Astartes: The Red Tide
Chapter 384

Fighting until Nothing Was Left

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Kor'sarro's craft gradually fell at a disadvantage. Inside the vast hollow sphere, more and more Boyz carrying cannons clambered out of the heaps of rubbish littering its inner walls.

The White Scars gunships struggled to fend off attacks from every direction, especially from the enormous, Titan-class enemy before them.

The cannons on the Kyzagan assault craft and Land Speeders lacked the power to breach Boomblasta's defenses.

Boomblasta looked huge and cumbersome, but he actually moved far faster than the Imperium's ponderous Titans. Something was wrong with this Stompa.

During one exchange, the Death Ascension Cannon locked onto a gunship. Graviton Weapons held it in place from afar. Its machine spirit raged, and its engines maintained an overloaded output as they tried to break through the gravitational restraint.

Vast clouds of black smoke poured from the Stompa's back. It looked like an engine overload, but in truth, Boomblasta was delighted and was pouring immense amounts of energy into the Grav-cannon.

Gravity warped the trajectories of shells, while bullets streaked around the gunship. Compared with what came next, that was hardly frightening.

The gunship drew closer to the Stompa inch by inch. Boomblasta raised his powerful, mountain-cleaving Power Fist. The earlier explosion had not stripped it clean, and fragments of the larger mech still clung to it. The gigantic fist, dozens of meters across, swung at the gunship.

At that very moment, aboard another gunship, a massive Melta Bomb occupied much of the passenger compartment. Two Terminators were working together to push it out.

After a single low-level strafing pass, the bomb was dropped into a gap in Boomblasta's back. A violent explosion blasted a cylindrical hole of death through it.

A Librarian and several heavily armored warriors activated their Flight Modules, leaped onto Boomblasta's back, and fought their way through the

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