The steel corridor was dark and deep.
Rivets from an unknown number of years ago were neatly arranged before his eyes, and they flew past his ears as he moved at high speed.
This was the only thing Lucius could see when he set foot in this place.
Perhaps under the squeeze of the huge steel facilities on the surface of the Ural Mountains, the training ground left for Kasjia and his team was not large.
But in the underground world hidden beneath this towering forge, there was almost endless space for everyone to compete.
Given the close relationship between the Third Legion, the Iron Hands, and the Mechanicum, and the fact that the machines developed by Kasjia had proven themselves in actual combat...
...therefore, when Kasjia proposed to borrow the underground experimental site, the Mechanicum had handed it over to the Emperor's Children with an almost fawning written tone.
It was hard to imagine to what extent humanity in the Age of Strife had advanced their technology.
The dark corridor finally came to an end.
Following the faint light, he looked out. Apart from the silver-white steel dome above, which was paved with an almost free-like abundance of material, this place looked no different from the surface environment.
And only the blackened blast marks on the hundred-meter-high dome quietly revealed the opponents they had once faced.
It was hard to imagine what kind of terrifying mechanical beast's testing ground this place had once been.
Lucius squatted down and stroked the half-man-high vegetation on the ground, signaling for the five Chemosian new recruits behind him to complete their tactical deployment.
One of the squad members nodded, and his fingers gently pressed the pale purple mechanical backpack behind him, from which he took out a dozen or so folded black machines and fully extended them.
They unfolded their slender mechanical limbs like spiders, and then, under the control of the Techmarine's neural interface, they scouted out in all directions.
Mechanical spiders.
A self-developed machine that Kasjia had used in the previous boarding battle.
Perhaps the nickname The Spider was more suitable for this guy Kasjia, who liked to tinker with new and strange little inventions, than for Melusine.
The operating principle of the mechanical spiders was also very simple. Apart from the control equipment, it was just an auspex for detection mounted on top.
An auspex, a common detection device used by the Imperium of Man, which can analyze various data based on short-range detection to determine the composition of nearby materials.
(There are even four thieving bastards who use it to download games.)
The measurement results are basically accurate without psionic interference, but the drawback is its range.
It's really too short.
50m.
That's right. Official data, it's really only fifty meters.
Even the worst auto-rifle has a firing range of about four hundred meters, and you're detecting at 50m...
Seriously, apart from boarding actions or street fighting and other complex terrain environments, this thing is extremely useless.
Even after Kasjia had modified it, and sacrificed some accuracy, the detection range was only a few hundred meters.
But what if there was an auspex every few hundred meters on the battlefield, and a machine integrated their data...
...this was the principle of the mechanical spiders and the detection-type automated aerial servitors.
As new recruits of the Emperor's Children from Chemos, their selection method was different from the nobles of Terran descent.
They were all selected from the military academies of several large cities on Chemos, based on their academic performance.
Except for Lucius, this reckless fool who was bad at everything but fighting.
Therefore, in terms of military quality, their philosophy was also closer to Kasjia's intelligence-first strategy.
"14 degrees north of due west, at a position of about 1830m, one or two discrete signals have been found."
"Good, he's the one."
"Go!"
Lucius grinned and activated his optical camouflage device.
In an instant, the six huge, purple-and-gold giants vanished without a trace.
Saul Tarvitz!
It's him!
As he got closer to the other party, the joy in Lucius's heart grew stronger.
Alright, I've finally got you this time!
It was one thing that I couldn't beat you in a duel before, but this time, I've brought people with me!
Slowly approaching from the other's blind spot, Lucius gestured for his surrounding team members to complete the encirclement.
Looking at him, he was still aimlessly adjusting the electronic screen in his hand, seemingly also trying to detect them.
But unfortunately, judging by the anxiety on Tarvitz's face, he had clearly found nothing.
Lucius could almost see how terrified and ugly his face would be when he and his teammates all attacked him at once.
A little closer... just a little closer... almost there...
Now!
SHING!
In an instant, Lucius drew the dueling sword beside him, which was smeared with red paint, and charged with the other five teammates who had surrounded Tarvitz!
Bolters and blades loaded with paint came at Tarvitz from all directions at that moment.
Lucius showed a triumphant smile.
A sneak attack!
Even if it wasn't very glorious, it was a win.
This was a righteous gang beatdown.
But unfortunately, Lucius had gotten one thing wrong:
It seemed that he was the one being ganged up on.
The moment he jumped up, what he saw was not the expected terror on the other's face, but a triumphant expression that was not quite a smile.
CLANG!
As if he had long anticipated that he would launch a sneak attack, Tarvitz held his saber horizontally, and with his left hand, he slapped the back of the blade, pushing him away in the clash of weapons.
Not good!
Realizing that something might be wrong, Lucius immediately glanced around with his peripheral vision.
He saw more Terran opponents revealing themselves from their hiding places.
PAPAPAPA!
Countless rounds loaded with red paint hit him, turning his face bright red.
Lucius, OUT!
But he was still very unconvinced.
That kid Tarvitz looked honest, but when it came to using schemes, he was a real master.
But no need to worry too much!
Although he had fallen for the cunning enemy's plot, the other Chemosians would see through their tricks.
That's what Lucius thought.
And then, in the elimination zone, he met another red-faced person in the same predicament as himself.
Lucius recognized him.
Graitan Thorn.
A formidable Chemosian swordsman who had fought him several times.
His face covered in red paint, he looked at Lucius, who was in the same situation, and showed a bitter smile.
"First time?"
The simulated battle ended quickly.
By transmitting false signal information to the other side, the Terran new recruits had successfully lured the Chemosian new recruits into a fire encirclement one by one, and annihilated them individually.
"Lucius, you guys rely too much on the equipment at hand, to the point that you've lost the ability to think flexibly."
Kasjia looked at the bunch of red-faced guys below and shook his head with a smile.
In war, there may be surefire tactics.
But if you fall into dogmatic thinking, thinking that you can win just by having mechanical spiders to scout the way, that is also extremely ridiculous.
"Next, I will join the Chemosian team to command, and we will fight back and forth like this."
"Until one day, you defeat me with your own ideas. That will be about the time you can fight against the veterans under Eidolon."
"Now, one Terran hour of rest to clean your armor, reflect on the lessons of failure, and summarize the reasons for success."
"And then, we fight again!"
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