Chapter 134

The Hierophant hunched its four huge, slender legs, entrenched on the Mechanical Spire that served as an industrial zone.

This entire spire, made of machinery and steel, was now filled with capillary towers reaching into the clouds, and beneath the capillary towers, in the center of the city, was a massive, bubbling biomass pool, where the corpses of once-heroic Astra Militarum soldiers and hive city thugs were thrown, digested bit by bit into pure biomass.

The Blood Angels' Stormraven gunships hovered high in the sky, avoiding the Tyranid aerial units that were constantly attacking them.

The Immortals guarding Trazyn the Infinite used their unique Necron Gauss Blasters to open a path together with the Blood Angels' gunships.

Even Dante couldn't help but marvel at the coldness and efficiency of these Necron warriors.

Soulless, they were in some sense similar to Tyranid organisms, both being war machines fused with the weapons in their hands, except one was made of iron and the other was made of flesh.

But when that Tyranid organism, the Tyranid "Hierophant," crawled out of the biomass pool, and when the viscous biomass flowed down like a waterfall from the Hierophant's hill-like body, even the Necron Immortals, as cold as steel, were slightly stunned in place.

Dante seemed to see some surprise on their metallic faces.

This made Dante a little confused; Immortals were relatively low-level Necron units, and they would also show emotions?

Only those higher-level Necrons had preserved relatively intact consciousness and memories over the long years, without becoming walking corpses made of machinery.

Trazyn the Infinite also seemed unable to help but look at his subordinates slightly; he also seemed surprised that such obvious emotional fluctuations appeared among his subordinates.

But whether it was Dante or Trazyn the Infinite, neither of them was in the mood to study the emotional problems of the Immortals at this time.

"Hierophant..." Trazyn the Infinite looked at this hideous behemoth like a hill.

Even he had to attach importance to this most terrifying and massive unit in the swarm.

That was a bio-titan bred by the swarm, the giant god-soldier in the swarm, the embodiment of war made of flesh and blood.

That was a Hierophant-class Tyranid bio-titan.

This type of unit would hatch into different body sizes and be equipped with different weapons according to the swarm's needs, and its combat power would change accordingly.

And the behemoth standing before Trazyn the Infinite... its body size was at least over thirty meters.

Among the Tyranid bio-titans Trazyn the Infinite had seen, it was also one of the largest.

Trazyn the Infinite wasn't surprised that the Hierophant appeared on the battlefield, but was surprised that the Hierophant appeared so early...

This was really too strange; the battle situation hadn't developed to the point where the Hierophant needed to take action, yet the swarm was so extravagant?

This made Trazyn the Infinite hesitate, hesitate whether to release that dangerous power now and let the flames burn the Hierophant.

The Hierophant turned its hill-like towering body, its sharp claws sweeping across the industrial zone covered by the chitin ocean on the ground.

For a time, gravel and iron blocks splashed, and gray-brown smoke waves rose on the ground.

The Hierophant glanced at the Stormraven gunship in the sky...

Commander Dante immediately ordered to pour firepower onto this behemoth.

The gun turrets controlled by servitors and the twin-linked heavy bolters fired at the Hierophant, like a crow trying to destroy a mountain in a storm.

However, the bullets and artillery fire it struggled to pour out failed to have any effect on the Hierophant.

The shells seemed to hit an invisible, thick wall, and apart from setting off a faint blue ripple, they were completely ineffective.

"Heh, now even pests have started to play with the sorcery of the Empyrean?" Trazyn the Infinite said with disdain.

Commander Dante couldn't be as relaxed as he was.

This behemoth was actually covered with a thick psychic shield. He stood ready, staring fixedly at the behemoth's actions.

The behemoth raised the two bio-cannons in its hands high; just the wriggling, sphincter-like flesh muzzle was wider than the Stormraven Dante and his party were riding in.

"Prepare for air-drop." Dante said to the Blood Angels beside him.

They had long anticipated the possibility of encountering interception in the air and were all equipped with jump packs.

Even without wings like a Primarch, the Blood Angels were still good at aerial combat; relying on jump packs, they were enough to air-drop directly into the Mechanical Spire...

The Hierophant twisted its massive body, turned the muzzle of the bio-cannon in its hand, and then... then ignored Dante and his Stormraven.

"Hmm?" Dante hummed strangely.

The expected attack didn't come; the Hierophant aimed elsewhere instead.

Dante turned his head blankly, only to see the Hierophant entrenched on the Mechanical Spire aiming at the direction of the Viceroy's Palace in the distance.

"How could this be..." Dante couldn't help but ask: "Kaelen... it couldn't be to deal with Kaelen..."

"Could it be to..." Dante couldn't help but look at Xiang Xiang Leina, who was sitting in the back seat of the Stormraven.

Xiang Xiang Leina was now responsible for the Astra Militarum's affairs in place of General Droste, and also took care of commanding the local resistance forces of Ashfold.

This time, she was also responsible for leading the Astra Militarum and hive city gang members to guide the Blood Angels.

Dante suspected that the current situation was because of that man she was familiar with... that man named Zhou Yun.

"It must be Zhou Yun who did a good deed." Xiang Xiang Leina's eye corner twitched slightly, judging almost without hesitation.

The moment her voice fell, scorching firelight whistled out from the bio-cannon in the Hierophant's hand.

These firelights tore through the sky and shot straight toward the spire where the Viceroy's Palace was located.

However, what Dante found strange was that the Hierophant's artillery fire didn't directly hit the Viceroy's Palace, but shot toward the central part of the spire where the palace was located.

The entire Viceroy Spire began to shake, and the Hierophant's next artillery fire followed, still aiming at the middle and lower parts of the spire,

as if there was something in the palace above the spire that it feared, even feared so much that it didn't dare to fire directly.

"Zhou Yun has a strange red cloak on his hand... uh, I don't know the principle either, anyway, it seems to be able to reflect various long-range attacks." "Ha?" Trazyn the Infinite couldn't help but laugh out loud: "You mean, a piece of red cloth can reflect the Hierophant's bio-cannon?"

"Human, did you have your brain broken by the torrent of the Empyrean while playing with sorcery?"

A few blue veins popped up on Xiang Xiang Leina's forehead.

"Ha, if you humans were still in the so-called Golden Age, I might have been able to believe it, but..."

Before Xiang Xiang Leina could refute, Trazyn the Infinite stopped his mockery himself.

He suddenly remembered that he had once discovered traces left by a time traveler in the lower hive.

"What you said has some truth; this possibility indeed exists."

Trazyn the Infinite looked at Xiang Xiang Leina seriously:

"My judgment was wrong; I apologize to you."

The corners of Xiang Xiang Leina's mouth couldn't stop twitching.

Although Trazyn the Infinite's voice revealed the coldness inherent to Necrons, Xiang Xiang Leina actually heard sincerity in it.

She had originally started thinking about how Zhou Yun would use his stinking mouth to refute when facing such mockery.

She didn't expect Trazyn the Infinite to think of something and actually admit defeat and apologize to Xiang Xiang Leina directly.

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Dante, who was on the side, also shook his body slightly, as if he was amused by this Necron Overlord.

This Necron Overlord was arrogant, barbaric, conceited, and also had a stinking mouth,

but he happened not to be as fickle as other Necron Overlords, but instead carried a kind of obsessive-compulsive fairness,

and he was even willing to frankly admit his mistakes, and also had a rather unique moral concept.

According to Dante's understanding, this Necron Overlord loved to assist other Necron tomb worlds,

but this kind of assistance was not free; he would, based on the principle of fair trade, extract one-tenth of the soldiers from the assisted dynasty—regardless of whether the assisted party was willing or not.

However, what really made Dante curious was what kind of thing made Trazyn's concept change in an instant.

Suddenly, a rumbling sound rang out in the distance; the spire carrying the Viceroy's Palace let out a miserable wail.

Following the Hierophant's long-range shelling, the entire spire began to shake uncontrollably, and finally, it couldn't support its own weight and began to collapse inward.

The Stormraven gunship carrying Captain Kaelen and his Terminators rose against the wind and rushed straight into the clouds.

Zhou Yun stood on the swaying Viceroy's Palace that was about to collapse, watching them leave.

Captain Kaelen had originally invited Zhou Yun to board the Stormraven to evacuate together,

but Zhou Yun knew that the Hierophant's target for shelling the Viceroy's Palace was himself.

If he boarded the Stormraven, he wouldn't be able to use the reflection cloak in the cabin, and the Hierophant would definitely concentrate firepower and a large number of flying units to intercept the Stormraven.

It would be troublesome to run then.

Zhou Yun calmed his heart and looked into the Fourth-Dimensional Pocket.

【Item Name: Anywhere Door】

【Origin: 22nd Century Earth - Future Department Store】

【Evaluation: The first and most famous secret item; please do not use it while a girl is bathing.】

【Production Time: 231. M3】

【Function: While the user holds the door handle, thinking about the place they want to go, the other side of the door will connect the two places. After opening it, you can cross the two places to the destination.】

【Value: 11,650,000 Yuan】

The Hierophant had appeared, and the Necrons had also begun to intervene in the battle.

This meant that the Underworld System was about to face destruction; it was time to redeem the Anywhere Door.

Zhou Yun watched his savings disappear in an instant, leaving only a small fraction, and his cheeks couldn't help but twitch slightly.

Although he knew that according to his subsequent plans, Zhou Yun could earn this money back ten or even a hundred times over, it still hurt to lose it.

Every single dollar in here was something he had diligently bitten off the swarm.

If he didn't feel the pain, the swarm would probably feel the pain.

Zhou Yun reached into his Fourth-Dimensional Pocket, and the red-and-pink wooden door was dragged out by Zhou Yun like soft silk.

The most famous and most frequently used item by Doraemon, the Anywhere Door.

Zhou Yun couldn't help but feel a little excited; he slowly reached his hand toward the door handle of the Anywhere Door and turned it gently.

The Anywhere Door opened slowly, but the scene behind the door made Zhou Yun freeze for a moment.

It was a flaxen-colored land made of unknown materials, constantly extending into the distance, but it didn't disappear on the horizon, but curled upward, as if it extended all the way into the sky.

Zhou Yun's head poked out from the Anywhere Door, looking up with curiosity, but saw that there was no sky, clouds, or sun in the world behind the door, but it was shrouded in some kind of hazy daylight...

Suddenly, Zhou Yun heard a whistling sound coming from the distance, it seemed to be... it seemed to be the sound of a motorcycle tearing through the air.

(End of chapter)