"If you want to fight, I will fight!"
Just when the war was about to break out, Soshiyang suddenly received a message, and a smile immediately appeared on his face.
"Sure enough, I caught him."
Then, he sent out a global communication, which could be received by all warships on the battlefield.
"Long time no see, Judge Marcus. I didn't expect that our meeting again would be on such an occasion."
Marcus, who was staying on the bridge of the Power of Daedalus, frowned slightly when he heard Soshyan's voice.
How does the other party know that he is here?
Then, he realized what was going on, and his face suddenly turned pale.
At this time, the communication officer on the bridge suddenly said loudly:
"The other party sent a video communication!"
"Open."
Asterion didn't think much and immediately ordered to receive it.
The next second, a picture appeared on the monitor. In the picture, a woman wearing a crew uniform suddenly jumped out of the vent, and then killed everyone in the room in a very short time.
"Wow! What is that!"
"Is she some kind of monster!?"
"Is it a warp demon?"
Suddenly, everyone was in an uproar. The woman began to deform, and Marcus' face became increasingly ugly.
Asterion said nothing at first. After the assassin began to transform, he slightly turned his head and said in a deep voice:
"Inquisitor, I need an explanation."
"this--"
Soon, the female assassin on the screen turned into a dead technical priest. Then she walked to the Astral Knight's armory, opened the armory door, and walked inside.
The picture ends there, but the turmoil it caused is spreading.
"Tiberius Chapter Master, have you seen everything?"
Soon, a dull sound sounded on the bridge of Unbound Soul.
"What's the meaning."
"The people who invited you deceived you and did not tell you their true purpose."
"Just a video can't prove anything."
Suddenly, a clear voice joined the wide area communication channel.
"Oh, Judge Marcus, you are finally willing to speak."
"Soshyan, don't play such tricks. You know what you did."
"Really? What about this section?"
Then, a scene appeared.
In the picture, there is an assassin who is neither male nor female, with black artificial skin from the neck down, which is the female Callidus assassin who just appeared in the picture.
She took a deep breath and said calmly:
"I am from the Temple of Callidus, number 34114. I am currently employed by Inquisitor Marcus. I was sent to the Astral Knights by him a month ago. The task is to steal the combat records of the Astral Knights and use them in their battles. Obsolete codes were entered into the system, and several heretical items were framed on their heads."
When she narrated, her expression was very natural, but there was some struggle in her eyes, and some tremors in her body that were difficult to detect with the naked eye——
"you are lying!!"
Marcus roared in anger.
Then, the female assassin raised her hand and showed the logo of the Inquisition, the signal generator implanted under her skin for secret communication with Marcus, and the cracking key she used to steal data.
And in a cabin deep in the Unbound Soul, Khayon, who was wearing a robe, also made the same gesture of raising his hands.
Soon, a beast-like growl sounded from the bridge of the Nikkor and echoed in the channel.
"Dammit, Asterion, I need an explanation!"
"In the past few years, whether it is the high lord or the Inquisition, I am afraid that a lot of this kind of thing has been done."
In the chaos, Randall's voice joined in at the right time.
"In your eyes, is the majesty of the Astartes really just like dust in the vast universe, not worth mentioning?"
At this moment, the Lord of Unbound Souls suddenly made a nervous voice.
"I'm sorry, my lord, to interrupt."
"What's wrong?"
"It seems that the scan just now showed some abnormal reading on the planet, and it has fallen out of orbit."
"Be specific."
"Something is rising from the surface of the planet, and the speed is-"
The Lord of Observation focused his attention on the electronic screen of the observation dome, observing the rapidly approaching flashing light spots.
Sensors have confirmed that it is an approaching aircraft. It seems to be small in size, but very fast, very fast.
Neither the Greenskin Gunship nor the Chaos Plunderer can reach this speed.
"Very fast."
Soshyan frowned, and at this time other warships closer to the planet, especially the Minotaur fleet, also received similar signals.
"What exactly?"
The Lord of the Minotaur let out a low growl of doubt, while the officer in charge of the reconnaissance array was sweating profusely.
"S-Sir, the specific target cannot be displayed, but we can read...a large amount of energy signals, sir! The readings are still rising!"
Suddenly, the tactical display lighted up.
They finally saw what it was——
It was a huge target, and the Minotaur fleet was almost directly above it.
It is very large, looking like a flat saucer, shaped like a crescent moon, and trailing a long, thin tail.
The closest thing to it was a Minotaur frigate, and when it realized the enemy was approaching, it immediately maneuvered in a desperate attempt to avoid it, but it was too late.
A huge lightning arc shot out from the enemy ship, and the entangled energy like a forked finger engulfed the entire battleship.
The frigate's void shield seemed to be captured by the energy, unable to escape.
Seconds later, the frigate exploded with a blinding flash, its hull and hull torn to shreds, its shattered engines spinning into the void.
The other frigate immediately turned urgently away from the enemy ship, and at the same time all the weapon arrays on the port side opened fire.
This tactical maneuver was skillful and sophisticated, but it was ineffective. No trace of damage was seen on the alien warship.
The alien warship under attack approached at a seemingly illusory super-speed. A whip composed of lightning cut through the void, spiraling to the window of the frigate and surrounding it.
The bridge crew tried in vain to control the ship's trajectory, but all systems began to fail.
The next moment, the consoles exploded one after another, pushing corpses to the ground and flying all over the bridge. All targeting systems had failed. This frigate was already a dead duck.
Soon, it made the same mistake as the previous one and exploded into two pieces.
It only took three to five minutes to destroy two frigates. This alien warship has shocked everyone, not only its weird maneuverability that goes beyond common sense of physics, but also its incredibly powerful firepower, and more importantly Yes, everyone finally understood what they were facing.
All the Chapter Leaders stared at the enemy on the screen and read out its name in unison——
"Necrons!!"
