Warhammer 40 A New Hope

A scorching blue flame gushed out of its mouth, instantly engulfing a large number of Flood troops. At this moment, a beam of light suddenly shot out from the ground and hit the giant dragon structure in the air.

This attack directly stopped the giant dragon in the air, and the second attack followed and shot it down.

"It's a scarab?! There's more than one."

Three giant Covenant combat vehicles infected and controlled by the Flood - the Scarab attack platforms appeared in the field of vision. After successfully shooting down the dragon construct, one of them fired several plasma spheres in the direction of the Tomb King's troops.

The scorching plasma sphere melted the structure at the front almost instantly, and other Flood troops took the opportunity to surround it again.

"We need to retreat. The losses of our troops are not serious yet. Retreat..."

"Take your squad and charge into that building." Emperor Settra interrupted the Sergeant and said, "I will have the cavalry cover you."

"I'll deal with these 'big toys' and join you guys later."

Without any questioning or doubt, Emperor Settra, riding on the Chariot of the Gods, passed through his own troops and drove towards one of the infected and controlled scarabs. At the same time, a huge Khemri War Sphinx (elite unit) also broke away from the main force and rushed towards the scarab not far away.

The Master Chief and his men didn't have a chance to say anything more, because Emperor Settra's troops had already begun to change their formation, and a 'safe passage' leading to the target building was taking shape. At the same time, a whole team of [Ghost Walkers] (Snake Knights elite unit) had gathered near the [Warthog] on which the Master Chief and his men were riding.

"What should we do, Chief?"

. . . . . .

boom--!

[Khemri Conquers the Sphinx] Relying on its own energy shield, it rushed to the opponent under the firepower of a scarab, and crashed its entire body into it, causing it to fall.

The downed [Settra Dragon Sphinx] (dragon construct) also flew up again at this time and pounced on the body of another scarab. The blue flames burned the Flood infected tissue and its metal shell at close range.

Different from the two constructs above, which were so powerful, Emperor Settra, riding on the Chariot of the Gods, shuttled among the hordes of Flood infected bodies as if they were in an empty space. He ignited blue flames along the way, burning those enemies who accidentally came into contact with the flames.

He swung the long sword in his hand from time to time, killing the enemies who tried to block his way. Plasma spheres exploded beside him from time to time but could not stop him from moving forward. Emperor Sattra moved forward all the way and came under the scarab.

The leg, tangled with infected flesh, fell beside Settra, missing him, and Settra's chariot carried him towards one of its hind legs, a blue light illuminating his weapon.

[Advanced Degaf's Demonic Sword Curse]

The magical energy that could strengthen an entire Ushabit phalanx now gathered on the blade of the weapon in Settra's hand. Then Settra held the knife with both hands and used the long-handled knife to slash at the metal leg in front of him that was covered with the flesh and metal of the Flood.

The expected sound of metal collision did not sound. Just like a hot knife cutting tofu, the weapon in Settra's hand easily cut a hole in one of the scarab's hind legs. Then he turned the chariot he was riding in and swung the weapon in his hand again.

The second blow completely cut off one of the scarab's hind legs, and its huge body began to tilt unbalancedly. At this time, Emperor Settra once again controlled the chariot to turn and chopped at the other hind leg with the long sword in his hand.

Click—boom!

The huge scarab fell down and hit the ground with a loud roar, and a lot of dust flew up.

"Is that all?" Emperor Setra stopped his chariot and looked at the scarab he had knocked down, saying with disdain. "You can only bully the living."

The scarab burned by the blue flames collapsed to the ground in a nearly melted state. The Khemrian War Sphinx, which possessed a pair of giant power blades, dismembered the enemy in front of it, and blue flames ignited on its body.

The elite troops brought by Setra had already built a defense line at an entrance of the target building, destroying the attacking enemies like a meat grinder. At the same time, the occasional sound of artillery fire could be heard not far away.

At this moment, a large number of Flood infected bodies have swarmed around Emperor Settra, who is alone in the deep. It is obvious that they are trying to overwhelm the terrifying enemy before them with numbers.

However, a sandstorm appeared out of nowhere, obscuring their vision and hindering their movements. Then several huge figures appeared around Emperor Settra.

[Soul Realm·Stage 3·Summon Ushabit]

"You know nothing about us, but we know you very well." Emperor Settra controlled his chariot and came to the front. "Without the intelligent individuals that can be infected, you are no different from beasts."

"You will be another gift from the Tomb Kings. Your defeat will breathe new life into us and become our military achievement."

"Welcome to death, beasts!"

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The Master Chief led two Spartan warriors and went very deep into the building where the Corpse Mind Beast was located. Along the way, they also encountered a considerable number of infected Covenant troops and Templar Defender machines on the belt.

But perhaps because most of the Flood went outside to resist the attack of Emperor Settra, the number of enemies they encountered was still within a manageable range.

The Spartan warrior of the blue team, holding a heavy machine gun, used intensive firepower to turn the approaching enemies into burning corpses on the ground. The sergeant and another Spartan warrior, holding a marksman rifle and a submachine gun, attacked the enemies coming from other directions.

"Watch out for grenades!"

Several incendiary grenades were thrown, and the next moment a scorching flame ignited, covering a large area of ​​Flood infected bodies, and the flames burned their flesh and blood.

After dozens of seconds, the group of Flood demons that attacked the Master Chief's team were annihilated, and the whole room fell silent.

"Take turns to reload and stay alert!" the team leader, the Master Chief, ordered. "Cortana, is there any useful information?"

[Considering that the Flood has controlled this building for quite some time, for safety reasons, I cannot conduct a deep intrusion into the internal systems of this building.] Cortana's voice sounded in the Master Chief's ears. [However, I still managed to obtain a map of this Forerunner building and marked the possible location of the Flood...]

The sergeant and another Spartan warrior who were using the submachine gun and the marksman rifle had completed their reloading. The warrior who was carrying the ammunition box and holding the heavy machine gun began to check the weapons and ammunition.

"There is still about half left, which should be enough for us..."

Suddenly, the Spartan warrior fell silent. The sergeant and others turned around immediately, but they only saw a bloody tentacle tightly wrapped around the warrior and disappeared into a door.

The Master Chief and others immediately tried to chase after them, but more tentacles attacked from all directions, forcing them to fight the enemy where they were.

The numerous and constantly moving flesh tentacles were more difficult to deal with than ordinary Flood infected bodies. The Master Chief and his men, who had lost their heavy firepower, were quickly captured by those huge tentacles.

Afterwards, the captured Master Chief and his companions were taken to a place that looked like the main control room, where they saw the Spartan warrior who had been taken away before, and... the mouth of the Corpseminal.

"Human..." Several bright yellow lenses that looked like eyes opened, and the giant mouth that exuded the smell of plague spoke. "I want to make a deal with you..."

"I will not make a deal with a monster," the Master Chief said firmly.

"you will."

As he spoke, the tentacles that bound the other two Spartan warriors began to exert force, and the internal system of their power armor sounded an alarm, and tiny blood threads were trying to invade the inside of their armor.

"Stop!"

"I told you that you would." The Flood stopped moving and opened its big mouth to speak. "Take away a cloud of spores, and I will let them go."

"That's impossible! That means the destruction of the entire ring belt! Countless planets will be infected by you!"

"You'd better understand the price of rejecting me..." The Hong Mo's voice, like a mouthful of phlegm stuck in his throat, sounded again. "Do you want to watch your comrades die in front of you?!"

[Keep stalling for time, Sergeant. I am sending out the situation here.]

"I heard that the Flood is a powerful entity that can threaten the entire galaxy and defeat the Forerunners." The Master Chief suddenly said. "You actually want to make a deal with us? Why should I believe you?"

"We are not stupid. We are smarter than you think." The giant mouth said. "The current defeat is only temporary. As long as we give us time, we will be able to come back sooner or later and defeat these new enemies."

"We just need time, our numbers will be enough to flood the entire galaxy again!"

"In that case, why should I help you? You will destroy all living things in the end anyway."

"I said we are not stupid. I can promise that we will not attack humans before we completely wipe out other races." The Corpse Mind Beast said. "You can develop as much as possible during this time and try to find a way to defeat us."

"Then it comes back to the same question as before: Why should I believe you?"

"Because you can only choose to accept it, otherwise you will all die here!"

"My patience is limited, you'd better give it to me quickly...?!"

Halfway through his words, the corpse-brain beast suddenly felt a sense of weakness from nowhere, and he could feel something being pulled away from his body.

At this moment, outside this building, several Lich Priests simultaneously released [Advanced Soul Extraction] on the Corpse Beast based on the information provided by Cortana.

"You damned ones..."

The targeted magic released by several Lich Priests with the help of magic props is rapidly weakening the long-existing Corpse-Brain Beast, making it immediately ready to give up the idea of ​​making a deal with the humans in front of it. The tentacles that bound the Master Chief and the others are beginning to prepare to invade and infect them.

[Higher Utherhope's Withering Curse]

At a speed visible to the naked eye, the weapons that bound the Master Chief and others began to dry up, and finally became as if they had been baked in the desert for thousands of years, turning into sand-like powder and falling to the ground.

"An enemy that once terrified all civilized races in this world, so much so that they had to destroy each other." With a Flood infected body still stuck in his weapon, Emperor Settra walked out of the gate and looked at the disgusting beast in front of him. "You disappoint me..."

"Like I said, without the advantage of numbers and when your infection ability is restrained, you are nothing more than beasts."

Emperor Settra said this and glanced at the Master Chief, his thoughts were self-evident.

"In the final analysis, you can only bully the living."

"Damn you!"

Several tentacles attacked Emperor Settra who was walking in, but before they could touch him, they dried up and finally turned into piles of sand on the ground.

"If not...if there were more time!"

"At that time, you will still be defeated by me." Emperor Settra said lightly.

"The Flood, nothing more than that."

578. Brock

The Flood is actually not weak. If given time to reproduce and parasitize and control biological and mechanical devices, its harmfulness will increase exponentially.

It can even be said that if it is placed in the Warhammer universe, as long as it can adapt to the warp, it is not impossible to create another disaster comparable to the Tyranids. After all, they have a record of causing the Forerunners to self-destruct.

But war is not a game. It is normal to defeat the enemy with one blow when the enemy is at a disadvantage. Besides, if there is enough time, the Tomb King can also create an army of undead that is enough to threaten the galaxy.

Perhaps, Settra and his troops did take advantage of the situation, relying on the characteristics of the dead to completely suppress the Flood's troops. If the Flood had enough time and creatures to infect, they could have completely engulfed the undead army of Emperor Settra in turn, but...

Now, the Flood has lost.

The Corpse-Brain Beast, which serves as the main brain, has been mummified, which means that the organization and planning of the Flood troops in the entire 05 ring belt will decline, which will greatly facilitate the subsequent cleanup of the Flood.

Emperor Settra, who accomplished the feat of 'beating the Flood', was promised all the Covenant survivors they captured and rescued, the seized weapons and equipment, and the large infected area of ​​the ring that needed to be cleared.

For an ambitious king, this feels like letting a tiger return to the mountains and inviting a wolf into the house, but it is not realistic to suppress them all the time. The Tomb Kings have fully demonstrated their unique advantages in dealing with some enemies.

Moreover, their current number of troops is not that large, and they are summoned by Nagash's magic, so they will inevitably be subject to this limitation (when fighting in a world without the Warp, they need to carry an obelisk with them, otherwise the troops will fall apart on the spot).

Because of this, after discussing with a group of Primarchs and high-ranking officials of the Empire, Zhang Yi decided to relax the various restrictions on the Tomb Kings a little, speed up their transformation and development, and make it easier for them to deal with the Flood problem in the Halo world - after all, the Human Empire itself has made a lot of progress.

The issuance of this order directly caused Emperor Settra to deploy a large number of his own troops to the 05 ring. He said that he wanted to deal with the Flood in the infected area as quickly as possible and prepare for other possible events in the future - as for why, only he himself knew.

Some former Covenant members, including the Sangheili, voiced opposition to the Tomb Kings' practice of slavery, believing it to be primitive and barbaric. Emperor Settra responded by saying:

"So, you want me to kill them? And then continue working with their bodies?"

Most of the protesters had not expected that the powerful king would personally respond to this matter, and his words also made the protesters shudder - he did not care much about the lives of these Covenant troops who had become slaves.

The affairs of the Halo world have come to a temporary end. It will take a lot of time to excavate and explore the Forerunner ruins throughout the galaxy. The Covenant, a huge entity built on lies, has also been disintegrated because of lies, and there are a lot of incidents that need to be dealt with. Many members who were originally dissatisfied with the [Prophet] and the Covenant will rise up at this time, and some diehard fans of the [Prophet] and the Forerunners will also surely make trouble at this time.

But these are not the things that the Human Empire needs to focus on. The greatest harvest of the exploration of the Halo world has already been obtained. Now they only need to find a way to obtain the method of opening and controlling most of the Forerunner ruins from the True Missionary, the only known Forerunner. After all, he is a true Forerunner and must know more about his former technology than humans.

To achieve this goal, the human empire will stop at nothing.

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[Hope]

This giant ship from the golden age of the human empire recently docked near Mars in the XCOM world for repairs and modifications.

Now the ship has become the mothership of the Pathfinders Chapter, and the fact that their Primarch wanted to travel to different worlds meant that this was the most appropriate choice.

In addition to the original areas and functions, the entire ship has added areas for researching and detaining abnormalities, as well as a number of new production lines, such as the production and improvement of YoRHa dolls.

Due to Zhang Yi, most of the new technologies and creations will be gathered on the Hope first, which makes many members of the Mechanicus eager to visit and participate in research and production on this giant ship - but only a very few people can do so.

The white portal opened, and Zhang Yi came to a certain area of ​​the giant ship. As soon as he walked out of the portal, a humanoid creature with all four limbs and disheveled hair ran towards him.

"I rely on?"

You can imagine how much impact this ghost thing has when it stumbles and rushes towards you using all four limbs. Just as it was about to rush in front of Zhang Yi, several bright blue lightning bolts hit it, paralyzing it on the spot.

A pair of burly monks carrying capacitors appeared in front of Zhang Yi. They kept releasing electric current towards the black creature in order to completely suppress it.

Afterwards, several priests of the Mechanicus arrived and used a special device with electric current to clamp the creature's neck and drag it back.

"A new abnormality?" Looking at the humanoid creature being dragged away while screaming in the electric current, Zhang Yi asked the person in charge who came to him.

"Yes, this is a group of abnormalities we captured from the City," the responsible Mechanicus leader responded. "They are called: The Abandoned."

"So far, no special abilities have been found. I tend to think that they are highly mutated mutants."

"Be careful. You know, the appearance of some abnormalities can be quite deceptive."

"I will keep your teachings in mind, Your Majesty."

After this little episode, Zhang Yi came directly to the area where the True Missionary, a pioneer in research, was imprisoned. It was said that a lot of biological-related masters of the Mechanicum, sages, and alien inquisitors from the Inquisition had gathered here in recent times.

With so many different people gathered here, this poor forerunner was subjected to inhuman research and torture - but considering that he had been contaminated by the Flood and the series of things he had done to humans before... Good death.

There are also a large number of Forerunner creations in this area, which are used as test subjects. Of course, in order to ensure safety, the defense measures in this area are also extremely strict.

But when Zhang Yi arrived at this area, what he saw was not the true missionaries who were being tortured and studied repeatedly, but...

"Hmm..." Zhang Yi fell into deep thought as he looked at the black-skinned figure in front of him that looked 80% like 2B. "Have you been busy with this recently?"