Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

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Boom...boom...

The urban area was completely shrouded in night, with the sound of gunfire resounding everywhere, and meteor showers of varying sizes flashing from time to time in the sky.

But these meteor showers do not represent orbital airdrops. After all, if they were orbital airdrops, they should be more orderly, but the current ones are extremely chaotic.

Soon, one of the meteors continued to be on fire after passing through the atmosphere.

And even standing on the ground, you can clearly see that the fire ball that is still burning is not a meteor, but a Paris-class frigate that was smashed into half.

Boom...boom...boom! ! !

Before the establishment of the Human Empire, he was also a heroic general who could make a comeback for the battalion and the navy. However, after crashing through several huge buildings on the way, he was completely unable to hold on and exploded violently, adding increased force to the fierce battle in the urban area. started a fire.

Artemis was supposed to ensure the safety of the Plague Doctor and follow Corax, and her appearance on the Morning Star meant that the main force of the Raven Guard had also arrived in the Morning Star universe.

But even so, the battle for control of low-Earth orbit is still fierce.

But those are not things that Artemis cares about. As a land god, she cannot play any role in a naval battle, not to mention that they have just arrived on the battlefield. She has absolute confidence in the strength of her own legion.

At this moment, she was walking quickly through the streets, heading towards the 15th District of the city that the captain mentioned.

And she is not alone.

There were more than a hundred people accompanying him, all wearing silver-painted special power armor. However, the height of this group of people was actually about half a meter taller than the Astartes wearing the Terminator, equivalent to an average height of nearly four meters. .

These giants, who appear to be even bigger than the Astartes, were actually servants of the gods responsible for guarding Mount Olympus.

According to Artemis's description, Olympus also had an army of over 100 million divine servants at its peak, but more than 80% of the divine servants perished in another space because they followed Zeus, and the remaining 20% ​​were lost to various wars. All.

However, with the return of Queen Hera and the Emperor's opening of a garden (resort island) in another space, more and more people would rather fight to the end than be corrupted by Chaos or lose their way. The servant of God was found again and then accepted by the human empire.

The current total number is about 20,000.

Most of them gradually became non-staff combat units of the Spartan Legion due to Queen Hera, and a small number were transferred to Titan. While obeying the command of Artemis, they would also assist the moonlight. The goddess trains the Gray Knights.

On paper, they were only superior to the Astartes in terms of height and weight, but their strength, reaction, and agility were more than ten times weaker than the Astartes, almost the same as the auxiliary army.

But in terms of experience and will, these servants of God have been fighting in different dimensions for thousands of years.

Moreover, among the hundreds of servants of the gods who followed Artemis, there were four who had resisted the corruption of the fallen beauty goddess Aphrodite, so even the veterans, champions, and even the battalion commanders of the battalion had to ask them Say senior.

soon.

The group of people arrived at District 15 of the city.

This place is far away from the bustling urban center. There are not many huge buildings, but there are many bars that are open day and night, as well as many outdoor barbecue partners. It should be an area for people to relax and socialize after a tiring day.

However, the current District 15 of the city is in ruins, the green belt has been burned down to ashes, and the walls are riddled with holes. It seems that fierce fighting broke out here.

But the strange thing is that there is not a single corpse on the street, or in other words, there is no residue left after human beings were decomposed by Gauss rays.

?

Seeing this, the word Chuan between Artemis' eyebrows became more obvious.

Due to the suppression of psychic energy, she was unable to use her psychic perception to try to reconstruct what exactly happened here.

Ah...ah...

However, Artemis, through her far superior hearing, heard what seemed to be bursts of screams more than ten kilometers away.

!

When she heard the noise, she squinted in the direction of the source of the sound.

At the same time, the Moonlight Armor also generated a small holographic screen in her left eye, showing a high-altitude aerial view of District 15 of the city.

The dense green dots represented her and the accompanying divine servants, and the straight-line distance of 15.3km to the south from them was the source of the screams.

Through the bird's eye view, Artemis discovered that the huge apartments there were either tilted or collapsed, and the culprit causing all this was an undead pyramid emerging from the ground, but only the top part of the undead pyramid was exposed.

Analyzing it from a closer perspective shows that its height is about 5,000 to 6,000 meters, while the height above the surface is only more than 300 meters.

In such a situation, anyone would think that there is something seriously fishy there, and it might be the base of advancement for the undead army nearby.

Just like Artemis in the past, even though she has not yet recovered her divine power, she still believes that she and hundreds of divine servants alone are enough to deal with everything. She will not take it lightly, and will fight no matter how big the chaos demon or the orc boss is. Just do it.

Now?

Corax. Artemis opened the communication directly and said: Important targets have been found in Metropolis 15 and we are requesting support.

Understood, please be on standby. Support is expected to arrive in fifteen minutes. A cold response came from the other end of the communication.

good.

Now Artemis doesn't just want to fight and kill on her own. She has the original body and an entire legion as backup, so why only bring a few troops in to find fault.

End communication.

Artemis and more than a hundred servants of the gods continued to march towards the Pyramid of the Dead fifteen kilometers away, but this time they deliberately slowed down and waited for reinforcements to arrive before launching a general attack and defeating it at once.

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at the same time.

In the space area about 20,000 kilometers from the surface...

boom! ! boom! !

Bang! !

call out---! ! call out---! !

Colorful and dazzling silent fireworks were staged.

Tens of thousands of warships then fired at each other, and various carrier-based aircraft hid between the ships, or followed the missile barrage, and then launched a surprise attack.

The trajectory of electromagnetic guns flashing with blue light, or the comet-like plasma cannons, as well as the instantaneous beam matrix, it can be said that the human empire is full of firepower.

The same goes for the undead side.

Those flying pyramids with a length, width and height of more than several kilometers, or even tens of kilometers, emit dark green and fluorescent yellow Gaussian rays, which can directly destroy the energy shields of human destroyers and below, and then penetrate the hull of the ship. break down.

As for the Necrons' carrier-based aircraft, they are like a disc with a corner missing, or like a scorpion without legs. However, the common feature of these carrier-based aircraft is that the cockpit does not provide any protection measures for the pilot .

However, whether there are protective measures or not, there is no difference at all to the metal skeleton-like Necromancer pilot.

They cannot feel vacuum, radiation, high temperature, or low temperature. As long as they are within the limit that the metal body can bear, their functions will be normal.

Otherwise, there will be the concept of flesh and blood suffering, machinery ascending.

Not long ago.

The Imperial Navy and battalion fleet on the Morning Star side can only rely on electromagnetic turrets in low-Earth orbit and beam matrices to fight against more than 6,000 flying pyramids.

Within two hours, the Venus side's orbital power was completely lost, with only one Dreadnought-class aircraft carrier, one Phoenix-class supply ship, and more than a dozen frigates resisting tenaciously.

The Third Company of the 16th Battalion, which was operating with the fleet, was preparing to use a new Paris-class frigate to forcibly join a pyramid with a diameter of more than 30 kilometers, when the main force of the Raven Guard suddenly visited.

The main fleet of the Raven Guard originally went to an abandoned planet about two hundred light years away from the Morning Star based on the information provided by the Red Queen, to conduct reconnaissance and try to search whether there were high-value targets on the abandoned planet.

But on the way forward, Corax received a message from Rogge, saying that the galaxy where Morning Star was located and the nearby universe had fallen into silence, and it was very likely that he had encountered a large-scale resurgence of the undead tombs.

After changing the destination, changing direction and sailing out of the fault space, they saw that the friendly forces were about to be destroyed, so the main force of the Raven Guard, with a total of about 1,200 ships, immediately entered the battle.

It seems that the Raven side is still at a disadvantage, with a ship ratio of 1:6, but the Raven Guard side has a home world with a diameter of more than two hundred kilometers.

Another round of naval battle is about to break out.

The two sides exchanged firepower, but the Raven Guard's aircraft carriers and transport ships, escorted by destroyers and frigates, broke through the defense lines, reached low-Earth orbit first, and dropped a large number of ground troops into the metropolitan area.

The 3rd Company of the 16th Battalion of the Dark Angels, who had been preparing to engage in a self-destructive gang-hopping battle, saw the arrival of support and saw that the Paris-class frigate they had commandeered was under heavy attack, so they ordered all members of the ship to abandon the ship and escape.

Then, after completing her mission, the Paris-class frigate was completely sunk by the Necronomicon Pyramid and crashed into the urban area on the surface.

now.

The Shadow of the Emperor, in the inner world of the Raven Guard's home world.

This place is the same as the surface of the colonial planet. It also has soil, glaciers, oceans, various factories, cities and bases for living and training, but everything is turned upside down.

Moreover, the core of the inner earth world is an artificial star with a diameter of only thirty kilometers and is bound in a special position, providing a nearly permanent source of energy for the Emperor's Shadow.

And in the central control room of the Emperor's Shadow...

Order the fleet to continue with the 322nd drill plan and destroy the enemy fleet marking the space area first.

Sir, our right flank and rear are being harassed by enemy carrier-based aircraft.

Use the close-in defense guns of each ship to destroy them. At the same time, mobilize four carrier-based aircraft groups to expel and annihilate them. Pay attention to whether the opponent carries large-scale energy weapons.

Yes, sir.

Corax's low, cold orders were heard in the central control room, while more than thirty crew members (Astartes) set out to implement the instructions issued by their primarch.

In the central control room, in addition to the Raven Guard who are good at calculation and control, there are also more than a hundred auxiliary troops who are responsible for providing intelligence support to officers at all levels, or commanding carrier-based aircraft squadrons and groups to carry out bombings, raids and other tasks.

Corax, who was wearing dark black power armor, had long flowing hair, and fair skin, was crossing his arms over his chest, watching the real-time battle situation displayed on the center console.

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According to the so-called 332nd exercise plan, the Raven Guard immediately dispersed left and right after leaving the fault space to avoid being attacked by the Necron fleet.

At the same time, the Emperor's Shadow and the fleet directly under the original body acted as decoys to resist the Necron fleet that was dozens of times larger than our own in the front.

Immediately afterwards, the 1st, 15th, and 44th Battalions were responsible for the left wing, and the 10th, 24th, and 67th Battalions were responsible for the right wing, while the 2nd and 3rd Battalions directly deployed their jump engines and flashed behind the Necron fleet.

As a result, the Raven Guard, who were originally at a numerical disadvantage, instead surrounded part of the universe and the Necron fleet in the universe.

Then, the flagships of the 2nd and 3rd battalions were immediately released. The matrix terminals, which looked like metal cylinders, surrounded the entire battalion fleet and also connected the engines of all the battalion ships in series to increase power.

Not only the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, but also the flagships of the other six battalions and even the Emperor's Shadow also released thousands of matrix terminals.

And then…

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Ri~——…

The matrix and the matrix terminal were quickly connected in series, and slender blue light emerged from each other.

Phew~——! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

In just a short moment, the surrounded space was instantly cut, which was cut in the physical sense.

A ◇ diamond-shaped body bursting out with cyan-blue light directly covered the space within the matrix. Everything was burned and cut by high temperature and high energy.

Viewed from a distance, it was like a gigantic luminous body appearing out of thin air in that space.

It seemed that they had conducted countless drills. The entire process from the start of the battle to the completion of the layout and matrix cutting took less than five minutes.

In terms of the reaction speed of the Astartes, five minutes is a snail's pace, but in a naval battle, it is as fast as the Astartes pumping his fist at an alien.

? ? ! !

The sudden loss of 1/4 of the scale made this newly awakened dynasty realize that humans may have more tricks to play matrix attacks.

Immediately, the Necromancer fleet stopped fighting in groups. The distance between the pyramids must be maintained at least three thousand kilometers, and the Morning Star behind them was also used as a hostage to prevent the Raven Guard from surrounding them again and using their power just now. Such a massive matrix attack.

See this.

Corax continued to order: Notify the 2nd and 3rd Battalions to continue to look for opportunities to bypass and coordinate attacks with our frontal main force. At the same time, notify all ships to increase the shield power to 120% and the main gun The charge is reduced to 60%, so there is no need to worry about friendly fire attacks, and then the enemy ships can be fired in a volley.

Also, I and Shadow (Glory Guard) will go to the surface of Morning Star in person, and the rest of the battle will be left to you.

Yes, sir.

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After hearing the answer, Corax nodded slightly, but he was just about to turn around and leave...

Oh, it's such a beautiful piece of art, tsk tsk, I really want to put it in a display cabinet.

He heard an old man speaking in his ear.