Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 601 (A long chapter of 4,000 words, please vote!) Distorting Time and Space, I Also Have This Kind of Weapon
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The Second Battle Group was the first to encounter the main fleet of the Hruds from the Gugan system.

Wilshire stood on the bridge of his new flagship, the ancient intelligent spaceship, the Killing Song.

Unlike the Imperial Fleet, which required an entire officer corps, the bridge only had thirty-six Shadow Order personnel.

They are not responsible for any operations; their duty is to stand in front of the screen, browse all the images, data, and other information, and report to the Lord of Light—data that is not valued by the intelligent program.

The entire spaceship had no other Imperial ships of the same class, and carried over 200,000 officers and crew.

Instead, there are 290 of the best singers from each battle group.

They took turns, constantly adhering to the "contract," singing for the spaceship.

“My suggestion is,” a metallic voice rang in Wilshire’s ear; he was used to the spaceship being an advisor, not just a simple machine soul.

"Evacuate immediately."

"My sensor array has captured over 27 million life signals from 1,840 Hrud ships."

"With such a large number of entropy energy fields mixed together, your battleships and their crews will be reduced to dust."

A green screen hung down in front of Wilshire.

“I have already considered the defense of the ape force field, as well as the superhuman body of the Shadow of Order.”

“Thank you for your suggestion,” Wilshire glanced at the analysis report provided by his advisor, then turned his gaze to the holographic screen.

"Our lord's command is to lure the Hrud fleet to the predetermined coordinates."

The weapon arrays of the Killing Song were all activated, requiring no human intervention.

The intelligent program assigns targets to the weapon array based on the scan results.

The weapons that poured out of the armory burst forth from the silver-white hull, firing blue and white beams of light at the Hrud ship.

The beam of light kept jumping in the distorted entropy energy field, as if the light was refracting again and again.

Some beams of light were cut into segments, while others were stretched, compressed, or bent.

The distorting force field of the Hruds is unpredictable.

Most beams are fired after countless iterations of calculation by the intelligent program, exceeding the simulated sanctuary by orders of magnitude, to maximize the possible attack method and hit the target.

Blue and white light pierced through layers of time fields, detonating the blurred Hrud warship.

The dazzling flames revealed the scanning array of the Killing Song, whose performance exceeded the combined capabilities of the remaining oracle arrays of the Second Fleet.

"The Sun Shadow has made contact with the main force of the Hrud fleet..." The advisor's voice rang in Wilshire's ears, and he immediately turned his gaze to the battleship.

"Time collapse has occurred!"

Blinding arcs of light leaped from Hrud's rough hull, connecting their large city ships together.

Time and space around the Sun Shadow were simultaneously torn apart.

The time shockwave spreading from the Hrud starting point propagated at a quarter the speed of light, like a scroll being unfurled in the spacetime continuum.

A hologram of the Killing Song satellite, attempting to depict what the detector array detected.

The Sun Shadow bounced up, the image was mottled, and the shape of the projected stream was blurred.

The two circular projectors suddenly went out, the hologram flickered for a moment, and then stabilized.

The Sun Shadow was shattered into thousands of curved fragments, as if reflected by a broken mirror.

Thousands of life pods had just flown out of the warship when they were captured by the spacetime ripples.

The ape force field was instantly swallowed by darkness, and the waves of time wantonly ravaged the 16.9-kilometer-long battleship.

The right string exploded first, turning into burning fragments.

In the next instant, the entire warship aged by millions of years.

The punishment-class reactor is dead.

Ripples in the spacetime structure swept across the Sun Shadow, and the machine spirit screamed. The machine exploded.

Time raced through the chaotic vortex; some crew members vanished into thin air, while others collapsed in a cloud of black carbon dust.

A row of machine parts has faded, and next to it is a row of old and withered parts.

Further away, another row reverted to their former human forms, shocked and driven mad by their rebirth.

Different parts of the spacecraft were forcibly dismantled and scattered into different frames of reference.

The parts shifted in seconds, triggering a horrific explosion.

The shadow of order fell, and the prototype Saturn Terminator, like the Mark III power armor, had its rusted armor plates scattered on the ground, as if it hadn't been tended to for millions of years.

Bones and debris poured out, covering the deck.

Explosive guns, concussion weapons, powered weapons, and chainsaws were reduced to dust and sand.

At this moment, Astartes, like its crew, has aged and decayed, turning into dust in the flow of time.

The waves of time continued to ripple through the ship, and within seconds, the hull of a frigate rusted, eventually turning into a wrinkled, bent, rusted wreck.

The two destroyers disintegrated into a rain of particles, which shimmered along with the escape pods.

As the Shadow of Reigns sailed toward its designated coordinates, Captain Diana Pauline gazed at the scan results and the fragmented images of the feedback, recalling that fleeting moment of that night in Gorgis.

She couldn't help but sigh, "Even the shadow of order ages and dies."

“When Hrud accumulates enough numbers, this will happen,” Ninglu said.

Astartes usually did not die of old age; most of them would die on the battlefield.

Sigismund's functions declined due to living too long, and he was killed by Abaddon. Dante's fatigue due to living too long was just an isolated case.

But the Hruds are different. When a large number of Hruds gather together, the superposition of their entropy energy fields can cause almost everything to age.

In Nimrod's memory, many of the "Iron Warriors" and their warships turned to dust during the war against the Hruds.

Barabbas Danteok, the war blacksmith stationed at Volpa Star Gorge, walks with difficulty, has thinning hair, a face full of wrinkles, and wrinkled skin.

After examining him, the pharmacist determined that he was three thousand years older and that there was no way to reverse that.

His aged and decrepit appearance even evoked a moment of pity from Peturabo, but he subsequently banished the defeated Peturabo to Little Damanthain to serve as the local regent.

Danteok was thus able to undertake the construction work that Peturabodu desired, and subsequently lit the Pharos Lighthouse for the Second Empire.

As Ninglu pondered, Diana's voice rang out.

"Sir, we will arrive at the designated coordinates in thirty-five seconds."

[I also possess such a weapon to warp spacetime.] Nimrod issued the order.

"Activate the Void Claws!"

“Yes, my lord,” Diana tapped rapidly on the console, activating a contemplative machine beside the throne.

As the red light flashed, Diana looked towards the throne. "My lord, please grant me permission."

Ning Lu raised his right hand and placed it on the panel.

He was the only one in the entire legion with that authority.

Amidst the piercing alarm, red runes flashed rapidly.

The twenty-three punishment-class reactors on the Shadow of Kings were upgraded to maximum power.

The sudden increase in output energy only maintained the life support system, while weapon arrays and other systems were shut down.

The decks, layered like a nest, suddenly went out.

The bright light on the bridge instantly dimmed. The doomsday weapon of the "Dark Age of Technology" was activated for the first time in ten thousand years.

The second tallest black claw-shaped building on the King Power Shadow gleamed with a beam of light.

It vanishes in an instant, imperceptible to the physical world, and the shattered spacetime energy is transferred to the predetermined coordinates.

Spacetime energy created a tiny singularity at the center of the Hrud fleet, at the center of the fourteen city ships.

The tiny singularity spread rapidly, forming a bottomless black hole.

The Hrud warship, enveloped by layers of spacetime fields, instantly became clear and shone on the holographic screens of the surrounding warships.

The Song of Slaughter was like a startled white steed galloping through the void.

Gravitational waves oscillate, capturing black warships and inserting them into bottomless black holes.

The gray warships struggled desperately, like a school of fish caught in a whirlpool.

The light from the stellar explosion illuminated the Gugan galaxy, overshadowing the faint stars.

Millions of years after the Orion-Cygnus cantilever formed, bright light pierced the dark sky for the first time on the surfaces of Gugan, Craven, and Gorgis.

The light pierced through the deep Volpa Star Canyon, illuminating the black hull of the Third Fleet fleet that had just emerged from Mandeville Point.

Light pierced through dark caves, tunnels hundreds of kilometers long, and archives filled with mycelium books.

Hundreds of millions of Hruds stumbled around in panic, but all around them was a terrifying light.

The destructive shockwave pierced through the entropy energy field of thousands of Hrud warships, and the massive city-ships, as large as hive cities, disintegrated and disappeared in the light.

Outside the black hole, hundreds of warships oscillated in the gravitational waves.

Hundreds of warships were torn to pieces.

“Terrifying…” The consultant’s metallic voice rang in Wilshire’s ears.

"A terrifying attack, even in the era I was born, it was considered apocalyptic."

The bridge of the HMS Kings Shadow was illuminated by light, followed by five seconds of darkness before the light from the lumen lamps returned to normal.

Diana stared blankly at the holographic image. Even the Emperor's flagship, the Busephalos, the flagship of the "Imperial Fist," and even the Ramirez-class Starfortress could not unleash such a devastating attack.

She glanced at the report, then stared at the enormous sphere of light in the void, at the Hrud warship struggling as if it were stuck in a quagmire.

Diana knew that the spacetime structure of that area had been permanently altered and would never be passable again.

[No wonder Lord Ninglu decided that only he himself could order its use.]
After Diana established a communication link with Adams, the Fourth Fleet left behind 27 warships, including five capital ships, to encircle and annihilate the remaining Hrud warships.

The Shadow of Kings, along with the Second and part of the Fourth Fleet, headed toward Craven.

……

Half an hour before sunset in the Gugan Galaxy, in front of the Second Battle Group's helipad.

Wilshire stood before the fifty-two "Sun Priests," whose eyes shone like miniature suns.

Spiritual energy burst forth, and rays of golden light enveloped the "Sun Priests".

The light grew purer and purer, eventually evolving into a stamp-like projection.

"Notarization, solar halo!"

"'Notarization,' 'Summoning Holy Light'!"

"Notarization, sacred oath!"

……

Company Commander Winterburn, after the Lord of Light replaced the flagship with the Slaughter Song, took over the Relic-class battleship Radiance and did not perish with the company's original flagship, the Sun Shadow.

The "Sun Priest" felt that, with the majestic voice of the Lord of Light, the phantom of the seal in the air showered down rays of light upon him.

He saw Olivier, the second company commander beside him, basking in the light as if sunbathing.

One minute later, the "Sun Priests" boarded the Stormbirds and headed to their respective battlefields.

Olivier stepped off the deck and came to the tunnel.

The "Light Prayers" stood between the tarantula sentry cannons, with small golden vials containing pre-made holy water hanging from their waists.

The tech sergeants were busy adjusting the built-in Thinker logic engine, setting shooting target acquisition modes and identification codes.

Based on the fact that the Hruds emerged from the cave, the defense mode was set to point defense mode, one of the four modes, with the defense angled at a 45-degree angle to a single direction.

As the faint, candle-like light went out, countless Hruds poured out of the cave in a frenzy.

The spider sentry gun roared as it unleashed a barrage of bullets at the aliens. The exploding beams burned through the Hruds' protective layers, piercing their bodies and leaving holes in their flesh.

The "Sun Priest" stepped toward the place in his spiritual vision where the gray shadows were most concentrated.

The machine gun soul of a Tarantula sentry gun recognized his code and immediately ceased firing.

The "Sun Priest" leans back with his arms outstretched, as if embracing the sun.

A magnificent, pure, and blazing pillar of light descended from the sky and crashed down upon the Hrud crowd.

A dozen or so Hruds and dozens of other aliens that couldn't stop in time evaporated rapidly in the light.

Hundreds of Hruds disgustedly avoided the blinding golden light; they didn't even raise their plasma flintlock pistols to attack.

They circled far away from the scattered golden specks of light and charged forward.

The "Sun Priest" was surrounded by gold, which spread outwards in layers.

The "sun halo" warmed the Honor Guard members within a 35-meter radius as they followed their company commander toward the cave entrance.

The "prayer for light" men took out small golden bottles from their waists and took turns sprinkling golden holy water.

A drop of golden holy water first hit a Hrud.

Drops of golden light illuminated the blurry body, penetrating the entropy energy field.

Rows of Hruds, their bodies melting away, collapsed to the ground.

The "Sun Priest" felt that his abilities, both in power and range, had been significantly enhanced.

As he stepped forward, he seemed to merge with the light.

Olivier recalled the Lord of Light's words, "Your abilities will be temporarily enhanced," and decided to make good use of this time.

The golden halo rushed straight into the cave, and the Hruds fled as fast as rats.

Inside Olivier's helmet, as Rune Teng leaped 3.6 kilometers, the halo around him suddenly shrank, covering only about 20 meters.

"Retreat!" the Sun Priest shouted, then lunged forward to meet the onrushing Hruds.

Golden, illusory flames suddenly ignited around him, flames radiating the majestic aura of the sun, densely forming an ocean.

The pure and holy light burned Hrud into drops of sour liquid, like a candle.

The "Sun Priest" felt that he had completely merged with the golden light.

He calmly retreated with his honor guard, and the Hruds only launched another attack after the golden sea of ​​fire disappeared.

It produces a halo-like effect, tinged with gold and spreading outwards in layers. It warms those around it, brings immense courage, dispels evil, and can be precisely controlled.

Wilshire traversed various battlefields, regaining his spirituality amidst the Stormbirds.

The "Notary" leads the Honor Guard to the most critical battlefield, defeats the enemy, and then performs a "notary" ceremony for the "Sun Priest" before leaving.

In the darkness of Craven, dazzling lights rose up everywhere, brighter and more radiant than fleeting glory.

(End of this chapter)