Zeke stood on the bridge, looking at the huge Blackstone Fortress still charging in the holographic projection, a slight smile playing on his lips.
"Since bombardment can't solve the problem..." He flexed his wrist, a glint of battle intent flashing in his eyes, "Then we'll use this world's most traditional method—take it!"
His adjutant was startled: "Your Imperial Majesty, are you saying... boarding?"
Officials from the Terran Dominion had been there for a long time, so they naturally understood how fleet battles were fought in this world.
Boarding, huh?
Zeke grinned: "That's right, boarding! Notify all Custodes, prepare for boarding operations!"
Boarding combat was an old tradition in Warhammer, a delicacy not to be missed.
Moreover, he was quite interested in the Blackstone Fortress.
He really wanted to know which civilization built such a structure; if it was the necrons, then he could examine necron technology.
As the Emperor of the Terran Dominion, Zeke's travels were naturally accompanied by the Custodes.
Ten Thousand Strong Custodes Regiment had always followed Zeke.
Originally, he could have ordered the one million Space Marines of the attack force to also carry out boarding operations.
However, to save some troops for a surprise, Zeke only planned to bring the Custodes.
The Terran Dominion fleet began to slowly stop, then activated their stealth fields, concealing themselves. Immediately after, the Ten Thousand Strong Custodes Regiment appeared before their Emperor.
As Zeke and the Custodes both activated their warp drives, their figures quickly disappeared from the Dominion Fleet's bridge and reappeared inside the Blackstone Fortress.
Ten Thousand Strong Custodes Regiment, plus Zeke himself, appearing inside the Blackstone Fortress was no small number. As soon as they appeared, the scene inside the Blackstone Fortress unfolded before Zeke's eyes.
Zeke could feel the powerful energy of this Blackstone Fortress; it was even comparable to the titan-class warships the Dominion could currently build.
The main thing was that it could draw energy from the Sea of Souls to enhance its attacks.
This Blackstone Fortress was very interesting.
Besides that, he could sense something akin to a machine spirit within this Blackstone Fortress, though this entity seemed a bit insane right now.
The entire fortress was enveloped by the power of chaos, and a large number of chaos daemon had already detected the arrival of the Custodes. They surged towards the Custodes like a tide.
As Custodes, these Custodes naturally also felt the chaos forces surging towards their direction like a tide. Custodes Legion Commander Strauss Yaeger shouted: "Protect the Emperor!"
The Ten Thousand Strong Custodes Regiment moved, surrounding Zeke in the very center for strict protection, while they themselves stood armed within the Blackstone Fortress.
"Interesting..." Zeke reached out to touch the wall, feeling the unique energy fluctuations of the blackstone material, "The technological level of this thing is higher than I imagined."
"This couldn't be the creation of those 'skeletons', could it? It seems those 'skeletons' are much more formidable than I thought."
Just then, a spine-chilling howl echoed from deep within the fortress. chaos daemon, corrupted Space Marines, and twisted mechanical constructs surged like a tide from all directions.
"For the four gods!"
"Blood for the blood god!"
"Kill them all!"
Large numbers of chaos forces began to advance towards the Custodes' position, led by the chaos Space Marines who had fallen to chaos. However, their battle cries, upon seeing the Custodes, were as if an invisible hand had clamped their throats.
"Gah—"
"Why are there Custodes again? Why are there Custodes in this wretched place? Shouldn't these Custodes be in the Imperial Palace!?"
One question after another appeared in the minds of these chaos Space Marines. They were somewhat frantic.
And why did they say "again"? When had they ever encountered Custodes before?
These chaos Space Marines, seeing the golden, glittering ranks of the Ten Thousand Strong Custodes Regiment before them, were speechless and immediately began to retreat rapidly.
Only those who were originally chaos daemon and had been corrupted remained standing, as those creatures couldn't recognize that the golden giants opposite them were Custodes.
The chaos daemon roared as they charged the golden ranks, their twisted limbs and blasphemous weapons glinting with an evil light in the dim corridors. However, they would soon discover what they were truly facing.
"Protect the Emperor!" Custodes Commander Strauss Yaeger's voice boomed like thunder through the comms channel, "Purify them!"
Ten thousand Custodes simultaneously raised their weapons, and the roar of their power weapons and power Lances instantly filled the entire space.
A golden storm of bullets swept through, instantly tearing the front-rank daemon to shreds. They were vaporized, as if they had never existed in this world.
"Advance formation!" Strauss Yaeger raised his power glaive, "For the Emperor!"
The Ten Thousand Strong Custodes Regiment began to advance in formation. They had no other fancy tactics, but simply pushed forward directly and overtly.
Inside the Blackstone Fortress, no other tactics were needed; this most straightforward approach was sufficient.
In this utterly skill-less battle, protected by powerful dark matter shields, the chaos forces could not inflict any effective damage upon them.
And the dragon-scale power armour they wore ensured that they could not be harmed by these pathetic chaos troops.
Dragon-scale armor.
A Level 6 alloy material in the Terran Dominion, derived from the scales of Immaterium Dragons. Immaterium Dragons could even survive a cosmic big bang.
This material far surpassed the so-called null-material armor. Dragon-scale armor was purely about its stats, with no technical content to speak of; it was a pure stat-monster.
This meant that these Custodes were not afraid even if they had to endure a cosmic big bang.
If the the Emperor's Custodes could still possibly be eliminated, then Zeke's Custodes were almost impossible to eliminate.
It was impossible to eliminate these Custodes in a physical sense; all they could do was defeat the Custodes' souls on a spiritual level. But were the souls of these Custodes so easily dealt with?
Unless the four Chaos Gods intervened personally, it was unthinkable.
To speed up the efficiency of clearing the lesser enemies, these Custodes also began to utilize their powerful psychic abilities to clear the area.
However, the power output of their weapons still dared not be set too high, as the power Lances in their hands were masterpieces of Dominion technology. Even the simplest Lance could potentially pierce through the Blackstone Fortress.
Since the Emperor had already said he wanted this warship, then as Custodes,
They naturally had to obey their Emperor's command, seize this warship, and offer it to their Emperor.
The slaughter began; it was a complete and utter massacre.
The chaos forces couldn't even impede the Custodes' advance; they were simply mercilessly slaughtered.
It was like a hack-and-slash game, except chaos was the grass being cut, and the Custodes were the ones doing the hacking and slashing.