Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 624 06.0623: "You mean, there is a little white-haired, red-eyed Lolita assassin who is going to attack the battleship?"

"Fire all torpedoes!!! The exclusive seat on the Golden Throne is waiting for us!" Horatio grinned and laughed wildly as he gave the order to attack.

"Roar!!!! For the Golden Throne!!!!" Deafening and exciting roars broke out in the bridge, torpedo room, and even the official hall and kitchen.

For the followers of the Emperor, what could be more exciting than the glorious return to the Golden Throne? This is why they follow this Saint and board his warship!

“Ancestor Ravensburg, please bless me with good health today! God-Emperor, please let me go home safely tomorrow! Ohm Messiah, please let me have a mechanical prosthesis to save my life when I get injured!” David Betty von Ravensburg clasped his hands together, closed his eyes tightly, and spoke faster and faster. He prayed to his ancestors, the God-Emperor, and the God of All Machines all at once. He didn’t know who would step up if all of them appeared.

Collingwood resolutely pulled down the switch to switch the lights, and the lights in the cabins of the entire ship instantly changed from bright white to dark red. The color of blood filled the entire ship, giving people a tense and oppressive feeling.

Red light has the longest wavelength and is eye-catching but not glaring, allowing people to adapt to darkness in advance.

This is to prepare for the dark environment that would be created if the Epic was hit by a screen ship and the lights or lines were damaged.

Old man Joe, who was already wearing a damage control void suit, and his two sons were crouching under the hammock like frightened beasts.

His thin, rough old hands tightly grasped the wrench, and his sweat-soaked skin was shiny as his Adam's apple moved.

After sailing for so long, unlike when Horatio first saw him, when there was only jokes and nervousness in his eyes, now there is not only nervousness but also determination in his eyes as he waits for the upcoming battle.

Even his youngest son, the skinny boy with a Mohawk, now has a look of determination in his eyes.

Whoosh whoosh—

The Epic fired a salvo of six torpedoes from its front four and rear two torpedo tubes - this was equivalent to a battleship of the Human Empire firing a salvo at close range.

The torpedoes rushed out of the torpedo tubes, like naga thirsting for revenge from the deep sea, rushing to the surface from below with anger and hatred.

They were extremely fast, leaving behind golden trails, like sharp blades cutting through the void.

"Ether! Torpedoes appear within our screen line, directly below the flagship! Fire at very close range!"

"What?! Inside our screen line? How could they? How dare they?! When did they sneak in? No! There is no time to think about these, quickly let all carrier-based aircraft intercept the incoming torpedoes!" This irrational surprise attack was completely not in any of Ether's plans.

His voice was full of shock and impatience, and he pounded the ground with the cane in his hand again.

Are you saying that a 2.2-kilometer-long stealth warship with a machine soul and the image of a white-haired, red-eyed little loli somehow found its way into the flagship screen line consisting of more than a dozen light cruisers and more than 20 frigates and destroyers, and launched a desperate suicidal attack on the two battleships in front of them at a distance that was just close enough for a torpedo to detonate?

But Horatio really did it, right under everyone's noses.

Now, the entire Tau fleet knew that there was a stealth attack ship lurking in the plane directly below for a long time, waiting to launch an attack now.
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The Tau fleet used almost all its firepower to resist the torpedoes that rained down from the front. The huge bodies of the warships adjusted slightly in space to find the best angle to counter the deadly weapons fired by the Imperial fleet.

They are so focused on the threat before them that they are completely unaware of their own weaknesses and are facing a precarious situation.

When the Epic launched a swift attack on the two battleships from close range like a sharp blade, its tricky position instantly shocked the fleets of both sides.

Everyone stared with wide eyes, looking at the warship that suddenly appeared in disbelief.

No one knew how Horatio, the long-lost wolf king, had sneaked into the Tau's guard line without anyone noticing.

He was like a ghost, appearing out of nowhere in the void without any sign, and it was completely impossible to predict with common sense.

Horatio himself could not explain it. If someone asked him, he could only scratch his head and say with a wry smile, "I somehow teleported from the Hidden Mandeville Point. Who knew that the main fleet of the Tau clan happened to be right in the middle of the Hidden Mandeville Point? I squeezed into the screen line in the blink of an eye."

He secretly thanked his luck that the enemy was Tau. If the enemy was a race that had anything to do with psychic powers, or a race like the Necrons that had the means to detect and combat psychic powers, the outcome would be death as soon as they showed their heads.

The moment the Epic sails out of Mandeville Point, it will be sensed by Chaos Wizards, Necromancers, and Greenskin Shamans.

The movement of the Mandeville point is as obvious to psychic perception as a beacon in the dark night.

But the Tau Empire still stubbornly refused to acknowledge the existence of the warp and psionic energy. Like an ostrich, they stuck their heads in a cave, claiming that this galaxy was "pure materialism, with no gods or magic, only pure science and technology that made civilization great"; on the other hand, they did not have enough trump cards in science.

The technology to detect psychic fluctuations and Warp rifts had not yet been developed at this time - according to official history, this happened after the Great Rift.

And Horatio just happened to take advantage of this loophole in history.

Horatio made the decision on the command platform. He allocated the Explorer-class ship with a capacity of four torpedoes in the front launch tube, and reserved the capacity of two torpedoes at the rear for the Guardian-class aerospace carrier.

The reason why there is so much "malice" towards the Explorer-class is mainly because it is the oldest mother of the Tau Empire's freighters.

Not only does it have a worse abdominal defense matrix, it is also responsible for providing supplies and repair parts for the entire fleet, and can be called the "nanny" of the team.

Horatio thought to himself, if that's the case, it's normal for me, an "assassin", to cut off the "nurse" in the back row during a team fight.

After all, its abdominal defense matrix is ​​too old and has the worst layout, with only six ion cannons in total.

Therefore, Horatio fired all four bow torpedoes at it without hesitation, hoping to hit a grand slam.

As long as the adjacent parts are hit intensively, its thick and long hull will break in the middle, killing it instantly.

Compared to the Explorer class, the Sentinel class is a troublesome opponent.

It is a legitimate warship of the Tau Empire, equipped with powerful weapon systems, more advanced structural resistance, and more carrier-based aircraft.

With its hollow structure, it would take at least seven or eight torpedo hits to completely destroy it. This was only a conservative calculation. After all, on such a large warship, there must be tens of thousands of repair drones to rescue and stop the damage at the moment of damage. If it is not killed by one hit, it will recover quickly, which will increase the subsequent ammunition consumption.

"Turn immediately! Start evacuating, and the entire ship must load ammunition urgently! I want all torpedo silos to be loaded within five minutes, especially the tail torpedo tube!" Horatio gave the order according to the pre-planned plan.

Once the flames of the surprise attack were ignited, the Epic was instantly exposed to the eyes of the entire Titanium fleet.

The Epic fired all of its torpedoes in a very short period of time, then quickly turned around and fled the assassination scene to the rear.

But Horatio did not let the Epic sail at full speed immediately. He frowned and stared at the screen, intending to take another look at the movements of the Tau screen ship.

After all, there is still a distance of 600 kilometers, and they also need to intercept the torpedoes flying towards the two battleships.

The Tau warship keenly captured the heat energy of the torpedo and, after turning on the radar scan, quickly detected the location of the Epic.

Even if there is a completely transparent space, the radar reflection of matter will not disappear.

The Tu Clan operator stared at the screen, made multiple comparisons, and finally accurately located the position of the slender warship.

"It's trying to escape! Don't let it succeed!"

"We've locked onto him with our radar! He can't get away!"

(End of this chapter)