Starting from the Planetary Governor

Chapter 1268: Chapter 691, Titan Showdown, Reiaductus Battle (7)

Witnessing a Warlord-level Titan from the distant Mars being captured by the ferocious appendages of an Insect Saint Titan, the enormous chain-saw sword swung wildly but missed its target. Gu Zhouhua anxiously controlled the action system and ordered to fire.

The plasma cannon equipped on Gu Zhouhua’s Warlord-level Titan suddenly fired, hitting the side of this Insect Saint Biological Titan at a distance of less than five hundred meters.

The plasma cannon was ferocious, especially at such a close range.

A large hole melted into the body of the Insect Saint.

Like the Insect Species Biological Ship, the Insect Saint also lacked Void Shields and energy shields. Instead, they possessed thicker, better-performing armor. At the same time, being a cohesive organic entity, their internal self-repair capabilities were quite strong after being damaged.

Nevertheless, the wound that Gu Zhouhua just blasted into the Insect Saint was still the largest on its body.

However, it still couldn’t prevent the Insect Saint from killing the Warlord-level Titan of the Martian Sect.

It ignored the plasma firepower of Gu Zhouhua, pressing forward, and aimed its gigantic mouthpart at the chest of the Titan underfoot and opened fire.

The cockpit along with the important chest components was destroyed in an instant.

This Warlord-level Titan from Mars was thus obliterated.

Then, its sharp appendages continued cutting down, thoroughly ensuring the Titan was ended.

However, Gu Zhouhua’s Titan also charged in at this moment.

A ’long sword’ insidiously stabbed forward, but Gu Zhouhua dodged it.

Under his control, his Warlord Titan slammed into the side of the Insect Saint from the side, sending it staggering.

Immediately following, the enormous chain-saw sword ripped open a huge gash on its body.

The roaring Insect Saint turned its head, wanting to use the cannon extended from its mouthparts to give Gu Zhouhua a shot at close range, but before it could fire, it took a heavy punch, twisting its head.

Then, Gu Zhouhua stuffed the cannon into the wound of the Insect Saint.

Another fierce shot followed.

The chain-saw sword slashed again!

No matter how strong the vitality and thick the armor of the Insect Saint, it couldn’t withstand such an assault and was utterly destroyed.

Gu Zhouhua was overjoyed, but the next moment he felt a full-body tremor.

While he charged to rescue his allies, but failed, killing the crucial target, the enemy’s firepower concentrated on him.

At this moment, the Void Shield overloaded.

Around him, at least four Holy Servant Worms—also known as Little Insect Saints—were already nearby.

He turned the cannon barrel and blasted one, but when he aimed to eliminate the second, he was hit by another violent shake.

The Titan he piloted was immobilized.

Gu Zhouhua’s face turned pale.

On such an intense battlefield, with the Void Shield broken and maneuverability lost, what does it mean?

It’s going to end badly.

To say he wasn’t afraid would be a lie.

Especially since his future was so promising.

As a member of the Gu Clan, he moved smoothly from Loyal Heir Academy to the National Knights’ Regiment, and he also participated in the previous Wanzhou Star campaign, fiercely defeating the Fallen Titan Legion of Iron Armor, achieving great merit.

Upon returning, he could be promoted swiftly.

Unexpectedly, he would die here.

But despite his fear, he hadn’t lost his basic judgment.

“Quickly adjust the plasma cannon, target marker B4! Hurry, hurry, hurry! It’s aiming at us!”

“The damage report is out. It’s not fatal damage; the damage control team needs to move faster!”

He was making one last struggle.

The Little Insect Saint marked as B4 still fired at them. The overloaded Void Shield couldn’t stop it, but the Warlord-level armor withstood a round.

However, two more attacks were about to arrive.

In a stationary situation, relying on the armor to harden up, the outcome seemed destined.

But at this moment, Gu Zhouhua saw flames erupting on each of the three Little Insect Saints.

From his rear, a group of Knights charged out.

Six Ranger-class and two Dominator-class, led by a Vengeful Goddess-class, had arrived!

The Vengeful Goddess was 14 meters tall, nearly the size of a Warhound-class Titan, just a bit slimmer; the Dominator-class was also 11 meters; Ranger-class around 8 meters.

Their size, compared to the nearly 30-meter Warlord class, seemed almost diminutive. But in reality, they weren’t much smaller than the Little Insect Saints. Although their firepower was significantly less than the Titan, they had nine units after all.

The three Little Insect Saints were blasted staggering, and Gu Zhouhua’s Titan took the opportunity to kill the B4 target.

Then, in coordination with the Knights, they also dealt with the remaining two.

The Knights lost two units.

But at the moment, Gu Zhouhua wasn’t feeling optimistic.

From a distance, he saw an Insect Saint, leading a few Little Insect Saints, seemingly aware of the battle here. Having just dealt with two Warhounds, it seemed ready to come over and finish off his immobile Warlord class.

With the Knights’ cooperation, they could manage Holy Servant Worms, but not a Great Saint Master Worm.

An audio request came, and upon connecting, he found it was the Vengeful Goddess Knight.

“Greetings, Colonel, I am the Grand Knight Marshal, Rudolph Hart. May I ask, is your Titan still repairable?”

“Yes.”

“How long is needed?”

“Eighteen minutes, but I’m afraid we won’t survive that long…”

“Please speed up, you and your men. We will buy you eighteen minutes.”

“What?”

At this moment, Rudolph Hart, the chief knight, no longer responded.

But Gu Zhouhua could hear the sounds outside.

The Vengeful Goddess knight shouted loudly: “For the Empire! For the Alliance! For the glory of Heijian! Heijian Knight Squadron, charge with me!”

Upon hearing this, Gu Zhouhua understood that these were knights, like him, hailing from the same hometown, the ’Heijian Star’ of the Tianma Star Sector.

Only now did he notice that aside from the Alliance National Knights’ emblems, there was also a small black arrow insignia on their chests.

Watching them charge towards the Insect Saint Titan, Gu Zhouhua was overwhelmed with tears.

“I swear, either I die here, or I will destroy that Insect Saint!”

…

Leroux observed the battlefield from afar.

The grand Titan battle unfolded right before his eyes.

In fact, he could roughly judge that this new support of the Insect Race army wasn’t specifically sent to reinforce this battlefield.

It seemed more likely that the Insect Race had originally prepared a large-scale attack on the human base. This army was already on the way, and the two sides happened to collide.

A coincidence?

Not at all.

Just as humans intended to break the current stalemate by executing a massive airborne assault followed by an all-out attack, the Insect Race had similar plans.

It was indeed normal.

They gathered their forces, ready to launch a significant operation.

The Queen could no longer tolerate humans on the planetary surface occupying a base and continuously expanding it.

Whenever an anti-air nest was removed, the success rate of humans deploying extinction weapons increased. Until this exceeds a certain critical point, even if there are backups and specific intercepts, it might still be unstoppable.

At that moment, it would be the end.

Rather than waiting to be exterminated, watching the humans deploy more troops to the surface, and the base expanding step by step, it was better to concentrate all efforts in one operation to eradicate this not-yet-large base. Then quickly rebuild the anti-air nests in that area before the next large-scale airborne landing by the humans.

The Queen understood that if she wanted to win this war, she couldn’t rely on a quick victory. She could only drag it out, until the reinforcements from ’Tentacles’ arrived in the following year, to truly compete with humanity.

She had to prepare for a prolonged war.

Although her current biomass was limited and she had nowhere to replenish it after humans blocked the entire planet, because of this, the millions of humans in the base were viewed as a huge tonic in her eyes.

The thought that the development of the Insect Swarm only required biomass was not entirely wrong, but it was incomplete.

Biomass does not fully equate to organic matter.

If it was purely organic matter, why would the Insect Swarm need to devour worlds?

Why not just find a planet and farm?

The infinite stellar energy, converted into organic matter, would be far more abundant than devouring a world’s meager biological resources.

But in fact, human scholars did not observe such mechanisms in the Void Insect Species.

Analysis of the captured ’biomass’ currently suggests that it’s not merely organic. ’Souls’ have been detected within it.

The so-called ’soul’ is not the form it was before being devoured. Once consumed and digested, it transforms into something that the Insect Race can utilize. The process of digesting the dead or alive does not only represent material transformation but also soul transformation.

To the Void Insect Species, a being whose intellect, experiences, resilience, and will… these soul elements permeated their body, was the most delicious.

Eating an adult human is much better than simply eating a patch of grass or woods; likewise, devouring a strong individual is much more beneficial than consuming a group of ordinary mortals.

Weak souls, or those lacking a soul, such as ordinary animals and plants, once consumed and digested, can only produce ordinary worker or soldier insects. However, bodies infused with strong souls are essential ingredients for creating powerful insect species.

Whether it’s an Insect Tyrant, a Biological Titan, or a Biological Warship, the principle is the same.

This is why the Queen is fixated on the ’delicacies’ within the human base.

Though small in number, each one is a battle-hardened veteran; there are also many generals, even mortal leaders and officers, whose experience and wisdom are highly valued.

Not to mention the Interstellar Warriors and numerous champions of various sorts.

From both a strategic security perspective and a biomass resource replenishment perspective, it was inevitable for the Insect Race to amass large forces and attempt to conquer the human base.

They had long been amassing troops.

Thus, it was only natural for both armies to collide here.

The Insect Race judged that this important nest could not be captured by human forces, so they prematurely mobilized their army for support.

Just as Leroux sighed inwardly, noting that they had to face a ground battle with the Insect Race without being fully prepared, it was the same for the Insect Race, fighting the humans without having fully amassed their forces.

Quite fair indeed.

On the present battlefield, the human army and the Insect Race were roughly evenly matched.

Leroux turned his head, no longer watching this battle.

He also had his own battle to fight.

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I’ll try to write another Chapter, but it might be a bit late.