The Bizarre Adventure of the Warhammer Guard

"Sizzle..." The attack that Leon expected did not come. Instead, the sound of a chainsaw cutting rang out in front of him. Looking closely, he saw that it was Loken. He had already arrived at Leon's side and cut the vines that were attacking Leon.

"Watch out, recruit," Loken said, dodging and weaving around Lyon while fending off Miranda's attacks and clearing away the vines that were entangled around Lyon.

"Teacher, there's something strange about her body." Leon forcefully pulled the chainsaw sword out of Miranda's body, while simultaneously removing the vines binding her.

Loken, shielding Miranda from the attack, glanced at Lyon, who had already escaped. Their eyes met, and Lyon instantly understood Loken's tactics. Through over thirty years of rigorous training with their teacher, they had developed a strong understanding and synergy.

Lyon moved slightly away from Miranda, not attacking her directly, but instead circled around to the side, constantly clearing away the growing vines, forming a pincer movement with Loken.

Miranda muttered incantations, filthy words spewing from her mouth, and the chaotic eight-pointed stars on the surrounding walls faintly glowed white, as if resonating with her.

Loken weaved through the gaps in the vine attack, suddenly seizing an opening and drawing his plasma pistol from his waist. Aiming, charging, firing—the movements were fluid, precise, and efficient. A burst of scorching blue-white plasma tore through the air, striking Miranda directly in the back.

The ball of light pierced through the vines, burned through the green shield that Miranda had created, and struck Miranda hard in the back.

Miranda's words were interrupted. She roared, turned around, and slowly floated into the air, wanting to kill the person who dared to stop her.

At that moment, a pale golden light shot towards Miranda, silently slashing at the heretic with her black greatsword. It was Ada, launching a surprise attack under the cover of the two Shadowmoon Wolves.

A faint white light shimmered on the sword, as Ada channeled the power of the Untouchable into it. Without any resistance, the green shield and the swollen flesh on its body were rendered useless; the greatsword swept through as if it were empty, instantly cleaving it in two.

"No! My daughter." Though Miranda was now split in two, her voice still escaped from her broken mouth. However, her voice gradually changed, from a shrill female voice to a kind, gentle, yet chilling laugh: "Hahaha..."

The laughter seemed to come from the depths of ancient darkness, like the instinctive fear that ancient humans felt when facing an unknown monster in the dark.

She was happy, or rather, He was happy, like a child who had played with all the toys in the house and discovered some interesting little gadgets. Even if they were broken, He knew that he had found new and durable toys.

Ida ignored her and continued to deliver the final blow. Miranda's body gradually became unresponsive, the surrounding vines disappeared, and even the air seemed to become fresher.

Leon inspected himself; his power armor had a few minor dents, but no major damage. He turned to look at Chris's troops.

Apart from Chris and a few other lucky team members, the rest of the team members were injured to varying degrees. Only a few team members who did not understand the enemy's attack methods at the beginning were strangled by the vines.

At this point, the communication interference dissipated, and Loken was finally able to contact Elpis on the ship.

"My lord, chaotic power has been discovered here."

"I know, the ship just detected an increase in the subspace energy index," Elpis instructed. "The Corvo Chapter is with you. I have informed them to make sure the chaotic forces are completely eradicated."

After the communication ended, Loken sent the address coordinates to the Chapter Commander Corvo while he, Leon, and Ada began to examine the altar.

They discovered a hidden door in the shadow of the altar, which could be broken open by force without any key or mechanism.

The hidden door opened, revealing another vast space. Inside, they saw a headless female torso, a gigantic, mollusc-like fish, and a human with only half a body remaining. All were pale, crystalline in appearance, gradually dissipating into the air as Loken and his companions approached.

In the corner were some tables, chairs, and cabinets filled with items. Leon casually flipped through the documents on the table, giving a cursory look at their contents.

These documents are Miranda's research materials. It turns out that these mutated creatures all originated from a naturally occurring fungus—the Fungus Host. Miranda achieved evolution by extracting the fungus from the Fungus Host and injecting it into the human body.

Originally, centuries ago, after the death of her daughter, Miranda went alone into the mountains to end her life, but fell into a crevice and happened to encounter the Fungal Lord, and was infected. From then on, Miranda had a long lifespan, unparalleled strength, and the ability to summon fungal vines.

After discovering her own abnormality, Miranda hid in the mountains to research, hoping to find out how the fungus could resurrect her daughter. Following several rounds of experiments, Miranda discovered she could control the mutated creatures injected with the fungus. She immediately tricked two men and two women in the village into injecting them with the fungus.

Three of them retained their human forms, while one mutated into a fish-like creature; all of them also gained some amazing abilities.

However, Miranda discovered that these individuals who were directly injected with mold could only be controlled by Miranda within a certain range; once they broke free, they were no longer under her control.

Miranda then discovered a type of parasite near the fungus host. These parasites had lived on the host for countless generations, forming a symbiotic relationship with it. Miranda could easily manipulate these parasites, without being limited by distance.

So she inoculated the parasites into organisms, which could also become infected, and Miranda could manipulate these organisms by controlling the parasites. However, the abilities produced by these parasite-infected individuals were far less than those from directly injecting fungus.

Miranda was once a researcher, and her writing was mostly cold, logical sentences. But in her latest research, countless distorted words filled the entire white paper, strange runes covered the text, and sentences written with blood as paint were clearly visible.

"It seems there are not only heretics here, but also aliens and chaos," Loken said after reading the entire document. "We also need to eliminate this alien called the Fungus Lord, and then destroy everything here."

"Teacher, what was that thing before? That voice," Leon put down the documents in his hand and asked, "was full of evil. For a moment, I felt like I was being watched by that thing."

"That's what we need to fight, Leon." Loken gave Leon a deep look, a fire flickering in his calm eyes. "These things will corrupt you, turn you into a slave to darkness. You swore allegiance to the Emperor, you swore to uphold justice; I hope you won't break your oath."

"I won't. Never."