From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 624 "Get out of this world."

Roar--!
hiss--!
The Zerg army became more violent when the queen appeared.

The Zerglings abandoned all tactical maneuvers and launched a suicidal charge with sheer numbers.

The Lurkers extended their sickle-like limbs from the fungal blanket and drove back the Flame Lizards that tried to rescue them.

The flying mantises hovering in the sky began to dive at all costs, covering the entire battlefield with acid bombs.

In this desperate encirclement, a captain of a tactical team suddenly burst out with amazing willpower.

The left arm of his power armor had been melted by psychic lightning, and the servo system of his right leg was sparking, but he still dragged his broken body forward.

Boom. Boom.
With every step, the joints of the Titanium Armor made a metallic whine as it could not bear the heavy load.

"For the Emperor!"

He roared, his bolter had long been scrapped, and now he could only rely on a power sword to continue charging.

"Oh?"

The Queen of Blades looked at this tenacious warrior with interest and deliberately weakened the intensity of the psychic lightning. "She" wanted to see how long this giant could hold on.

Amazingly, this blood-soaked warrior actually rushed to "her".

The power sword chopped down with the last of its energy field, leaving a shallow scratch on the queen's bone shoulder armor.

This insignificant injury caused the Queen of Blades' pupils to shrink slightly. "She" could not remember the last time she was injured by a non-psychic.

"interesting."

There was a wave of emotion in the Blade Queen's voice.

"She" suddenly changed her mind and decided to capture this strong-willed warrior alive. A precise psychic attack hit the weak spot of the captain's helmet, causing him to fall into coma instantly.

Several worker bees immediately crawled closer, ready to drag this precious trophy back to the hive for infection and transformation.

The remaining Flame Lizards watched their captain being dragged away by the Zerg, but were unable to break through the Zerg's encirclement.

The sounds of bolt ammunition running out came one after another, and the energy readings of power weapons became critical.

At this critical moment of life and death——

"Bugs, how can you defile the Emperor's offspring?!"

A majestic voice with metallic resonance suddenly resounded throughout the battlefield.

Before the voice fell, a blinding golden light descended from the sky like a spear of judgment, heading straight for the head of the Queen of Blades.

? ?
Faced with the sudden attack, the Blade Queen instantly burst out all her spiritual energy, and at the critical moment, she deployed a barrier and dodged sideways.

boom--! ! !
The explosion caused by the golden light falling to the ground instantly vaporized all the surrounding fungal blankets.

The shock wave blew away countless Zerglings, and even several Lurkers were shaken out of the fungal mat.

When the smoke and dust cleared, a "glass"-shaped crater with a diameter of 100 meters appeared at the center of the explosion, and the unconscious captain was lying on the edge of the crater. It seemed that even the explosion was controlled by some force and deliberately avoided the captain.

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The Blade Queen immediately revealed a solemn look, her dark yellow pupils shrank, and her bone wings fully spread out, entering combat status.

As for the owner who released the golden light, he was still hidden in the smoke and dust that had not yet dissipated, and only a vague outline was faintly visible.

Soon, the tall figure in the smoke gradually became clear.

He is over two meters tall and is dressed in heavy golden armor in the ancient Greek style, with a sheen like liquid sunlight flowing on the armor.

The golden ponytail swayed gently with the fluctuations of psychic energy, and every strand of hair seemed to contain the power of the stars.

The golden spear was wrapped in sacred thunder, and every slight vibration of the spear tip caused the air to hum.

Pallas Athena, goddess of war.

The moment the Flame Lizard saw the other party's appearance clearly, it knew that the other party was the goddess of war Athena, who was specially dispatched here by the Empire to assist them in fighting against the psychics in that universe.

On the other hand, the Blade Queen's bone wings were trembling uneasily.

The psychic perception that "she" was so proud of seemed to be covered with "fog" at this moment, and she was completely unable to judge the strength of the opponent who suddenly appeared in front of her.

What made "her" even more uneasy was that the originally violent Zerg army began to retreat instinctively because of "her" stagnation.

The springtails curled up their limbs, the mantises circled in chaos, and even the lurkers quietly retreated back into the depths of the fungal blanket.

The Zerg army did not continue to attack the Flame Lizard positions, but instead gave these giants a rare opportunity to catch their breath.

Athena swept her eyes across the battlefield, and when she saw several Flame Lizards falling into coma due to severe injuries, resulting in no way to activate the self-destruction program in time, a cold light flashed in her golden pupils.

She did not attack immediately, but simply tapped the ground with her spear.

This simple action triggered an amazing chain reaction——

With the tip of the spear as the center, the fungal carpet within a radius of one kilometer curled and peeled off like burning parchment, revealing the charred land underneath. At the same time, it also forced back the Blade Queen standing in this range and burned the alien insects who still didn't know what was going on.

then--

"Go." Athena said to the Flame Lizards, with unquestionable majesty in her voice, "Take your brothers away from here."

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Hearing this, the more than one hundred surviving Flame Lizards nodded to Athena who had her back to them, and then immediately took action, carrying the seriously injured and unconscious brother, as well as the captain who was almost kidnapped by the Blade Queen, and then slowly retreated in a guard formation.

What was surprising was that the Zerg did not pursue them.

They seemed to be intimidated by the higher-level pressure and could only wander around anxiously.

The Blade Queen finally couldn't hold back any longer, and her bone wings suddenly stretched out completely, with purple-black arcs of psychic energy leaping wildly between the wing membranes.

"She" spread her arms wide, and her slender and sharp fingertips burst out with suffocating energy waves. The air pressure in the entire battlefield suddenly dropped, and even the air became sticky.

call out----! !

With a piercing scream, a terrifying psychic storm erupted with "her" as the center.

The ground cracked inch by inch like fragile glass, and spider-web-like cracks spread outward at an alarming speed. The runaway psychic energy turned into countless purple-black energy tentacles, which pounced on the retreating Flame Lizard Team with destructive force.

Buzz————!!

At this critical moment, Athena raised her left hand slightly.

A perfect golden barrier took shape instantly, with the ancient Olympus divine patterns flowing on its surface.

boom----! !

The turbulent flow of psychic energy hit the barrier, stirring up brilliant energy ripples, but it was still unable to break through this sacred defense.

With this precious cover, the Flame Lizards rushed out of the encirclement at an extremely fast speed.

Seeing this, Athena's golden eyes flashed with contempt, and she said to the Blade Queen a thousand meters away:

"Is this all you can do?"

Her voice sounded like thousands of harmonious voices at the same time, with the multiple echoes unique to gods. "It seems that the evolution of the Zerg is far from enough."

The vibration of each syllable made the surrounding Zerg curl up in pain.

Then, Athena held the Spear of Victory in her right hand, and the tip of the spear suddenly burst into a dazzling light like the sun, and the ancient runes on the spear lit up one by one. Then, Athena's figure gradually blurred in the golden light, and finally turned into a dazzling light mark and disappeared.

? ? ! !
The Blade Queen's keen intuition made her retreat quickly and instinctively, her bone wings making sharp whistling sounds in the air.

But it was too late -

With a "puff", "she" felt a tearing pain in her left wing.

Athena had appeared behind "her" without her noticing, her spear carrying a sacred flame that could purify all filth, leaving a scorched scar on the bone wings that "she" was so proud of.

Dark purple insect blood gushed out of the wound like lava, dripping onto the charred ground with a "sizzling" corrosion sound.

Every drop of blood burned a bowl-sized hole in the ground, and a poisonous purple smoke rose up.

The Blade Queen staggered forward and thrust, instantly putting some distance between herself and Athena, her dark yellow pupils shrinking violently.

Because this is the first time she has suffered such severe trauma since she was crowned the Overlord of the Zerg.

What shocked "her" even more was that the golden flames at the edge of the wound were constantly spreading, devouring "her" spiritual energy at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Those Zerg organizations that claimed to be able to regenerate infinitely completely lost their activity in the face of this sacred flame.

Sensing that something was wrong, the Blade Queen immediately cut off her own bone wings to ensure that her essence would not be affected by the golden flame.

"It's... disappointing."

Athena narrowed her golden eyes slightly, and her slender fingers gently stroked the patterns on the spear.

The spear still glowed like liquid metal in the moonlight, and the ancient Olympus runes appeared and disappeared with her touch.

On the surface, she maintained the solemn demeanor of a deity, but inside she was stirring up a turmoil.

The Intelligence Department described the "Queen of Blades" before them as extremely threatening. A psychic queen who could control billions of insect swarms, she was a calamity that would bring destruction to ordinary people and even countless second-level civilizations.

But the opponent in front of him, with a broken wing and a wound and a changeable face, is not even as good as Darth Vader, who has been "infused" and controlled by a group of evil gods and has become a puppet of chaos.

And those twisted subspace creations could at least bring her some pleasure in battle.

Of course, Athena knew where her calmness came from.

An ordinary Astartes warrior, even a battle-hardened company commander or champion, would probably have difficulty surviving the psychic storm of the Queen of Blades.

Even the imperial guards and their commanders in shining golden armor would have to pay a heavy price to fight against enemies of this level.

But for her
Athena moved her wrists imperceptibly, and her muscle memory reminded her of every morning and evening in the main universe palace, as well as those nights of "long conversations" with the Emperor.

The deep and majestic voice of the Lord of Mankind still echoes in my ears.

Inside the magnificent meditation hall, the Emperor personally instructed her on how to harness the growing torrent of psychic energy within her body. As she and the other party were completely "bound", the essence of her soul had already produced a subtle resonance with the Lord of Mankind.

Today, in terms of the sophistication of her psychic control, she is no less capable than the "Queen" Hera, who is famous for her skills.

And the total amount of psychic energy?

I'm afraid even Hera herself could not have imagined that, with the assistance of the Emperor, her psychic energy reserves had already surpassed conventional cognition and could even be comparable to some Primarchs.

As for pure physical strength?
During the fierce battle on Tatooine, Athena threw the Spear of Victory with her physical strength alone, and it directly pierced through the Chaos-contaminated Star Destroyers in low-Earth orbit.

The pure psychic energy carried by the spear could even completely purify the warp pollution of the entire battleship.

A breeze blew across the battlefield, lifting her golden ponytail.

"Hey"

Athena sighed softly, and this action caused the olive branch pattern on the armor to begin to glow with ripples.

She thought that this expedition would be a good opportunity to stretch her muscles, but she didn't expect that the so-called "primary threat" was not even worthy of her attention, at least not yet.

immediately--

"Is that all you have?"

Athena asked, her voice carrying the unique resonance of divinity.

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But Sarah Kerrigan, who was contaminated by the Zerg and assimilated into the Queen of Blades, had no time to pay attention to Athena's ridicule.

When Athena saw that the other party remained silent, she suddenly raised her spear, and dazzling golden light spread around like a tide.

Tens of thousands of alien insects were reduced to ashes in this holy light, and the fungal blanket melted quickly like snow encountering the scorching sun, and the entire battlefield was cleared of a vacuum zone in an instant.

For the first time, an expression called "horror" appeared on the Queen of Blades' face.

Its psychic perception was sending out crazy alarms, and every cell was screaming danger.

This is not a battle, but a one-sided crushing.

The will of the swarm was sending a retreat signal to "her". The "golden existence" before her eyes was completely beyond the scope of what she could handle at the current stage of evolution.

As for Athena, she did not pursue the victory. She just stood quietly in the center of the battlefield, with her golden spear pointing diagonally at the ground.

Those eyes that contained the power of the stars stared at the Blade Queen who was on high alert, and in her heart she was weighing the emperor's instructions before his departure.

Her divine perception allowed her to clearly capture the other party's chaotic psychic fluctuations. As long as she wanted, she could completely put an end to this so-called Zerg Queen.

But she didn't.

The plan of the Lord of Mankind is like a precisely running gear, with every link closely linked to the next.

The Zerg Queen before her must stay alive to harm those scums who are hostile to the human race.

Athena sighed imperceptibly, and the pure spiritual energy surging around her body diminished a little.

"Get out of this world."

Her voice was like thunder from heaven, causing all the Zerg present to curl up their limbs in pain.

"If you dare to step into human territory again"

Before she finished her words, Athena suddenly turned around and threw out her spear.

The golden light streaked across the sky like a reverse meteor, and pure spiritual energy formed a spiral halo around the spear. A Leviathan bio-ship that had just broken through the atmosphere was pierced through in mid-air by the spear of divine punishment before it could react.

Boom. Boom————!!

The biological armor that was strong enough to withstand orbital cannon bombardment was like thin paper in front of the energy of the "God", and the entire giant ship exploded into a gorgeous plasma fireball in the sky.

"So this is what happens."

Roar----!
Before the echo of the Goddess of War faded away, the Queen of Blades had already let out a shrill retreat cry.

The voice was a mixture of anger and unwillingness, but they had to admit that the "golden existence" before them was far beyond the limits of what the Zerg could cope with at its current stage of evolution.

The remaining Zerg retreated like the receding tide, the mother fleet began an emergency warp, and even the Zerg swarms deep underground in Mar Sara drilled out of the nest and fled in panic.

Athena stood still, her golden armor gleaming in the moonlight.

She watched the last batch of Zerg disappear in orbit, and raised her hand to recall the spear that had broken through the atmosphere and was floating in low-Earth orbit.

The battle was indeed over, but Athena knew that in the greater chess game, it was only the beginning.
(End of this chapter)