Warhammer 40 Spring: Loyalty of the Multiverse

Chapter 270 The Lighthouse Catastrophe 2
Charles, Victor, and the others finally arrived. Seeing the tense standoff, Victor shouted, "Are you going to violate the Lighthouse Law?"

Charles, still with one hand behind his back, stepped forward confidently and began to reprimand Fang Qiu: "The Hunters have not only violated the Lighthouse Laws, but some of them have also broken the Lighthouse's Three Laws. Furthermore, their refusal to carry out breeding missions has severely damaged the Lighthouse's supply of high-quality genetic material and caused immeasurable harm to the continuation of the human race!"

At this point, Charles turned to look at Victor and then said respectfully, "General Victor, perhaps we should burn those who violate the three laws of the Lighthouse at the stake and exile those who break the laws of the Lighthouse!"

After saying this, he stepped forward and spoke loudly to demonstrate the righteousness of his current position: "Only in this way can we firmly deter those disloyal ministers on the Lighthouse, and only in this way can the Lord of Light and Shadow better protect us!"

Upon hearing this, everyone present, including Vatican and the Light and Shadow Society, hurriedly bowed and said, "Therefore, I am here!"

Victor coldly glanced at Ars in front of him, then strode forward and said loudly, "Donnie and Penny are immediately imprisoned and await the city lord's judgment. Hunters Xuefeng, Jeff, Gaoge, Mocheng, Corey... and other leaders are also imprisoned! All hunters, return to your posts immediately and assemble to be ready to go to the ground to collect supplies at any time."

After saying that, he looked at the city defense troops and said, "Immediately activate the anti-aircraft array weapons. At the same time, increase the number of people patrolling the entire lighthouse to prevent any rioters from causing trouble! If any are found, kill them on the spot without reporting!"

"Yes!"

The city defense troops were the first to obey orders and slowly disperse to their respective posts. After all, they had also felt the tremor just now.

The hunters looked at each other, unsure of what to do, especially since several important figures from the lighthouse had also arrived.

Their key figures, Mark and his adjutant Ran Bing, are still nowhere to be found.

"On General Victor's orders, all hunters, immediately proceed to the armory to await orders!" At this moment, Ran Bing's voice rang out again from behind the many hunters.

Everyone looked over and saw Ran Bing and Instructor Elon walking over together. Elon looked at the situation and, combined with the information he had received, coldly snorted, "The Lighthouse is in dire need of manpower right now. Dealing with the main criminals is enough. As for the others, I think we can let them redeem themselves through meritorious service later!"

As he spoke, his gaze fell upon the confident Charles. "After all, the Lord of Light and Shadow cannot provide us with the resources to keep the Lighthouse running!"

Charles glared at Elon upon hearing this, wanting to say something but unsure how to begin.

"If General Victor thinks my approach is inappropriate, perhaps when the Lighthouse runs out of supplies, we can have the city defense forces, the Light and Shadow Society, and the Hunters go down to the surface to gather resources!" Elon was about to embark on a long journey anyway, so he didn't care about dignity or future prospects. He was simply going head-to-head.

Especially these veiled insults made Charles's face turn pale with anger.

"Instructor Elon, all the arrangements at the Lighthouse are made under the guidance of the Lord of Light and Shadow. It's not your place, an old man on his deathbed, to interfere!" Fanti retorted angrily when he saw his master being rebuffed.

Who is Elon?

This guy was shrewd and experienced. He sneered, "Alright, then I suppose if the lighthouse runs out of supplies and the entire lighthouse falls down, only to be swept up by the Devouring Beasts, then that would also be the Lord of Light and Shadow's arrangement?"

"you!"

"All right!"

Fanti was speechless after being rebuked. He wanted to say something harsh, but Victor interrupted him coldly, "Do as Instructor Elon says!"

"General Victor, I think you should know what kind of punishment those who violate the Lighthouse Law and the Three Laws should receive!" Vatican saw Victor speaking up for the Hunters and directly turned his attention to Victor.

“Alright then, the Hunters will be short-handed!” Victor said, turning his back and leading the last of the city's defense troops away into the distance. “Then let the people of the Light and Shadow Society fill the Hunters' manpower gap. Don’t worry, the city's defense troops will provide all the weapons and ammunition unconditionally.”

Vatican tried to say something again, but Charles interrupted him with a gesture.

The hunters and city guards had already begun to leave, leaving only a small group of members from the Light and Shadow Society bewildered in the wind.

“Your Excellency!” Vatican tried to say something, but was interrupted by Charles again.

Charles then removed his white gloves, a relaxed and content look on his face, and brushed the dust off his clothes, saying, "This is all the Lord of Light and Shadow's arrangement! Isn't it?"

“Therefore, I am here!”

“Since the breeding mission has been delayed, let’s urgently arrange the next one! The replenishment of the Lighthouse’s elite, high-quality genetic population must not be interrupted in any way!” With that, he turned and left, but in the end, he gave Vatican a deep look.

“Therefore, I am here!”

Space
Tie Hui and the others looked at the still vigorous Devouring Beast before them and realized how troublesome this creature was. Its attack speed and reaction ability were incredibly fast, even comparable to Astartes. Moreover, its terrifying regenerative ability was even more formidable than that of the Tyranids.

The ordinary Devouring Beasts on the surface, once injured, cannot regenerate as long as they are still alive. They can only regenerate completely after the battle ends or the damage accumulates to a certain level that can kill them.

But this alien could regenerate instantly, no matter where it was injured, within half a second. The arm that had been severed, the one that had inflicted the most damage, had completely regenerated in seconds, and even the damage from Tiberius's power claws could regenerate within seconds. This was making them extremely tired of fighting.
Seeing the smug look on that beast's face with his hands on his hips, this was the first time Tie Hui had ever felt humiliated in front of others in public.

For the first time, he genuinely agreed with the Empire's handling of the Xenomorphs, and as a result, he even started to dislike the Tarazin who was now having a wild time on the ground.

This guy has been calling for backup since the start of the battle. If this drags on any longer, who knows what might come!

lighthouse!

"The navigation authority of the Command Lighthouse has been locked!" Martin exclaimed in the air control room. This situation had never occurred since the Lighthouse was founded.

"Find the cause immediately!" Jing Nan was also startled; clearly, this situation had also taken him by surprise. He then reached for the communication device to contact Lord Morgan, since the highest authority in navigation command rested with the city lord.

"Commander-in-chief, a lot of junk and garbled characters have suddenly appeared in the system! There are too many, and the central control system simply cannot handle them!" Liwen began to clean up these junk and garbled characters, but in the end, he found that the number he cleaned up in one minute was less than the number of junk and garbled characters that were generated in one second.

This was clearly premeditated!

"An unknown force is invading the central control system, attempting to seize control!" Pu Yue immediately issued an alarm. Among the large amount of junk information, a real command was hidden, which gave her a headache.

"How could this happen?" Jingnan muttered in shock, but then said with a determined look, "Immediately notify all departments of the lighthouse to switch the engines to manual control. Navigate according to manual coordinates!"

At this time, the armored parts of the lighthouse roof were riddled with holes. Because the lighthouse was shaped like a large pot lid, when the debris fell, it hit the top armored parts first. And this area, which was part of the main structure of the lighthouse, had always been the area where the upper class lived!
Therefore, for a time, the casualties among the upper class even exceeded those among the lower class. However, the lower class was not in a better position; they lived in small groups of pigeon coops, which were attached to the lighthouse lid by shipping containers.

They were held up by a few steel cables, and in any typhoon, these pigeon cages would be at risk of collapsing and falling.

Now, in some unfortunate pigeonhole locations, the steel cables at the top have been broken by armor fragments falling from the top of the lighthouse, causing them to plummet directly to the ground.

In that instant, countless dust beings were transformed into tiny ants, floating in the air.

The piercing howls echoed throughout the lighthouse, but fortunately, the anti-aircraft weapons opened fire and missiles were launched.

Apart from the initial large fragments, the remaining fragments were all broken into smaller pieces, although they were still able to penetrate the top armor of the lighthouse.

However, there were no more large-scale casualties in the Dust People's area. Instead, the Upper People living on the top floor and even the administrators suffered extremely high casualties.

Meanwhile, the king-level Devouring Beast in outer space, though its face was full of smugness, knew in its heart that it was already at its last gasp.

After all, although its regeneration speed is extremely terrifying, it cannot be replenished with life essence. The energy required for this regeneration is extracted from the life essence accumulated within its own body.

This scale of regeneration has already reduced its life essence by more than half. Furthermore, being in outer space, it lacks direct ecological replenishment.

So it panicked a bit, and now even the bromine mist around it has become lighter than before.

And most importantly, there was the armored man with claws on both hands; the weapon in his hand was the most powerful, capable of even extracting life essence from his body.

This alarmed it, and it wanted to end the fight as soon as possible, by whatever means or with whatever result!

So it put on a smug and mocking look, trying to show that it still had plenty of energy and could fight for another 300 rounds.

But a beast is still a beast. Even though it has absorbed so much human life essence, it is still not as intelligent as a real human.

"We don't have any heavy weapons, so we can only wear them down!" Tiberos stared blankly at the power claw in his hand. This thing was supposed to be very powerful, so why did it seem to do no damage to that alien?
He looked again at the thinning bromine mist around the alien, and for a moment he was at a loss!
"Damn, this thing is really hard to take down without heavy weapons!" Tie Hui agreed with Tiberos's words; this guy is really weird.

Moreover, during a break in the battle, he had specifically asked the Emperor. The Emperor's reply was that with their current equipment, they had no good way to deal with this Devouring Beast; they could only wear it down!
Just deplete the life essence within this beast.

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(End of this chapter)