It was a pyramid-like megastructure, made of an unidentified material that looked like metal and seemed to be rock, and it invaded the macroscopic field of view of the tachyon sensor in a very counterintuitive way.

The planet that Bernartita scanned was originally a measmic, barren rocky planet, and when the binary star system in the center of the system was detonated by the projectile, the planet was engulfed in a destructive flare along with the other celestial bodies in the system;

But because it orbits the outermost ring of the galaxy, it is least affected by flares, except that a thick layer of carbonized crystals filled with lethal radiation has melted out of the surface of the star.

The massive, dense pyramid-shaped pitch-black complex sat quietly next to the orbit of the planet, completely covered by carbonized crystals, rubbing the gravitational pull along with Newton's coffin board on the soles of the feet.

At such a close distance, these strange structures floating in a vacuum should have been captured by the celestial gravity of the carbonized planet and crashed into the star.

In such a poor position, if the Black Pyramid complex had been hidden here from the beginning, how could the complex that was almost attached to the face of this planet be unscathed when the planet around it was engulfed by the destructive flare?

No, not unscathed.

Zooming in closer, Bernarti Tower can see that the largest pyramid in the complex has no spire, and the damaged structure seems to have been broken by something from the inside out.

All of this is so unreasonable, but it's all true.

The Oracle of Truth, which was surveying the vicinity of another shattered planet in the system, also noticed that something unusual was here, and approached the Ark of Bliss with the Inquisition ships that accompanied it.

Around the sudden appearance of the pitch-black pyramid complex, there are still a few wrecks of ships that can be easily recognized as belonging to the Human Empire.

"Strange, we should have salvaged all the wreckage here long before we could ......," Bernartita wondered.

Just as she was wondering, the black pyramid in front of her suddenly flashed and disappeared.

"What?"

All the ships that were approaching this direction witnessed this bizarre scene, but then, as Bernatita rubbed her eyes, the black pyramids reappeared.

Disappear, appear, disappear, appear......

Like a short-circuit light bulb that is constantly flickering on and off, the black pyramid group in the orbit of the carbide crystal planet also switches back and forth between the two states of "being" and "non-existence", constantly flickering.

As the oracle of truth approached, the flickering of the void and reality ahead became faster and denser, and a certain boundary seemed to be reached.

"Alien ruins? Ancient architecture? Still is? …… You have to report this to the leader. ”

Seeing this, several Monks of Truth aboard the Ark of Bliss and the Oracle of Truth quickly understood the gravity of the situation.

On each of the two battlecruisers, there are 4 "preachers" who have completed the integrated prosthetic transformation, and with the help of the efficient thinking and action given by the quantum neural connection, they steer the ship to turn on the dark matter bias shield and psionic shield, and cautiously move forward. At the same time, the faster-than-light communication array on board the ship was activated, and all the scenes scanned by the sensors were sent back to Falla.

Ahead, the flickering frequency of the black pyramid group is extremely dense.

The next moment, a blazing long whip slammed into the shield of the nearest Ark of Elysium.

The entire hull was shocked by this powerful energy attack, trembling slightly, but under the burning of high-quality psionic dust, the psionic shield successfully twisted and neutralized this attack.

"Return! We are under attack by an unknown enemy! ”

Bernartita was just about to turn around and organize a counterattack, but saw that several preachers on the ship had already connected their brains to the warship's control system.

"Tachyon sensors cannot catch targets instantly, and the enemy is moving faster than the speed of light."

"Link the Prediction Interface, activate the Psionic Divination Array, and try to predict where the enemy will appear next."

"Authorize the activation of all weapons, fire in 2 seconds."

In the short two seconds that the weapon system was activated, the ghostly pulse attack and particle whip indiscriminately attacked all the ships present, the power was so fierce and the attack was so swift that some of the larger Inquisition ships could barely resist with the Void Shield that was opened at full power, and some small reconnaissance planes could only be shot down once they were touched.

Only two battlecruisers equipped with psionic shields and dark matter deflection shields would be able to take such an attack unscathed.

However, even so, in the face of the mysterious attack from all directions, the mental pressure of the sailors on the ship was extremely heavy - they were an investigation team, and both the ship's weapon specifications and engine power were far inferior to military warships, not to mention that they had not even seen the true face of the attackers now, but were just blindly beaten passively with the Void Shield.

Then, dozens of torpedoes and gamma lasers converge at the same point in a vacuum and explode into a beautiful, but senseless cloud of space fireworks.

The first round of attacks launched by the Ark of Elysium failed.

It's not that the coordinates provided by the Prediction interface aren't accurate enough, or that the preachers aren't quick enough to react, it's that the enemy is unreasonably fast.

"Return, it is basically certain that the target is moving faster than the speed of light, and at the same time the trajectory is very weird, inertia does not seem to exist to it, and the turning radius when it dodges our attack is an extreme acute angle of only 15 °, how can this be ......"

On the Oracle of Truth, Listia crouched on the table and frowned, her face showing the blurry image from the Ark of Elysium, captured in the fleeting moment just now—only a top-of-the-line battleship like the Ark of Elysium, which has been upgraded many times, can capture such a swift target, and the ordinary fleet of the Human Empire is already in chaos at this moment.

Dozens of mid-flight torpedoes and half-intercepted lasers are projected on the holographic display, and in the center of the picture, all attacks are locked on the same target:

It was a strange black battleship, looking like a pitch-black crescent moon and a curved scythe flying in space. The moment the "scythe" appeared, it immediately left its original position.

It maneuvers faster than light with some kind of technology that completely violates the laws of mechanics, and can travel at the speed of light to stop for a moment to achieve complete stationary, launch a brief attack and then instantly accelerate to the speed of light, inertia to it as if something does not exist.

"Madam Inquisitor, I have bad news and good news here, which one do you want to hear first?" Listia said in the communication channel.

"Now is not the time for jokes." Under the tense battle situation, Bernartita was not in the mood to play with this young girl at all.

"Okay." Listia didn't continue with interest, and said directly: "The bad news is that after our survey and assessment, the technical level of the battleships that attacked us is quite high, especially the mobility, which completely crushed all our combat ships. ”

"The good news is that, because I have seen through this faster-than-light maneuver that ignores inertia, I can conclude that even if we are now being attacked on all sides, in reality, the enemy is far from being the size of this massive momentum, to be precise, there are actually only 2 warships attacking us, the hull size is about the size of a destroyer, and the firepower is also very limited."

Although there are not many of them, relying on the powerful ultra-high-speed maneuver, only two battleships create a feeling of being surrounded on all sides.

Is that good news? I felt like I was flying a kite.

Knowing the exact number of enemies, Bernatita's face was pale, except for the Ark of Elysium and the Oracle of Truth, 34 ships of all sizes were gathered here, and they were being crushed in reverse while the combat power specifications had the advantage of crushing, and each ship was nervous from the incomprehensible high-speed attack.

Small ships are constantly being shot down one by one, and the situation of the big ships is better, and the Void Shield with enough power can hold up for a short time......

Hold on to the hell!

Seeing that the two battlecruisers were becoming more and more proficient in responding to such high-speed raids that defied inertia, the brains of the preachers, whose computing power was comparable to that of quantum computers, were constantly making integrated calculations from the attack tracks captured by the tachyon sensors, summarizing the patterns, and the prediction interface and psionic divination arrays were becoming more and more accurate in predicting the movements of this mysterious enemy.

The unknown enemy in the battleship also seems to realize that if this continues, it will not be long before he will lose his maneuvering advantage, and the fire of the Ark of Elysium and the Oracle of Truth will hit him with great precision.

So the next time it appeared, two alien warships like pitch-black scythes flew directly over the side of the Ark of Bliss, and the ship was close to its face.

"Alert! We've been attacked by a gang! ”

"The enemy has used some kind of twisted weapon to lift the zero element armor on the port side, and all the soldiers are ready to meet the enemy!"

"They've stuffed a formation of humanoid fighting machines into our cabin!"

Without saying a word, Bernatita drew her crimson Bloodthirsty Sword and led all the guards she could muster to leave the command room and rush to the port side of the broken ship.

Throwing the Vaulting Force at such close range did make it difficult for the Ark of Elysium to resist, but on the other hand, the two alien warships were close to the side of the ship to create the conditions for their surprise attack, and at the same time, the preachers on board also found the opportunity to bite them.

Tornado, Plasma Cannon, Guardian Point Defense...... The weapons system of the battlecruiser was completely overloaded with no regard for the reactor, and a huge amount of firepower poured out in an instant.

As soon as the counterattack began, the two sickle-shaped alien warships immediately activated their strange engines that defied inertia in an attempt to evacuate, but the preachers who had been transformed by the integrated prosthetic body had reached their physiological limits and seized the fleeting moment.

They knew that greed was not enough to swallow an elephant, and all the counter-fire was firmly locked on the same target, allowing another alien warship to disappear into their strike range again.

The other pitch-black scythe they had locked onto was drowned in the massive amount of defensive fire pouring out of the Ark of Elysium.

Even the Death Scythe Battleship, made of living metal, could not withstand such ferocious firepower, and the shot at any cost caused a series of brilliant explosions in the airspace on the port side of the Ark of Elysium, in this beautiful space fireworks show-

- Scythe, broken.

In just a split second of head-to-head confrontation, the preachers destroyed half of the enemy's strength with the powerful weapon system of the Ark of Elysium and their own incomparably swift and precise timing.

At the same time, the defensive guard led by Bernartita had reached the port side of the torn battleship.

Long before they arrived, the intelligent minions and mechanics who were in charge of cleaning and maintenance scattered throughout the ship engaged in the first confrontation with the enemy who had invaded the hull. It's just that these uncombat-specialized service servants don't have the corresponding combat procedures, and they lack armament, and they can only continue to fall without resistance in the face of the heavily armed war machines thrown in by the enemy.

And when the reinforcements led by Bernartita finally arrived, what they saw was an extremely terrifying and very curious scene.

The war machines that broke into the cabin were a kind of skeleton-like, strange-looking steel monsters, their eyes burned with a faint green light, and the Gauss weapons in their hands easily pierced the fragile bodies of the intelligent control servants, but these iron skeletons did not seem to be interested in the intelligent control servants, and after quickly eliminating the servants in front of them, they pounced on several mortal mechanics hiding behind the servants in groups.

These skeletal monsters made of metal seemed to have an extreme craving for organic flesh, throwing away their Gauss weapons and tearing and gnawing at the mortal mechanic's flesh with their hands, mouths, and teeth, snapping his arms into their own metal ribs, tearing off his skin and covering his face, and pulling his internal organs out and stuffing them into their mouths......

The highly technologically advanced and delicate mechanical bodies here are like a group of primitive people who drink blood, scrambling to tear apart the bloody mortal corpses that have long been torn apart.

The outer metal skeletons that had not been able to snatch a piece of flesh and skin, turned their heads and picked up the Gauss energy cannon that had fallen to the ground, having already spotted Bernartita and the Guards who had arrived later.

"What a monster this is......" Bernartita cursed under her breath, pulling the trigger of her blaster in her hand.

The soldiers behind her and the metal skeleton covered in flesh and blood both activated their weapons, and in an instant, the ray pistol, the plasma rifle, the metal skeleton's disintegration cannon, and the powerful special explosive bomb fired simultaneously in the cabin.

Armed with molten weapons, the soldiers chanted the name of the Emperor and rushed to the enemy with mortal determination, burning the hideous and bloody metal skeleton along with his own body.

The armed conflict between humanity and the necrons in space began.

(End of chapter)