"Captain Wood, the atmospheric incineration torpedoes are ready and can be launched at any time," the weapons control officer reported to Wood from the battleship's bridge.
These naval personnel, who held the authority to deploy Exterminatus, sprang into action as soon as they received Wood's order. In less than a minute, they had completed every preparation needed to launch the atmospheric incineration torpedoes.
Wood gave the order with an indifferent expression. "Launch."
He knew perfectly well that once he gave that order, the nearly one million survivors on Hive World One of Daravan would have no chance of survival. Yet he felt not the slightest guilt.
For those survivors, living in that world was already too painful. All he was doing now was helping them escape that suffering.
"Yes!"
With that response, one of the eight torpedo tubes mounted on the battleship's ram slowly opened. A massive atmospheric incineration torpedo was immediately launched, streaking toward Hive World One at tremendous speed.
"These bastards actually used Exterminatus. They won't even spare their own people."
Sestian, who had been using psychic power to observe the situation, could not help cursing furiously when he saw the Star Navy Fleet launch an atmospheric incineration torpedo at Hive World One.
As a Greater Daemon of Slaanesh, Sestian naturally recognized the atmospheric incineration torpedoes wielded by humanity. That was why he was so enraged when he saw one fired from the battleship.
Sestian had thought these humans would deploy directly onto the planet to save the human survivors. He had never expected them to use Exterminatus outright. This attack would kill not only every human survivor, but even the daemons would perish in it.
Even if Sestian wanted to launch a boarding assault and use psychic teleportation to enter one of the fleet's warships directly, the