Chapter 179 03.0178: "Predator in the Dark"

In addition to the Indefatigable, several other light cruisers also released all their shark assault boats.

Because most of the Blood Angels need a chapter priest to perform a purification ritual after they come out of the purgatory-like bridge.

The Blood Angels Chapter could only send a small number of Space Marines to provide support on a less damaged Thunderhawk gunship.

This Thunderhawk will escort Horatio and Farida safely to the docking station on the Divine Will.

Captain Afiel also had to undergo a purification ceremony himself.

But he still gave face and out of caution sent a lieutenant deputy company commander with some senior veterans.

Brother Romain Rolland was not originally in the sequence, but after hearing about this, he insisted on participating.

Because the Chaos battleship was contaminated due to his failure to board it, and because he was so persistent in asking for the order, the company commander allowed him to come.

The mission of half of these Astartes Brothers was to escort Horatio and Farida, and the other half was to shut down the engine of the Divine Will.

To prevent the mutineers from taking over the bridge and driving away the entire rare Retribution-class battleship, making the situation irreversible.

At this moment, the entire Gothic Fleet's top brass already knew about the mutiny on the Sacred Will.

In addition to the Tireless Squadron, there were four interception squadrons that had set sail from Abyss Port and were rushing to intercept.

If a battleship could mutiny and turn against the enemies of the Emperor.

That goes without saying.

The entire fleet's top brass will be investigated by the Inquisition, and it is likely that half of them will be removed and then killed.

The Indefatigable was the squadron closest to the Divine Will, but according to the nautical chart, it was not considered close.

But at least it is within the Shark assault boat's maximum range.

Commodore Peru's idea was that as long as the troops could support the Sacred Will and suppress the mutiny, the entire battleship could be saved with minimal losses.

He didn't want things to turn into a war.

The Retribution-class battleship's entire row of ferocious plasma macrocannons can tear the Indefatigable battlecruiser into pieces of void fragments.

After all, the former is a real battleship, while the Imperial Navy's battlecruiser is still a cruiser-level hull.

Fortunately, Vice Admiral Hood's guards suppressed the bridge, and not all armed forces participated in the mutiny.

At least some troops were still doing their duty, and Lieutenant General Hood ordered the armed forces loyal to him to put on military police insignia and fight the rebels.

What was incredible to Lieutenant General Alexander Hood was.

This time, the sailors did not cause trouble.

As a vice admiral who had risen through the ranks step by step, he knew very well what preparations his men would make if they wanted to rebel, and under what circumstances a mutiny would occur.

If they wanted to plan a large-scale mutiny in the armed forces, they would usually collude with extremely dissatisfied sailors.

Because when the armed forces couldn't stand the mutiny, the sailors would have been unable to survive.

But this time, the sailors not only did not participate in the mutiny, but at the armed call of some officers, the sailors took up arms and began to suppress the mutinous sailors.

There are too many doubts about all of this.

No matter what, at least we have to stop these mutineers who want to rush to the bridge.

They wanted to control the plasma macrocannons to fire at the surrounding escort ships.

This move frightened the captains escorting the Retribution-class battleships.

Fortunately, Lieutenant General Hood used a neural plug connected to the back of his head to block the plasma macrocannon's firing authority.

Only the manually-operated close-in weapon systems on the Retribution-class battleships can fire.

Torpedoes, macro cannons, and lance cannons all did not respond to the call.

Moreover, the sailors of the fort refused to cooperate with the mutineers and bravely launched a counterattack.

The captains of the escort ships learned the situation from the vice admiral and reported it to the Gothic Fleet Headquarters.

But the armed forces they could deploy on the Sacred Will were pitifully small, and at best a drop in the bucket.

We can only hope that a large-tonnage interception fleet will arrive as soon as possible.

In the void, rows of shark assault boats rushed forward in a flying formation of eight boats each.

Hundreds of tail flames lit up the dark void.

The naval pilots of the Fury Squadron flew alongside it, keeping watch on the periphery.

By the way, help the assault boat destroy the meteorite blocking the way.

Horatio was always worried. He was anxious about how he could bring back such a large package of top-secret documents safely.

When the distance was shortened to the distance where debris might be produced, he activated the foreshadowing fragment to conduct an exploration, wanting to see what the current situation of the Sacred Will was.

Don’t let him and the Blood Angels arrive at the docking station and find it already full of enemies.

However, perhaps the distance was still too far and he could not see what was happening on the Sacred Will.

But he saw a huge black snake in the sky that looked like Jörmungandr. This monster that looked like a giant leech was attracted by the twinkling tail flames of the assault boat.

Hidden in the darkness, winding its way.

He suddenly opened his eyes and shouted to the Blood Angel pilot and Thunder Eagle gunner: "Be alert! There seems to be something nearby!"

The driver immediately began to pay attention to the movements of the auspicious instrument, and the gunner also unlocked the safety of the Thunder Eagle cannon, rotated the turret, and began to explore the surroundings.

Fury Squadron nearby.

"Gaola Squadron, the Thunderhawk gunboat has sent a coordinate of interest. There is an unknown signal on the auspicious instrument, please pay attention to reconnaissance." The squadron leader of the Imperial Naval Aviation said to his pilots.

"Gas received. Gale 4, Gale 5, go see what that is."

"receive."

Two Fury interceptors flew out of the Imperial Naval Aviation squadron and headed towards the asteroid belt to investigate the signal.

Just as they approached.

Suddenly, a void creature like a giant snake rushed out of the meteorite.

"Gift Crab! What the hell is this?" The two pilots quickly maneuvered and dodged a monster that rushed out from the asteroid belt. It had a slender body like a leech, no eyes, and a bloody mouth.

In the dangerous void, some strange void aliens were born.

They are rich in variety and can survive in the void like a mystery.

This makes the already dangerous void even more dangerous, and is also the reason why the Empire rarely builds small aircraft.

These monsters will avoid warships and large ships that they consider to be too big to prey on.

The Void Predator charged towards the nearest passing Shark Assault Boat.

The assault boat has little turning ability at this high speed.

That hideous and ugly mouth swallowed up three ships in one gulp.

"God Emperor! Monster!" Farida looked at the void leech in horror as it devoured the Thunder Eagle.

The Thunderhawk gunboat opened fire, with all the boat's weapons fully armed.

A shell exploded in the leech, causing the huge and ugly monster to let out a harsh, ethereal, and unrealistic roar.

Just as the gunner was about to fire again, the Blood Angel discovered that the energy-gathering copper wire of the Thunder Eagle cannon had melted.

It had fired too many times in previous battles and had no time to prepare for maintenance before it hastily carried out this long-range raid mission.

The gunner withdrew from it.

The Thunderhawk pilot fired missiles at the Void Leech.

"What's wrong?!" Horatio asked anxiously, as the leech was rushing towards him.

"The energy-gathering copper wire is broken. I need to find a spare."

"Can you force fire?"

"Yes, but only a Tech Sergeant can disable the auto-lock safety."

"Can I come up? I have a way."

"If you have it, you can try it. I'll go find a replacement." The Blood Angel replied and ran to the reserve cabin to find a replacement.

Horatio sat on the gun mount, which was built for an Astartes and was too spacious for a mortal like him.

『Activation: Machine Soul Favor』

Dendrites sprouted from his prosthetic limb and poked into the Cygnus platform of the Thunderhawk cannon.

This advanced machine soul is very spiritual.

Horatio even seemed to hear it talking to him.

He does not understand binary language, nor does he know the power circuits of the Adeptus Mechanicus.

But in his mind he prayed to the Machine Spirit for mercy; he did not want to be wiped out again with his offspring on the Feast of Sanguinius.

The Machine Spirit seemed to understand Horatio's thoughts.

"Waiting for instructions"

"Warning: The energy shield is damaged. Forced firing may cause the barrel to explode."

The automatic safety was disengaged and a warning popped up.

But at a time of life and death, who can care whether the gun barrel explodes or not?

"Lock on target"

"Fire!"

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