Chapter 28: Chapter 28 The Elegy of Pure Flame
The traitors developed a complete counterattack plan against the Gothic Fleet with the two Glorious Queen-class battleships, Endurance and Spirit of Vengeance, as the core.
The Chaos fleet took full advantage of its numerical advantage.
More than two hundred Chaos warships opened fire at the same time, and the surging artillery fire instantly wiped out the advantage built up by the Gothic fleet.
Even though every warship in the Gothic Fleet is an elite force of the empire, in the brutal naval battle, the number and firepower of the warships are the key to tipping the balance of war.
The Gothic Fleet might be able to rely on its tactical advantages to counter the Chaos Fleet in a short period of time! But once the battle line is extended, the disadvantage of insufficient number of loyalist warships will be infinitely magnified.
The Gothic Fleet alone cannot win this war! The only hope for the loyalists is that the Primarch can severely damage the Chaos Warmaster in the Blackstone Fortress.
The Chaos Warmaster is the core of the entire Black Legion. Once Abaddon is severely damaged, the Black Legion will inevitably transfer the Warmaster to the Eye of Terror as quickly as possible.
After the Black Legion withdrew, the remaining traitors were nothing to be feared!
Carrying the hopes of all loyalists, the Primarch led thirty Custodes, six companies of Astartes and three Astra Militarum regiments to launch a massive boarding expedition towards the Blackstone Fortress.
An operation of this scale naturally could not escape the attention of the Chaos Fleet.
The best solution for this ancient but highly effective tactic of [boarding] is to kill the enemy before they complete the boarding!
Several small destroyers quietly broke away from the Chaos Fleet! The despicable betrayers tried to bypass the Gothic Fleet's defense and directly attack the loyalists who were boarding.
As expected, the betrayer's attempt undoubtedly failed.
From the moment the destroyers broke away from the Chaos fleet, they were firmly locked by the Gothic fleet's divination array!
The artillery fire carrying the Emperor's wrath surged towards the betrayers! Several small destroyers didn't even have room to resist and were directly shattered into pieces in the artillery fire.
Under the cover of the Gothic fleet's artillery fire, the Chaos fleet had no chance of approaching the Primarch's troops.
As Abaddon's confidant, Igsemmo knows the importance of Blackstone Fortress! No matter what the cost, he will never allow the Primarch to interfere with the Chaos Warmaster's plan.
After careful consideration, the commander of the Black Fleet decided to activate the main gun of the battleship "Spirit of Vengeance".
As the symbol of the 16th Legion and the flagship of Warmaster Horus, the original design concept of the Vengeful Spirit was to use its powerful firepower to determine the outcome of a war.
Almost all the ship-borne weapons on the Vengeful Spirit have been upgraded and modified by the Adeptus Mechanicus! The main gun of the Vengeful Spirit is a valuable legacy from the [Golden Age].
Theoretically, with sufficient energy, the power of this main gun can even penetrate a planet.
The main gun of the Vengeful Spirit began to charge! Enough energy to drive the ion reactor for decades was injected into the main gun's energy storage tank in just a few minutes.
This attack almost drained all the energy of this Queen of Glory-class battleship!
A light filled with foul breath emanated from the main gun of the [Spirit of Vengeance]. After a brief stagnation, this terrifying blow that condensed the blessings of the gods pierced through space! With a suffocating wave, it rushed towards the drop pod where the original body was.
The power of this cannon is enough to sink an entire continent! Even the powerful son of the Emperor would have no chance of survival in the face of such a terrifying force.
Igothmo gave a vicious grin.
The Tyrant-class heavy battlecruiser closest to the Primarch was the first to detect the betrayer's vicious intentions.
The ancient empire has been standing guard in the darkness for ten thousand years. Thanks to the great God-Emperor's grace, a divine son of the Emperor has returned to the empire.
Under the leadership of a Primarch, the Empire will eventually regain the glory of the Great Crusade! Before the advent of an era full of reason and beauty, every loyalist will die for the Primarch.
The captain of the Tyrant-class ship did not hesitate too much and directly drove the several-kilometer-long heavy battlecruiser to block the path of the Chaos main gun.
This huge battleship gave up the attack and connected all the energy produced by the ion reactor to the void shield generator.
The massive amount of energy caused this huge machine to enter an overload state, and the void shield activated by it reached an unprecedented defensive strength.
At this moment, everything is silent!
The battleship's main gun, which was blessed by the gods, bombarded the void shield. The energy compressed to the extreme even turned into a viscous liquid.
Almost instantly, this terrifying blow overloaded the Tyrant-class battleship's void shield! The void shield generator located in the middle of the battleship emitted a harsh noise, and then was completely destroyed in dazzling sparks.
The void shield was offline, but this loyal warship still did not retreat at all.
The hull made of high-performance alloy slowly melted, and the explosion of the fuel tank and the weapons depot engulfed the entire warship in a sea of fire! This warship, which carried the glory of the Gothic Fleet, was doomed to destruction.
But no one was afraid of the impending death! From the captain to the lower-level crew, the more than 100,000 naval soldiers on the warship never wavered at all.
"With my faith, the Emperor's light will eventually shine to the farthest star! For the Emperor, for the Gothic Fleet..."
The low-frequency broadcast filled with determination and faith echoed in this dark space. Even the warships of the traitors could clearly receive these words full of determination...
The moment the broadcast sounded, the Primarch had already found the name of the battleship from his memory.
[Pure Fire]! A title derived from ancient Terra mythology.
History always repeats itself in a surprising way!
Even though the advent of the Primarch brought many changes to this dark galaxy, the bravery and loyalty engraved in the hearts of the Imperial warriors... have never changed in the slightest.
The Primarch, sitting in the drop pod, watched the fall of the Pure Fire! The blazing red flames were reflected in the Primarch's golden pupils, reflecting a brilliant and fiery anger.
The Primarch would remember the sacrifices of the Imperium's heroes, and then... exact those sacrifices double from the betrayers and Chaos.
The betrayers were ultimately unable to stop the Primarch's boarding attempt!!
The orbital drop pods loaded with Astartes and Custodes fell like meteors, and the boarding ships and boarding torpedoes operated by mortal warriors arrived at the outer platform of the Blackstone Fortress at the same time.