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

Chapter 512: Victory in the Space Naval Battle
"They succeeded. The Blackstone Fortress is no longer an obstacle to us. Horus's defeat is certain."

"All combat units, cease fire and maintain alert posture."

The Lion King of Caliban, the great Llane El'Jonson, stood on his command platform, looking at the huge void fortress with excitement and enthusiasm as it accelerated towards the sun in the center of the galaxy.

He had commanded the New Caliban and the Angel's Tear in a fierce battle with the Blackstone Fortress for more than three Terra weeks, and every minute and every second contained a thrilling life-and-death crisis.

With unparalleled concentration and vigilance, the Lion saw through every feint and raid of the Black Stone Fortress. This ancient elf war fortress had never hit a celestial battleship once.

The predictions and games involved are so complex that even the intelligent brain on the celestial battleship cannot quickly calculate the answer. The psychic properties of the Blackstone Fortress make its every attack full of chaos and uncertainty. Ryan often needs to rely on his intuition and premonition to make judgments.

His judgment will determine the life and death of millions of crew members, and thus affect the future direction and situation of the empire.

If the three celestial warships of the expeditionary force were destroyed in Betagarmon, then Horus' fleet would be able to advance straight in, and even if Rogal Dorn was strong, he would not be able to hold Terra without support.

No one knows how great the pressure is except Ryan Johnson, the supreme commander of this battle.

Even the dark angels were horrified to find that their genetic father, who seemed to be always majestic and calm, could also fall into extremely hidden anxiety.

Ryan has not had any sleep or rest since the war began. Even the original body's superhuman physique cannot support such high-intensity consumption all the time.

The Primarch's brain is consuming brain cells at a rate a hundred times faster than usual, just to meet the extremely terrifying need to predict the battlefield.

His eye sockets were sunken and tiny wrinkles quietly climbed up his skin. His proud long golden hair looked messy due to lack of care and was casually draped behind his head.

Apart from communicating with the staff of the think tank, Ryan did not waste words on anyone. He only had close contact with the Primarch when mortal servants brought him high-calorie nutritious porridge.

According to the bold descriptions of some mortal servants, when they brought food to Ryan, they could even faintly smell a pungent smell similar to the fermentation of grease that was not cleaned up in time.

"Even if it is a Primarch, if it does not have time to take care of itself and clean itself, it will also produce bad smells like mortals?"

Although the mortals aboard the New Caliban have served the Dark Angels for a long time, and many crew members were even born and raised on the warship, they follow the mission of their ancestors and serve the great Astartes Legion for their entire lives.

Their understanding of the Primarch still remains at the surface level with words like mysterious, sublime, and great.

The Lion King Caliban is always so mysterious, cold, and even a little inhuman. He does not have any extra or boring feelings towards mortals, but only cares about whether they can do their jobs and responsibilities.

The New Caliban and the Angel's Tear cruised outside the attack range of the Black Stone Fortress, witnessing this great alien creation gradually entering the gravitational well of the giant star.

For a creature like the Blackstone Fortress, which has celestial-level mass, once it is completely captured by the gravity of the sun, it will be almost impossible to escape from the increasingly terrifying gravitational vortex through conventional means.

The Black Stone Fortress was still accelerating, and a large number of colorful tail streams like the aurora appeared behind it. They were traces of the collision between the charged particles of the solar wind and the Black Stone Fortress.

After confirming that they could no longer escape from the Blackstone Fortress, Ryan finally loosened his grip on the Iron Throne. The solid alloy structure was completely warped under Ryan's grip. Although the Blackstone Fortress, between the size of an asteroid and a planet, was enormous compared to humans, if the reference point was a star, it would be nothing more than a tiny black dot.

Endless heat is being released from the giant sun. The Black Stone Fortress is approaching the sun's corona. Astronomical-scale flares are stirring up an energy frenzy. The leaping red tongues of fire are ejecting a large amount of plasma out of the star, but it falls back to the surface of the star under the pull of the sun's gravity.

Millions of degrees of heat were melting the Blackstone Fortress. Those Dark Mechanicus members who had not yet evacuated did not even have time to wail before their bodies were completely turned into nothingness under the absolute temperature.

The will of the Blackstone Fortress feels the warmth of the star, and would rather destroy itself than be tainted by the power of Chaos.

Roche witnessed this scene on the Infinite Loyalty. The Black Stone Fortress gradually disappeared into the churning atmosphere of the sun until all scanning arrays could no longer capture its figure.

"The temperature and violent power of the star should be enough to destroy it, Uslan."

The prophet was looking at this scene with mixed feelings, and sad tears flowed from the corners of his eyes. The elves were always like this, even the slightest emotion would be expressed in a very obvious form.

Strictly speaking, Blackstone Fortress was not destroyed by the Chaos rebels, nor by the gunfire of Lion's celestial battleship. Its real destroyer was Eldrad Ulthran, and it was the order of the Eldar prophet that made it fall into a star.

Uslan seemed to see the tragic scene of the demise of the Eldar in the past. The descendants of the Eldar could not even keep their most advanced war weapons, and they could only choose to destroy the Blackstone Fortress so that no one could obtain this great war weapon.

How sad is this?

"Once the Blackstone Fortress is gone, Horus will no longer be able to maintain parity with the Imperial Expeditionary Fleet."

Luo Xi looked excited, as if he had seen the dawn of victory.

"The New Caliban and Angel's Tears were able to return to their normal battle order and reunite with Chagatai Khan's Sky Eagle. These three warships have not suffered any serious damage that has affected their combat effectiveness until now, and they still maintain close to their peak strength."

"Although the Indomitable Truth, Red Tear and Hrafinkel have suffered some damage, they are still capable of fighting. Horus's side only has the Vengeful Spirit, Endurance, Emperor's Pride and the Word Bearers' Triumvirate."

The Radiance had been captured, and the Iron Blood was smart enough to flee quickly. Under the siege of the Mechanicus expeditionary fleet, Ryan was able to cooperate inside and outside, and completely devour the rebel fleet by encircling it from both sides.

"Leave the rest to Ryan Johnson. This kind of annihilation war is exactly what he is good at." Luo Xi said to the soldiers on the Infinite Loyalty. He was now doing his best to rescue the wounded.

The pharmacists on the battleship are seizing every minute and every second to collect the gene seeds of the Astartes who unfortunately died in the battle, while also healing and repairing the bodies of those seriously injured.

But Roche's mission has not yet been completed. At least within the galaxy, the war is not over yet.

On the surface of the planets Betagarmon II and III, the war among the Titans was still intense. Archangel Sanguinius was leading his legion and a force of more than thirty Titan legions in battle against the enemy's Titan legions.

He really wanted to see how exciting the expressions of those traitors would be when Om Messiah personally arrived on the battlefield.

(End of this chapter)