Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 194: Imprisonment of the Indomitable Truth

In the cold space.

A signal from Macragge triggered the preset reaction mechanism, and the Hera space dock, which was as huge as an asteroid, started its engine system.

Its speed is not fast. The dock structure designed to manufacture space battleships cannot handle excessive acceleration. Inside its body, semi-finished products of several planetary battleships are being urgently manufactured.

Now, as the energy was transferred to the propulsion system, the lights on the manufacturing production line began to flicker, and a small number of mortals were urgently transferred to the civil defense facilities. They had no idea what was happening here.

There were bright red alarm lights everywhere. The low-level intelligence in the Hera main thinker system that had been safely castrated dominated the space dock.

Roche's orders overrode production protocols, launching the massive metal construct into orbit around Macragge.

It came for the Dark Angels' fleet, and for the Indomitable Truth.

Roche decided to disarm the Dark Angels before the situation became clear, and Hera Dockyard would use its power to temporarily imprison the Indomitable Truth.

And in the void of the galaxy farther away, the battle planet Amatra is rushing towards it. Its arrival is an insurance to ensure that the Dark Angels' fleet can be completely and quickly destroyed when necessary.

More obscurely, Roche's order awakened another super-thinking iron man sleeping deep in the core of Mustafar. That was his backup plan, and now it was finally time to activate it.

The shuttle carrying Iron Man activated the teleportation protocol after breaking through the atmosphere, and it will reach Roche at the fastest speed.

However, Luo Xi does not need protection. His real body is far away in Sosa. The reason why he called the Super Thinking Iron Man here is to control the situation when necessary.

Please, he has seen Guilliman's fighting power many times. If he has to fight Lion one-on-one again this time, Roche is very pessimistic about the Lord of the Limits' chances of winning.

In Hera Castle, the two Primarchs fell into deeper suspicion and distrust.

"What are you hiding, Ryan? Why aren't you telling me?"

The lion's eyes were not on Guilliman. He just lay by the window, looking anxiously at the hundreds of blazing falling marks in the sky that cut through the sky. He finally breathed a sigh of relief when they did not turn into fireworks.

Guilliman kept his word and did not let the void shields kill the warriors.

"It's my fault, brother. I did hide something." Ryan turned around, opened his mouth, and moved his lips a few times, but still did not tell him the news about the Midnight Haunter.

"You are still hiding something!" Guilliman looked at Lion's expression and immediately realized that what he was hiding was definitely something big.

Ryan even felt that the two of them would completely fall out after he told it.

This feeling of unknown uneasiness made Guilliman even more anxious. The soldiers in the drop chambers in the sky also obviously realized that something was wrong and the Lion King's order had not been issued.

Although they did not know why they were dropped into Macragge's atmosphere, following the urgent notice from Death Wing Commander Houguin, these warriors who had narrowly escaped death immediately adjusted the descent direction of their orbital drop capsules.

These orbital airdrop pods will not just move along the predetermined orbits. If they did so, they would be at an absolute disadvantage when facing anti-aircraft weapons.

The raging flames behind the drop pod changed direction, twisting the drop pod from the edge of the city to the wilderness outside Macragge.

Otherwise, even if the Dark Angels' drop pods had not begun to destroy, the impact of their fall alone would have been enough to kill thousands of mortals.

"Speak up! Ryan, now is not the time to keep your damn secrets. You are destroying my country!"

"I chose to take the risk and believe in your promise. What about you? What did you do? Stay silent for your damn code?"

Guilliman's voice rose to the top of his voice, his outburst rivaling the rage he had faced with Angron and Lorgar.

The anger of the Lord of the Limits changed the Lion King's opinion of him. It turned out that Roboute could also be angry. He originally thought that his brother always had a cold, machine-like mind.

The lion took a deep breath and made up his mind that he was the one who was wrong in this matter.

"Actually..." Lion had never found words so difficult to speak, but looking into Guilliman's eyes, he spoke them word for word. "Actually, there was someone else who came to Macragge with me: our traitorous brother, Konrad Curze, the Night Haunter. I trapped him aboard the Indomitable Truth. I had originally thought that his brief absence would be a good thing..."

Guilliman suddenly felt a black screen in front of his eyes. What did he hear?
This damn Lion brought a traitor primarch, the most dangerous being in the entire galaxy, to his home planet, and now he is likely to be lurking in any corner of Macragge.

It would be no safer than a missing Exterminator weapon lurking on Macragge, and Guilliman would have preferred to have heard of a Modaris atmospheric incinerator torpedo.

At least the Extermination Order was aware of its destructive power, but Conrad Kurtz was not.

One Primarch, Konrad Curze, was enough to turn the entire Macragge upside down.

"I doubted you, but I didn't expect you to go further than I thought." The Lord of the Ultramarines did not argue with his brother anymore. It was meaningless.

He must return to his army and muster all his strength to find the lurking Night Haunter.

In space, the Hera Shipyard and the battle planet Amatra have approached Macragge's gravitational range. In front of them, the Dark Angels' flagship Indomitable Truth is still in chaos.

The killing of Midnight Haunter resulted in the deaths of too many people, most of whom were mortals who operated the warships. Captain Stannis's face, which was paralyzed by facial nerves, had no expression at all, but his eyes revealed an extremely rare eagerness.

But then, warnings from the auspex and scanning arrays began to scream throughout the command bridge.

The voice transmitter of the communication robot warned of the approach of a huge target. Even with his naked eyes, Stannis could see that the metal sphere that was originally in the void was coming towards them.

"That wasn't a shipyard? The Ultramarines said that was a shipyard?"

Stannis instantly thought that the Ultramarines had lied, because the giant creation called the dock opened its huge "mouth" towards them.

It was a terrifying rift that was big enough to swallow a dozen Indomitable Truths. The captain could see that there seemed to be some extremely huge warships under construction anchored in it. Compared with those big guys, their ship was just like a sampan in the void.

"Lord Ryan! We've been locked!" Stannis shouted into Ryan's communication channel. The battleship's senior technicians and technical priests were horrified to find that the entire battleship had been surrounded by an unknown force field, and they were being dragged towards the space dock.

Although the Indomitable Truth was idling and their engines were not fully started, the force still prevented them from escaping.

"Will you fight back?" Stannis asked before Ryan even had time to respond.

The Captain knew that the Dark Angels had within their arsenal powers capable of destroying the spacedock, such as horrific relics known as singularity drives and nanodestroyers.

Ryan heard the captain's cry. In fact, he could also see the huge metal object approaching his flagship. These things were so huge that they could be seen with the naked eye.

The Lion's heart was in a frenzy, he was extremely unwilling to let his warship be captured by a mere group of Ultramarines, that would be a complete blasphemy to his honor and dignity.

But, do we have to resist and really turn against Guilliman?

Ryan couldn't do that, there would be no point except destroying each other.

“Give up resistance, but do not allow the Ultramarines to board.” He said this and felt the strength drain from his body, more exhausted than he had been after sixteen weeks of hunting the Night Haunter.

All of the warships, including the Dark Angels flagship Indomitable Truth, were captured by the force field of the Hera Space Dock.

That was originally a force field generator used to adjust the position of warships under construction, but now it is being used to imprison the Dark Angel fleet.

Stannis carried out the order shamefully, and the engine of the Indomitable Truth slowly shut down, and it was swallowed up by the space dock at an even faster speed.

Considering the size difference between the two sides, Hera Dock was just like having an after-meal candy.

The captain and the Dark Angels remaining on board blocked all entrances and exits, determined not to let the Ultramarines enter their sacred warship.

(End of this chapter)