Chapter 46: War Hammer: What Do You Mean You Conquered the Bug Race

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

M41.999, a calamity long prophesied by the Star Speakers arrived as promised, sweeping swiftly across this scarred star sea.

Chaos Warmaster Iskyel Abaddon.

Leading his vast fleet of Chaos Astartes Legion, Chaos Believers, and Warp Demons.

Charging out of the Eye of Terror, launching the most mad and greatest expedition of his life.

The Thirteenth Black Crusade!

Wherever Abaddon's flagship Soul of Vengeance passed, planets crumbled, fleets were annihilated, and countless worlds were reduced to scorched earth in the chaos tide.

The ultimate goal of this expedition was to destroy the Empire's strategic key point in the Eye of Terror, the Gate of Cadia.

By the end of this campaign, a great rift tearing through space-time would spread from the Cadia Star System, forcibly ripping the entire galaxy in two.

The "boundary" between light and darkness was forcibly divided, and the Human Empire was henceforth split into the "Holy Territory" protected by the Emperor's radiance.

And the "Dark Side" eroded by Warp Energy and ravaged by Chaos Forces, with galactic order completely collapsing.

Even the Necromunda Hive World far at the Empire's frontier could not escape the aftermath of this galactic storm.

Though not directly struck by the Chaos Fleet, it likewise welcomed its own "Calamity."

The Hive Fleet descended!

Early M41.999, at the Medusa's Son Warrior Team fortress in the Telos Star System.

Finally received the secondary distress signal from the Necromunda Hive World.

By this time, Cassius-led Magra Clan Destruction Squad had already been wiped out on Necromunda for over a month.

During this month, Warp Turbulence around Necromunda caused the distress signal to be intercepted multiple times.

Only now did the message barely reach the War Group, and the information was already incomplete.

But from the blurred information fragments, Medusa's Son still understood the general situation.

However, when the Medusa's Son War Group command layer finished parsing the signal and confirmed the identity of the lost squad.

The orbit of Necromunda had already echoed with the Bug Swarm's Roar.

The Hive Fleet's Vanguard Force had already broken through the planet's fragile orbital defense, beginning to drop spore pods and Bug Race Ground Forces onto the Hive.

This Hive World long rooted by the Bug Race had completely fallen into a countdown to destruction.

But to Medusa's Son, the survival or demise of Necromunda was irrelevant.

Whether the Gene-seed of ten Space Marines could be recovered was the core task overriding all else.

Gene-seed is the lifeblood of every Astartes War Group, the foundation for inheriting demigod genes and sustaining the War Group's existence, each one priceless.

Even more alarming to the War Group was if these seeds containing the Steel Hand Gene Sequence fell into the Bug Race's hands.

Being parsed and fused by the Bug Race, it was highly likely to breed new Bug Race subspecies targeting Astartes.

That could pose a threat to the entire War Group and even the Human Empire.

Without the slightest Hesitate, Medusa's Son's Three Great Core Clans.

Atropos Clan, Magra Clan, and Lakshis Clan immediately convened an Emergency Holographic Council.

Finally, they decided to skip all Imperial Bureaucrat processes and begin action directly.

The goal was clear: recover the ten Gene-seeds of Cassius Squad.

The survival or demise of Necromunda and mortal lives were not within their consideration.

Action began, Lakshis Clan's Strike Cruiser Fleet jumped first to near Necromunda.

The fleet first released Bio-psychic Interferers, cutting off the planet's Warp communication with the Hive Fleet mothership.

Delaying the Bug Race's Biomass Integration Speed, while preventing the Bug Race from spreading to surrounding Star Systems.

Then orbital scanning and marking, using high-precision Detectors to locate two core Targets.

The death Coordinates of the ten-man Squad, the Bug Race's Main Hatching Nest and Spore Cloud Generation Point.

Immediately began orbital firepower suppression, precisely bombing the Main Hatching Nest to delay the Bug Race's attack rhythm.

Under the fleet's fire support, Magra Clan and Atropos Clan would form a 120-person mixed formation to forcibly airdrop onto Necromunda.

Atropos Clan's Assault Squad rode Stormhawk Gunships for low-altitude penetration.

Directly airdropping to the Lower Hive, their mission was to establish a temporary defense circle, providing a foothold for subsequent reinforcements.

Next was Magra Clan's Heavy Firepower Squad, they landed with many vehicles at the temporary defense circle.

By deploying Heavy Laser Cannons, Missile Launchers and other armaments to construct a heavy firepower net, suppressing the Insect Tide and Tyranid Beasts surging from all directions.

Magra Clan's Clan Chief personally took command, directing firepower distribution.

After stabilizing the battle situation, Medusa's Son's Apothecaries descended onto Necromunda with the last batch of Troops.

They broke through layers of obstacles in Necromunda's Lower Hive, cleaning up countless Bug Race.

Finally following Cassius Squad's last signal trail, they groped their way all the way to the Abyss Incubation Pool.

The Incubation Pool was already a mess, with scorched Fungal Carpets, shattered Power Armor wreckage, and Bug Race corpses intertwined and piled up.

The air lingered with a mixed Smell of psychic burning and fleshly decay.

The reconnaissance squad members scattered to search, checking the wreckage of the Battle Brothers one by one.

Yet they could not find a single Gene-seed, not even the Battle Brothers' flesh remained.

Those precious legacies had long been stripped from their corpses by Lena in the Bug Race's special way.

"All Gene-seed missing!"

The reconnaissance squad's report transmitted to the fleet, thoroughly igniting the Son of Medusa's fury.

The sacrifice of ten warriors and the loss of precious Gene-seed left this iron-blooded War Group with no last shred of Patience.

For them, this Planet had been sentenced to death from the moment the Hive Fleet descended.

Now even its only value (the Gene-seed) had Disappeared.

Without any hesitation, after the Necromunda Troop returned to the Fleet.

The Fleet Main Cannon immediately began charging, dazzling Energy Light Penetrating the atmosphere.

Like the Emperor's fury, it fiercely Pierced into the Core of the Necromunda Hive World.

Violent Explosions spread across the surface, the Noble Palaces of the Upper Level Nest Capital, the Factories of the Middle Level Nest Capital, the slums of the Bottom Level Nest Capital.

Along with the rampant Bug Race, all turned to ashes in the Cannon Fire.

The Earth cracked, magma Sprayed forth, and the entire Planet became a piece of silent scorched earth in an extremely short time, completely erased from the Star Sea map.

And all of this had nothing to do with Lin En, far away in the Hiliss Star System.

At this time, he, inside a Wanderer-class Merchant Ship after biological modification, relied on Lena's body to look at the starry sky outside the Window.

The Son of Medusa's revenge, the descent of the Hive Fleet, had all become things of the past.