Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 408 05.0407: "Ultimate Evolution! Devil Ship!"

The chaos in the void turned the outer orbit of the star Far into a garbage dump with floating wreckage of various ships and dangerous reactor remnants.

The wreckage of ships and frozen corpses floated aimlessly, and were smashed to pieces by ships and aircraft with full power.

Under the illumination of stars, these re-crushed particles of matter are pushed further into the lightless darkness.

The Indefatigable continued to fight the enemy, and at this moment, all the ships around her, both enemy and friendly, were severely damaged.

Shell after shell hit the broad and heavy hull, and the trajectories carved out by through-penetrating shells or near-misses divided the corridors of the outer deck into natural moats.

If people want to pass through, they can only wear full-body protective clothing, activate the magnetic boots on their feet, step on the still connected steel cabin panels to reach the other side and flow through by weightlessness.

There were also cabins that were dented and could not be rescued.

If a section of the oxygen supply pipe embedded in the life-support pipe breaks, the survivors who are spared from direct death by the shelling will die of lack of oxygen within a few hours.

One of the Indefatigable's portside macro cannons had already been pierced by a 'super-large cannonball' fired from the greenskins' super-large cannons.

The shell almost completely tore through the outer barrel of the port side's No. 2 macro gun, then detonated in the deeper gun compartment, turning everything inside into nothingness, or with luck, into unrecognizable charred wreckage.

It all happened very quickly, and all the clans of the No. 2 Macro Cannon were evaporated in the explosion, and they didn't even feel much pain when they died.

Fortunately, there were two ten-meter-thick layers of refined gold armor between the No. 2 macro cannon and the other gun compartments, and there was also the crew's "living area" in the middle of the partitions as a buffer barrier, which prevented the No. 1 and No. 3 macro cannons from being too seriously affected.

However, the armor plates were also twisted and deformed by the huge explosion, and the crew members who were recuperating due to injuries and were placed between two layers of armor plates were instantly crushed into human meat pies by the dented armor caused by the explosion.

Even the command platform located at the top of the gun bay was not completely spared. The command room with layers of protection was baked hot, causing deep burns to the deputy officer on duty.

The boarding team members wearing heavy protective clothing braved the high temperature and used shotguns to blow open the hatch. They then rescued the barely breathing, already unconscious reserve officer from inside and carried him into the infirmary.

The No. 4 macro cannon was also damaged, and the greenskins' squeaking electromagnetic cannon hit the armor plate around it, tearing a crack in it. Then, the greenskin attack planes and warships that had gained range of fire operated various auxiliary weapons to sweep the large crack, killing many crew members and contract workers who tried to repair or evade.

The blood coagulated into round blood beads the size of fists, floating in the area where the gravity field was almost ineffective.

Although they suffered heavy casualties, the crew of the Indefatigable still gritted their teeth and stayed at their posts, fighting the enemy to the death and fulfilling their duties. No one left their post without permission.

They knew very well that the Indefatigable was their home, and everyone, whether they were as noble as the king, the captain, or the humble and lowly indentured laborers serving sentences, understood one thing: if the Indefatigable was destroyed, everyone would die.

The human instinct for survival allows the crew to grit their teeth and endure the pain of trauma, the freezing cold or scorching environment, maintain the normal operation of all equipment on the ship, and operate large and small weapons to fight the enemy.

Horatio calmly commanded the Indefatigable to fight against the surrounding enemy ships. Under the orderly arrangement of the fleet commander, Commodore Peru, the Imperial Navy widened the gaps between the ships in the line.

Now, all ships can decide for themselves whether to launch torpedoes or engage selected enemies without breaking the battle line.

The rear of the Imperial Navy battle line.

Under the tactical arrangement of the flagship Captain Horatio, the Voss-class light cruiser and the Dreadnought-class light cruiser at the rear launched a boarding operation against Chaos' two Hell Apostle-class light cruisers with carrier-based aircraft launch pads.

Landing craft shuttled back and forth under the illumination of fire, attacking and defending, reinforcing and counter-reinforcing, tens of thousands of boarding crew members fought in a melee on four warships. In the end, the Imperial Navy boarding crew successfully turned the light cruiser at the end of the Chaos battle line into a drifting abandoned ship and destroyed its engine power system.

In order to prevent the greenskins from seizing and reusing the obsolete ship in subsequent operations, Commodore Peru ordered the last evacuated detachment to overload and detonate the power engine to completely destroy the entire battleship.

The rest of the Chaos warships were unable to escape from the double-sided attack, and the green-skinned garbage ship used its tractor beam to pull back the warships that were trying to escape, then it used full power to ram them head-on, and finally launched a boarding attempt.

The shattered Chaos battle lines had lost most of their combat power due to being captured by the Greenskins or destroyed by the Imperial Navy.

Aboard the Emperor's Death.

"Admiral! We can't hold on any longer!" The technical heretic commanding the bridge, his terrifying face that had been modified to the point where not a trace of flesh and blood could be seen, was illuminated red by the flashing red warning light.

"..." The man did not answer. The neural plugs that had been connected to the Chaos ship for a long time turned his eyes into pure black without any reflection. His skin was as pale as if it had been soaked in water. When he was motionless, the fine scars all over his body like tattoos made him look like a dead man.

After a moment he raised his head and stuck out his long, forked tongue, which made a hissing sound.

"I will never let my Lord down."

Aboard the Indefatigable.

Horatio detected an unholy purple flicker on the enemy ship's bridge.

He watched for a while, and after confirming that the enemy ship was indeed shaking violently, he decisively issued a preventive order.

"Engineering, close the armored curtain!"

The motor that was still able to operate started up, and steel cables pulled down layers of armored protective curtains. At this moment, the entire Chaos battleship on the opposite side instantly lost the heaviness and lines that a mechanical creation should have, as if it had become a living creature, with unclean purple thorny tentacles suddenly extending out.

Some crew members who were unfortunate enough to witness this scene due to damage to the hull suffered instant physiological changes.

The sailors leaning against the bulkhead with their backs to the enemy ship killed the howling mutants without hesitation - the state church priests and military supervisors on the ship would regularly teach the sailors to identify mutant characteristics, and they had no shortage of experience in clearing mutants on the ship.

"It's over... Take back the armored roller blind!"

The armor curtains on the Indefatigable were rolled up again, and the dazzling flying lasers came into view again, making many people who had just adapted to the dim environment feel a little uncomfortable. However, even so, the naval officers on the bridge still opened their eyes wide despite the pain.

"God Emperor, it's a demon ship!" Finally, the lookout officer broke the silence and shouted in surprise.

At this moment, the 'Emperor's Death' has completely changed its appearance.

The broken parts of the wedge-shaped hull were covered with pink and purple tentacles with sharp barbs, swaying slowly in the void; its back was also filled with ugly and deformed long-horned demon heads that kept screaming hideously.

This ugly pink-purple demon bit on the organ-like sound array that appeared out of nowhere, twisting and swaying on the top of the ship like some kind of mollusk. Just one look at it made people feel strongly physically uncomfortable.

Horatio felt deep sympathy for the men who operated the sighting equipment.

Even though there was such a long distance in the vacuum, the screams emitted by these heads in coordination with the sound array were still like densely packed steel needles, piercing the hearts of the imperial soldiers.

On the bridge, more tumor-like demonic limbs were stacked layer upon layer.

Some of them were covered with deformed arms that seemed to be trying to grab something, and others had six eyes that kept fluttering, emitting a lazy, lingering, and seductive purple light. As long as one looked into their eyes, the light seemed to be able to directly devour one's soul.

The bridge was no longer what it used to be. It had become a huge, twisted organ that towered above the ship's spine.

This was just the beginning. The Chaos ships behind the Chaos battle line that were being attacked by the Imperial Navy and destroyed by the greenskins also began to activate and transform into demon ships.

"They are still in the early stages of transformation into 'demon ships', and the hulls are not fully activated. We must destroy their material carriers as soon as possible to interrupt the further development of this process!" said Brigadier General Edward Peru seriously.

Judging from the veteran's calm expression, this was not the first time he had encountered such an enemy ship.

This made Horatio feel a little relieved, indicating that things could still be saved and the demon ship was not invincible.

As a military branch that possesses the largest war products in human history.

The Imperial Navy holds the most powerful weapon that is closest to killing gods in the human army.

As long as the enemy has a 'health bar', then all problems are not a problem.

(End of this chapter)