Chapter 631: Battle of Beasts: Combined Fleets

The huge golden skull shimmered in the dim sunlight, its eye sockets were filled with darkness, and the two slowly raised magnificent cannon barrels above its head shone with shining light. The light came from the barrels. Several thick pipes extend from the base, and they penetrate into the gap between the two palace buildings.

Thick black pipes fell from the sky and hung from high places on the deck. Several huge mechanical arms descended from the surrounding walls and held them firmly with giant mechanical claws without sweeping them everywhere on the deck. Impact on ongoing preparations on the ground.

After the closed cabin on the side of the heavy pipe was opened, one of the several energy tubes contained in it was pulled out. Strong arms wrapped around it and pulled it out of the dark pipe, "I'll count them. Two-three, get ready!”

The veterans of the ground crew who were a little older yelled at the young ground crew behind them. They all rolled up the sleeves on their arms, and some took off their coats and joined the team wearing only a thin vest. Among them, the abdomens of the female navy soldiers are full of smooth abdominal muscles, which look small and delicate when attached to their lower abdomens.

The men and women grabbed the branch pipe together from behind. The navy veteran waved to the servitor on the side, "You big tin bastards come here too." "Us?" "Otherwise? Are there any other tin bastards here? "

"Come here quickly!" the veteran roared, and the arm holding the pipe suddenly exerted force, and strong muscles suddenly burst out from his arm, "Everyone! Pull!"

The veteran was pulled back violently, and the young people behind him also exerted their strength. Their military boots made a hissing sound when they stepped on the ground. The mechanical structures at the end of the hands of the servitors behind them violently Open it, spray out a piece of air, and then exert force instantly. The rotating shaft of the elbow rotates, but it closes and locks instantly.

The pipe was being pulled tightly by the thick pipe, as if there was another group of people pulling it inside, as if they were competing in a tug-of-war with the navy members outside. "Use a little harder! One, two, three, pull!"

The muscles in the veteran's arms were all tense, like pieces of stone. He was holding on to the pipe tightly. The marines behind him also retreated with all their strength, leaving scratches on the ground with their footsteps, and the servitors behind them were even more It left traces of flickering all over the ground.

The mechanical iron foot stepped on the ground, and the rotating shaft at the ankle joint roared and rotated, but it was locked tightly. The entire button trembled violently, as if it was about to snap.

"This is not very common for you." A man leaned next to the veteran. He also pulled up his sleeves and grabbed the front end of the pipe with both hands. The veteran looked to the side and saw the hand on the back of the arm. A gash opened between the skin, and a closing flap popped out.

The thing that looked like a human hand instantly changed its appearance. A mechanical cover popped open on the back of the hand, a cloud of smoke spurted out, and a long row of small rows of small rows were instantly opened on both sides of the elbow. From the breath, billowing heat waves were ejected from it, as if a ball of flame had filled the air.

"Judge?" "That's it. It seems you need help, right? Lancelot is here to help." Vito said with the mechanical arm of his right hand holding the pipe, and waved the other hand to call for help. The marines' bodies were instantly shrouded in a shadow. They raised their heads to look at him and saw a flickering winged helmet.

The top wings of the winged helmet walked under the light, came to the pipe, stretched out his arms, and hugged the thick pipe behind Vito. Vito glanced at him and smiled jokingly, Then he raised three fingers toward the sailors behind him and said, "I'm counting three, two, one, three, two, one, pull!"

Following Vito's order, the people behind him immediately exerted all their strength. Lancelot half-knelt on the ground to match their height. The armor on the Space Marine's thighs rubbed slowly against his face, making a piercing scream. At the same time, a large amount of sparks were sprayed out, and Lancelot's arm suddenly moved forward to grab the front half of the pipe.

Vito also pulled on the pipes, and rows of heat pipes were opened on his mechanical right arm. Waves of heat radiated around his arms. His fingers that looked like humans clenched tightly, and then he jerked towards The last tug tightened the pipe that popped out from behind the cover door.

It made a hissing sound and clicked firmly against the door. Vito's other hand also grabbed it, and the leg wearing silver boots took a step forward, and the human hand also violently When he exerted force, his muscles suddenly bulged out, and row after row looked like small space warriors.

Behind him, the real Space Marine's fingers suddenly grasped the pipe, and pulled it out like a soft neck under the armor of the Tyranids. The Tyranids' heads would collapse under this tearing force. It was pulled apart, but the pipe in it was still quite strong, so it was pulled out instead of being broken.

It hit the ground hard, causing the marines who were pulling behind to step back and fall to the ground. The sweating men and women patted each other's shoulders, took each other's arms and pulled them up. There was a burst of pain, and they all shook their palms with a wry smile.

The veteran sat on the ground, rubbed his upper arm, and stretched out a hand in front of him. The mechanical exhaust port on the seemingly human palm was closing. After closing, the gap also disappeared, and soon it seemed that It looks like a real human hand again. "It's not often you see this kind of maintenance."

"But it's also the fastest." The veteran reached out and took the hand, and he was pulled up from the ground. "This way, we don't have to wait for the maintenance vehicle of the Mechanicum to arrive. Our people can directly change the line. After all, it will be done right away. There’s going to be a war.”

The veteran said, turning around and waving to the ground crew beside the transport truck. The latter immediately nodded and unloaded several large tool boxes from the carriage. Several people worked together to carry them on their shoulders and ran to the truck. At the side of the pipe that came out, the navy men on the side smiled jokingly and patted the squatting maintenance man on the shoulder.

"Come on, try to make it as reliable as possible. Our arms are useless. We can't pull them out again when the machine crashes suddenly." The navy on the side rubbed his shoulders and said with a smile, turning around to look. He said to his comrades behind him, "After all, we asked the Adeptus Mechanicus to come over. It is estimated that by the time they arrive, we will have already gone to the Golden Throne to have breakfast for the next day." "Hahahahaha!"

People laughed, hugged each other's shoulders and sat on the pipe. Vito glanced at the Mechanicus priests who were also on the gunnery deck. They looked back and murmured in a low voice, "Flesh and blood waste." ”

After that, they continued to turn around and study the several tablets held on the mechanical arms after standing up. The priests of the Mechanicus gathered around and pointed at the array of weapons around them with their hands. The servitors were standing on those tall In front of the wall-like integrated data board, a small welding gun on his arm was blowing flames on it.

"How long will it take for you to be ready?" Vito asked, leaning against the pipe with one hand on his hip. He raised his arm and rotated the wrist of the robot. The ion cannon extended a small part from it, but quickly retracted it.

"In a few minutes, the light spear will be ready to fire. We will calibrate its aiming unit so that it doesn't have to be misaligned." "It's best this way. Remember last time? Cole asked you to aim at seven o'clock. "Target, you hit it until nine o'clock, and by the way, you destroyed the space station there, and our supplies were ruined." "We were hungry for a month and a half before we found the next supply point." "I promise it won't happen again, sir." "The best thing is, I have made an appointment with Ezio to cook grilled lamb chops for the next dinner party on the ship."

Vito leaned against the pipe, leaning here with his arms clasped in his arms. Suddenly, a bright light shone down from the gap in the light spear pipe above, illuminating the parts of Vito's mechanical arm that had not changed back, and they all flickered. Using a conspicuous beam of light, Lancelot was the first to notice the bright light above his head.

He raised his head and looked upward. Vito also raised his head with the veteran and saw the portal appearing above his head. The flashing door torn out of the universe spewed out a piece of lightning. Within the lightning, a silver A skull appeared from it, followed by heavy artillery behind it, a dense group of automatic cannons, and rows of tall buildings inside.

The Judgment Angel holding a sword drove out from behind the halo of the portal. Behind her on both sides, the barrels of two light spear cannons turned around, pointing to the universe ahead like the sword she held.

The giant ship's plasma thruster roared violently, pushing the hull to appear from behind the portal. More portals flashed around it, and giant ships sailed out of them. The smaller ones The frigates flew alongside the largest battleship, like swords suspended around it.

The same giant ship was not the same. Behind the huge dark side of the planet, the dense flashes of portals almost illuminated its dark surface. The flickering halo was like the rising sun, lighting up the entire surface of the planet.

"It seems our friends are here. Keep up the hard work. I'm going to entertain the guests first." Vito patted the veteran's sore shoulder. The latter's expression changed, and then he pressed his shoulder and nodded to Vito. The soldier then glanced at Lancelot and walked away. The latter also glanced at the veteran and nodded to him before following him.

The veteran stood under the barrel, looking at the cosmic night sky above his head, which was lit up by a teleportation flash. The dark cosmic background became colorful under the subspace waves released from the teleportation gate, like a palette in the hands of an artist. That way, and they, those battleships were sailing on that disk.

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Vito passed by the corridor outside the bridge. He looked at the flashing portal outside the window. Battleships came out one after another. Smaller frigates ejected instantly, as if they appeared suddenly, and those huge ones The others moved slowly, slowly appearing from behind the door under the roar of propellers.

Another battlecruiser of the same level as the Infinite Frontier sailed out from behind the portal. The flames ejected from the huge propeller at the end of it pierced the curtain of the universe, shining the gorgeous firelight on Vito's face, and also Behind him, on Lancelot's helmet, the Dark Angel's raised wings glowed with luster.

"It seems that there are quite a few people here, not bad." Vito turned his head, flicked his finger and walked out from behind the door on the side of the bridge. In front of the console and terminal on the side of the captain's platform, the navy man sitting at the table When the officers and soldiers saw him, they turned around and nodded to him, but no one stood up.

Vito's ship did not want these boring etiquettes. He nodded to them and then walked past the huge floor-to-ceiling windows. The gorgeous light shone in from the outside and shone on the officers and soldiers sitting around them, allowing them to interact with each other. The console's shadow stretched so long that it almost covered the entire ground.

Vito walked over from the shadows, walked around the high platform, and walked up the stairs between the two short stone pillars lit by the propeller fire. On top of the stone pillars, he stood at the beak of the naval eagle. A flash of light flowed toward the end of the bird's beak.

Vito walked up to the high platform, "There are a lot of friends here. I take back what I said before, we are still very popular." "The popular people will not be late." Cole said, standing beside the holographic terminal with his hands behind his back. The half-length images of all the battleship captains who arrived here flashed around him, and their names and ship numbers appeared underneath the images.

The captains wore different uniforms, some were the blue of the Imperial Navy, some were the gray military uniforms from the Sector Defense Fleet, with long trench coats and capes, and some were luxuriously dressed and held a diamond-encrusted scepter. Rogue traders, including even a red-robed bishop of the state religion.

"People from the State Church are also here?" "We came immediately after receiving your call, Your Majesty the Inquisitor." The bishop lowered his head and put his hand on his chest and said humbly. Vito smiled and turned aside. Rogue Trader, he was wearing a dark green luxurious top, "What about you? Rogue Trader also remembered his loyalty to the Empire?" "We have always been loyal to the Empire, but... I also hope to sell the Inquisition a favor. My fleet is at your service, my lord, and I hope you will remember my kindness." "Oh, I will, if we do not die."

After Vito said that, the Imperial Navy captain beside Rogue Trader looked over, "What are we going to deal with?" "That thing is on the other side of the planet. It is very conspicuous and is as big as a planet." A battle moon." Cole said, looking at the captain with his hands behind his back. The latter was immediately stunned, and the imperial captains around him frowned and looked at each other.

"Battle moon?" Another captain said carefully. He looked at the captain on the side, "What battle moon?" "It's the battle moon you all talked about when you were in military school. Five thousand years ago, the attack The one used by the greenskins of Terra, you should know it, unless you didn’t pay attention in class.”

Vito said with a joking smile. The captains in front of him all looked at each other and whispered among themselves. The Rogue Trader also held his chin in thought and touched the many gems on the top of his scepter with his fingers.

Vito and Cole looked at each other and then laughed. He stood in front of everyone with his hands behind his back and laughed, "Don't rush to re-evaluate the investment risks, Mr. Rogue Trader, I promise you that you will get what you want. "But you have to live. With all due respect, Lord Judge, I have also attended the Noble Academy and listened to the course on fighting the moon in Beast Wars. The book said that that thing can easily destroy an entire planet." That’s true, it just destroyed one.”

The captains started talking among themselves. They whispered and approached each other. The atmosphere of retreat had already spread among the captains of the defense force who had never fought before and the captains of the Rogue Trader Werewolf.

"But tell me, what does the book say at the end?" Vito asked with his hands behind his back and his head raised, scanning the captains in front of him with his eyes, and then gestured with his eyes to the captain who asked the question first, and looked at his name. , "Tell everyone, Captain Bahrain of the Imperial Skyhawk battlecruiser."

He thought hesitantly, then glanced at his colleagues on both sides, "Destroyed." "Destroyed by who?" "Imperial Navy and Space Marines." "This is Lancelot Gron behind me. Yes, Dark Angel, as you can see he is a Space Marine."

Vito motioned to Lancelot behind him, and he immediately took a step forward, holding the power sword at his waist and standing proudly behind Vito, like a steel mountain, even in the holographic images of the surrounding ships, it was impossible to completely The entire tall upper body of the displayed body flickered at the edge of the void image.

"Imperial Navy, and Space Marines, isn't that enough?" Vito said with a joking smile behind his hands, and the captains looked at each other, "But Inquisitor, there is only one Space Marine here, and if I remember correctly , "There were several battle groups at that time. To deal with the endless green-skinned army, it would indeed take several Space Marine battle groups, but we don't need it. We only need to deal with one battle moon."

Cole took a step forward, stood next to Vito and cooperated with him. The captain raised his hand and waved in front of him, "As the Inquisitor said, all the other greenskin warships have been eliminated. Now only There is a fighting moon alone, and we have 50 battleships including Infinite Frontier, including 12 battle cruisers."

Vito smiled jokingly, shrugged and signaled to the captains in front of him, "The combined number of your ships is more than enough to deal with an invading Chaos fleet, right? And we only need to deal with a ball made of tatters." "But" the captain was still a little worried, and he looked at each other with his colleagues.

Vito laughed and shrugged helplessly, "Or is it that your ship is worse than the green ones, and you think you are not even as good as a pirate? The pirates I have seen are more courageous than you."

"You are also worthy of being the Imperial Navy? What is our motto?" Cole crossed his arms one after another. He raised his head and scanned the captains in front of him, "The Imperial Navy is the vanguard." "That's right. And what about you? The Imperial Navy is the forward, and you can only be deserters! "Oh, is it? Why didn't I see it?" Vito smiled immediately. Then he said, "I only saw a bunch of sissies, complaining about this and that, sissy pirates who are afraid of situations where they can win with a tenfold advantage, but you are actually from the Army, right?"

"Everyone! Go back to your respective ships, load your weapons and prepare to attack!" The captain at the head clenched his fists and shouted to his colleagues, then turned off his own image, and his half-body projection disappeared after a flash. , all the surrounding navy captains also disappeared, and in the end only the state bishop and the rogue trader were left.

Vito first looked at the Bishop of the State Church and nodded to him, "In the name of the Emperor, your death will allow the Emperor's light to shine on this star field again, and you will become the Emperor's torch." "If His wish, as the Book of Psalms says, “is to turn my body into a consuming fire! ""

The Anglican Bishop also closed the image and disappeared with fanatical religious fervor. Now Vito was no longer worried that no one would volunteer to be the target of firepower and the first person to charge.

"Inquisitor." The Rogue Trader looked at Vito after everyone left, his fingers gently stroking the diamonds inlaid on the scepter, "The bishop gets the faith he wants, and the navy captains can Get the honor that they regard as a treasure, and I" "You will get the franchise certificate and be tax-free in the future Tempest Sector" "Ah, it is as I thought, then I will leave first, I have to go to the franchise. .I mean, preparation for the next battle.”

Vito showed him an interesting smile, and then nodded, "Of course, I wish you a prosperous business in the future." "I also wish you good luck in the future. The Emperor's favor, Inquisitor." "You really plan to give him the entire sector. "The tax-free concession?" Cole asked with his arms crossed after the Rogue Trader disappeared, while Vito smiled jokingly and shrugged, "The concession is for living people." "You are so shady." "Thank you." Praise.”

After speaking, Vito turned around and walked behind the armrest of the bridge, looking out the window at the fleets floating around and the rays of the sun gradually appearing from the edge of the planet in front. The Infinite Frontier sailed towards the edge of the planet's shadow side, the galaxy. The brilliance of the sun gradually rose from there.

The Infinite Frontier sailed into the bright sunshine, and the entire front half of its hull was illuminated by the light. The dazzling light climbed up along the gaps between the buildings, gradually covering the entire ship. The light also came from the floor-to-ceiling windows. The top crawled in, lighting up the entire bridge, illuminating Vito behind the armrest and Cole's face as he walked beside him.

As the huge outline of the planet moved sideways, the huge steel sphere in the sunlight also appeared in the field of vision. It was suspended alone in the halo of the rising sun in the galaxy.

"Are you ready?" Vito asked, leaning on the armrest, while Cole raised his head, "Ready." "Then let's start, let's light up the stars."

After Vito said that, on the top floor of the Infinite Frontier above his head, the barrel of the light spear emerged from the shadows between the magnificent buildings. Behind the dark shadows of the buildings, two beams of light lit up.