Chapter 40: Warhammer: What Do You Mean You Conquered the Bug Race

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

In an instant, all the previously scattered clues, all the illogical doubts, connected completely.

Why did the residual pheromones from those suppressed Nests mysteriously "flow" toward the same Area?

Why was Lin En so obsessed with collecting Bug Race remains.

Why did Alpha's Signal disappear for a period of time before?

The answer is right before our eyes.

All the resources, all the scheming, were for the monster before us, Alpha's "metamorphosis"!

Letting her evolve from a "slightly larger Warrior Bug" into this monster that now possesses flight capability, strange armor, and terrifying firepower!

Lin En and Alpha, their objective was never just the Son of Medusa!

And what sent a chill through Cassius even more was that, just as the Son of Medusa's Line was teetering on the verge of collapse due to Lena's rampage.

The Insect Tide was about to break through the final firepower barrier, touching the Anti-Titan Weapon Array's shield that was on the brink of collapse.

The Battlefield situation once again underwent a strange reversal.

Lena, who had been efficiently "harvesting" the Son of Medusa's combat strength, suddenly switched targets without any warning!

She abandoned the next target about to be slaughtered, fiercely dove, and plunged into a Bug Swarm on the flank that was madly crashing against the Line!

Rending Claw swept across, Biological Plasma Cannon spewed, rapidly clearing the other Bug Race.

She even began specifically targeting those Warrior Bugs, relying on aerial Advantage and powerful Individual Combat Power to rapidly eliminate the Bug Race's Command Nodes!

The Bug Swarm, which already possessed a strong desire to attack her, was messed with like this by her.

The offensive rhythm instantly fell into great chaos.

The Human Line, originally about to collapse, miraculously gained a Breathing opportunity because of Lena's sudden "defection" and the triggered Bug Race chaos, and stabilized again!

Miraculously gained a chance to breathe, and stabilized once more!

"She is balancing both parties' strength." Cassius instantly saw through Lena's intent.

Combined with the obvious hostile relationship between Lena and the Bug Race, Cassius completely understood.

Lin En and Alpha's ultimate purpose is by no means simply to eliminate either the Son of Medusa or the Bug Race.

What they want is to let these two undying forces bleed their last drop of blood in this Abyss Incubation Pool!

While delaying the Bug Race's Total Attack (suppressing this vanguard Nest) to the maximum extent, annihilate the Medusa's Sons Squad entirely!

This is an inescapable open scheme.

The moment he led the Squad into this Nest and launched an attack on the Bug Race.

He had already voluntarily jumped into the trap meticulously woven by Lin En.

A sense of powerlessness surged in Cassius's heart.

He prided himself on clear Logic and proper tactics, yet in the end was schemed against by a Mortal.

But, why?

Why did Alpha expose herself so early?

Even to the extent of "helping" them stabilize the Line?

She could have appeared at a later time, when both sides had suffered greater Consumption; wouldn't that be safer, with greater gains?

Cassius's Gaze involuntously turned toward the Rear, those few Anti-Titan Weapon Arrays that were recharging, their Cannon Mouths once again glowing with dangerous Radiance.

Under Lena's "intentional or unintentional" interference and restraint.

The Anti-Titan Weapon Array finally completed reloading and charging before the heavily injured Bug Saint could launch its next destructive volley!

"Target, Bug Saint! All Weapons, volley fire!"

Cassius suppressed all distracting thoughts in his heart and ordered in a hoarse voice.

Regardless of whether this is a trap, the Bug Saint must die! This is the bottom line!

"Sizzle—Boom!!!"

"Hum—Pop!!!"

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

The long-accumulated fiery Light Beams and lethal Missiles, for the third and final time, tore across the Battlefield.

Blasting toward that terrifying Giant Beast that had just struggled to stand firm again, its Biological Cannon Mouth gathering green light once more!

The terrifying Heat Melt Rays and Plasma Cannons, like red-hot knives cutting into butter.

Precisely pierced into the depths of the Bug Saint's previously heavily injured Wound, where carapace had peeled away and tissue was exposed!

Unimaginable High Temperature instantly melted its internal Structure completely!

"Roar!!!"

The Bug Saint let out an earth-shaking, endless pain and reluctance-filled dying Lament.

Its massive Body, like collapsing mountains, fell to its knees with a thunderous crash, then slammed heavily onto the Ground.

Four Anti-Titan Missiles followed closely and precisely delivered this final Blow.

Green flesh and blood, shattered carapace, severed limbs, and various indescribable biological organs.

Like a terrifying storm of flesh and blood, sprayed and scattered in all directions!

The Explosion's shockwave carried the bloody gale, clearing and blowing away everything within hundreds of meters nearby!

Titan-class Creature, Bug Saint, fallen.

With the Bug Saint's death, the remaining Bug Swarms, composed mainly of large quantities of cannon fodder, could no longer pose a threat to Cassius and the others.

Next, they just had to wait for the Anti-Titan Formation to finish its next charge.

Eliminate that largest Variable circling in the air.

The Son of Medusa would be able to win this Battle.

The scales of victory seemed to tilt toward the Human Line.

After the Bug Saint fell, Lena did not rush to flee or launch another attack.

Instead, she landed in the Center of the Human Line, at a piece of equipment destroyed by the Bug Swarm.

She stood there quietly, her purple-red Carapace covered in Scars and scorch marks left by Battle.

Her crimson compound Ice Cold Eye calmly scanned the gun muzzles and cannon muzzles that instantly locked onto her from all Surroundings.

And those Ice Cold Eye gazes behind Power Armor Masks — whether angry, hateful, or despairing.

No hissing, no threatening movements, only a suffocating, ice-cold calm.

The unease in Cassius's heart climbed to its peak at this moment, nearly bursting from his chest!

"Open fire! Full firepower! Kill her!!!"

Cassius let out a near-hoarse roar, simultaneously charging at full speed himself!

He didn't know what Lena intended to do, but he knew he absolutely could not let her Finish!

"Bang bang bang bang bang!!!"

"Zzzt! Boom!"

"For the fallen brothers!"

The remaining warriors, including the Inquisition Army, erupted with their final Battle will at this moment.

Every weapon capable of firing — bolt rounds, energy beams, Heat Melt Rays, even Thermal Bombs thrown recklessly by close combat warriors.

Like a violent storm, they bombarded Lena at the Center of the field from all directions!

That firepower density, enough to instantly reduce a Lander Raider to scrap metal, nearly completely submerged Lena's Position!

However.

The instant the first wave of attacks was about to touch Lena's body surface.

A layer of Translucent, Distorted pale purple halo, a spherical Shield flowing like water ripples, with Lena as Center, suddenly Unfolded!

"Hum~~~"

A low, resonant sound, as if from the depths of the Warp, drowned out all the Roaring of guns and cannons!

All attacks, the moment they contacted that purple Shield, seemed to have slammed into an invisible, absolutely insurmountable Wall of Sighs!

"Spirit Shield! How can she use Psyker power?!" a warrior cried out in alarm.

But an even more shocking, even Strange and Blasphemous scene Immediately followed.

Under the Spirit Shield's cover, Lena's Hideous head, the Warp Domain Skull covered in thick Chitinous Carapace, suddenly emitted a tooth-aching "Crack" sound!

The Carapace split and flipped to both Sides like a living thing, like a bloody flower Blooming, revealing the Inside.

An incomparably huge Brain, its surface covered in convolutions and pulsing Blood Vessels.

That was absolutely not a Warrior Bug's conventional Structure!

Its size, form, and the Psyker Pressure it emitted — condensed like substance, making souls tremble.

【Cross-Border Armament】.

Lin En's final trump card prepared for Lena, Transcending the Bug Race's conventional system.

A brain organ comparable to a Soul Sucking Worm, specializing in Psyker manipulation, revealed itself at this moment.

Next Second.

Lena's exposed huge brain organ violently pulsed!

A Psychic Ripple visible to the naked eye, dark purple, like Ripples from a Stone thrown into a Still Water Pond.

With her as Center, silently yet violently Spreading outward!

No, that wasn't a ripple.

That was a tsunami.

It was a storm.

Carrying ice-cold Insectoid Will, pure Destruction desire.

Spirit Shriek!

Dark purple Psyker radiance, like an instantly Blooming death nebula, Devouring light, Devouring sound, Devouring all hope.

The storm of Destruction descended upon the Earth.

Sweeping up everything remaining on the Position, along with those unyielding roars, unspent fighting spirit, together into that silent Annihilation.