The two Sages, of course, were unwilling to retreat just like that.
They had finally fought their way in, and an entire Necron Tomb of alien technology was waiting for them to excavate. How could they give up halfway?
But under Alex's insistence, especially after he stated that it might be a trap, the two Sages still did not insist on their own opinions and agreed to Alex's request to withdraw first.
On the Battle Sister side, since the Great Sister of this Sacred Rose Convent was a chess piece controlled by Alex, there were naturally no command issues.
Upon receiving Alex's order, although these Sisters were still fighting fiercely and shouting, they steadily withdrew from the battle and returned to the outpost.
However, Alex glanced at the gathered Sisters, and his expression was somewhat grim.
This time, the Sacred Rose Convent dispatched approximately three hundred Battle Sisters and two hundred Apprentice Sisters, yet now less than two hundred remain, with nearly two-thirds of the Sisters having perished.
This was even with most of the Sisters equipped with Rosaries, which could use shields to defend against Gauss rays.
Moreover, most of them couldn't even retrieve their remains, as the Necrons' Gauss Weapons leave no corpses behind.
As for Ovilia and Donia's Adeptus Militarus, their losses were even more severe, as they had no shields and found it even harder to withstand the Necrons' Gauss Weapons.
This was also one of the main reasons the two Sages agreed to retreat; they needed to replenish their forces.
At the same time, they also needed to move some of the heavy units they had left outside to prevent insufficient strength if they were attacked again.
As for this Necron Tomb, since the Rebirth Protocol had been destroyed and most of the Necron units that appeared were gradually eliminated under the Defense Force's attack, Alex felt it was better to leave it to the Defense Force to clear, and withdraw the heavily damaged Battle Sisters and Adeptus Militarus for rest and recuperation.
Alex's order was quickly carried out, and even Gutierrez, who had returned to his side, expressed his approval: "This Necron Tomb Technician is quite formidable. He set a trap for us using his own Necron Tomb. If he could have caught and devoured all of us in one go, this planet would be undefended before him."
"This Necron Tomb Technician gives me a strange feeling. On one hand, his calculations are very deep, but on the other hand, he gives me the impression that his forces seem to be severely lacking." Alex conversed with Gutierrez as he retreated out of the Necron Tomb.
On this issue, the two Sages clearly had nothing to add, and coincidentally, they were not interested in this topic, only discussing the excavation of this Necron Tomb world.
Clearly, after personally going down into the tomb and gaining an intuitive understanding of Necrons technology, these two Sages became even more enthusiastic about excavating the Necron Tomb.
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However, just as Alex and the others were withdrawing from the Necron Tomb, on the wasteland outside Rostov City, a massive black pyramid suddenly appeared, and with its appearance, more blackstone structures were also being teleported into the field.
At the top of the black pyramid, a green orb glowed, and the Tomb Gate within it opened, as a squad of elite Necron Immortals marched out of the portal in neat formation, quickly forming a large army.
Not only that, more Necron units continued to appear, and even some war machines were being teleported into the field.
Rostov's Defense Force discovered the alien army's assembly immediately, quickly sounded the alarm, and sent a request for aid to Alex and the others who were still in the Necron Tomb.
Upon receiving this message, Alex, on the contrary, breathed a sigh of relief.
The most terrifying thing about war is not knowing where the opponent is, or what the opponent is thinking. If you can only attack blindly or defend passively, it's almost a guaranteed loss.
Now that the enemy had shown themselves, the remaining part was easier to deal with.
"Order the warships to conduct orbital bombardment on the assembling Necron forces, and try your best to destroy their teleportation beacons or portal-like structures." Alex immediately used his trump card, employing orbital bombardment for support.
Compared to moving troops back from here and being ambushed by the Necrons along the way, directly using warships in space for orbital bombardment was the fastest and most effective solution.
However, Alex still specifically reminded the Forge Ship in orbit to activate the Auger Array and watch out for any potential Necron warships and fleets.
Although Alex was now certain that the opponent might not have too many troops at hand, it was always better to be cautious.
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The effect of the orbital strike was naturally without question.
Although Donia's Forge Ship was only a light cruiser, it was still a behemoth three kilometers long.
The Macro cannon arrays installed on it were a catastrophic strike force for ground troops; even Titan-class units would find it difficult to survive an orbital bombardment from a light cruiser.
With just one round of Macro cannon bombardment, most of the obelisks and monolith fortresses that had just been teleported onto the wasteland were destroyed.
This undoubtedly angered the owner of this force—that Necron Tomb Technician.
This planet was his fiefdom, the location of his laboratory, and his sacred and inviolable property!
He had only slept for sixty million years, and as a result, a bunch of monkeys had spawned in his home!
These monkeys had unreasoningly invaded his laboratory, destroying and plundering his precious experimental results, which made him extremely angry.
The last time, he had deployed his entire army to fight a great battle with that group of carbon-based monkeys called Rogue Traders. Although he suffered heavy losses, he finally managed to drive those monkeys out of his laboratory.
He then wearily fell back into slumber, but this time he was careful and hired a Deathmark Sniper to guard his Necron Tomb.
Facts proved that this was indeed effective. He had never imagined that these monkeys would have such terrifying reproductive capabilities. In just eighty years since his last slumber, these monkeys had already built cities in his testing grounds and multiplied to over a billion in number.
This genuinely frightened the Necron Tomb Technician. In just eighty years, the number of these monkeys had increased so much. If they were given a few more centuries, would the entire dynasty's territory be filled with them?
However, this time, the Necron Tomb Technician could not deploy his entire army to expel these monkeys, because his strength had been severely damaged last time, and such heavy troop losses were not so easy to recover from.
He had originally thought of sleeping again, and once the dynasty awoke, everything would be fine.
But now the dynasty was still in slumber, and he had to face the invading monkeys again, with no reinforcements.
After all, he was just a Necron Tomb Technician, and it was impossible for him to awaken the Dynasty's Pharaoh for his private territory.
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