Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 337 Gambler’s Psychology
More undead warriors who had lost their self-awareness were awakened within the tomb world.

Their first target was the Terran bio-ships still aboard Pertita.

A total of fifteen crescent-shaped space necromancers broke through the surface of the planet and, under Zaratusa's command, rushed toward the Terran bio-ships that were several times their size in orbit.

Despite seemingly having an overwhelming numerical advantage, the Tyranids appeared to crumble at the slightest touch against these Necromancer warships.

In the void, the Necromancers' warships still hold a dominant position in the Warhammer universe.

The arc array on the necromancer warship easily tore through the armor of the Tyranid bio-ship, and the long whip of Gaussian particles directly decomposed the flesh and blood into molecular states.

The sturdiness of warships made of living metal is also outrageous.

One after another, the scythe-shaped fighters charged directly at the small biological warships.

The combined systems of the undead pilots and the fighter jets themselves allow these jets to simulate countless strategies within nanoseconds.

They moved effortlessly around the Terran warships, unleashing devastating weapons, while the Terran's biological tentacles were unable to destroy them.

The Dimension Driver mounted on it provides it with immense power.

In naval combat, Tyrande's acid cannons were unable to penetrate the Necromancer's defenses for a time.

Even though Tyrannosaurus attempted to ram the undead warships directly with his predator tentacles and fangs, the undead warships were far more sturdy than he had imagined.

The Necromancer's warships were unharmed, but Tyrannosaurus's tentacles and rams were destroyed.

Small-sized Terran bio-ships posed no threat to them whatsoever.

The space necromancer's unique inertialess engine allows it to accelerate extremely quickly without leaving subspace for interstellar travel.

Not only the Tyranids, but in the few large-scale wars between the Empire and the Necromancers, the Imperial Navy was also particularly ineffective against the Necromancer warships.

Often, the loss of an entire fleet results in only minimal gains.

The Necromancer fleet could easily tear apart the formation of Imperial warships.

Only the fleets of the Mechanical Repairers, which also possess some advanced technology, can contend with them.

In less than an hour of fighting, all the Terran bio-ships on Pertita were completely annihilated.

All that remained on the tracks were countless shattered fragments of Terran warships.

However, such slaughter still failed to quell Zaratusa's anger.

He observed the current state of the Hades Galaxy, the territory that once belonged to him.

Humans have long since taken root and ravaged planets beyond recognition.

The human fleet on Asford was quietly docked, while an enormous fleet of Tyranid creatures was engaged in battle atop Ixos, and he saw the magnificent prism that once belonged to his own dynasty.

However, this magnificent prism that once belonged to him had been completely altered and was almost unrecognizable to him.

While directing his fleet toward Isox, he also dispatched two warships toward the Grand Prism.

While destroying the Terran bio-ship, he also wanted to regain control of the Grand Prism. This was his most powerful weapon at the moment.

Zaratusa's mind was beginning to become arrogant, but he wasn't stupid; there were far too many humans and Tyranids in the Hades system.

With the existing operational military force of his dynasty, it is simply impossible to eliminate all the invaders in the star system by conventional means.

Inside the Asford strategic command center, Gao Yi and Dante both stared at the screen in front of them.

The Empire's existing oracle detection methods are insufficient to accurately detect the presence and movements of the Necromancer warships in space.

Only after seeing that the Terran bio-ships on Pertita had been destroyed did they confirm that Zaratusa had begun its operation.

Both Gao Yi and Dante kept a close eye on Zaratusa's movements.

Seeing Zaratusa heading towards Ixos, they were relieved.

When the hive tentacles on Pertita were easily destroyed, the hive will became aware of the existence of these undead.

In the past, the Zerg hive would not even glance at such creatures and would avoid them if possible, but things are different now.

The Norn Queen quickly obtained these undead star systems from the Hive Will. Not only the Leviathan tentacle, but the other tentacles would also occasionally awaken a tomb world when they devoured worlds.

The experience gained from fighting them was stored in the Hive Will, and the Norn Queen knew how troublesome these guys were.

But now that the Necromancers have come knocking on his door, he has no choice but to fight back; clearly, this battle is now unavoidable.

The main reason is that Tyrion has already invested too much biomass in Ixos.

If the battle on Asford was due to Gao Yi destroying all the biomass that Tyrion could absorb, causing him to give up...

The biomass on Ixos didn't disappear; it's right there, visible and tangible, but it's all gone to the Zerg.

The biomass did not decrease. As the tunnel worms continued to transport more troops from Char to Ixos, the biomass accumulated to a level that Tyrannosaurus could no longer afford to abandon. More and more biomass piled up on this planet, and now the biomass contained on Ixos has exceeded the total biomass of the Hades system.

At this moment, the Hive Will represented by the Norn Queen even exhibited an inappropriate gambler's mentality. He had already invested too much capital in this planet, and giving up was out of the question. As long as he won this one bet, just this one, he could turn the tables and obtain an immense amount of biomass.

These biomass materials could even double the size of Leviathan again.

Therefore, the Norn Queen of Leviathan would absolutely not allow the Necromancers of the Space to overturn her gambling table.

Under Gao Yi's instructions, Abathur even ordered the Zerg to slow down their attack in advance, deliberately showing some signs of weakness, so that the Tyranids could allocate more resources to fight the Necrons in space.

Seeing their forces advance at an accelerated pace and the Zerg forces retreat in disarray, the Zerg's will to fight became even stronger.

It seemed to him that if he just put in a little more effort, he could completely crush the alien insects.

Tyrande's territory on Ixos has expanded by at least a third, which has allowed him to acquire a considerable amount of biomass.

When the Norn Queen obtained these biomasses from the Zerg, she seemed to feel like crying.
This is the first full meal I've had since arriving in this galaxy!
Using the newly acquired biomass, Norn began to separate a large biological fleet, led by a Zerg mothership, and headed towards the Necromancer fleet.

With the addition of the behemoth that is the mothership and more medium-sized Terran bio-ships, the progress of the space necromancy massacre has been somewhat curbed.

(End of this chapter)