Dedicate loyalty to the good empire

Chapter 564: The Ominous Ark
The Ark of Evil Omen is a creation of the ancient Warp God Vashtor, and its characteristics are very simple.

Huge and powerful.

It was a unique warp engine, acting both as a warp beacon, providing Chaos warships with targets for warp jumps, and as a massive mobile fortress.

Although it is not as terrifying as the Blackstone Fortress, nor as terrible as the metal that destroyed Cadia that day.

However, the Ark of Evil Omen is still a planetary-level engine, slightly smaller than the Empire Eternal, but it has two of them.

Those things are space hulks drifting in the warp. Those things are the result of countless imperial or alien warships colliding with each other after being lost in the warp or the real universe.

The huge iron blocks several kilometers in size have mutual gravitational attraction, so they attract each other like glue, and then stick to each other and turn into huge iron blocks.

Eventually, those things would stretch for hundreds of kilometers or even larger, becoming a vast and terrifying nightmare filled with strange warp landscapes or the manifestation of monsters that emerged from the crew's nightmares.

Genestealers and cultists also use it as a hiding place.

The worst thing is that there are also space hulks ruled by greenskins, who install engines on those broken iron pieces and turn them into greenskin scrap iron giants.

And now what the Mechanical God Vashtor is doing seems to be essentially no different from what the Greenskins are doing. He is also using those ancient and terrible nightmares, but his techniques are more exaggerated.

A massive demonic engine beat like a heart, buried throughout the hundreds of kilometers of the terrifying ship, wires like blood vessels and metal like flesh.

In the end, the entire battleship turned into a huge living monster, which was then sold to the gods by Vashtor as a bargaining chip.

It can be said that Chaos has done its utmost for Abaddon. After all, half of the several Ark of Omens that the Four Gods spent a huge price to purchase are now in Abaddon's hands.

The Great Plunderer gave one to the Sons of Angron and two to the Red Corsairs, telling them to use them as the backbone of their force to resist the Empire's attacks.

The effect is very good, even too good, and the results are immediate.

The empire lacked the means to resist those things on the front battlefield, and finally could only resort to boarding to resolve the war, so it had to stop.

Coupled with its huge body, it is difficult to achieve the effect of boarding, just like injecting chronic toxin into an elephant. Even if the number is small, it may not be able to kill it.

The only record of the Empire defeating the Ark head-on came from Lion. The Primarch led the team personally and dismantled the beating demon heart at lightning speed.

The resistance they encountered was indescribable, including many great daemons, demons, Chaos Space Marines, and even the fallen Primarch Angron himself.

Put it this way.

To defeat this thing you'll need a land-based combat force that can take on the Primarch head-on, or a massive fortress on par with the Phalanx or Battle Moon.

Taylor was simply hopeless about this.

Let’s put it this way, the other side spent a lot of money to kill him.

He had his think tanks calculate that if they went all out, the Empire Eternal could definitely kill one Omen Ark, but the problem was what to do with the second one.

In a one-on-one situation, the Imperial Eternal can definitely defeat a single Omen Ark, but two of them present another problem.

That means the Empire Eternal must accept a one-for-one exchange or hand over this star region.

But even after the one-for-one exchange, the empire's garrison forces were unable to protect this place.

There is no way around it, because the Ark of Evil Omen, or rather the planetary-level combat power is so terrifying.

The best solution Taylor could think of now was to let the Long Live the Empire risk serious damage to destroy an Ark of Evil Omen, and then jump away using the warp engine.

Make full use of your mobility and inflict the greatest damage on the enemy. However, Taylor had to lament his bad luck, because the Ark of Evil Omen could not be equipped with a warp engine, so their movement depended entirely on the gods using their own power to pull them.

In other words, the Four Gods opened a warp rift for their beloved toys that was large enough to submerge the planet, and this incident actually has many records in the history of the Empire.

But this also means that dispatching such a behemoth requires complex rituals of communication with the gods, as well as preparing sacrifices and the appropriate interval.

It could be a special location or some special weapons and equipment.

Now that the dark side of the empire has been revealed, this requirement has been greatly reduced, but it will definitely still take some time to schedule before it can be started.

In other words, Taylor's encounter with the Ark of Evil Omen here means that he has once again run into the enemy's plan and into an "inevitability."

The defense here is weak, and the enemy will take advantage of the opportunity to counterattack. If nothing unexpected happens, this place will become a wound for the empire.

Finally, the Ark of Evil drove straight into the heart of the Imperial expedition and forced Guilliman to retreat.

But now the Empire has the chips for victory, although it has not yet grasped them tightly, as if fate is now intertwined, as if it is destined.

They met here.

Taylor provided sufficient strength to defend against an attack here, so he had to bear until potential reinforcements arrived.

But the question is, where are the reinforcements?
The second question is whether the serious damage to the Empire Eternal Year is worth it.

Those questions struck at Taylor's heartstrings, asking him again and again.

Do you want to run?

Compared to those illusory dreams.

He already had the strength to protect his hometown, and he could back out anytime and anywhere.

But he thought of his teacher, of his wedding vows, and of Guilliman's ambitions.

He also wanted to go crazy once, even if it meant giving up everything, just to have a chance of survival.

This is unlike him. Of course he would quit while he was ahead and take the entire Empire Wannian home to repair it as his final guarantee.

Taylor looked at the huge monsters appearing on the star map and ordered artillery fire anxiously.

Just before the war started completely, he received a special communication.

He was in no mood to respond, but the label gave him a fright.

It was the signal of a battleship, named Imperial Truth, which was slightly similar to his Imperial Eternity, and was still huge in size.

It was a Glorious Queen-class battleship, and only one kind of person could operate such a battleship.

At this moment, an old, powerful and reassuring voice sounded.

An old man with white hair and a long beard, wearing black ink-colored armor that was even a little green, appeared in the holographic projection modified by the Titanium Clan.

To be honest, this was the first time Taylor had seen a color hologram, but before he had time to marvel, the old man said.

"It's quite lively here. Any interest in having the lions join in the hunt?"

(End of this chapter)