The Emperor’s Angel of Death

“Now is the time! For the Emperor! For those fallen people!”

Malakim roared excitedly, the deck beneath his feet trembling, and he felt a rush of dry heat throughout his body.

At the same time, the Hive Mind reacted as quickly as possible, forming a tight barrier with smaller bio-ships to block the firepower of the human ships, while trying to extract the larger bio-ships from the influence of the gravity well. In fact, Tyranid bio-ships have organs that can counteract the effects of gravity, but these organs consume a lot of biomass when operating, so they generally choose to slowly disengage from the planetary gravity well unless absolutely necessary, but this time the human Imperial ships arrived too quickly.

It just takes time to start the organs, and it takes time to extract them after they are started, because the large bio-ships are clustered in the low orbit of the planet, trying to absorb the feast below, and it is impossible to quickly disengage from the huge capillary connections for a while.

Just as the Tyranid Hive Fleet fell into a brief chaos, a series of torpedoes struck the small bio-ships, and the resulting metal storm instantly created a death zone stretching hundreds of thousands of kilometers in orbit.

This time Malakim didn't plan to attack from a distance, because the Tyranid Hive Ship was too large. With the firepower of the core fleet, he had no confidence that he could destroy it. The only way was to get close and send it away with vortex torpedoes or some other destructive weapon, and to do this, he had to break through its escort screen.

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Malakim was not going to gamble with other people's things, because he himself was not sure of winning, so this task would be carried out by the *Mother of Tears* and the *Daughter of the Storm*, two battle barges belonging to the Lamenters.

Even if he failed, Sotha would have returned to the fleet by then, and he could still complete the battle with the fleet forces at his disposal.

This was not recklessness, but revenge. Malakim wanted to avenge those battle-brothers who had fallen into the Tyranid maw!

"*Daughter of the Storm*! Prepare to attack immediately!"

Faced with the surging firepower of the human fleet, the Tyranid fleet's small creatures were forced to give up some of their speed advantages in order to protect their motherships. The wreckage of the destroyed creatures floated everywhere, and the bio-plasma and bio-torpedoes they spat out, as well as acidic liquid crystals, constantly streaked across the void.

Malakim's agile eyes swept across the command deck screen, his mind flashing with various tactical scenarios. He quickly discovered a gap in the Hive Fleet, not a fatal one, but enough for two battle barges to pass through, and that was what they needed at this stage.

"*Sons of Mars*, *Glory of Expeditions*, *Triumph*, aim at my marked target. *Abyssal Hunter*, *Silver Redemption*, use lance to drive away the enemy in that direction. Squadrons nineteen and twenty-three, clear the right wing."

Then, he locked the target rune on a bio-ship, slightly off-center from the swarm.

"Now!"

The swift *Mars*-class battlecruisers sped past the *Mother of Tears*, opening all their weapons. The salvo of three *Ryza*-pattern nova cannons was impressive, and the deadly plasma shells stirred up a terrifying plasma storm in the Hive Fleet, with hundreds of small creatures being crushed in the storm, followed by a series of lasers and torpedoes piercing the void and hitting the flesh of the bio-ships.

At the same time, a large number of fighter squadrons advanced to confront the Tyranid's small creatures, with lasers and missiles interweaving a dazzling light.

The Tyranid *Harpy* that Malakim had marked was shattered by the salvo of the three capital ships, its internal organs ejected, and convulsed as it fell towards the atmosphere.

At the same time, cruisers and frigates formed two diagonal lines, passing the Tyranid creatures on their sides, blasting the bio-ships apart with powerful firepower.

But the Tyranid's counterattack was by no means weak. Frigates and destroyers were constantly exploding in the Tyranid bio-plasma and bio-torpedo attacks, even losing power. Some unlucky ships were even pierced through the deck by bio-sacs, followed by a large number of warrior bugs spewing out, and screams and fighting echoed in the communications network.

Even more deadly were the Tyranid assault ships equipped with crushing claws and prehensile tentacles. The *Moon*-class cruiser *Rogue* belonging to the Astral Knights chapter was entangled by the tentacles of a Hive Ship. The *Rogue* immediately opened all its shipboard weapons, firing directly at the creature's tentacles, while the frigates near the *Rogue* constantly attacked this tentacled monster.

Soon, the bio-ship lost power, twitching and drifting away, but its tentacles also tore off a spire and a turret from the *Rogue*.

As the *Rogue* struggled to return to the line, three more bio-ships caught up with it, one heading straight for the warship, its energy field flashing in its open three-lobed maw, and the huge bio-electric shock even short-circuited the warship's shields, and then the warship was bitten in half from the middle and torn to pieces in the ensuing explosion.

At this time, the *Mother of Tears* and the *Daughter of the Storm* had broken away from the formation and were sailing side by side, like two knights charging into the enemy formation. The powerful artillery fire of the ships behind them had cleared their path. On their flanks, frigates swept past, drawing more Hive Ships away from the path of the two battle barges.

However, the Hive Mind was surprisingly cunning. It may have seen through Malakim's plan, and forcibly ordered the small ships to ignore the frigates' harassment. A large number of living warships formed a wall of flesh in front of the accelerating battle barges, blocking their desperate attack on the Hive Ship.

"For Sanguinius!"

Malakim shouted on the bridge. He rarely felt so excited, but after that rebirth, he found it increasingly difficult to control his emotions.

It was as if a flame was raging deep within his soul.

Suddenly, a Tyranid-fired bio-plasma hit the flagship's void shield, blooming in a ripple, and the two battle barges had completed their acceleration. Such firepower could not stop them. They would penetrate the Tyranid small creature barrier like bullets piercing flesh.

But to Malakim's surprise, the small creatures scattered.

"What!"

As a result, a new type of Tyranid bio-ship appeared around the Hive Ship. These warships had long, straight bone armor shells, accounting for one-third of their total length. Bio-plasma was ejected from the rear, and the rest was covered with tentacled organs, like huge living missiles.

"Concentrate fire on my mark!"

Malakim felt uneasy. If these ships collided with the battle barges, given their size, if they self-destructed—