Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Countless eyes were fixed on the entrance, like an army already in full battle formation.

Closest to the entrance was a swarm of neurotic beasts.

Further away, the Hive Tyrant and the Neuro Tyrant stood atop the Bone Ridge, surrounded by massive Tyrant Guardians.

In the center of the chamber, three even larger creatures slowly raised their heads.

It's a Norn messenger!

Their outlines are somewhat similar to those of the Hive Tyrant, but they are much larger, with their backs covered with layers of raised brain tissue and symbiotic nerve organs.

Slender tentacles swayed behind him, and suffocatingly compressed spiritual energy flickered between the gaps in his carapace.

Guilliman raised the Emperor's Sword.

The next second, the entire chamber came to life.

The swarm of insects fell from all directions.

The scene resembled a black ocean suddenly breaking free from the walls, with hundreds of thousands of insectoids running along the bone beams, leaping out from behind the hatching sacs, and crawling up from the biomass rivers. The density was so great that the chamber itself seemed to be collapsing towards the invaders.

Wolverine spread out, accelerating simultaneously along different bone beams. The repulsion shield tore up large chunks of flesh, and the shoulder-mounted heavy railguns no longer sought individual targets, but instead bombarded the bone beams connecting the neuromorphs.

Pass! Pass! Pass!

Bone trabeculae fracture.

Tens of thousands of Zerglings fell into the biomass flood below along with the debris.

The saber-toothed tiger then pressed into the chamber from behind, stepped on the sloping skeleton, propelled its spine to spew out long flames, and charged towards the center along the almost vertical inner wall.

The ion cannon illuminated the spherical space, blasting the oncoming heavy insectoid beasts into burning fragments.

More behemoths tore their amniotic sacs open directly from their brood pouches.

They were not even fully mature; parts of their carapace were still soft, and their abdomens were still connected to fleshy tubes that transported nutrients. Yet, driven by the will of the Norn Queen, they pounced on the saber-toothed tiger.

Dozens of tons of flesh and blood slammed into the mech's shield, knocking the steel behemoth off its skeletal frame.

The saber-toothed tiger's back suddenly shifted.

The massive machine flipped over as it fell, its left arm gripping the head of a heavy insectoid beast.

The fusion cannon erupted from the claw, burning half of the head into steam, while the plasma blade on the right arm used the force of the fall to cleave open the spine of another behemoth.

The mech and the insect corpse crashed into the bone bridge below.

boom!

The battlefield has become three-dimensional.

The Ultramarines fired from the sloping bone beams, Wolverine swept overhead, and Sabretooth and Heavy Insects plummeted from the heights, only to crash back onto the battlefield, pulled by thrusters and fleshy tentacles.

The artillery fire swept through from above, below, and both sides simultaneously, and the explosions illuminated the enormous organs suspended in the darkness.

Guilliman jumped off the broken bone bridge.

Dozens of meters below, a Hive Tyrant was climbing the Nerve Cable with its guards.

Guilliman landed between them, the Emperor's Sword drawing a golden arc, and the upper bodies of the two Tyrant Guards slid off simultaneously.

The first Norn messenger pounced along the vertical bone beam.

The massive body leaped continuously between the bone beams, while nerve tendrils stretched forward from behind, locking onto Guilliman's consciousness.

The second Norn messenger pounced on the saber-toothed tiger pack.

The claws tore through the outer armor, and the tail bone blades pierced the propulsion spine, almost tearing the 18-meter-tall machine apart from behind.

The third one remains in the middle.

Guilliman looked in the direction behind it.

There hung thousands of nerve cords there, like an upside-down purplish-black forest.

Suspended in the middle of the nerve cord is a massive life form whose boundaries cannot be seen at a glance.

Guilliman finally saw the Norn Queen.

It does not have a bloated abdomen, nor does it lie in its nest to lay eggs like lower insects.

It is more like a living throne encased in flesh and shell.

The central main body is suspended at the deepest part of the chamber, with several layers of corona-shaped chitinous bone plates extending outwards, beneath which lies a massive, almost transparent brain tissue structure.

Bright nerve impulses flowed between the lobes of the brain, and with each flash, the entire mothership would vibrate.

Countless sensory tentacles, gene-woven organs, and nutrient roots extend outward from the main body, connecting to every main nerve, every reproductive sac, and every biomass river of the mothership.

The roots writhed in the darkness, as if the creature before them was not some inhabitant of a mothership.

It is the brain, womb, and will of this mothership.

Several sensory organs covered by the carapace slowly rotated, and they looked at Guilliman.

At that moment, the hunger of the entire main tentacle settled upon his consciousness.

Countless images flashed before Guilliman's eyes.

The drained ocean has become a gray and barren world, where trillions of creatures have melted away in digestive cradles.

There is also darkness that extends from beyond the Milky Way, with no end in sight.

"Got you!"

The Norn Queen has come into view.

It is less than two kilometers away from Guilliman.

In the void battlefield, this distance is fleeting.

Within this living chamber, a two-kilometer radius was crammed with hundreds of thousands of Zerg, three Norn messengers, layers upon layers of neural barriers, and all the flesh and blood that the entire mothership could mobilize.

The sea of ​​insects is closing in.

Inside the spherical cavity, hundreds of bone beams rotate simultaneously, like a living cage slowly tightening.

The Zerg covering the dome fell off in clumps, surging downwards along the sloping skeleton.

Heavy guards crushed the low-level insect swarm, Norn messengers flickered between nerve cords, and the purplish-black psionic energy pressed down so hard that the air almost solidified.

The Ultra Warrior has been forced to his last few bones.

The Victory Honor Guard's shield was mostly shattered, and the Terminator armor was riddled with holes burned through by acid.

Almost all members of the think tank were injured, with blood continuously seeping from their noses and ears, yet they still used their remaining psionic energy to maintain the defense line and prevent the Norn Queen's mental shock from directly entering their consciousness.

Wolverine and Sabretooth suffered even more severe injuries.

Dozens of machines were dragged into the biomass river by the Zerg heavy guards, with only the core of the chest shield still shimmering below the surface.

More saber-toothed tigers had their propulsion ridges torn apart by the Norn messengers, rendering them unable to launch high-speed assaults. They could only stand on the bone beams and use ion cannons to suppress the central area.

They could no longer move forward.

Guilliman has just beheaded a Hive Tyrant.

Before the corpse could fall, the three-headed tyrant's guards pounced from both sides.

Guilliman charged headlong into their midst, smashing the first guard's visor and slicing open the second guard's chest with his sword.

The third guard hugged him from behind.

The massive scythe claws gripped the Primarch's shoulders, and its mandibles snapped down toward the helmet.

Guilliman used his waist and back strength to lift the monster off his shoulder and swing it into the oncoming swarm of insects.

The Emperor's Sword slashed horizontally, cutting the monster and a dozen or so blade worms behind it in two.

But more Zerg have already filled the gap, and the black tide has no end.

The Noon queen floats in the middle of the chamber.

Beneath its crown-like carapace, a massive brain-like structure shimmered continuously.

A sharp, piercing shriek swept across the cavity.

The Ultra Warriors' formation suddenly froze, and several members of the think tank knelt down at the same time.

Guilliman plunged the Emperor's Sword into his bone.

Golden flames spread out from him, temporarily thwarting the mental pressure exerted by the Norn Queen.

Just as the swarm of insects was about to engulf the last section of the bone beam, a pale blue crack appeared beside a saber-toothed tiger kneeling behind Guilliman.

The swarming insectoids around them seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall, their bodies simultaneously frozen in mid-air.

The Bladeworm's scythe claws were only centimeters away from the Ultramariner's helmet, but it could no longer move forward.

The next instant, a hand covered in dark gold armor emerged from the crack.

Rosen floated steadily in the middle of the spherical chamber.

A vast amount of spiritual energy filled the battlefield the moment he appeared.

The synaptic network inside the mothership suddenly vibrated.

The shadow that had been covering everyone's consciousness was forcibly pushed outward.

Those warriors who had been exhausted to the limit finally heard themselves breathing again.

The shriek in the minds of the think tank members briefly disappeared.

Lawson surveyed the battlefield and said with satisfaction, "Excellent, you have completed your mission. Now go back and rest."

The black and gold spiritual energy then gathered together.

The Ultramarines didn't even have time to answer as a pale blue light curtain rose from beneath their feet.

The Victory Honor Guard, the First Company Terminators, the Think Tank members, the Sabotage Team, and all the Wolverines and Sabretooths whose structures were still recognizable were all pulled out of the mothership by the stasis field.

In just a few seconds, the skeleton that had been crowded with their own troops was empty; they had returned to their front-line base.

The medical unit, maintenance drones, and backup drones will immediately take over the follow-up work.

Inside the spherical chamber, only Lawson and Guilliman remained.

The Norn Queen's mental fluctuations suddenly increased, and all her sensory organs turned to Lawson simultaneously.