Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 339 The Insect Saint and the Lord of the Insect Swarm
If humanity can easily weaken the warp shadow and send in dozens of warships, wouldn't they be able to send in even more later?

The pressure on the insect hive's will has increased exponentially...

When the Hive Will turned its attention to the void, the change emanating from Ixos instantly drew its gaze back to Ixos.

They no longer even considered what had just happened in the subspace.

It discovered that the Zerg node creature Zagara, which it had been searching for for so long, had emerged from its hiding place and reappeared on the surface of Isox.

However, Zagara was surrounded by countless alien insects, and even all the wild beasts protected him.

This time, the Zerg deployed almost their entire elite force, and the Zerg swarm launched an attack on the area occupied by the Tyranids on Ixos.

Zagara even roared at the sky with all the Zerg, as if in a provocation.

The advantage in the Void is waning, and the Norn Queen cannot accept that the advantage on the ground is also disappearing.

It's too difficult to seize a landing site from the Zerg that allows us to obtain biomass!
Upon witnessing this scene, the Will of the Hive could no longer concern itself with the battle in the void.

The biological fleet may be lost, and human reinforcements may arrive, but as long as Zagara is killed before more enemies arrive, it will still win. It believes the Zerg will fall into chaos and lose command.

Without their synergy, the Zerg will no longer be a match for the Terran, and it can become the ultimate victor, gaining everything.

He will use these biomass to devour everything in this galaxy.

Conversely, if the delay continues, the Tyranid tentacles may fall into an irrecoverable state. Maintaining such a massive Tyranid bio-fleet is not without its costs; even to maintain its existence, its navigation and activities consume a large amount of biomass every second.

But that wasn't all that troubled the Norn Queen. When Gao Yi launched his attack from the void, he also used ten Gorgons to forcibly drop two Ranger legions and the Blood Ravens onto the planet's surface.

However, there were simply too many Tyranid bio-ships in orbit. Gorgon, who warped directly to near-Earth orbit, was immediately attacked by the bio-ships. After this had happened once before on Asford, the Tyranids were already on guard.

Five Gorgons, used as bait, were entangled by the tentacles of the predators and could only watch helplessly as they were destroyed. However, some Gorgons still managed to break through and deliver their troops.

They will also provide support for ground warfare within the planet's orbit.

The Norn Queen had always believed that the Zerg were native creatures, because the Zerg Leviathans had never appeared on the battlefield. This led the Hive Will to regard the Zerg as a native species without interstellar travel capabilities. It wasn't until the human forces encountered no attacks within the Zerg swarm that the Hive Will realized that the Zerg were not native creatures at all!
They're in cahoots with humans!!
At this moment, Leviathan's pressure alarm was finally triggered. The Hive Will began to implement its final battle plan.

As the stress alarm was triggered, the Norn queen inside the hive began to stir.

The translucent tentacles linked to its spine began issuing commands to the entire Leviathan tentacle.

A large number of airdropped spore pods once again crashed into the area of ​​Ixos occupied by the Tyranids, and countless Tyranids, having received orders, voluntarily entered the digestion pools.

They allowed their digestive juices to completely decompose their bodies.

They are broken down into the purest biomass and then reassembled.

The next second, the earth of Ixos began to tremble, and the digestive fluids in the four huge digestive pools surged continuously.

The next second, four gigantic Tyranids, covered in tendrils, barbs, and living weapons, and even taller than a Warlord-class Titan, crawled out of the digestive pool.

The Titan bio-weapon Zerglings of Tyrannosaurus Rex have finally appeared on the battlefield. Each Zergling requires an enormous amount of biomass, and its carapace can even withstand the decomposition rays of the Necromancers in space. Conventional artillery fire can hardly cause it any damage.

This is not something that any Tyranid tentacle fleet can easily produce. But the Norn Queen's weapon of mass destruction is not limited to this. A Tyranid creature more than twice the size of the Tyrant lies quietly in the mothership. This body is the purest and most powerful weapon, with the Norn Queen's transparent tentacles connected to it.

As the Norn Queen made a request to the Great Devourer, a memory and a soul traversed time and space, following the will of the hive to reach the Leviathan's tentacles, and were then injected into the body before them via the psionic network.

This consciousness is Tyrannosaurus's ultimate individual weapon, the King of Insects.

The consciousness and thought of the Lord of the Swarm cannot exist alone within a fleet of tentacles.

It's more like a pressure warning for each of the Tyrannosaurus's tentacles. It's only when a tentacle can no longer achieve victory through conventional tactics, or when the entire tentacle is facing a life-or-death situation, that it is summoned into that Tyrannosaurus tentacle.

The current situation within the Hades system has clearly triggered this special mechanism of Tyron.

Seeing the Lord of the Swarm stand up, the Norn Queen no longer conserved her biomass. Zagara reappeared; she absolutely could not let Zagara escape again. Leviathan could no longer afford to continue expending resources within this galaxy.

She retained only the most basic node creatures of each bio-ship and ground force, and even extracted and gathered the immortal consciousness of all the tyrants on the battlefield.

After the bodies of the tyrants were infused with consciousness, they gathered around the King of Insects.

The King of the Insects will lead all the tyrants of Leviathan to behead Zagara.

One by one, the Terran bio-ships began to look listless and shriveled, a sign of exhaustion after consuming too much biomass.

The Norn Queen also decomposed and extracted the biomass from these warships to create more ground troops.

As more and more Tyrants began to gather around the King of the Swarm, they entered one after another into enormous spore drop pods under his leadership.

When Zagara saw the Insect Saint approaching her in the distance and the abnormally large spore mouth capsules continuously descending from above, she knew her plan had succeeded.

"Abathur, please don't let me die!"

"The Queen will come to your side, Zagara!"

Upon hearing Abathur's words, Zagara shouted, "For the Queen of Blades!"

The overwhelming force carrying the Zerg King crashed directly into the Zerg swarm surrounding Zagara. Countless small Terran units rushed out first and began to carnage the surrounding Zerg, while the Zerg King, surrounded by a large number of Terran Tyrants, charged out wielding four bio-longswords.

The Hive Will no longer cared whether the creep on the ground would absorb the biomass of the fallen Tyrannosaurus; all it wanted to do now was to behead Zagara at all costs.

The attack speed displayed by the king of the swarm of insects was completely beyond what one would expect for its size; the two savage beasts that tried to stop him were instantly shredded.

They were overwhelmingly superior in both strength and agility.

Even the sharp, acidic stings of snakes and cockroaches cannot penetrate their chitinous exoskeletons.

The Ranger troops mixed among the Zerg also kept firing at it, but to little avail.

The King of Insects is practically a pentagon, except for lacking large-scale psionic destructive capabilities.

However, the King of the Swarm of Insects lacks psionic killing abilities, but the dozen or so Brain Worms that joined the battle with him do.

(End of this chapter)