Soul Drinkers 2 - The Bleeding Chalice by Warhammer

Author:Warhammer [Warhammer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Telleryev spat a word from his homeworld that Thaddeus assumed was profane, then flicked his

hellgun onto full power and sent a bright lance of laser into the body of a servitor drifting ominously

over to flank them. Thaddeus took aim with his pistol and loosed off three shots, the microcogitators

in the rare executioner rounds sending the bullets curving as they flew, punching into the servitor

with mechanical accuracy.

The servitor juddered and listed suddenly as one of its grav units burst in a shower of sparks—

Thaddeus sighted down the barrel at the bundle of sensors that made up its head and pumped the rest

of the autogun’s ten-round magazine into it. Like swift metal insects the rounds looped towards their

target and shattered the servitor’s metal face, sending arcs of electricity spitting from the broken

machinery and exposing the biological core of the machine, the part that had once been human.

Without anything to guide it, the servitor yawed aimlessly, exposing the underbelly to which its

jointed limbs were attached. The other storm trooper swung the barrel of his grenade launcher

around and fired a single frag grenade into the servitor’s belly, ripping it clean open and spilling

machine parts and pulped flesh down towards the lake.

The grenade trooper allowed himself a grim smile of triumph as he racked another round into his

weapon.

“Get us to Kindarek!” shouted Thaddeus. Telleryev nodded and the two men broke cover at a

run. The grenade trooper waved them forward, pumping a volley of grenades into the walkways

above them to send hot shrapnel bursting through the air and momentarily blinding the servitors as

Thaddeus and Telleryev ran.

Kindarek was trying to organise a strongpoint around a couple of sculptures and a length of

walkway that had fallen down from above, with seven or eight troopers keeping up fields of fire and

preventing the servitors from surrounding them. There were still a dozen of the machines left,

spraying multilaser fire across the width of the cylinder—but they were avoiding blasting directly at

the sculptures, and so they had to close to use their power saws while keeping the walkways

between clear. Kindarek was trying to punish the servitors that drifted towards them and, though he

would probably not succeed, he was at least buying time.

Thaddeus reached Kindarek’s position, Telleryev beside him.

“We need to get men upwards,” voxed Thaddeus breathlessly. “We have to get a link set up.”

Kindarek paused as his soldier’s mind rifled through the possibilities—stay here with at least

some cover and a plan, or throw men through the gauntlet in an attempt to drag some information

screaming from the cathedral’s archives.

“We’re dead here anyway,” he replied. Then, on the squad frequency—“Suppression fire and

break cover! Head for the upper walkways and concentrate fire. “Move, move!”

Thaddeus slipped a single shell from one of his waist pouches into the breech of the autopistol.

A single heavy shell, it was more expensive than many spaceships and a handful of them had cost

Thaddeus a lot of favours. Now, he was immensely grateful he had shown the prescience to have

brought them along.

Thaddeus ran alongside the storm troopers and fired once at a servitor turning to spray fire at

them.

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