(Bonus update with thanks to Little Emperor von Valancius for his donation.)
Bolt rounds were tremendously powerful armor-piercing explosive weapons. They could punch through a light armored vehicle, penetrate its interior, and blow everyone inside to pieces.
The Planetary Computer had no armor. It was just a spherical mass of electronics as big as a dozen or so Diced Pepper Fish Heads, packed with extraordinarily complex integrated circuit boards.
A bolt round capable of piercing a light armored vehicle penetrated one or two meters into the Planetary Computer and exploded deep in its core, blasting straight through its central circuit board!
The next instant, the hundreds of screens beside the Planetary Computer switched from normal data streams to garbled code.
Several scientists screamed in horror and rushed to try to save the Planetary Computer.
The Flameburst Commander's mouth fell open in a great big O, then towering rage surged through him.
He had never imagined that his apprentice, with only half his body left, would pull something like this at the very last moment.
The humiliation of being caught off guard, coupled with panic over the catastrophic consequences, sent all his blood rushing to his head, turning his large blue face purple.
"What! Have! You! Done!"
But You He had lost too much blood to endure his teacher's raging fury any longer.
He lay facedown on the floor, his eyes rapidly losing focus. His hand still stroked the row of gold lettering on the Boltgun as he murmured something under his breath.
Only now did he finally understand the immense weight of the power those words held.
"For... the God-Emperor..."
Elsewhere, in space, a pair of eyes suddenly opened.
Li Qinwu, now in a new body, sprang straight out of bed. After a six-hour resurrection cooldown, he had arrived