Stellaris Crisis: Rise of the Swarm
Chapter 77

The fall

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The distance of two thousand meters is an instant for medieval cavalry, but for Swarm, the speed will only be faster.

Although due to the relationship between the scouts, the camp outside Warrior Fortress also sounded the alarm, how could the soldiers who were resting and eating have the ability to deal with such a rapid and fierce conflict.

Most of the soldiers were not fully dressed, their weapons were just in their hands, and their armor was not fastened, but just hung on their bodies.

Only some well-trained Knight led an elite force to organize a line of defense, with less than a thousand people.

Can these alone stop the ferocious Swarm?

Chloe sneered, her Psionics began to stir, and after extracting enough Psionic Power from Small Network.

She started to use the Psionics skill of Stars. Fortunately, when Stars was researched by Hive Mind, this skill was copied to the Internet, otherwise she would not be able to learn it in a short time.

The purple Psionics turns into mist and spreads to the entire Swarm with Chloe as the center. After the mist covers Swarm, the carapace of Swarm becomes stronger and the weapons become sharper.

"Psionics Enchantment, Stars, with a scale of up to five thousand, have you seen it? I have also become stronger." Chloe shouted in his heart.

The Swarm of Psionics Enchantment penetrated the elite troops led by Knight in an instant. Their armor could not protect their lives, and their weapons could not penetrate that layer of Psionics Shield.

Only occasionally a few strong High-Ranking Knight caused one or two insect casualties to Swarm, but in the face of the wave of thousands of Swarm, a few Knight with extremely high strength did not have much effect, and they only lived a few seconds longer than ordinary soldiers.

After the elite troops were defeated, ordinary human soldiers were no better than lambs waiting to be slaughtered in front of Swarm.

How can we expect a big-headed soldier who can't even hold a weapon to fight against Zergling, who has superb fighting skills, is agile, and is getting stronger all the time?

Compared with Monsters's armor, fur, and human skin, there is absolutely no protection. Ordinary soldiers cannot have full-body plate armor, and even half-body armor can be considered elite.

This kind of protective power can only have a psychological comfort effect when faced with Steel Needle, which is like a shotgun. Every shot of Needle Crawler can take away at least one life.

The military camp outside Warrior Fortress fell in an instant. It didn't look like a war at all. There were only human screams and cries, and blood and mutilated limbs became the most common decorations in the camp.

The guards on the fortress clearly saw this scene that would leave a psychological shadow on them for life. The twilight of the setting sun slid like a line on the horizon and quickly swept across the camp under the city wall.

The camp became no longer clear, and the darkness shrouded all the horrific killings, which seemed to herald the death of those soldiers.

The sound of a cannon woke up the guards on the tower. Magic Crystal Cannon roared and fired a cannonball into the camp below. The violent explosion lit up a fire.

The humans who were originally in despair seemed to have regained their souls because of the sound of the cannon, and the chaotic crowd in the camp began to unite to resist.

The sluggish soldiers on the tower began to operate various large weapons, and more canvases were lifted, revealing the muzzles of the Black Hole inside.

On Hydralisk's shoulder, Chloe looked at the cannon muzzle on the tower in the distance and narrowed his eyes.

That shell actually only killed two Warrior Bug. Compared with the fireball, lightning, and Blizzard of Monsters, the shells were still easy to dodge. With the connection of Small Network, Swarm could cope with incoming long-range strikes very well.

But without the assistance of Hive Mind, Chloe felt that her mental workload was heavy. If the artillery strikes became more and more intensive, her Small Network would not be able to bear this kind of calculation and coordination work.

Swarm's casualties will increase sharply.

No longer obsessed with killing the humans in the camp, Chloe left only three thousand Swarm behind, and he rushed towards the castle gate with two thousand Swarm.

The thick and huge city gate was slowly closing under the influence of machinery. To be honest, the city guard hesitated for a long time when issuing this order, even though the messenger who went to report the situation to the Duke had not yet returned.

But he still took it upon himself to order the store to close. These Monsterss were so terrifying that they no longer cared about the brothers outside.

When the huge city gate was closing, two ferocious Roach suddenly emerged from the ground. They melted the guards at the door with acid, and then used their bodies to push against the city gate to prevent it from closing.

The city guard officer who saw this scene was half frightened, "Send the elite Knight down to attack the two Monsters that are blocking the door! Everyone go to the wheel, push hard, and look at the camp outside the door! If you don't close the door, we will all die!"

The surrounding guards, led by the city guard officer, took hold of the turning handle and tried to close the fortress gate as quickly as possible.

After the elite Knight rushed down the tower, he faced the Roach in front of him with several Psionics sword rays. The solid Roach shell was slashed, and red blood was flowing out from the cracks in the carapace.

But they still held on to the city gate without taking a step back. Roach was an elite Swarm, and Chloe couldn't bear their loss.

Hydralisk quickly relied on Roach's vision to launch an attack. Three Steel Needle shot through the gap in the door and accurately hit three High-Ranking Knight, shooting through their Psionics Shield and nailing them to the wall.

Chloe even jumped off the shoulder of Hydralisk, extracted Swarm Psionic Power from Small Network, and used Spell Model in the network to instantly cast a Psionics Shock.

More than a dozen High-Ranking Knight were directly blown up and turned upside down. When the surviving Knight still wanted to stand up and fight, a large number of Zergling and Needle Crawler had already poured in.

Some of them attacked the surviving Knight, while others rushed to the tower. In just a few minutes, the bloody massacre was over. Almost all humans were turned into corpses on the ground, if those pieces of meat could also be called corpses.

The city guard officer was carried by two Zerglings and thrown in front of Chloes. He was also covered in blood, had a broken hand, and had two Steel Needles stuck in his body.

"Tell me the location of Duke Duke, and I'll give you a happy surprise." Chloe's voice contained no emotion.

The city guard officer, who was coughing up blood and panting for breath, glanced at Chloe, his life was already in the wind.

"Monster Princess, you will be punished by the gods for killing so cruelly. You and your Monsters will go to hell. Cough, cough, cough." As soon as he finished the curse, the city guard coughed up another pool of blood.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, Chloe didn't expect that a small city guard officer could be so courageous.

It's a pity that it's meaningless for a weak existence to have backbone. She stretched out her hand and pressed it on the head of the city guard. With the blessing of Small Network's Psionic Power, her Psionics was already more powerful.

The city guard felt like a red-hot iron rod was inserted into his brain. The pain was so painful that he couldn't help but scream even if he was dying.

After a while, Chloe let go of his hand, and the body of the city guard fell to the ground weakly.

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