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Chapter 340: The Spear of Adun Enters the Fray and Trazyn's Collection
🕑 Added 2025-10-04 12:12:30 +0000 UTCChapter 340: The Spear of Adun Enters the Fray and Trazyn's Collection
Gabriel and the Blood Ravens who had joined the battle, enhanced by their new gene-tailoring, weaved through the battlefield, killing high-value targets. However, the Swarmlord continued to advance toward Zagara as if it were in an empty field.
A team of twenty Ultralisks charged at the Swarmlord, but the Hive Tyrants and Tyrant Guard flanking it immediately intercepted them, clearing a path for their master. A massive meat grinder of giant bio-forms erupted on the battlefield.
Zagara was continuously falling back. The power of the Swarmlord before her filled her with fear. It was rare to see an individual being so powerful in melee combat. With her own fighting ability, she probably wouldn't last more than a few exchanges.
From the distance, the Hierophants, along with the remaining Tyranids, were also charging toward their position. The four bio-titans continuously sprayed acid from their living weapons. Any Zerg that was touched by it melted into a puddle of goo in the next second. The artillery fire from the Raiders could not even penetrate their carapaces.
This was the first time since the Tyranids had arrived on this planet that they had truly broken out of their landing zone.
The ground forces could not stop these four giant war-beasts. One after another, Banelings exploded at their feet but failed to achieve their usual effect. Only the Gorgons that had entered the planet's atmosphere could suppress and damage the Hierophants. But inside the atmosphere, the Gorgons had to face more than just the ground units. Spore-pods continuously fell from the sky, smashing directly onto the warships, and countless Gargoyles were constantly trying to get inside. These Tyranid units were harassing the Gorgons' fire output and trying to shoot them down.
Zagara continuously suppressed her own impulse to flee. The Zerg had sufficient numbers; even if they could not kill all of them in a short time, it was enough to cover her escape. But Zagara knew she could not leave. She was the bait. If the bait fled, how could they catch their prey? She was waiting, waiting for Kerrigan's arrival.
And then, a signal came through the Hive Mind. Zagara knew that the great Queen had arrived on this planet. Using a Nydus Worm, Kerrigan had directly bypassed the bio-fleet's defensive line and had reached the surface of Iphix.
The moment she arrived, Kerrigan immediately transformed into her Queen of Blades form. Her psionic power lifted her into the air. Lightning and shockwaves formed of pure psionic energy vaporized any Tyranid that tried to get close.
When Kerrigan appeared among the Zerg swarm, the Swarmlord seemed to sense her as well. He looked in the direction of her appearance. The central hub of the Zerg's Hive Mind was concentrated on Kerrigan. In comparison, the intelligence and psionic power displayed by Zagara was nothing. The Swarmlord realized that Zagara was perhaps just another synapse-creature. Kerrigan was the true existence on the level of a Norn-Queen.
Realizing this, the Swarmlord immediately led the Tyranid forces at his side to switch targets. He no longer tried to kill Zagara, but instead charged toward Kerrigan.
"My Queen! Be careful! This creature is very powerful!" Zagara shouted urgently, worried that her great Queen was in danger.
But Kerrigan, looking at the approaching Swarmlord, showed no worry at all. In fact, she simply waited in place for him to arrive.
In the void, the warships of three races were locked in a chaotic battle.
Dante had taken command of all the Imperial warships. Justus had willingly handed over his authority; to be able to fight under the command of the legendary Dante was an honor in itself. The fleet commanded by Dante was clearly fighting at a level far beyond its original capabilities. Dante always seemed to issue the perfect command to every warship. His objective was clear: the Hive Ships within the Tyranid fleet. But these behemoths of the void, even after taking a dozen torpedo hits, still seemed completely unharmed.
At the same time he was fighting, he also had to guard against the Necrons on the other side of the battlefield. Dante was also trying to observe the ground battle on Iphix. The situation on the surface shocked him. This was the first time he had ever personally witnessed the Zerg in combat.
"Dante," Lucan's voice came over the vox, "in a moment, a giant warship will be entering the Cryptus System. Pay attention to the IFF. Do not attack! Also, if a Necron fleet other than Zardathusa's appears, do not engage."
"A giant warship?! And more Necrons?! Are you talking about the Traveller, Anrakyr?"
"No. But the Necrons who are coming to help are indeed on our side."
Lucan himself did not yet know in what manner Trazyn would intervene in the battle.
Dante was still wondering just how "giant" this warship was when the Spear of Adun, using the coordinates provided by Lucan, warped directly into the field. The appearance of the Spear of Adun drew the attention of almost everyone in the system. And at this moment, Ferrus and his entire Iron Hands Chapter were on board. Soon, the news of another Primarch's arrival spread throughout the battlefield, causing the morale of the Imperial side to soar.
And soon after, Trazyn's assistance also appeared. However, what appeared was not a massive fleet, but only a single, giant Necron flagship named the King of Antiques.
When Zardathusa saw this warship, he also ordered his own fleet to slow their attack. He did not know which dynasty this warship, which also belonged to the Necrontyr, was from, nor did he know its purpose.
At this moment, on the bridge of his own flagship, Trazyn was surrounded by a large number of floating cubes. And within each cube, one could see countless tiny figures, frozen in time. Looking at these cubes, a trace of pain appeared in Trazyn's eyes. After all, anything that Trazyn collected was a masterpiece.
To fulfill his agreement with Lucan, he had carefully selected a number of collectibles from his museum to be thrown into this war.
"Sigh... I really can't bear to throw these collectibles away," he lamented. "It will be difficult to find similar ones again."
But even as he said this, Trazyn still did it. One by one, the cubes disappeared from his side, and were then directly released and teleported into the interior of many of the Tyranid warships.
One after another, the troops within were restored from their frozen state of mind and body. Among them were not only the Astra Militarum regiments that Trazyn had collected, but also some human traitors, and even some of the Chosen of the Chaos Gods.
A Chaos Lord of Nurgle and his Plague Marines were also released. When he returned to the material universe, although he did not know what had happened, he still unleashed the profane rites of Nurgle on the Tyranid creatures that swarmed toward him. The plague began to affect the Tyranid creatures before him.
Although the Tyranids could, through adaptation, slowly become immune to Nurgle's plagues, it was clearly not something that could be done so quickly. The plague began to cause one after another of the Tyranid creatures to collapse, and then it spread throughout the entire bio-ship. The bio-ship began to rot under the corrosion of Nurgle's plague, and pustules began to grow all over it. The plague even began to spread to other nearby Tyranid warships. To contain the spread, the other Tyranid fleets began to attack these infected bio-ships.
Although the infected bio-ships were destroyed, the Nurgle forces also all died within. But no one was going to care about their fate.
And besides these followers of Chaos, inside several other bio-ships, a few squads of elite Catachan jungle fighters that Trazyn had collected also regained consciousness.
