Sith worried that orac would be besieged after he left.
On the ground, Huron's rate of advance seemed negligible due to the lack of fire support.
The only option left to Sith was, naturally, the one that no one else would even dare to imagine.
Even as Sith began to pilot orac, the ancient ship in the distance, which had been waiting patiently, suddenly halted its cruising body.
It then stood there with the bio-shells it had accumulated for half a day, blankly watching its opponent, which wasn't looking to fight, but was instead slowly approaching the surface.
The countless large eyes on its body ceased blinking, simply watching as orac entered the cover of the ground-based orbital fire.
It then took a serious look at orac's size, and then a serious look at its own size.
The ancient ship even drifted slightly closer to the nearby Mercury; feeling a large amount of bio-shells being captured by the powerful gravity and dragged down to the surface, the ancient ship hurriedly cruised its body away from the planet.
Then, with even greater confusion, it watched as orac slipped into the atmosphere so smoothly.
"Wait..."
"I don't think my mass is that much larger than yours!"
"How come you can enter the atmosphere?!"
The ancient ship, or rather the hive mind behind it, looked at orac from all directions.
Not only the ancient ship outside orbit, but also the boundless Tyranid War Beasts on the ground.
The bio-ship outside orbit just watched, but the Tyranid War Beasts on the ground, as a massive'steel city' gradually appeared overhead, began to have their bodies slowly 'fly' into mid-air under the influence of the powerful gravity.
The Terra defenders in the distance watched this scene with their mouths wide open.
The Imperial Guardsman who had just pointed at the sky and roared 'The sky is raining Astartes' opened his mouth wide again, pointing at the ground beneath orac's massive body and shouting:
"Bugs!"
"The bugs are ascending to heaven!!!"
The comrades around him looked at this defender speechlessly, then looked back into the distance, wanting to come up with a less insane description, but after holding it in for a long time, they didn't know what to say.
Because as the densely packed Tyranid War Beasts were pulled by gravity, floating into mid-air and struggling helplessly, after thinking about it, it seemed that only this guy's description was most appropriate for this moment.
On the other side, at the Terra Imperial Palace.
Lorgar Aurelian didn't even have time to check the Emperor's defenses first; after letting 101 and the Custodes join the ground defense battle, he hurriedly ran to a high point in the palace to view the scene in the distance.
Watching orac's massive body slowly press down through the clouds, the powerful heat waves spewed by the engines on both sides of the ship instantly blowing the Tyranid Swarm on the surface into 'bug jerky', Lorgar Aurelian also opened his mouth unconsciously.
Lorgar Aurelian raised his right hand, pointing with a slight tremble at orac, which had entered the atmosphere, and spoke with a look of shock and suspicion:
"Th-th-this..."
"Even if it really is the Imperator Somnium, I've never heard of it being able to enter the atmosphere!"
Lorgar Aurelian was shocked and suspicious; it was one thing for others to praise the Imperator Somnium, but he, Lorgar Aurelian, had actually seen it, and had even boarded the ship with the Emperor to pilot the Imperator Somnium across the galaxy.
Therefore, Lorgar Aurelian was far more shocked than anyone else; he was one of the few present who truly knew the difference between orac and the Imperator Somnium.
Because he knew, he also displayed shock, and even a trace of panic, which was extremely rare for him.
The ground defenders and the Tyranids in the void were left speechless by this scene.
But on the bridge, watching Huron's stunned expression on the projection, Sith sat on the mechanical throne and responded calmly:
"Your fire support has arrived."
After saying this, ignoring Huron's expression that screamed 'Was this necessary?'.
Sith turned back to stare directly at the projection showing the boundless chitinous frenzy on the surface, and then, to all the crew members around him who were looking at him and awaiting orders, he suddenly waved his hand forward:
"All gun positions."
"Fire at will!"
Above the sea of chitin, on both sides of the flying cathedral-like ship, and even on its underside, a large number of cannons began to turn their barrels.
Although these cannons were far inferior to the Macro Cannons on the sides, and even less comparable to the Gauss Light Lance on the ship's spine.
Their dense numbers, however, and their 'just right' firepower, were exactly what was needed to fill the gap in ground fire support.
Thus, after Sith gave the order, a circle of fire, like scattered flames, began to scour the Tyranid Swarm from the center of orac's massive floating silhouette amidst the sea of chitin.
Those in the distance who could even see this scene with the naked eye, especially Lorgar Aurelian, fell into complete silence.
Only watching the scene of the exaggerated firepower scouring the ground, he frowned, always feeling something was wrong.
"This is..."
"Point-defense cannons???"
Lorgar Aurelian asked himself very seriously, then looked at the real main guns on both sides of orac, confirming his suspicion.
Then he let out a sigh of relief; fortunately, Sith wasn't crazy enough to use the main guns to scour the Tyranids.
Otherwise, after the scouring, not only would the Tyranids be gone, but the ground would be gone too.
Lorgar Aurelian felt heartache for the surface of Terra.
But the watching Imperial defenders didn't have so many thoughts; they were currently immersed in the exaggerated firepower of the powerful reinforcements.
Especially when they watched a medium point-defense cannon turn its barrel, aiming at a Bio-Titan that was slowly climbing up a Hive City in the distance; after a burst of rotary acceleration, the thick shells formed a belt of fire, lashing fiercely at the Bio-Titan.
And then, in the desperate and horrified eyes of the Hive City defenders, the scene was reflected: the Bio-Titan's skin split open, and it fell into the earth with a mournful cry.
Then the belt of fire didn't pause, rotating with the Titan, and directly, in front of the defenders, blasted the Bio-Titan into a sky full of debris with its exaggerated firepower.
Then the point-defense cannon didn't even need to catch its breath, nor did it give the stunned defenders a chance to catch theirs.
The thick barrage, accompanied by a long string of explosions, continued to lash at another Titan.
Standing at a high point in the palace in the distance, the defenders could only see the massive ship constantly firing a sky full of barrages in all directions, several of which lashed at the Titans, taking out several rows of Bio-Titans one by one as if they were being executed by firing squad.
And the once shocking 'queued advance', now looked like a 'queued execution'.
Er...
Titans? Queued execution?
Although everyone felt this description had big problems, they really couldn't think of any other description for the scene before them.
Until orac had fully docked on the surface, hiding its body completely beneath Terra's dense anti-orbital fire net, did Sith finally stand up from the mechanical throne.
"Tell Lorgar Aurelian to mobilize the anti-orbital fire; he must prevent the Tyranids from launching an attack on orac from overhead."
"Send an order to Huron as well, tell him that all of orac's support fire is now under his control."
Sith said this while packing his things, putting on the red sword, black gun, and crown.
Van Roth followed along, hurriedly recording, while curiously watching what Sith was doing.
After Sith finished saying these things, he had finally put on all his equipment.
He then stood still, turned his head, and looked out the porthole at the most prominent building at this moment.
Van Roth followed his gaze; it was the Terra Imperial Palace.
"Next..."
"It's time to go see the old man."
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