Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

The advance of the Grand Fleet continued, but the commander of the northern theater no longer wanted to wait.

Vice Admiral Joseph has been at the fleet's forward outpost for three days. The delay in the original frontline inspection schedule has caused dissatisfaction among the rear staff.

But he had no intention of leaving here and returning to the fleet.

On the contrary, he even wanted to mobilize the entire four battleships of the Northern Fleet here.

Scouts who went to the Lyak interstellar channel hundreds of astronomical units away have confirmed to him that Chaos's shipbuilding operation is nearing completion.

Driven by the billions of enslaved people in the occupied areas regardless of casualties, the huge ship hull has already finished outfitting the last main armor belt, and is only a hair away from the actual acceptance process.

Limited by authority and distance, Joseph neither knew the arrival of the large fleet behind him nor what exactly the enemy was waiting for.

But from the perspective of this general, who was known for his loyalty to the empire and fanaticism for war, there were really not many opportunities left for him to change the fate of failure in the northern theater.

If we wait any longer, once the new force in the opponent's hands takes shape, the defense system built in the northern theater centered on the Kating Galaxy will surely face a great test!

He could almost imagine that the other party would surround Kating with an absolute superiority in strength.

Then, as far as possible out of the range of orbital defense weapons, they use their new weapons to target the fixed heavy artillery in the galaxy one by one!

Joseph was no longer willing to calculate the probability of this happening.

Because both he and the Chaos Fleet on the other side of the Star Sea knew clearly that Orps at this time had absolutely no extra fleet to support the battle.

It cannot be defended inside and there are no reinforcements outside.

In order to avoid a tragic defeat, Lieutenant General Joseph could only seek the possibility of proactively breaking the situation.

He decided to dispatch all the fleets he had, and on the basis of trying to sneak around the ruins of the Lyak Channel, he would deal a fatal blow to the forge world entrenched on the edge of the Lyak sector!

In fact, he has already done so.

According to the latest information he obtained, one of the opponent's 14 main ships had already returned to the rear of the war zone.

Some recent trends indicate that another cruiser is also returning towards the occupied area, surrounded by several small frigates.

He didn't know the reason for the enemy's abnormal behavior.

But if there is still an existence in the occupied area that can cause trouble for these Chaos Fleets, then he sincerely hopes that this existence can live as long as possible!

The enemy in the front of the star sector has been mobilized twice and is at its weakest.

Even though the enemy still had an absolute military advantage, he was still unwilling to give up this rare opportunity.

Once this precious window of time is lost, the possibility of taking advantage of the opponent's large fleet will only be lower.

The fleet base on the main star on Katyn is already operating at full capacity, and the crew members who are on rotation have also been urgently transferred back.

A mixed fleet consisting of one battleship and five cruisers was all the bargaining chips Joseph could bring to the table.

But in this bet where he loses more and wins less, he doesn't have much choice but to play hard.

After a long journey, the Gray Knights' battlecruiser Revenant Redeemer and the Tauren's cruiser Star Labyrinth finally reached their destination.

After wandering for several days in several galaxies outside Lyak that had been completely destroyed by the war, they finally saw signs of a wide range of biological life on the main star of the Malus galaxy.

The fleet, under the experienced command of Tabers, was in no hurry to approach.

Instead, they divided their forces into two groups, one positive and one negative, using the cover of two groups of periodically returning comets to test whether the orbital defense here was still functioning normally by means of static inertial floating.

As for the small fleet in orbit, consisting of one cruiser and five frigates, they were not taken into consideration by Tabers, Yule and others.

After all, it is active against passive, dark and open.

What's more, with the powerful firepower of the Revenant Redeemer, it is definitely at the ceiling level among cruisers.

Tabos can even pat his chest and assure everyone that as long as the four Nova Cannons output firepower in one round, the opponent's shield will be overloaded!

This kind of mid- to long-distance sniping, which is done deliberately and unintentionally, is different from the close-range bow heavy gun, which has only one chance to hit.

The distance between the two sides will create a fatal battlefield environment for the enemy at this time, and the size of the main planet of Malus will make it take a long time for the opponent to get rid of the gravity, and there will be no chance of escape!

In the space outside Malus, a one-sided hunt has begun.

As the capital of this industrial galaxy, Malus Industrial World is also fighting another difficult and long war on its own surface.

In the factory thousands of meters underground in Hive City No. 22, Calvin has been standing at the gate of the core furnace for nearly a hundred hours.

After the other two attempts failed, the team that eliminated the false targets finally arrived at Industrial Nest No. 22 before the last batch of ore in the furnace product line was shipped away after 10 days of long-distance raids.

Needless to say, there were hardships and difficulties along the way.

Just saying that in Hive No. 3, escaping from the trap heavily laid by Alpha and the Night Lords cost the Reviled 9-man team half of their casualties.

The five-man team on the other side didn't fare well either.

Hive City No. 41 on another continent is 3,000 kilometers away from Hive City No. 9 when they set out.

In order to leave enough time for the failure of these two attempts, Calvin pulled four Astartes warriors from different origins and launched hundreds of teleportations within 10 days.

Today, Calvin has a gaunt face and has lost more than one-fifth of his weight;

The condition of several other Astartes warriors is equally worrying - the consequences of abusing psychic powers are not only suffered by Calvin himself, but also these Astartes, known as supermen, have also been tortured.

After they met near Hive City No. 22, they had no time to repair, so they plunged into the steel jungle of Hive City again.

Hive cities with different numbers will naturally be built in different years; and the purpose of construction in different years also depends on the industrial needs of the entire industrial world.

It is different from the simple architectural structure brought about by the early colonial technology color of Hive City No. 3;

It is also different from the small-scale craftsmanship crystallized in Hive 411 during the late economic recession of Malus;

Hive City No. 22, as a creation at the pinnacle of the Malus Industrial World, is the top among all 42 hive cities in terms of the technological content represented by the equipment inside the hive city and the scale created by the economic environment.

And it was the scale mentioned in the second half of the sentence that caused Calvin and others to suffer a lot.

Can you imagine the existence of an industrial city with a diameter of tens of kilometers?

Can you imagine a hive tower that, by virtue of its height alone, can be as high as a star port that theoretically breaks through the atmosphere and is linked to orbital transportation capacity?

The scale of the city is so majestic that it can be clearly seen from orbit:

The iron-gray body it represents is using its pentagonal tentacles extending outward to lie tightly on the planet like a huge starfish.

And it was such a huge city that Calvin entered with sufficient psychological preparation.

Then, belatedly, I discovered that the scale of the building hidden underground was actually the same as the surface!

This is not a parallel pentagram, but a three-dimensional multi-sided pentagonal pyramid!

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