Under the joint orders of the Senior Tech-priest and the Ultramarines Chapter Master stationed on the battle planet, the planet's field generators reversed their gravitational direction. An invisible gravitational lash began to accelerate, striking the trident-shaped hull of the Blessed Lady.
Assaulted by an invisible force, the distortion of gravity knocked it from its original course. Its internal metal framework was instantly warped by the immense force.
The Blessed Lady was thirty-five kilometers long and possessed terrifying mass. The consequences of such enormous mass being struck by the gravitational lash were nothing short of catastrophic.
Many of the colossal ship's macro-cannons and lance arrays were twisted out of shape. Shells already being fired became jammed in distorted barrels, while overloaded energy systems and detonating munitions struck together. Thick smoke immediately billowed from the Blessed Lady's hull.
Flames spread, and explosions killed vast numbers of crewmen and slave workers. The Word Bearers rapidly lost control of the enormous vessel.
The head-on gravitational blow caught the Blessed Lady unprepared. It hastily organized a counterattack, its enormous main guns aiming at the battle planet. Massive high-energy beams, carrying plasma, surged toward the void shields covering the planet's entire surface.
As though pricked by a needle, the void shields on the battle planet's surface merely trembled slightly before the immense energy output canceled out the attack.
It had not even reached the second layer of energy shields. The two were on entirely different levels of power.
At that moment, the World Eaters and Word Bearers besieging the Ultramarines' last stronghold on the surface also received their flagship's desperate warning.
Stunned, they were forced to halt the battle and look up at the sky. That unfamiliar planet entered Amatra's field of vision.
Anyone still possessed of reason sensed that something was terribly wrong. The balance