The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Chapter 3467 Sotha's Doom

"Quick!"

Although Vosuk tried his best to appear calm, his hurried tone betrayed the turmoil and panic in his heart.

"Quickly bring up the system chart! I need real-time star system mapping, now!"

As water-like ripples appeared on the display screen, Vosuk's eyes widened, unblinking.

He even realized for the first time that the display screen was operating so slowly, so sluggish!

Finally, the wave began to form a concrete outline, first a ring-shaped trajectory, then stars, and various artificial and natural celestial bodies within the galaxy, gradually becoming clearer from the inside out, until a world at the edge.

When it appeared, a dazzling red color also appeared at the edge of the image.

Soon, near this red area, the last images transmitted from the Bel-Mekel outpost also appeared, which were real scenes captured by different lenses.

"By the God-Emperor!"

Just as Vosuk watched, the monster closest to the lens convulsed, swinging its tendrils in a sweeping arc, directly engulfing the main body of the space station.

The lens then rotated, and the image quickly disappeared.

But Vosuk did not take his attention away from the star chart, because there were other lenses, and they were even more shocking.

It captured a true horror, like the legendary void kraken that devoured warships, baring its fangs and claws in the void, with huge tentacle limbs that the lens could not fully capture.

The chitinous spine running through its segmented body was covered with various cracks and empty pores, and occasionally ejected plasma-like vapor clouds.

In the lens, it seemed to be stabbing its sharp beak downwards, towards Vosuk's home world.

Smaller ships were tightly wrapped around the mothership like parasites, and the huge difference in size was clearly visible even at such a long distance.

They were pouring something onto the planet.

Vosuk clenched his fists.

The Emperor's Scythes had never formulated any evacuation plans for Bel-Mekel.

From the moment they knew the Tyranid invasion was imminent, not a single company commander had proposed or even considered it.

All they thought about every day was Sotha; it seemed that only Sotha's customs, history, and traditions were worth saving.

However, the worst was yet to come.

Suddenly, an ear-piercing and sharp warning sound rang again.

Vosuk's expression changed at last as he looked at the star chart, becoming ferocious and terrifying.

Not just one direction, but almost the entire space around the Sotha system was filled with traces of aliens.

The scale of the enemy was so large that the instruments could not display it.

Sotha was surrounded by the swarm, or rather, it had already fallen into the alien's giant maw that devoured everything.

Vosuk took two steps back, seemingly shocked by the scale.

"This is…"

He stared at the red cursor that was rapidly proliferating like a virus at the edge of the star system, and muttered to himself:

"A hive fleet."

Suddenly, he shook his head violently and shouted:

"Immediately notify all fleets! Shield Stations immediately activate the highest defense plan! All weapons enter active status! Ensure priority supply of energy to long-range weapons! Everyone move!"

Under his powerful aura, the servants also woke up from their dreams and hurriedly carried out various operations.

At the same time, the Emperor's Scythes' fleet also began to sail out of the ports and berths, and began to form battle formations, but they had no intention of attacking, because according to Fleetmaster Cerastes's idea, the main role of the battle group fleet was to protect the safety of Sotha, so they would only fight around the planet.

However, due to the impact of the previous Genestealer uprising, both the Shield Stations and the fleet were relatively slow to act.

"Lord! Unidentified energy signals detected! The source is difficult to determine, but there is a large difference from Tyranid organisms!"

"Hmm?"

Vosuk looked at the marked location with doubt, but since all the peripheral outposts had been destroyed, it was impossible to know what it was, but what could appear in the hive fleet at this time?

"This huge pile of bio-ships, even if they stood still and let us hit them, we don't know how long it would take."

Inside the central chamber of the Tomb Ship [Khonsu's Tower], as Sosiarch watched the Tyranid hive fleet spanning the void, he couldn't help but gasp.

Its scale was definitely much larger than the fleet that appeared in the Diocese, truly blocking the void.

Using the inappropriate phrase "shoulder to shoulder" to describe it was very fitting, because those bio-ships were really one next to another, crowding towards Sotha, as if a mighty "insect river" was spreading out in the void.

Just by looking at it, Sosiarch was shocked by its scale.

"Prioritize attacking their vanguard motherships."

Upon receiving the order, this ancient Tomb Ship immediately flew forward like a blade aimed at the swarm, at an incredible speed, while the hive fleet had almost no reaction to the Tomb Ship.

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As the Tomb Ship's particle whip continuously fired, hitting a hive mothership, as the last relic of the Khonsu Dynasty, this Tomb Ship could be said to have concentrated the most powerful armaments of the Khonsu Dynasty.

For example, its particle whip generator was a special device called Gravity Lash, which, when hitting an enemy and triggering an antimatter explosion, would also change the surrounding gravitational space, forming a short-lived gravity well, continuously tearing the target from the inside.

In the blink of an eye, the huge hive ship burst into a fountain of blood and bone, and began to convulse violently, turning into a pile of floating wreckage in less than twenty seconds, followed by the second, third, and fourth.

In addition to the particle whip, the Khonsu's Tower also used special "lightning clouds" to attack dense Tyranid swarms.

The arcs projected by this Tesla weapon were not linear, but directly fired a small Tesla ball, which would continuously release powerful arcs to the surroundings before its energy was exhausted.

These lightning clouds continuously detonated in the Tyranid fleet, creating areas of organic wreckage.

But was this enough?

The answer was obviously no.

The first hive mothership that was killed had already been completely devoured.

Sosiarch saw at least a hundred such ships crowding in the swarm.

Sosiarch sighed softly and looked back at Valgûl and Rakzan.

The Flayer legions they led had already slaughtered Solanta City to a great extent.

Now Sotha should not have a large-scale Genestealer infestation, but it was still hard to say inside the Emperor's Scythes.

He could only help this far, and as for their future fate, it would depend on how the Emperor arranged it.

And the scale of the hive fleet here was too large, not something that one or two battleships could stop.

Even if this direction was blocked, they would attack from other directions of the star system.

Sotha's ending was already predictable.

After attacking the hive fleet for several hours, the Tomb Ship left, and Sotha ushered in the most desperate battle against this unknown and vast hive fleet.