Kain was curious about what had been placed inside the metal box in front of him, but now was not the time to open treasure chests.
He stored it directly in his personal space, and the box vanished into thin air again.
Clearly, whatever was inside was not a living being.
At the same time, the ship began teleporting him. His figure disappeared before everyone's eyes.
But then-
"Rauls, hold onto this!"
Salamanders Captain Errett caught the energy cube that had not vanished with Kain, then shoved it to Rauls and ordered him to place it inside the special containment case.
The man who had disappeared had warned him in advance that the cube might not be able to teleport away with him. If that happened, before Kain brought the ship over, they would be responsible for safeguarding it.
Suddenly, the entire world began to shake violently. Everyone's expression changed, and without hesitation, they rushed outside.
The interior was undergoing a massive transformation. It was restructuring itself. If they did not get out, they would be sealed inside.
Boom!
Dozens of melta charges blasted open the sealed gate, but the metal seemed alive. Like memory metal, it repaired itself and closed again.
Because of that, they could only keep firing melta charges.
When everyone finally made it outside, the danger still had not passed. The world beyond was transforming at an unprecedented speed, taking on a completely new appearance.
This clearly meant the tomb world was fully activating and restoring itself to its original form.
Several massive weapons emerged, their barrels aimed at the ceiling.
No.
Not the ceiling.
This place should originally have been a sealed pyramid. Now it was opening, revealing the Imperial warships and T'au warships above.
The moment the T'au realized they had been targeted, their warships opened fire without hesitation, launching super-heavy plasma cannon blasts.
However, just as the shots were about to strike the Necrons' anti-air weapons, they seemed to vanish into thin air. The Astartes immediately realized what had happened.
Phase shifting.
Sure enough, the attacks seemed to rebound. Three T'au warships were destroyed in an instant.
The Imperial warships did not attack immediately. They had more experience fighting the Necrons than the T'au did, and knew they could not launch such a ferocious strike right away. Instead, they fired a massive barrage of missiles.
Missiles were far slower than lances or macro-cannons. Even if they were phase-shifted back, they could normally still be intercepted.
But the warriors on the ground had no time to worry about the battle in the sky. Metal skeletons were attacking from every direction.
Suddenly, the air ahead rippled, and a passage opened.
As the captain of the Salamanders, Errett immediately ordered the formation to shift. With the opening at its center, the force formed a circular defensive line and began tightening the circle, allowing personnel to board one after another.
"Close the hatch! Close it!"
Errett roared at the ship's master. At that moment, five of his battle-brothers still had not boarded.
In the next second, they leapt in one direction and formed a shield wall, blocking the high-energy disintegration cannon of a Necron pylon weapon that had just activated.
They used their own flesh and blood to delay it for one second.
That single second spared the ship from being hit.
"Do not retrieve anyone else. Leave immediately!"
He spoke to the ship's master again.
At the same time those brothers used their bodies as shields, they sent a message to every Imperial warrior present: execute a suicidal attack and further damage the Necron tomb world, reducing the chance that the Necrons could launch any interception against the ship.
Therefore, the Imperial warships immediately aimed themselves straight at the Necron tomb world and rammed down into it.
In the instant before the ship jumped, both the Imperial warships and the T'au warships blazed with glorious light.
In the blink of an eye-
[Quantum ghost mode docking in progress...]
[Quantum synchronization data has reached...]
On the bridge, Kain watched the progress displayed on the holographic window.
The energy source for the dimensional weapon was now in place. At present, it was warming up like an engine while also interfacing with the main body, meaning this ship.
He looked toward the wormhole. At the moment, it was blocked by a gas giant, so he could not see the exact situation.
Because the systems were currently docking, it was as if the ship was undergoing an upgrade. For the time being, the ship could not move. Fortunately, it could still activate quantum ghost mode.
However, because of this mode, they could not communicate with the outside world, so they could not obtain the current details of the battlefield.
[Current radiation range of the phase element...]
Phase element was another name for G-Element on this side.
Kain did not know whether the Necrons' phase-shifting technology also used this substance, or whether it was even the same material.
Right now, the ship was calculating the exact destructive range enabled by the G-Element he had added.
Although the full range had not yet been calculated, the current projected coverage was already enough to encompass half the star system.
"Mr. Lance Plain, this data means half the star system can be included in the strike range, correct?"
"Yes."
"Then do you think the thing the bugs are trying to drag over can be destroyed along with them?"
"I think so."
But there was one condition: whatever was on the other side must not sense any danger in this star system.
And what would be the basis for judging that there was no danger?
The resistance force here had to be eliminated.
If this side clearly still had a little strength left to struggle, yet suddenly withdrew and stopped trying to prevent the Tyranids from dragging something over, then the Tyranids would obviously suspect something.
The moment Salamanders Captain Errett suddenly asked that question, Kain immediately understood what he was thinking.
It was an extremely heavy thought.
[Synchronization complete!]
[Docking complete!]
[Two-dimensional weapon activated!]
Now they could begin the strike. They could cut off the Tyranid forces entering this star system.
At that moment, because the Tyranids had borrowed the star system's gravity, the gas giant that had been blocking the view shifted away under the gravitational influence. The situation around the wormhole finally became visible.
The wormhole had already expanded to the size of a planet, and the Tyranids pouring through into this side were so numerous that the sight alone was enough to breed despair.
They could also see two Tyranid mother-ships over one hundred kilometers in size guarding the entrance of the wormhole.
The fact that two mother-ships were guarding it, yet still had not moved, was more than enough to prove that whatever was coming through was beyond imagination.
The wormhole had now widened to more than ten thousand kilometers. That meant the thing coming through was likely a supermassive entity with a diameter of at least ten thousand kilometers, large enough to rival a planet.
Could an actual hive be coming through?
From what Kain knew, the previous Tyranid hive fleet invasions had merely been tendrils of the larger Tyranid forces outside the galaxy.
Was the main force coming now?
No. Perhaps it would be more accurate to call this the vanguard.
The previous invasions had merely been scouting forces.
Kain looked toward one of the screens. It displayed countless spatial and gravitational fluctuations. On the radar image, it looked like a calm water surface constantly rippling with wave after wave.
That represented warships continuously flying into this star system and throwing themselves into this war.
(End of Chapter)
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