A Toy Castle Built from Sand by Children

November 15, Imperial Calendar 0050. The final encirclement on the surface of the barren planet.

The distorted image in the holographic projection plunged the entire bridge into silence.

Alarak's once elegant Protoss body had now swollen into a seven-meter-tall malformed monster. Hundreds of screaming faces had grown across the surface of his bone armor, while every mechanical tentacle extending from his spine writhed with black-and-red Chaos energy.

His psychic blade had completely mutated into a living organ that constantly dripped corrosive fluid. Every swing left behind a lingering purple afterimage in the air.

"Energy readings have exceeded the threshold!" the shipboard Wise AI reported urgently. "The target now possesses Greater Daemon-level psychic fluctuations!"

Onscreen, Tyberos's Terminator shield had shattered. His armor was covered in corrosive dents, and a clear crack ran through his left shoulder plate, exposing the nanoweave beneath.

Yet his Chainsaw Lightning Claw was still roaring. Every collision with the Chaotic Psychic Power blade produced the grating shriek of twisting metal.

A tentacle suddenly wrapped around his right leg and slammed the Carcharodons Company captain heavily against the metallized ground. Spiderweb cracks instantly spread more than twenty meters outward.

"Captain Gao Zan has reached the combat zone!"

The observer suddenly shouted.

The instant the holographic image switched, a dark green meteor was breaking through the ionosphere.

The Terminator armor of the Flame Salamanders Third Company captain glowed from head to toe as he dived, the charging rings on his shoulder-mounted Plasma Cannon already blazing a searing white.

At three hundred meters above the ground, his power pack suddenly unleashed an overloaded plasma stream, and he crashed into the center of the battlefield like a meteorite.

Boom—!!

The shockwave from Gao Zan's landing vaporized all metal grit within dozens of meters.

His Power Fist struck Alarak directly in the