Chapter 336: Mincing? No, It's a Spiral Ascension! (Part 2)
Densely packed Yunxuji swarm toward the surface, delivering troops in massive numbers.
At the same time, many warships that have retreated to the second line and can no longer go to the front serve as orbital fire platforms, beginning to rain down large numbers of Light Spears and Macro Cannons onto the surface.
"Carry out a full purge of the fallen zone."
"Once the ground forces are replenished and regrouped, our army will launch an immediate full‑scale counterattack."
Lian Tus quickly issues orders to those beside him, then glances at the Aolake, the fleet's flagship not far away, and, still uneasy, asks another question:
"Does the Supreme Saint have any directives?"
An adjutant, hearing this, checks carefully before replying:
"The Supreme Saint said that everything should follow the command on your side, sir."
After confirming that Xisi has no intention of interfering with the command, Lian Tus lets out a sudden sigh of relief, then looks at the towering stack of reinforcements on his projection, his eyes filled only with the exhilaration of finally being able to act without restraint.
Soon, as Lian Tus fully unleashes his command, the ground displays an exaggerated scene as if Green Skin had suddenly grown a brain.
Countless Yunxuji land on the surface, their doors opening, and densely packed Xisi orc hordes surge out in a massive Waaagh.
These orcs, brandishing various weapons, have just reached the ground; when faced with veteran orcs who have already endured bloody battles, they instinctively fall into formation, naturally discover their strengths, and split into designated troop types.
In almost the blink of an eye, the reinforced defensive forces integrate these new orc recruits, and within a few short hours reconstitute massive heavy‑troop clusters.
Some of the new orc recruits even seem to have a flash of insight: one second they're orc youths shouldering blaster pistols.
The next second they drop the blaster pistols, pick up a hammer or wrench, become a technician, and, alongside the tech overlord, begin mass‑producing weapons, gear, and even towering vehicles for the other Xisi orcs.
Many tech overlords even harvest on the spot, using endless chitinous shells to assemble primitive Ancient Giant Bases and numerous orc gun‑cannon carriages.
At the same time, Yunxuji that have emptied their cargo bays will load the remaining humans still on the ground, carry them back onto the armed merchant ships overhead, and prepare to transport them further back.
After all, under Xisi's total mobilization, breeding orcs truly requires a huge workforce.
Such a scene is no longer surprising to the Xisi above, nor even to the Tyranid Worm Sea's hive mind.
What truly puzzles the hive mind is that after transporting the humans and orc forces, the Yunxuji still do not cease.
Instead they continue descending toward the surface, and under the cover of the newly formed massive orc clusters, begin bulk‑packing chitinous shells!
Why are Oukta Liusi's Green Skin so strong?
Because Green Skin and the Tyranid Worm Sea mutually nurture each other.
Thus the Tyranid Worm Sea can absorb all biomass and convert it into its own combat power.
Green Skin also has the same method to convert the Tyranid Worm Sea into Green Skin!
Only, unlike the Tyranid's direct efficient conversion, Green Skin merely tosses it into a decomposition vat.
Green Skin's process is a bit more complex: it first requires constructing a fungal system for breeding Green Skin.
Then......
Use the chitinous shells as super fertilizer, sprinkling them over the fungal ground!
Yes, the Green Skin conversion is only one step more complicated than the Tyranid's.
Otherwise, with more steps, Green Skin couldn't match the Tyranid in numbers.
Now Xisi, to breed more orcs and fill the front‑line's horrific losses, is frantically looting shattered chitinous shells.
What drives the hive mind crazy is that as Xisi heavily deploys orcs, its Tyranid biomass actually begins to dwindle with each battle!
Even as Xisi watches the ground projection, countless mixed clusters of new and old orcs launch a frenzied massive Waaagh toward the Tyranid Worm Sea, all raging with a blood‑pumped, impassioned fervor.
On the other side there is another projection, representing the relatively safe rear.
At this moment, under countless Machine Servitors of the Mechanical Church and mobilized civilian labor, the chitinous shells brought back from the front are pulverized into ash and then shot into the sky by the Mechanical Church's giant smokestack.
Subsequently a dense chitin cloud sea forms, continuously raining chitinous fertilizer rich in biomass onto the earth.
Then the Green Skin spores on the ground, which should have grown at a normal pace, expand visibly like a growth boost, and in just a few short days break out, scanning the area, the first thing a new orc recruit says is "who to hit".
Then a human civilian outfits the barely‑hour‑old orc with armor, leads him to a mountain of weapons, lets him pick whatever handy gear, and tosses him into a Yunxuji loading new recruits.
Uh, yes.
At this moment, the replenished orc cluster beneath Xisi consists overwhelmingly of new orc recruits.
They are all a group of 'orc infants' less than a month old.
And this very group of infants once sent humans spiraling upward.
Soon.
As Xisi's fleet completes another round of replenishment in this world, it also recovers a large number of orc spores that died in bloody battles under Xisi's command.
The massive fleet then sets off toward the next world.
Meanwhile, many transport ships loaded with orc spores, under warship escort, tear open a Subspace rift.
Heading toward a farther planting world.
These battle‑hardened orc spores, carrying Hundredfold‑enhanced war‑DNA, will, on the fungal ground and aided by exaggerated chitin fertilizer, hatch into more, larger, more Waaagh‑filled orcs.
Although frontline workers, humans are too busy to pay any attention to the differences between these successive generations of orcs.
But Xisi's side remains indifferent, even though they must confront the Tyranid Worm Sea's wildly upgraded orcs and the dark spirit race Vickt, whom Xisi treats as completely invisible, and yet, as observers, they are struck by a wholly different terror from this inexplicably bizarre battle in Lian Tus's eyes.
The Tyranid Worm Sea can't really be said to be terrified; after all, it doesn't know what fear is.
But since entering ground combat, watching the endless orc armies that never cease to be slain, and something the others cannot sense, the Tyranid has calculated that its own exchange ratio is actually increasing as the fighting continues.
The Tyranid was momentarily stunned the first time it was hit.
The entire Tyranid Worm Sea, whether from the ground or the void, gradually begins to charge forward with a bewildered onslaught.
Because, in the Tyranid's view, this battle is stranger than Oukta Liusi's.
Oukta Liusi's orcs indeed grow stronger the more they fight, but not to an excessive degree.
But now, confronting the Sanctum Star's orcs wholly led by Xisi, the Tyranid's eyes grow clearer with each battle.
Only one deep doubt remains:
"These orcs, why do they seem different every day?"
End of Chapter
