Stellaris Crisis: Rise of the Swarm
Chapter 341

Destruction

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The urgent calls for help from all directions in Zurahman's office never stopped. Dozens of audio or video communications surrounded him. The high priest who was once known as powerful and wise was at a loss at this moment.

The military was the quickest to respond. Their death army and mechanized corps were immediately mobilized as long as they were still functioning, heading to the front lines to eliminate the Ratmen.

Immediately afterwards, these well-equipped regular troops discovered a serious problem. Not only were the Skaven numerous in number, but many of them were equipped with heavy anti-equipment weapons and crude projectile weapons.

Those crude weapons are ugly and rough, and seem to be hand-made, but they are still dangerous and deadly, not only to the enemy, but also to themselves. Some weapons will explode if the trigger is often pulled, but the rat men don't care about their own casualties at all.

In the past, regular mechanized troops could withstand a large number of ratmen with a small number. They could use artillery or incendiary bombs and other large-scale attack weapons to burn the rats into ashes in pieces.

The biggest cost is bullets and ammunition. As long as you are not surrounded, it will be difficult to annihilate.

But the situation is different now. The rat people already have the firepower to confront the regular army. In addition to the giant rats, there are even greater abominations that can attack the steel defense line.

A giant rat carries a cannon, and under the command of the clever rat on its shoulder, it continuously projects green projectiles into the formation of mechanized troops.

The projection method of these strange projectiles is simple, but the power is extremely powerful. The average main battle tank cannot take two rounds. The number of armored units is limited, and the rat swarm seems to be unlimited...

When the Air Force tried to carry out bombing support, a thick purple fog filled the sky above the rats, with green lightning flashing in it. The aircraft would be shot down as soon as it approached.

In the battle on the ground, the Death Cult seems to be unable to resist. Their population will be Consume, and civilization will be destroyed.

The death cult's home planet is almost finished.

At this time, Zurahman was already hysterical. He had to destroy these hateful rats. There were also 800 space battleships in orbit. They had sufficient ammunition and could use fusion strikes to punish these rats with destruction.

The Death Cult is a great civilization, how could it lose to a group of barbaric rats! Zuraman no longer cares about the environment of his home planet. Zulaman no longer cares about the damage caused by the fusion strike to the surface. Only by eliminating these rats can he relieve the hatred in his heart.

The Fifth Fleet, three hundred battleships entered the planet's synchronous orbit, and the fusion missiles were ready for launch, targeting the gray rat tide on the planet.

A ray of blue plasma light pierced the atmosphere like a sharp sword, and with one stroke from left to right, more than a dozen battleships were burned to ashes.

The Fifth Fleet panicked. They had never suffered a similar attack. The thick atmosphere and high-energy ion currents made it impossible for the equipment on the battleship to detect what was going on on the planet and what had attacked them.

The second and third rays of light lit up one after another, and the blazing plasma flow was unstoppable. The battleships of the Death Order were generally very thickly armored, but they could not withstand such an attack. They were all instantly killed by the ion flow.

The Fifth Fleet collapsed, and the Seventh Fleet not far from the Fifth Fleet was also defeated by the sudden blue plasma flow. Under these two blows, the Death Order's fleet had lost most of its combat power, and the planet's air supremacy was lost.

Looking down along a huge plasma stream, there is a deep pit, a circular pit buried underground. The hot plasma stream that can break through the atmosphere and shoot into space is ejected from here.

The circular crater is ten kilometers in diameter and relies on a solid underground structure to be stable. In order to prevent the ejected ion flow from causing huge irreversible damage to the crustal plates, the rat people also used special high-strength materials to build a base for the circular crater with an area of hundreds of kilometers.

This circular crater is not an offensive weapon, but a planetary engine that drives the planet.

The viewing angle began to rise, and within the field of view, there were more than a dozen plasma streams like blue light pillars, that is, more than a dozen planetary engines...

What the rat people built in such a short period of time was shocking. This shock also included the Great Prophet Ike. His order to the engineers was to build something bigger and stronger. Unexpectedly, the results of the engineers far exceeded his expectations.

"Khilabi, I'm really surprised by what your Engineer Association has done." Ike, standing at the entrance of a cave with his staff in hand, exclaimed.

Kirabi, a great engineer with one eye that was completely a mechanical compound eye and two mechanical prosthetics behind his back, fell on the blue light beam. He was extremely excited when he thought that he had created such a thing himself.

"No, Great Prophet. You shouldn't be so surprised by this. What is surprising is the kindness and generosity of the Rat God to us. As long as we are willing to think and learn, all kinds of magical knowledge will pop up in our minds. This knowledge can help us solve various problems and overcome various difficulties."

Kirabi drew a symbol on his chest with both hands, "Praise to the great rat god."

Speaking of the Rat God, even the Great Prophet, who had the highest status among the rat people, did not dare to neglect him. He also said, "Praise the great Rat God."

Outside Zurahman's official residence, his guards are still resisting loyally. In the past three days of fighting, this is the last force in his hands.

The past three days have been like a nightmare. On the first day, all the communications he received were for help and emergency. He was also working hard to arrange support, evacuation, and defense arrangements.

The battle situation worsened greatly the next day. The Death Order lost half of its city and population. The star port was the first to be destroyed. No one could escape, and everyone fell into deep despair. Most of the news that came out was that a certain city was occupied by rats and a certain army was annihilated.

On the third day today, there are very few communications coming in. Even if there are connections, a few sentences explain the current situation, because almost the entire planet has fallen, and everything is finished...

There was a coup in the fleet in space, and the new leader elected believed that the home planet could no longer be defended and should retreat. The remaining fleet almost did not object to the retreat order, and they withdrew after sending a commendation message to Zurahman.

Without the support of the fleet, the people left on the planet will only die and become meat in the mouths of rats.

Walking out of the mansion, Zurahman saw a huge rat roaring and smashing into the obstacles in front of him, beating the soldiers behind to pieces. He stretched out his hand and released a soul-draining shot, and the giant rat that was hit turned into a withered mummy in pain.

However, this did not boost morale, because more giant rats and abominations rushed in along with the endless waves of rats. No matter how powerful Zuraman was, how many could he kill?

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