The command center was quiet.
Everyone stared blankly at the image on the projection.
Right now, at the Pluto defense line on the outermost edge of the Sol System, dense Warp signals were crowded and echoing like heavy rain smashing against the surface of a calm lake.
It wasn't until a cry of surprise, after an unknown amount of time, that the silence was completely broken.
"Reinforcements!"
"It's reinforcements!!!"
Whether they were Mortal or Astartes, as this shout of surprise echoed, the previously deathly silent hall instantly erupted into an uproar.
As the crowd busily confirmed the arrival of these reinforcements that had finally reached the Sol System, Lysander also stared blankly at the projection.
After holding back for a long time, he speechless muttered:
"This didn't even take nine hours..."
After Lysander muttered this, he watched the dense signals of warships continuously bursting out of the Warp, unable to spare the time to think about where such a large group of reinforcements had come from for the Empire at this critical juncture.
He immediately turned to face the officers in the command hall below:
"Immediately disseminate the news of the reinforcements' arrival."
"Also, for dinner today, give everyone an extra piece of starch."
Lysander almost immediately began to think of ways to utilize the ripple effect of Sith's arrival, doing everything possible to boost the morale of the defenders on Terra.
Even after confirming that the defenders had regained a bit of morale, he had already sketched out a large number of follow-up battle plans in his mind.
Even though Sith was still currently on the outskirts of the Sol System and would need to cross the entire Sol System to reach Terra.
But before Lysander could formulate a battle plan, the massive body of the Magos Mechanicus suddenly came to his side, the mechanical staff in his hand striking the ground directly with a crisp sound.
Then, amidst the crisp sound, even through the cold electronic mechanical voice, Lysander still heard 'uncertainty' from the Magos Mechanicus.
"The reinforcement flagship..."
"Why is it..."
"...the same appearance as the 'Imperator Somnium' in my database?"
Reinforcement flagship? Imperator Somnium?
Lysander was stunned; he didn't have time to ask this Magos Mechanicus. Following the Magos's confused whisper, he turned his head to look at the projection.
The projection had already automatically zoomed in according to the gazes of Lysander and the Magos.
As the first warship to jump out of the Warp, amidst the dense sea of ships, even as just a projection, its size stood out from the crowd among the warships.
Although it was still not as large as the ancient ship currently cruising outside Terra's orbit, at least it was no longer a shrimp, but a similarly massive human warship capable of going toe-to-toe with the ancient ship.
Logically, with such a massive ship appearing on the battlefield, the defenders should have erupted in cheers; in fact, the defenders on Pluto who could see this warship with their own eyes did indeed erupt in cheers.
But in the eyes of many high-ranking Imperial officials who recognized this ship, it was all disbelief and astonishment.
Even Lysander, after carefully comparing the size, widened his eyes slightly as well.
Then, instead of looking directly into space like everyone else, he first turned his head to look at the towering Terra Imperial Palace behind him.
The palace remained serene. Confirming that the God-Emperor was still sitting inside, Lysander breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, his eyes suddenly widened, and he began to curse Guilliman in his heart again.
"Since it's not the God-Emperor."
"Then who the hell brought the 'Imperator Somnium' out again?!"
At this moment, Lysander no longer felt the excitement of the reinforcements' arrival.
With the natural vigilance of a Terra guard, he almost immediately sensed something very wrong with this ship, which looked wrong no matter how he viewed it.
But before Lysander could find a way to gather more information, on the distant Pluto orbit.
Accompanied by the sky full of shattered Tyranid remains and the cheers of the defenders, the figure of orac also obscured the sky!
At this moment, on the orac bridge.
A large number of crew members were busy moving back and forth, and there were even a large number of black gold skull, acting as avatars of orac, busy shuttling around.
Subsequently, one of the servo-skull flew quickly to Sith's side.
Projecting a piece of information from its artificial eye, Sith quickly scanned its contents and nodded gently:
"Understood."
The black gold skull flew away. At this moment, Van Roth and Bayer were standing behind Sith. Lorgar Aurelian was also standing behind, but while looking at Van Roth was fine, when he saw Bayer, his expression was truly ugly to the extreme.
At the same time, his eyes kept glancing at that group of Black Gold Custodes. If Lorgar Aurelian had only been suspicious before, now he could almost be certain that this group of Black Gold Custodes had actually been created by Sith getting Bayer to do it!
And thinking that he had to cooperate with such a group of people to go to Terra, Lorgar Aurelian's expression became ugly to the extreme.
If it weren't for the God-Emperor's warning gaze earlier, Lorgar Aurelian would have already been thinking of ways to drag Sith down with him!
It could only be mutual destruction...
Although Lorgar Aurelian was the Marshal of the Imperial Guard, for now, he could only dare to hope for such a thing.
As for one-sidedly killing...
Lorgar Aurelian carefully glanced at Sith from behind, then retracted his gaze with an attitude of indifference.
In the current situation, I'm afraid that unless the God-Emperor makes a move personally, or some runaway C'tan has this ability, right?
Lorgar Aurelian still maintained necessary vigilance toward Sith at this moment; at least until Sith met the God-Emperor in person, Lorgar Aurelian would not trust Sith one hundred percent.
Therefore, although he had the highest status on the bridge at this moment, and his authority on paper was even higher than Sith's.
But Lorgar Aurelian did not stand at the front; instead, he deliberately shrank back a bit.
At this moment, after orac finished transmitting the response from Terra, Van Roth silently watched the excited feedback about the protagonist 'arriving early', and looked at Sith with some confusion.
"My lord, we clearly gained nine hours of time, why did we still say nine hours according to the original plan?"
Sith was looking out the porthole at the Tyranid bio-ship falling apart under the warship's artillery fire.
Listening to Van Roth's question, Sith's gaze lifted slightly, his line of sight landing on that planet in the distance emitting a faint light.
Just like in the past, Terra was besieged in a lonely city waiting for reinforcements, except that the reinforcements back then said it would take nine hours, but what they ultimately gave were countless nine hours.
So much so that the defenders became desperate waiting until the end, having to directly launch a desperate counterattack without reinforcements.
And now, it was Sith's turn to reinforce Terra. Facing Van Roth's question, Sith watched for a while before withdrawing his gaze.
"These nine hours count as us returning it to Terra."
Van Roth was stunned, Bayer was a bit embarrassed, and Lorgar Aurelian at the very back did not expect that this Sith who had suddenly popped up was actually so 'considerate'.
Only Sith, after saying these words, watched the strategic star map that had been quickly updated after receiving the information transmitted from Terra.
He finally focused his attention on the battle situation before him.
A Tyranid tentacle, even a weakened one after a long-distance raid, had reached a terrifying scale that covered every part of the void in the Sol System.
So much so that when Sith looked up, no matter how many bio-ship his fleet destroyed, more bio-ship would always sweep in from the long void ahead.
And the long void between himself and Terra was filled with so many bio-ship.
Everyone followed Sith's gaze out the porthole, and all were left scalp-numbed by the scene before them.
Because the subsequent reinforcement meant that they would have to kill their way through the entire Tyranid fleet sea of the Sol System.
And as the opening signal for this exaggerated fleet, it was Sith standing on the bridge, looking at the fleet sea ahead, taking a deep breath:
"orac."
"Today..."
"You will fire at full power!"
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