The Magos Mechanicus finished speaking and hurried away.
Only Lysander remained standing on the spot, watching this group of obsessed tech-priests speechlessly.
However, when Lysander looked back at the projection, seeing that no matter how crazy the Tyranid Swarm became, the 'Imperator Somnium' was still steadily pushing towards Terra.
He felt that the Magos Mechanicus's words didn't seem wrong after all.
Because apart from the Omnissiah, Lysander really didn't know what else could explain everything he saw before him.
If it weren't for the Omnissiah manifesting, if humanity possessed the technology to build such warships, why would they need to harp on about words like 'despair' and 'cold' every day?
They would have united the galaxy long ago, and instead of waiting for the Tyranids to attack, they would have struck first!
Lysander silently watched the projection, and then suddenly heard exclamations from the crowd.
The eyes that had been focused on the orac finally shifted back, turning to look at Terra.
Lysander was stunned. He curiously looked at the crowd, only to see a group of people looking up at a projection above their heads, pointing and exclaiming constantly.
Lysander followed their gaze, and couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly.
That Tyranid ancient ship, which had been circling Terra, was actually slowly leaving its orbit, swinging its massive body towards the Sith, who was constantly approaching in the void.
At the same time, from the projection covering the entire Sol System, joyful calls came continuously from the besieged worlds.
"They're retreating!"
"The Tyranids have been repelled by us!!!"
Neptune, Pluto, Mars, Mercury, and even several moons of Jupiter—everyone excitedly sent news of their 'resounding victory' to Terra.
On the projection at this moment, the Tyranid Swarm on these worlds was retreating frantically, covering the sky and earth.
Amidst this retreat, all the defenders who had been gritting their teeth and holding on thought their defense had finally taken effect.
But in the command hall of Terra, where the entire situation could be viewed, Lysander looked at the Tyranid Swarm frantically moving across the entire Sol System in the projection, and he really couldn't see it as a victory.
He couldn't even see it as a 'retreat'.
Looking at the Tyranid Swarm covering the entire Sol System densely, the scene Lysander saw was that as the ancient ship turned, the entire Tyranid tentacle lunged towards the Sith!
"This isn't a retreat..."
"This is a decisive battle!"
Lysander murmured, staring at the screen.
Not only had the Tyranid Swarm that had already arrived in the Sol System turned to face the Sith, but even behind this thin tentacle, there were more bio-ships pouring in endlessly.
Although he often joked around, at this moment, Lysander truly suspected that the number of Tyranid bio-ships currently exceeded the number of the Sith's shells!
"Should we... provide support?"
An Imperial Fists captain spoke hesitantly, with clear worry appearing in his eyes.
No one understood the actual situation of the Empire better than them, the custodians of Terra.
They all knew that if this reinforcement army before them was wiped out, Terra, and perhaps even humanity, would be finished!
Because there might be countless ways for this war to fail, but there was only one outcome of failure.
That is the God-Emperor standing up from the Golden Throne!
Once the God-Emperor stands up, not only will the Webway sealed beneath him violently tear through reality, but the souls of all humanity will also become nourishment for the God-Emperor's ascension.
Therefore, Terra must not be lost. That is why Guilliman and Lorgar Aurelian would rather let the Sith bring the Legion that came to pay respects back then to reinforce Terra, than give up the resistance.
Just as the Imperial Fists captain spoke, Lysander opened his eyes wide in earnest, but then his whole body shrank back helplessly.
Then he looked at the Terra defense fleet on his projection map, which had long since ceased to exist.
"With what should we support them?"
Lysander murmured powerlessly, and the Imperial Fists captain, upon hearing this, also fell silent for a moment before helplessly withdrawing his proposal.
They thought the situation was already bad enough, but at this moment on the bridge of the orac.
By utilizing Necron detection technology, the bridge of the Sith could actually monitor the entire Sol System in real-time.
When Lysander realized that the Tyranids had the intention of concentrating all their strength to fight the orac to the death, the Sith on the bridge discovered it as well.
And it wasn't just the information Lysander had; the Sith possessed even more information, which was even more terrifying.
"Not only are the Tyranid Swarms from nearby non-priority worlds like Neptune, Mercury, and Mars rushing towards us."
"Even the Tyranid Swarms besieging Terra have changed direction."
"Especially that ancient ship, which hatches hundreds of millions of bio-projectiles almost every hour!"
Van Roth held the reports constantly gathering from the various adjutants on the bridge, his face no longer showing the excitement of the orac's previous display of power.
There was only the speechlessness at the sheer, terrifying number of Tyranids on the opposite side.
When Van Roth walked up from the spacious command hall below the bridge, Bayer, Huron, and even Lorgar Aurelian in front of him were staring intently at a scene on the projection with the Sith.
Van Roth was stunned. He stretched his head to look from behind Lorgar Aurelian's massive body, and the scene he then saw made his already frowning and speechless expression even more stunned.
In the picture was a massive gas giant, the largest planetary body in the Sol System, 'Jupiter'.
But as a gas giant, in the once boundless sea of gas, vast enough to fit many Earths, it was now densely 'crawling' with black, tiny, hideous giant beasts.
It was as if the entire surface of Jupiter had grown 'rashes'!
And at this moment, under the Sith's grim gaze, these 'rashes' were constantly flying out of Jupiter and gathering into the already massive sea of chitinous ships beside him!
Recalling the Tyranid Swarms besieging other worlds and changing the main target of the tentacle to the Sith was not enough.
The Tyranids were even hatching a fleet directly in Jupiter's nutrient-rich sea of gas, rushing towards the Sith one after another.
At this moment, just outside the firing range of the orac, the Sith watched with his own eyes as a large number of small bio-ships dragged the wreckage of the bio-ships he had blasted apart all over the void, then dumped them all into Jupiter, 'reanimating' all these destroyed bio-ships!
The individual combat power of the Tyranids is indeed never equal to the same level.
But the Tyranids... are endless!
The bridge around the Sith was silent.
It was not even as good as the command hall of Terra, where the Imperial Fists captain could at least offer a suggestion that was not particularly pertinent.
The people on the bridge, who knew the full picture better, even Lorgar Aurelian couldn't think of how to fight this.
Everyone could only remain silent, watching the scene before them that was almost enough to make one despair.
And this was just a thin tentacle after a long-distance raid. If the two from the Sanctuary Star were also to come, even the Sith would only be able to find a way to run as far away as possible before the God-Emperor stood up.
And if the five tentacles currently active in the galaxy were to converge at the same time, that would be a scene one wouldn't even dare to imagine.
I'm afraid the Sith wouldn't even need to go to the Eye of Terror to struggle to recruit people; the Chaos Gods / The Four Gods themselves would have to figure out how to make the Empire 'great again'! They'd have to take down the Tyranids first!
In the end, the person who broke the silence on the bridge was the Sith, who had worked so hard to pull this reinforcement army together.
"In any case, we must go to Terra first."
Everyone subconsciously wanted to nod upon hearing this, but as they looked back at the Sith, this time, not to mention Van Roth, even Huron, Lorgar Aurelian, and the others finally noticed something wrong.
As the Sith got closer and closer to Terra, how come their lord... was glowing with golden light?!!
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