Warhammer: Empire Reboot

The third Katachang barking toad had just emerged from its static state when it saw the enormous, writhing, living throne before it.

The barking toad was terrified!

Bang! ! !

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Chapter 265: Slay through the main tentacle and obtain Norn gene weaving!

The barking toad's crown-like carapace exploded off, clinging to the Norn queen.

The dark green liquid first spread along the carapace, then turned into a nearly transparent mist, seeping into every tiny crevice on the surface of the carapace.

The Norn Queen's psionic energy erupted at the same instant.

A purplish-black storm swept through the core chamber, pushing the surrounding swarm of insects outward along with the poisonous mist.

However, the toxins that first come into contact with the carapace have already seeped in.

A dark spot appeared on the surface of the corona plate.

The dark spot expanded rapidly from the size of a fist.

The chitinous armor that was strong enough to withstand the aftershocks of naval gunfire had lost its original luster, and the edges drooped downwards, like a block of wax exposed to a raging fire.

The muscle fibers beneath the carapace soften and detach in bundles, revealing the translucent brain tissue structure inside.

The Norn queen immediately removed the contaminated tissue, and dozens of knife-shaped bones popped out of her body.

Click!

The contaminated half of the crown, along with a large piece of flesh below it, was cut off.

The massive skeletal plates plunged into the biomass river. Before even reaching the surface, the shell collapsed at the edges, and the internal muscles and nerve tissue turned into a thick, viscous liquid, leaving behind only a bubbling, dark green downpour.

The wounds of the Norn worm queen contracted rapidly.

The surrounding flesh proliferated wildly, and new layers of bone began to cover the exposed brain tissue.

It attempts to eliminate the polluting parts in the most direct way.

But it was too late.

The toxins have entered the bloodstream.

Blood contaminated with toxins is forced into the sensory system.

Hundreds of compound eyes surrounding the corona simultaneously lost their luster. Cloudy fluid seeped from the surface of the eyeballs, and the internal photosensitive tissue rapidly disintegrated, sliding out of the eye sockets in patches.

After connecting to the Norn, the neural cable between the Norn and the mothership began to turn black.

The synaptic light, flowing at high speed along the nerve, went out in segments, and the nerve bundle, as thick as a bridge, twitched violently, with countless blisters bulging on its surface.

Puff puff puff!

The blisters burst one after another.

The neuroplasm gushed outwards, and before it could fall, it decomposed into a foul-smelling mist in the air.

The Norn Queen's shriek echoed throughout the entire core mothership.

The ship, tens of kilometers long, suddenly arched in mid-air.

The shells pressed against each other, producing a dull cracking sound.

The bio-ships responsible for protecting the core simultaneously retracted, and the synaptic network of the surrounding Zerg fleet also experienced a violent tremor.

Deeper within the fleet, equally massive wills rapidly connected to the synaptic network.

They come from other Zerg motherships.

From other Norn queens.

The shriek of the Norn queen had already relayed everything that was happening in the core chamber to her kind.

Inside the core chamber, the Norn Queen's self-rescue efforts continue.

Simultaneously, the muscle valves that grew around the main body contracted, forcibly severing hundreds of blood vessels leading to other areas of the mothership. High-pressure blood gushed from the severed points, spraying along the bone beams and nerve cords.

That blood should have been sealed in the core area.

However, toxins had already been mixed in with it.

The blood plasma fell onto the reproductive sac.

The translucent amniotic sac quickly turned black, and the immature insectoids inside lost their shape. The carapace, skeleton, and internal organs dissolved into a clump in the culture medium, and the enormous amniotic sac, like a bag filled with sewage, fell off one after another.

Blood plasma fell into the biomass river.

The dark red nutrient solution began to boil.

Glug! Glug!

Numerous bubbles rise from below the liquid surface, causing the villous tissue that absorbs nutrients along the way to detach in patches.

The peristaltic pipes responsible for transporting biomass to the incubation area quickly rotted away, turning the once surging river into a blackish-green, decaying flood.

The Noon queen mobilizes genes to weave organs.

A batch of hastily generated glands swelled beneath the remaining carapace. They drew upon all available nutrients in the vicinity, attempting to break down toxins and produce the corresponding decomposing enzymes.

The yellow neutralizing solution was injected into the circulation system.

The rate of toxin spread slowed down temporarily.

A few seconds later, the newly formed glands were completely rotten through.

The tartan toad does not contain a single, simple poison.

The enzymes produced by the queen insect can only neutralize a portion of the toxins; the remaining components transform these newly formed organs into an organic culture medium more suitable for the spread of toxins.

The Norn Queen began severing its connection with the mothership.

Thousands of nerve cords taut simultaneously.

The bone blades at the base fell one after another.

Click!Click!

One nerve cord after another was severed as the massive queen attempted to detach from the ship.

But it wasn't a passenger living on the mothership.

Forcibly separating them is like trying to pull the brain, spine, and uterus out of a living body at the same time.

A root system with a diameter of tens of meters was broken.

High-pressure biomass was ejected hundreds of meters high.

No clean new tissue appeared deep inside the wound; only large clumps of contaminated, dark green blood plasma remained.

The lower half of the Norn worm begins to lose its shape.

The layers of muscle bundles turned into soft, fluffy material, which fell off in large pieces as the struggle continued.

The organ responsible for storing and recombining genes is exposed, and thousands of vesicles on its surface rapidly expand and then rupture within seconds.

Countless gene templates collected by the swarm were mixed into the venom.

The genetic material that could have been rewoven into new war creatures by the Norn Queen was all turned into a pot of unrecognizable rotten liquid.

The queen insect begins to molt.

The remaining crown split in the middle.

A massive, translucent mass of brain matter pushed outwards, attempting to discard its carapace, reproductive organs, and all the contaminated outer tissues, retaining only the most vital core of consciousness.

As soon as the brain tissue structure was exposed, dark lines appeared inside.

The toxins had already reached the brain via tiny blood vessels.

The black lines spread rapidly along the nerve grooves, intersecting each other and dividing the massive cerebral lobe into countless areas that were dying.

The synaptic impulses became disordered.

The core mothership began to lose coordination.

The propulsion muscles at the stern contracted on one side while completely relaxing on the other, causing the ship, which was tens of kilometers long, to slowly roll in the air.

The biological plasma weapon is still accumulating energy, but the organ responsible for confining that energy has already died prematurely.

Incandescent light shone from within.

boom!

The explosion ripped open the outer shell for several kilometers.

Flesh, bone fragments, and undeveloped projectiles were ejected into space.

Several escort insect ships that got too close were hit by debris, but they did not receive orders to come to their aid and could only continue to retreat.

The toxic blood had already rushed into the mothership's main artery.

The living tube, hundreds of meters in diameter, runs through the ship's hull, delivering nutrients to the propulsion system, weapon chambers, and incubation layer.

Now, it has become the main channel for the spread of pollution.

A torrent of dark green water rushed past.

Along the way, muscles detached from the skeleton in large pieces.

One after another, the weapon's organs went out of control.

Within the digestive tract, even acids strong enough to dissolve steel could not destroy the toxins. Countless symbiotic organisms that depended on the digestive wall died one after another, and the tissues that absorbed nutrients rotted into sludge.

The pressure in the closed digestive cavity continues to rise.

Boom!

A torrent of digestive fluids, toxic blood, and undecomposed insect carcasses poured back into the hatching area.

Thousands upon thousands of gestational sacs swell simultaneously.

The larvae inside melted along with the culture medium before they even had a chance to tear open the amniotic sac.

The sacs burst open one after another, and a blackish-green flood engulfed the forming knife worms, warrior worms, and heavy behemoths.