167: Chapter 167 I'm Going to Start Cheating - Hopeful Dust
It wasn't the Queen.
It was the Primarchs.
"The Primarchs are coming down!" Chen Jingyi cried out in surprise.
On the screen, the black dots high in the sky became clearer and denser. Those were the Primarchs who had been entangled by the Tyranid Warriors earlier—nearly a hundred thousand of them!
After the Queens Guard launched their assault on the Trial Star, the Tyranid Warriors left in space to pin down the Primarchs were no match at all. After all, Tyranid Warriors were only high-level bioweapons with semi-intelligence; without a Queen's command, their combat power was greatly reduced.
The Primarchs quickly wiped out those annoying Tyranid Warriors and then continued to carry out their first-priority mission—
Exterminate the Zerg.
Thus, they pursued down from orbit, lunging toward this planet.
"Reinforcements?"
Chen Yao, who was guarding Chen Jingyi, was a bit excited. With a wave of her hand, the thousands of giant swords outside the base flew simultaneously, slicing off the arthropod bone-wings of several Queens, leaving deep scars.
Since the Primarchs had been fighting the Zerg, Chen Yao had subconsciously regarded them as reinforcements.
"Hard to say."
Chen Jingyi's voice was extremely solemn.
Her concern was not without reason.
The current situation on the battlefield was somewhat complex.
The Queens Guard wanted to kill the Trial Trainees and Olivia.
The Zerg Bioweapons controlled by Olivia were helping the Trial Trainees intercept the Queens Guard.
The Primarchs wanted to kill the Zerg—all Zerg, whether it was the Queens Guard or the bioweapons controlled by Olivia.
So, after the Primarchs came down, who would they help?
The answer was soon revealed.
The first batch of landing Primarchs didn't attack the Queens Guard at all. They charged straight at the Zerg Bioweapons controlled by Olivia!
In their eyes, those bioweapons were also Zerg.
They all had to die.
A lightning-attribute Primarch fell from the sky and crashed directly into the densest area of the Zerg Swarm. Lightning coiled around its body, and a thick pillar of thunder erupted from within, instantly clearing all Zerg within a hundred-meter radius.
A fire-attribute Primarch hovered in mid-air, pushing its hands forward as a rain of fire poured down, incinerating swaths of Mutalisks into ash.
A wind-attribute Primarch turned into a whirlwind; wherever it passed, severed Zerg limbs flew everywhere.
Under Olivia's control, these Zerg could have relied on exquisite micromanagement to avoid the Primarchs' attacks at minimal cost. But now there were too many Primarchs, nearly a hundred thousand of them, covering the sky, and they didn't care about tactics at all—it was pure energy bombardment and area-of-effect attacks.
Every second, tens of thousands of Zerg were turned to ash in the Primarchs' relentless bombardment.
No matter how exquisite Olivia's micromanagement was, she was powerless against AOE attacks of this density and scale.
She could control every Zerg to dodge one attack, but she couldn't make them dodge ten or a hundred attacks at the same time.
Zerg casualties began to increase sharply.
Chen Jingyi's brow furrowed tightly.
This couldn't go on.
Those Zerg were currently their most effective "allies" and the main force intercepting the Queens Guard. If they were wiped out by the Primarchs, the Queens Guard would drive straight in, and they would be the ones facing thirty thousand Queens!
"Olivia," Chen Jingyi connected the communication, "can you hear me?"
"Yes." Olivia's crisp voice came through, sounding a bit distracted, as if she were busy with something else.
"Have your Zerg legion disperse and withdraw from the battlefield," Chen Jingyi said quickly. "Let the Primarchs deal with the Queens Guard."
"Okay~"
Olivia agreed very readily.
The next second, the Zerg Bioweapons that were entangling with the Primarchs quickly dispersed in all directions like an ebbing tide.
They no longer attacked any targets, only fleeing, dodging, and distancing themselves from the center of the battlefield as hard as they could.
The Primarchs lost their targets and were stunned for a few seconds. Then, they finally noticed another group of Zerg—
The Queens Guard.
"Exterminate the Zerg" was their first-priority mission, the supreme command etched deep in their genes.
Since those low-level Zerg had run away, they would kill these high-level ones.
The Primarchs turned around and lunged at the Queens Guard.
But in those few minutes of entanglement, nearly a hundred more Queens had slipped into the base through the cracks in the shield.
The number of Queens inside the shield had already surpassed five hundred!
Five hundred Rank 5 Queens against fifteen hundred Rank 4 Trial Trainees.
Even with the Primarchs intercepting on the outside and the support of the base's firepower, this was a battle destined for defeat.
The situation had completely deteriorated.
A human Trial Trainee was sliced in two by a Queen, still calling out his comrade's name before he died.
An Angel Race girl was hit by a Psionic Orb, half her wing turning to charcoal as she fell from the sky.
A Demon Race warrior desperately hugged a Queen and detonated all the energy in his body, dying along with the enemy.
Screams were everywhere, blood was everywhere, and burning wreckage was everywhere.
Li Yuan watched all this, his teeth clenched.
He saw the three heavily injured members of Ling Xi's squad being rushed for emergency treatment.
He saw the two fallen members of Ye Ge's squad, their bodies covered with the Demon Race's emblem.
He saw Sailo's stone statue standing quietly in the distance, its surface covered in cracks.
He also saw...
Laya.
The Angel girl who always clung to his side, liked to act spoiled, and liked to call him "Master" was now fighting one against two, struggling to hold on. Her Song of Light had been pushed to its limit; holy light flowed around her, but every ray was fading.
Her energy was almost exhausted.
Li Yuan wanted to rush over to help, but the Rank 5 Queen in front of him pinned him down, giving him no chance at all.
"Get lost!"
Li Yuan roared, firing a dozen Explosive Arrows in a row, all of them hitting the Queen.
The Queen was blasted back repeatedly, but she quickly stabilized herself and lunged again.
It was too late.
Too late...
At this desperate moment—
Laya cleaved the Queen she was fighting, retreated rapidly, and landed beside Sailo's stone statue.
She looked up at the dense crowd of Queens in the sky, then at Li Yuan, who was desperately rushing over, and finally at the Holy Flame Sword in her hand, which had already dimmed.
Then, she smiled.
It was a very, very light smile, with a hint of playfulness, a hint of relief, and a hint of... pride.
"It seems..."
She whispered, her voice very light, but for some reason, it spread clearly across the entire battlefield.
"I'm going to start cheating."
She closed her eyes.
She gently pressed her hands together in front of her chest.
The light wings on her back snapped open at this moment, and raging holy light flames ignited on the pure white wings.
The flames burned brighter and brighter, illuminating the entire night sky like day.
Laya opened her eyes.
In her eyes, there was no longer the previous clear liveliness, but endless holy light.
Her lips parted slightly, uttering four words:
"Innate Skill—"
"Hope Dust Sound."