Chapter 197: Project Colossus
"Abaddon ......"
"You're...!
!」
"Emperor!
!」
Abaddon called out the man's name in surprise and stepped back in panic.
The golden light towered into the clouds, and even the stars would dim around this man. Sounds and sensations slipped into the background, all balanced in the time that flowed and stretched out in the only source of gold.
Although Abaddon destroyed countless imperial icons and smashed countless Anglican churches along the way, he never imagined that the emperor... The ruler of humanity, who has now sat on the Golden Throne for thousands of years, will appear before him in such a way.
What kills the puppet emperor, what destroys the empire.
Abaddon had only one thought in his mind at this time.
Run.
The beliefs of all human beings have been combined for thousands of years, and the emperor is now a man who is not weaker than any chaos god, and truly has the power of a god.
No matter what kind of rhetoric he had released, Abaddon knew very well that the emperor was not something he could contend with.
But as Abaddon stepped back, an enchantment of divine light enveloped the entire church, turning it into a separate space.
"Huh..."
Realizing that he had no way to retreat, Abaddon took out his weapon and cheered up, looking vigilantly at the spiritual avatar composed of golden light in front of him.
"Such great power, so abundant psionic power."
"It seems that you have got what you want, a corrupt tyrant who is bent on becoming a god and abandoning his son to a mortal."
In his right hand, Abaddon is armed with the Claw of Horus, a weapon that kills St. Giles and inflicts heavy damage on the Emperor. In his left hand, he holds the magic sword Drachneon, a demon born from the first murder of man.
Coupled with the Terminator armor and the combat experience and combat talent of its own veterans, not to mention the blessings of the four gods.
In the entire universe, there are only a handful of people who can defeat Abaddon.
But it was such a powerful Chaos War Commander, but he didn't dare to relax at this time, and he was ready to guard against the attacks of the people in front of him at any time.
"Are you afraid?"
The golden psionic avatar spoke.
"I didn't expect our Chaos Commander to behave like this."
"But you should be afraid."
"Abaddon, are you ready for hell!"
At this time, Abaddon's eyes narrowed, as a veteran who had followed the emperor through the Great Expedition, as the number one enemy of the empire at this time, he sensed a trace of disobedience from his words.
"That's not right!"
"You're not the Emperor! Who are you?!"
Abaddon roared. And the golden psionic incarnation condensed a psionic sword in his hand, pointing at Abaddon.
"I am the regent of the present Empire, Sivir!"
"I will give you death, Abaddon."
"You will die like your weak father. Out of one's wits. Gu Jing was ashamed. Hold your head and sob. Shame on the sweat."
After hearing Sivir's words, Abaddon involuntarily felt the figure of a certain man in his heart. But at the same time, I was relieved in my heart, as long as it wasn't the emperor.
The name Emperor put too much pressure on him, and when he realized that the person in front of him was not the Emperor's doppelganger, Abaddon's nervousness gradually calmed down.
"Sivir? Imperial Regent? The Empire, under your leadership, seems to have reversed its decay."
"You think you're doing a good job, don't you?"
Seeing that Abaddon was going to talk to him, Sivir was also interested, so he temporarily put down his sword pointed at Abaddon and mocked.
"The Four Gods of Chaos have put aside their dispute over power for the sake of your expedition and temporarily halted their eternal struggle. Tear apart the barriers between subspace and reality to form a gap for you, and send out an army of demons for you."
"You think you're doing a good job, don't you?"
"Huh," Sivir smiled disdainfully. "No matter what I do, it's better than you and your own men being dogs for Chaos."
Abaddon didn't actually surrender to Chaos, but instead of explaining it to himself, he asked Sivir.
"Then as a loyal servant of the Puppet Emperor, is there any essential difference between you and me? Or is your allegiance fundamentally different from the four gods of Chaos?"
"Of course there is a difference."
"Oh? What's the difference?"
"The difference between a winner and a loser."
"Huh." Abaddon smiled disdainfully. "Why do you think you're the winner?"
"It seems that you don't agree with my point of view, but it doesn't matter. Whether the Empire ends up on top of the galaxy or destroyed at the hands of Chaos, you won't get a chance to see that day, Abaddon."
Sivir had no interest in continuing the argument with Abaddon, and he raised the sword in his hand and poured all the power of the entire psionic avatar into it.
He would only strike once, and that time, it would be a fatal blow with all his strength.
Abaddon also sensed the huge energy converging on Siwell's sword, and immediately raised the magic sword Derac Nien to prepare for the next attack of Siwell.
But just as Abaddon was guarding against Sivir rushing towards him, Sivir reluctantly pointed the tip of his sword at Abaddon, and a huge psionic ray shot out towards Abaddon.
The unexpected blow gave Abaddon time to dodge and raise his arms to try to block his own fatal spot. But in the face of Sivir's entire enveloped psionic attack, Abaddon's defenses seemed to be a little weak.
Sivir gathered all the energy of the entire psionic avatar in one point, and under this blow, Abaddon's arms were cut off in unison, and a large hole was pierced through his chest, and the whole person was knocked to the ground without a trace of life.
After draining the psionic energy, Sivir's psionic incarnation gradually dissipated, and the barrier he had built that enveloped the entire church gradually disappeared.
After the golden barrier disappeared, the members of the Black Legion outside the church, who had already been attracted by this vision, immediately rushed in. Then he found Abaddon lying on the ground, badly wounded.
Seeing the Chaos Warlord's injuries at this time, some of the soldiers of the Black Legion immediately brought the uncertain fate of Abaddon back to the Vengeful Spirit.
The rest of the team scoured the neighborhood to find out who could inflict heavy damage on the Black Legion's commander. But what is clear is that they got nothing.
Although Abaddon was no longer able to lead the Black Legion at this point, the organization and discipline among most of the Chaos Space Marines under his command was about none.
Inside Chaos is a loose environment of warbands, except for the Black Crusade, where they are gathered under Abaddon's men, and these Chaos Space Marines are usually scattered and disorganized.
Without Abaddon's leadership, they still vented their desires and madness on Elfano, fighting for their own selfish desires.
Throughout the world of Elfano, teams of Chaos Space Marines in twisted, dark power armor continue to advance on foot or ride in Chaos vehicles.
Tanks and automatic artillery rolled along with them, and some demon engines rumbled nearby. It all went slowly, drearily, with plenty of time to despair for the survivors of Elfano today.
Of course, the soldiers of the Reich constantly shot at them, which was to be expected. The forces of chaos fought back, and evil rituals were being held across Elfano, summoning a steady stream of new demon legions.
Streets are burning, buildings are being blown up. After a few moments, the shooting stopped, and the forces of chaos moved forward heavily again.
And in this planet-wide slaughter, all kinds of powerful and evil demon engines are summoned, and even the battle-hardened soldiers on the planet Elfano rarely see these creatures born for violence and destruction.
Although they are almost different, they look just as terrible in the eyes of soldiers, and yes
Indeed, it is enough to kill a man. These death machines climbed the road, crawled out of positions, crushed various buildings, and fired huge cannonballs.
The various air units of the forces of chaos strafed the soldiers, or children, or cattle, or women, or whatever they encountered along the way, adding to the bloodshed and the clamor of terror.
The distant, murky rumble of the Chaos Legion's war machines could be heard everywhere.
A gray, shattered, burning Elfano is emerging.
And in the skies above Elfano, a large number of Abaddon's cronies gathered on the Vengeful Spirit.
Built during the 30th millennium, the Vengeful Spirit is recorded to have been built as one of the largest Glorious Queen-class warships completed before the end of the Martian Split War, and was once the vehicle of Warlord Horus.
The bridge of the Vengeful Spirit also hosted one of the most significant duels in human history - the blood angel's genetic prototype, Saint Lies, was killed at the hands of the commander, and the emperor defeated Horus but was mortally wounded.
Years after its disappearance, when the Vengeful Spirit first appeared in the Eye of Fear, it changed dramatically.
The Eye of Horus emblem on the bow of the ship has disappeared, indicating that it is now serving a new master, Abaddon the Marauder of the Black Legion, a Chaos Space Marine Legion.
Traces of the massive battleship's corruption are evident in the armor of the ship's hull.
The entire battleship was surrounded by dark energy, and the corridors inside the ship were filled with echoes of crew members killed in subspace. The once noble spirit of the Vengeful Spirit has now degenerated into a being that only kills.
And at this time, on the bridge of the Vengeful Spirit, in this place of rich historical significance, a group of Chaos wizards and Chaos Apothecaries were healing Abaddon.
Can Abaddon be saved from such a serious injury?
Of course.
Physical damage doesn't really matter, as long as the soul is not damaged, these masters of witchcraft can save Abaddon from life. Even if they couldn't, Abaddon's four superiors wouldn't let him die so easily.
However, the damage of Sivir's psionic attack to Abaddon is also reflected in the soul.
Even the magic sword Dracnion and the protection of the four gods protected Abaddon's soul from destruction. But Abaddon's soul injury is still not optimistic.
After going through various sacrificial rituals and a period of cultivation, Abaddon finally walked back from the Ghost Gate.
At this time, Elfano had been devastated by the Black Space Marines and Demon Legions, and ninety percent of the planet's population had died at the hands of Chaos.
Abaddon, who had awakened, immediately ordered a retreat after learning about the situation, allowing all the Chaos Space Marines to return to the battleship.
And before leaving, he led the fleet of the forces of chaos to orbitally bombard the entire Elfano, as if to vent the anger in his heart.
The slaughter of demons and the Black Legion, coupled with orbital bombardment, caused the entire world of Elfano to die in the evil deeds of Abadon. Elfano was eventually destroyed at the hands of Abaddon, transforming itself from a fortress world into a world of death.
And after Abaddon left Elfano, the subspace storm quickly dissipated. The Empire's fleet was able to reach the skies above Elfano and witness the destruction wrought by Abadon.
These sins of exorbitant sin will cause Abaddon to witness his own destruction.
In fact, a well-orchestrated revenge for the mad thugs who have infested and destroyed Elfano is about to begin, and the dark ones will pay the price for their atrocities and be torn to shreds.
When Abaddon returned to fear, a fleet of Empire's warships and several companies of Space Marine legions had been waiting in Cadia for a long time.
They dealt a fierce blow to the retreating Abaddon fleet, destroying almost all of Abaddon's warships.
Unfortunately, he was unable to destroy the Vengeful Spirit and kill Abaddon.
...
...
Before Abaddon launched the Fourth Black Crusade.
The empire is working on, such as
How to solve the endless problems of orcs in the imperial world.
While the scientists of the Empire were conducting research on various methods, Sivir ordered the construction of a huge war machine, the Colossus.
He named the construction of this war machine Project Colossus.
Project Colossus is the ultimate product of two coveted ideologies, terror and deterrence. The largest ship ever built was designed to be equipped with a superweapon capable of destroying an entire planet.
It was even larger than the Juggernaut the Empire had built, several times its size, enough to rival the Orcs Battle Moon.
Through the experience accumulated in the construction of various megastructures, the Empire has a deeper grasp of how to build such megastructures in the galaxy.
Advances in megastructure engineering have blurred the boundaries between dream and reality, allowing the Empire's engineers to build Colossus-class warships—carrying terrifying weapons that can wipe out a planet or change it at the touch of a button.
The Titan of the Empire is made by a dedicated dry dock, an extra-large dry dock. And even the largest dry docks are unlikely to build planetary-class warships like Juggernaut and Colossus.
So the Empire's engineers abandoned the traditional concept of dry docks, and the Colossus would be assembled from a large number of freely moving independently built platforms, built from specialized floating docks, just like the Juggernaut.
A floating dock is actually an assembly platform floating in space, where the shipyards of Optimus produce various modular components and then assemble them into giant colossus or juggernauts.