Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Chapter 262 You dare to talk about machinery?

Abaddon was in a terrible mood.

He didn't know how that enormous thing came to be.

But he could guess it even with his eyes closed.

In the entire galaxy, the person who has the ability and the motivation to do such a thing is most likely his mortal enemy, Lawson.

No matter who it is, this door cannot be closed!

The Eye of Fear is absolutely a vital passage for the forces of Chaos!

The larger the fleet, the more dependent it is on stable shipping lanes.

This place is extremely important!

As long as this most stable exit is suppressed, the Black Legion will be unable to carry out large-scale expeditions, the Ominous Ark of Vashtor will be unable to leave in an organized manner, and the Demon Legion will find it difficult to maintain a large-scale deployment in the real universe.

Not only that, Blackrock Fortress is also constantly compressing the surrounding warp activity.

The cracks at the edge of the Eye of Fear are narrowing.

If this fortress is allowed to remain here indefinitely, all factions within the Eye of Fear will be forced to retreat.

The Black Legion will lose its ability to expand.

There is no truly stable industrial and logistical system within the Eye of Fear.

With no way out, the Chaos Legion can only eat each other.

War gangs fight over fuel and ammunition, demons vie for limited offerings, and factions of several gods turn their blades, originally intended to strike the Empire, into each other.

Abaddon's prestige would then collapse.

He was able to become the Chaos Warmaster not only because the Black Legion was the strongest, but also because he repeatedly led the armies from the Eye of Fear into the real universe.

If he can't even get out of the door, the Chaos Lords who have just gathered under his command will soon begin to doubt whether he is still qualified to launch the next expedition.

Therefore, the Seventh Blackrock Fortress must be destroyed.

Abaddon stared at the black continent that obscured the starlight directly in front of the bridge.

Fortunately, there's only one; once it's smashed, the door will naturally reopen.

Abaddon did not wait for other forces to adjust their formations.

"Open fire!!"

The order was relayed through the Black Legion's communication network to the edge of the Eye of Terror.

The Black Legion's main fleet was the first to open fire.

The array of heavy artillery burst forth in succession, as thousands of heavy shells were simultaneously propelled from the breech by magnetic rails and explosives.

The warhead is covered with chaotic runes, and its interior contains howling souls and cursed explosives.

After the shells left the ship, the demonic power surrounding its surface began to burn.

Following closely behind were light spears, with hundreds and thousands of high-energy beams shooting out from the Chaos Fleet.

Vashtor's demon engine fleet also began bombarding.

The bizarrely shaped cannon muzzles slowly opened, revealing demons bound by chains inside.

The entire void was illuminated.

A barrage of cannon fire, torpedo swarms, light spears, sorcery, and demonic flames intertwined, like a destructive tide capable of engulfing a planet, crashing head-on into the Seventh Blackrock Fortress.

Further away, another massive warship slowly completed its turn.

That's the Planet Killer.

Its bow-mounted doomsday cannon began charging, and light from all around the warship converged on the muzzle.

The massive energy confinement rings lit up layer by layer, and a low vibration emanated from inside the ship. Nearby escort ships quickly gave way, fearing they would be affected by the energy waves emitted from the main gun.

This weapon was once created to destroy the world, and now it has its sights set on the Seventh Blackrock Fortress.

The first batch of macro shells has arrived.

Just as the shell was about to hit the black stone shell, the dim geometric patterns on the fortress surface suddenly lit up.

Centered on the Seventh Blackrock Fortress, a region that absolutely excludes warp space silently unfolded.

The cursed cannonball at the very front crashed into it.

The demonic flames wrapped around the surface of the warhead were immediately extinguished.

One by one, the chaotic runes engraved on the shell shattered, and the soul sealed inside the shell only had time to let out a scream before being stripped from reality by the black stone force field.

The warhead, originally enhanced by subspace forces, quickly lost its luster, leaving only a piece of ordinary metal that flew by inertia.

Even at high speed, the massive cannonballs still carried terrifying kinetic energy, enough to shatter the sides of an ordinary cruiser.

However, as they approached the outer layer of the Seventh Blackrock Fortress, the surrounding space exhibited a very subtle deflection.

The geometry of the fortress's surface is not merely decorative.

Every edge and every sloping surface is part of that ancient defense system.

Before the warhead hit the Black Stone Armor, its flight path had already been shifted several degrees by the spatial deflection force field.

A few degrees of error, on the surface of a fortress spanning hundreds of kilometers, is enough to turn a head-on collision into an oblique scrape.

The massive shells slammed into the black stone shell one after another, and the enormous kinetic energy was dispersed in all directions along the inclined geometry.

The metal fragments turned into a cloud of scorching dust, skimming across the surface of the fortress before disappearing into the dark void.

The light spear also failed to work.

The beam of light, imbued with demonic power, quickly dimmed in color after entering the anti-subspace field.

The remaining energy was directed to different areas by the huge geometric network on the surface of the black stone, leaving only brief streaks of light on the outer shell of the fortress before quickly returning to darkness.

The planet killer's main cannon has finally fired.

A massive beam of destructive light, almost filling the entire field of vision, shot out from the bow of the ship, turning the surrounding void a ghastly white with its intense heat.

The beam of light swept across several small Chaos ships that were unable to dodge in time, instantly vaporizing them before crashing head-on into the Seventh Blackrock Fortress.

This time, the surface of the fortress finally showed a noticeable reaction.

Large geometric patterns lit up simultaneously, and the anti-subspace force field, which was originally confined to the outer layer, condensed forward, forming a bottomless dark area.

The tip of the energy beam began to twist.

The portion that relied on warp amplification and demonic technology to maintain its structure was forcibly dismantled, while the pure energy structure was guided layer by layer to various parts of the fortress.

The surface of the entire Seventh Blackrock Fortress resembles the shell of some sleeping behemoth, with large patches of dark patterns lighting up in sequence, dispersing the energy—enough to tear apart the planet's crust—through the black rock structure that stretches for thousands of kilometers.

The blinding light lasted for several tens of seconds.

Even after the main cannons went out, the Seventh Blackrock Fortress still stood there.

The first salvo from the Chaos Fleet has ended.

The void was filled with shrapnel from cannonballs, the afterglow of energy, and the remnants of demons that had been consumed by the backlash.

The firepower, enough to destroy the surface of several planets, left only a few rapidly cooling scorch marks on the Seventh Blackrock Fortress.

Even before entering warp space, swarm intelligence had already taken over the entire fortress's firepower system.

[High-density chaotic fleet detected.]

[The anti-subspace force field is stable.]

[Main weapon charging.]

[Target selection complete.]

Swarm intelligence has locked onto one of the ominous Arks in the Vashtor fleet.

The warship was much larger than a typical large cruiser, its hull pieced together from the remains of several ancient ships and a fragment of a contaminated planet.

Its surface is covered with mechanical tentacles, demonic furnaces, and massive weapon arrays, and its interior is loaded with tens of thousands of demonic engines. It is preparing to follow Vashtor into the dark side of the Empire.

The entire Seventh Blackrock Fortress began to change.

The massive geometric spire began to adjust its angle silently.

Hundreds of black stone spires slowly rose along the surface of the fortress, their bodies without mechanical joints, yet seemingly lifted by space itself, tilting in the same direction.

The deeper geometry rotated, and the black stone planes interlocked to form a massive energy array spanning hundreds of kilometers.

The spire began to resonate.

The light bends near the spire, stretching distant stars into long lines.

The boundary between the subspace and the real universe, which should have been inaccessible, was forcibly compressed by the Black Stone structure.

The violent energy flowed along hundreds of spires toward the center.

A sphere of light appeared at the intersection of the tower spires.

It started as a warship, but quickly expanded to tens of kilometers in size.

It swallowed the surrounding starlight and then ejected it from the other side in the form of a distorted halo.

The wizards in the Chaos Fleet all felt suffocated.

They couldn't sense any psionic energy from the orb of light, but they instinctively knew that it was specifically designed to kill beings existing in the warp.

Blackstone Spire is now locked.

A death ray shot out!!!

The moment the beam appeared, it had already traversed the Chaos Fleet.

A Chaos frigate was grazed by the edge of the beam.

The subspace engine shut down instantly, the demon residing in the reactor was wiped out, and the entire warship lost all psionic power, leaving only a metal corpse still sliding forward by inertia.

A Thousand Sons cruiser attempted to unleash a psionic shield, but the wizard on board had barely raised his staff when the spell was forced back into his body by the Blackstone Death Ray.

More than a dozen wizards bled from all seven orifices at the same time, and the spiritual energy accumulated in their skulls could not be released, causing their brains to explode on the spot.