Chapter 397: Expedition Road: Admiral Speyer

The blood-red Chaos Cruiser spewed flames and sailed forward. Intense artillery fire poured out from all around its entire hull. The huge firepower turned into a deafening roar roaring in the silent vacuum of the universe. Its sides were flush with each other. The macrocannon shells fired rotated and hit the imperial frigate passing by.

The frigate, which was much smaller than the cruiser, instantly broke its shield under the neat bombardment of the macro cannon. The void shield disappeared into the background of the galaxy after a flash, and the flying rotating warhead suddenly penetrated its outer armor. The whizzing shells exploded instantly on the inside of the deck, and the raging fire swallowed up hundreds of sailors on this deck in the blink of an eye.

The fire swept across the hull, setting off a series of explosions inside the armor. The structural layers of the ship collapsed and disintegrated, and they exploded in the flying fragments. The entire battleship turned into a blazing fireball in the blink of an eye. In just one minute, thousands of Imperial Navy crew members disappeared into the universe without even having time to let out a scream.

But their deaths were not meaningless. While the Chaos Cruiser bombarded their hulls, it ignored that it was not the only strong one here, and it would have to pay the price for this atrocity.

The shining beam that lit up instantly cut through the vacuum. The roaring beam of light instantly bombarded the shield of the Chaos Cruiser. The dazzling firelight instantly illuminated its entire back. In the dazzling light blooming, the void shield tenaciously It supported the devastating bombardment, but as the second luminous pillar came, the shield was shattered by the bombardment of its spearhead.

The shining light spear suddenly pierced the fragile curtain of the void shield, and suddenly bombarded the back of the battleship. The roaring light pillar penetrated its armor layer, and swept away quickly behind the back. In the blink of an eye, countless armors The layers burst and surged, and blazing fire burst out from underneath.

The battleship was like a traveler stabbed by a dagger, with dazzling blood and fire spurting out from its body. Raging flames spurted out from between the armor on its back that was split by flashing beams of light. Pillars of fire shot out from the armor. The rift rushes up into the curtain of the universe.

The Chaos Cruiser suddenly slowed down, and there was an explosion and flying burning debris on the back of the entire hull. The light pillar swept across the central axis of his back, and countless buildings collapsed instantly, and at the same time another luminous pillar It roared in and instantly penetrated the center of its hull from its side.

The shining beam of light penetrated all the structural layers and all the decks with incomparable accuracy. A spear blasted into the reactor deep below. The heart of the surging battleship was pierced by a spear. As the beam of light emerged from the other side of the hull, One side was shot out and exploded instantly. The plasma exploded and tore apart the battleship in the blink of an eye. The instantaneous explosion blew it into countless flying flaming fragments.

Raging flames burned in the universe, and the broken cult symbol floated in the vacuum of the universe. It flew on the edge of the sea of ​​fire, and suddenly a huge figure appeared in the fire cloud behind it. After all, that magnificent thing quickly... Then he rushed out of the blazing fire, and the golden eagle statue burst out of the clouds and hit the cult symbol, crushing it instantly.

The behemoth rushed out of the flames, and the shining spear turret on the tall ship was lit again. The shining beam of light instantly shot into the distance. With the flying golden light, the macro cannon array under the huge beam of light quickly fired a salvo. , accompanied by a roar that roared across the cosmic curtain, the spinning shells blew up a Chaos Destroyer passing by.

In the midst of the raging fire, the huge battleship continued to move forward, spitting flames. It rushed through the fire clouds, releasing countless dense rains of bullets from both sides of its body. The flashing artillery fire like torrential rain was accompanied by raindrops. The missiles rose into the sky and ruthlessly bombarded the surrounding enemy ships.

The battleship sailed through the sea of ​​​​fire, but on the other side of the blazing curtain, purple lightning clouds suddenly jumped in the background of the universe, and a portal torn into reality suddenly cracked on the background of the galaxy, roaring Lightning jumped out from it, and under the bombardment of the arc, a giant ship slowly sailed out from it.

The huge ship with a gray steel skull carved on the bow roared out of the portal. On its back, a roaring bombardment gun suddenly raised its muzzle and fired a shot. The roaring shells hit Reaching the accompanying ship on one side of the imperial battleship, the sword-class frigate instantly exploded into a rain of flying steel.

The Steel Skull Battleship slowly passed through the portal, and large swaths of teleportation lightning lit up around it. Each portal was torn out from the curtain of the physical universe. In the beating storm of destruction, a A chaos warship sailed into the curtain of the physical universe.

"Admiral Speyer! The Bird's Prayer Radar detected a large jump signal! It is the support fleet of Chaos, the reinforcement fleet of the Iron Warriors!"

The first mate in the bridge shouted loudly while standing in front of the instruments that were constantly disturbed by garbled codes. The servitor beside him kept twitching his limbs and reciting unexplained data parameters in vague and crazy words. Its transformation The brain has been almost driven crazy by the instantaneous subspace jump impact.

No, he has gone crazy. To be precise, he exploded. The servitor connected to countless data pipes next to the computer twitched and burned his brain. The data pipes around his head all exploded. Under the broken cables flying everywhere, The servitor's head, which was emitting thick smoke, suddenly fell to the ground on its back.

The first mate dodged to the side, avoiding the wreckage of the servitor that fell to the ground. The first mate looked at the smoking servitor, and several servant skulls flew down from the dome of the bridge in an instant. The mechanical arms at the end aimed at the servitor on the ground and sprayed fire spray around it.

The first mate servitor then turned his head sharply and looked at the throne not far behind him. Sitting on the throne under the pale light, the admiral, who was slightly old but still resolute, raised his head, and his red mechanical eyes calmly looked at the countless lighted portals outside the window in front of him.

Spyer stood up, and his blue navy captain's coat shook as he stood up. He strode through the pale light and walked to the edge of the high captain's platform. He looked at the huge Chaos Space Marine warship above his head, which was flying out of the portal, like a huge whale jumping out of the sea.

"Captain, identify the jump signal. I need to know how many enemy ships have entered the battlefield immediately." Spyre turned his head and looked at the captain beside him. The captain, who had almost completed the mechanical transformation of half of his body, quickly used his multiple mechanical arms to click on the surrounding ring platforms.

His eyes quickly swept across the terminal screen in front of him, and his fingers quickly jumped on the surrounding screens. The mechanical keyboard echoed crisply in the tapping sound, "The Thinker Engine has identified a fleet-level jump. Merciful Emperor, we have a whole fleet of Chaos Space Marines jumping into the battlefield in front of us!"

"Keep calm, Captain, you are an officer of the Imperial Navy, not a trainee seaman." Spyre said in a calm voice, as if he didn't notice the terrible scene above his head at all, while the first mate in front of him looked up at the teleportation star gate above his head, and the entire Chaos fleet was jumping into the battlefield.

Speyer also raised his head. He stood under the flash of artillery fire and teleportation stargates, staring calmly at the battlefield above his head with his red mechanical right eye. "Report on the fleet situation, first mate, report the current situation immediately."

The first mate was stunned, then turned his head and looked at the captain who was calm and composed, standing under the artillery fire without even shaking his fingers. He immediately looked at the terminal beside him, and his fingers slid across the scarlet roster.

"The Gothic fleet suffered heavy losses! Although we have destroyed enemies that are several times larger than us, the fleet has lost one-third, and almost the same number of warships have suffered serious damage and will soon lose their ability to sail."

"That means I only have one-third of the fleet available, which is just right." Speyer said calmly, looking around the window at the explosion flames with a watery face. It was a scene where the imperial warships accompanying them exploded under the attack of the Chaos reinforcements that had just jumped into the battlefield.

The raging fire hit the shields on both sides of the bridge, and the huge vibration spread throughout the entire giant ship. Suddenly, a huge explosion roared on the dome of the bridge. The bridge of the battleship immediately experienced a huge shock that made it almost impossible to stand. The first mate was shaking all over as he pressed the terminal in front of him.

He tried to stand firm, and his hands were propped up in front of the terminal to see the patient. The flashing screen showed a horrified expression, "Admiral, the flank of the ship was hit by a volley of Chaos warships, and the void shield lost 36% of its strength, leaving only 40% available."

"Recharge, gunner, adjust the ship's firepower and destroy the enemy on the side." Speyer said calmly to the fire control team on the side. He raised his hand and chopped it out like waving a long sword, and as his arm swung, the fire control officer on the side immediately completed the program arrangement. As the confirmation button was suddenly pressed, the weapon array image on the screen quickly rotated.

The light spear turret on the top of the ship slowly turned around. As Speyer pointed at the porthole on the side of the bridge, several light spear turrets instantly ignited, and nearly ten flashing beams of light whizzed out and shot towards the Chaos warship flying by.

The Chaos cruiser that passed by was hit by the light spear, and its entire side was hit neatly by the light spear. The void shield flashed and disappeared in the blooming light in the blink of an eye. Speyer raised his arm lightly, and then suddenly fell down like a chop, "Macro Cannon, volley."

As Speyer ordered, an amazing scene happened in front of the gunner. His finger was just about to press the launch button to execute the captain's order, but the button fell down by itself, and the surging machine soul power was instantly awakened, and the whole row of macro cannons roared and fired instantly.

A whole row of shells whizzed out in the direction of Speyer's arm, and they flew towards the Chaos Cruiser, turning into a rapidly expanding fan-shaped plane on the disk of the universe. The flying macro cannon shells hit the side of the cruiser at once, and a rapid explosion immediately bloomed on its body, and a large piece of steel wreckage flew up in the rising blazing flames.

Speyer looked at the Chaos Cruiser disintegrating in the distance, and suddenly there was another explosion above his head. Speyer raised his head to look at the alarm light that lit up instantly above his head. The piercing alarm sounded instantly throughout the bridge. Speyer slowly turned his head and looked at the floor-to-ceiling window of the bridge in front of him.

The first mate leaned in front of the data screen, watching the rapidly approaching red dots of light. As the large area of ​​dots of light approached, another explosion occurred around the bridge. The first mate's whole body was shaking violently, and he stared at the terminal in front of him with wide eyes. "Admiral, the Chaos Assault Fleet is approaching! The strength of the Void Shield is only 10%!"

"We can't bear the next salvo! We must retreat to the open area immediately, sir!" The first mate raised his head and shouted at Speyer, but his captain stood calmly on the high position. He looked ahead calmly, and didn't even blink at the three fast destroyers rushing in front of him.

They spewed raging fire, rushing forward like light cavalry rushing forward to hunt down a fallen elephant. The leading destroyer quickly fired a neat salvo of torpedoes. The flashing torpedoes whizzed in and hit the window in front of Speyer. The shield that had almost dimmed lit up again, saving all the people on the ship.

"Intensity 5%! Sir!" The first mate shouted loudly at the screen in front of him, but his captain still did not move. Speyer looked at the three warships speeding and raised his head slightly. He was about to say something but stopped again. Admiral Speyer just raised his head and looked at the side and top of the bridge window.

The first mate looked at the captain's strange behavior and raised his head in surprise. He looked at the burning fire cloud above the bridge and widened his eyes in surprise. He saw three silver-gray Space Marine strike barges that suddenly emerged from the flames, spitting out blazing flames and whizzing over the star disk.

The Space Marine warship's terminal thrusters ignited at full speed, flying sideways from the upper side of the bridge and passing by. The war shield emblem on the bow was a shark logo, which was immediately illuminated by the salvo of macro cannons. Next to it, under the shining firelight that lit up in an instant, the macro cannon shells whizzed out and fell neatly from the air.

The dense shells shot from the air suddenly hit the fast-moving assault ship. The three fast-moving destroyers suddenly exploded into a flying flame in the air. The steel wreckage rushed forward from the fire cloud and hit the shield outside the bridge with billowing flames.

The first mate subconsciously squatted down in the collision, and then saw three Space Marine warships whizzing past in front of him. They whizzed past the bridge and rushed towards the huge Chaos flagship that jumped into the battlefield in front.

Spyer also looked at the Space Marine warships arranged in a triangle and passing side by side above the battleship bridge. He frowned slightly and several servant skulls flew quickly beside him, as if they knew what Spyer was going to do and projected a huge holographic image outline.

The first mate stood in front of the terminal and slowly turned around and saw a huge figure emerging from the holographic image. It was an extremely huge giant, a Space Marine. No, he was taller and more burly than any Space Marine, even bigger than all the Space Marines who were also wearing Terminators that the first mate had seen.

It was a magnificent giant wearing huge Terminator armor. He stood beside the captain. His physique was so huge that the holographic image beams projected by the servo skulls suspended around him could not really show his shape. The upper part of his tall body almost flickered in garbled code.

Spair raised his head and looked up at the extremely huge giant beside him. "Captain Tiberus, you and your warriors are trying to do something crazy."

"Your fleet has suffered heavy losses and can no longer stop the advance of the Chaos traitors, Admiral, and you must save enough manpower for the subsequent defense battle, so we must end the war."

The captain of the war wearing a huge Terminator power armor said so in a cold voice, as if the words came from the cold void itself. He slowly clenched the huge lightning trap in his right fist, and bright arcs jumped on the iron fist.

"I will lead two companies of the Carcharodon Regiment to assault the Chaos battleship and board it. We will sweep the traitors on the ship, overload the warp engine of the battleship, detonate it, and create a warp vortex to suck the surrounding Chaos battleships into it."

The first mate was shocked when he heard that. He raised his head and looked at Admiral Speyer on the side. The latter also stared at the Tiberus Chapter Captain whose face flickered in the garbled light threads with the same thought. "This is a suicide plan. Your battleships can't stay for long. They will either be destroyed by the huge Chaos fleet around them, or they will be forced to evacuate. No matter what the result is, you will be trapped in it and explode with the battleship."

"So be it." Tiberus Chapter Captain put down his iron fist. Facing the threat of death, there was not even a trace of hesitation in his words. His words were calm and natural, as if it was not worth mentioning at all.

"If the Void Father blesses us, we can drag enough traitors to die with us before the end, and that's enough."

Void Father, that is the unique name given to the Emperor by the Carcharodon. The first mate knows what the Chapter Master means, and the words are clear. Admiral Speyer silently looks up at the Chapter Master's face, the face flashing in the void can't see anything. After the two looked at each other for a moment, Speyer turned his head and looked at the huge Chaos fleet jumping into the field in front.

"Then I will see you off, gather the fleet, and move forward at full speed." Speyer looked forward and said so majestically. The burly giant beside him nodded slightly to him and gave him the last blessing with respect.

"May the Void Father guide your course, Admiral." "May the Emperor bless you, Chapter Master."

The image of the war captain flashed and disappeared in the bridge. Speyer stood on the high platform with his hands behind his back, looking at the battlefield ahead. The first mate below him looked at the display interface in front of him, and after a little hesitation, he turned his head and looked at Speyer worriedly, "Admiral, other ships are fighting with the Chaos fleet, and no one can spare time to move forward with us."

"Then let us move forward alone, Captain, concentrate all the energy of the void shield on the bow, and move forward at full speed!" Speyer shouted loudly standing on the high platform. His voice seemed to inject surging power into the warship and everyone here. The first mate took a deep breath and cleared all the fear in his heart, raised his eyes and looked directly at the Chaos fleet in front.

"Admiral's order! Go full speed! Break through the traitor's defenses!" The first mate shouted loudly. As he spoke, the starlight and floating burning debris outside the window began to quickly pass by. The huge battleship ignited the plasma thrusters at the rear and rushed to the Chaos fleet that jumped in front of it with blazing flames.

The huge battleship rushed out rapidly with the heavy thrusters behind it and the auxiliary thrusters on the abdomen ignited at the same time. Its speed increased suddenly. The whole body of the giant ship released dense artillery fire all around, rushing quickly between the flying bullets, crashing into the floating wreckage in front of it, and rushing out of the flames.

The Chaos battleship hovering in the void in front quickly discovered them. One by one, destroyers and cruisers quickly gathered forward. They surrounded the front of the Chaos battleship and aimed their side at the Speyer battleship rushing in front. One by one, huge macro gun muzzles popped out from behind the gun shield.

"Admiral! We're locked!" The gunnery chief, who was sitting in front of a huge screen, shouted loudly, but Speyer, who was sitting on the platform behind him, looked straight ahead with a tenacious gaze, "Keep heading."

The Chaos warships that were surrounded by the formation opened fire rapidly on one side, and a whole row of macro cannons were lit and roared at the same time. The whistling shells and light spears shot directly at the Imperial warships rushing forward. Countless explosions and shining lights instantly lit up the shield in front of the bridge. The dazzling flames engulfed all corners of the bridge, erasing all shadows from here.

"The strength of the void shield is plummeting!" The first mate shouted loudly at the bottom of the steps where Speyer was, but the admiral behind him remained calm and looked straight ahead with a frown. "Keep on course, gunner, load the extinction order warhead into the launch tube."

"Yes, admiral!" The gunnery chief executed the order without any thought, any doubt or even thinking. He quickly loaded the system, and a rotating letter of the Inquisition I flashed on the interface in front of him. The gunnery chief looked at the code bar below the interface and turned to look at the admiral.

"Admiral, authorization code!" "Admiral Speyer, commander-in-chief of the Gothic Fleet, authorized the loading of the extinction order, and all weapons were loaded immediately."

Speier's eyes were still looking straight ahead. He raised his hand and the servo skull flying down from the side stretched out his palm. The servo skull floating around projected a shining green scanning beam around Speyer. The light path quickly slid across the admiral's body, and the servo skull next to him quickly flew around after scanning the lines on Speyer's palm.

The lock interface in front of the gunnery chief was unlocked, and he immediately turned around and tapped his fingers on the keyboard quickly and violently. Countless lines of parameter codes and running programs appeared on the huge screen in an instant, and countless scrolling loading bars were arranged one by one, and all loaded in a very short time.

"Weapons are fully loaded! Waiting for orders!"

The gunnery chief roared, and at the same time, there was another violent explosion outside the bridge window in front of him. The dome of the entire bridge was trembling under the huge explosion, and large pieces of dust fell from the top of his head. In the falling dust, the first mate raised his eyes and looked at the interface in front of him.

"Void shield strength 2%!" "Keep the course."

Another round of artillery fire, "Strength 1% is about to break the shield!"

While the first mate shouted, he did not see the flames outside the window sliding quickly to both sides as the warship advanced rapidly. In the center of the dim and flickering shield, the Chaos fleet that was already close at hand was exposed. They rushed to the front of the Chaos army.

"Ignite the steering thrusters at full power, emergency turn!" Speyer shouted loudly to the front with his eyes wide open. His words seemed to come directly from the warship's brain nerves. Almost in the blink of an eye, the scenery outside the window quickly slid to the side. In the dizzy world, a huge swinging force also appeared in the bridge.

The gunnery officer sat in his seat, holding on to the table tightly to prevent himself from being thrown out of the chair, but the others in the bridge were not so lucky. Many people fell to the ground, and even flew out of the chairs they were sitting in. But unlike everyone else, Speyer, who was standing on the ground, remained motionless.

He stared at the Chaos Fleet flashing quickly outside the window. He turned his head suddenly and looked at the side window. There, the Chaos Fleet had been thrown into the window frame, as if it was caught in the crosshairs. Speyer suddenly raised his arm and slashed down to the side. He calculated the reloading gap of the Chaos Fleet after a salvo, and this moment is now!

"Chief Gunner, fire all Extinction Order warheads!" Speyer cut off his arm fiercely and roared angrily as he gave the order. The chief gunner, who was sitting on the chair beside the porthole, immediately got up and slammed his fist on the data tablet in front of him, landing on the red exclamation mark that kept jumping.

The fist hit the table with a roar, which quickly passed from the table to the wall below, and then along the cable in the data pipeline into the dark gun barrel below like lightning. Suddenly, the knocking sound of the fist turned into a real roar, the fire light was instantly lit, and the rotating warhead whistled out.

At the side of the battleship, a row of launch tubes sprayed out dazzling flames. It was a row of cyclone torpedoes, proton missiles and virus bombs! All the extinction weapons carried by the entire battleship, the warheads that could destroy the entire galaxy were all fired instantly, and flew towards the Chaos Fleet at close range.

"Helmsman! Raise the main thruster 90 degrees! Ignite at full power!" Speyer turned his head and looked into the battleship and shouted loudly. The incredible miracle happened again. The helmsman reached for the pull rod on the side, but the thing slipped down by itself. The helmsman looked at all the operating levers around him in surprise and moved by themselves.

The rear plasma thruster of the giant ship turned instantly with Speyer's roar. The huge plasma thruster turned rapidly, and the jet port instantly lifted up and hit the uppermost border. The turbine blades spread out in all directions, and the huge plasma flames sprayed out and turned into huge flames that pierced the sky.

The battleship dived downward quickly under the rapid propulsion force. It fell from the front of a row of Chaos fighters in front of it. At the same time as it fell rapidly, the extinction order warheads above the battleship whizzed up and hit the shields of those Chaos battleships. Dozens of extinction orders exploded at the same time.

A huge explosion occurred in front of the Chaos fleet. The strong shock wave and the cloud of fire instantly smashed all the outermost Chaos battleship shields. Their side armors shattered and collapsed in the impact. The huge battleship flew backwards under the powerful shock wave and hit the battleships behind.

A cloud of fire rose from the universe. The glittering cloud of flames could be seen even from a distance of several light years, just like a new sun.

A strong shock wave also crashed down from above. The aftermath of the explosion hit the back of the battleship. The countless outer structures instantly broke and collapsed in the wind. The flying debris swept across the side of the battleship, breaking the angel statue standing on it. The golden head hit the side of the bridge window and flew over.

Spyr bent down, stood in the huge vibration and raised his head to look up. He saw three Space Marine strike barges whizzing past his head. They sprayed flames and whizzed past the rising explosion cloud. After merging inward, they stabbed the huge Chaos battleship like a spear.

There was no more cover in front of the giant ship. All the Chaos escort fleets were flying and dancing in the explosion of the Extinction Order. Above the flying warship fragments and hulls, the Shark Fleet roared past, like a knight holding a spear, rushing towards the huge monster.

Spyre looked at the scene above his head. He frowned and looked at the Space Marine fleet roaring past. "I helped you deal with the enemy ships around, Captain Tiberus, now you can retreat safely. Next, it's up to you. May the Emperor bless you."

The first mate under Spyre's steps climbed up from the ground. He accidentally glanced at the display screen next to him. He looked away after looking at it, but just as he looked away, he looked back suddenly, "Admiral! Jump signal detected!"

"Chaos?" Spyre frowned and immediately It seems, but the first mate who stood up and supported the screen below shook his head in shock. He raised his eyes and looked at the space above, "No, it's ours, the Imperial Navy, but that ship. Merciful Emperor."

Speyer raised his head in surprise, he looked at the void above his head, the three warships of the Shark rushed towards the giant ship that was close at hand, but just when they were almost close to the limit of the boarding distance, a huge portal suddenly appeared in front of them, and a new giant ship jumped out of the portal at a faster speed than all other warships.

The giant ship jumped out horizontally from the front of the Space Marine warship, and the captains of the regiment were startled. They pulled up in a straight line at the distance that the giant ship was almost about to hit. Three strike barges flew up to the side of the magnificent warship, and the ends almost rubbed against the armor of the warship, colliding with a dazzling spark.

The magnificent warship was covered with a layer of void shield that was brighter than the Chaos and Imperial warships. The light spears above it locked and fired in the blink of an eye, shooting the roaring beam of light at the Chaos warship next to it. The explosion occurred on it in the blink of an eye.

"Admiral, according to the beacon, the ship is called"

"Emperor's Dream." Spyr looked up at the side of the magnificent warship above, looking at the ship name behind the roaring Lightning Eagle's giant wings, and said so.