Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 555 06.0554: "Emergency Escape"

Just as Horatio was leading the white-haired, red-eyed machine soul girl, looking for a way to escape from the fire and impact of the explosion.

"Captain." A Clean Angel ran up to him and whispered in his ear, "Military Supervisor Hood is about to give birth."

Horatio's eyes shot open.

"How long will it take to give birth?"

"It's almost there. Sister Arabella and Officer Diana are protecting the Military Supervisor. Everything is normal now."

"Thank you for your hard work. Please help Farida give birth as soon as possible, because we are about to make a warp jump. Also, I can't leave the command throne now."

After saying that, he closed his eyes and once again took the hand of the Machine Soul Girl.

"Captain." The Machine Soul Girl looked into his focused and steady eyes, tilted her head, and looked up and said.

"What is it, Epic?"

"Maybe you should go."

"Before being a husband and a father, I am first and foremost your captain. My duty overrides any personal feelings." His tone was unquestionable and firm.

"Understood, Captain."

"You help me, I'll help you."

Then she said something that Horatio didn't understand.

Inside the nursery, the lights flickered with every shake, and the bulkheads creaked from the impact of the explosion.

"Push harder! Yes, that's it, keep going."

"Ah! It hurts so much! Ah!!" Farida was sweating profusely and her face was pale. The pain of childbirth almost made her faint.

Sister Arabella tried to use the power of faith to relieve her pain, but her power was completely useless in front of Farida.

"Wow!!!" The baby's head finally appeared. Driven by instinct, he burst into tears and breathed air into his tender lungs, making the already busy room even noisier.

"Military Supervisor Hood, please stay awake." A medical sister patted her face and called out:

“No, she’s about to faint!

"Superintendent Hood, please look at me, look at my fingers!"

"The fetus has one hand hanging on! She has to hold on a little longer!
Military supervisor, don't fall asleep, open your mouth a little more!
Lift her up, quick!"

Farida's lips turned purple and she was almost losing consciousness.

At this extremely critical moment, a girl with heterochromatic eyes appeared outside the cabin.

Sister Arabella instinctively turned her head and saw her skin so pale that it was almost bloodless. She was like a ghost, silent and motionless.

She always kept a distance from Farida.

The girl raised the Astropath's staff with a large eye on it, and Arabella suddenly felt the psychic energy around her filling up.

Can the power of faith be used?

Arabella ignored the girl and quickly cast the consecrated light on Farida, which could relieve her pain.

"Huh!" Just like a drowning person who got a chance to catch his breath, Farida suddenly opened her eyes and gasped. As she sat up with difficulty and adjusted her posture, the baby's arm that was originally stuck in her body was successfully taken out by Sister Arabella.

The girl with heterochromatic eyes in the distance also showed an expression of fatigue and pain on her face. She stroked her forehead lightly and left with a long staff.

"Out!"

Sister Arabella helped Farida squeeze out the baby, and the baby's cries became clearer. A healthy baby boy without any obvious mutation characteristics was born with the umbilical cord.

Two medical sisters immediately took the healthy baby boy from Arabella and began to care for him.

When Sister Arabella wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her blood-stained silver gauntlet and looked outside the cabin again, the girl with heterochromatic eyes had disappeared.

"Diana Court Officer."

"what happened?"

"Just now, there was a very strange girl outside. Did you see her? She seemed to be an astropath?"

"There was no one outside just now, sister," said Officer Diana. "When I was supporting Inspector Hood, I was facing the hatch from beginning to end. There was nothing there just now."

"Eh?" Sister Arabella showed a confused expression on her face. She looked back again and again: "But just now...!"

"Sister, you have worked hard. I don't think it is likely to be a miracle. Let me help you up."

Arabella stood up with the help of Diana and wiped her fingers that had been washed in clean water. She looked out of the cabin door where no one was with a suspicious look on her face, recalling what had just happened.

On the command bridge. Although the Epic was in the Imperial Navy's controlled area and had just sent out a distress signal, under such a fierce siege attack, the Epic's void shield supercharge could only last for ten minutes. Although there were fleets rushing to help in the surrounding area, they could not arrive within these crucial ten minutes.

If they don't make a decision to avoid danger now, when the fleet arrives, they will only see wreckage everywhere and the Tau Empire's commerce-breaking fleet that is gradually making a warp-surface jump to escape the battle.

"The subspace engine is working fine!"

"Parameter calibration completed!"

"Geller's force field is online!"

"The force field is operating at full power! Geller's force field is normal."

"The Navigator family is ready!"

Although the officers were extremely anxious, they were still reporting various parameters to the captain in a hurry.

Horatio sat crookedly on the command throne, one hand resting on the armrest of the adamantine throne and the other hand casually supporting his cheek.

His eyes were closed and no one knew why he was so calm.

"Captain, emergency subspace jump preparations completed."

When Lati's voice came into his ears, he opened his eyes slightly.

"Begin emergency disengagement."

"Our navigator will lead us out!" Someone shouted, comforting everyone a little.

"The countdown for emergency withdrawal from combat begins! 15...14...13...12..." The cold mechanical sound echoed in every cabin, the plasma engine was shut down, and the ship remained motionless in the void.

"The blessing of the Divine Emperor protects all living beings; the power of the Divine Emperor blesses thousands of people..."

The subspace curtains of the portholes were slowly lowered. In the ship's church, the nun choir was in the center and began to lead the singing. Thousands of gray-robed monks surrounded the Roman theater-style choir and sang the consecration hymn to the beat of the choir. Incense was also lit, swirling and diffusing in the air.

"Give your answer, Captain Cochrane." The alien's voice came from the sound array.

"I have only one answer, and that is." He opened his eyes indifferently and looked at the hateful blue face:
"Alien, die!"

"Then prepare to meet your fate, hostile one!"

The communication was interrupted, and the commerce raider cruiser fired a large row of heavy Seeker missiles at the Epic. The density was so high that it was obviously aimed at killing it.

Even without a direct hit, the airburst of so many heavy missiles could break the Epic into several pieces like a Pocky.

Horatio remained calm.

"Countdown, 3...2...1."

"The Warp rift has opened."

A huge black and purple hole suddenly opened up in front of the Epic. Its color was evil and disturbing. Countless lightning bolts stretched out from it like tentacles, as if trying to drag the Epic into the abyss.

'Emergency escape from combat' is one of the final options for ships with the ability to navigate in the subspace, which allows them to tear open a subspace rift and escape from combat in an emergency when they are at a serious disadvantage or their hull is damaged.

But it is not without cost.

Because it is not a normal jump from the Mandeville Point, this 'wild' controllable rift will cause the warship to plunge into the vast turbulence of the warp space and lose its correct course.

As far as he knew, his ancestor, Admiral Spyder, had been lost in the vastness of the Warp during his final hunt for Abaddon's lackeys, and his whereabouts had been unknown for nearly 800 years.

This number is not absolute; other records were made by the Blood Angels at some time thereafter.

However, it is certain that Spyr was lost in the warp for hundreds of years.

Trapped in the ever-changing currents of the Warp for centuries, such hardships would drive a mere mortal to madness, or even cause him to fall into the clutches of the very gods he once fought.

Some say he is dead, eternally lost in the darkness of the Warp.

Some people say that he betrayed and became one of the traitors.

Others say that he will return like lightning at the empire's darkest hour.

When Speyer brought back news of a massive Chaos fleet attack from a reconnaissance mission, he was only the captain of a light cruiser. Inquisitor Horst chose to promote him to fleet admiral at rocket speed.

That was the beginning of Abaddon's 12th Black Crusade.

There is no doubt that this is a gamble with all one's effort.

When missiles swarmed in and were about to hit the Epic.

Whoosh!
When the lightning spread to the hull of the Epic, the slender new battleship was like being sucked directly into a greedy mouth and suddenly disappeared.

The huge hole in the subspace slowly closed, and the seeker missiles that had lost their targets exploded at their designated locations.

(End of this chapter)