The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Boom—

The violent explosion and the rising mushroom cloud were immediately followed by a massive shockwave. Although the four had moved far enough away, they were still at the edge of the impact zone. The gale, carrying countless debris and rubble, swept across the ground, instantly extinguishing the flames and scattering all the Tyranid creatures around Ricass. Ricass, however, with his previous experience, had already dropped to the ground before the shockwave arrived, using the weight of his power armor and his grip on the protruding rocks to barely avoid being blown away again.

Seconds later, Ricass got up, but his luck wasn't so good.

The smaller Tyranid creatures were gone, but something worse had caught up with him.

Amidst the trembling ground, a terrifying monster appeared in Ricass's somewhat blurred visor. It was crawling on the ground, with a huge cyst on its belly that was constantly pulsating, continuously spewing out many smaller creatures that surrounded it. These were very similar to the monsters he had just slaughtered, but they used bio-guns instead of bladed forelimbs.

Ricass immediately got up. A large mass of acid-covered maggots flew towards him. He dodged while returning fire with his bolt pistol, killing the gun-bugs one by one.

Sensing that its kind was being killed, the Malanthrope pushed its huge arthropods forward, shooting streams of venomous spines from the small holes in its carapace, their length approaching that of a human arm.

Ricass immediately dodged, but dodging the bone spurs made it impossible to dodge the maggots. Some maggots hit his armor, but these were not flesh-eating maggots, but acid maggots. They expanded, spraying highly corrosive acid, causing the surface of the power armor to immediately turn black and smoke, and alarms began to sound inside.

"Die!"

Having emptied his bolt pistol, Ricass didn't have time to reload, so he could only hang the gun back on his waist and then throw a plasma grenade.

Splat!

Accompanied by a burst of intense light, the spreading plasma instantly killed a dozen gun-bugs, but did not harm the Malanthrope, because when the grenade flew over, the gun-bugs consciously pounced on it, using their bodies to absorb the energy of the explosion.

Immediately afterwards, the Malanthrope's cyst pulsed, and a large opening cracked in the front, from which more than a dozen gun-bugs crawled out, their carapaces still dripping with liquid, and immediately began to attack.

At the same time, more Tyranid creatures gathered. Although the missile destroyed the hatchery, it did not kill all the Tyranid creatures in the area. Their vitality was astonishingly tenacious.

"Captain! I'm here—"

Ricass quickly called for support. At this time, the Malanthrope had already charged towards him. He took out his plasma pistol and fired at it, but could only burn small holes in its carapace. He also had to keep using his chainsword to accurately knock down the flying acid maggots. At this time, he had to activate the still unfamiliar "Legion's Gift". The grey marrow gave him greater reaction and speed, preventing him from being overwhelmed by the various small creatures, but if he couldn't deal with this thing—

Not to mention running, the Warrior bugs further away would not be so easy to deal with.

Suddenly, a soft hiss came from a distance, followed by a loud bang. The Malanthrope trembled violently and howled in pain. Black smoke poured out from the side of its spawning cyst, and the stiff corpses of the still-unformed Tyranid small creatures rolled out from the pierced carapace and cyst.

"Here they come!"

Three figures ran out of the swirling dust. Khuzak Rahl, holding a rail sniper rifle, aimed at the Malanthrope.

But sensing the threat to the mother, the gun-bugs and knife-bugs desperately pounced on him, forcing him to use his gun to knock them away. At the same time, the Malanthrope turned to the newcomers to prevent itself from being attacked from the side.

But it ignored that Ricass also had weapons to deal with it, just didn't have time to use them.

"Xenos, die!!"

In Ricass's low roar, bright orange flickered in the air. The concentrated melta struck the side of the Malanthrope, which screamed and stood up, then fell forward. Then another melta shot completely killed it, creating a cloud of expanding fire that engulfed the surrounding small creatures.

"Captain, it's great that you're okay—"

Ricass had just put down his gun and was about to say hello when the other party ran over directly, twisted his shoulder, and said loudly:

"Run!"

At this time, Ricass realized what they had "brought".

Something even larger than a super-heavy tank, covered in heavy plate armor, with blade-like protrusions on its back armor, and even its head was covered, with only a pair of very tiny eyes, almost without any defensive weaknesses, like a huge carnivorous worm lying on the ground, with strong hind legs and four forelimbs with sharp sickle claws. When its blood basin mouth opened, it let out a deafening roar, charging towards the four like a mad tank.

"What is this!"

Ricass instinctively turned around and pulled the trigger. The inferno pistol fired a crimson line of fire, but the usually reliable attack unexpectedly failed this time.

The thing suddenly crouched down, and the extremely high-temperature ray originally aimed at its head hit its back armor, instantly tearing a large piece open, but then a huge amount of acid and smoke spewed out from the wound, and then the thing began to sprint at an even faster speed. Ricass quickly turned around and ran.

But the seemingly huge thing could actually keep up with an Astartes when running. Feeling the vibration rapidly approaching behind him, Jacob shouted loudly.

"It can only charge in a straight line, jump away!"

The four tacitly jumped to the left and right, and then the huge body rumbled across the ground, rushing out hundreds of meters under the effect of inertia.

"Hit its ass!"

Before he could stand up, Jacob issued an order. The four immediately fired their most powerful weapons at the thing, but only tore open its carapace, which was comparable to heavy alloy armor, and splashed out a lot of acidic liquid, making its original purple-yellow armor multi-colored.

The injured behemoth roared madly and quickly turned around, launching another charge.

"Khuzak Rahl, hit its head! Ricass, when Khuzak Rahl shatters the armor on its head, you strike a second blow!"

Upon receiving the order, Khuzak Rahl didn't waste any words, raised his sniper rifle, and fired after aiming for three seconds.

Accompanied by a loud bang, the behemoth's head armor was blown open, and at this time it was very close to the four.

"For the Emperor!!!"

Ricass fired fiercely before the other party's shadow covered him, emptying all the energy in one go. The blazing ray drilled into the behemoth's body along the breach, and then exploded with a bang.

"Ouch!"

The exploding behemoth's corpse still crashed over with inertia. The four jumped away, but Khuzak Rahl was a bit unlucky and was hit by the other party's forelimbs, flying far away.

(Actually it's this thing, but it was only witnessed and recorded during the Kraken invasion, it's brought forward here)

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