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Chapter 142 Chaos Invasion
On the Blood Angels' strike cruiser, Mephisto and Lematus were looking nervously at the Death Company warriors who had just drunk the consecrated wine.

Although they had confirmed that the Holy Blessing Wine could sober up the warriors who had erupted in black rage, they still inevitably fell into tension when they actually let their brothers drink the Holy Blessing Wine.

After all, this is the first time and everyone is unsure.

Even though Mephisto had used his psychic powers to predict the outcome, he still felt his hands trembling slightly with excitement as he watched his brother, who had once been trapped in the black rage, regain consciousness.

Such a moment is exciting for any descendant of Sanguinius, because it means that the descendants of Sanguinius can finally escape the fate of being cursed by the Black Rage.

"Heh...Ah! Horus!" Following a painful groan, a battle brother of the Death Company roared loudly, and his eyes gradually regained clarity.

The Death Company battle brothers who regained consciousness looked at Lematus and Mephisto in disbelief, then looked around and asked in disbelief: "Where am I? What happened? I remember I seemed to be trapped in..."

"Brother, welcome back!" Lematus stepped forward and hugged the conscious battle-brother, then explained to him: "By the blessing of Sanguinius! The Emperor has bestowed upon us a method to awaken the Black Rage!"

"Is this true? Can the Black Rage really be awakened?" The Death Company soldier who had just been immersed in the Black Rage still couldn't believe it.

Even if he was truly awakened from the Black Rage, he couldn't imagine that the Black Rage that had plagued the Legion for ten thousand years could actually be resolved.

"Yes, my brother! We have successfully awakened you, and now we will awaken more brothers! As descendants of Sanguinius, let us witness this great moment together!" Lematus gestured to the battle-brother to look to the side, and saw that there were forty-nine other battle-brothers of the Death Company, and they would all be awakened.

"By Sanguinius!" The Death Company battle-brother fell to his knees, tears streaming down his face.

The millennia of suffering endured by the descendants of Sanguinius finally saw the light of day today.
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As the Blood Angels celebrated their hope, Mandeville Point in the Rostov system was seething.

The star port's augury array was screaming madly, and the entire star port was shrouded in shrill alarms.

Mechanic Priest Kertas-77, in charge of maintaining the auspex array, pulled his mechanical tentacles from the data port. He took over the starport's sound array system and issued an alert to the entire starport and even the entire Rostov II: "Chaos incursion detected. Two Destroyer-class cruisers belonging to the Khorne Warband, at Level combat readiness!"

As the warning was issued, the priest's binary prayer activated the defense protocol. All the macrocannon arrays on the starport began to start and load, the light spear array also began to charge, and the four defense turret arrays surrounding the starport also entered combat status.

Near Mandeville Point, the defensive turrets installed there were activated immediately, and launched an artillery attack the moment the two Chaos cruisers jumped out of the warp.

This is not a large and famous warband. With only two cruisers, they are just an insignificant and unknown warband.

But the two Chaos Cruisers could not be destroyed by the artillery batteries set up by Chen Xi near Mandeville Point.

The shells fired by the macro cannon hit the armor of the Chaos Cruiser, causing a series of explosions, but the Chaos Cruiser with thick skin and flesh ignored the damage and rushed straight out of the subspace.

Because they had just jumped out of the subspace, the battleships' void shields had not yet been put into use, and they could only rely on the battleships' own armor to withstand the pressure.

But this was like a tickle to the Chaos warships, especially those of the Khorne line. These two warships even used their adamantine rams to ram the defensive turrets, despite the gunfire from the defensive turrets.

The warships of the Khorne Warband, like their masters, prefer close combat and charges to sissy-like long-range passionate shooting.

The moment the Chaos warships invaded, Mephisto on the Blood Angels' strike cruiser had already sensed their arrival.

He immediately ordered the warships to raise anchor and set sail, and issued a request for coordinated operations to all warships anchored in the starport.

As an Astartes, in the absence of a higher commander, it is possible to assume command of all Imperial warships, and having unified command is crucial to space naval warfare.

Chen Xi did not hesitate and directly ordered all warships to obey Mephisto's dispatch, even the Ash Knight's strike cruisers and the Inquisition's black ships were no exception.

At this moment, in orbit, two strike cruisers of the Blood Angels and the Ash Knights, a Dominator-class cruiser sent by the Ecclesiarchy, an Inquisitorial Black Ship, and a Mechanicum Light Cruiser Forge formed a fleet and headed towards the two Chaos cruisers.

5V2, this is a battle without any suspense.

And on the Rostov III, 32 also urgently boarded his own casting ship and was rushing to reinforce.

But for the Khorne war gang, charging towards a powerful enemy was the act of pleasing the Blood God and gaining blessings, so they did not retreat at all and also rushed towards the mixed fleet.

At this time, the void shield of the Chaos battleship was back online, and the shooting of light spears and macro cannons from both sides only caused ripples on the void shields of both sides.

Although they were at a huge disadvantage in numbers, for the Khorne warband, even if they couldn't win the fleet battle, they could still happily engage in boarding.

The two Chaos warships immediately released boarding torpedoes after approaching the Imperial fleet and the starport. These vehicles, filled with Khorne believers and Fallen Space Marines, passed through the vast void and the void shield of the starport and headed towards the Rostov starport.

Several Stormcrow gunships rushed out from the two strike cruisers, and their melta cannons intertwined golden grids in the vacuum.

"Alpha Squadron, block the elevation angle of 30 degrees, Beta Squadron, conduct cross-strafe." Squadron Leader Gabriel's instructions echoed in the communication loop.

Two boarding torpedoes were detonated instantly, but more torpedoes still broke through the blockade of the Storm Crow gunboats.

At this time in the starport, the Mechanicus Skitarii and the defense forces stationed here have already set up positions. Various heavy defense weapons have been set up in various key positions, and the defense forces have also set up barricades.

Fighting a boarding battle in such a narrow passageway would give even a mortal Space Marine a hard time.

(End of this chapter)