Warhammer 40: Doom

Chapter 355: Falling into a trap
Within the hive city, human servants erected ceremonial spires. Lady Krak resided within these spires, drawing upon human spirit to amplify her own psychic power.

The twisted and menacing black stone spires stand tall in the gloomy mist, obscuring light and shadow, appearing sinister and terrifying; their first impression is one of evil.

Faced with the sudden attack of the soulless machine, the top of the spire glowed with a faint purple light, and a hideous and twisted silhouette was reflected on the tower's porthole.

If an ordinary person were to witness this, they would surely be horrified and go insane amidst screams.

The oracle equipment on the spaceship was also unable to accurately locate its physical existence; the holographic projection was a jumble of characters, the images converging and then breaking apart, just like Gera's memories.

The mist that permeated the jungle settled down, and the water vapor quickly condensed into ice, causing widespread psionic fluctuations that led to drastic changes in the surrounding environment.

"Psionic fluctuations detected!"

Captain Wang Liang issued a warning, and the alarm suddenly sounded in the silent bridge, with the constant hum of machinery and readings echoing throughout.

Li Tang remained calm. The psionic counterattack from Lady Clara was exactly what he had expected, and everything was still under control.

Instead of panicking, he gave a cold laugh.

The battle has only just begun. Our side has only deployed some unmanned machines, yet it has forced Lady Clara to take action personally. The aliens are indeed lacking in resources.

However, Li Tang did not underestimate her. His confrontation with Lady Clara was only easy because he had the advantage of timing, location, and popular support.

The fleet is entirely composed of Omnic Brothers, so Lady Krall has no chance of getting away with it.

The Doomsday Warrior and the Imperial Guard are both extremely resilient, their minds are hard to shake, and they can resist the Xenomorph's mental attacks.

If this were an ordinary legion, the fleet would already be in chaos, let alone be able to launch an attack.

The fate of the four thousand extreme warriors serves as a painful lesson from the past.

Faced with Lady Clara's psionic magic, Li Tang did not take any restraint, allowing them to attack while the fleet gathered further intelligence.

There are countless terrifying races in the universe, and Lady Kra is just one of them.

The intelligence provided by the human empire was not detailed, but consisted only of warnings piled up with terrifying language.

Li Tang took a longer-term view, and with a significant advantage, allowed Lady Kra to do whatever she wanted, analyzing and recording the characteristics of the alien race.

After all, alien races may be scattered throughout the galaxy, and humans could encounter them at any time. The data we are collecting now can save many warriors.

Above the main planet of Gera, psionic light pulsed between the spires, and with a murmured whisper, millions of bolts of lightning shot out!

Crackling sound~
The dull thunder roared like a thousand birds chirping, the jagged spires connected one another, and the psionic lightning surged into a sea of ​​thunder. In an instant, the entire nest, covering thousands of square kilometers, was shrouded in a purple sea of ​​thunder.

Millions of anti-gravity drones surged and tumbled in a thunderous ocean, lightning piercing their thin armor, overloading their internal components, and exploding into fireballs.

With just one attack, the swarm of bees sent by Nur was easily destroyed by Lady Kra.

The Thunder Ocean slowly subsided, and the skies above the Nest City returned to calm. The drone swarm transformed into fireballs and fell from the sky.

In the desolate city, the mortals' empty expressions revealed eerie smiles as they looked up at the sky, as if mocking humanity's powerlessness.

On the bridge of the old Glory, Captain Wang Liang'er, the Iron Man, faithfully recorded: "Lady Kra, a psionic race, whose psionic characteristics are compatible with each other and can jointly launch large-scale psionic spells."

Li Tang remained expressionless and gave no instructions, awaiting the counterattack from the aircraft carrier's command center.

The power of ancient intelligent machines is beyond the imagination of modern humans.

How could rebellious omnics, by merely winning through numbers, end humanity's golden age and leave modern humans with lingering fears?

Just as Lady Kra was feeling smug, the pyramid floating outside the hive city emitted a blue light from its top, which scattered across the ground and scanned into the depths of the hive city.

The beam of light caused no visible damage as it swept across the burning wreckage of the destroyed drone. Mrs. Clara was bewildered, unable to understand what kind of tricks humans were playing.

Without drones, the Pyramid Hive, now unarmed, poses no threat and is nothing more than a sitting duck.

Then, a strange scene happened.

Where the beam of light swept, the crashed drones on the ground trembled slightly, and their spherical wreckage began to roll backward along the trajectory they had before coming to a stop!

This scene was horrifying; the machine, which had lost power, had mysteriously come back to life.

Mortals launched an attack under orders, attempting to stop it all, but it was all in vain.

Reconstruction Beam! The top-secret technology that Iron Man has used countless times to rise from the battlefield and relentlessly advance forward.

The Reconstructed Beam is a fusion of time technology and causal technology; it is so mysterious and incredible that it redefines the boundaries of technology.

This technology is like magic, breaking the laws of physics, involving complex quantum mechanics and causality, and giving machines the chance to "start over".

The machinery that signed the repair agreement, under the influence of the power of reconstruction, reversed the "result" of its destruction, traveled through time, and returned to before the "cause".

Lady Clara screamed in terror, unable to comprehend the mystery, and shocked by the technology and magic that transcended their understanding.

Everything was as usual. The eyeball-like anti-gravity drone returned to the void, fired light bullets from its lens, and continued to carry out its unfinished mission.

The dense "biu~biu~" sound of the light bullets was teasing Mrs. Clara's nerves.

The cold, hard laws of the real universe mock the powerlessness of psionic energy, proving that the power of technology is no less formidable than the evil magic of the lower dimensions.

From within the spire, strange and eerie sounds emanated, too indistinct to be clearly heard.

The emotions of the psionic race shifted rapidly, and the intense emotions caused ripples, leading to the collapse of the physical structure and a further increase in psionic power.

Lady Clara did not cooperate; they roared, and under the absolute will, psychic energy transformed into the most ferocious attack.

On the battlefield, various psionic phenomena appeared: time reversal, black holes of will, zero-degree freezing, flames, frost, and lightning.

The magic, far beyond human imagination, was wielded by Lady Clara with ease. The nest collapsed amidst the tremors, and large swarms of drones were wiped out.

Then the reconstructed beam lights up again, the machine reverses causality and returns to its original state, and continues to move forward.

This is a mythical battlefield. Even with their minds taken away, mortals instinctively feel fear and tremble among the ruins of buildings.

Physical technology and the forces of the subspace clashed, leaving the hive devastated. Life was like wild grass caught in a storm, its fate beyond its control.

As the battlefield expands and psionic energy is excessively abused, reality and the warp overlap, and the hive city gradually becomes warp-like.

The laws of physics were at a disadvantage, the restart rate of the reconstructed beams decreased, and many drones were unable to restart and went completely silent.

Lady Krall wasn't having an easy time either. With the warp shifting into reality, although psionic magic had been significantly enhanced, continuously casting spells consumed her mental energy at an extremely rapid rate, and certain terrifying beings in the warp had taken notice of this place.

Forced to reduce the frequency of attacks, alleviate mental fatigue, balance the warp and reality, and escape the sight of the warp's powerful beings.

On the planetary orbital voidship, Li Tang noticed the alien's exhaustion and seized the crucial opportunity, shouting, "Release the airdrop pod!"

He released a mixed force, five companies of Destruction Warriors, along with Iron Men and the Imperial Guard, and began to purge Lady Clare.

The airdrop capsule entered the planet's orbit at high speed, heading straight for the Nest City.

Li Tang employed precision strike tactics, with a clear and specific drop location, stopping the planetary shield generator and destroying the plasma reactor.

The airdrop pod fell like raindrops into the ocean, creating ripples, and pierced through the planet's shield, whistling and suffocating the thick fog that shrouded the planet.

After entering the atmosphere, the top of the airdrop capsule was ignited again, and the speed increased instead of decreasing, reaching a terrifying Mach 30!

Humanity's elite strike force, carrying fire and thunder, crashed into the hive city.

The drones quickly adjusted their formation to form a defensive network, clearing the landing site of the airdrop pods and ensuring safety at the first moment.

With the arrival of a large number of Doom Warriors, like nails anchoring the real universe, the power of the warp began to dissipate.

Lady Clara, hiding inside the spire, felt a suffocating sensation, her mind was no longer clear, and her connection with the warp was weakened.

The most perplexing thing for them was that the terrifying existence of the subspace seemed to immediately shift their focus away from it.

It seemed to spot its predator from afar and then quickly left.

One after another, the airdropped pods descended at speeds comparable to meteorites, creating craters in the nest city and kicking up clouds of dust.

Lady Clara was secretly delighted. In their eyes, humanity's abandonment of orbital firepower advantage in favor of ground combat was tantamount to walking into a trap.

Limited by distance, they cannot overcome the resilient spirit; at such close range, it is their perfect home ground.

(weak)
(End of this chapter)