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In each battle, the commander-in-chief in charge of the entire fleet was often overwhelmed. After all, naval warfare in the void was completely different from warfare on land. On land, a unit could recover after suffering a devastating blow, but in the void, once defeated, the loss was always tens of thousands of people on the entire ship.
Such differences often result in naval commanders bearing far more mental pressure than army commanders. In the navy, legendary captains are all mentally strong men without exception, but Olga had only seen such figures in textbooks and had never met one in reality.
But today, he successfully encountered it.
A calm, steady, and even voice, like a machine, issued commands, maneuvering the ship around the enemy and firing, much like a skilled doctor who could accurately locate the lesion that needed to be removed each time.
Olga's expression was subtle. He sat on his mechanical throne, receiving orders from the Wolf Shepherd every minute. After each order, he would command his ship to move to the designated position and then activate the ship's weapons to attack the enemy.
Another enemy ship was destroyed, reduced to fragments in the void. Olga breathed a sigh of relief. In his view, victory in this void naval battle was only a matter of time; the Empire's formidable fleet was a completely overwhelming force against traitors.
If they hadn't launched that initial ambush, their extra hundred or so warships might have been able to hold out a little longer. But now, they were like prey caught in a spider's web, slowly losing their strength in despair until they were finally devoured.
On the ground, Honso had received several pieces of bad news from the fleet. Each of these messages made his fierce face grow even colder, and after hearing that a major battleship had been destroyed, he began to pace around. After circling the war sand table in front of him twice, he suddenly stopped and looked at the wizard beside him.
"Kayan, when are the reinforcements you promised coming?"
Kayan stood there, expressionless, surrounded by several red-letter warriors. His stiff posture made him look like a statue.
No, or rather, they are sculptures.
"I don't know. They were supposed to arrive before the war officially started, but I haven't found them yet. I just sent a message in Star Language, but all I got was inexplicable silence."
"If they don't come, we will completely lose control of the void. At that point, we will only be able to fight them in a war of attrition under the enemy's orbital bombardment. The altar is protected by the Void Shield, but you should also know that it's only a matter of time before that thing overloads."
"Ah."
Kayan responded with a sound, then lowered his head, seemingly lost in thought.
Hongsuo sighed. He stopped looking at Kayan. His primary objective now was to ensure the defense of the ground forces after the fleet's complete collapse. If the ground campaign also ended in utter defeat...
Just as Hongsuo felt a sense of darkness about the future, Kayan suddenly looked up and stared intently at him.
Hunsuo felt uncomfortable being stared at. He looked at Kayan and frowned slightly.
"what happened?"
"Did you...feel anything?"
What do you feel?
A sense of unease crept into Hongsuo's heart. He didn't understand what Kayan was saying. But as a renowned wizard in the Chaos, Kayan's psychic power had reached its peak, and such a person could sense things that normal people couldn't.
"What do you feel?"
"I........"
Kayan opened his mouth, as if to say something.
But just before he spoke, in the operations room, a mortal psionicist who had been waiting in a corner suddenly collapsed. Before anyone could react, his entire body began to convulse violently, and he started uttering some incomprehensible words.
“Aminosminosasnoammi........”
White foam billowed from the mouth of the mortal psychic. Kayan looked at the other party, and without the slightest hesitation, bent down and snapped the fragile neck.
"What's up with him?"
Hong Suo asked, but at that moment, his expression suddenly changed, and he looked up in horror at the ceiling of the conference room.
Or rather, outside the ceiling, in the void thousands of kilometers away.
"This...this is..."
"Yes, it's them."
Kayan took a deep breath and gritted his teeth.
"I know why the reinforcements didn't come; they ran into them... But don't worry, they'll deal with the Imperial fleet first."
Kayan said.
What exactly happened in that void?
Lynch removed his helmet, stood up with a serious expression, and went to the ship's command center. From there, he could clearly see a massive subspace rift appearing in the void, from which countless shipwrecks emerged. The markings on these wrecks indicated that they once belonged to the most powerful Black Legion of Chaos.
But they were defeated and reduced to wreckage. And the power capable of doing this is extremely rare, numbering only a handful throughout the entire galaxy.
So who exactly did all this?
The answer was soon revealed.
The first ship to emerge from the warp rift after the wreckage was a strange object.
Rather than a ship, this thing is more like a bizarre creature that can move through the void. Its body is covered with a thick chitinous carapace, and it has a tuft of white tentacles at its tail. From a distance, it even looks somewhat cute.
However, its appearance signifies that a brutal force has chosen to come here.
Another "plankton" creature appeared, just like the previous one, followed by a second, a third...
The number of points of light on the oracles increased to an alarming degree, until finally, the entire warp rift was torn apart once again. Then, a huge, monstrous creation, accompanied by endless warp waves, burst out of the rift and arrived before the Imperial fleet.
"This is Tyron?"
Horus's body faded somewhat, but it still remained.
Danteok simply vanished, no longer standing beside Lynch.
"Yes, that's Tyronn."
Lin Qi sighed helplessly, and finally gave the order.
"All ships, take good care of the Star Speakers and Navigators. Have the Glory Guard and the Imperial Guard wait for me in the hangar. Also, prepare a Whirlwind torpedo."
Turning around, Lin Qi strode towards the hangar.
"Ground command is now in the hands of the respective battle group commanders, proceeding according to my original plan. The primary objectives at present are to establish a temporary defensive line, clear the landing zone, and ensure the safe landing of our troops. There is no need to worry about the Terran fleet; I will crush them in the void."
Inside the hangar, the Glory Guard and the Imperial Guard were ready. A Cyclone torpedo was lifted onto the Stormbird. Gawain pulled Lynch back, looked at him, and hesitated for a moment.
"Why don't I go?"
"Old man, you'd better stay with me."
Lynch took the weapon Asford handed him and said to Gawain.
"Don't worry, I won't die."
After he finished speaking, he looked around and memorized every face of every person. Then he took a deep breath and calmly uttered a sentence.
"Get ready, we're going to jump directly onto Tyrion's bio-mothership."
Chapter 175 Boarding the Zerg Hive Mothership
Lynch had imagined many times what it would be like to meet Tyrone.
But an encounter like today's is undoubtedly the worst kind.
Looking at the floating wreckage of the Chaos warships, Lin Qi could roughly guess how this insectoid fleet had arrived at this battlefield.
In order to ensure that they could contend with the Empire's fleet in the void, the Chaos forces on Galmec requested a Chaos fleet as reinforcements.
However, to their surprise, the Chaos fleet encountered the current Hive fleet just before embarking on its warp voyage. The two engaged in battle, with the Hive fleet ultimately emerging victorious. However, the Chaos fleet, through some unknown means, opened a warp rift, drawing the remaining ships of the Hive fleet into the warp.
After drifting in the warp for some time, perhaps due to the warp engines on the Chaos Fleet wreckage activating once again, this Hive Fleet was deployed to the current battlefield.
Tyrion's entry into the fray is not a good thing for Lynch. The shadow of the warp will not only weaken the power of Chaos, but also the Empire.
Ordinary think tanks will be unable to use psionic energy properly, and astro-speakers and navigators will fall into chaos or even death.
Furthermore, as the largest and most conspicuous target, the Empire's fleet will inevitably become Tyrion's primary objective.
The Tyranids have no allies; to them, everything in this world is merely food. Their endless hunger casts a terrifying shadow over the warp, and for any world or power, the appearance of the Hive fleet undoubtedly represents a catastrophe capable of destroying a planet.
Sometimes, because of them, two mutually hostile forces can even be forced to join forces to defeat them first.
However, Lynch has no possibility of cooperating with Chaos, nor with Tyron.
Therefore, all he could do was to destroy this third party as quickly as possible, and then concentrate on the next battle against Chaos.
Fortunately, this was just a small-scale Zerg hive fleet.
The mere presence of a single Zerg mothership allowed Lynch to immediately recognize it as the core of the entire Zerg fleet without needing to make many distinctions.
Once it is destroyed, with the death of the central node creature above, the remaining Tyranid creatures will fall into complete chaos and become mindless beasts.
As for the risks of boarding the Zerg mothership...
Lin Qi closed his eyes and gripped the Judgment in his hand tightly.
If there is any risk, it is the risk to the Zerg mothership.
The void had descended into complete chaos. The large fleet, which was originally engaged in battle with Chaos, began to direct its main firepower towards the Tyrannosaurus, covering the Stormbirds squadron that was constantly approaching the Zerg mothership.
However, Chaos did not gain any advantage from this. Tyranny's attacks did not distinguish between Chaos and Empire; in its eyes, everything in front of it was food.
However, because the Empire had a larger fleet, the Tyranids slightly increased the intensity of their attacks on the Empire. But the small number of fleets they sent out were the final straw for the Chaos fleet, which was already struggling under the Empire's attacks.
Chaos has become the defining characteristic of the current Void Wars.
Just as the Imperial ships boarded a Chaos vessel, several small Terran bio-ships charged toward it.
However, these bio-ships were subsequently destroyed by a Chaos capital ship. The Imperial ships, however, did not survive; instead, they were reduced to scrap metal in the zero-gravity environment along with the bio-ships in the flames of destruction.
The three-way battle has put immense pressure on the Imperial fleet, not to mention the warp shadow cast by the Hive fleet, which has placed tremendous mental stress on all the psykers in the fleet. Several astro-speakers and navigators have already fainted, and if this continues, deaths are inevitable.
Therefore, this unauthorized intruder must be dealt with as soon as possible.
The Stormbirds had broken through the first layer of blockade and entered the Hive fleet's formation. Internally installed Void Shields defended against external attacks, and the aircraft trembled constantly, but thanks to the pilots' superb skills, they remained steadfast in their pursuit of their objective.
The Stormbird's heavy thermal laser at the nose of the aircraft began to operate, and the crimson beam struck the Zerg mothership's hard outer armor.
The thick chitinous carapace began to melt, but as time went on, the driver discovered that beneath the melted layer was another thick layer of carapace.
If you want to open a passage large enough for a spaceship to break into its interior, it would take at least several minutes.
Those few minutes of remaining motionless in one position were enough for him and everyone on his ship to die countless times.
The Hive Mothership—this colossal vessel capable of traversing the void—is essentially a gigantic creature created by the will of the Hive. Its purpose was to traverse the void, carrying countless Tyranids, bringing the Great Devourer's greed and hunger to the stars.
This also means that they are never as simple as they appear on the surface.
The outer shell appears thin and fragile, but it is actually hundreds of feet thick. In terms of defensive capabilities, these specialized shells are comparable to solid adamantite, not to mention their powerful self-healing abilities.
The pilot gritted his teeth and forcibly hovered the aircraft, adjusting the thermal laser to maximum power at the target position.
The escorting flight formation began to protect it, and the Imperial Navy's ace pilots fought fearlessly against the Tyranid small bio-ships. Several Sword-class frigates also overloaded their Void Shields and rushed into the interior of the Zerg Hive fleet, trying to divert its attention.