Twisted Time and Space, I Have Such a Weapon Too
This type of weapon also exists.
877. M30.
The Second Legion was the first to encounter the main fleet of the Hrud the Gugan System.
Wilshire stood on the bridge of his new flagship, the ancient intelligent spaceship, the Song of Slaughter.
Unlike the Imperial Fleet, which required an entire officer corps, the bridge only had thirty-six Shadow of Order.
They are not responsible for any operations; their duty is to stand in front of the screen, browse all the images, data, and other information, and report to the Lord of Light— data that is not valued by the intelligent program.
The entire spaceship, unlike any other Imperium ship of its class, carried over two hundred thousand officers and crew.
Instead, there are 290 of the best singers from each Chapter.
They took turns, constantly adhering to the "contract," singing for the spaceship.
"My suggestion is," a metallic voice rang in Wilshire's ear; he was used to the spaceship being an advisor, not just a simple Machine Spirit.
"Evacuate immediately."
"My Sensor Array has captured over 27 million life signals from 1,840 Herud ships."
"With such a large amount of Entropy Field mixed together, your battleships and their crews will all turn to dust."
A green screen hung down in front of Wilshire.
"I've already considered the defenses against the Simian Field, as well as the superhuman physique of the Shadow of Order."
"Thank you for your suggestion," Wilshire glanced at the analysis report provided by his advisor, then turned his gaze to the holographic screen.
"Our lord's command is to lure the Hrud fleet to the predetermined coordinates."
The Weapon Array of the Song of Slaughter were all activated, requiring no human intervention.
The intelligent program assigns targets to the Weapon Array based on the scan results.
The weapons that poured out of the armory burst forth from the silver-white hull, firing blue-white beams of light at the Herud ship.
The beam of light kept jumping around in the Distortion Entropy Field, like light refracting again and again.
Some beams of light were cut into segments, while others were stretched, compressed, or bent.
The Hrud's Distortion force field is unpredictable.
Most beams are fired in the most likely possible attack mode after countless iterations of calculations beyond the Simulacrum Sanctum by the intelligent program, hitting the target.
Blue and white light pierced through layers of time fields, detonating the blurred Herud warship.
The dazzling flames revealed the Scanner Array of the Song of Slaughter, whose performance exceeded the combined capabilities of the remaining Auspex of the Second Legion.
"The Shadow of the Sun has made contact with the main force of the Herud fleet..." The advisor's voice rang in Wilshire's ears, and he immediately turned his gaze to the battleship.
"Time collapse has occurred!"
Blinding arcs of light leaped from Herud's rough hull, connecting their large city ships together.
Time and space around the Shadow of the Sun were simultaneously torn apart.
The time shockwave spreading from Herud's starting point propagated at a quarter the speed of light, like a scroll being unfurled in the spacetime continuum.
A hologram of the Song of Slaughter, attempting to depict what the detector array detected.
The Shadow of the Sun bounced up, the image was mottled, and the shape of the projected stream was blurred.
The two circular projectors suddenly went out, the hologram flickered for a moment, and then stabilized.
The Shadow of the Sun was shattered into thousands of curved fragments, as if reflected by a broken mirror.
Thousands of life pods had just flown out of the warship when they were captured by the spacetime ripples.
The Simian Field was instantly swallowed by darkness, and the waves of time wantonly ravaged the 16.9-kilometer-long battleship.
The right string exploded first, turning into burning fragments.
In the next instant, the entire warship aged by millions of years.
The Punishment-class Reactor is dead.
Ripples in the spacetime structure swept across the Shadow of the Sun, the Machine Spirit screamed. The machine exploded.
Time raced through the chaotic vortex; some crew members vanished into thin air, while others collapsed in a cloud of black carbon dust.
A row of Servitor parts has faded, while another row has aged and withered.
Further away, another row reverted to their former human forms, shocked and Shock mad by their rebirth.
Different parts of the spacecraft were forcibly dismantled and scattered into different frames of reference.
The parts shifted in seconds, triggering a horrific explosion.
The Shadow of Order fallen. Like the Mark III Power Armor, the Saturnine Terminator Prototype has rusted armor plates scattered on the ground, as if it hadn't been tended to for millions of years.
Bones and debris poured out, covering the deck.
Bolter, Concussion Weapon, Power Weapon, and chainsaws were reduced to dust and sand.
At this moment, Astartes, like its crew, has aged and decayed, turning into dust in the flow of time.
The waves of time continued to ripple through the ship, and within seconds, the hull of a frigate rusted away, eventually becoming a crumpled, bent, rusty wreck.
The two destroyers disintegrated into a rain of particles, which shimmered along with the escape pods.
As the Shadow of the Throne toward its designated coordinates, Captain Diana Pauline gazed at the scan results and the fragmented images of the feedback, recalling that fleeting moment of that night in Gorgis.
She couldn't help but sigh, "Even the Shadow of Order ages and dies."
"Herud accumulates enough numbers, that will happen," Nimrod said.
Astartes usually did not die of old age; most of them would die on the battlefield.
Sigismund's physical abilities declined due to his long life, leading to his death at the hands of Abaddon; Dante's exhaustion from living too long was merely an isolated case.
But the Hrud are different. When a large number of Herud gather together, the superposition of their Entropy Field can cause almost everything to age.
In Nimrod's memory, during the war between the "Iron Warriors" and the Hrud, many Warriors and warships turned to dust.
Barabbas Dantioch, the Warsmith stationed at Volpa Star Canyon, walks with difficulty, has thinning hair, a face full of wrinkles, and wrinkled skin.
After examining him, the Apothecary determined that he was three thousand years older and that this was irreversible.
His aged and decrepit appearance even evoked a moment of pity from Perturabo, but he subsequently banished the defeated Peturabo to Lesser Damantyne to serve as the local Regent.
Dantioch was thus able to undertake the architectural work that Perturabo desired, and subsequently lit the Pharos Lighthouse for the Second Imperium.
As Nimrod pondered, Diana's voice rang out.
"Sir, we will arrive at the designated coordinates in thirty-five seconds."
[I also possess such a weapon that Distortion spacetime.] Nimrod issued the order.
"Activate Void Claws!"
"Yes, my lady," Diana tapped rapidly on the console, activating a Cogitator beside the Throne.
As the red light flashed, Diana looked towards the Throne. "My lord, please grant authorization."
Nimrod raised his right hand and placed it on the panel.
He was the only one in the entire legion with that authority.
Amidst the piercing alarm, red runes flashed rapidly.
The twenty-three Punishment-class Reactor on the Shadow of the Throne were upgraded to maximum power.
The sudden increase in output energy only maintained the life support system, while Weapon Array and other systems were shut down.
The decks, layered like Hive City, suddenly Lumen Lamp out.
The bright lights on the bridge instantly dimmed.
The Doomsday Weapon from the "Dark Mechanicum Era" was activated for the first time in ten thousand years.
The second tallest black claw-shaped structure on the Shadow of the Throne gleamed with a beam of light.
It vanishes in an instant, imperceptible to the physical world, and the shattered spacetime energy is transferred to the predetermined coordinates.
Spacetime energy created a tiny singularity at the center of the Hrud fleet, at the center of the fourteen city ships.
The tiny singularity rapidly expands, forming a bottomless black hole.
The Herud warship, enveloped by layers of spacetime fields, instantly became clear and shone on the holographic screens of the surrounding warships.
The Song of Slaughter was like a startled white steed galloping through the void.
Gravitational waves oscillated, capturing black warships and inserting them into bottomless black holes.
The gray warships struggled desperately, like a school of fish caught in a whirlpool.
The light from the stellar explosion illuminated the Gugan System, overshadowing the faint stars.
Millions of years after the Orion - Cygnus cantilever formed, bright light pierced the dark sky for the first time on the surfaces of Gugan, Craven, and Gorgis.
The light pierced through the deep Volpa Star Canyon, illuminating the black hull of the Third Legion that had just emerged from Mandeville Point.
Light pierced through dark caves, tunnels hundreds of kilometers long, and archives filled with Mycelium Tome.
Hundreds of millions of Hrud stumbled about in panic, surrounded by terrifying light.
The destructive shockwave pierced through the Entropy Field of thousands of Herud warships, and the massive city-ships, as large as Hive City, disintegrated and disappeared in the light.
Outside the black hole, hundreds of warships trembled amidst gravitational waves.
Hundreds of warships were torn to shreds.
"Terrifying..." The consultant's metallic voice rang in Wilshire's ears.
"A terrifying attack, even in the era I was born, it was considered Apocalypse."
The bridge of the Shadow of the Throne was illuminated by light, followed by five seconds of darkness before the light from the Lumen Lamp returned to normal.
Diana stared blankly at the holographic image. Even the Emperor's flagship, the Bucephalus, the flagship of the "Imperial Fists," and even the Ramillies-class Star Fortress could not unleash such a devastating attack.
She glanced at the report, then stared at the enormous sphere of light in the void, at the Herud warship struggling as if it were stuck in a quagmire.
Diana knew that the spacetime structure of that area had been permanently altered and would never be passable again.
[No wonder Lord Nimrod decided that only he himself could order its use.]
After Diana established communication with Adams, the Fourth Legion left behind 27 warships, including five capital ships, to hunt down the remaining Herud warships.
The Shadow of the Throne, along with the Second Legion and part of the Fourth Legion Fleet, headed toward Craven.
Half an hour before sunset in the Gugan System, in front of the Second Legion's helipad.
Wilshire stood before the fifty-two "Solar High Priest," Notary eyes shining like miniature Sun.
A surge of Spirituality erupted, and rays of golden light enveloped the "Solar High Priest".
The light grew increasingly pure, eventually evolving into a stamp-like projection.
"Notarize," "Solar Halo!"
"Notarize," "Summon Holy Light!"
"Notarize," "Sacred Oath!"
First Company Captain Winterborn, after the Lord of Light replaced the flagship with the Song of Slaughter, took over the Relic-class battleship Radiance, and did not perish with the company's original flagship Shadow of the Sun.
The "Solar High Priest" felt that, with the majestic voice of the Lord of Light, the illusory image of the seal in the air showered down rays of light upon him.
He saw Olivier, the Second Company Captain beside him, basking in the light as if Sun.
One minute later, the "Solar High Priest" boarded the Stormbird and headed to their respective battlefields.
Olivier stepped off the deck and came to the tunnel.
The "Light Worshipper" stood between the Scorpion Turret, with small golden vials containing pre-prepared Holy Water hanging from their waists.
The Tech Sergeant were busy adjusting the built-in Logis-Engine Logic Engine, setting the shooting target acquisition mode and identification codes.
Based on the fact that the Hrud emerged from the cave, the defense mode was set to point defense mode, one of the four modes, with the defense angled at a 45-degree angle to a single direction.
As the faint, candle-like light went out, countless Hrud poured out of the cave in a frenzy.
The Scorpion Turret Machine Spirit as it unleashed a barrage of bullets at the Xenos. The exploding beams burned through the Hrud's protective layers, piercing their bodies and leaving holes in their flesh.
The "Solar High Priest" stepped toward the place in his Spirit Sight where the gray shadows were most concentrated.
The Machine Spirit of a Scorpion Turret recognized his code and immediately ceased firing.
The "Solar High Priest" leans back with his arms outstretched, as if embracing the Sun.
A magnificent, pure, and blazing pillar of light descended from the sky, crashing down upon the Hrud.
A dozen or so Herud, and then dozens more Xenos that couldn't stop in time, evaporated rapidly in the light.
Hundreds of Herud disgustedly avoided the blinding golden light; they didn't even raise their Plasma Flintlock to attack.
They circled far away from the scattered golden specks of light and charged forward.
The "Solar High Priest" was surrounded by gold, which spread outwards in layers.
The "Solar Halo" warmed the Honor Guard members within a 35-meter radius as they followed their company commander toward the cave entrance.
The "Light Worshipper" men took out small golden bottles from their waists and took turns sprinkling golden Holy Water onto the bottles.
A drop of golden Holy Water first hit a Hrud.
Drops of golden light illuminated the blurry body, penetrating the Entropy Field.
Rows of Herud, their bodies melting away, collapsed to the ground.
The "Solar High Priest" felt that his abilities, both in power and range, had been significantly enhanced.
As he stepped forward, he seemed to merge with the light.
Remembering the Lord of Light's words, "Your abilities will be temporarily enhanced," Olivier decided to make good use of this time.
The golden halo rushed straight into the cave, and the Hrud fled like rats.
Inside Olivier's helmet, as Rune Teng leaped 3.6 kilometers, the halo around him suddenly shrank, covering only about 20 meters.
"Retreat!" the "Solar High Priest" shouted, then lunged forward to meet the onrushing Hrud.
Golden, illusory flames suddenly ignited around him, flames radiating the majestic aura of the Sun, densely forming an ocean.
The pure and holy light burned Herud into drops of sour liquid, like a candle.
The "Solar High Priest" felt himself completely merged with the golden light.
He calmly retreated with his Honor Guard, Hrud only launched another attack after the golden sea of fire disappeared.
It produces a halo-like effect, tinged with gold and spreading outwards in layers. It warms those around it, brings immense courage, dispels evil, and can be precisely controlled.
Wilshire traversed various battlefields, regaining his Spirituality amidst the Stormbird.
The "Notary" leads the Honor Guard to the most critical battlefield, defeats the enemy, and before leaving, performs a "Notarize" for the "Solar High Priest."
In the Evernight of Craven, dazzling lights rose up from various places, brighter and more radiant than fleeting glory.