Warhammer 40 Spring: Loyalty of the Multiverse

Chapter 224 Harken: What are you up to?

Tiberius and the rest of the Astartes stood frozen in place. On the entire flagship they were on, everything related to Chaos—whether combatants or those piloting the ship—had indirectly turned to ashes.

Even the machine spirit of this chaotic ship was annihilated in the subspace by that sword.

The Iron Glory group was speechless as they watched this man, who had only maintained his virility for less than five seconds before collapsing to the ground again.

Tiberos didn't want to say anything more, as he was the only combatant still possessing a powered weapon that could be activated.

He took the lead and headed towards the command center. The other five Astartes followed behind, carrying Ironhide, taking small, hurried steps.

So much so that Tie Hui was lifted directly onto their heads.

The other Astartes began quickly checking every corner of the ship and the location of important compartments.

A Chaos flagship of battleship size, its dimensions are unimaginable. This thing needs to be put into motion, even if the entire crew is comprised of Astartes.

The required number would be no less than 10,000, since the void shield and engine compartments alone would make up the majority of the personnel on such a large ship.

Therefore, they now need to find a vehicle on this ship that can carry all of them. They need to get out immediately and assess the situation, then seize the opportunity to enter the surface of Dalowa, the main planet of the Dalowa system, or go to the outer asteroid belt of the system to find those pirates or black market merchants.

After all, if they actually find some vehicles, can those tiny vehicles really take them away from this star system?

That's truly laughable!
Therefore, the most important options are to go to the asteroid belt and land on the surface of Planet Dallowa. However, the optimal choice is still to go to the asteroid belt, since the surface of Planet Dallowa has been completely occupied by chaos.

Although a few areas on the planet's surface remained in Imperial control after the last war, the entire system had fallen and was now under Abaddon's control after so much time had passed.

Only in this vast new region on the outskirts of the galaxy is there a complex network of fortresses and nodes belonging to the Chaos and Empire factions.

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Harken was now in utter despair over this sudden psionic fluctuation... or rather, a psionic explosion would be a more accurate description.

This instantly created a vacuum in control of nearly one-fifth of the facilities within the Dalowa system. Especially the Tide Station, which had been under negotiation with Hathor.

Even now, despite sending troops to provide support back then, there has been a delay; the support fleet and troops have not been deployed to the Reflector Warband as quickly as possible.

After all, the greater the losses suffered by the Reflectors, the greater their control over the Tide Station will be.

Although this would weaken their overall defensive capabilities against the Empire in the Dalowa system, Lord Abaddon had already begun a new collaboration with the Four Gods, and most importantly, Lord Abaddon had acquired some trump cards that even he was unaware of.

But now, because of his own stupidity, the control of the Tide Station, or rather, its right to survival, is about to be completely destroyed by those Grey Knights.

Even if he had already ordered the reinforcements to advance at a faster pace, it was probably too late.

What I want is to weaken their power, not to lose control of the Tide Station.

Now all we can do is try our best to recover the losses.

"Send reinforcements faster! At the same time, all fleets must immediately proceed to other critical facilities to assist in their defense. In case..." "Something's wrong, Lord Harken!"

The Star Reaper, Harken, was directing his subordinates to set up new defensive arrays in the Dalowa system. Suddenly, a mortal follower in the ship's control room jumped up and shouted in a panic to Harken, who was sitting in his seat.

"The subspace monitoring array has been breached by the enemy!"

"?"

The report almost caused him to freeze for a moment, unable to process what it was saying.

"The enemy has infiltrated?"

The answer popped into his head, and Abaddon let out a self-deprecating laugh. What the hell is the point of fighting? The warp monitoring array has been destroyed, which means the Imperial army will be on the scene in less than half a Terran time.

He then looked up at the chaotic creation on the ceiling of his flagship command room and was somewhat bewildered.

All of this was probably planned by the Empire. It's surprising how much the Empire was willing to invest; they must have used some unknown power or psionic virus to wipe out Thousand Sons' group of iron-clad beings.

But he is not willing to give in!

The next moment, he grabbed the head of a Chaos Astartes from the Black Legion on his left and dragged him in front of him, roaring down at him, "What the hell are you doing?"

Before the Chaos Astartes could even register any expression on its face, the hand suddenly squeezed and crushed the Chaos Astartes' head, sending blood, brain matter, and bits of flesh flying everywhere.

He was really angry, but thankfully his action just now had calmed him down considerably.

But his anger had not subsided and was slowly growing, giving him the urge to pick up his weapon and start a massacre inside the warship.

He knew those were blessings that Khorne, one of the four Chaos Gods, had secretly left within their Black Legion. But fortunately, who was he, Harken the Starseer? He forcefully suppressed his inner desires and hurriedly said, "All fleets, immediately defend the Demon Gate and the Forgeworld. Abandon everything else! At the same time, immediately send all Warband personnel back to defend and set up defenses in the orbital debris belts of the surrounding planets. Next, the Empire's attack."

He then turned to the trembling, terrified man who had come to report, and said, "Immediately notify Karigius and have him prepare defenses!"

"Yes!"

He then turned to look into the eyes of his subordinates surrounding him, took a deep breath to calm his anger, and forced a smile as he encouraged them, "Don't worry, as long as one of the time nodes can hold out for 24 hours, we can use the protocol to drag the entire star system into subspace. What we can't have, the Empire can't have either."

……

Upon receiving the news, Bastian Grixx, the main battle leader of the Rift Fortress, was filled with excitement and immediately ordered the entire fleet, "All ships warp! Target... Dalowa system!"

His order instantly spread throughout the entire fleet. The ships of the Rift Fortress main battle group were positioned at the very front of the fleet. The moment the order was given, their tail engines lit up and they transformed into streaks of light, shooting into the distance and disappearing from their original positions.

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(End of this chapter)