Chapter 479: Cold Tide Devourer (3)

Fuderi and thirty other War Dog Space Marines were the first to engage in close-quarters combat with those strange-looking crystalline Aliens.

"For the Emperor! For the Lord of Red Sand! Purge the Aliens! Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Fuderi's chainaxe cleaved the Frost Alien before him in two, yet the bisected crystalline Alien, guided by the deep gray Frost Mist, rejoined itself, stood up, and continued its attack.

Fuderi swung his chainaxe, discovering that no matter how he hacked, the crystalline Aliens he severed or crushed would simply stand back up, guided by the deep gray Frost Mist.

"Randall, prepare for a melta attack!"

Seeing that the chainaxe was ineffective, Fuderi ordered Randall, who was also swinging a chainaxe nearby, to organize the War Dog Space Marines to use meltaguns against the crystalline Aliens before them.

"Melta array! Fan-shaped coverage!"

Randall's voice exploded in the cold wind.

Seven crimson beams tore through the polar gale, shrouding the reforming Aliens in high heat.

The melting ice crystals emitted sharp hisses, and the deep gray Frost Mist churned violently in the heatwave.

Fuderi saw those eerie crystal structures finally vaporize completely under the extreme heat.

"Continue the advance! Maintain crossfire!"

Fuderi's chainaxe pointed toward the densest area of the Frost Mist, and ten War Dog Space Marines immediately formed an assault wedge.

Suddenly, the entire ice field began to tremble.

Within the Frost Mist where the War Dog Space Marines were located, a thirty-meter-tall crystalline giant coalesced.

It was wrapped in deep gray Frost Mist, and every pulse caused new Alien larvae to condense in the air.

"All units, disperse!"

Fuderi sidestepped the giant fist smashed down by the crystalline giant, and the splashing ice spikes scraped sparks off his ceramite armor.

Randall's melta team was recharging when a newly formed crystalline pterosaur dove down from the Frost Mist, its tail stinger aiming straight for a War Dog Space Marine.

But this War Dog Space Marine rolled quickly to dodge; the spot where he had been standing was pierced, leaving an ice hole about 30 centimeters in diameter and 1 meter deep, with deep gray Frost Mist lingering around the rim.

"For the Lord of Red Sand!"

Fuderi leaped up, charged toward the giant's left knee, gripped his chainaxe with both hands, and hacked down fiercely, the chainaxe embedding deep into the crystalline giant's crystal joint.

Deep gray Frost Mist surged toward the Frost Giant's crystal joint, and Fuderi felt his power armor enduring intense energy suppression; the system in front of his helmet began to alarm, warning Fuderi that the ambient energy was extremely powerful.

The Frost Giant let out a deafening roar, its right arm suddenly disintegrating into deep gray Frost Mist, attempting to envelop Fuderi.

Fuderi pulled his chainaxe out of the crystal joint and landed, beginning to dodge the deep gray Frost Mist that sought to envelop him.

He also used his chainaxe to hack at the deep gray Frost Mist, but where the chainaxe swung, Fuderi felt no sensation of striking a solid object.

"Damn it, what kind of trick is this Alien using!"

Just as the deep gray Frost Mist was about to envelop Fuderi, a crimson beam flew in, its scorching heat instantly dissolving the deep gray Frost Mist.

Fuderi looked toward the source of the crimson beam and saw Randall holding a meltagun pointed in this direction.

Randall fired at the Frost Giant again, the crimson beam striking the giant's chest directly, and he growled.

"In the name of the Lord of Red Sand!"

The Valhalla soldiers discovered that crystalline Aliens wrapped in deep gray Frost Mist were constantly emerging from the mist around them and launching attacks.

"Damn it! I clearly killed him, why do they keep standing back up!"

A Valhalla soldier was changing the charging pack for his laser gun, cursing with a grave tone.

Another Valhalla soldier did not have time to change the charging pack for his laser gun and drew his monomolecular combat knife, stabbing it into a crystalline Alien that stood a head taller than him.

But the next second, the crystalline Alien stabbed by the monomolecular combat knife extended its two arms, which resembled war blades, and stabbed into the Valhalla soldier's abdomen in the same manner; deep gray Frost Mist clung to the crystalline Alien's arms, making the attack even more lethal.

This Valhalla soldier pulled out his combat knife, wanting to sever the crystalline Alien's arm, only to find that his monomolecular combat knife could not cut through the arm wrapped in deep gray Frost Mist.

Feeling his life slipping away, a flash of determination crossed the Valhalla soldier's eyes.

"For... *gag*..."

As soon as the Valhalla soldier opened his mouth, he retched, but no blood came out; the blood in his body was being frozen. Relying on his tenacious will, the Valhalla soldier threw his monomolecular combat knife onto the snow and pulled out the fragmentation grenade at his waist.

"For the Emperor!"

After shouting this with all his might, the Valhalla soldier's eyes were filled with relief, and accompanied by the sound of an explosion, he perished together with the crystalline Alien before him.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Behind the Valhalla troops, an artillery line composed of Basilisk Self-Propelled Artillery pieces was firing into the Frost Mist.

A Valhalla Captain watched the area covered by the artillery fire; the crystalline Aliens were swallowed by the heat generated by the explosions, yet the Frost Mist in the bombarded area continued to roll toward them.

The Valhalla Captain frowned and muttered to himself.

"The Frost Mist of these Aliens contains some kind of energy... Soldiers! Protect the artillery! Those Aliens are surging toward us! For the Emperor! Fire! Artillery, do not stop the bombardment!"

The Valhalla Captain made a prompt decision, ordering the artillery to continue firing, while the Valhalla soldiers responsible for protecting the artillery output formed a defensive line, raised their laser guns, and fired at the crystalline Aliens charging toward them from the front.

He had already seen that, amidst the firelight produced by the artillery, the Frost Aliens they had been pursuing were also mixed in, launching an attack against them.

After the Cold Tide Devourer entered the designated area, the Frost Chieftain was very satisfied with the Cold Tide Devourer awakened by the Frost Great Shaman this time.

Especially after seeing that the human troops could make very few effective counterattacks when facing the Cold Tide Devourer, he spoke directly to ask the Frost Great Shaman.

"Great Shaman, when can our warriors enter the battlefield?"

The Frost Great Shaman's light blue eyes narrowed slightly, his gaze fixed on the Ice Bead in his hand, and after a moment of thought, he spoke to the Frost Chieftain.

"Once the Cold Tide Devourer locks onto the human troops, our warriors can enter; now is the time."

Hearing this news, the Frost Chieftain looked toward Chadongjia at his side, and Chadongjia, seeing this, immediately bowed and saluted.

"Chieftain, I shall go and issue the attack order immediately!"

As the orders were issued one by one, the Frost warriors began to enter the deep gray Frost Mist, and a trace of a smile appeared on the Frost Chieftain's cold face.

Just as the Frost troops entered the deep gray Frost Mist, a dazzling golden light erupted from within the deep gray Frost Mist, accompanied by a sudden surge of powerful energy fluctuations.

"What is this!"