Chapter 693, Overlord of the Hive, Battle of Rheaduches (VIII)

Leroy's target is a hive tyrant.

This is a serious high-level unit among the Zerg. Generally speaking, if you want to kill a Hive Tyrant, you have to be a Chapter Champion.

Moreover, it is not guaranteed to be able to kill stably.

The record between the Chapter Champion and the Hive Tyrant is about a 70-30 split - excluding the human empire's beautification of its own family in the battle report summary, it is estimated to be a 50-50 split. .

In addition to their strong individual strength, one of the more remarkable characteristics of the Hive Tyrants is that they are usually the supreme commander of a swarm army when fighting on the front line.

For ordinary battles, or even key battles that can determine the fate of a planet, as long as one hero can kill the Hive Tyrant, the battle can basically be declared victorious.

Of course, in Rheaducches, Leroy would not be so optimistic.

On this planet, the Insect Queen is the supreme leader, and the level of the Insect Tyrant is still far behind.

In fact, Leroy suspected that even the current battle could not be ended by killing the Hive Tyrant. At best, it would make some of the insect swarm troops lose control. In that army with biological titans and various high-level insect swarm units, there is at least one insect hive tyrant in it.

In fact, those insect saint titans themselves may be node creatures that are parallel to, or even higher than, the insect hive tyrant.

This is a decisive investment for the Insect Queen, and she will definitely not be stingy about sending more node creatures.

But no matter what, killing a hive tyrant in battle can still cause heavy damage to the insect swarm. After their death, a large number of Zerg creatures will become incapacitated.

Of course, due to the presence of a large number of other node creatures of the same level, these incapacitated insect swarms will soon be taken over and regain their combat effectiveness. However, this always takes some time. Even if it is only a few hours or even dozens of minutes, in the current fierce battle, those disabled Zerg units will inevitably be severely damaged and destroyed in large numbers.

At the same time, there will also be big problems in the position of the insect swarm army, giving humans a good opportunity to expand their results.

Moreover, the location of the insect nest tyrant was most likely the target of their battle - the leader of the large insect nest.

Kill it and they will have enough time to plant a bomb inside the insect nest and blow it up.

The original mission of this operation has been completed.

By then, there will be more choices on the frontal battlefield.

If the battle situation is okay, the troops have spare strength, and the death of the Hive Tyrant will significantly damage the Zerg army, then you can try to build up this elite army in one go, which even the insect queen will have to accumulate for a long time. To annihilate.

If the battle situation is not good, then it is also a good choice to choose to quit when the situation is good, retreat and return to the base area. At least the results of this trip will be achieved.

If the insect swarm army still dares to pursue, then returning to the base area protected by artillery positions and fighting a decisive battle will give our side the upper hand.

With this in mind, LeRoy and his most elite bodyguards, two companies of Space Marines, and thousands more selected from various army units with feedback power armor, or at least exoskeleton armor, The elite mortals raided into the lair together.

The enemies along the way were eliminated by those who cut melons and vegetables.

This is how the battle should have been - if not for the unexpected appearance of an army of insect swarms.

However, then the second accident happened.

When they reached the depths of the worm lair, where the worm nest tyrant was, Leroy discovered that the worm nest tyrant did not escape.

He should be happy. With Leroy's own strength and the troops around him, it was easy to kill the insect nest tyrant.

However, this one in front of me... is the Hive Tyrant?

Its body shape is several times larger than the average Hive Tyrant, as well as its red and black chitin exoskeleton, as well as the four wide-bladed serrated psychic slashing knives, all demonstrating its special identity.     This is of course not a hive tyrant, but a hive overlord.

Overlord and tyrant seem to be quite similar words. If I had to ask, I couldn't tell which one is more advanced. When used on the Zerg, it is just a rating of title.

The two monsters are named with two different and somewhat similar nouns, but they are actually very different.

The Overlord of the Insect Swarm is the top being in the entire hive, almost second only to the Insect Queen. Sometimes, the queen and the hive overlord may even be on the same level - if the hive overlord is not born from the queen.

In addition to its massive size, the Hive Overlord also wields four massive psychically enhanced bone swords that can cut through anything with ease, including force fields. Whenever the Tyranids fail to overwhelm their opponents through sheer numbers or adjustments in tactics, a Swarm Overlord is created among them to clean up the mess, as it is far stronger and smarter than the average Hive Tyrant.

The Hive Tyrant is already equal to the Chapter Champion, so what is the level of the 'Big Daddy' of the tyrants, the Hive Overlord?

LeRoy didn't know, but he soon found out.

The Hive Overlord, with his Overlord Guards - also a group of elite units from the swarm, and a large number of warrior bugs - instead launched a charge towards the Space Marines first.

Intense bullets were fired between the two sides.

Whether it's the warrior bugs or the overlord guards, they all have symbiote firearms and even symbiote cannons on hand.

The power is no less than the explosive bombs and individual missiles in the hands of Space Marines.

The distance between the two parties is not far, and there are no shields, obstacles, or bunkers between them. Neither the power armor nor the chitin armor of the Zerg elites could withstand the firing of such powerful weapons.

Dead people all over the place.

However, this kind of brutal firefight is not threatening enough to the truly top warriors or Zerg creatures.

The individual missiles hit the insect nest overlord, just like a smoke bomb, and had no effect even in stopping its footsteps for a moment.

It charged into the crowd ferociously, swinging its four broad-bladed serrated swords with great precision.

Those who tried to stand in front of it or harm it with chainswords or power swords would end up being cut in two.

It moves so fast that it often can't even block;

Even if it is blocked, the person and the knife are often destroyed together.

No matter whether they are special warfare elites wearing feedback power armor or space warriors in standard power armor, they are no match for it.

Only one Black Crusaders company commander persisted for a while when he stood in front of him.

But only for a little while.

The Hive Overlord used three knives and took fifteen seconds to kill him.

The remaining sword even killed two veteran shield guards of the company during this period of time.

The terror of the Hive Overlord was fully revealed at this moment.

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Still owe 96k

sleep!