A fleet from who knew where, almost no different from the other forces of the Imperium and Chaos.
Appeared in this world out of thin air.
Like a fleet from the Great Crusade that had wandered for ten thousand years, or a fleet from the Golden Age, it suddenly emerged within the territory. No one saw how it had appeared, nor had anyone noticed its arrival.
By the time they saw it, it had already closed in on the Chaos warships.
In space, the Imperial reinforcements' attempt to enter Cadia had failed.
Most of the Drop Pod forces were swiftly destroyed by the enemy fleet before they could reach the ground. Chaos had occupied one Cadia position after another and was destroying the planetary matrix field shields across Cadia's surface. It was only a matter of time before Cadia's planetary shield field was destroyed as well.
Even Abaddon in space failed to notice the sudden addition of a battleship to the Chaos forces.
After all, compared to the several Blackstone Fortresses under his command,
a single fleet was as insignificant as a tiny shrimp among crocodiles.
He did not even need to concern himself with it. His subordinates would naturally destroy it.
Chaos's neglect of this newly appeared fleet gave the soldiers aboard it an opportunity to deploy.
"Still can't break through the enemy lines?" In space, the space lord led the knights of House Constantine in an attempt to drop soldiers onto Cadia.
Yet the soldiers they deployed were either torn apart by the Heldrakes that had already seized the skies, or shattered by the roaring blood-red artillery fire of Daemon Engines forged by Chaos Space Marine Iron Warriors.
"Kars, if we want to break through their lines, we have to first bypass their Chaos Fleet and land from