Chapter 454: Warhammer: What Do You Mean You Conquered the Zerg

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

The Middle City front was contracting inward at a visible speed.

The Pioneer Army Elite on the Northern Route tore through the outer defensive lines of the Chaos Believers with Heavy Explosive Guns and Heat Melt Guns.

The State Religion Battle Nuns' flamethrowers plowed burning trenches through the twisted streets.

The roaring of hymns and chain swords intertwined, driving the Supreme Servant Corps entrenched in the Industrial District step by step toward the core of the Warp Domain.

In just two hours, the Imperial Allied Forces advanced a full three kilometers, destroying over a hundred Chaos Temporary Fortifications along the way, while the number of cultists and demons slain was beyond counting.

Although the Lower City Allied Forces on the Southern Route were poorly equipped, they relied on their familiarity with the Nest Capital's alleys, constantly outflanking and ambushing from the sewers and ventilation pipes, and hard-won three supply warehouses occupied by Chaos.

Qi Diao Zhe and gang members charged forward stepping on enemy corpses, their roars mixed with vulgar curses, actually displaying a fearless momentum.

Everyone felt that victory was only a matter of time.

But beneath a Chaos Spire just built from flesh and alloy in the deepest part of the Warp Domain.

Atia stood with hands behind her back, her blue sorcery robe flapping in the twisted airflow.

He looked at the retreating front lines, without a trace of panic on his face, but rather an indifferent air of everything being under control.

"Almost."

He said softly, his gaze shifting to fall on several priests beside him.

Those priests had long since removed the red robes characteristic of the Machine God Cult, replacing them with deep blue vestments embroidered with gold trim, the robes covered with strange runes representing change.

Twisted flesh growths had grown on their exposed prosthetics and interfaces, and madness blue light flickered in their optical lenses.

No longer believers of Omnissiah, but loyal servants of Yi Su.

The lead priest bowed deeply, a fanatical and hoarse voice coming from his metal voice box:

"Adult Atia, the things have been brought."

As the words fell, four flesh-mutated servitors walked forward unsteadily.

Their lower bodies had fused with metal tracks, while their upper bodies grew several writhing tentacles, jointly carrying a metal box half a person tall.

The box surface was engraved with the ancient coat of arms of the Saint Galus Family, and faint blue psychic mist seeped from the cracks, obviously sealed with the highest standard of sealing methods.

"That foolish Knight Regent King actually thought we would really play some family revival house game with her."

The lead Chaos Priest let out a piercing laugh, his metal prosthetic hand lightly tapping the box.

"The entire Saint Galus Family, starting from that old thing Karadong, are nothing more than pawns on my Lord's chessboard."

"Taking advantage of her entanglement with Lin En on the Underground Third Floor, our people easily took the Master's fragments from the secret room in the deepest part of the castle."

Atia nodded slightly, extending her hand.

The seal on the box automatically disintegrated under the power of witchcraft, and the heavy lid slowly rose.

A metal sphere about one meter in diameter floated up from the box, hovering in midair.

The sphere was not a complete whole, but composed of countless metal components of various sizes, ancient crystal origins, and broken parts.

The fragments were balanced by some strange power, the surface covered with dense ancient characters.

These characters changed like flowing water, constantly shifting, sometimes forming complex mechanical blueprints, sometimes breaking apart into unfamiliar formulas.

This was an STC Standard Template Construct.

More accurately, it was a "Spell Fragment" lost here by Yi Su.

Atia stepped forward, her fingertips lightly touching the sphere's surface.

In an instant, sudden change occurred.

The originally slowly flowing human characters suddenly accelerated, like sand and gravel swept up by a wild wind, crazily recombining.

Ancient mechanical inscriptions collapsed one after another, replaced by twisted, strange Yi Su runes.

Pale blue light burst from the cracks in the fragments, becoming brighter and more dazzling.

Indescribable blasphemous whispers emanated from the light sphere—not any language, but able to drill directly into the depths of the human soul, arousing the deepest desires and madness in the heart.

The surrounding light began to twist and bend, as if space itself was deforming under this power.

The temperature near the spire suddenly dropped, and a layer of strange ice crystals with rainbow hues formed on the ground.

"Praise the Lord of Change!"

"My Lord's great power is omnipotent!"

The surrounding Chaos Believers, Thousand Sons warriors, and sorcerers all knelt on the ground, their foreheads pressed tightly against the cold ground, their faces showing extreme fanatical worship.

They kowtowed again and again, their throats emitting hoarse roars, their souls trembling and ecstatic under this blasphemous power.

Atia bathed in the blue light, her arms slowly spread open, chanting obscure and ancient Yi Su incantations in her mouth.

The floating STC sphere slowly rose, passing over the kneeling crowd, passing over the layers of corridors of the spire, finally landing steadily at the very top of the spire.

Boom!!

An indescribably huge pillar of light shot up from the sphere, piercing straight through the cloud layer of the Warp Domain, rushing straight into Brevis's atmosphere.

The pillar of light suddenly scattered in the high sky, like a giant opened oil-paper umbrella, spreading out in all directions with Middle City as the center.

A translucent, rainbow-hued blasphemous barrier formed in Brevis's atmosphere.

It firmly protected all of Brevis below, with Yi Su runes constantly flowing on the barrier's surface, emitting a strange energy that made souls chill.

The Warp Domain, which had been slowly expanding, instantly stabilized under the barrier's cover, and the Warp concentration within the domain climbed severalfold.

Above Brevis's orbit, inside the James Tong's bridge.

Dominic stared intently at the real-time feed of the battlefield below, his brow slightly furrowed.

The ground forces' smooth advance was a good thing, but that Warp Domain was too quiet, quiet to the point of being abnormal.

He had just wanted to order the Vanguard Army to temporarily halt their advance and investigate first before moving, when he saw a piercing blue light suddenly flare in the direction of Middle City.

Immediately after, a massive light film spread across the planet's surface.

"What is that thing?" the escort captain shouted.

Dominic's face instantly darkened:

【67】 "All hands, main cannon calibrate on the Middle City Area, blast that energy barrier open for me!"

"All hands, Main Cannon, calibrate on Zhong Cheng Qu Area—blow that energy barrier open for me!"

The command was transmitted with extreme speed.

Seconds later, the James Tong's broadside macro cannon array roared to life first.

Explosive shells weighing hundreds of tons trailed tail flames, carrying kinetic energy sufficient to pierce cruiser armor, and slammed heavily into that rainbow-colored barrier.

Following closely behind were three Tianhuo Giant Light Spears, azure light pillars like swords of the heavenly gods, cleaving straight down.

But the scene that followed next plunged the entire bridge into silence.

Macro cannon shells capable of tearing apart a giant ship struck the barrier, only stirring up rings of ripples, not leaving a single trace of a crack.

The terrifyingly powerful light spears pierced into the barrier, yet vanished without a trace like stones dropped into the deep sea; the runes on the barrier instead brightened a few degrees.

It not only wasn't destroyed, but seemed to be... absorbing the attack's energy?

"Impossible!" the radar officer cried out in alarm.

"Energy readings are still rising! It seems to be absorbing the light spears' energy!"

Before the words fell, the barrier's surface suddenly bulged into a massive energy vortex.

A flash of blue light at the vortex's center, a spirit energy cannon condensed to the extreme fired back in reverse, precisely striking the forward void shield of a moon-class cruiser in the fleet formation.

"Boom!!!"

Blinding white light blasted open.

That moon-class cruiser's void shield energy bar plummeted at a terrifying speed; in just a single blow, it was directly emptied.

The hull violently trembled, a large section of surface armor blown away by the aftershocks, alarm sounds crazily ringing inside the bridge.

"Report! 'Invincible Warrior' void shield completely lost! Armor damaged seven percent!"

"Energy readings abnormal! Enemy shield rapidly restoring!"

Inside the bridge, not a sound could be heard.

Everyone stared at that rune-flowing desecration barrier on the screen, faces written full of disbelief.

Able to tank a battlecruiser-grade light spear salvo, and absorb energy to counter-strike... just what the hell is this thing?

Dominic looked at that shield, did not speak.

He had campaigned for many years, seen Chaos spirit shields, seen Tai Kong Si Wang quantum shields, yet never seen such a strange, such an outrageous defense system.

"STC..." he softly spat out two words, pupils slightly contracting.

"Could it be, that fragment?"

Only a spell fragment of the Great Enemy of Change could possibly possess such an ability that defies conventional battlefield logic.

Dominic took a deep breath, suppressing the shock waves in his heart.

"Order all warships to cease fire, don't give it energy to charge."

"Immediately contact Brevis, have them use all efforts to understand all information on this thing."

"I need to know its energy upper limit, operating principle, and... weakness."

His voice was still steady, but his tensed green skin body still leaked his gravity at this moment.

The situation, once again, reversed.