NCCnovel Chapter 228 The First Emperor's Mistake
Chapter 228 The First Emperor's Mistake
Deep within the Star Nest, in the secret laboratory of the First Dragon.
The four arms of the Ancestral Dragon danced rapidly on the control panel, its third eye flashing with a frenzied light. In the holographic projection, the entire genetic network of the Vigilant Star was reorganizing, and the outline of the Zerg Hive fleet appeared and disappeared in the warp rifts.
"Soon...almost soon..." His voice carried the distinctive buzzing of the insect hive, "The entire planet will become my sacrifice!"
Suddenly, an alarm pierced the air. The Ancestral Dragon's tentacles coiled around a trembling gene-stealer: "Speak! What's going on?!"
“Master…Master…” the gene stealer trembled, “A newly converted believer…he…he activated the backup signal device without authorization…”
Zu Long's pupils contracted sharply. In the holographic projection, a dazzling beam of signal light shot straight into the sky, revealing his hiding place.
"Useless trash!" The Ancestral Dragon's claws tore the gene-stealer apart. "Transfer immediately!"
Commander Pedro stood before the holographic projection, his eyes gleaming with determination: "The opportunity has arrived! Move out now!"
This operation, personally commanded by the Chapter Master, included 200 Space Marines and 6 Marauder-class Titans, with the objective of launching a frontal assault on the Ancestral Dragon's laboratory.
Another task was a special force of 50 Kashezin warriors led by Russell, whose mission was to infiltrate the laboratory and destroy the signaling device.
When Russell's team successfully infiltrated the laboratory, the scene before them was breathtaking: gene-stealers, hundreds of elite units, their carapaces etched with the insignia of the Ancestral Dragon. There were also Chaos Creatures, terrifying creatures that combined Zergling technology with Chaos technology.
As for the Ancestral Dragon's true form, it was ten meters tall, with four arms wielding psionic blades.
Zu Long heard the noise and turned around to see Russell.
"Little knight?" Zu Long sneered.
"Zu Long, your end has come!" Russell shouted in return.
"Hahahaha," Zu Long laughed eerily.
"You think you can kill me? You're simply overestimating yourselves!"
Russell smiled slightly and said: Killing you is not my mission. Someone else will deal with you!
"For the Emperor!" Russell activated "Emperor's Blessing," and "Blood Drinker" drew a golden arc. When the shovel blade cleaved through the carapace of an elite, he saw a nauseating truth—beneath those ancestral dragon symbols lay the genetic code of countless commoners.
[System Notification: Killing an Elite Genestealer, Faith Power +10 (Current 1925/4000)]
The Kashejin warriors opened fire wildly: molten steel guns, hellfire volleys, grenades...
After the fierce battle began, the battle leader led his men in to charge straight for the Ancestral Dragon.
However, Zu Long's behavior was very strange; he quickly fled the place.
Without the slightest hesitation, the battle leader gave chase.
An elite force of thousands of gene-stealers attempted to stop the chapter leader.
In the Pedro Cantor Chapter, two power swords gleamed in the eerie blue glow of the Zerg hive as they mercilessly slashed at the Genestealers.
His bronze power armor was covered in corrosive slime, and every step he took left burning footprints on the flesh and blood floor nurtured by the Ancestral Dragon.
The warband leader relentlessly pursued the Ancestral Dragon until he reached the Ancestral Dragon's gene pool. The reason why the Ancestral Dragon wanted to escape back to the gene pool was to restore his full strength and then fight the warband leader.
"Pathetic puppet." The Ancestral Dragon's true form rose from the gene pool, its four insectoid claws tearing through the viscous fungal membrane, its eight psionic tentacles flailing behind it like a swarm of snakes. "You think you can shake the ancient tree by severing a few branches?"
The warband commander suddenly charged forward, his twin swords tracing a spiral trajectory. The left blade cleaved through three incoming psionic tentacles, while the right blade aimed straight for the Ancestral Dragon's heart. But the four insectoid claws parried at an angle defying biology, and the resulting shockwave shattered thirty surrounding incubation chambers.
"Too slow!" The third eye of the Ancestral Dragon flashed purple light, and Pedro's tactical goggles went black instantly. The Demon Prince seized the opportunity, his claws stabbing towards the Chapter Master's throat, but at the last moment, his twin swords crossed to block the attack—Pedro had blindly blocked the blow with muscle memory.
The two swords suddenly separated, and the Chapter Commander spun rapidly, pivoting on his left foot. One sword severed two psionic tentacles, while the other pierced the Ancestral Dragon's left knee. Hive slime splattered onto the power armor, corroding it and creating hissing holes.
"A mere trick!" The severed tentacles of the Ancestral Dragon instantly regenerated, and all four claws thrust out simultaneously. Pedro somersaulted backward in mid-air, his two swords crossing above his head to forcefully block the four cold beams of light. Sparks from the friction of metal ignited the spores in the air, creating a brief cloud of fire between the two.
The Ancestral Dragon's chest suddenly split open, revealing the pulsating core of the insectoid hive. A psionic storm swept through the entire temple, tearing the Titan-class armor plates to shreds. Pedro's twin swords plunged into the ground, carving two burning furrows through the storm.
"Witness true power!" The roar of the Ancestral Dragon distorted space, and twelve clones rose from the blood pool.
The warband suddenly laughed. He tore off his tattered cloak, revealing a Dornish rune hidden on his shoulder armor. The moment the psionic storm touched the rune, the gravity field of the entire temple reversed.
In the weightless chaos, Pedro transformed into a golden meteor. His twin swords pierced the four eyes of the Ancestral Dragon with perfect precision, their blades crossing and strangling within its skull. The explosion of the hive core propelled the two into the depths of the gene pool, where, amidst the boiling slime, the Chapter Leader used his last strength to shove the holy rune into the Ancestral Dragon's ruptured chest cavity.
"In the name of Dorne!" Amidst the blinding light of the detonating holy rune, the Ancestral Dragon's wailing gradually faded. "This is only the beginning..."
When the surviving warriors pulled the warband from the slime, they found his twin swords still firmly embedded in the skull of the ancestral dragon. At the bottom of the gene pool, hundreds of inactive cloning pods were pulsating, their surfaces clearly engraved with Abaddon's chaotic mark.
Russell had no time to deal with this; he led his elite squad in a swift assault.
"Roar!" Oglin roared incessantly, his warhammer sweeping across the battlefield.
Leos, the political commissar of Arrek, followed closely behind Russell.
"There!" Leos exclaimed excitedly.
It was a huge luminous device, which was Russell and his team's target.
"Cover me!" Russell roared and charged forward, grabbing the Blood Drinker.
The Kashejin warriors quickly formed a triangle and advanced, their frenzied firepower relentlessly crushing any gene stealers that dared to approach.
Russell rushed to the glowing device, roared "Emperor's Protection!" and "Soul of the Serpent!" and then the Blood Drinker slashed at the device.
With a loud "boom," a huge, violent force swept around, and Russell was blasted away before crashing heavily to the ground.
The berserk power was frantically destroying the device, and the surroundings began to shake violently.
Russell wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said, "We need to leave here."
They managed to evacuate successfully before the equipment collapsed.