This Blackstone Fortress, over a thousand kilometers in diameter, looked like a black stone coffin standing in space. Every flash meant hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of lives lost to the void.
As time went on, more and more Divine Realm Warships joined the siege of the Blackstone Fortress. A considerable number had been destroyed in battle, only to be reborn within the Divine Realm and return to the battlefield to continue attacking the fortress.
As the Imperial Fleet grew in number, the surrounding Chaos warships were split apart by these fanatical Golden Warships. Whenever the fanatical Blood God ships were about to break through the Imperial Fleet's encirclement and rescue the Blackstone Fortress, they were met with merciless attacks and reduced to ashes amid dense barrages of naval gunfire.
By the third hour of the battle, tens of thousands of warships were bombarding the Blackstone Fortress. Its void shields had long since overloaded and collapsed, and sustained bombardment had left mottled scars across its once-smooth walls. The fortress's thick black stone was steadily worn down by wave after wave of fire, until it neared its breaking point.
"Boom!"
Another familiar purple beam tore through the darkness, illuminating the battered Blackstone Fortress—and a lavishly adorned Queen Gloriana class Titan Super Flagship.
This super flagship, once a Primarch's vessel in the age of the Imperium of Man, soon reached its limits under the Blackstone Fortress's blast of evil energy. Its void shields overloaded first, and the relentless erosion of evil power rapidly aged its sturdy hull, making the metal groan.
A ball of fire lit up space. Along with more than a dozen warships nearby, it blossomed into a brilliant firework.
If the Divine Realm Warships had been unable to return after being destroyed, the number of ships lost simply fighting