Chapter 15: Warhammer: What Do You Mean You Conquered the Bug Race

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

After returning to a relatively safe place, Lin En immediately contacted Lena through the system.

"We need to observe the Son of Medusa's specific combat details during his next operation,

I might be under surveillance, and they don't allow anyone near when they carry out missions,"

Lena's cold information fluctuation came from the other end of the link.

Roughly, she could help Lin En think of a way, acting as his eyes.

Although Lena was still as mechanical and aloof as ever,

Lin En still felt warm in his heart, at least his efforts truly had a return.

Lena wouldn't abandon him one day upon meeting a "real husband."

Afterwards Lin En quickly told Lena his plan.

Soon, Cassius confirmed the next target.

A nest located deeper at the border between the Seventh District and the Eighth District, suspected to contain a high-level "Node Creature."

This mission's target rating was higher, the threat greater.

Before the operation, Cassius found Lin En, giving the command as concise as ever:

"Provide outer interference, attract possible diverted bug swarms, core area, your team is prohibited from approaching."

It didn't matter at all, anyway Lin En didn't plan to obtain information by himself.

On the day of the operation, Lin En led his team to make a big show of creating noise in the designated area, attracting the attention of some Tyranid Units.

At the same time, several Gargoyles that almost blended into the dim surroundings rose into the air silently like ghosts.

As air force cannon fodder of the Bug Race, the number of Gargoyles was often frighteningly large.

And their Stealth Carapaces were also very suitable for reconnaissance of targets.

Using the huge Ventilation Shafts of the Nest Capital and gaps between buildings, they sneaked toward the Core Area where Cassius Squad was breaking in.

Through the Consciousness Network link, Lena could see clear images of the scene through the Gargoyles.

She "saw" it.

The Core Nest was located at the bottom of a huge, abandoned Elevator Shaft, the space was spacious.

But it was covered with thick Fungal Carpets and thick Organic Growth Structures pulsing with dark purple light.

This place was obviously an important node operated by the Bug Race for a long time.

Cassius Squad's breaking in was not silent.

They "charged" in.

When the Gargoyles quietly clung to the shadows above the well wall, the battle below had already become white-hot.

【35: The first thing to enter the "eyes" was three Terminator Armors like moving Fortresses.

The first thing to meet the Ice Cold Eye was three Terminator Armors like moving Fortresses.

The thick Ceramic Steel shells were covered with white markings of the Magra Clan and traces of combat wear.

The huge Cyclone Missile Launchers on the shoulder armor emitted an aura of Destruction.

Two Terminators held Assault Cannons, six rotating barrels spewing out continuous Heavy Explosive Guns, weaving a deathly Metal Storm.

Instantly tearing into pieces any Insect Tide attempting to surge from the front, among them even a Warrior Bug.

The firelight of explosions and remnants of flesh and blood almost covered that area.

Another Terminator was equipped with a "Heavy Flamethrower."

A more lasting and terrifying Fire Dragon Assault swept across the Fungal Carpet and Organic Growth Structures, igniting them into a spreading sea of fire.

Scorching the bug eggs and low-level Units hidden within, the pungent stench of burning could be easily felt through the Gargoyles' senses.

The Terminator Squad was like an iron nail, nailed at the nest entrance.

Using the most violent firepower to suppress and consume the Bug Race's living strength head-on.

And between them and on the Ce Yu, warriors in ordinary Power Armor formed the second line of battle.

Cassius himself did not hide in the back to command.

He was at the forefront of the battle line, every swing of his Power Axe in hand brought a bloody rain.

The third prosthetic of the same style as the Machine Cult held that Heavy Missile Gun, precise and deadly.

Those elite Units about to break through the Firepower Net were all intercepted one by one by this sergeant.

The "Iron Halo" behind him, under intense energy Disturbance and firelight reflection, slightly distorted the surrounding light.

Like an invisible Force Field, occasionally stray bullets or acid splashing over seemed to be deflected or weakened slightly by some power.

He was not only a Commander, but also the sharpest Sword.

Other warriors each performed their own duties.

Heavy Explosive Gunners focused on sniping threats at medium and long distances and suppressing clusters.

Flamers cleared small bug swarms attempting to surge from side Flanks pipes and purified key Areas.

Heat Melt Gunners played the role of elite assassins, their targets often being Biological Turrets and Psychic Pods with especially thick Carapaces or suspected to be node affiliated structures.

Incandescent Light flashed past, and the target disappeared in a world-shaking Explosion or a sizzling vaporization sound.

Their Cooperation was precise like a Machine.

No shouting, no extra movements, only the Roaring of weapons firing, the hissing of Machine Operation, and the short hissing of Tyranid Units dying.

Ammunition transported by the Servitors was endless, and the firepower never ceased.

Before such a narrow and deadly corridor of firepower, the Bug Race's numerical advantage seemed pale and powerless.

The only thing that could threaten them was a Neuron Worm, also called a Soul Sucking Worm.

As an evolution of the Brain Worm, its structure was nearly identical to a Brain Worm's, with extremely atrophied limbs paired with an exaggeratedly large brain.

However, the Soul Sucking Worm's size was even more exaggerated than an ordinary Brain Worm's; its brain, three to four meters long, spoke for itself.

Its appearance caused even the Gargoyles spying in secret to experience fluctuations in their link to the Lena Consciousness Network.

The terrifying ray released by its Psychic Cannon left a chasm nearly ten meters wide on the ground.

Had the Son of Medusa not been prepared for it in advance, casualties would likely have occurred.

Fortunately, this Soul Sucking Worm had only just evolved from a Brain Worm, and the Insect Nest consciousness had not equipped it with a complete Psychic Matrix (usually an amplification squad composed of two to five ordinary Brain Worms).

Otherwise, relying on the Son of Medusa's not-high Psyker Resistance, the outcome of this battle might have been different.

But Cassius was not unprepared.

Before departure, they had already detected the abnormal Psyker Fluctuations in that place and long known that a powerful Psyker Unit was present.

Before the Soul Sucking Worm launched its second attack, a Son of Medusa walked to the front of the Team.

He set down and opened the heavy Iron Coffin behind him, and a frail blind old man walked out from inside.

The old man had various pipes inserted all over his body, pressed his palms together, and silently recited prayers.

A Spirit Energy Barrier appeared in front of the Sons of Medusa, while at the same time four warriors raised giant shields to surround it, preventing it from being killed.

A Psyker Ray containing terrifying power bombarded the barrier, and its aftereffects slowed the passage of time throughout the entire area.

Lena felt her link to the Gargoyles had become very weak.

The Spirit Energy User began bleeding from all seven orifices, but at least they blocked this Blow.

Seizing the gap in the Soul Sucking Worm's attack, Cassius, who had removed his Helmet at some point, charged out of the barrier.