After Eating Dreams, the Alien Will Use a Bolter

Three Shadow-pattern Stormbirds launched from the Hunter-class Destroyer, flying soundlessly toward a heavy Transport Ship.

Sasebo Tezuka, adjutant of the 36th Company, 10th Battalion, sat in the copilot's seat.

He stared as the distance steadily closed. The anti-aircraft fire turned a blind eye to the three iron birds, failing to cover the area they were flying through.

Sasebo Tezuka saw the distance close to one kilometer. He raised his gauntlet and tapped rapidly across the panel.

Four Dreadstrike Missiles mounted beneath the wings of each Shadow-pattern Stormbird shot out.

Compared to the standard model, the Shadow-pattern had a shorter wingspan and carried two fewer Dreadstrike Missiles.

But the missiles driven by Heaven's Punishment-class Reactors possessed far greater striking power than those of other Stormbird models.

A volley of twelve Dreadstrike Missiles struck the dome over the same section of deck.

As the Void Shield crackled and flickered, the second wave of warheads overloaded the Transport Ship's upper Void Shield and hammered into its steel shell.

The third strike tore the ship open, detonating with a thunderous roar inside the vessel.

The Shadow-pattern Stormbirds dived down, and Sasebo Tezuka fixed his eyes on the streaks of flowing fire in the smoke.

The flames as a whole took the shape of rats, scurrying as they looked up above.

Energy pumped by the Heaven's Punishment-class Reactor drove the Quantum Field Repulsor, generating a force field that wrapped around the iron birds like thin gauze.

Light was pushed away by the force field, and even the roar of impact as they slammed into the ship vanished into nothing.

When the nose of the Shadow-pattern Stormbird was still ten meters from the deck, Sasebo Tezuka clearly saw the Fire of Time xenos—the azure fur wrapped within the flames.

A piercing shriek rang out. Only now