"Tsk, a cowardly xenos with no guts."
Hearing Arcur's command, Lucius sheathed his dueling sword and slowly retreated, facing the closed, circular crystal.
Tarvitz, who was providing cover, also moved towards the destroyed crystal door. Only Kasjia stood still, as if he was thinking about something.
"It's time to go, Kasjia!"
"If we don't go now, we really won't be able to!"
Arcur shouted again, a rare hint of anxiety in her voice.
To be honest, Kasjia was a little unwilling to give up.
But he couldn't say why.
He only knew that if the timeline developed as planned, a year after this great victory, the Council of Terra would dispatch an expeditionary fleet composed of Ultramarines to investigate through the gate, and on the other side of the gate, in the northern part of the galaxy, they would discover the xenos' homeworld.
In that far north, far from the Dalinite Nebula, the Ultramarines had brought the Emperor's wrath to the xenos.
They had excellently completed the mission of exterminating the crystal xenos.
But not long after that, the Dalinite Gate had gradually stopped functioning, and the secrets hidden within it were perhaps thus buried in the dust of the sea of stars.
These crystal xenos very likely held the key to unlocking the mystery of the gate!
Kasjia had to find a way to take prisoners.
Therefore, even though victory was in his grasp, Kasjia had insisted on boarding one of the more remote xenos warships.
But it seemed his first boarding action was not very ideal.
Faced with the xenos crystal's turtling tactic, even their Emperor's Children's Sword Saint Arcur was helpless.
Although Kasjia was unwilling, he still had no other way.
Under the transparent outer wall, the Dalinite Gate, with its faint glowing curtain, was getting bigger and closer.
The other members of the tactical squad had already retreated to the door, ready to leave with him at any moment.
Was he really going to give up like this?
For some reason, Kasjia lowered his head and looked at his own palm, which was covered in golden-red, flowing cracks.
"Wait! Let me try one more time!"
A premonition from an unknown source made him run towards the central sphere.
He didn't know why, but a crazy idea had suddenly come to his mind.
"Damn it, you guys go first!"
Seeing this, Arcur signaled for the other two to leave, and her figure instantly rushed towards Kasjia at an extremely fast speed.
Almost there!
Just a little more!
Kasjia, running towards the sphere, stretched out his right hand, which was covered in cracks under the broken armor.
SLAP!
And then he pressed it against the sphere.
Nothing happened.
The sphere was still in a ball, and had not changed in any way because of Kasjia's slap.
His risky move did not seem to have been rewarded.
From behind came Arcur's angry roar.
"Kasjia! What on earth are you trying to do!"
"It's too late now—"
VMM—?
Just then, the circular crystal xenos emitted a hum that was completely different from before.
As the crystals shifted, its core was revealed right before Kasjia's eyes.
As if it was staring at him with disbelieving eyes.
"Don't attack yet!"
Kasjia waved to those behind him, and at the same time, stretched his cracked right hand out in front of the other's core for it to examine closely.
Although he couldn't say why, Kasjia's subconscious had still made him do this.
And at that very moment, he felt the other's thoughts.
It was an emotion filled with confusion, joy, and excitement, with a hint of disbelief, transmitted into Kasjia's mind.
Like a long-lost pet recognizing its master once again.
Not only that, Kasjia even felt that he could command and control the other party.
The crystal xenos's core was exposed, and the crystals around it opened up and rotated, as if performing a unique xenos dance.
"You can control it?"
Arcur breathed a sigh of relief, and the tension in her expression instantly eased.
"Then quickly tell it to stop! We're about to go through the gate!"
Seeing the gate right in front of them, Arcur was still a little anxious.
"I can't!"
"I can't control it! It's still moving forward!"
"Is that so?"
Arcur's expression, which had just improved, darkened, and her other hand had already touched the saber under the yellow silk.
"Haha, just kidding."
Kasjia gave a shameless grin.
The next second, the warship immediately stopped in front of the gate.
Arcur: "..."
It had to be said, that guy Kasjia could always bring surprises.
Whether it was his swordsmanship talent and command ability, or even at the critical moment when the boarding action was about to fail, he could always resolve the crisis in a way that was difficult for ordinary people to understand.
But sometimes, she really wanted to beat him up.
"...You, you're getting extra training when we get back."
After taking several deep breaths, Arcur still chose to hold back her anger for now.
"Are they down yet?! That Kasjia!"
"Negative! Several squads that entered the warship have all withdrawn, only they are left!"
"Damn it!"
"Reporting, Commander! The xenos warship has stopped advancing and is now descending towards the surface of the Silent Star!"
"Commander Kasjia has succeeded! They have captured the xenos warship!"
Phew—
After hearing this definite victory, accompanied by the applause from around him, the fleet commander finally collapsed into the command throne in the center of the bridge, exhausted.
The crew on the cruiser's bridge were still moving without stopping: even though they had won a great victory, cleaning up the battlefield was still an extremely tedious job.
But that didn't matter anymore.
At least, when tallying the data, his heart wouldn't be beating so fast.
Although he didn't know why Kasjia had to capture a xenos creation that should have been destroyed directly.
He shook his head, and after a few moments of clearing his mind, he stood up again.
It wasn't over yet.
"I declare the void war against the crystal xenos to be over, with a great victory for our forces," the fleet commander continued, amidst the applause.
A great victory.
But it was the most nerve-wracking great victory of his service career.
"Our forces, with almost zero losses, have destroyed 8 enemy light warships and captured one light warship."
"Tally the casualties and losses, and send the battle report to Lord Horus via the Astropaths."
The Dalinite Nebula.
The Vengeful Spirit, Strategy Room.
The Primarch Horus stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window of the Vengeful Spirit, gazing at the ruins in the sea of stars in the distance.
He had just returned victorious from a brutal xenos purge, and there was still a lot of residual blood and grime on his armor.
As the invincible Wolf-Shepherd God, these were naturally left by the enemy.
Apart from a small number of xenos who were willing to surrender, a large number of the enemies of mankind had been annihilated in this battle by the absolute military force of Horus, the Luna Wolves, and the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet.
Their purge of the xenos in the Dalinite Nebula was proceeding very smoothly.
Only a few remnants were still putting up a futile resistance.
Clank, clank.
Just as Horus was enjoying a moment of peace after the battle, the footsteps of a giant who looked somewhat similar to him broke the silence of the strategy room.
He was easy to recognize.
Because of his hair, which was tied up in a topknot.
And his pointy head.
"Ezekyle, what uplifting news do you bring?"
First Captain of the Luna Wolves, member of the Mournival, Ezekyle Abaddon.
"A message has arrived from the Astropaths."
"Our base in the rear has been besieged by a large fleet of xenos. The situation is extremely critical."
He said in a low voice.
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