Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 445 06.0444: "A Life-threatening Attack (Part )"

On the stricken Tau transport, raging fires greedily devoured the precious air.

The moment the nuclear explosion occurred, all organic objects and steel structures near the explosion point were vaporized. The scalding molten iron at the edge of the explosion poured onto the blue-skinned aliens. Their firm belief in the Greater Good was unable to stop the spread of the carbonization reaction.

The scorching deck was littered with the bodies of Tau Empire fire warriors and servants.

"Quick! Abandon ship! Abandon ship!"

"what!!!"

"Ahem! I can't breathe! Help...help me!"

Continuous screams of terror spread throughout the entire merchant-class cargo ship that was several kilometers long. The Tau soldiers, wearing golden-orange battle armor and set on fire, desperately beat out the flames on their bodies.

The flames flowed like liquid, seeping into the gaps between the nanocrystalline metal of the combat armor. The nano-jumpsuit underneath the armor could not isolate itself from the high temperature of thousands of degrees, and the astonishing heat continued to burn the inner layer of skin and flesh underneath.

As the oxygen became increasingly scarce due to the massive combustion, those lucky ones who escaped direct damage from the torpedo attack began to have difficulty breathing. Large amounts of poisonous smoke poured into the cabin through the ventilation pipes, and the oxygen content in the cabins without ventilation pipes quickly dropped to the critical value.

The explosion happened so quickly that many people didn't have time to escape to the lifeboat.

Corpses dressed in golden-orange battle armor surrounded the burning hull and floated everywhere in the void.

"Hurry up! Hurry up!"

In the Epic's torpedo room, the crew members exerted all their strength and, with the help of machinery, stuffed huge torpedoes that were hundreds of meters long into the silo passage.

"Torpedo silo number three has been loaded!"

As the standby light turned from red to green, the officer on the bridge also updated the information.

"Torpedo silo number four loaded!"

"Fire!" Horatio immediately gave the order to fire.

Two torpedoes were fired again, passing over the burning ship and the floating wreckage, and cunningly hit the merchant-class cargo ship that turned around and tried to escape at the rear.

The two escorting Orca-class destroyers became anxious and rushed directly towards the Epic, ignoring other enemies.

At this time, E47 and E48 had just been loaded. Seeing the destroyer rushing towards the formation command ship, Horatio immediately asked the mechanical priest to connect the line guidance.

The torpedo connected by wires jumped out of the silo and was manually controlled to head towards the Orca-class destroyer, which was performing a zigzag evasion and maintaining a high speed.

boom!
The Tau destroyer approaching from the left was accurately intercepted by the Mechanic Priest with a wire-guided torpedo. The powerful torpedo blew it to pieces. The flying ship fragments also hit the surrounding ships and smashed some civilian ships into a mess.

Several of them hit the Epic's adamantine hull, causing several rivets to loosen slightly due to the vibration, and one of the armor plates was slightly dented, but for the entire battleship, this damage was insignificant and could be repaired quickly after the war.

The second torpedo missed the target. Although the E48's mechanical priest immediately operated the torpedo to turn, the enemy ship was already very close to the Epic, less than 150 kilometers away.

It sent out a detection wave, and at such a close distance, even with the shadow field, the Epic was exposed to the radar of the Orca-class destroyer, and its general shape was outlined on the display screen.

But a scene occurred that shocked the Titanium officers and soldiers.

Their equipment clearly detected enemy ships ahead, but they could not see any ships at all when they looked visually.

So much so that the Air caste captain of the battleship thought there was a radar error.

Just as the Tau Empire destroyer was hesitating.

"Macro Cannon has locked on!"

"Fire!"

boom!
A fine gold shell flashed in the darkness and hit the destroyer's bridge directly, exploding a ball of dazzling golden fire.

The automatic ammunition hoist rumbled, and in just over a minute, the Voss-type light macro cannon with a caliber of more than 60 meters roared again.

Only then did the Titan warships, whose crews were knocked to the ground, believe that there really was an invisible Imperial warship there.

But at this time they had lost the command and fire control of the bridge, and did not detect the specific direction of the Epic through optical sensors. Therefore, this Orca-class destroyer could only face the Epic with the wrong bow direction.

This cost her an adamantium shell to the battleship's brain, and also put the Epic in the blind spot of the two twin-mounted light railguns on the rear spine of the ship.

Only the two ion cannons located on the front fins hurriedly fired a series of blue glowing balls towards the Epic's approximate final location.

(The Orca-class destroyer of the Tau Empire was an early design without experience, so the firing range of the twin light rail gun turrets on its back was very poor.)
After firing, the Epic reduced its power to a level where its tail flame was invisible, and left its original position early at 5 Void Knots.

Facing the overwhelming ion light balls, she was only hit once on the left armored hull.

The ion ball burned a large irregular hole with a dark red edge on the armored hull, but the function of the outer adamantine hull was actually equivalent to air gap armor.

There was only one maintenance corridor inside the armor, and some supplies and repair materials were piled up, nothing else, and no casualties were caused. The Epic's macro cannons hit the destroyer several times in succession, making it unstable.

The Orca-class, which had been suffering from the beating, finally waited until the moment when the railgun turret on the spine of the ship was out of range. The four railgun barrels emitted a disturbing light as the electromagnetic acceleration coils gathered energy.

The railgun weapon is the iconic weapon of the Tau Empire to conquer the galaxy. This powerful weapon can enable ordinary soldiers of the Tau Empire to have destructive power comparable to the plasma weapons of Space Marines on the ground. In the void, it can also enable warships to have extremely powerful super cannons with extremely fierce penetration.

If it hits, one side of the Epic's hull will definitely be pierced.

This made Horatio sweat.

"Hasn't the torpedo that missed come back yet?"

"E48 reporting, the distance is too close, it will take a long time!"

Horatio sighed.

"Report on the torpedo loading situation!"

"Torpedo No. 1 has been loaded!"

"Target approaching, enemy destroyer!"

"Calibrating the lead!"

"Use the wire guide! We don't have time to calibrate. Letty, this shot is up to you!" Horatio said sternly with a frown on his face.

"Please rest assured, Captain, Fu Fu Fu." The goddess's magnetic voice was transmitted through the wire and sounded in the sound array.

"emission!"

The short-burning Helios torpedo leaped into the void at an extremely fast speed.

This was the fastest torpedo in the Epic's assortment of torpedoes, and Horatio was using it to gamble time with the Tau Empire's railguns.

Buzz! Bang!

Four shells accelerated to the speed of light by magnetic track coils were fired from the acceleration track. Since they could not aim accurately, the Air caste observers could only estimate the direction. The dark blue light of destruction flew past the Epic.

The high-energy disturbance that passed by caused the Epic's shadow field to fluctuate, and the stealth state was no longer stable.

This space distortion fluctuation, which was inconsistent with cosmic physics, was successfully captured by the observation gunner on the Orca-class destroyer.

"You are finished! Hostile ones! Die with your stupidity! For the Greater Good!"

The thumb of its four broad fingers pressed the firing button.

"Torpedo spotted on starboard!"

A terrified cry interrupted the sighting lock, and the gunner immediately turned the periscope and saw a torpedo turning towards him.

The torpedo fired from the Epic's bow completed a right turn, dragging a long black wire as it rushed towards the destroyer that was fighting it.

Everyone now knows what a critical situation the Epic is facing.

The Void Submarine was hit right in front of the destroyer, which was not good news no matter how you looked at it.

Some inexperienced crew members seemed a little panicked, but at this critical moment, panic would only worsen the situation.

"All crew members remain calm, we must trust the captain, trust the officers, remember what you were trained to do, and perform your duties conscientiously.

Today, the enemy will never sink us, and victory will belong to the God-Emperor."

Military Supervisor Farida used a soft but firm voice to soothe the somewhat agitated crew members in the lower cabin, while looking at Horatio's calm and upright figure.

Horatio looked at her, then nodded and continued to observe the battle.

"We only have one chance! The Emperor will protect us, and we must sacrifice ourselves as a burnt offering for the Golden Throne, but that will not be today." Louise spoke loudly, and with the words of faith she succeeded in calming the commotion, and then she held her breath and stared at the torpedo's tail flame.

"Believe in Father Latti, and may the Emperor of God and the God of All Things bless you." Horatio exhaled slowly and continued to observe with the telescope.

"Enemy torpedoes/missiles detected." The rapid-fire ion cannon on the bow of the Orca-class destroyer immediately gave up strafing the Epic and turned to aim at the Helios torpedo that was fired out of nowhere.

Uh-huh-huh

The close-in ion cannon was at full power, and its triangular barrel design allowed it to fire at an ultra-high rate of 1200 rounds per second. The energy reserve indicator was visibly dropping at a dangerous rate, but the gunner no longer cared about that, as it was pouring out everything for its own survival.

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