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Although the demons suffered heavy losses in the War of the Web, there were not enough demons to continue attacking the entire galaxy.
However, when demons are summoned into the universe, they will do their utmost to launch attacks.
They were terrified that the evil god might throw them directly into the netherworld to face that terrifying imperial army.
This place used to be where the Chaos Gods constantly harassed the Emperor; now it's where the Chaos Gods banish demons they despise.
Of course, it wasn't the evil gods who did this themselves.
It should be those great demons. Anyway, whichever demon the great demons dislike, that demon will be sent directly to the Net Path.
Once they have gathered a certain number, they will periodically launch attacks on the Imperial army of the Netway.
Even a fool knows that such an attack is ineffective; it's nothing more than a charge that ends in certain death, demonstrating to the Imperial armies that the Warp is their demonic domain.
The Chaos Demons' attack went extremely smoothly for the first hour, but within that hour, the fleet that Zhou Qing had mobilized had reached the edge of the star system.
When Zhou Qing's patrol fleet arrived at the edge of this star system, the probes had already locked onto these demonic warships.
The next instant, the ion cannons on the Titan opened fire!
The ion cannon fired at intervals spanning an entire star system. The thick beams not only destroyed the Chaos Warband's battleship but also took down a cruiser standing next to it.
This attack, powerful enough to shatter an entire star, is now only hitting a battleship; its destructive force is unimaginable.
The void shield on the battleship overloaded within seconds and was shattered, leaving the battleship with nothing but dust.
Incidentally, the cruiser next to it was also affected, and it was taken away as well.
The sudden attack caught the Nurgle fleet off guard; their oracles detected no signs and they had no idea this attack was coming.
The surviving warships quickly began contacting their respective battle group commanders.
As the blue light from the ion cannon tore through the void, the Nurgle fleet's communication channels instantly erupted.
"Report! The 'Festering Paradise' has been destroyed! Repeat, the 'Festering Paradise' has been destroyed!"
As Galros raised his scepter and annihilated another row of Astragalus soldiers, he asked, "What?! What kind of weapon is that?!"
"Enemy ship's location unknown! Oracic device malfunctioning!"
Garros was dumbfounded when he heard this.
The Chaos Fleet, which encountered this attack, remained in chaos.
They had never seen such an attack before—a single shot that vaporized a battleship and half a cruiser across an entire star system.
As for the remaining half of the cruiser that hadn't evaporated, it had actually already been destroyed; he could only still see it.
The chaotic noise from his own men made Garros realize something.
He must return to his fleet now; only in this way can he calm his men down and prevent them from panicking.
Although doing so might result in him being destroyed like a battleship on the warship, he had no choice but to do it.
In interstellar warfare, naval warfare is actually the most important aspect.
A naval fleet is the most important element of an interstellar empire, since land units are used to seize colonies.
This is also crucial for a Space Marine warband; if they lose their naval warships, then there is no doubt that they will be out of luck once the fleet reaches orbit.
That fleet didn't actually need to send in ground troops to fight them; they could easily have dealt with their warbands using orbital bombardment.
However, influenced by this, he realized the importance of the navy and decided to return to his own fleet to lead it in battle.
An attack that can destroy one's own battleship in one hit is unlikely to be a frequent one. The opponent will definitely need time, and that time is the best time for him to decide whether to retreat or counterattack.
Garros's idea was undoubtedly correct; the Titan's main guns could not fire a second shot in a short time. However, what he did not expect was that, in addition to the Titan's main guns, the battleship's main guns could also fire.
Of course, he couldn't possibly know that, since the battleships under Zhou Qing's command were completely different from the warships of the Imperial Mankind and the Warhammer universe.
Galros made an emergency return to orbit from the ground battlefield and boarded the Rotting Throat, one of the remaining cruisers.
Chapter 114 Your Opponent is Me
Just as he returned to his warship, the battleships unleashed their fire, reducing all the other cruisers except his to rubble.
Garros swallowed hard.
The sound of a violent explosion still echoed around him. In just that one moment, the ship he was on had become the only remaining warship in the entire fleet.
There was no sound in space; he could only see that the warships beside him had been completely destroyed, and nothing remained.
"Everyone, leave the warship immediately! We need to get to the planet's surface as fast as we can!"
It was clear that the naval warships could no longer remain there; they would be mercilessly torn to pieces. Now, being on a warship was the most dangerous thing.
To survive, you have to go to the surface of the planet!
Only by reaching the planet's surface will they have a chance to survive!
After shouting the order, Galros rushed towards the shuttle that had brought him aboard, and once again flew towards the planet.
It was this action that allowed him to survive by sheer luck. Just as his spaceship was being thrown back onto the planet's surface, a thick ion beam struck his vessel.
Having narrowly escaped the attack range, Garros watched the scene unfold with lingering fear aboard the corrupted Thunderhawk gunship.
The entire fleet was completely destroyed before it could even do anything.
This is really too scary!
The Thunderhawk gunship accelerated once more, carrying him toward the planet's surface. Once back on the surface, Garros patted his chest with lingering fear.
Meanwhile, the PDFs and the Astral Army opposite them had already launched a counterattack.
The events that have occurred in orbit have already been discovered by these PDFs and the Star Force.
The massive Chaos warship was destroyed instantly, which meant that reinforcements had arrived, a view firmly held by the Astronauts and the PvPs.
The arrival of reinforcements gave them a sense of opportunity, and these warriors, along with the Astral Army, launched another counterattack against the Chaos Warriors.
The Astronauts and PDFs erupted in wild cheers as they watched the Chaos fleet in orbit be instantly vaporized.
"Reinforcements have arrived! For the Emperor!"
The surviving soldiers rushed out from behind cover, unleashing a barrage of laser guns and heavy bombs at the Chaos Warriors.
A Leman Rustank with its tracks blown off, the gunner still insisted on loading, and with the last shell, shattered the head of a Chaos Warrior.
The demons' offensive was forcibly interrupted by this attack, and the human empire's army even showed signs of pushing back against them.
Garros stood atop the ruins, the pustules on his corrupted power armor bursting in fury, dripping yellowish-green fluid onto the ground and hissing white smoke from the corrosion.
All of this demonstrates his current anger, even a hint of impotent rage.
"You ants... how dare you defy the grace of our benevolent father?!"
He raised the festering scepter high, Nurgle's blessing boiling within him. The half of his face that had been grazed by the ion cannon healed rapidly, but the twisted muscles remained exposed, like a rotting, grinning mask.
"Kill them all! Leave no one alive!"
Their warband's fleet has been destroyed, and without its fleet, the warband can no longer roam the galaxy.
Their only option was to do more to please Nurgle, hoping that the evil god would turn his attention to them, bestow more blessings upon them, and even grant them Chaos Ships.
Otherwise, their fate would have been sealed.
A mysterious army has appeared here.
When their warships were destroyed, he, as the battle group leader, did not know who the opponent was, but he could guess that it was the enemy.
The orders from their chapter commander and the loss of their ships in orbit made these Chaos Space Marines realize the predicament their chapter was in.
This made them even more insane.
The Plague Colossus strode heavily into the Astronomical Army's position, spewing forth poisonous mist that instantly festered the skin of entire rows of soldiers, tearing flesh from their skeletons.
The withering spores swooped down, raining spores upon the PDF's defenses. Soldiers' eyeballs melted, fungi grew in their throats, and they died painfully from suffocation.
The Nurgle crawled out of the pile of corpses, tearing at the wounds of the wounded and turning the dying soldiers into twisted Chaos eggs.
The commander of the 83rd Regiment of the Astronautical Army felled two Nurgle warriors with his power sword, but Garros shattered his spine with a single blow from his scepter. His body was trampled by the Chaos warriors and crushed into the bloody mud.
The last Poisonblade tank of the Astral Army was overturned by the Plague Colossus. The gunner struggled to climb out of the hatch, only to be instantly melted into a pool of pus and blood by the Corruption Prophet's sorcery.
The state priests raised their holy emblems, and the chanting of the Emperor's Word echoed amidst the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, temporarily forcing back the Nurgle spirits.
A Star Force soldier, riddled with bullets, detonated a molten bomb, perishing along with three Chaos Demons.
But all to no avail.
The defense line was completely torn apart, and the core factory area of Zhongchao fell.
The Chaos Warband's attack far exceeded the planetary governor's expectations; the mortal forces were simply no match for the attack spearheaded by the Space Marines.
Meanwhile, the warships and fleets that came to provide support had not yet reached planetary orbit, so they could be supported by carrying out orbital bombardment.
The endless demons have now breached the defenses and entered the central city of the hive to perform blasphemous rituals on the people of the empire, convert them, and completely seize the military factories there.
Perhaps it was because victory had already been achieved that these Chaos Space Marines felt a little satisfied with this small triumph.
One of them, a Chaos Space Marine, even addressed an Imperial citizen...
Rotten Embrace Space Marine: "Do you believe in the Chaos Four, madam?"
The woman said, "If God really exists, then I must have been abandoned. Why should I be plunged into such immense grief?"
He was holding a child in his arms, and at that moment, the woman's sobs and the child's cries rang out simultaneously, a kind of choked sobs.
Rotten Embrace Space Marine: "Look at your body. You have been blessed by Chaos. You are alive. You have been chosen. Yet you doubt the Chaos Gods."
The woman said, "I...I still believe in the Emperor."
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Perhaps out of disdain or some other final act of madness, the Chaos Space Marine didn't kill the woman outright. Instead, he picked her up and put her on the ground.
"Since that's the case, then run! Run and see if your so-called emperor can save you."
The woman who was released ran forward frantically, clutching the child in his arms, shouting as she ran.
"Save my child! Save my child!"
As she ran forward, she glanced back at the actions of the Chaos Space Marines.
The Nurgle Space Marines didn't fire; they toyed with the woman as she ran forward carrying her child, like cats playing with a mouse.