The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Soon, Sotha discovered the reason for the Phoenix Guard's sluggish offensive. Guarded by three Carnifexes, there was a very unique behemoth.

This was a quadrupedal monster larger than even a Toxicrene, but unlike other Tyranid bio-titans, its head was completely covered in spiked carapace. It didn't even have eyes, only a pair of sharp forelimbs, and no other weapons. Its body was covered in what appeared to be extremely thick chitin, but upon closer inspection, one could see wriggling brain tissue from the gaps in these chitinous plates, which seemed to explain why the upper part of its body was so bloated and round.

This was a huge, ground-based Norn Emissary. Twisted shadows of psychic energy swirled around it, and these tendrils seemed to be the embodiment of the Tyranid warp shadow. No wonder the Phoenix Guard were being suppressed.

Like any Aeldari, the Phoenix Guard could feel the terrifying touch of the Hive Mind. Aeldari, already sensitive to psychic energy, were generally unable to resist such dark pressure, but the sacred fire of Asuryan burning within them weakened the Hive Fleet's twisted shadow in their minds, though it still slowed their reaction speed considerably.

"Die!"

Sotha shot forward like an arrow. The three Carnifexes immediately noticed and turned to roar at him.

Upon contact, one Carnifex was bisected at the waist, its bone sabers still flailing uselessly in the air.

The second's attack slammed into the ground, and then its head landed on the ground as well.

The third didn't hit anything at all, only losing its balance and falling to the ground after its left leg was severed.

Sotha arrived in front of the psychic behemoth, which immediately emitted a nightmare-shattering screech. The powerful psychic energy made the surrounding air viscous, and a thick psychic barrier protected it.

But he simply reached out, and with one punch, he blasted open the psychic barrier that could withstand a tank's main cannon, then with one sword strike, he cleaved the beast's body in two.

In an instant, chaotic bio-electrical and psychic fields began to violently discharge. Countless Tyranid creatures around them twitched and fell. Sotha paid them no mind. He grabbed the Tyranid Prime by the tail from behind and yanked, directly dragging it down.

"Looks like I'll have to study how powerful your potential really is."

With that, he grabbed one of the Prime's arms, twisted it hard, and tore it off.

The Prime shrieked and slashed at him with its bone sabers. Sotha raised his hand and directly severed its wrist with the Sunflare Blade, then stepped on its head, grabbed its other arm, and twisted and tore it off in the same way.

In a moment, the ferocious Prime had become a 'bug stick' with only a head and a tail left, but even though it was covered in blood and horribly mutilated, it was still writhing and roaring, its sharp teeth seemingly wanting to take a bite out of Sotha.

"Take it away."

"Yes!"

Two Phoenix Guard came forward, took out stasis chains, and put them on the Prime. Immediately, the creature seemed to freeze, solidified in its last second.

"Prince, look."

Just as the Phoenix Guard were packing up the Tyranid Prime, Duran walked to Sotha's side and pointed to the spaceport launch area.

Sotha looked over and saw that the two transport ships that should have taken off were still on the launch pad. It turned out that before takeoff, a huge serpentine Tyranid creature had broken through the tunnels and damaged the ship's engines. At this time, the area around it was crawling with Tyranid creatures, and some bright yellow figures were standing on the ship's hull, fighting hard. Obviously, for the Hive, the priority was to devour this large amount of biomass.

"Clear out the spaceport!"

At the order, hundreds of vehicles and aircraft swooped down from the already cleared sky and strafed the crowded Tyranid swarm.

Shuriken, las beams, and plasma rained down, creating precise destruction on the buildings and platforms around the spaceport launch area, and firing at large targets in the swarm through rapid target locking and identification—the Aeldari already knew the Tyranid's gestalt command chain, and eliminating the front-line node creatures would maximize the confusion in the Tyranid's command.

While large vehicles were carrying out pinpoint slaughter, jetbike squadrons were spitting blue-white flames, rushing along the outer walls of the spaceport towards the tunnels dug by the Tyranid Ravener, and destroying them one by one with plasma grenades, preventing more Tyranid creatures from pouring in.

"Prioritize dealing with the enemies attacking the transport ships, and try not to get too close to the transport ships, it may cause the Lamenters to misunderstand."

As his personal airship, 'Eternal Holy Fire', landed, Sotha boarded this gorgeous phoenix-shaped vehicle and continued to issue instructions.

This airship was personally built for Sotha by Calas Typhon. It was about the size of a Vampire Raider, twice as large as the throne he used before. In addition to a large vortex cannon as the main weapon, it was only equipped with some simple weapons, such as pulse cannons and scatter lasers, because Sotha had said when the other party was building it that no weapon was more powerful than himself, so this thing was only a means of transportation and a temporary command post, so Eternal Holy Fire was mainly equipped with various command instruments, communication devices, and a small ghost gate that could interact with personnel on the ships in orbit.

The Phoenix Guard also boarded their exclusive vehicles, Wings of Asuryan, which were super-large airships similar to the Court of the Archon's Dais of Destruction, nearly the length of a small spaceship, adopting a unique double-hull design, with the solar sails in the middle replaced by a small brazier of holy fire, containing the sacred fire from the Great Temple of Asuryan, which could provide powerful psychic protection for the airship, and the blades under the airship were cancelled, becoming the fire wing vents on the sides of the airship. When the Wings of Asuryan flew, these vents could spray out bright and deadly white-gold flames, like four pairs of dazzling fire wings, coupled with the phoenix head sculptures on the two bows, it was like a huge two-headed fire phoenix passing through the sky, and its weapons and equipment were much more powerful than Eternal Holy Fire.

As the exclusive combat equipment of the Phoenix Guard, these were all killing weapons hand-crafted by Val's top craftsmen, spending a lot of time. First of all, the main guns installed on the two bows were two vibration cannons. This weapon was a heavy weapon derived from Aeldari's unique sonic technology. Its principle was similar to the Shrieking Harpies' masks, generating resonant sound waves with a special force field generator, projecting them through magnetic pipelines, creating a wave of sonic booms from high frequency to ultra-high frequency, but its attack distance was very far and concentrated.

The effect of the sonic boom on the target was devastating, it could tear the enemy into pieces, forming a deep ditch on the ground, like plowing an entire army with a giant plow, it could also gather the force on a specific location, making the sound waves spread on the ground, attacking anything non-aerial between the two points. The more sound waves hit a specific location, the greater the damage it could cause, and the constantly tumbling vibrations would tear the target into pieces.