Chapter 229: 164th Chapter, The Death of the Military Governor (6k, please subscribe!)_2
But just as Matins was about to strike again, preparing to attempt to cut the Beastman Overlord in two from the chest down with his next blow, a tremendous force came from his waist.
Genie Kuangya kicked out, sending Matins flying.
His physical strength was so immense that his kick sent a fully-armed space marine flying several meters away, half-crashing to the ground.
At the same time, Kuangya twisted his body, trying to point the shoulder-mounted meltagun at Nicola Rizzo, who was currently being entangled by a nearby killing can.
If this shot hit its mark, the power of the meltagun would be enough to kill the high priest in a single blast.
However, this did not become a reality.
As he tried to aim, he suddenly found that his body was immovable. A mysterious force formed binding bands, making his movements sluggish.
He barely managed to pull the trigger of the meltagun, but it fired up into the air, blowing a huge hole in the ceiling and revealing the floor above.
At this moment, two distant space marines took action. Their plasma guns once again completed charging and shot toward the killing can entangling Rizzo.
The killing can did not have the resilience of their Overlord. Their armor was far from as thick as the Overlord’s, and as the plasma beams pierced through the armor, they experienced little attenuation. The flesh of Green Skins or “fart spirits” sewn into the killing cans had less sturdy foreheads and chests. After being shot through, their muscles couldn’t immediately contract to stop the bleeding, and the remaining organs had difficulty continuing to function.
With two shots, the killing can was finished, and Rizzo was freed.
Several Green Skin lads tried to come forward to block, but the human soldiers who charged up with the space marines bravely held their bayonets and clashed with them. Although they were quickly slaughtered, more soldiers continued to arrive. They even overturned these Green Skins, shooting bullets at point-blank range into their eyeballs and stabbing bayonets into their necks and heads.
The sacrifice of these warriors and their hard-won victories completely freed Rizzo once again.
He swung his hammer again, flipping a killing can that was trying to lift its autocannon to bomb the crowd at close range. The Gravity Scepter smashed its chest armor inward with great force.
Turning his head, the old priest looked at Genie Kuangya and raised the Gravity Scepter in his hand.
He mumbled words as he swung his weapon, and anyone listening closely would realize that it was content from the Emperor’s Holy Words Record. And this truly made him more resolute, further increasing the strength with which he wielded his weapon.
This hammer blow smashed fiercely against Kuangya’s chest, completely shattering the already chainsword-tattered chest plate, and might have possibly broken one or more of Kuangya’s ribs.
Immediately afterward, Matins followed up, his chainsword ready to chop down again.
“Roar!”
Facing death, the Green Skin Overlord let out a deafening roar!
A strange power burst forth from within him, first breaking through the force that was binding his body.
Gu Hang, who was hiding further away, let out a muffled groan as blood started oozing out of his mouth, nose, and ears.
Previously, using mental manipulation to make the Green Skin Overlord overlook the four space marines who were advancing with the infantry was certainly his doing. Thus, the Phoenix Squad got an excellent opportunity for a preemptive strike and managed to deal heavy damage to the Beastman Overlord.
Later, when Genie Kuangya finished dealing with the first wave of attacks and was attempting to resolve Rizzo with the shoulder-mounted meltagun, it was him again, using advanced telekinesis to halt Kuangya’s attack, causing the shot to go astray.
But doing all this came at a cost, and he felt enormous pressure. While performing mental manipulation, he could sense a mysterious power in the Overlord’s mind, keeping his brain in a state of frenzy yet still holding onto certain rationality. Disturbing such a brain was particularly challenging and took a lot of time.
It was for this reason that he had to delay the timing of the assault by the space marines, resulting in more lives of ordinary soldiers being lost at this crossroads.
While using his telekinesis to control Kuangya’s body, he felt as if he was wrestling with a tank—no, after leveling up and reaching twenty points in spiritual attributes, and mastering the more specialized advanced telekinesis, he even felt like he could flip over a Lion Tank in one go. But with Kuangya, he could barely limit his movements.
This was expected; to reach this level and provide support to the space marines was adequate.
Initially, when Rizzo and Matins produced excellent combat results at close range, and it seemed that the terrifyingly armored beast was about to be killed, there was still a slip up.
What was this force that exploded out?
It seemed similar to Spiritual Energy, yet it was furious, uncontrollable, filled with wonders…
Was this the so-called Waaagh energy, the Waaagh field?
A type of psychic power unique to the Green Skin Orcs, a power of pure belief, could their technology that functioned on the principle ‘if I reckon it’ll work, it actually works’ actually stem from this?