The same thing happened with almost every large battleship in the fleet.

Dressed in red and blue power armor and wearing a hyperbolic helmet, Chaos Astarte appeared in a nine-man squad and appeared inside one Imperial warship after another out of thin air for no reason, silently launching a planned and systematic killing.

They use the flesh and blood of Imperial soldiers to carry out desecration rituals and summon the Demons of Chaos. Ships lost control and fell into the hands of the enemy. Without hesitation, these warships that were out of the control of the Empire continued to attack the small warships that followed them on the right and left sides, and with the chaos that exploded from within, the Imperial fleet moored in the vicinity of the Emperor Icon was dazed.

They simply couldn't react, and they couldn't understand why the enemy could attack from the inside with such a grand battle and such a tight defense. How exactly did they get into the Imperial battle ships, which were subject to strict checks when they entered and exited?

If the fall of one or two warships can be explained by a sparse enemy invasion, the loss of control of a warship of this magnitude can only be defined as a rebellion.

The reacting sailors quickly organized, and they moved around the battleship, skillfully using their equipment and flesh and blood to compete with the ferocious defensive firepower of the ship, and gradually approached the control room with extremely heavy casualties along the way, trying to regain control of the battleship from the traitors.

On the flagship of the Flame of Repentance Warband, the fighting was particularly fierce. The blasphemous act of the ship's main cannon shattering the Emperor's icon ignited the wrath of every Space Marine, with the warband leader Mirak reacting the most violently.

He was standing in the control room of the battleship Flame of Confession at the time of the mutation, thus witnessing the horrific betrayal firsthand.

The number of Chaos Astartes emerging from the shadows is so large that it even exceeds the existing strength of the Confessional Fire Warband. Ten years of recuperation had not given them much to replenish their troops, and the Flame of Repentance was so important that the shattered warband, which had suffered heavy casualties and had been dismantled, had to face the main attack of the Chaos Traitors on its own flagship.

At this moment, no one needed to be reminded that Milak had already understood that this was not a temporary Chaos invasion, but a large-scale attack that had been premeditated, and that the enemy was acting extremely carefully, and their goal was very clear, they were coming to destroy the L-Star Gate on the left hand of the Emperor Icon.

Luckily, thanks to the presence of Warband Leader Milak and his Honor Guard, the Flame of Repentance didn't really get out of control, and the first wave of traitors' sneak attacks on the ship's command room ended in failure due to the heroic efforts of the Space Marines.

However, they still managed to infiltrate the core reactor located in the battleship's belly and the stable anchor that controlled the balance of the battleship, without the protection of the Space Marines, and forcibly awakened the main cannon and launched a blasphemous shot that destroyed the head of the icon.

In the face of such humiliation, even the Warlord, who was known for his calm and wise spirits, lost his mind, and led his Glory Guard to eliminate the Chaos Astartes who attempted to invade the command room, and learned the name of the Chaos Gang from their armor.

They are the Chaos Astarte Warband, a cult god Tzeentch, whose names are:

Son of Change.

They descended with chaos and disrupted the well-packed Imperial fleet. In the darkness of space, it is impossible to distinguish friend from foe, whether controlled or out of control, and every warship is spitting rumbling cannon fire at the ships around it.

After clearing the area around the battleship's command room, Milak quickly led the team to the battleship's core reactor where the remnants of the Sons of Change were entrenched.

Warriors loyal to the Emperor were consumed with rage, their swords thirsty for blood, their guns humming and roaring, vowing to slay the despicable traitors.

Milak swore in his heart that the bloodline of the Dark Angel would never suffer the humiliation of betrayal a second time......

However, in the midst of this anger, Milak still forced himself to maintain a certain degree of sanity, and in addition to fighting, he divided part of his mind to think about a more critical question:

"The Chaos Astarte invasion of this scale is by no means caused by external forces alone, there are people in the fleet who have already fallen into chaos and acted as their internal ...... But in order to hide so many rebels directly in so many warships, that traitor must be in a high position, or have some special authority that no one knows......"

Or, there are more than one or two, or even more than ten or eight traitors......

Suspicious names flashed through Mirak's mind, and he clenched the power sword in his hand and walked quickly through the dark corridor where the energy lines had been cut off.

In addition to the Flame of Repentance, bloody battles took place on every invading ship, and the loyalists fought to the death with unparalleled guilt and anger against the enemies who invaded the ship.

However, the huge legion of martyrs in the past has long been divided, and two-thirds of the legion has followed the prophetess back to Nirvana, taking with them all the space marines except for the Flame of Repentance.

Without the righteousness of the Resurrection God Emperor, the current human empire would not allow the military forces of the Astarte Legion to be assembled at all.

The naval soldiers on each warship can only fight the Chaos Astartes blessed by the evil gods and the summoned subspace demons in mortal flesh and blood.

This may not be called a battle at all, it is a one-sided bloody massacre.

Astarte's combat power is unmistakably crushing mortals, with the blessing of chaotic forces and the assistance of demons who are called upon...... But the Imperial Navy on the battleships was not completely without a chance to win.

Although the chaos that exploded from inside the large warships was huge, the actual Chaos Astarte troops did not seem to be too much, and each large warship was only invaded by a 9-man Astarte team, but their distribution was too scattered and too even, which caught the Imperial fleet off guard.

Named the "Children of Change", the Chaos Astartes often do not like to fight the mortals who kill them head-on, preferring to drive the demons to complete this irregular chaotic killing, and they hide behind and wait for a short shot, and every life and death done by their own hands follows some kind of dark law.

Just as the loving father Nurgle has both sides of life and death, both sides have their own followers with different philosophies.

The Children of Change worship the infinite wisdom of the evil god Tzeentch, who encapsulates all changes, and pursues a perfect victory without any unexpected variables.

They are to offer the most precise victory to the Lord of Change, in order to win the favor of the Chaos Gods.