97: Chapter 95 Space Battle

"When we arrive at the Troy world, I will tell you."

Hearing Xia Xingchen's inquiry, Inquisitor Kolo did not want to reveal too much of his trump cards and chose to conceal them.

Xia Xingchen did not mind; after receiving the accurate star map from Inquisitor Kolo, the fleet was set to depart tomorrow.

Inquisitor Kolo did not even rest that night, instead beginning preparations for departure.

The next day, after Xia Xingchen had everything ready, the fleet officially departed.

This time, Xia Xingchen brought along his main warship, the dream star, a cosmic-class mass transport ship, plus one cruiser and two escort ships from Vanad.

Over the course of half a month, Xia Xingchen's fleet performed short-range Warp jumps.

Troy System

When Xia Xingchen entered the outskirts of the system, he saw a peculiar sight.

A chaos warship fleet and the Imperium of Man fleet were engaged in fierce combat in space; this sight was not unusual, but what was strange was that a Greenskin fleet had also gotten involved.

The three factions were battling back and forth on the outskirts of this Troy planet, attacking the other two factions indiscriminately.

The dream star arrived at the battlefield first. As the most powerful warship in Xia Xingchen's fleet, it attracted everyone's attention the moment it arrived.

First, the Orcs abandoned the Imperium of Man's warships and the chaos warships, charging entirely toward Xia Xingchen. They continued to uphold the old Greenskin philosophy: if you're going to fight, pick the biggest one.

Seeing this, Xia Xingchen immediately ordered a salvo of macro-cannons and lance batteries.

After one salvo, all the Orc landing craft were completely wiped out.

Those Orc warships turned into space dust in an instant.

The dream star did not pause for even a second, acting like a giant hammer slamming into the entire battlefield.

The Inquisitor's Black Ships, the Divine Punishment, was currently in the center of the battlefield, locked in a chaotic battle with two chaos warship destroyers and one cruiser.

Two lance beams from the dream star shot out from the barrels like nails.

Xia Xingchen's target was that very cruiser.

One shot missed, but the other, an Alpha laser, struck the chaos warship's Void Shield directly. The immense energy shattered the outer layer of the Void Shield, and it wasn't until it hit the second layer of the Void Shield that the energy was transferred into the Warp.

Before the chaos warship cruiser could catch its breath, three of Xia Xingchen's torpedoes followed in quick succession.

Xia Xingchen gave them almost no time to breathe, like a bloodthirsty, frenzied shark; if one attack failed, he would accelerate and attack a second time.

Torpedoes are not something that can be easily blocked by a Void Shield.

The torpedoes were not fast, but the Void Shield found it difficult to intercept them completely.

The cruiser's captain frantically turned the ship to evade, but it was too late; one of the torpedoes struck the bow of the chaos warship with precision.

The massive explosion instantly blew a huge gap in the front of the ship.

The violent explosion and shockwave caused severe damage to the entire chaos warship's propulsion and weapon systems.

Immediately, all the Imperium of Man warships opened fire at full power on this cruiser. Countless artillery fire forcibly broke through the last layer of the Void Shield, striking the chaos warship cruiser directly and blowing it into fragments.

The remaining two frigates and two destroyers immediately lost their will to fight and began to flee toward the Troy planet.

The two frigates were destroyed on the spot by Inquisitor Kolo's Black Ships, the Divine Punishment.

The remaining destroyer had its engine hit by a torpedo from another light cruiser of the Imperium of Man, after which it was forced to jump into the Warp, its fate unknown.

The final destroyer relied on the sacrifice of its brethren to flee the battlefield in a panic.

Inquisitor Kolo breathed a sigh of relief; the bitter battle that had lasted for a full half-month had finally ended with the intervention of Xia Xingchen's fleet.

Before Xia Xingchen's arrival, they had already concentrated their forces to take out one of the enemy's main assets, the heavy cruiser Black Sky.

"My lord, a message has come through the communication array."

On Inquisitor Kolo's Divine Punishment, the communications officer reported to him.

"What does he say?"

"They request that we lead them toward the Troy world."

Inquisitor Kolo understood that Xia Xingchen's main warships had to protect the transport ships at all times, as nearly a million troops were on board.

If anything happened to the transport ships, the war would be over before it even began; they might as well just go home to their mothers.

If nothing went wrong, the dream star would absolutely not stray too far from the cosmic-class mass transport ship.

Inquisitor Kolo didn't waste any words and immediately steered his Black Ships toward the Troy world.

At this moment, Xia Xingchen also noticed that a battle barge and a Sword-class destroyer were following the Black Ships.

Although Xia Xingchen was curious about what kind of allies Inquisitor Kolo had found, since they hadn't said anything, he couldn't ask, so he had to have his fleet follow behind these three warships as they approached the Troy world.

The Troy world was an ordinary world within the Imperium of Man. If there was anything important about this world, it was that it had a stable Warp route, though it was not on the main thoroughfare.

If anything else could be added, the only other special thing about it was its proximity to Ultramar, separated only by the Charcadon sector.

When Xia Xingchen's army approached the Troy world, they did not encounter any resistance.

The chaos external naval defense forces had already been completely wiped out.

The planetary defense system had been destroyed back when the chaos forces invaded, and the chaos army had never repaired it; for three years, they had only reinforced the Spaceport.

When Xia Xingchen and Inquisitor Kolo's fleet arrived not far from the Troy world's Spaceport.

The chaos-controlled Spaceport quickly launched an attack on Xia Xingchen and Inquisitor Kolo's fleet.

A lance beam successfully struck the dream star's energy shield, but the massive explosion was blocked by the powerful energy shield.

Then it was the Imperium of Man fleet's turn to counterattack.

Because the Spaceport was connected to the Space Elevator and served as the Space Elevator's anchor point in space, it could not be directly destroyed; otherwise, the entire Space Elevator would be ruined.

The fleet could only carry out precise, small-scale fire strikes to clear the firing points on the Spaceport.

Just then, Inquisitor Kolo sent a message:

"Now it depends on you."

Xia Xingchen had a face full of black lines; so he was the real main force after all!

Xia Xingchen did not decline and immediately issued orders to the fleet:

"First Division, attack."