely lost.

This kind of Canoptek construct that could phase-shift and move through walls launched attacks directly from the walls and underground, making it really difficult to defend against.

Chen Xi himself was almost hit by a hyperdimensional beam cannon. If the Rosarius hadn't activated its shield in time to block the attack, Chen Xi felt he would have lost at least an arm.

However, after he slashed off the tail of one Tomb Spyder and blew the head off another with a Plasma Pistol, Ovilia finally completed her work and timely supported Chen Xi, shooting the other Tomb Spyder in the wall.

Watching the Tomb Spyder with its tail cut off being blown up by the Bolters of two Sisters of Battle, Chen Xi then looked at Ovilia, "You better be ready to leave!"

"Of course, but I suggest taking these two constructs with us." Ovilia looked at the two destroyed Tomb Spyders, not letting go of this harvest.