The Emperor’s Angel of Death

“. Boss, you were incredibly powerful! That guy with the scarred face, even though his blade flashed like lightning, you still beat him back repeatedly. Then you roared, and the Holy Flame devoured everything, blasting everything within hundreds of meters around you—”

“Stop, stop, stop—”

As Kren energetically pushed his palms forward, Roquim quickly raised his hand to interrupt him, then turned to look at Loken.

“I told you to stop reading those third-rate novels.”

Loken quickly explained.

“No, seriously, you were awesome back then! You were holding down a bunch of Chaos Space Marines all by yourself. Oh, oh, oh, right, that Plague Marine we caught on Komo last time, he's back for revenge. Seems like he's got some big backing. Also, there's that Emperor's Children traitor group; one of them looked like the legendary Lucius.”

“Really?”

Roquim looked at the rusty blade in his hand, a little disbelieving.

“Seriously! One punch, one Terminator! You were beating them so bad they were screaming! And most of the corpses around here are your handiwork. I bet even the Chapter Master isn't as powerful as you.”

“Hiss—”

Roquim frowned, looking like he'd seen a ghost.

“Then why don't I remember any of it?”

“Dogo says you were possessed.”

“Huh?”

Roquim looked at Dogo, who shrugged.

“I'm just guessing. After all, it really looks like something borrowed your body to fight. Ah, never mind that for now, let's quickly deal with these Hrud, or the whole space station will be ruined. Even their mere presence can affect time to some extent.”

“Hrud…”

Hearing this, Roquim realized that the surroundings had already decayed significantly, and even the supporting structures were showing signs of collapse. He quickly said to Chuan Quilo:

“Damn it, what's going on?! Ah Chuan! Get your fellow villagers out of here first! I'll ship you some cheese right away!”

Amidst a cacophony of chattering, the Hrud left as suddenly as they had arrived. Only then did Roquim have time to understand the planetary defense situation.

What he didn't know until he looked shocked him. It turned out that the Chaos Space Marines, when retreating, had viciously launched bombs containing warp-space viruses at the planet. Fortunately, the Myriad Collective had been constantly monitoring the planet's information detection network and discovered this situation immediately. It directly accessed the anti-aircraft weapons and destroyed the virus bombs before they fully entered the atmosphere, and sent out robots to constantly monitor changes in the atmosphere's composition. However, strangely, those warp-space viruses seemed to have disappeared.

As for the rest, there was nothing unusual. Although millions of troops and Chapter Monastery fortresses were on standby, not a single enemy had landed on the ground.

Instead, the war in the void became increasingly intense.

Although the Avista was displaying incredible power, charging back and forth through the Plague Fleet, it was, after all, only one ship, and the situation became even more severe after the Third Legion's fleet joined.

And it was clear that they were focusing their attacks on Naysen Five. Although the attacks of the Plague Fourth Company were prevented, they were not defeated, and they absorbed a large amount of firepower and caused some damage to Naysen Five's defense facilities. In this situation, the Avista had to organize a defense near Naysen Five.

This was the greatest advantage of the Fourteenth Legion's fleet. Most of the Empire's weapons were constrained by the laws of physics, but ships blessed by Nurgle were not constrained by the laws of physics in many ways. Swarms of flies and proliferating tumors surrounded the ships; these were psychic materials summoned from Nurgle's Garden as living barriers and had strong resistance to impacts. In addition, the Fourteenth Legion's warships operated in a non-mechanical way, so they were not prone to cook-off.

So despite being bombarded by Defender warships for a full half hour, the Plague Fourth Company only lost a few small ships. No matter how many missiles the large ships took, they could still operate. On the contrary, many Defender interceptors, due to being too close to the Plague warships, were fine, but the pilots inside died in the cockpit with blood flowing from all seven orifices, or even went insane and attacked their teammates.

Only the Avista's exceptionally powerful main weapons could guarantee the true destruction of a larger Plague warship.

“Void Shield integrity reduced by 11%. Increase pipeline input channel.”

Faced with the fierce artillery fire coming from afar, the Doomsday Ship's void shield flashed again, emitting a color different from any Imperial energy barrier, a morbid green and bile yellow.

Typhus's confidant, the Lord of Virulence, Gul, was commanding the Doomsday Ship in place of his master. He did not know that Typhus had been defeated and was still carrying out the task that the latter had given him before leaving—to set the entire star system ablaze.

Then Naysen Five, whose population was second only to Naysen Four, was naturally the best choice, but this time there was also a fleet of the Third Legion, which was not known to be a helper or a nuisance.

But no matter what, at least they were attacking the Imperials, and that was enough.

“Keep the main guns firing at that Glory Queen, don't stop, don't give her any time to rest.”

As he spoke, the front deck of the Avista suddenly emitted a burst of bright light, and then an Imperial Lunar-class cruiser that had been corrupted for less than a hundred years was hit. Inside the torn armor plates, burning flames could be seen in the exposed fleshy caves. Scorched meat emitted black smoke, but then clumps of proliferative matter emerged, filling the gaps in the warship, and the cruiser became active again and continued firing.

In response, the Doomsday Ship launched a volley of deadly artillery fire at the Avista, creating a wave of energy ripples, but some shells passed through the energy conversion barrier that had been outputting for too long and smashed into the hard warship hull, leaving streaks of scars.

At the same time, the Third Legion's fleet did not know the situation on Naysen Four, but they did not participate in the siege of Naysen Five, but instead went to slaughter the star system defense fleet. The Emperor-class battleship Absolutely Perfect and the Retribution-class battleship Temptation constituted the core blades of the Third Legion's fleet. They relied on the advantages of heavy armor and huge cannons to rampage through the star system defense fleet's ships, which were even smaller than frigates—the Absolutely Perfect of these two ships had a very unusual reputation in the Empire. It was once a main ship in the terrifying expedition launched by the Ripper Zahal, and after Zahal's death, it was obtained by Eidolon.

Compared to the relatively slow problem of Imperial ships of the same type, these two main ships, due to completely embracing Slaanesh's power, had undergone a certain kind of "alienation", just like the Death Guard's ships. The void shield could emit Slaaneshi charm lights that induced and deflected firepower, and at the same time, the engine, which was fueled by living human flesh, also burst out with power far exceeding its past performance, making them faster than ever before.