The Empire Rises: Starting with the Fourth Calamity
Chapter 1598

Break of Dawn

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"Get back! Into the bar, now!!" Deka shouted, raising his modified Blaster rifle and firing with a bang.

With the overloaded system he had modified in secret, the blaster gas was further pressurized and heated before being fired out. It was clearly an energy weapon, yet it struck with the force of a physical shotgun.

A Corpse Puppet was blasted straight away by the powerful explosive impact of the blaster gas. Deka and the mercenaries hurriedly seized the chance to retreat into the bar and hit the button.

The bar's metal door began to descend. Several smugglers had already thrown the drunkard's body from earlier outside.

"Corpse Puppets!! Fuck! No idea how many there are, but those things usually move in packs!" Deka cursed.

Before he could finish, the metal door rang out with a clang as something hammered it with tremendous force. Then came the sounds of bones breaking and flesh tearing from outside. The drunkard's body was being ripped apart by the Corpse Puppets.

Despair immediately appeared on the faces of the mercenaries inside the bar. "It really is the Geth! The Geth are attacking!"

"We're dead!"

"No... they'll turn us into Corpse Puppets too!"

To the residents of the Northern Territory, the Geth were nothing less than a terrifying nightmare! They had no mercy. Everywhere they passed, they brought nothing but death! On every planet they conquered, not a single survivor remained! Everyone was impaled upon Dragon's Tooth and turned into horrifying Corpse Puppets!

Although creating Corpse Puppets was terribly inefficient in terms of resource use and cost-effectiveness, the Geth clearly understood the weakness of carbon-based organisms such as humans. The purpose of Corpse Puppets was to shatter people's psychological defenses.

And without a doubt, they had succeeded.

Now, whenever the residents of the entire Northern Territory

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