Chapter 613

Bang!!

A dull hammer strike echoed throughout the tomb.

It turned out that Wokan used his giant hammer and successfully hammered that chatty metal elder away.

Of course, when the hammer's head touched the metal body, it was blocked by a faint, elusive force.

Even so, the tremendous brute force still sent that metal elder flying at several times the speed of sound, even creating a sonic boom above the tomb.

Boom———Rumble———!!!

The instant the metal elder hit the ground, thick smoke and countless fragments exploded, burying it within.

Wokan's momentum did not wane; he continued to boost his powered armor's thrust, swinging his giant hammer toward the impact point, and soon the towering OriginalBody was swallowed by the thick smoke.

At the same time.

Nearly one hundred fifty terminators, painted mainly black with red accents, likewise used the gap smashed by the hammer to breach.

Not only the terminators, but also over eight hundred Astate with the same paint scheme launched the assault, and then…

Rat-tat-tat!

The unique report of the explosive bolts rang out.

Ri——Boom!!!

Immediately after, countless micro-nuclear explosions erupted inside the tomb, though the matter-antimatter annihilation yield was only half that of the man-eating sharks.

In fact, the troops that followed Wokan in the assault were the 34th, 35th, and 36th Regiments of the Vanguard Legion.

As for the terminators from those three regiments, together they numbered only about one hundred fifty…

This is normal for each legion, after all no regiment, especially those with higher numbers, is as 'poor yet rich' as the man-eating sharks, and the Vanguard Legion is still a newly formed unit under a hundred years old.

Just as the assault companies of the three regiments charged into the tomb, scattered upon landing, and engaged the millions-strong undead army……

Whoosh——!

Numerous radiant blue 'light pillars' instantly pierced the upper dome.

Boom——!!!

Immediately, these 'light pillars' not only pierced the tomb's protective barrier and metal dome, but also created additional gaps up to three kilometers in diameter and carried out large-scale bombardment, annihilating at least seven-figure numbers of undead troops.

In fact, these 'light pillars' were the high-powered directed bombardments carried out by the man-eating shark fleet stationed in near-Earth orbit, precisely to provide fire support.

Moreover, more gaps meant more reinforcements could reach the battlefield.

Countless transport ships descended from above, landing at the foothold opened up by the Vanguard, opening their hatches and offloading auxiliary forces equipped with various models of Herculian powered armor to join the battle.

Rat-a-tat-tat!

Rat-tat-tat!

In less than half a minute, the tomb erupted into a 'symphony' of explosive bolts, lasers, and Gauss firearms.

Of course, the undead side's weapons are also called Gauss, but their principle differs greatly from the Human Empire's Gauss magnetic nail guns and artillery; their weapons can perform 'disintegration'.

When fired, the space undead's Gauss weapons generate a focused bipolar magnetic field, pulling any object they aim at—such as a human body—toward the muzzle at the atomic level.

Furthermore, the strong magnetic field generated by these Gauss weapons can strip away the atoms composing the target object, breaking its atomic bonds and tearing the target apart at the microscopic level.

As for the space undead's melee, the green-light blade of the tripedal scorpion that slices through terminator armor is precisely a phase-shift weapon.

It is called phase-shift because, in simple terms, such weapons can make the green-light blade used as an attack vanish from the physical universe, flash into another plane, then flash back into the physical universe.

Rapidly shifting between planes without cease, the number of transitions per second can reach an incalculable level.

Put even more simply, phase-shift weapons can almost continually pass in and out of all matter, utterly heaven-defying, even more 'cheat-like' than the Human Empire's disintegration weapons.

Although the two main weapon types of the space undead are excessively monstrous, their low power means that even the Gauss firearms used by fodder undead soldiers cannot individually breach the energy shield of Herculian powered armor.

Taibelos and the man-eating sharks, immediately after withdrawing from the battlefield, uploaded and shared the detailed characteristics of the space undead; the subsequently arriving Vanguard 34th, 35th, and 36th Regiments also had the corresponding preparations.

The Vanguard and auxiliary forces immediately dispersed into squads, teams, and platoons, rapidly increasing the distance between them to avoid concentrated fire.

Next, large transport ships, under fighter escort, delivered heavy vehicles and self-propelled artillery to the ground forces.

Moreover, a unit about ten meters tall, resembling a slimmed-down man-eating shark terminator, also appeared on the battlefield.

However, this slimmed-down terminator, besides its large-caliber explosive bolt cannon, has its shoulder pauldrons fitted with stance terminals, providing an extra layer of barrier for friendly units behind while also able to release a '◇◇◇' chained light beam at the undead horde, achieving an instant 'screen clear' effect.

And this slimmed-down terminator is actually an old-style centurion from before the Human Empire was founded, temporarily piloted by the second company commander of the man-eating sharks.

No one knows where the man-eating shark regiment got it, but normally the centurion's powered armor is standard issue for the OriginalBody Honor Guard and the veteran first through tenth battalions of each legion.

Yet the man-eating sharks are the 76th Battalion of the Dark Crow Guard, yet they possess a centurion, which is truly abnormal.

Regardless, with sea, land, and air forces all present, the human side's numbers are far inferior to the undead's, so the situation is not a one-sided rout; fortunately, the human side at least holds a visible advantage.

After all, over a thousand Astate and more than fifteen thousand auxiliary forces are present, enough to target high-threat units such as the tripedal scorpions and the Imperial Guard.

As for low-ranking units like the undead soldiers, they are handled by the over one hundred thousand newly arrived Imperial Navy Marines (ordinary humans, though most have been enhanced).

However, casualties gradually began to become the main theme.

Ri——Boom!

Whoosh!

Nuclear explosions from overloaded powered armor appeared one after another, indicating that more and more soldiers were beginning to fall in succession.

The human side was not truly intent on a reckless charge; in such a large-scale war, it was merely to provide cover for a strike force composed of elites, so as to resolve everything once and for all.

The source of the space undead's continual 'resurrection' lies in that giant pyramid.

Thus An Na Jin led some veteran terminators, together with the Caron Tower Kregg First Assault Regiment, taking advantage of the chaos to break out of the encirclement and has already entered the interior of that pyramid.

As for Wokan, who disappeared right at the start……

"Die! Die! Die!"

"Bang!!"

"Boom!!"

It is hammering the metal elder at a frenzied speed that even the Astate cannot follow.

The OriginalBody gives the opponent not even the slightest chance to react, binding them tightly in place, so the opponent cannot initiate teleportation to escape.

And the reason Wokan is so angry is twofold: first, he already harbors an extreme hatred for hostile alien beings; second, the continual loss of his compatriots makes his anger grow.

(End of Chapter)