The Last Sentinel

"Waaah—"

The sound of the Bone Horn resounded from all directions, and a giant insect hive barge appeared in the sky. The entire ship was a giant living insect with tough, grayish-brown skin and two pairs of energy-absorbing solar sails. The solar sails flapped violently, and the insect hive ship quickly approached the planet.

Boom boom—

On the ground, the previously densely packed anti-aircraft gun positions were reduced to ashes due to ammunition shortages. Apart from a few scattered anti-aircraft guns releasing a few drops of flame, the remaining anti-aircraft guns had been corroded into energy liquid by the Zerg gun bugs' high-strength acid and were devoured by the larvae that followed.

bang——

As the insect hive barge sailed, it continuously released dense clusters of gun insect larvae on both sides.

Gunbugs are low-level units in the invading Tyranid army, but they also exist in large numbers. Young gunbugs are not much different from ordinary larvae, except for spraying acid to corrode metal elements, they have no other advantages. When gunbugs mature, they can grow to two to three meters long, and they grow wings. Their mouths have evolved into huge mouthparts that are more than two meters long, making them look like giant mosquitoes that are enlarged from steel!

When an adult gun bug stabs with its weapon, it can corrode an adult's flesh and bones completely, like drinking milk tea, leaving only an intact skin.

However, compared to the lethality of adult gun bugs, what terrifies the planet's civilians even more are knife bugs.

As its name suggests, the Blade Bug has a pair of huge double-jawed fangs, resembling two sharp blades over a meter long. Moreover, Blade Bugs are even larger, with adult individuals almost always exceeding three meters in length. They possess powerful close-combat abilities, and some elite Blade Bugs can even mutate to grow an additional pair of sharp blade-like fangs, greatly increasing their lethality.

Countless gun bug larvae and knife bug larvae rained down like a sandstorm, and in an instant, the entire planet was within the range of the bug ships' attacks.

The surviving Astronauts unleashed flames from their trenches, flamethrowers carrying their last vestiges of loyalty to the Emperor, killing as many larvae as possible.

However, there are simply too many larvae. If even one adult larva appears among them, the entire human squad in the trench will be wiped out!

The Zerg fleet continued forward, followed closely by a large number of Gargoyles, intermediate combat units.

Compared to the low-level cannon fodder worms and gun worms, these gargoyles are grown up in the worm mothership itself. They are elite units with only one purpose: to quickly approach, airdrop armor-piercing attacks, and disrupt the enemy's formation.

Gargoyles descended from the sky in dense swarms, followed by Hive Warriors with black bone armor, humanoid torsos, and insect heads.

Clad in sturdy, self-generated armor, the Hive Warriors possess greater strength and speed than humans. Their weapon is a three-meter-long superalloy blade exclusive to the Zerg. Their movements are incredibly swift, cutting down the Ascendant Army whose formations have been disrupted by gargoyles as if they were in an empty field.

"Scrap!"

A roar erupted as a Space Marine clad in beige checkered power armor charged out, grabbing the head of a Hive Warrior with a single blow and crushing it to pieces, sending fragments of the Hive Warrior's rotting corpse scattering everywhere.

The surrounding Hive Warriors sensed the blood even faster and swarmed in. To them, whether it was their own people or something else, these were all valuable resources that could be recycled as nutrients and vital energy!

In this way, the more Space Marines the Crying Chapter kill, the more excited the surrounding Zerg become. Some of them even deliberately offer themselves up for kill, so that more Hive Warriors will be born after the Space Marines kill them!

"This won't do!" The vice-commander looked at the Hive Warriors swooping down from the ground, then looked up at the gargoyle army circling in the sky. "We have to shoot down that Hive mothership! I need high-energy antimatter cannons!"

A crackling sound of electricity echoed through the headset: "Vice Commander, the antimatter cannon is out of energy blocks! It cannot fire!"

"Damn it!"

"The battle has barely begun, and we're already at a complete disadvantage!"

"At this rate, we won't even need the Hive Warrior leader to emerge; these gun-wielding and blade-wielding cannon fodder will wipe us out!"

Just as the vice commander was complaining, a cold, bone-bladed longsword suddenly pierced through the power storage tank on the vice commander's back. The storage tank exploded, creating a crack, and a violent stream of burning energy rushed mercilessly into the surroundings. The energy of the entire power armor was rapidly disappearing!

Damn!

The deputy commander turned around abruptly and cleaved the insectoid warrior who had ambushed him with a single strike.

Looking further ahead, several Hive Warriors surrounded them.

Astartes, standing over three meters tall, found himself in a very passive position when facing the small and agile insect warrior.

"For those we cherish, we die in Glory!"

A loud roar shook the battlefield and inspired everyone.

It was the warband leader, Malakin, who appeared in the center of the battlefield, clad in power armor.

Malakin was a burly figure, over five meters tall, and he easily sent hundreds of Hive Warriors flying with a single punch.

But his target wasn't this trash; it was the leader of the Hive Warriors, a super-mutant Hive Warrior who was also the captain of the Hive Barge above!

Only by killing the Hive Captain can the escape of this Hive Barge be prevented.

This wasn't the first time Malakin had fought a Hive Warrior leader. He swung his chainsaw sword backhand, powered up his power armor, and leaped into the air, soaring towards the Hive barge in mid-air.

This time, however, the insectoid barge did not dodge or escape, but instead stopped in mid-air.

Soon, a deep blue figure appeared on the Zerg hive barge!

It still looked like a Hive Warrior, but this blue Hive Warrior was a full eight meters tall, holding a very thick and sharp terrifying battle blade in each hand. Its armor was also thicker than that of ordinary Hive Warriors. It fell from the sky and swooped down to attack Malakin!

The chapter leader and the mutated hive warrior leader clash!

A terrifying energy ripple in mid-air spread out over a hundred meters!

The Hive Warrior leader roared, his twin blades flashing like war wheels as he charged madly toward Malakin.

Malakin was not used to fighting in the sky for long periods of time, and his power armor's energy could not support him staying in the air for such a long time.

Malakin fought as he moved closer to the ground.

The Hive Warrior leader accelerated wildly, attacking without defending, killing without dodging, and amplifying its advantages to the extreme, determined to take down Malakin!

Malakin had a plan. His figure seemed to be losing strength, and he suddenly sank down!

The Hive Warrior leader suddenly lunged at Malakin!

At the critical moment, Malakin's heavy energy gauntlets clashed with the Hive Warrior's twin blades, while the chainsaw sword was bitten into Malakin's mouth!

"kill!"

Malakin's arms sliced ​​through the Hive Warrior leader's twin blades!

The chainsaw sword held in his mouth was aimed straight at the head of the Hive Warrior leader!

Hiss—Boom!

The Hive Warrior leader's body exploded violently, shredded into pieces by the chainsaw sword!

The Hive Warrior leader drew both swords and severed both of Malakin's arms.

Having lost both arms, Malakin's power armor hissed and crackled with intense arcs of electricity, his body extremely weak.

Malakin looked up at the sky. That damned Zerg mothership should be gone by now!

Unfortunately, no.

The Zerg mothership floated in mid-air and was glowing all over!

"This, this is!" Malakin's pupils constricted. "A lighthouse signal! It's calling for reinforcements!"

Immediately following, countless black spots appeared in the sky, and more than a hundred Zerg barges roared in. Even among these barges, a terrifying Zerg warship over a kilometer long came in a mighty procession.

Seeing this, Malakin collapsed to the ground, his eyes filled with despair. "The Hive flagship, the Tyrant! The Hive Tyrant has arrived..."