Warhammer: Lord of the Endless Monsters

Chapter 537 The Terrifying Sphere of Sphia, the True Parasite

The leader of the Genestealers cult, the Venerable Father Dragon, let out a deep roar, his psionic tentacles flailing wildly as he tried to find the source of the invasion—someone dared to offend their great race.

The second and third generation gene stealers next to him also received a signal from their father: someone had hacked into the great family network.

Countless cunning individuals began to roar, alerting the mixed-bloods and pure-blooded descendants within their tribe to take defensive measures.

Almost all the cunning members received a signal from their revered father, the Ancestral Dragon, that someone had infiltrated the great family.

"Are there enemy tribesmen? Great commoner princes, there are enemies attacking! Be careful! It's a white monster that can merge into our bodies!"

"They have invaded our sacred bodies! For the sake of the great Four Walls God Emperor, we must hold on and destroy these enemies!" roared a member of the Genestealer Cult.

"For the sake of honoring our ancestral dragon father, and for the sake of the great Four Emperors, we shall destroy these monsters."

A large number of gene stealers began to take up arms, some with explosive guns, laser guns, and plasma weapons. Some gene stealers even obtained human carapaces.

There were even a few sets of power armor suitable for ordinary people to wear, and countless gene stealers joined the battle.

Suddenly, the cave wall cracked open, and a mass of silvery-white substance flowed in like liquid, condensing into a sphere in the air.

"Roar!" The moment the Sphia Sphere appeared, countless gene stealers let out human roars.

The weapons in their hands began to fire, but the Sphia Sphere completely ignored this level of attack and directly charged into the group of gene stealers.

But there was no bloodshed. The white Sphere of Sphia quickly fused into a gene stealer's body, and then gradually devoured his body, turning him into a strange white humanoid creature.

This white, humanoid creature then began attacking the gene stealers.

"Everyone be careful, don't let them touch you, otherwise our bodies will be stolen." The spiritual energy fluctuations of the Venerable Father Ancestral Dragon resounded among all the pure-blooded family members.

"No one should approach for long-range fire. Use laser weapons and explosive weapons."

Some pure-blooded gene stealers emitted psionic shrieks, attempting to use their powerful psionic energy to stop the attack from the Sphere of Sphia!
"Psionic Barrier! Raise the Psionic Barrier!" The psionic roar of the Venerable Father Ancestral Dragon reverberated in the cave, and the three generations of pure-blooded gene stealers immediately formed an array, with pale purple psionic light curtains unfolding layer by layer in the passage.

However, those silvery-white Spheres pierced through the psionic barrier as easily as passing through a thin mist. The Spheres are the ultimate parasitic life forms in the universe.

A fourth-generation hybrid suddenly let out a shrill scream, and his armored chest area began to bulge out strangely.

He frantically tore at his armor, revealing a writhing, silvery-white substance beneath. "Save me! People, save me—" Before he could finish speaking, his entire head suddenly collapsed like a melting wax figure, replaced by a smooth, white sphere.

Another gene stealer was completely infected by the Sphia Sphere, turning into a white humanoid monster, and then launched an attack on its own people.

Some of the gene stealers who were fused with the four Fia are even merging together, turning into a terrifying white monster that is four or five meters tall.

This white monster is incredibly powerful; it can even shoot red lasers from its eyes to launch ranged attacks.

"For the Four-Armed God Emperor!" The three second-generation elders, clad in power armor, fired simultaneously, the blue light from their plasma cannons evaporating the mutant.

But more sphia spheres are seeping out of the cracks in the rock, flowing rapidly along the walls and ceiling like consciously evading the fire net, like mercury.

"They're underground! Watch your step!" A warning from a mixed-race individual came too late.

Suddenly, the entire cave floor glowed with silver light, and dozens of cunning warriors were instantly swallowed up. They struggled to climb out, only to find that their legs had already been assimilated by the silvery substance.

One soldier decisively severed both of his legs, but the flesh at the severed limbs immediately twisted and grew tendril-like white substances.

This terrifying parasitism terrified the Ancestral Dragon of the Venerable Mansion. When did they, the gene stealers, become the parasitic subjects of another life form?

The psychic tentacles of the revered ancestral dragon suddenly surged, crushing the five fused Spheres of Sphia in an attempt to boost the morale of the race.

If he doesn't do something soon, the Poor Prince's Genestealer Cult, which he has painstakingly built up over 200 years, will be completely destroyed.

Damn it, what kind of monsters are these? Why did they suddenly appear on this planet?

The attack from the Venerable Ancestral Dragon was indeed very effective, but it was only temporary.

But after the fragments landed, they grew into new individuals. The oldest second-generation cunning elder suddenly knelt down, and silver light was seeping from the gaps in his power armor.

"Father...they are...rewriting our genes...ah!ah!ah!" The second-generation pureblood chicken thief screamed in agony as his power armor exploded.

A three-meter-tall white giant stood up, with glowing organs mutated from plasma cannon barrels extending from its back.

The four flying spheres not only parasitized their bodies, but their weapons and equipment were also parasitized by the other side in some way.

Rhodes, who watched the whole thing, smirked. The terrifying thing about the Four-Flying Sphere was that it could parasitize not only organic life forms, but also inorganic ones.

Even Martian rocks can be transformed into a powerful monster under the parasitic influence of the Sphere of Specia.

"Retreat! Retreat to the depths of Hallownest!" Fear was heard for the first time in the Ancestral Dragon's psionic shriek.

The surviving purebloods began bombarding the cave ceiling with bomb guns to cause a collapse, while the hybrids frantically hurled stolen molten bombs.

Amidst the towering flames, the silvery-white humanoid figures continued to writhe and reassemble, their shattered body fragments crawling towards the nearest gene-stealer like living creatures.

The patriarch dragon's psychic roar echoed through the cave, his tentacles flailing wildly, unleashing powerful psychic shockwaves in an attempt to shatter the fused Specia monsters.

However, the parasitized gene-stealers were no longer his offspring, but something far more terrifying—their bodies were twisted and deformed, their bones turned outward, their skin covered with a silvery-white substance, and their limbs stretched into sharp tentacles.

Even more terrifying, their weapon systems were assimilated by the Spyria. The barrels of their laser guns turned into living tissue, white substances writhed inside their explosive magazines, and even the outer shells of their power armor slowly writhed, as if they had come to life. Even some of the surrounding steel weapons and equipment became targets for the Spyria spheres to devour; once consumed, these metallic substances immediately formed monstrous hybrids of flesh and machine.

Furthermore, their size is gradually increasing, with some even exceeding ten meters in height, possessing terrifying defensive and offensive capabilities.

“They…are evolving!” A third-generation pureblood retreated in horror. His psionic senses revealed an even more terrifying truth—the Specia were not merely parasitizing, but were recombining the DNA of gene thieves, transforming them into a form more suited for combat.

This scene was so terrifying that it was a horrific sight they would never forget.

The ground trembled, and a chilling writhing sound came from the depths of the cave. The parasitized gene stealers no longer acted alone, but began to merge as if controlled by some will.

The five infected hybrids suddenly lunged at each other, and the silvery-white substance glued their bodies together like living glue. Their bones twisted and their muscles swelled. In the blink of an eye, a six-meter-tall white behemoth was born!
Its head is formed by the fusion of the heads of multiple gene stealers, its four arms are covered with bio-cannons that have mutated from plasma cannons, and several tentacles extend from its back, each of which flashes with the light of a laser weapon.

The same scene unfolded elsewhere, with more giant white creatures appearing before the gene stealers.

"Fire! Fire!" The surviving gene stealers fired wildly, but the bombs and laser beams hitting the behemoth only made it retreat slightly.

Its body surface flowed like liquid metal, and wounds healed instantly. Even more terrifying, the shattered fragments of the Scia did not die, but crawled like living metal, searching for new hosts.

An injured mixed-race person accidentally stepped on a shard, and instantly, a silvery-white substance crawled up his leg and devoured him within seconds.

The level of despair was so extreme that it completely broke some of the cunning members, and even the civilians who believed in the sect, and some human civilians who were simply infected with the genes of the gene thieves, were stunned by the scene.

Wasn't this supposed to be a family blessed by the God-Emperor? Where is our great four-armed God-Emperor?

As for these humans who had joined the Genestealer cult and were infected with the alien genes, Rhodes showed no mercy and ordered the Sphia Sphere to exterminate them completely.

“Father! We can’t stop them!” A second-generation elder roared in despair. Half of his power armor had been corrupted by the Spheres, and his right arm had turned into white tentacles. The Sphere spheres were invading his body, but he was powerless to stop them.

The Venerable Father Ancestral Dragon unleashed a deafening psychic shriek, attempting to crush Sphia's core consciousness directly with his spiritual power.

However, when he touched the minds of those white monsters, all he felt was an endless desire to devour them—they were not ordinary creatures, but some kind of cosmic-level parasitic life form, whose sole purpose was to devour, evolve, spread, and then evolve again.

The Venerable Father, Zulong, had no idea just how terrifying the Sphere of Specia was; it was a monster that even Ultraman Dyna had to deal with with all his might.

"Retreat! Detonate the molten metal bombs! Destroy the entire lair!" Zu Long finally gave the final order.

The surviving gene-stealers retreated frantically, and several hybrids detonated pre-planted molten metal bombs. Intense plasma flames engulfed the entire cave, melting rocks, burning air, and twisting and deforming the Specia monsters in the intense heat.

However, in the instant the flames died down, Zu Long was horrified to discover that Sphia had not been completely destroyed.

The charred white material was still wriggling, regrouping like some kind of viscous, half-dead, half-alive fluid.

Even more terrifying is that they seem to have adapted to the high temperatures; the newborn Specia monsters are covered with heat-resistant shells that can even absorb heat as energy.

"This is impossible..." For the first time, Zu Long felt real fear.

Rhodes watched all this with a cold smile. "Genestealers, you are now nothing more than a link in the food chain."

In the end, countless pureblood thieves he captured were instantly assimilated by him, and the Sphere of Sphia floated in front of the Ancestral Dragon, emitting a cold fluorescent glow.

Countless white monsters, some ten meters and others seven or eight meters tall, rushed into the cave and surrounded the gene-stealer race.

Target confirmed... The old man with powerful spiritual energy in front of me is the target my master gave me, the target I must devour.

Once the opponent is devoured, the entire race will lose all ability to resist. This special race has a very strange mental network that can control all its members.

With a roar, the Ancestral Dragon unleashed a powerful shockwave, causing the entire cavern to tremble violently.

However, the Sphia sphere remained motionless, instead splitting off countless tentacles that pierced towards the cunning leader, the Venerable Father Ancestral Dragon, like lightning!
Zulong brandished his bone blade, severing several tentacles, but more silvery-white substance had already clung to his carapace.

The core of the Sphia Sphere flickered, instantly adjusting its fusion method. The Venerable Father Ancestral Dragon suddenly felt a sharp pain—his flesh and blood were being decomposed, and his genetic sequence was being forcibly rewritten!

This terrifying white life form is altering his genes, altering his will—no, it should be said that it is fusing his will and completely devouring him.

"Ah...no! The great Will of the Hive...save me!!!"

His roar came to an abrupt end.

The silvery-white light completely engulfed his body, and the form of the Ancestral Dragon began to twist and expand, eventually transforming into a completely new monster—his carapace was covered with Sphia crystals, his four arms turned into energy tentacles, and his consciousness... had been completely erased.

The gene stealers around them looked horrified.

Integration complete... Ethnic assimilation begins.

With the fall of Zulong, the entire Genestealer Cult descended into madness. One by one, believers were infected by Sphia, their flesh and machines merging and mutating into terrifying bio-mechanical hybrids.

Gradually, it formed a terrifying white monster over 70 meters tall. In less than a day, the Sphia Sphere wiped out the Gene Stealer Cult hiding underground.

The cult that once lurked in the shadows has now transformed into a terrifying monster—it is no longer a minion of the Tyranids, but a puppet of the Sphiar.

The gene-stealing cult, which had been lurking beneath the surface of Vigilant Planet for over 200 years, has been completely wiped out.

The target has been cleared... Awaiting further instructions from the master, the Sphia Network sent feedback to Rhodes.

(End of this chapter)