So, when the facts were laid bare, regardless of any other thoughts they might have had, or how unbelievable they found the situation, they had to acknowledge it and prepare to respond.
But respond?
The chaos Fleet glanced at the technological level of their own fleet, then at the report that clearly indicated superluminal strikes.
Then he looked at the omni-viewer again; it was still working well, and he could still see the enemy, but the enemy's speed was constantly increasing, and the omni-viewer was about to lose sight of them.
Yes, the Dominion Fleet was getting closer to them, but their sensors were also losing track of the Dominion Fleet.
After spending some time with their Emperor, Pixis had gained an understanding of the naval combat capabilities of this world, and they keenly realized that most of the naval forces in this world were almost incapable of superluminal travel.
Aside from the necron Empire they had encountered before, which was suspected to be a Fallen Empire and possessed superluminal travel capabilities, no other faction had this ability.
That made things very interesting, and their weapons also seemed incapable of striking across light-years, which made it even more interesting!
Compared to the offensive weapons on their own warships, which could easily strike across dozens or hundreds of light-years, the enemy's weapons were simply laughable.
In particular, their warships were quite distinctive, almost always equipped with artillery on the forward flanks.
If their reconnaissance wasn't mistaken, that was the name for it, though they called that thing a macro cannon.
To still use such weapons in a fleet engagement made the Dominion Fleet speechless.
Did they think such weapons could attack the Dominion Fleet from light-years away?
Moreover, even if the Dominion Fleet engaged them at close range, what then?
They couldn't even achieve superluminal travel; how could they possibly catch up to the Dominion Fleet?
This led to Pixis now being able to completely mobilize the Dominion Fleet for an all-out assault.
Although the number of the Dominion Fleet was far lower than that of the chaos Fleet, its combat power was far superior.
Adhering to its ability to strike across light-years and its superluminal travel speed, the Dominion Fleet continuously launched successive attacks on the enemy, making it impossible for the enemy to pinpoint the Dominion Fleet's whereabouts.
More importantly, the weapons equipped by the Dominion Navy were almost all fatal to the opposing chaos warships; whether it was the weapons on the battleship or the weapons on a regular frigate, a single cyclonic torpedo could make the enemy suffer.
The cyclonic torpedoes, striking enemies at superluminal speeds, made the chaos Fleet experience what true cross-era technological crush felt like.
However, even if the Dominion Fleet gained the upper hand in the fleet battle, this advantage was only localized.
The chaos Fleet still had its advantage: sheer numbers.
There were not only the chaos fleet here, but also the hodgepodge of cobbled-together warships from the orks; these massive numbers prevented the Dominion Fleet from completely clearing them out in a short amount of time.
The chaos fleet was desperately resisting with its massive fleet size, while the Dominion Fleet continuously weaved among them, utterly destroying ship after ship.
Regarding the scene in space, aside from Zeke's parents and Lissa, who had accepted Zeke's giant titan and become an acting pilot , no one else was aware.
They lacked the ability to detect what was happening in space, but the three star-class giant battlesuits could.
While casually cleaning up the chaos rabble, these three star-class giant battlesuits even began to use the disintegration cannons installed on their battlesuits.
A range of one light-year was enough for them to use their disintegration cannons to attack the chaos fleet, which was constantly preparing for battle in the cosmos.
As a result, the chaos Fleet's situation became even more perilous; they were facing a scenario they had never encountered in tens of thousands of years of war.
But now the war had begun; this was a conspiracy against Zeke, jointly planned by the four Chaos Gods, so how could it end just like that?
When they couldn't win the space battle, they began to intensify the war on the surface of planet Cadia.
They wanted to force Zeke to act; they wanted to force Zeke to expend all his energy fighting them.
This would deplete all of Zeke's Warp energy, buying them future peace.
A Chaos God of the Warp who constantly entered the Warp to slap them around was simply too terrifying.
Even if they couldn't make Zeke sit on a golden throne like the Emperor, they still wanted Zeke to lose the ability to slap them around whenever he pleased.
Even if this situation was temporary, it was still better than the complete imbalance of chaos forces; they had already calculated that Zeke's energy recovery speed was very slow.
Without external influence, before Zeke completely depleted his energy, or rather, before he fully recovered, he would absolutely not be able to achieve an absolute victory against any of them as he had before.
At that time, he wouldn't be able to easily suppress any Chaos Gods as he could now.
The general idea of the four Chaos Gods was this.
He had once again changed his strategic approach, no longer aiming to make Zeke find a throne to sit on.
However, there were differences in certain details, for example, Khorne; he simply wanted an opponent he could fight.
So, in order to have a worthy opponent, one who wouldn't casually crush him, he decided to participate in this conspiracy, which was truly rare.
As for Tzeentch and Nurgle, they simply sought revenge against Zeke, as they had all been beaten.
As for Slaanesh, he was simply blindly following, but he did have some thoughts about Zeke.
When Zeke possessed immense power and the ability to arbitrarily crush him, his thoughts were at most just thoughts, and he dared not act on them.
However, if Zeke could not crush him, he could naturally harbor inappropriate thoughts about Zeke.
As for Gork and Mork, the two of them simply wanted to fight, and it didn't matter who they fought.
Regardless of their intentions, the combined forces of chaos and orks were continuously rampaging across the surface of Cadia.
As a result, even with the aid of the Yaeger knight house's three giant titans, the Imperial lines were constantly collapsing, contracting towards a defensive perimeter centered around Zeke.
Looking at the vast, overwhelming armies of chaos and orks, even the most loyal warriors, even the Space Marines, couldn't help but begin to pray.
"God-Emperor, can we truly achieve victory?"