Sith quickly assessed the battle situation and walked straight to the mechanical throne at the center of the warship.
"Remaining frigates, retreat behind the lunar class. lunar class shields to full power. The entire fleet is to retreat in an orderly fashion. Warp jump immediately after leaving orbit!"
Sith spoke quickly, and at the same time, another macro-cannon shell hit the ship head-on, causing the entire vessel to erupt in violent tremors.
Those around him scrambled to grab handrails, but Sith stood straight before the mechanical throne, hands behind his back, projecting an image of 'calm and collected' to the crew.
Seeing their commander behave this way did indeed lower the temperature on the bridge, which had been extremely anxious.
Then, another series of impacts occurred, and dense red dots began to appear all over the ship.
Glancing at these red dots, Sith looked toward Van Roth, who immediately turned to make arrangements, beginning to orderly dispatch counter-attack forces against this group of boarding Chaos Traitors.
But after looking around, Van Roth could only grit his teeth and send the Demon Army and xenos out.
Then came the noise over the comms of the Chaos Traitors being confused by being attacked by their 'own kind'.
On the Ark of Omen, watching his own Khorne being chased and hacked by the enemy's Khorne, and his own Slaanesh being chased and toyed with by the enemy's Slaanesh.
His own requests for help from Nurgle and Tzeentch allies were met with betrayal, while the opposing Nurgle had directly switched to being a 'healer'. Even Vashtorr, who was a demigod, was left stunned by the scene before him.
Without even paying attention to Abaddon, whom he had personally rescued, Vashtorr looked at the distant Sith fleet, now reduced to only a few ships, and at the suddenly transformed lunar class cruiser, unable to help but bow his head in confusion.
On his iron-blue, withered muscles, he frowned in a way that was very rare to see:
"Isn't that the most common cruiser?"
"But why do I always feel..."
"Like I'm trading fire with an Apocalypse-class battleship?"
Vashtorr couldn't figure it out, and behind him, Abaddon watched Sith, who had finally been forced to retreat by his main force, and a look of triumph finally appeared on Abaddon's face.
Then, facing the constant reports from the rear that the Red Corsairs were sneakingly backstabbing him and constantly stealing his ships and men, he chose to ignore it.
Except for the fact that Huron's actions weren't too big, it was also because Huron had indeed been screwed over pretty badly on this trip.
He had lost seven or eight pirate lords, sent two waves of boarding teams to their deaths, and even the blessings he had begged and pleaded for had all gone to Sith's Demon Army.
And Sith's Demon Army had used these blessings to cut down quite a few of Huron's core pirates.
Now that Huron was just sneakily backstabbing to recoup losses and hadn't immediately started a fight with Abaddon, he was already giving enough face.
While Abaddon admired the spectacle of Sith being overwhelmed by endless cannon fire, Vashtorr, with a different kind of curiosity, deeply studied Sith's ship—which had the appearance of a cruiser but the strength of an Apocalypse-class battleship—before finally withdrawing his gaze to look at Abaddon.
"That fragment I gave you, did you give it to him too?"
Abaddon's triumphant expression froze upon hearing this; after all, although they had collected many fragments, even if just one was missing, his plan with Vashtorr could not be completed at all.
"I didn't give it to him!"
"He grabbed it himself!"
Listening to Abaddon's stiff explanation, no emotion could be seen on Vashtorr's cold, mechanical face, only his large, red eyes, which looked like bionic eyes, flickered with an inexplicable light.
Then, turning back again and gazing at Sith, who was beginning to warp jump away in the distance, he silently raised his hammer scepter.
"All ships prepare for warp jump."
"Now, even to the ends of the earth, I will hunt down that Mortal named 'Sith'!"
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