The ice plain trembled, and the millennia-old frost cracked amidst the roar of steel and thunder.
Huge cracks, like lightning, burst open under the iron hooves of the Imperial Knights, and splattering ice crystals refracted dazzling cold light in the sunlight. The Imperial Knights' charge was like a scorching power sword, piercing into the surging green tide with an unstoppable force.
Every knight titans transformed into a burning soul of vengeance, carving wild trajectories across the battlefield.
Ion shields flickered violently in the rain of Ork bullets, each energy ripple accompanied by the painful roar of the machine spirit within the cockpit.
The shriek of overloaded shields rose and fell, intertwining with the roaring battle cries of the Imperial Knights to form a symphony of death.
One Imperial Knight's shield collapsed under continuous bombardment, but it still staggered forward, charging.
Every roar of its Meltagun tore through the air, and the searing white energy torrent vaporized swathes of greenskins.
The smell of burning instantly condensed in the extreme cold, transforming into green ice crystals scattering everywhere, shooting out like blades in the impact wave of explosions.
"For the Emperor!" The Imperial Knight leading the charge let out a heart-wrenching roar over the comms channel.
This war cry ignited the fury of all the Imperial Knights; their machine spirits roared deafeningly in resonance, even shaking the steel framework of the cockpits.
The Imperial Knights no longer maintained formation but transformed into burning lightning bolts, pouncing on the enemy with the most savage ferocity.
The hydraulic joints of the knight titans wailed with metallic distortion in the extreme cold, and overloaded servo systems spewed hot steam.
Ion shields flickered on and off in the sub-zero temperatures, like the last gasps of a dying warrior, but this did not hinder their advance in the slightest.
Sparks flew from the leg joint of one Imperial Knight; it knelt on one knee but continued to bombard with its Meltagun.
The Warboss on the Oklin Dragon's back let out a deafening laugh, and with a sweep of its thick arm, dozens of "Super-Big Shootas" simultaneously spat out destructive fire.
These crudely made giant cannons fired burning metal fragments, tracing deadly trajectories through the air.
In the rain of shells, one Imperial Knight was directly hit.
Its ion shield collapsed in a blinding arc, and its adamantium armor twisted and deformed under subsequent artillery fire.
Hot hydraulic fluid gushed from ruptured lines, steaming into a foul-smelling green mist on the snow.
But the Imperial Knight did not fall; it dragged its broken body forward, its Chainsword still burning in its hand.
The other Imperial Knights charged with even greater ferocity, like wounded beasts.
The teeth of the Chainsword sparked brilliantly as they tore through enemy armor, and every swing of the power claw sent metal fragments flying everywhere.
When the Ork war machine, cut in half, exploded, the impact wave instantly vaporized the surrounding snow, forming a brief steam storm.
The knight titans's feet crushed the battlefield, each step accompanied by the immense sound of twisting metal and the screams of Ork Boyz.
What splattered was not blood and mud, but green ice shards instantly frozen by the extreme cold.
Just as the greenskins were frantically assaulting the knight titans, the 7th Armored Regiment's leman russ Destroyers suddenly burst out from the flank of the ice-cracked valley.
The tracks of these steel behemoths crushed the ancient permafrost, and the black smoke from their engines trailed long behind them in the cold wind.
The electronic hum of gun calibration was completely drowned out by the roar of the engines, as the main cannons of over twenty leman russ simultaneously spat out deadly fire.
The volley of armor-piercing shells was like the scythe of Death, precisely striking the Oklin Dragon's left leg joint.
When the first wave of shells hit, dazzling sparks erupted from the rusted armor plates.
Multiple tungsten-core armor-piercing shells successively hit the same spot, carving spiderweb-like cracks in the heavy armor.
With a piercing shriek of tearing metal, the giant beast's leg armor plate finally gave way under the immense pressure, exploding like shattered glass, exposing the writhing muscle bundles and thick, cable-like tendons within.
Foul-smelling green blood gushed from the wound, instantly solidifying into sharp blood crystals in the extreme cold.
The Oklin Dragon let out a deafening roar of pain; the intense agony caused the massive creature to completely lose its balance, and it stumbled, kneeling on the ice, sending shattered ice sweeping around like shrapnel.
Dozens of Ork Boyz, unable to dodge in time, were riddled with holes by the splattering ice crystals, their severed limbs tracing crimson arcs in the air.
"Well done!" The armored company commander excitedly slammed his fist against the inside of the turret, making the targeting scope hum.
He saw the target fall through the oil-splattered observation window and immediately roared into the comms: "Load meltagun shells! Aim for that bastard on its back!"
But the cunning Warboss had already leaped off the giant beast.
Its rivet-studded steel boots sparked on the ice, and its power claw tore open the armor of a scout vehicle the moment it landed.
It used its power claw to stab into the ice to steady itself, and the arc-enveloped metal claws plowed three scorched furrows in the permafrost.
The combined big shoota on its right arm hummed with overload, and a dozen gun barrels simultaneously rotated, spitting out death.
Three Chimera armored vehicles exploded in a burst of overloaded green beams, the blazing fireballs illuminating the entire snowfield.
Melting metal fragments and debris scattered everywhere, leaving scorched marks on the pristine white snow.
And at this moment, the War Master-Class Titan stationed at the defensive line let out a deafening war horn—the Divine Machine enters the fray!
Heavy steel feet left deep scorch marks on the ice plain, and the melting snow vaporized into white mist beneath the forty-meter-tall Titan.
Its shoulder missile pods suddenly opened, and twenty-four armor-piercing missiles whistled skyward, their exhaust trails carving fiery red trajectories in the dim sky, like meteors tearing through the heavens.
The impact wave of the explosion blew off large sections of the giant beast's dorsal armor, revealing the knotted flesh and stark white bones beneath.
The Oklin Dragon let out a painful roar, struggling to get up, but its head was held firmly by the Titan's left arm's Plasma Annihilator—
"In the Emperor's name, exterminate."
A blinding torrent of plasma poured into the giant beast's eye socket; superheated plasma raged within its cranial cavity. The Oklin Dragon's body convulsed violently, and a molten-like red glow emanated from beneath its skin.
The next second, its body exploded with a roar, acidic blood splattering, then solidifying into emerald green ice crystals in the cold wind.
The surrounding Orks, witnessing the giant beast fall, let out desperate wails; some scattered and fled, others charged madly.
But their struggles were meaningless—the Titan's right arm's psychic cannon roared again, and the Warp rift's suction swept across the battlefield, dragging both the Orks and the giant beast's remains into it.
When the light faded, only scorched marks remained on the snow.
In the smoke, the dismounted Warboss tore open the cockpit of a Sentinel walker with its power claw.
A cunning glint flashed in its single eye; it grabbed two Ork corpses and hurled them at the pursuing Imperial Knights, then leaped into an ice crevice under the cover of the explosion.
"Pursue!" A Dominus Imperial Knight had just given the order when Alex's cold command came through the comms channel: "Abandon pursuit, all units immediately withdraw to the ruins defense line!"
On the holographic sand table, more red dots were emerging from beneath the ice.
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