Warhammer 40K: Return of the Men of Iron
Chapter 197

Squid Chunks in a Crucible

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Countless Bio-ships shuttled between the enormous tentacle and the surrounding planets.

Those planets had already become barren wastelands.

Apart from the color of the ground itself, everything else had vanished.

The tip of the tentacle was embedded in a planet, drawing matter from its core.

Although the enemy's immense size exceeded Iax's expectations, it was nothing unusual to the Men of Iron.

According to the records, a few Men of Iron had once possessed bodies larger than this.

Continent-sized hulls thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers across could carry tens of billions of people.

But those were not ships built exclusively for the Men of Iron.

Their internal designation was Super Ark.

They possessed not only the finest weapons and defensive systems, but also independent ecosystems and environments.

These ships represented the pinnacle of the Creator's construction technology and possessed genuine intergalactic capabilities.

The intelligences aboard them ranked among the highest of the Men of Iron. Although their algorithmic cores might not have been as efficient as those of Iax, who had been created in the final generation, their immense scale rendered such shortcomings irrelevant.

Looking at the enormous enemy before him, Iax suddenly felt a strong urge to build a Planetary Ark himself.

The Trans-sight Machine aboard it could destroy an entire Star System in a single strike.

The fleet kept accelerating to evade the dense barrage.

Unrestricted by the reaction speeds of personnel, the fleet could maintain astonishing speeds while delivering precise strikes on the move.

Heavy assault ships formed the fleet's spearhead to keep the other vessels from suffering collision damage, and the fleet began orbiting the enormous space tentacle in an irregular pattern.

Yet of all the weapons aboard the Tyranid Bio-ships, only their bio-energy rays and a small number of plasma weapons could

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