Warhammer: Empire Reboot

It recognizes this consciousness.

The individual that had been devouring the swarm of insects finally appeared before it.

Lawson's dark gold armor expanded outwards along his bones and muscles, his originally near-human physique rapidly grew taller, his shoulders widened, his chest armor reorganized, and the energy structure behind his spine unfolded in sequence.

In the blink of an eye, he had transformed into a five-meter-tall combat form.

Lawson landed next to Guilliman.

The two men are different in size and their armor styles are completely different.

A figure in blue and gold, wielding a longsword and a massive shield burning with imperial gold flames.

A figure entirely of dark gold, with tens of thousands of slowly rotating shadow blades floating behind him.

They stood side by side on the remaining bone beam, with the Hive Throne, the core of the entire main tentacle, and the guard swarm that had already gone berserk, before them.

Lawson laughed and said, "Your Excellency, from now on, it will depend on the two of us fighting side by side."

Guilliman swung the Emperor's Sword, and the insect blood clinging to the blade was burned into a gray-black arc by the golden fire.

"It is an honor to fight alongside the one who holds the seal."

The Norn Queen let out a shriek.

Outside the spherical cavity, a large number of skeletal beams broke simultaneously, and more hatching sacs were forcibly squeezed into this area. Countless Zerg that were still developing were prematurely matured and torn out of the amniotic membrane, dragging their nutrient tubes.

The swarm is massing its units without regard to resource consumption or damage to the mothership itself.

Eliminating Lawson has taken precedence over ensuring the safety of the entire main tentacle.

Guilliman asked in a deep voice, "How do we fight?"

Lawson grinned, revealing his teeth: "No rush. Since it's your first visit, let's start with a gift."

Guilliman tilted his head slightly.

A psionic barrier enveloped the two of them, isolating them from all the surrounding spores and psionic energy.

The two bodies slowly floated up, as if they were standing in a transparent bubble.

Before Guilliman could figure out what this defense was for, Lawson had already pulled two dark lumps out of the static field.

Lawson swung his arm: "Go, you giant toad from Katachan!"

Two Catachan barking toads soared through the air, over the foremost swarm of insects, and landed in the two densest groups of neurobeasts in the middle of the spherical chamber.

The intense mental shock, the explosive roars, and the strange creatures that suddenly surrounded them all startled the two barking toads.

The two barking toads, like sacks filled with death, burst open at the same moment.

puff--

Dark green poisonous mist erupted from their bodies.

Initially, it only covered a few tens of meters.

It then spread at an unimaginable speed.

The first batch of knife-like insects exposed to the poisonous fog were still running, but their carapaces had already begun to dissolve from the edges.

The hard chitin, like a block of wax poured with strong acid, quickly softens and collapses, revealing the muscle underneath.

They turned directly into a viscous liquid.

The knife worm only ran three steps forward before its limbs melted at the joints, and its entire body plunged into the ground, turning into a puddle of still bubbling blackish-green liquid.

The swarm of insects behind stepped on it, and then they all melted together.

The poison gas seeped into the Zerg's body through its breathing pores, and also penetrated inwards through gaps in its shell, mouthparts, and wounds.

As soon as the warrior insect raised its bone blade, its abdominal cavity swelled up from the inside, and its organs turned into liquid in a short time, spraying out from the gaps in its carapace.

The impact on the neural horde is even more terrifying.

When exposed brain tissue comes into contact with the toxic fog, it immediately churns like boiling oil.

The nerve tendrils connecting them quickly turned black and broke. Before the newly formed psionic barrier could be released, hundreds of giant brain tissues collapsed simultaneously.

The purplish-black spiritual energy exploded out of control.

boom!

A mental shock swept through the swarm of insects.

Large numbers of low-tier Zerg instantly lost control, colliding with each other and being engulfed by the spreading poisonous fog.

Dark green clouds of death climbed along the bone beams.

The knife worm melted.

Even the Dominator-level executioner melted.

The heavy guards attempted to seal their respiratory organs with their shells, but to no avail.

The toxins released by the Catachan toad are not a single gas; they are a mixture of hundreds of deadly biological enzymes, neurotoxins, and corrosive spores.

It attacks any exposed organic structure, destroys cell membranes, breaks down proteins, and renders flesh unable to maintain its shape.

Almost everything in this chamber was alive.

The ground is made of biomass, the walls are made of biomass, the skeleton contains flesh and blood, and even the mothership's own air circulation system is entirely composed of biomass.

For the toxic gas of the Cataclysm, there are no buildings here; the entire mothership is prey.

After the toxic fog came into contact with the cavity wall, the surface of the flesh and blood quickly turned black.

The spherical chamber was like being thrown into a vast ocean of strong acid.

The Zerg were still pouring in from the outside, but as soon as they stepped into the poisonous fog, they began to melt in patches.

The denser the swarm of insects, the faster the toxins spread through the blood, mucus, and tissues.

Those interconnected nervous systems and biomass conduits ironically became high-speed pathways for the spread of poison gas deep into the mothership.

In just over ten seconds, the black swarm of insects that had just filled the entire chamber had cleared out two ever-expanding death zones.

Guilliman hovered within the psionic barrier, watching as a Zerg tyrant began to melt from its feet.

It tried to sever its own legs to prevent the toxins from spreading upwards.

The moment the bone knife struck, the chest cavity collapsed from the inside.

This synaptic behemoth, which once required an entire Astartes squad to fight to the death to kill, was reduced to nothing but a smoldering carapace before even that carapace softened into pulp.

Guilliman certainly knew about the Catachan Barking Toad.

They also know that this creature, when startled, releases a poisonous cloud powerful enough to kill all life around it.

In Katachan, even the most experienced jungle warriors, once they spot a barking toad, usually don't try to catch it; they simply do everything they can to stay away from it.

That's the key.

This thing is almost impossible to capture alive; it will explode at the slightest provocation.

If they are not careful, both the hunter and the entire surrounding forest will die.

Guilliman turned his head: "How many of these do you have?"

Lawson grinned: "Not many, just a few thousand."

Guilliman: "..."

He suddenly understood why Lawson had ordered them to kill their way to the Norn Queen!

This creature had never been seen used by Lawson in previous wars.

But the most terrifying ability of the swarm is its ability to analyze and evolve.

If Lawson exposes the Barking Toad prematurely on a regular battlefield, the Norn Queen will have the opportunity to retrieve the contaminated samples, analyze the toxin components, and even specially hatch biological units capable of absorbing or decomposing the toxic mist.

Lawson had been hiding them all along, waiting for this moment.

Once Guilliman reaches the Norn Queen, then unleash the first attack!

The poisonous fog continued to churn.

A Norn messenger forcibly erected a psionic barrier in an attempt to isolate the poisonous gas.

Its nerve tendrils vibrated wildly, and the purplish-black barrier pushed the poisonous cloud back dozens of meters.

The next second, the cavity wall outside the barrier melted first.

Large amounts of biomass fell from above, crashing into the area around the Norn messenger.

The corrosive slurry seeped through the cracks in the bone beneath the barrier and spread upwards along its limbs.

The Norn messenger let out a shriek.

It severed its contaminated lower limbs and levitated using psionic energy.

But more toxins have already entered its body from the mothership's neural network.

The massive brain tissue on his back began to turn black.

The psionic barrier collapsed, and the green mist engulfed it.

The Norn Queen attempted to sever the connection with the contaminated area, shut down blood circulation, and sacrifice the entire spherical chamber to seal the toxins inside.

One by one, the thick nerve cords broke off on their own.

The bone structure collapsed from the outside.

The mothership is preparing to detach the entire chamber from its own structure.

How could Lawson let it succeed? He sneered, "This is nothing, I'll feed you the big one separately."

The next instant, Lawson appeared in front of the Norn Queen.

The distance is less than ten meters.

The Queen Norn's sensory organs all turned towards him.

The immense neural power manifested as a tangible impact, causing the crown-like carapace to expand outwards, and hundreds of bone spikes and tentacles simultaneously grappled towards Lawson.

The space cracked under the pressure of psionic energy, and even the Imperial Flame was pushed backward and rolled over.

Lawson threw out another round object, which stuck to the Norn Queen.