Like steel pillars smashing into tofu, the torpedoes easily pierced into the dense, crowded building complexes of the Hive City.
Sith was already standing on the outskirts of the Hive City, but there were still scattered recruits lagging behind.
As the Hive City behind him began to collapse inward in a chain reaction from the torpedo impacts, the recruits still inside felt the entire ground beneath their feet begin to shake.
First came the tremors, and then, in a fleeting moment, the tremors transformed into violent shaking.
"The Hive City! The entire Hive City is shaking!"
Bruno was shocked, and not just Bruno; even Sith was shocked by this scene he had never witnessed before.
A Hive City easily spans thousands of kilometers; rather than a city, it is more like a continent built entirely of steel.
And at this moment, the entire 'continent' was shaking violently before Sith's eyes; the cloud-piercing towers of the Hive City, accompanied by the rising and falling wails of steel, turned into meteors and slammed down from above the clouds.
The scattered recruits who lagged behind had no time to dodge and could only watch helplessly as a mass of steel the size of a modern city crashed toward them.
In contrast to the few recruits, the hundreds of millions of Genestealers inside the Hive City watched the surrounding buildings squeeze and collapse; they shrieked at the sky while reaching out their hands, vainly attempting to prop up the falling structures.
Of course, the end for these Genestealers, who had already lost their individual consciousness, was merely to be mixed into the endless steel, becoming mere embellishments in this ruin.
Just like the Greenskin Boyz in the boundless, fractured rock layers outside the Hive City.
What is an apocalyptic battlefield? It is when a single orbital strike turns hundreds of millions of ground troops into ash!
Their bodies rose and fell constantly with the undulating earth.
Even from a great distance, the continent beneath Sith's feet still turned into waves, rippling outward from the center where the whirlwind torpedoes landed.
However, thanks to the fact that Abaddon did not want to completely exterminate Alert Star, the torpedoes dropped this time were only enough to exterminate an area of a thousand kilometers. So, although the Hive City collapse was shocking, Sith, having escaped outside, was merely experiencing the ultimate surfing of the 42K era on the churning rock layers.
Withdrawing his gaze from the scattered recruits and the hundreds of millions of Genestealers, Sith swallowed dryly. As his Adam's apple bobbed, he finally managed to steady his mind.
At this moment, everyone around him stared blankly at the shocking scene; the confidence brought by the previous ground combat vanished completely with this small display of the might of human technology.
Sith's expression was also somber. He simply looked around, observing the terrifying, apocalyptic scene across the entire Alert Star.
Countless Light Lances pierced the clouds, burning vast stretches of the continent and everything on it into glass.
The towering, mountain-like Hive City was struck by torpedoes, immediately resembling a pile of sand; a single touch was enough to turn it into dust falling from the sky.
In the jagged rock layers lay endless, crushed Greenskin Boyz. In the sky, several fighter jets sped through the gaps between the Light Lances, and further beyond the jets, an Imperial warship several kilometers long trailing thick smoke collided slowly with the crust like a giant beast.
Then came the earth-shattering explosion, kicking up a mushroom cloud that pierced into space, tearing through the clouds and scattering endless toxic dust into the higher atmosphere.
In the distance, there were huge Void Shields shimmering under the bombardment of countless artillery fire, and an acceleration cannon as large as a small Hive City roared toward orbit from behind the shield.
The smoke from the muzzle dispersed along with the blinding flames, directly forming a huge, thick fog that covered the entire land below.
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