The Emperor’s Angel of Death

“He's really improved, Huron even has this trick up his sleeve.”

After the white noise covered the fleet communication network, Saul Targh summoned Dietrian and confirmed that the other party was using a device similar to "Scream," but with more power and a wider range, only it didn't distinguish between friend and foe.

In fact, Scream was not Dietrian's original creation. In a sense, it was the Red Corsairs who came up with it first. This dates back to when Talos and his warband seized the Cursed Echo from the Red Corsairs. Dietrian discovered this unfinished experimental device on the Cursed Echo, most likely a product being researched by some dimensional ironworker. With the spirit of "seizing and using," Dietrian took over the other party's research and continued to push it forward, eventually creating Scream.

So many years have passed, it's not surprising that the Red Corsairs have come up with another set, but Saul Targh suspects that it was provided by the mysterious force supporting Huron.

Sitting on the throne, Saul Targh surveyed the movements of the battlefield. Although fleet communication was interfered with, the Imperial Fleet had a very high level of discipline. Everyone was still able to maintain the previous combat plan and there was no chaos. On the contrary, after the Red Corsairs' communication was interfered with, their entire formation almost collapsed.

However, this also led to another problem: it became easier to defeat Huron, but it became more difficult to annihilate him. If Huron chose to break through at this time, it was very likely that the Imperial Fleet would not be able to stop him due to poor command.

Fortunately, Huron had not yet made this choice, because he was still waiting, waiting for his savior to arrive.

The most urgent task was to solve the communication interference so that Saul Targh could mobilize the fleet to encircle Huron. He also needed to contact the troops on other battlefields in time and allow Huron to temporarily "rest assured" and wait for the arrival of the Black Stone Fortress.

After various analyses, Dietrian judged that the device was on the derelict ship, and the best way to destroy it was to board it.

If it were before, it would be extremely difficult to launch a boarding operation while Huron's fleet maintained a close formation around the derelict ship. But now, Huron's fleet had dispersed, and most of the ships were a considerable distance from the Death Epitome. And the most crucial thing was that the Grey Knights and Red Hunters had arrived on the battlefield.

Although their communication was also interfered with, they had more powerful psykers who could directly use psychic communication to contact Saul Targh's flagship.

So Saul Targh decisively formulated a plan: the Red Hunters' fleet would disperse the Red Corsair ships around the Death Epitome, and then the Grey Knights and the Astral Knights would jointly launch a boarding operation against the Death Epitome, and this operation would be led by him personally!

“Eternal Loyalty and Unbound Soul, rapidly approach the enemy space hulk. First Company, Second Company, Third Company, Sixth Company, Tenth Company, Eleventh Company, and the First and Second Combat Robot Battalions, as well as the Special Combat Robot Squad, enter the landing zone to prepare. Armory, awaken Dreadnought Brothers Marinarldo, Sheil, and Tamreyes.”

Since the Eternal Loyalty and the Unbound Soul were close, Saul Targh's instructions could be directly conveyed by aircraft. Soon, the two battleships turned towards the space hulk, firing at full power while approaching at high speed. At the same time, the two strike cruisers of the Grey Knights also pierced towards the fallen heart like two silver blades.

Before boarding, the Eternal Loyalty also used its bow's Rift Cannon to fire at the Death Epitome, tearing open a large area on the front of the ship.

After handing over the command post of the flagship to Fourth Company Captain Losar, Saul Targh boarded a Stormbird with the command staff, while Amnak stayed on the ship. After all, the Grey Knights were involved in this operation, and as a "former demon," he might be sniffed out. On the other hand, there had to be a master on the flagship to prevent any accidents.

However, just as Saul Targh launched the boarding operation against the Death Epitome, some accidents occurred, or rather, the subsequent effects of Huron's communication blockade began to ferment.

The Mantis Warriors, unable to use fleet communications, saw Saul Targh leading the flagship to launch an assault on the space hulk and decided to launch an offensive against Huron's flagship on their own. Their idea was to cover Saul Targh's actions while trying to kill Huron in one blow. This would not only end the operation quickly, but also win the most glorious honor of this battle—with this honor, perhaps they could clear the dust of their past glory.

However, while the Mantis Warriors were acting, some people also noticed this. More than one chapter was eager to take Huron's head. The Flesh Tearers' formation quickly broke away from the formation and, through manual messaging, united with the Lamenters and the Crimson Blades to also launch an assault towards Huron's location.

The independent actions of several chapters caused the Imperial Fleet's main force to begin to disintegrate. The formations composed of the White Templars and Black Templars in the distance did not know what was happening and continued to bombard the Red Corsair formation according to the original plan. The Minotaurs, on the other hand, seemed to have gone completely mad, continuously occupying several Red Corsair battleships through group boarding operations.

But Saul Targh had no way of knowing all of this.

Due to the close-range shot from the Eternal Loyalty, the defensive firepower on the front of the Death Epitome directly evaporated a piece, so the boarding troops crossed the void and plunged into the derelict ship with almost no attack.

When the Stormbird landed with the roar of its engines, the twin-linked lascannons and twin-linked heavy bolters on its turrets emitted an even more shocking roar.

Although the resistance outside the derelict ship had been wiped out, the enemy had been waiting inside for a long time.

Toru Sute, a former World Eater and now a Red Corsair, had served Huron for decades. He had long abandoned the so-called Legion honor and past "qualifications," and firmly believed that the lord of the Maelstrom would bring them back the lost glory.

As Huron's core force, he belonged to one of the four masts, leading a powerful Khorne warband of two hundred people, and still followed the organizational methods of the past era. When the Imperials chose to invade, they, who had been waiting to go crazy in the derelict ship, finally found an opportunity to vent their blood and anger.

So Toru Sute was almost the first warband leader to arrive at the enemy's boarding location. At this time, he had become blind, not only because of the sweat and stinging smoke, but also because of the Butcher's Nails ticking in his skull.

This blind, brutal symptom would be bestowed by Khorne in battle. Not only him, but all the members of his warband had the Butcher's Nails implanted. Their lips and teeth were now stained crimson with their own blood, which freed them from mortal worries, even from the need for sight, hearing, and smell. Everything was a blur of anger, shining with the cold light of metal.

He felt a large pile of bodies in front of him, very many, all of them blood and unbaptized skulls waiting to be slaughtered and harvested.