Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 179 03.0178: ‘Predators in the Dark’

In addition to the Indefatigable, several other light cruisers also released all their shark assault boats.

Because most of the Blood Angels needed the Chapter Priest to perform a purification ceremony after coming out of the purgatory-like bridge.

The Blood Angels Chapter could only send a small number of Space Marines to support a less damaged Thunderhawk gunboat.

And this Thunderhawk will escort Horatio and Farida to the docking station on the Holy Will safely.

Captain Afir also needs to perform a purification ceremony himself.

But he still gave face and sent a lieutenant deputy captain with some senior veterans out of cautious considerations.

Brother Romain Rolland was not in the sequence, but after hearing about this, he insisted on participating.

Because the Chaos warship was contaminated by not boarding, and because he was so persistent in asking for orders, the captain let him come.

Half of the Astartes were tasked with escorting Horatio and Farida, while the other half were to shut down the engines of the Sacred Will.

This was to prevent the mutineers from taking the bridge and driving away the entire rare Retribution-class battleship, making the situation irreversible.

At this moment, the entire Gothic Fleet's top brass had already known about the mutiny on the Sacred Will.

In addition to the Indefatigable Squadron, there were four interception squadrons that set sail from Abyssal Port and were rushing to intercept.

If a battleship could rebel and turn against the enemy of the Emperor.

That goes without saying.

The entire fleet's top brass would be investigated by the Inquisition, and it was likely that half of them would be removed and then half would be killed.

The Indefatigable was the closest squadron to the Sacred Will, but according to the sea chart, it was not close.

But at least it was within the shark assault boat's maximum range.

Commodore Perroux thought that as long as the troops could support the Sacred Will and suppress the mutiny, the entire battleship would be saved with minimal losses.

He didn't want things to turn into a battle.

The whole row of fierce plasma macrocannons of the Retribution-class battleship could tear the Indefatigable battlecruiser into pieces of void fragments.

After all, the former is a serious battleship, while the battlecruiser of the Imperial Navy is still a cruiser-level hull.

Fortunately, Vice Admiral Hood's guards suppressed the bridge, and not all armed forces participated in the mutiny.

At least some troops are still doing their duty. Vice Admiral Hood ordered the armed forces loyal to him to put on the military police logo and fight against the rebels.

What made Vice Admiral Alexander Hood incredible was.

This time, the sailors did not make trouble.

As a vice admiral who came up step by step, he knew very well what preparations his subordinates would make if they wanted to rebel, and under what circumstances the mutiny would occur.

If they want to plan a large-scale armed force mutiny, they usually collude with extremely dissatisfied sailors.

Because when the armed forces can't stand the mutiny, the sailors can't live anymore.

But this time, the sailors not only did not participate in the mutiny, but under the armed call of some officers, the sailors took up weapons and began to suppress the mutinous sailors.

There are too many doubts about all this.

In any case, at least stop the mutineers who want to rush to the bridge first.

They want to control the plasma macro cannon to fire at the surrounding escort ships.

This move scared the captains escorting the Retribution-class battleship.

Fortunately, Vice Admiral Hood blocked the plasma macro cannon's firing authority with a neural plug connected to the back of the head.

Only the hand-operated close-in defense guns on the Retribution-class battleship can fire.

Torpedoes, macro cannons, and light spear guns all did not respond to the call.

And the sailors on the turret also refused to cooperate with the mutineers and bravely launched a counterattack.

The captains of the escort ships learned the situation from the vice admiral and reported it to the Gothic Fleet Headquarters.

But the armed forces they could send to the Sacred Will were pitifully few, at best a drop in the bucket, a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

They could only hope that the large-tonnage interception fleet would arrive as soon as possible.

In the void, rows of shark assault boats flew forward in a flight formation of 8 ships.

Hundreds of tail flames illuminated the dark void.

The naval pilots of the Fury Squadron flew with them and were on guard at the periphery.

By the way, they helped the assault boats destroy the meteorites that blocked the way.

Horatio was always worried, he was anxious about how to bring back such a large package of top-secret documents safely.

When the distance was shortened a little, reaching the distance where fragments might be generated, he activated a foreshadowing fragment to explore, wanting to see what the Sacred Will was like now.

Don't let the enemy be everywhere when he and the Blood Angels arrive at the docking station.

However, perhaps because the distance was still too far, he could not see the situation on the Holy Will.

But he saw a black giant snake like Jörmungandr in the void.

This monster that looked like a giant leech was attracted by the star-like tail flames of the assault boat.

It was winding in the darkness.

He suddenly opened his eyes and shouted to the Blood Angel driver and the Thunder Eagle gunner: "Be alert! There seems to be something next to it!"

The driver immediately began to pay attention to the movement of the auspicious instrument, and the gunner also unlocked the Thunder Eagle gun safety, rotating the turret, and began to explore the surroundings.

The nearby Fury Squadron.

"Gale Squadron, the Thunder Eagle gunboat sent a focus coordinate. There is an unknown signal on the auspicious instrument, pay attention to reconnaissance." The squadron leader of the Imperial Navy said to his pilots.

"Gale received. Gale 4, Gale 5, go see what that is."

"Received."

Two Fury interceptors flew out of the Imperial Navy's flight squadron and broke away from the squadron, heading for the signal in the asteroid belt.

Just as they were approaching.

Suddenly, a snake-like void creature rushed out of the meteorite.

"Gift Crab! What the hell is this?" The two pilots quickly pulled away and dodged the monster that rushed out of the asteroid belt. It had a slender body, like a leech, no eyes, and a bloody mouth.

In the dangerous void, some strange void aliens were born.

They are rich in variety, and they can survive in the void like a mystery.

This makes the already dangerous void even more dangerous, and it is also the reason why the Empire rarely builds small aircraft.

These monsters will avoid warships and large ships that they think are too big to prey on.

This void predator rushed towards the shark assault boat that passed by recently.

The assault boat has almost no turning ability at this high speed.

The hideous and ugly mouth swallowed three ships in one gulp.

"God Emperor! Monster!" Farida watched in horror as the void leech devoured the Thunder Eagle.

The Thunder Eagle gunboat opened fire, and all the boats were fully armed.

A shell exploded on the leech, causing the huge and ugly monster to emit a harsh, ethereal, and unrealistic void roar.

Just as the gunner was about to fire again, the Blood Angel discovered that the energy-gathering copper wire of the Thunder Eagle gun had been melted.

It had fired too many times in the previous battle, and before it had time to prepare for maintenance, it hastily carried out this long-range raid mission.

The gunner retreated from inside.

The Thunder Eagle driver fired a missile at the void leech.

"What's wrong?!" Horatio asked anxiously, and the leech was rushing over.

"The energy-gathering copper wire is broken. I need to find a spare."

"Can it be forced to fire?"

"Yes, but only a technical sergeant can remove the automatic locking safety."

"Can I get on? I have a way."

"If you have it, you can try it. I'll find a replacement." The Blood Angel replied, and ran to the storage compartment to find a replacement.

Horatio sat on the gun mount. This gun mount built for Astartes was too spacious for a mortal like him.

'Activate: Machine Soul Favor'

Neural dendrites extended from his prosthesis and poked into the Cygnus operating platform of the Thunderhawk Cannon.

This advanced machine soul is very spiritual.

Horatio even seemed to hear it talking to him.

He didn't understand binary language, nor did he know the source circuit of the Mechanicus.

But he prayed for mercy from the machine soul in his mind. He didn't want to be wiped out again with his descendants on the day of Sanguinius.

The machine soul seemed to understand Horatio's thoughts.

‘Waiting instructions’

‘Warning: The energy shield is damaged, forced firing may cause the barrel to explode’

The automatic safety was released, and a warning popped up.

But at a time of life and death, who can care whether the barrel explodes or not?

‘Lock on the target’

‘Fire! ’

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