Six torpedoes carrying Blackstone warheads were launched.
Because the target zone was not dispersed, the Blackstone torpedoes flew downward toward the planet, whose anti-ship defenses had been dismantled, in a diamond formation.
They easily pierced the firepower net, easily passed through the barrier, and finally spread out loosely yet methodically around the Torment Circuit.
Each Blackstone warhead linked with the others, producing an effect similar to the fixed Obelisks on Cadia.
This was a resonance of reality.
The resonance created by the six Blackstone warheads formed a region of reality spanning thousands of kilometers. Its effects even tore a narrow breach in the barrier.
Every weapon aboard the flagship fired a salvo at the breach. Advanced fire-control systems ensured that every attack passed through it with perfect accuracy and struck the very center of the reality zone shaped by the six Blackstone warheads.
The ground cracked, and tectonic plates melted.
A single round of orbital bombardment from the flagship would have caused a planet-shattering disaster on an ordinary world in the Real Universe. On that already visibly mutated planet, it at least blasted the reality zone created by the Blackstone warheads into a colossal crater that plunged tens of thousands of kilometers underground.
The Torment Circuit was completely destroyed, and the Void Shield control apparatus utterly ceased functioning.
The barrier gradually contracted and fractured, ultimately leaving the planet entirely unprotected.
The connection point between the Iron Ring and the planet remained protected, but the fleet concentrated its fire directly on the exposed world.
The first round of orbital bombardment achieved little. But as the fleet's Blackstone ships gradually drew closer and expanded reality's influence to cover the planet's surface, the fleet's attacks brought apocalyptic devastation to the planet.
The massive defensive lines built by the Iron Warriors, visible even from