After dying once again, Li Qinwu chose not to revive aboard the Explorer, but aboard the Golden Road.
He was going to call in reinforcements and kill that Possessed Warrior.
After getting up, Li Qinwu went straight to the ship's barracks and found Little Knife.
"Bring your Fleet Iron Guard and come with me. It's time to test the results of your training!"
Fleet Iron Guard was Li Qinwu's name for units wearing heavy individual Power Armor over 2.5 meters tall. There were only a hundred of them now, all equipped with Modified XV8 Combat Suits.
To select pilots for these combat suits, Li Qinwu had held an army-wide selection process. From nearly eighty thousand good-for-nothings, he had picked the hundred with the highest mental power and had them don Modified XV8 Combat Suits for relentless day-and-night training.
This force, perhaps Li Qinwu's most elite unit, had been placed under Little Knife's command.
That was because Little Knife was one of the old hands most loyal to him. Back in the Lower Hive, the two of them had even lain atop a shipping container, shooting pigs with sniper rifles.
In the future, this unit would normally serve as the core anti-boarding force aboard the warship. Whenever they encountered a hard target, these men would be sent in too!
Little Knife immediately issued the order. The hundred Fleet Iron Guard pilots wore black nano combat suits, with a golden Imperial Aquila on their left chests and their identification numbers and names on their right chests.
With their hands behind their backs, chests thrust out, and heads held high, they stood in formation on the fitting deck, waiting for Li Qinwu's address.
Behind them stood a hundred modified, black-and-gold Modified XV8 Combat Suits.
These combat suits had undergone extensive modifications. Their armor