As the urban planet Embra, not far from Faya, was being built and improved day by day, more and more ship frames were docked in orbit, and the number of parts produced by Anti-Entropy had already reached a considerable reserve.

As long as Coronia creates enough biological warp engines, the Order of Truth will be able to assemble a large-scale exploration fleet in a short period of time.

It was at this time that Bernatita, with the mentality of a blind cat catching a dead mouse, once again drove the battlecruiser Ark of Bliss and plunged into the Flare Galaxy as usual.

But the difference is that this time she really ran into a dead rat.

When the tachyon sensor scanned the empty planetary orbit that had been scanned countless times before, suddenly:

A strangely shaped, dark, huge, unidentified building appeared out of thin air on the display in front of Bernatita through the sensor scan.

Chapter 110 Death Scythe

They were giant pyramid-like buildings, made entirely of some unknown material that looked like metal and rock. They entered the macroscopic field of view of the tachyon sensor in a very counterintuitive way.

The planet that Bernatita scanned was originally just an ordinary, barren rocky planet. When the binary star system in the center of the galaxy was detonated by the Star Bomb, this planet and other celestial bodies in the galaxy were engulfed by the destructive flare.

But because it orbits in the outermost ring of the galaxy, it is least affected by the flare, and only a thick carbonized crystalline layer filled with deadly radiation is melted on the surface of the star.

The huge and densely packed black pyramid-shaped buildings just quietly stayed beside the planetary orbit that was completely covered by carbonized crystals, rubbing gravity and Newton's coffin lid under their feet.

At such a close distance, these strange buildings floating in the vacuum should have been captured by the carbonized planet's gravity and fallen into the star.

With such a bad location, if the black pyramid complex had been hidden here from the beginning, how could the complex, which was almost attached to the face of the planet, remain unscathed when the nearby planet was engulfed by the destructive flare?

No, not unscathed.

Zooming in closer, Bernadette could see that the largest pyramid in the complex had no spire, and the damaged structure seemed to have been breached from the inside out.

All these phenomena are so unreasonable, but they are all true.

The Oracle of Truth, which was surveying the area around another broken planet in the galaxy, also noticed something unusual here, and together with its fellow Inquisition ships, it approached the Ark of Elysium.

Around the abruptly appearing dark pyramid complex, there are a few floating wreckages of ships that can be easily identified as belonging to the Human Empire.

"Strange, we should have salvaged all the shipwrecks here long ago..." Bernatita couldn't help but wonder.

Just as she was wondering, the black pyramid in front of her suddenly flashed and disappeared.

"what?"

All the ships heading this way witnessed this bizarre scene, but immediately afterwards, just as Bernadette rubbed her eyes, the black pyramids appeared again.

Disappear, appear, disappear, appear...

Like a short-circuited light bulb that keeps flickering, the black pyramids located in the orbit of the carbide crystal planet also switch back and forth between the two states of "existence" and "non-existence", flashing continuously.

As the Oracle of Truth approached, the frequency of the real and virtual flashes in front became faster and faster, and more and more frequent, and it seemed that a certain boundary was about to be reached.

"Alien ruins? Ancient buildings? Or? ...We need to report this to the leader."

Seeing this, several truth monks on the Ark of Bliss and the Oracle of Truth quickly realized the seriousness of the situation.

On each of the two battlecruisers, there were four "preachers" who had completed the integrated prosthetic transformation. With the efficient thinking and action ability given by the quantum neural connection, they operated the ship to activate the dark matter deflection shield and psychic shield, and moved forward cautiously. At the same time, they activated the superluminal communication array on board the ship and sent all the scenes scanned by the sensors back to Faya.

Ahead, the frequency of the real and virtual flashes of the black pyramid group was extremely dense.

The next moment, a long whip of blazing particles lashed the shield of the nearest Ark of Paradise.

The entire ship was shaken by this powerful energy attack and trembled slightly, but under the burning of high-quality psychic dust, the psychic shield successfully distorted and eliminated the attack.

"Report! We were attacked by an unknown enemy!"

Bernatita was about to turn around and organize a counterattack, but she saw that several missionaries on the ship had already connected their brains to the battleship's control system.

"The tachyon sensors cannot capture the target instantly. The enemy moves faster than the speed of light."

"Connect to the precognitive interface, activate the psychic divination array, and try to predict where the enemy will appear next."

"Authorize all weapons to fire in 2 seconds."

In the short two seconds after the weapon system was activated, the ghostly pulse attacks and particle whips indiscriminately attacked all the ships present. The power was so fierce and the attack was so swift that some larger Inquisition ships were able to barely resist with their void shields turned on at full power. Some small reconnaissance aircraft would be shot down if they were touched by them.

Only the two battlecruisers equipped with psychic shields and dark matter deflection shields could withstand such an attack unscathed.

However, even so, facing the attacks coming from all directions without warning, the mental pressure on the sailors on the ship was extremely heavy - they were an investigation team, and both the specifications of their shipborne weapons and engine power were far inferior to those of military warships, not to mention that they could not even see the true faces of the attackers, and could only turn on the void shield and passively take the beating.

Then, dozens of torpedoes and gamma lasers converged on the same point in the vacuum of space and exploded into a beautiful but meaningless display of space fireworks.

The first round of attacks launched by the Ark of Bliss failed.

This was not because the coordinates provided by the predictive interface were not accurate enough, nor was it because the missionaries' reactions were not quick enough, but because the enemy's speed was simply unreasonably fast.

"Report, it is basically confirmed that the target's movement speed exceeds the speed of light. At the same time, the movement trajectory is also very strange. Inertia seems to be non-existent for it. When it evades our attack, its turning radius is an extremely sharp angle of only 15 degrees. How is this possible..."

On the Oracle of Truth, Lysitia leaned over the table with a frown on her face. In front of her was the blurry image that was captured by the Ark of Elysium in that fleeting moment just now. Only a top-of-the-line warship like the Ark of Elysium, whose facilities had been upgraded many times, could capture such a swift target. If it were an ordinary fleet of the Human Empire, it would probably be in chaos by now.

The holographic display projected dozens of torpedoes in flight and lasers intercepted mid-flight, and in the center of the screen, all attacks were locked onto the same target:

It was a black warship with a very strange shape, looking like a dark crescent moon, or a curved sickle flying in space. The moment this "sickle" appeared, it immediately left its original position.

It performs superluminal maneuvers using a technology that completely violates the laws of mechanics, and can come to a complete stop instantly while traveling at the speed of light. After launching a brief attack, it can then instantly accelerate to superluminal speed. Inertia is like something that does not exist for it.

"Madam Inquisitor, I have bad news and good news. Which one do you want to hear first?" Lysitia said in the communication channel.

"Now is not the time to joke." In the tense battle situation, Bernatita was in no mood to play with the young girl.

"Okay." Lystia was very tactful and didn't continue. She said directly: "The bad news is that after our survey and evaluation, the technological level of the warships that attacked us is quite high, especially in terms of mobility, which completely crushes all our combat ships."

"The good news is that, precisely because I have seen through this inertia-ignoring superluminal maneuver, I can conclude that even though we are being attacked from all sides, in reality, the enemy is far from being as big as this massive momentum. To be precise, there are only two warships attacking us. Their hull specifications are roughly the size of a destroyer, and their firepower is also very limited."

Although their number was small, relying on their powerful ultra-high-speed maneuvers, only two warships were able to create a feeling of being surrounded on all sides.

Is this good news? I feel like I'm being tossed around.

After learning the exact number of the enemy, Bernatita felt ashamed. In addition to the Ark of Bliss and the Oracle of Truth, there were 34 ships of all sizes gathered here. Although they had an overwhelming advantage in terms of combat power, they were being crushed in the opposite direction. Every ship was nervous because of the incomprehensible high-speed attack.

Small ships were shot down one after another. The situation of large ships was better. The void shields with sufficient power could hold out for a short period of time...

How can I hold on?

Seeing that the two battlecruisers were becoming more and more skilled in dealing with this high-speed surprise attack that ignored inertia, the preachers' brains, which had computing power comparable to that of quantum computers, were constantly integrating calculations and summarizing the patterns from the attack tracks captured by the tachyon sensors. The predictive interfaces and psychic divination arrays were also becoming more and more accurate in predicting the movements of the mysterious enemy.

The unknown enemy in the battleship seemed to realize that if they continued like this, they would soon lose their mobility advantage, and the firepower of the Ark of Bliss and the Oracle of Truth would hit them with incredible precision.

So when they appeared next time, two alien warships like black sickles rushed directly over the side of the Ark of Paradise, and the spacecraft got close to it.

"Alert! We are under boarding attack!"

"The enemy used some kind of twisted weapon to lift off the Zero Element Armor on the port side. All soldiers, prepare to meet the enemy!"

"They stuffed a formation of humanoid combat machines into our cabin!"

Without saying a word, Bernatita drew out the scarlet blood-drinking magic sword, led all the guards who could be mobilized to leave the command room and rush to the port side of the battleship that had been breached.

Deploying boarding forces at such a close distance did make it difficult for the Ark of Paradise to resist, but on the other hand, the two alien warships, while sticking close to the side of the ship to create conditions for a surprise attack, also gave the missionaries on the ship the opportunity to bite them.

Whirlwind torpedoes, plasma cannons, guardian point defense... the battlecruiser's weapon system completely ignored the reactor's overload and operated, and massive firepower poured out in an instant.

As the counterattack began, the two sickle-shaped alien warships immediately started their strange inertia-ignoring engines in an attempt to evacuate, but the reaction speed of the missionaries who had undergone integrated prosthetic modifications had reached their physiological limits, and they seized this fleeting opportunity.

They were well aware of the principle that greed will lead to failure, so all their counterattack fire was firmly locked on the same target, allowing the other alien warship to disappear from their attack range again.

The other pitch-black sickle that they had locked onto was submerged in the massive defensive firepower poured out by the Ark of Paradise.

Even the Death Scythe warship made of living metal could not withstand such fierce firepower. The reckless firing caused a series of brilliant explosions in the airspace on the port side of the Paradise Ark. In this beautiful space fireworks show—

——The sickle is broken.

After only a moment of head-on confrontation, the missionaries destroyed half of the enemy's force with the powerful weapon system of the Ark of Bliss and their own extremely fast and precise timing control.

At the same time, the defense guards led by Bernatita had also arrived at the torn port side of the warship.

Long before they arrived, the intelligent servitors responsible for cleaning and maintenance scattered throughout the warship and the mechanics responsible for managing them had already launched the first wave of battles with the enemies that had invaded the hull. However, these service servitors that were not specialized for combat did not have corresponding combat procedures and lacked weapons. Facing the fully armed war machines deployed by the enemy, they could only fall down without any resistance.

When the reinforcements led by Bernatita finally arrived, what they saw was an extremely terrifying and very curious scene.

The war machines that broke into the cabin were strange-looking steel monsters shaped like skeletons. There was a faint green light burning in their eye sockets, and the Gauss weapons in their hands easily pierced through the fragile bodies of the intelligent-controlled robot servants. However, these iron skeletons did not seem to be interested in the intelligent-controlled robot servants. After quickly destroying the robot servants in front of them, they rushed towards several mortal mechanics hiding behind the robot servants in groups.

These skeleton monsters made of metal seemed to have an extreme desire for organic flesh and blood. They threw away their Gauss weapons and used their hands, mouths, and teeth to tear and bite the flesh and blood of the mortal mechanic. They broke his arms and inserted them into their own metal ribs, tore off his skin and covered his face, and pulled out his internal organs and stuffed them into their mouths...

The sophisticated mechanical bodies with extremely high technological content here are like a group of primitive people who eat raw meat and drink blood, scrambling to tear apart the bloody corpses of mortals that have already been torn into pieces.

The outer metal skeletons that failed to fight for a piece of flesh and skin turned their heads and picked up the Gauss energy cannons that fell on the ground. They had already discovered Bernatita and the guards who arrived later.

"What a monster..." Bernatita cursed softly and pulled the trigger of the grenade in her hand.

The soldiers behind her and the metal skeletons covered in blood and flesh residue all activated their weapons. In an instant, ray pistols, plasma rifles, the metal skeletons' decomposition cannons and powerful special bombs opened fire at the same time in the cabin.

Soldiers equipped with melta weapons shouted the name of the God-Emperor and rushed to the enemy with the determination to die, burning the hideous and bloody metal skeletons along with their own bodies.

The armed conflict between humans and the Necrons begins.

Chapter 111: Loyalty is Unspeakable

The Melta, a ferocious weapon that disturbs subatomic particles to produce directional extreme heat, is a nightmare for armor and the overlord of close combat.

The advantages of this weapon are extremely high damage and terrifying armor-piercing efficiency, and the disadvantage is its range.

Thermostatic weapons that use high-pressure gas as their medium and ammunition will not have a very long range and killing radius due to their small size. If you want to fully realize their tactical value, you basically need to get close to them.

And for mortal soldiers, coming face to face with the Necrons would undoubtedly mean death.

Although at the end of the 39th millennium, the human Empire still did not know what the Necrons were.

The number of bloodthirsty metal skeletons that invaded the Ark of Paradise was approximately between 10 and 20. This number was not very accurate because many cabins were sounding the alarm. The well-equipped defense guards quickly gathered and engaged in a bloody close combat with the invaders in the cabin.

In the dark, the soldiers following behind Bernatita felt a kind of excitement in their hearts. A supreme being cast his gaze on their shoulders. That gaze came from the Golden Throne, that sight came from Faya, and that came from the holy statue of the guide holding high the L-Star Gate...

Most of the mortal soldiers who can be hired by the Order of Truth are fanatics who have been deceived by a certain branch of the state religion and firmly believe that the Star-Bullet is the incarnation of the Emperor. Their ignorant beliefs are certainly despised by the Truth monks who believe in dialectical materialism, but at this time, the soldiers with devout worship firmly believe that they are fighting for their own god.

The God-Emperor's gaze gave the soldiers endless courage. The guards holding multiple-barreled hot-melt guns rushed forward with their flesh and blood bodies under the cover of dense plasma shot by their comrades, and pressed their thick and long gun barrels against the foreheads of the mechanical skeletons covered in flesh and blood, followed by a massive explosion of gunfire to kill both sides.

Their fearless fighting spirit shone with the plasma, their bodies protected by plastic steel armor burned with the molten heat, and they killed the bloody metal skeletons to death.

Generally speaking, even the most elite Imperial Guards are not always fully equipped with such sophisticated weapons, but this ship belongs to the Order of Truth, an academic organization or arms dealer that follows the Star-Ballists and is extremely wealthy.

Soldiers serving on their ships are always equipped with the most advanced improved multi-barreled melta and plasma pistols. Basic plastic steel full body armor and fully enclosed helmets with extremely high technical standards are the most basic standard equipment.

It can be said that the equipment level of the mortal troops employed by the Convent of Truth has even surpassed that of some Astartes chapters that are not in good financial condition.

While the invasion in the cabin was slowly quelled, in the Flare Galaxy, the battlecruiser Oracle of Truth, under the control of Lysitia, with the cover of friendly forces and the computing assistance of the Ark of Bliss, finally captured the second Death Scythe battleship at the cost of its outermost shield being pierced.

For the battlecruisers whose weapon systems have been continuously improved by the Monks of Truth over the years, biting means destruction.

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