Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

When the various battalions of Sparta and the UNSC fleet attacked in an all-round way, encroaching on the Phoenix sector one by one, their Primarch John personally led the 1st and 2nd battalions and the elite auxiliary army, as well as the 9th, 13th, and 17th UNSC The fleet went straight to the capital galaxy of the Phoenix sector——

Cherinos.

As the closest to the Eye of Terror, Cherinos, which belongs to the portal, is surrounded by a nebula that is dazzling, where reality and nothingness are mixed and blended together, and is full of chaotic psychic energy.

If a mortal with an unsteady will drives a ship to get involved here, there will be frequent whispers of demons in his ears, and even more seductive fantasies in front of his eyes. It will not take long for him to fall into the path of chaos, willing to sacrifice himself in order to satisfy his desires soul.

However, for the residents of the new human empire living nearby, they have long been reduced to slaves of chaos. Even young children have to accept their physically and mentally deformed parents and perform various filthy rituals.

Observing the outer reaches of the galaxy, it can be found that its star is similar to the sun of the holy Terra, but there are no eight major planets orbiting it, and there is only one terrestrial planet with a diameter of about 14,000 kilometers, which is also the capital planet of the Phoenix star area. Cherinos.

Pull into view.

The surface environment of Cherinos is no different from those garden worlds in the devout sector, and in low-earth orbit, in addition to the deployed orbital artillery and warships of all levels, there are actually many "artificial satellites".

Look closely, these artificial satellites seem to be the emperor's children using the broken plates of other terrestrial planets, pulling them within the gravitational range of Cherinos, and then transforming them with the assistance of chaos psionic energy and evil spells, and building them one by one Radiation, even in a vacuum, is intact...

opera,

museum,

Arena,

And so on a series of seemingly classical, but extremely luxurious space buildings that can be called works of art.

"~~§~∮~!"

Because the reality here is closely connected with the different space, even in a vacuum environment, one can clearly hear elegant, beautiful, and even a hint of violent music.

If you get close to those arenas, you can clearly hear the shouts and cheers, as well as the roars and yells of the gladiators.

The emperor's children and fallen nobles who live here use everything they can think of to enjoy and watch, and constantly improve various recreational activities and various works of art to satisfy their desire for ultimate perfection.

Before the Emperor's Children took over here, the system was once a well-established system of planets, gas giants and asteroids, like many common colonies.

But the most ironic thing is that this galaxy used to have absolute loyalty and firm belief in the Emperor and "Imperial Truth".

It's a pity that after the establishment of the new human empire, the emperor's son was ordered by Horus to wipe out all the original residents, and even the names of the galaxies were also destroyed.

After two hundred and forty years of desecration, this place is no longer as absolute and firm as it used to be. What is there is just the indulgence and pleasure of Chaos Astartes and mortal scum, and Fulgrim renamed it Cherino Si, as "his" capital.

If you look into the field of vision again, you can find that in an arena, the auditorium is full of nobles wearing gorgeous clothes, with various masochistic jewelry and decorations on their skin, fair and purple skin.

In the center of the arena, there are two gladiator slaves wearing dark purple armor, with iron chains piercing the skin on their thighs and forearms. In order to please the nobles and the gods they believe in, they are struggling to wave their swords Tomahawks and spears are engaged in a life and death duel.

If you turn your eyes away and look at a hanging garden exposed to vacuum and radiation, you can still see noble men and women, indulging themselves in an extremely masochistic way, and the blood will soak their soft beds. Even so, their expressions and The demeanor is only comfortable and joyful, and there is no pain at all.

Of course, the Emperor's Children, who are more depraved than these mortal nobles, can perform activities that are unimaginable and indescribable for ordinary humans on the surface of these opera houses, arenas, and Cherinos.

Because they only care about their own selfish desires, although the Phoenix Star Region has a territory second only to the Dark Star Region, it can be regarded as the bottom of the year in terms of paying taxes to the New Human Empire and providing soldiers.

Today is a situation of being besieged on all sides, but here is still a scene of "singing every night", which thoroughly proves that they no longer have normal order, management and maintenance, and the outer galaxies are fighting on their own.

At this moment, nearly 900 jump exits were suddenly formed, allowing expeditionary warships of different specifications to leave the fault space and arrive at the space domain about 40,000 kilometers away from the surface of Cherinos.

Warp exit dissipates.

The expeditionary warships are lined up, and the flagship in the center is not the home world of the Spartan Legion. It is a 32-kilometer-long Titan class and one of John's other wartime flagships, Aspasia. No. Ya.

As for the Leodani, John temporarily handed it over to Attilas Rhea, the battalion commander of the 3rd Battalion.

After all, in the absence of the Primarch on the frontal battlefield, Sparta needs the home world to ensure that they have an absolute firepower advantage.

What's more, John is a primarch who seems to be stable and not good at words, but actually likes to take risks and advance. Confidence and luck are his best weapons.

When their expeditionary force was in formation, Cherinos had only just begun to respond, and the dispatch of artillery and battleships was disordered, obviously failing to transition from pleasure to wartime.

This scenario...

Putting it in front of Sparta, which is good at discovering the enemy's weaknesses and forming a team to beat them to death, and the UNSC fleet from the border fortress sector, which has been fighting hostile aliens all year round, is purely courting death.

Ri~——Whew! ! !

Electromagnetic guns fired instantly.

And the most dazzling, bright, and even electromagnetic ballistic that wants to cut through this filthy universe comes from the Aspasia.

As a Titan class and the flagship of a Primarch, the Aspasia's electromagnetic main gun is 7,000 meters long and can fire 120 tons of tungsten-iron projectiles.

Not to mention that the Aspasia is also equipped with twelve 60-ton electromagnetic gun arrays. Even if the Gauss, plasma secondary guns and missile launch pods are not counted, as well as the beam matrix system of the manager's civilization, its firepower is Enough to deal with and crush all kinds of "garbage".

Boom-boom-boom! !

Explosions and fireballs are generated almost simultaneously.

I saw thousands of tungsten-iron projectiles with strong impact and penetrating capabilities, which made Cherinos' orbital platform and warships look like "space bombs".

No way, who made the trajectory of the electromagnetic gun be a straight trajectory when it came out of the gun? Only when it is affected by the gravitational influence of stars or gas giant planets, the skew and error will appear.

As for the bloody and indulgent hanging garden just now, unfortunately, it happened to block the flight path of the 120-ton tungsten-iron projectile. Therefore, the nobles who had not yet had time to get up from their beds and escaped, before their minds felt the pain, their bodies were still alive. It has been smashed into slag.

To put it simply, the soul is still there, but the body is gone.

Of course, a mere hanging garden couldn’t stop the impact of a 120-ton projectile at all. It destroyed the garden, penetrated two other four-kilometer warships, and finally came into contact with the equatorial area on the sunny side of Cherinos...

boom! ! ! Long! ! !

The sky is falling apart.

The moment the projectile hit the ground, a special mushroom cloud in the shape of "karma" was formed immediately. The smoke, dust and rubble in the center shot straight into the sky, at least a hundred kilometers away, while the surrounding stratum fragments formed an irregular arc. The shape fell into the distance.

The plate began to move violently because of this "small" 120-ton tungsten-iron projectile, and the entire land was subjected to a devastating scene.

Taking the center of the impact as the origin, magma spewed out within a radius of 300 kilometers, the surface of the earth was reshaped within a radius of 2,000 kilometers, buildings within 4,000 kilometers were destroyed, and the earthquake was clearly felt 6,000 kilometers away...

Although the effect is far inferior to that of a new-star nuclear bomb, if three Titans use the maximum power of the main guns and electromagnetic gun arrays to carry out multiple strikes at different angles, it is enough to "blow up" the terrestrial planet.

Moreover, the cost of this type of extinction order is equivalent to that of two new-star nuclear bombs. After all, the manufacture of tungsten-iron projectiles is simple, and the barrel consumption of electromagnetic guns is almost zero. However, at this stage, the total number of Titans in service is barely more than 300 Therefore, humans in the main universe rarely use electromagnetic guns to "judgment" planets.

After Sparta completed a salvo of main guns, Cherinos's surface and orbital deployment on the back of the sun was messed up. Although it was not completely wiped out, it still lost about 40%.

Fortunately, John only led 900 warships. If the main force of his expeditionary force gathered here, Cherinos might be destroyed by a salvo of main guns.

But that was not the result John wanted, because his father asked to capture Fulgrim, a half-father and half-mother brother, alive. If one accidentally killed the fallen primarch, his father would be unhappy .

So after the volley, the 900 battleship group took the Aspasia as the spearhead and formed an inverted "V" as a whole, which is a formation similar to the symbol "Λ" of the Spartan Legion to charge.

The speed is getting faster and faster, and the battleship group is also taking advantage of the gap between the energy storage of the main guns and electromagnetic gun arrays to launch uninterrupted Gauss and plasma artillery strikes on Cherinos.

The slender flare ballistic trajectory composed of 200mm and 300mm spikes, as well as countless 400 to 3000, and even the twelve 12000mm caliber plasma cannons on the Aspasia also poured out densely in the blink of an eye, Cannon regiments shining with blue light.

Boom-boom-boom! !

The high-speed spikes and high-temperature artillery regiment directly destroyed a large number of enemy ships that had just reacted and were about to engage in a direct battle with the nine hundred warships.

The distance between the two sides was further shortened.

The two sides launched artillery fire...

Even the carrier-based aircraft of the two sides clashed.

In terms of dealing with the enemy aircraft group, the 900 battleship group directly adopted the 25mm six-barreled pulse close-in anti-aircraft gun with an extremely fast rate of fire, but in a vacuum environment, the pleasant and crisp sound of the guns could not be heard, forming an unimaginable barrage.

Flames are everywhere.

At this time, there are two Olympus-class ships with a distance of 14 kilometers, six Zeus-class ships with a distance of 5 kilometers, and Sakers, Vikings, Longsword attack aircraft, and...

The Centurion V-type mecha, which adopts the manager's biotechnology and has undergone several iterations, together forms a large-scale carrier-based aircraft group, which is responsible for breaking through with the Aspasia. 100 kilometers of low-Earth orbit.

The formation is dispersed.

The 900 battleship group also formed nine "Λ", changing the charging angle, preparing to implement the blockade procedure against Cherinos, and by the way, more efficiently deal with the warships and defenses deployed in orbit by the Emperor's Children and mortal scum.

The two Olympus-class ships next to the Aspasia are the flagships of the 1st and 2nd Spartan Battalions. In contrast, there are more than 260 ships in total, with a height of about 15 meters. Exclusive nanosuit, Centurion V with external α-grade titanium alloy armor and nuclear fusion reactor, its driver is an elite veteran of the first company of the 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion.

As for the more advanced Centurion VII, and the warrior guards who can also skillfully use psychic powers, due to more important tasks, they were not able to drive their biological mechs to participate in the battle.

One of the centurions, whose armor was painted dark green and dark black, but whose helmet was decorated with golden olive branches, stood out holding a 200mm triple-barreled Gauss cannon. The veteran in charge left his brothers behind, Actively release the diamond-shaped "◇" position to block incoming attacks, and the live ammunition and beam attacks mixed with chaotic psionic energy.

Immediately afterwards, the veteran speeded up, aiming the Gauss cannon at a group of enemy planes with a dragon-shaped demon creature and a rough shape painted in dark purple in front of the oblique left, and then...

"Teng Teng!!"

The melodious sound of the Gauss machine gun, accompanied by the right arm of the centurion who pulled the trigger, swayed into the cockpit full of biological slime.

The holographic screen here is linked with the eyes of the centurion. The beyond-horizon vision ability allows the veteran to easily see the entire battlefield situation, and he marked a large number of red dots, indicating that the left oblique front of the enemy aircraft group is currently bearing 200mm The violent blocking of spike bombs.

At this moment, the distance between the two sides shortened extremely...

shorten…

touch!

Boom~! Boom~!

The screen showed that the enemy plane was bounced off by the diamond-shaped "◇" position before it could actually collide with the Centurion. On the contrary, it was the huge, corrupted wings with holes, flying in a vacuum relying on the power of chaos , and the same deep purple skeleton dragon was deliberately let go by the veteran.

Soon, the veteran stopped pulling the trigger, hung the Gauss cannon on the right side of the ammunition box behind the centurion, freed his hands, and directly collided with the dragon.

Boom!

Boom!

Click it!

In the blink of an eye, the giant skeleton dragon's wings, front claws and hind feet were forcibly torn off by the centurion, and it became a "dragon stick"...

It seems that the "excellent tradition" of cutting captive targets into "sticks" has quietly spread among all legions.

With the idea that doctors should also be very interested in this kind of demonic creature, the veteran held the neck of the dragon with his left hand, turned around and headed back to the flagship of the 1st Battalion.

When he completed the transfer, the picture presented on the holographic screen happened to show that the Aspasia and the 1st and 2nd Battalions had arrived at the designated orbit and were airdropping on the surface.