Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 74 Death of the Conqueror
The light spear pierced its body. The airtight doors that were closed in an emergency were completely unable to withstand the attack of a Glorious Queen-class battleship. The deadly torpedo penetrated the defense and hit the Conqueror's lower deck directly.

Captain Rotara Salin, who had merged with the battleship, felt the flagship's pain through nerve pulses. Her muscles convulsed and twitched, and large amounts of blood spurted from her mouth, with blood even flowing from the corners of her eyes.

However, even in the desperate situation, Rotara remained ferocious. This captain would never abandon his warship or sit and wait for death.

The Conqueror was engulfed in flames. Massive explosions were pushing the battleship to the brink of death. The detonation of internally stored ammunition and the loss of control of the engine and reactor caused this supreme crystallization of imperial technology to completely lose power.

It was still firing its macrocannons with all its might, and its outer rapid-fire cannons and lance arrays were constantly destroying the Ultramarines ships that came too close. Even though it was seriously injured, it was not something that could be desecrated by cruisers or destroyers.

"Give it death!" Gage ordered the captain coldly.

Two powerful torpedoes finally became the last straw, and the Conqueror's adamantine keel was destroyed by the devastating explosion.

The skeleton and flesh of this giant ship were separated, and a large amount of cabins and decks were thrown into space, causing the air inside it to be quickly sucked out by the cold universe.

Those technicians who were still working hard and the slaves who were whipped to work were killed in a very short time by the extreme low temperature and low pressure in space.

Rotara sat slumped on his throne with a pale face. The machine spirit of the ship had stopped responding. It was completely killed by its own sister, just like it had killed those Ultramarines' ships before.

The captain and the flagship are connected by soul, and their relationship is much closer than imagined. Rotara realizes that her life is also slipping away rapidly.

"let's go."

In the final moments, Rotara struggled to control the remaining system permissions, which were the reflections of the corpse left after the death of the Queen of Glory.

She ejected the cabin that stored the Dreadnought, a miniature lifeboat that could carry the people inside away from the sinking warship at a critical moment.

Fearless Locke is still sleeping, and he will drift with the lifeboat if he can survive the battlefield filled with lights and macro cannons.

Gage watched as the wreckage of the Conqueror lost all power and was pulled by Amaterra's gravity to fall into the surface of the planet. This battleship had completely lost its threat, and now all that needed to be done was to continue attacking the remaining three.

The Word Bearers' flagship, the True Law, finally completed its turn, and this huge warship began to bombard the Macragge's Glory. The empire's most powerful weapons were now caught up in the bloodiest civil war.

The grudges between the Ultramarines and the Word Bearers, which began with the destruction of the Perfect City, will be settled in this naval battle.

Marius Gage ordered his Ultramarines to enter the boarding bay, where they would launch a boarding operation against the Truth's Law.

Due to the existence of huge void shields, these behemoths in the star sea need a long time to exchange damage. They usually need to overload the void shields with macro cannons and torpedoes, and then light-speed weapons such as light spears can penetrate the void shields and attack the armor of the entity.

The best way to speed up the outcome of a war is to end the battle by boarding, which is what the Space Marines are best at. Even the most powerful warships are relatively fragile inside.

If even one Astartes infiltrated a warship's engine room or reactor, even a giant ship like the Fury of the Abyss would sink.

"These boarding brothers are all armed with adamantium armor. Don't worry about them. Be prepared for attacks from the two ships, the Triumvirate and the Blessed Lady!"

The enemy also sent out boarding ships. They emerged from the belly of the warship, and a large number of Word Bearers warriors broke into the decks, killing all living things they could see and destroying all mechanical structures they could reach. The Ultramarines' anti-boarding forces immediately rushed to the enemy's invasion position, and brutal fighting broke out in every corner of the cabin.

Gage was not worried that the Word Bearers who had boarded the ship would cause any big trouble. The Ultramarines, armed with adamantium armor, had absolute confidence in winning the encounter.

The battleships and cruisers were scattered in space, besieging the two huge ships like sharks.

The Word Bearers' two ships are over 35 kilometers long, and their unique trident-shaped design is packed with anti-aircraft firepower.

Hundreds of space fighters fly out from hidden decks. These war vehicles, piloted by mortals, are equipped with powerful missiles capable of taking on the most agile enemies.

The terrifying main guns on the bows of the Triumvirate and the Blessed Lady finished charging and opened fire at the hull of the Macragge's Glory.

Extremely chaotic energy vortices dissipated from the edge of the attack, and high-energy rays and plasma flows almost instantly put the void shield of Macragge's Glory into an overloaded state.

The flagship turned and moved with the help of friendly forces. As its engine was always running at full power, the speed of Macragge's Glory was faster than the two Abyss Battleships that were barely started. A large number of macro cannons on the side of the flagship fired, attracting the two enemy ships to follow its movement.

The destructive power of the two Abyss Fury-class battleships is extremely amazing. Any warship hit by their macro cannons and light spears, even those that are over ten kilometers long, will be overloaded with void shields, and the subsequent offensive will then destroy the warship's metal armor.

Even though they were outnumbered, the Triskelion and the Blessed Lady still maintained their offensive stance with the terrifying macro cannons and lance launch arrays on their ships.

And when the main gun on the bow is fired, a group of warships in the void will be completely destroyed.

The two fleets fought each other in the most brutal way, like giants in the void, hitting each other with their iron fists. The first one to be unable to bear it would be torn into pieces without mercy.

No conspiracy or betrayal, no tactics or surprise attacks.

Macro cannons and torpedoes are the fists of both sides, while void shields and metal armor are the armor of both sides. Warships fight each other in the void, looking for the winning opportunity to send torpedoes into the enemy's vulnerable core.

The Glory of Macragge had the support and cover of more warships, while the Trinitarian Litany and the Blessed Lady were more powerful individually, so the Ultramarines had to spread out their formation to besiege the enemy.

"Captain! The enemy's offensive is too fierce! We must keep our distance and use our numerical advantage to contain them."

The captain of Macragge's Glory shouted, and he merged with the battleship through neural pulses. Together with other technicians, he processed the astronomical data on the battleship.

The flagship was almost dancing on the edge of a knife. It was fighting one against two, dodging the heavy attacks of the Triumvirate and the Blessed Lady in the void, and looking for opportunities to try to overload the opponent's void shield with macro cannons and torpedoes.

However, this idea was naive. The void shields of the Abyss Fury-class battleships were much thicker than imagined. The two behemoths hunted down the Macragge's Glory, and the latter had to rely on other battleships it brought with it for cover.

This is a great test of the flagship's performance and the captain's experience. The captain devotes almost all of his attention and computing power to analyzing the trajectory of enemy weapons, relying on advance prediction to dodge the opponent's weapons.

The flagship's void shield could not withstand any more blows and was on the verge of collapse at any time.

(End of this chapter)