Chapter 418

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

Luna, standing beside the Warp Rift, took in the entire scene.

She felt no anger, no panic; the corners of her mouth, half-hidden beneath her hood, curved higher and higher until she could no longer suppress a sharp, wild laugh.

"Here you come... you finally came! Hahaha~~~"

She gazed at that tall, upright figure in military uniform at the front of the position, a morbid excitement flashing in her eyes, like a hunter who had laid his plans for ages finally seeing the prey step into the trap.

She had schemed to set up the Nine-Sided Sealing Spirit Array, lured Gu Yu deep inside, not merely to kill a Tyranid Chosen Construct.

Her true target had always been Lin En.

She understood this man; he appeared calm and rational, prioritizing the big picture in all things, but deep in his bones he protected his own people to an absurd degree.

With that damn insect trapped, he could not possibly sit idly by.

As long as he personally stepped into the Underground Third Floor, stepped into this Land of No Delay, everything would be under her control.

"Good, very good..." Luna murmured softly.

Spirit energy slowly rotated in her palm, the multifaceted crystal atop her staff glowing with a dark blue light verging on black.

"Since you've come, stay here forever."

She fiercely lifted her gaze, sweeping across the dozen-odd Double-Faced Sorcerers lined up beside her, her voice carrying hysterical zealotry:

"Begin the sacrifice! With your souls as the guide, borrow the Lord of Change's power, overturn heaven and earth in this place!"

The sorcerers bowed in unison, both faces on each simultaneously revealing strange smiles.

The next second, the heads of the three foremost sorcerers exploded without warning, scarlet blood and gray-white brain matter spraying in all directions.

Their souls, however, were drawn out by an invisible force, turning into streams of dark blue energy that flowed along the witchcraft patterns into the staff in Luna's hand.

Immediately came the second batch. The third batch...

One sorcerer after another burst apart and died in succession, not even having time to shriek.

In the span of a few breaths, over a dozen sorcerers had all turned into flesh and blood covering the ground, their soul power entirely poured into the witchcraft array.

Luna's body trembled slightly from the influx of massive spirit energy, an abnormal flush rising on her face beneath the hood.

She raised her staff high, shouting with all her strength: "Force Deviation!"

Hum!!!

A ring of dark blue energy ripples spread rapidly outward from her, racing along the rock walls of the Xuan Lie Jie Ti.

The Vanguard Soldiers currently firing only felt the ground beneath their feet suddenly go light, their bodies involuntarily pitching forward, the bomb guns in their hands nearly flying from their grasp.

This was no illusion.

The gravity that had originally pointed straight down, pinning people to the stair surface, had actually deviated at this moment!

The direction of gravity no longer pointed toward the bottom of the deep pit, but became vertical to the side walls of the Xuan Lie Jie Ti, radiating outward.

In other words, the Xuan Lie Jie Ti that originally required looking up to climb had, for the demons, completely become rings of flat, spread-out "level ground".

They no longer needed to climb upward under cannon fire; they only needed to run forward along the stair loop to charge straight to the human position!

And those protruding stair edges, the sunken platform gaps, had all become natural cover at this moment.

The demons could hide behind the stair faces, pressing closer step by step; human cannon fire could no longer form a smooth slope kill zone.

"What's happening? Gravity's been changed?!"

A gunner stumbled as he braced against the gun mount, looking down in horror.

The Bleeding Ghosts that had originally been clinging to the stair edges, moving sluggishly, now straightened their bodies en masse and sprinted up the vertical side walls of the stairs.

Using the stair protrusions as cover to dodge cannon fire, their charge speed was more than triple what it had been before!

The Blood Flesh Hunting Dog packs were even more in their element, adjusting flight posture along the deviated gravity field, skimming the stair tops as they rapidly closed in.

The toxic mist raised by the Plague Bearers surged toward the position like a tide.

The Lord of Lust's daemons were even more elusive, nimbly leaping between multiple gravity planes, reaching the vicinity of the position in the blink of an eye.

"Fire! Don't stop!" the company commander roared hoarsely, but the barrage's killing efficiency had already plummeted off a cliff.

Most shells struck the hard stair faces, blasting clouds of gravel, yet unable to harm the demons hiding behind them.

By the time the demons closed in, the moment of close-quarters combat, the human infantry's disadvantage was instantly laid bare.

It wasn't over yet; the seven remaining Chaos Knight Mecha also gradually activated along the stairs after the deviation.

The heavy mecha trod the stair faces as if on level ground, Volcano Cannons and Thermal Cannons all raising in unison, unleashing a salvo at the human position.

Boom! Orange-red Heat Melt Rays and explosion firelight erupted in succession along the frontline of the position.

Two soldiers operating a scatter-shot cannon had no time to dodge; both men and gun were melted into a lump of charred scrap iron.

The Spirit Energy Barrier shuddered violently; the Bishops maintaining the barrier all groaned in unison, purple blood spurting out.

The addition of the Chaos Knights was like seven of the most ferocious siege hammers, smashing down on a defensive line already teetering on the brink of collapse.

Soldiers were forced to fall back again, heavy firepower points destroyed one after another, the situation instantly tipping back to Luna's side.

Luna by the rift watched the human line retreating step by step, listened to the rising and falling shrieks, and laughed even more unbridledly.

But this still wasn't what excited her most.

Her gaze pierced through the thick rock layer, as if she could see the boiling battlefield in orbit above, see the emptily guarded Middle City.

Dominic was tied down dead by the Nurgle Fleet, the Brevis Expedition Fleet all diverted to support Space, Lin En leading the Vanguard Army main force trapped in the Underground Third Floor...

The ground defense was empty.

This was the situation she truly desired.

Lure the tiger away from the mountain; feint east, strike west.

The underground slaughter was never the end, merely a decoy to draw attention.

"Time to close the net." Luna smiled softly, her fingertip tapping lightly on the staff top.

An extremely faint signal, yet bearing a distinct mark, spread rapidly along the underground witchcraft nodes, passing through the warp domain rock layer, passing through the pipe, reaching straight to every corner of Middle City.

She had lain dormant for so long; all the pieces she had placed in Bottom City and Middle City had finally reached the moment of activation.