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Chapter 225: The Tri-Race Alliance
🕑 Added 2025-08-16 13:57:41 +0000 UTCChapter 225: The Tri-Race Alliance
"Tigurius, tell your fleet that a fleet from my Dynasty and a xenos fleet will be arriving on the battlefield soon. Tell your fleet not to attack them!"
"Xenos?"
And when Tigurius's command reached the Macragge fleet in the void, although the commanders of these warships could not understand it, they all chose to accept the order.
Under Tigurius's guidance, Lucan and Cawl, carrying the Armour of Fate, headed for the Shrine of Truth where Guilliman lay, at the fastest possible speed. And the Chaos Astartes and the daemon engines led by the Dark Mechanicum hereteks who had landed on Macragge, under the guidance of Vashtorr's senses, were also killing their way toward the shrine.
Using the warp rift that had been opened on the surface of Macragge, Vashtorr's true form also arrived on the surface. Lucan was too important to him; he had to take the risk. Various giant daemon engines followed behind him, and a large number of Heldrakes also circled above his head. And Vashtorr's own power also surpassed that of a top-tier Greater Daemon.
They continuously broke through one defensive line after another. The destroyed vehicles... he used a blasphemous method to directly mix the souls of the dead humans together, turning them into new daemon engines that threw themselves at the steadfast humans. "The Artificer," the "Lord of the Soul Forges"—these were his true names. And Chaos scrap-code was continuously released by him, paralyzing the positions of the Macragge defenders. Hundreds of Red Corsairs also joined their ranks.
And in the void, the Blackstone Fortress was getting closer and closer to the orbit of Macragge. The Strike Cruisers of the Ultramarines were desperately trying to board it to stop the fortress. But the Red Corsairs and countless daemons of Tzeentch blocked their path. Vingaard temporarily handed over command and control to the Dark Mechanicum hereteks, and he himself threw himself into the battle to clean up the Ultramarines' boarding parties. He was extremely angry at Vashtorr's sudden departure from the fleet. In his eyes, Vashtorr was going to steal the spoils of war that should have belonged to him.
Just as Vingaard had finished off two Ultramarines who were attempting a decapitation strike against him, a fleet that did not belong to either side of the battlefield suddenly appeared on the augur arrays.
The first to enter the field was the human fleet from Lorysia, led by Damon. They were the closest to Macragge, and they were also unaffected by the Chaos scrap-code.
Not long after, the Spear of Adun, shining with a golden light, also entered the battlefield through the Webway it had entered before, followed by a warp jump. As the Spear of Adun approached the battlefield, the flying units that had been produced also accompanied it, escorting it. The Tempests advanced in neat formations. Artanis had not chosen to produce the larger Carriers or the Mothership Core. Even if he had produced them, the current number of Protoss was not enough to pilot such large warships. Just maintaining the operation of the Spear of Adun had consumed a large portion of the Protoss population.
And the last to enter the field were the biological warships from Char. The Zerg's biological warship, the Leviathan, also left Char for the first time. Fifteen flesh-warships, created by the Zerg with a large amount of energy and biomass, were waving their tentacles. Inside them were Kerrigan and countless eager Zerg. And the cocoons on the Leviathans were also hatching various Zerg flying units into the void.
Such a long-distance jump was not without its costs. Kerrigan could feel that the Leviathans were in a slightly weakened state, so she had them produce as many of these flying units as possible to assist in the battle. Mutalisks, Devourers, Brood Lords—they were the "frigates" of the Zerg biological warships.
"Kerrigan, leave that Blackstone Fortress to us. That Ark of Omen-like biological warship, I'll leave it to you and your Zerg," Artanis said to Kerrigan.
"No problem! My Zerg will enter the interior of this warship directly and destroy it!"
At this moment, the Queen of Blades-ified Kerrigan was also in the flesh-chamber of a Leviathan. The Zerg were in a state of extreme excitement. The great Queen was by their side. This time, the Queen was leading them directly.
"Artanis, Kerrigan, the battle in the void is up to you. I will take the Raiders and the Night Sentinels to protect Lord Lucan." The warships the Dynasty had dispatched were not many, and the Gorgon's advantage in a fleet battle was too small. Damon decided to play to his own strengths as much as possible. With the Gorgon's intra-planetary mobility, he could help the Ultramarines clean up the enemies who had landed on the surface. And the ground combat capability of the Raiders could establish a secure defensive line near the sacred shrine where Guilliman slumbered, to buy time for Lucan.
The sudden appearance of the Protoss and the Zerg, races that had never been recorded, made both sides focus their attention on them. And a 100-kilometer-long warship like the Spear of Adun was even more shocking. Its scale showed that it was definitely powerful enough. Only advanced technology could drive a warship of this size to sail in the void.
The entry of the three races' warships was too sudden. The commanders of the Ultramarines fleet forcibly suppressed the urge to attack these xenos, especially the Zerg's biological warships, which reminded them of the Tyranids... the two were too similar. The disaster that the Tyranid tendril had brought to Macragge was still fresh in their minds. The Tyranids had almost destroyed Macragge, and countless people had been sacrificed in that battle.
When the Leviathans passed by the Macragge warships without attacking, they began to believe that these xenos were really here to help them.
Tigurius listened to the fleet's report and looked at Lucan in disbelief.
"What is going on with these fleets! What are those biological warships!!"
"Those are not Tyranids. You can understand them as biological weapons I have created. The Custodes will vouch for me! Have your fleet pay attention to IFF! Do not attack them!"
The moment the Zerg appeared, Tigurius had felt a bit of a panic. The hive mind of the Zerg spread throughout the void, giving him the feeling of when he had once peered into the Tyranid Hive Mind. However, the Custodes beside him did not show any hostile attitude, which temporarily put him at ease.
The Gorgons began to break through the atmosphere and enter Macragge, immediately beginning to suppress the Chaos rebels on the ground with their firepower. The Heldrakes controlled by Vashtorr also threw themselves at these warships in a counter-attack, and the beasts of Tzeentch also rushed toward the Gorgons. The Night Sentinels took the Raiders and transport aircraft to the vicinity of the shrine to assist the Auxilia and the Ultramarines in its defense.
And in the void, the Protoss and the Zerg also began to encounter the Chaos warships. The Leviathans continuously spat bio-plasma cannons at the Chaos warships, and the Zerg's flying units corroded the armor plates of the Chaos warships with their acid attacks. Then, a large number of spore drop pods with writhing tentacles were thrown out, entering the interior of the warships through the corroded gaps.
And the Spear of Adun also began to use the energy of the Solar Core to charge its main cannon. The energy of the Solarite was continuously being drawn. The Spear of Adun fired a dazzling, continuous beam of light that spanned the entire battlefield. The void was lit up by this beam. The beam directly hit the massive Blackstone Fortress. The Chaos on it continuously rippled under the torrent, and its already weakened shield began to collapse. The moment the Blackstone Fortress's shield overloaded, the Solar Lance also temporarily exhausted its energy. But the residual high temperature melted a gap in the sturdy armor of the Blackstone Fortress, and the surrounding Chaos rebels were directly vaporized.
"Karax, continue to charge the Solar Lance! For the Protoss! Templar! Assemble your forces! Destroy these enemies!"
The Tempests continuously released huge energy orbs to stop the Chaos fleet's approach and continued to damage the Blackstone Fortress. And as the distance closed, the Warp Prisms carrying the Protoss forces also began to deploy Templar and war machines into the interior of the Blackstone Fortress.
