Warhammer: Filial Piety Makes Power

Chapter 343 Guilliman with the K-Head

With a roar, a ferocious beast, hundreds of meters tall, burst out of its shell.

Perhaps due to consuming too many Tyrannosaurus Rex, Mordred's form underwent a second transformation.

Its body was covered with a thick, despairing chitinous shell. The neck, which should have been as elegant and slender as a dragon's, had disappeared and become unusually short and thick, with two thin, sharp horns pointing skyward.

Perhaps to preserve its original appearance and let people know that it is Mordred, the behemoth still has four thick arms, and even to show its identity, it has a tuft of yellow hair on its head.

Because of his overly human appearance, the human defenders couldn't immediately tell whether he was friend or foe. But when Mordred killed a Zerg Titan with a single fel breath, the human defenders immediately recognized him as their father.

The saying goes, "Bigger is better, more is better," and these colossal beasts, reaching heights of over 100 meters, greatly boosted the morale of the human defenders.

However, this was far from over. As Mordred transformed into a colossal beast, emerald green fel breath pierced the sky.

A complex and bizarre summoning array emerged from the clouds, raining down streaks of fire and meteors that crashed into the boundless sea of ​​chitinous insects before them.

Beasts that have slumbered for millennia have awakened once more. Accompanied by falling fel-powered meteors, grotesque demons with four arms and long tails descend upon the real world.

This is just the Burning Legion's vanguard, but even so, it's enough.

Driven by Mordred, this fearless Legion of demons plunged into the swarm of insects, giving these country bumpkins from outer space a good taste of warp excrement.

Dante witnessed this scene, but he said nothing. This Primarch had already stopped pretending; he was just a demon, after all. At least he was an ally!
But the Queen of the Life-Shaping Worm thought differently. Ever since it came to this godforsaken place, the Milky Way, it had been constantly frustrated, with all sorts of monsters and demons emerging.

The first to appear were the skeletons on the outskirts of the Milky Way. These dead things had no flesh on them, and they were impossible to kill or wipe out. In particular, their weapons were a perfect counter to the swarm. As long as they were hit, they would decompose into basic particles, thus tying down most of the swarm's main force.

Forced to take a detour, their tentacles stumbled upon that monstrous thing squatting outside the Milky Way.

According to the intelligence provided by the gene stealers, this thing is called the Star God. Just by squatting there, it makes the entire Zerg Hive fleet keep its distance.

The Zerg swarm has encountered Star Gods before; these strange energy beings are not unique to the Milky Way, but why is it so large? It's different from the ones the Zerg have encountered elsewhere.

What can we do? We'll just have to take another detour!
After finally going around in circles, I felt like I could finally have a good meal, but then I ran into a bunch of damn green bastards.

This was the first time the Tyranids had suffered a loss in a war of attrition. Forced to do so, the Leviathan tentacles scattered around could only support that damned world called Euctarius.

Persistence pays off. The Queen of Insects finally found the perfect path. As long as they devoured the organisms in front of them, they would have enough resources to sail into the heart of the Empire.

I tolerated everything before, but what's with these demons in front of me?

The Great Devourer knew that there were energy entities called demons in the warp, so the Queen of Life, as a tentacle node, also knew, but that didn't mean the Queen wanted to fight these money-losing things.

After all, the insects' target is biomass, and the demons are cleaner than those space undead. Unless the insects can grow organs that rely entirely on consuming warp energy to survive, fighting the demons is a losing proposition.

As a creation at the pinnacle of biotechnology, the Queen of the Insects shouldn't have had so many mental activities, but for some reason, she has undergone special changes since arriving in this godforsaken place called the Milky Way.

Especially after arriving in Baal, he was first disturbed by the wailing, then encountered Mordred, that freak, and oh yes, that treacherous beast that always appeared with the thick fog.

After careful calculations, the Queen of Insects came to the conclusion that if they stayed in this place any longer, the biomass they consumed would be insufficient, and they might starve to death on the way to Euctaeus.

But what annoyed the Queen was that the will of the hive kept urging her to capture that monster.

This urging annoyed the Queen of Insects, which was strange, but this feeling arose and intensified as the biomass contaminated by evil energy was collected one by one.

But a swarm is still a swarm, and the power of the hive's will is limitless. A mere queen cannot disobey the orders of the Great Devourer and can only begin to divert biomass reserves meant for flight fuel to continue massing troops, throwing herself into this meaningless war of attrition.

However, the Queen of Insects overlooked a crucial factor: the half of the Tyrant's head that Mordred was munching on as a snack.

This advanced unit was incredibly beneficial, not only restoring Mordred's mana but also connecting him to the Zerg network. Although the Great Devourer was immensely powerful, Mordred was no pushover. With his 88,000-gold headset, he could monitor the enemy's every move, including the Queen's.

With a single stomp, the unfortunate executioner was killed. Without wasting a single drop, the poor fellow was pulled into Mored's body by the fleshy tentacles that spread from his body, continuing to expand the enormous size of this savage beast.

With the aid of the mind network, Mordred invaded his good brother Zhuang Sen's mind: "Stop rushing in, that stupid bug wants to go all in, quickly retreat and defend the base, I'm about to unleash my ultimate move."

After thousands of years of evolution, the Lion King is no longer the barbarian he once was. Although he is still somewhat barbaric, at least he no longer hisses for no reason.

Seeing the group of bizarre demons that looked exactly like Mordred, practically scaled down, holding the line, the Lion King immediately ordered all the defenders to retreat.

Perhaps due to consuming too many fel crystals, the Dark Angel and Holy Blood Angel inevitably exhibited some characteristics of Atlas, and even while retreating, they did not forget to scavenge for supplies.

The scattered ammunition was manageable, but some people also picked up a pile of scrap metal, chitinous armor from some insects, and even some random things like living bone blades.

During the steady retreat, some technical soldiers, in a moment of impulsiveness and under some strange ideology, actually stuck these bio-armored items onto their bodies. Even more abstractly, these living weapons could actually be used.

But none of that matters. What matters is that as more and more Legion demons are summoned, the Baal resistance finally has a chance to catch its breath.

No one was going to waste this precious gap. The engineers, who had been waiting for a long time, poured out of the fortress to repair the fortress bunkers that had been torn apart by the insects and carried box after box of ammunition to reload the weapons.

Thirteen minutes later, the swarm's second wave of attack arrived instantly.

The Blade Bugs, which were originally used for farming experience, have disappeared and been replaced by the more agile Gun Bugs with ranged attack capabilities. The Titan units, such as the Zerg Saint, which were completely countered by Mordekaiser, have also vanished. In their place, a degraded version of the Zergling Tyrant and its matching Cannon Bug Executioner are mass-produced.

Without giving the Queen of Insects a chance to cause trouble, after obtaining such a massive amount of material, the Star God fragment from the Burner was completely digested, and Mordred also unleashed his ultimate move.

As his first battle after returning to the Empire, Mordred certainly wouldn't miss this opportunity to show off. He trotted over to the fortress, his arrogant roar echoing throughout the sky:

"Destroy the tomb peaks, end everything!"

Accompanied by this seemingly powerful but enigmatic name of the attack, countless fleshy tentacles burning with emerald green flames burst forth from Mordred's body, piercing into the bodies of every Tyranid in front of him at a speed that completely defied the laws of physics.

The emerald green evil fire originating from the Burner ignores defenses; any insect pierced by its tentacles will undergo a secondary implosion, continuing to spray tentacles outwards. Even gargoyles, which are aerial units, cannot avoid it.

In an instant, the originally chaotic battlefield fell silent. From the perspective of a psionicist, one would see that the warp shadow that had been shrouding Baal was being gradually devoured by some dark, illusory tentacles.

But this was only the maximum Morde could do at the moment. This ultimate move consumed all of his fel energy reserves, and as his fleshy tentacles retracted, his entire body once again transformed into a giant fleshy egg.

At this very moment, just as at that very moment, gazing upon the colossal, fleshy egg standing in the center of the battlefield, everyone knew that a new round of tug-of-war was about to begin.

Thus, whenever the battlefield reaches its climax, Mordred, having eaten her fill, will emerge from her shell again, unleashing a powerful attack to clear out all the minions in front of her, before falling back into hibernation.

After repeated cycles, by the time the 82nd day arrived, not only the human defenders but also the Terran Zerg had become numb.

Everyone wants to win, but no one can win. Without air superiority, the defenders cannot stop the swarm from sending out tentacles to plunder the surrounding world.

Meanwhile, the battle group fleet, which was launching a fierce attack from the outside, locked down the Zerg hive.

This protracted war lasted for two and a half years. The Dark Angels and Blood Angels suffered heavy casualties from top to bottom, the mortal auxiliary forces were reduced to less than one-tenth, and the total fleet of the two warbands was wiped out by 70%. The entire Baal was completely reduced to a dead star.

But it was all worth it. The swarm finally couldn't hold on any longer, but just as the great counterattack was about to begin and the dawn of victory was approaching, an unexpected event occurred.

After two and a half years of hard work to clear the Nakmonde Corridor, the Ultramarines finally arrived in Baal. Facing the dying Zerg Hive fleet, Guilliman knew that his chance had come.

"On my command, all troops, launch a full-scale attack!"

(End of this chapter)