The New Soul of Vengeance suffered a sudden disaster.
The Augur Array showed no response.
The sorcerers in the fleet, the Plague Sorcerers, and the Psykers of the Black Legion—those wearing all manner of detection devices made by Vashtorr—detected nothing.
The Soul of Vengeance was attacked in an instant.
The attack came so suddenly.
Just as Taifon, Vashtorr, and the surviving servants of the Blood God were discussing whether to cooperate going forward and were about to reach an agreement, the command deck was rammed through.
More absurdly, it was a warship that rammed through the deck.
Then that warship suddenly vanished, leaving behind hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded slave corpses, raging fires aboard the ship, and wetware endlessly reporting damage.
A massive breach roughly a kilometer across had been smashed into the New Soul of Vengeance's hull, which was less than twenty kilometers long in its entirety.
Had the fleet been traveling through the Real Universe, the entire warship would already have sunk. Even if it had not, it would have been finished, because the vacuum would have sucked every crew member out into space.
"We crippled their defenses just like that?" Lupercal could not believe what he was seeing.
Ahriman and his group had not retreated along with the warship they had boarded. Instead, they teleported out of it and arrived directly on the New Soul of Vengeance's outer hull.
Only after the hull had been breached did they enter through the opening.
"..."
Ahriman said nothing.
Bang—
The sound of a Bolter firing rang out.
A Bolter round crossed several hundred meters and reached Ahriman. He used Psychic Power to drag over the corpse of an Eternal War Veteran of the Black Legion, blocking the incoming round.
Ahriman casually tossed the veteran's corpse aside.
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