Warhammer 40 Spring: Loyalty of the Multiverse

Chapter 194 Board Jumping Board Jumping
"Target spotted!" A shrill, yet exhilarating roar suddenly echoed from the command center of the modified demon engine warship.

Costus Salas stared intently at the screen embedded in the gaping maw of the fleshy skull, on which countless space torpedoes were being launched from the battle barge.

The target was his flagship, the Berserker, a former Black Templar escort ship, the Undying Wrath.

After being captured, it was reverted to its current state, becoming a high-speed, mobile warship. Its core function is to use high-speed maneuverability for traversing and advancing during combat.

Then, they launched the giant harpoon Ursus Claw to carry out the landing operation.

Most importantly, after capturing it, they did not remove the ship's original Black Sanctuary designation.

This result is a serious provocation against the Black Temple!
Now, this modified Berserker can evade most of the torpedo attacks aimed at it simply by virtue of its maneuverability.

But Costus Salas' calm face betrayed that he had an even bigger plan.

"Charge! Launch Ursus Claws!" Costus Salas roared. Most of the crew inside the warship had become one with some of the control consoles due to the mutation of their flesh and the corruption of chaos.

So, at his command, the warship quickly began to change course.

Costus Salas glanced at the single warship that had outflanked them. He was genuinely disdainful; just one combat barge. Even if it carried Astartes, how many could it possibly have?

It's important to understand that the core design of his flagship, the Berserker, is primarily focused on assault and landing. If several warships were to attack from the rear, he might be able to change his tactics and attempt a breakout and retreat.

But the current situation is that you only have one warship! Even if it's just a combat barge, so what?

To put it bluntly, you still only have the firepower of one warship. And you can only engage the enemy from one side, while their fleet is now sandwiched in the middle, originally also only able to engage the enemy from one side.

But since you only have one combat barge attacking my rear, it means that my other side's hull-mounted weapons can launch an attack.

Although not many warships could do this due to the angle, the combined firepower of several warships was still enough to rival that of the combat barge.

"Destroy them!" Costus Salas roared, while the Chaos Astartes following behind him raised their skull weapons and shouted, "Blood sacrifice to the Blood God, skull offering to the Skull Throne!"

A counter-attack!
Now they are preparing to switch sides. Since you can switch sides with our warships, why can't we switch sides with yours?

At worst, I'll just abandon this warship using a base-trading tactic. Then, the warships around the Berserker will focus fire and reduce the flagship to rubble, and you'll all be reduced to ashes along with it.

Anyway, we'll get a combat barge for free, take it back and modify it, so it'll be a huge profit for them.

Costus Salas's face broke into a smug grin as he thought of this.

"Sir! The enemy is too fast; they've dodged most of our torpedoes," the captain of the Seraphim reported over the comms.

Tie Hui had already noticed the incredibly fast frigates of the 331 Warriors Fleet in the distant starry sky.

He dodged almost half of the torpedoes launched by his own side, and even other warships came to his side to use their own defenses to block the space torpedoes that slipped through.

"No problem!" Tie Hui was certain that the members of this warship already knew about their plan to switch sides and had definitely set a trap inside the warship.

They are still advancing through space when enemy fire has already tracked them down. Clearly, the aim is to reduce the number of ships they can successfully board, thus further diminishing the damage they cause inside the warships.

"Target locked! All units, accelerate and charge!" Tie Hui gave the order over the communication channel, and instantly, the modified servo skulls in front of everyone accelerated forward. Electromagnetic shields were activated to deflect debris and record the path and optimal attack distance during the charge.

boom--

Tie Hui twisted his waist and turned to dodge an attack fired from a high-explosive cannon. A violent explosion erupted not far behind him.

The fragments struck the nanoshield it had conjured, causing a flickering of light and shadow.

As they drew closer to the Berserker and into the range of the enemy fleet's various shipborne air defense weapons, they faced increasing attacks.

Despite the cover provided by space torpedoes, the dense shipborne firepower still managed to hit some of them.

Fortunately, their numbers were not large; in this chaotic battlefield, their size was even smaller than a fragment.

Just as he was about to reach a gap in the Berserker's hull, the engine behind him suddenly slowed down, causing his body to stop abruptly as if time and space had frozen, before he sped off to the side.

He wasn't going to be so foolish as to charge straight into the breach. After all, these were Chaos warships; who knew if they might be equipped with some kind of psionic attack or demonic ambush?

The shoulder armor suddenly opened, and countless streams of light shot out like a swarm of bees, flying towards the gap in the ship's hull not far away.

Meanwhile, the other Astartes who followed the Jumping Bloc also arrived nearby. They did not rush in immediately, because they were well aware of the strangeness of the Chaos Ship.

So they all surrounded the Berserker, the landing site they needed to reach, clearing away any anti-aircraft weapons on the ship that could attack them.

Some Terminators even picked up their bomb guns and started firing wildly at the landing site.

This is a psionic bomb—the Extinction Bomb—obtained from the Black Sanctuary's Malcado and their chapter.

Although it's ammunition exclusive to the Grey Knights, the Black Templar can still obtain it through various means. It's just that the quantity is limited!
Moreover, these munitions are not the main force now; the truly useful ones are the explosives and weapons brought back from the nano-core world.

Because the Emperor had overseen their production process and the equipment, these weapons were exceptionally effective in attack, especially against these Chaos traitors and demons.

Even the overheat limit of the plasma pistol was increased by half. So let alone those ordinary standard explosives, otherwise Lumir wouldn't have been able to inflict such high levels of damage on these Khorne's Chaos Warriors single-handedly.

"Damn it!" The Chaos Mortals, Khorne Berserkers, Gladiator Champions, and Chaos Astartes, who had been lying in ambush at the breach, began to retreat from the front line with expressions of terror.

"Why are all their attacks psionic weapons?" asked a Chaos Astartes, clad in blue and white armor but with dozens of dried and mutated skull fragments stuck in his power backpack, with some doubt.

According to their intelligence, the Empire maintains extremely strict control over these psionic weapons, and they are difficult to produce and extremely rare.

But what's going on now?
This attack density is even faster and more ferocious than splashing water.

"Could they be a backup plan set up by the Blue-skinned Maggots?"

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(End of this chapter)