Chapter 400 Raptor VS Soaring Eagle
Lukovus squatted on the broken battlements and looked at the sky.
He could hear his brothers eating the Eldar corpses behind him, but he took no part in it himself.
He had eaten their flesh before and did not force himself to repeat the experience because their blood was thin and sour and their skin was not as salty as human flesh.
The leader of the Weeping Eye was unsure where these Eldar came from, and although he kept vigil to the sky and refused to go underground, he saw no sign of any alien landing craft.
Yet they kept appearing, here and there, moving behind crumbling walls or appearing on fallen spires.
The prison fortress stretched for several kilometers in all directions, and he knew his birds of prey could not cover all the ground on their own, although he drove them hard to try to do so.
What confused him most was that the aliens didn't seem to send out the numbers he expected. They originally had enough ships to deploy an army on the ground.
Instead, he witnessed Eldar squads entering the prison and massacring the hapless criminals and Imperial jailers.
So he was meditating, the thrusters on his back whining sympathetically.
Suddenly, a bloody eye looked up from its meal, and the raptor breathed slowly, sucking in unhealthy air through its mouth grille and taking another puff of mist.
“I saw something.”
The bloody eye said.
“More Eldar?”
Lukovus stopped thinking and turned to ask.
"A shadow within another shadow, there."
The bloody eye pointed at the protruding part of a dilapidated stone building.
"...There seem to be a lot of things."
Lukovus turned his head and looked, and immediately felt that his throat was so painful that it seemed to split.
An Eldar was kneeling on a wall 200 meters away, holding a crescent-shaped sword in one hand, with huge eagle wings rising in an arc from his shoulder blades.
Along with the wails that filled the sky, four more winged figures appeared there, each squatting on the top of a broken tower or wall.
"Weeping Eyes."
Lukovus whispered to his relatives.
“Finally, I found some prey worth hunting.”
In the warrior way of the Eldar, there is a special branch called the Eagle. Emphasis on highly mobile warriors, representing the hunting birds of ancient Ada legend.
The ancient Ada people believed that the souls of murdered Ada people would enter the eagle and hover over the killer's head, so the eagle became a symbol of judgment for crimes.
The Soaring Eagle warriors are equipped with complex flying wing equipment to allow them to enter the winning point of the battlefield and provide fire support. Their flying wings are composed of vibrating feather discs and small anti-gravity suspensions connected together. Equipment composition. They were flying so fast that they looked like a blur of color.
Like the Wailing Banshees, the Soaring Eagles sacrifice defense for mobility, their armor only protecting against minor damage.
The Soaring Eagles' weapons are mainly high-rate pulse laser guns, which make them good at dealing with light infantry. It is also worth noting that they are also equipped with cleverly designed grenade launchers fixed on their legs. , allowing him to bomb enemies while flying.
In addition, they will also be equipped with wire grenades (a grenade used to disable electronic equipment and energy systems) to paralyze vehicles.
Faced with the provocation of the raptors, the eagles responded with screams for screams and blades with blades.
The Eye of Weeping Blood rushed into the air on the roaring propeller, and as it chased its prey, the sky was filled with dirty exhaust gas.
The Eldar, clad in azure battle armor, responded to the hateful screams with a battle cry of their own - each a shrill cry of contempt.
It was an ugly fight.
The Eldar fled first, followed closely by the raptors.
Most of the aliens are armed with slender, tapered laser rifles that fire radiant energy.
They needed some distance to use them, and the raptors fired back with short-range bolt pistols in the sky, their desperate wails of crashing and slashing filling the sky.
The first one to fall from the sky was the raptor Zeke.
Lukefus heard the sounds of death—a choking gargle and throat cracking from bloody lungs, followed by the corkscrew sound of an engine stalling. Seeing Zeke's body falling on the uneven ground, Lukovos felt his tongue hurt and his mouth was filled with fishy smell.
Lukovus had been with him through many twisted years since the first night of the Siege of Terra.
Seeing such a noble soul being hurt by the alien's filth made him angry and spitting.
The Eldar leaned back, her eagle wings vibrating to the rhythm of the melody - she flipped through the air, swooping with the true grace of a bird of prey.
Lukefus followed her, his engine roaring, the smoke he exhaled contrasting with the other's glide.
Every time, what he cut with his claws was nothing more than air, while the strange bitch jumped to avoid it and flew with its waist hunched over.
"Damn it!"
The raptor let out a scream of frustration that he could no longer suppress.
Either the tilt of her crested helm ruptured her eardrums, for she ignored it entirely, and the Eldar flew higher, spinning in the air, blade trailing a cloud of electric fire.
Lukovus of the Weeping Eye chased her, his long tusks screaming like engines of protest.
Finally, Lukovus caught him with a sudden change of speed, grabbing the alien's wings from behind.
Claws split open the alien forged material, and with another cry, she twisted her body in the air, picked up her sword and tried to fight back against the raptor.
Lucofus dodged her sword, his free hand tore off her helmet, grabbed her by the throat, and held her high in his arms.
Another precious second passed.
"Good night, my dear."
He said to her face, licking her blood-stained face with his barbed tongue under the alien girl's disgusted gaze.
Lucofus then laughed and let her go, letting her fall from the sky, becoming a mirror of Zeke's ignominious death.
When the alien's body fell to the ground, Lukovus also fell heavily to the ground.
He walked up to her and noticed blood seeping from several of her armor joints, and then the raptor rolled the eagle's body with its talons.
Her slanted eyes, lifeless as sapphires, stared upward into the gray sky.
Lucofus noticed that she wore a smooth red gemstone on her breast, which he had heard the raptors of the Emperor's Children call the "Soul Stone."
Then he tore the gem from the Eldar's armor and swallowed it whole.
Lukovus hoped that her immortal soul would enjoy its fate and live forever in his intestines.
At this time, there was only a bang, and a heavy object fell behind Lukofus.
He turned around and found that the raptors fell from the sky one after another, blood spraying into the sky.
Lukovus realized that something had destroyed them.
"Soul Hunter."
Lukovus opened the communicator. Due to the distortion of the distance, the prophet's voice was defective.
“I hear you, Lukovos.”
“The Eyes of Blood are dead, and I am the last.”
He heard Talos forcefully He snorted.
"I'm sorry to hear that, brother, will you come down with us?"
The raptor raised his head, dark clouds gathered above his head - he could feel something approaching him quickly.
"No, I can't leave for the time being. Something is coming. Talos, take care of yourself."
(End of this chapter)
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