This planet was safe now; this Imperial shrine world had escaped the threat of the Necrons. But that didn't an the war was over—a greater threat still lood over the human Imperium!
The Necrons could be said to be in full war with the human Imperium now, without rcy or reason. The Necrons wanted only to destroy humanity.
"Lord Rhodes, the Silent King has now declared that all Phaerons of every dynasty are to mobilize fully, launching a total assault on the human Imperium to erase it completely." AsanethAyu's virtual hologram knelt on the ground as she spoke.
The Necrons now took the human Imperium seriously, especially the technologies they had revealed, like faster-than-light engines, which posed a massive threat to the Necron dynasties.
Moreover, the Silent King needed a war to defend his position, as the Stormlord was already rebelling.
Many newly awakened Necron dynasty Phaerons and Overlords had not chosen to join the Silent King but instead followed the Stormlord.
"Does he have the capability? What's the situation with the Stormlord now?" Rhodes asked.
The Silent King had truly shot himself in the foot. When leaving the galaxy, he had deactivated the Necrons' master control protocol!
He had returned freedom to his people. At the ti, the Silent King might have thought he would never return to the galaxy.
He wanted self-exile because he understood that by agreeing to sell out his race to those cosmic new gods, he had beco a sinner to his people.
But who knows what this guy encountered during his 6,000 years outside the galaxy—he ca rushing back!
Or rather, he was scared back by so terrifying entity!
"Lord Rhodes! The Stormlord is actively courting all possible forces, even sending envoys to my side. How should I respond?" AsanethAyu asked.
"Agree to join his ranks, and clearly express your dissatisfaction with everything about the Silent King. But don't join his forces right now!
Tell the Stormlord that you'll stay by the Silent King's side as a spy and recruit so Phaerons or Overlords close to him," Rhodes said.
If the Silent King chose war with humanity, they could use the Stormlord to create diversions.
"Understood, Lord Rhodes. I'll comply with your orders and reply to the Stormlord," AsanethAyu said.
"You've been revived and even restored to your forr body. Can you find a way to recruit a batch of Necrons to join our side?" Rhodes asked.
"Of course, great master. In fact, I've already contacted several Phaerons and over a dozen Necron Overlords. I'm just waiting for your command to reveal everything to them," AsanethAyu said.
She had beco her dynasty's Phaeron through this resurrection thod. With Cosmic beasts, she had revived so Overlords within her dynasty and successfully pulled them into her camp.
"Excellent. I'll give you full authority. Proceed at full strength. Now, one more question: Have you found what I asked you to look for?" Rhodes asked.
The Necrons' most powerful weapon was called the Celestial Orrery, a most dangerous artifact. With it, the Necrons could instantly detonate all stars within the galaxy!
To completely defeat the Necrons, they must obtain this Celestial Orrery.
"Lord Rhodes, I've learned which dynasty guards the Celestial Orrery. I'll attempt contact. I believe the price of resurrection is sothing they can't refuse," AsanethAyu said.
"Well done. I need you to deliver this weapon to as soon as possible. It must not fall into the Silent King's hands.
Your task is simple: Corrupt the Necron dynasties from within. Recruit as many as you can. Best if you can hollow out the Silent King, or even after joining the Stormlord's domain, find ways to recruit talent and expand your forces. I'll give you all the Cosmic beasts you need—if not enough, I'll allocate more," Rhodes said.
Every Necron dynasty's Phaeron, and even so powerful Overlords, had C'tan shards under their control!
So, as long as Rhodes was willing, he could send his Cosmic beasts over, have them absorb the C'tan shards, and then revive those Necrons.
"Lord Rhodes! Understood. Do you need to help divert attention from your war here?" AsanethAyu asked.
"I can handle things here. Your current task is to swiftly convert the Necrons internally. While the human Imperium and I draw the Silent King's full attention upfront, you build up your forces in the rear," Rhodes said.
"I understand, Lord Rhodes. Do you have any other instructions?" AsanethAyu nodded and asked.
"I have nothing else for you. Go! Coordinate well with the newcors.
I'll lead the human Imperium upfront to draw the Necron main forces' attention. You convert them ruthlessly from behind," Rhodes said.
Nodding to Rhodes, AsanethAyu's virtual hologram vanished.
"Rhodes, the situation is still very delicate. Aren't you considering mobilizing so other Primarchs' forces to join the war?" Elena approached and asked.
"Don't worry. Nothing will go wrong. Don't forget, this ti we have four Primarchs participating—we're a family of four Primarchs, which ans four legions.
Moreover, the Battle Sisters under you can unleash even greater power," Rhodes said.
On the Necron death field battlefield, the forces best suited to counter Necron troops were the Battle Sister squads.
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In the dark void, the human Imperium's fleets engaged in an unprecedented decisive battle with the Necrons' tomb world legions.
In a star sector shrouded by blackstone obelisks, Warp powers were completely suppressed here, turning psykers into mortals as if their throats were choked. The Imperium's most powerful Librarians beca ordinary people.
But this still couldn't stop human power. The arrival of Rhodes's gene-sons expanded the Space Marine forces in this region to around 600,000, plus nearly a million Battle Sisters. These Battle Sisters had all undergone special enhancents, making their combat prowess fiercer than original Space Marines.
Once deployed, these Battle Sisters posed a massive threat to the Necrons, as the Emperor's light from their prayers perfectly countered the Necrons' barriers.
"All fleets, enter battle formation." Rhodes's voice was like an anvil in a forge, heavy and unyielding.
"Emperor's Wrath-class battleships, main cannons charging."
"chanicum void fortresses, deploy antimatter shields."
"Battle Sisters' Martyr fleets, prepare for assault."
Command after command was issued. With Rhodes in command, the entire Imperial army seed to find its backbone.
The human Imperium's massive war machine began operating at full capacity. Though the Necrons had suppressed Warp travel, humans could still perform faster-than-light travel in this region.
Now, it's not just you tin skeletons with faster-than-light travel capabilities. The human Imperium also has massive numbers of faster-than-light engines equipped on troops; every ship is fitted with FTL drives.
The Necron fleets issued no warnings; they simply killed.
The Sautekh Dynasty's tomb ships released Gauss flayer beams, green energy sweeping Imperial vessels, disassembling tal, flesh, and souls at the atomic level into nothingness.
On the human side, massive beams and Pedanium rays relentlessly bombarded the Necron positions. In terms of weaponry, the human Imperium wasn't inferior by much.
At least in basic weapons, both sides could kill each other mutually.
"Report! Vengeful Spirit has been disassembled! Entire ship evaporated!"
"Iron Wrath's void shields down to 47%!"
Rhodes sneered and issued his command.
"Activate the star fortress's ultimate protective energy do and void shields at full power, then counter with Pedanium cannons."
"For the Emperor! For Lord Rhodes! For the Cosmic Guard!"
Space Marines in Terminator armor charged despite the blackstone obelisks' suppression, their bolters roaring, plasma cannons burning molten pits in the Necrons' living tal.
As the Space Marines advanced, the Imperial fleets unfolded like a steel torrent, macro-cannon arrays thundering deafeningly, lances slicing the void, Pedanium rays emitting beams of death, pouring toward the Necron fleets.
"We need heavier firepower!" A company captain roared.
"Received. Providing heavy fire support imdiately. Deploying King Joe Titans and Ultra Knight chs," a Space Marine comms operator replied.
The Ultra Warrior chs were 10m tall models used by ordinary mortals, but there were also 15m versions for Space Marines. These chs were even more powerful than Dreadnoughts.
On Rhodes's side, he released his full-scale 50m tall Ultra Brothers—these were true 1:1 replicas of Ultra Warriors, capable of surviving and flying freely in space, wielding terrifying beam abilities like monsters.
Their combat power was a 1:1 replication of Ultran. Once deployed in space battles, they would deal devastating blows to the Necrons.
Rhodes deployed the initial versions: Ultraman Taro, Ultraman Ace, Ultraman Zoffy, Ultraman Jack, Ultraman Seven, all thrown into the battlefield.
Stream Rays, Spacium Rays, Erium Rays, tallium Rays beca cosmic spectacles, bombarding the Necron armies.
The Ultraman Ultra Warriors' attacks left the Necrons utterly baffled—what kind of monsters were these?
The addition of the Ultraman Ultra Warriors completely shifted the battlefield's balance.
"M78 Ray—full salvo!"
Ultraman Zoffy crossed his arms, unleashing a blazing white torrent of Spacium Rays that swept the Necron tomb ship arrays. Living tal disintegrated and evaporated under the high-energy particle impact. A Sautekh Dynasty destroyer mothership tried to resist with an inertia damper field but was pierced through its core in three seconds, turning into a brilliant space firework.
Ultraman Taro leaped into the enemy lines, his Stream Ray fanning out in an explosion, instantly clearing Necron fighter swarms within thousands of kiloters. His Ultra Fist smashed into a tomb ship's bridge, shattering living tal like fragile pottery, the entire vessel disintegrating in a chain explosion.
"What... are these things?!" A Necron Overlord's data consciousness fluctuated violently. It had never retrieved such terrifying combat units from the galactic database.
What were these chanical construct monsters? Their technology was completely unseen by the Necrons; even tomb technicians couldn't figure out how they were powered until their deaths.
This was entirely different from C'tan energy drives—a more powerful Titan weapon.
"Analysis failed... energy levels exceed C'tan shards... recomnd imdiate retreat!" Another Necron cryptek's logic circuits nearly collapsed.
However, Necrons had no concept of "fear" and no reason to retreat.
They only coldly executed destruction protocols. The Silent King's orders were supre—humanity must be exterminated!
"Activate stellar collapse protocol, target locked on human main fleet." A Sautekh ark ship hidden at the battlefield's edge released ghostly green energy waves—it was a secondary replica of the Celestial Orrery, the "Star Incinerator," capable of briefly warping local gravitational constants to create artificial black holes.
"Detected gravitational anomaly! Lord Rhodes, enemy is creating spatial collapse!" A chanicum priest frantically tapped data slates on the bridge.
Rhodes sneered: "Hah, parlor tricks." He waved his hand, and Ultraman Ace's Ultra Eyes suddenly lit up.
"Cosmic Quintuple Ray!"
This skill was the most powerful ultimate move the Ultraman Ultra Warriors could currently use. There was also the Cosmic Miracle Ray, but that required the real Taro. Here, only Ultraman Ace was reinforced to its final form.
So, they could only use Ultraman Ace's Ultra Horn to absorb power from the other Ultra Brothers and unleash the Cosmic Quintuple Ray.
Five colored beams wove into a net, forcibly holding back the forming black hole event horizon.
Ultraman Seven hurled his head dart, the superluminal spinning blade bisecting the Sautekh ark ship's blackstone core. As the core overloaded, the Star Incinerator device backfired, consuming the ark ship itself.
The Necron fleets were annihilated by the human Imperium. Rhodes's Ultraman Ultra Warriors deployed in groups, with the Ultra Six Brothers as a combat unit.
They began dealing near-destructive strikes to the Necrons. For the first ti, these space skeletons felt technologically overwheld.
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