Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 395 05.0394: "Siren's confusing words? Chaos tricks! "

"All ships, fire! Open fire!"

"Blast away these scumbags! Kill those foolish followers of the false emperor! The Corpse Emperor is dead! The true God should be established!"

Artillery shells as big as several hive towers were flying in the void between the two battle lines. At this time, the distance between the Imperial Navy battle line and the Chaos Fleet battle line was only 570 kilometers.

The fighter jets of the three armed forces shuttled, attacked, retreated, and then reorganized in this not-too-small interval.

In order to protect the flagship, the Chaos light cruiser with a shuttle ramp did not hesitate to release the Hell Dragon Demon Engine that was originally used to target the Imperial Navy flagship in advance.

The black and red unclean fire dragon roared and leaped out of the deck, chasing the greenskin Daka jets with agility far beyond that of normal fighter planes. It spewed black flames from its mouth to set these large flies spewing thick smoke on fire one after another, and even pounced on them and tore them to pieces with its sharp golden teeth.

This unclean thing is a Chaos Flyer, a Fighter Pilot, and a Chaos Demon, a deeply fused, bizarre entity. It is the evil creation of the Master of Enchanting.

The close-in defense laser cannons of the two fleets added color to the confrontation between light spears and macro cannons. The dazzling light beams formed a three-dimensional light network, making the battle look very intense.

Facing this web of death, not even the ferocious Hell Dragon Demon Engine could escape.

Two or three Hell Dragons became extremely ferocious after chasing and killing the nearby Daka fighters.

It attempted to directly attack the Imperial Navy's battle line, but was locked and torn apart by close-in defense artillery while crossing a distance of several hundred kilometers.

The method of sudden attack at close range and charging directly at the hull is more suitable for this demonic creation, but the greenskins' sudden intervention disrupted the Chaos fleet's boarding raid plan.

(The Hell Dragon Demon Engine is spitting fire towards the Valkyrie's cockpit)
Around the battle line, small ships of different affiliations also launched attacks, defenses and interceptions around their respective battle lines.

A Cobra-class destroyer of the Imperial Navy used the cover of the void air cloud to launch a torpedo attack on a Hellbringer-class light cruiser equipped with a shuttle apron.

The Chaos light cruiser urgently adjusted its close-range firepower and successfully intercepted three of the four torpedoes.

But that lucky torpedo hit the armored shell above the shuttle apron, and the built-in high-yield melta warhead opened a large hole above the junction of the two shuttle aprons.

In subsequent battles, the Imperial Navy's flagship aviation department never saw new carrier-based aircraft released from the side shuttle ramp.

As the battleships continued to cross each other's lines, the third and fourth ships in both battle lines opened fire on the enemy ships that entered their range.

The third and fourth ships in the Imperial Navy's battle line were both Voss-class light cruisers. These ships were equipped with standard cruiser-level weapons, so their firepower and destructive power were no less than that of the enemy ships.

But Chaos's third and fourth positions should not be underestimated either.

They are the Hell Apostles MK.2, planetary assault ships designed entirely by the Chaos Forces in the M36 era.

Designed for planetary raiding, they are the vanguard of the Chaos armies.

Once the orbital defences have been cleared and surface defence firepower suppressed, landing craft will be released to plunder the Imperium's population and scavenge any supplies the Chaos forces may require.

The ship is equipped with a triple heavy rotating turret on the backbone, and two heavy lance turrets are installed on the tail fins on both sides.

Even the Imperial Navy had to admit that this was an excellent ship designed by the Black Mechanicus, combining both firepower and maneuverability.

But it is not without flaws - it has no torpedoes, no rams, its armor is fragile, and it is very afraid of enemies that are good at close combat, such as green-skinned garbage ships and Tyranid bio-ships.

The Imperial Navy would also take advantage of this weakness and use torpedoes or ramming them.

"Captain, the void shield needs to release overload energy!"

The power department sent a report, and Horatio saw that the symbols of the two void shield generators had turned red and needed to be released urgently.

On the enemy ship.

"My Lord, the enemy flagship's void shield is overloaded, our ship has activated 'Lock On'!"

"Activate the weapons bestowed upon us by the true God. The blessing of the Siren Cannon will cooperate with our boarding and inflict a devastating blow to the false emperor's followers!"

The Chaos crewman grinned cruelly, controlling his wriggling tentacles to immediately execute the launch order.

They use the 'Siren Demon' that possesses the demon host to conduct the evil power of the warp to the cannon shells and light spear energy groups in an extremely cruel way, enchanting the real bullets and charging them with evil energy.

The Chaos ship's black barrel was pointed at the Indefatigable.

But then the Chaos warship did not carry out the free firing that the Imperial Navy officers had guessed. Instead, the long gun barrels remained silent, with only an unsettling purple-black mist lingering above them.

Horatio looked toward the enemy ship, noticing the disturbing purple anomaly on the barrels of the Emperor's Death.

"Is that... the Siren Cannon?!" Horatio recognized the thing.

This is a forbidden technique that is not even recorded in the Imperial Navy's operational manual.

Because simply writing these taboos can easily lead to the writer and learner being corrupted by demonic power.

Therefore, apart from the extremely experienced old captain, few officers of the Imperial Navy could recognize what the scene before them meant.

As a time traveler, Horatio naturally knew that this was a skill of the flagship of the Lord of Pleasure. In the "lock" mode, the Siren Cannon would give its own large-scale weapons a powerful destructive power to the enemy's ship, while causing a strong mental blow to the enemy's crew.

After the mental blow has weakened morale and combat effectiveness, the next step is often to face a deadly boarding operation.

Horatio stood up suddenly and ordered the sound array to broadcast his words to the power department at maximum power: "Supercharge the void shield immediately!"

Then he used brain waves to issue the "arm and prepare" order to the armed command room below the command bridge.

In an instant, the entire ship sounded a piercing and dazzling red alarm.

At the same time, after receiving the corresponding instructions, the Tech-Sage of the Mechanicus of the Indefatigable also raised the Axe of the Pandora's Box and chanted a prayer in a binary language that outsiders could not understand.

Wastefully releases the overloaded energy in the Voidshield Capacitors into the surrounding Void.

The restless energy dissipation forced the surrounding escort ships to evade urgently to avoid being paralyzed or damaged by the ionization field.

After the pressure was relieved in a very short time, the technical sage used the stable ionization energy originally supplied to the weapons and power departments to urgently supercharge the void shield.

This was an emergency restart of the void shield at the expense of weakening the lance cannon and the power of the entire ship.

This move requires a long cooldown period and can only be used once in combat. Otherwise, the ion core of the void shield generator will have a high risk of explosion during the rapid decompression and charging process.

The pipeline connected to the void shield generator suddenly burst into a dazzling blue light, and stable energy was transmitted to the void shield generator by the transformer at maximum power.

Because the situation was too urgent, the Technosage activated super charging before he had time to alert the surrounding Imperial Navy crew members.

Some mortal crew members were instantly blinded by the dazzling light that even the thick insulating pipe skin could not block, and they knelt on the ground wailing, covering their bleeding eyes.

The Emperor's Death opened fire, sending shrieking beams and shells hurtling towards the Indefatigable.

With just a hair's breadth of difference, the void shield that had disappeared around the Indefatigable was lit up again.

On the screen in front of Horatio, the energy slot of the lance cannon flashed an orange warning sign, indicating that the corresponding component was insufficiently supplied with energy and that it would take five to ten minutes to transfer the energy.

Only one beam of light spear from the enemy's shooting successfully hit the midship of the Indefatigable, and the others were intercepted by the redeployed void shield.

A crack was instantly created at the site of impact. The beam of light treated the dozens of meters thick refined gold armor as nothing and penetrated directly into the hull, shooting very deep.

The black and purple beams were accompanied by a strange scream. Compared with what happened to their comrades afterwards, those crew members who were killed in one shot because they were too close were actually the lucky ones.

The nightmarish black and purple miasma crossed the ceramic steel isolation door, followed the pipes filled with cables, invaded the air circulation system, and spread to the cabin near the impact site.

"God, it's the Siren!" The old crew member who was repairing the ship stopped his work, his face frozen, and he listened to something with his ears tilted in disbelief.

"What is a Siren?" The marines selected from the naval planetary base were confused. These newly recruited soldiers for the expedition did not understand the ins and outs of the void.

"A soul-stealing female ghost! Run away, get out of there!"

The old crew member simply dropped the tools in his hands, howled and ran away, and the surrounding crew members followed suit. The originally orderly cabin instantly fell into chaos.

"Come back here! Damn it! I'll shoot anyone who dares to leave his position!"

Sailors are superstitious, and this is still the case when humans set foot on the ocean and even sail around the world. There are many strange legends among them, among which the "Siren" is one of the most enduring ones.

Legend has it that this is a mermaid creature that paralyzes people's hearts through sound, and eventually drags people into the sea and drowns them.

But in the Age of the Void, it has more interpretations, all of which contain the deep fear of sailors and seamen.

And Chaos, especially the followers of Slaanesh, know best how to use the fear and cacophony of human hearts to achieve such terrifying purposes.

There was a commotion among the crew. In order to ensure the operation of each post, the armed sailors mercilessly pointed their guns at these sailors at dusk.

But soon, the sailors also saw the shadows, and the supernatural scenes filled their minds with terrifying ghost stories.

They tried to fight back with the weapons in their hands, shooting wildly into the sky, but apart from damaging some cabin parts, the ghosts still roamed freely in the cabin, emitting laughter that was sometimes seductive and sometimes terrifying, causing panic and greater chaos.

The noise surrounded the soldiers permanently.

Soon some people began to vomit, while others seemed to have lost their souls, with their arms limp and laser guns hanging crookedly on their bodies. They walked aimlessly and no matter how others shouted at them, they did not respond, as if their souls had left their bodies.

These strange phenomena greatly weakened the morale of the crew.

"Attention, enemy boarding forces are coming."

Horatio stared with a stern face at the boarding bay of the Emperor's Death, which was spewing out dense swarms of Claws of Terror. The nearby escorting aircraft and escort ships immediately began to intercept it.

During the 500-kilometer battle interval, flames suddenly spread and explosions occurred frequently, reaching a new level of intensity.

(End of this chapter)