By the time the hastily assembled fleet of Ultramarines arrived in Pamenio under the Flare of Macurag, the shadows of the subspace that haunted the system had long since dissipated.

Meanwhile, the second advance team of the Human Federation's extermination fleet had just sent about 30% of its military strength out of the Maculag Stargate, and several Titans were busy dragging the completely dead Aether Giant Worm, Behemoth, back to Falla.

The veteran captain of the Ultramarines was highly sensitive to human feelings, and after recognizing the situation, he immediately ordered the release of a dozen or so Brothers of Truth who had come to Otramar with the 13th Expeditionary Fleet and were imprisoned by him under his protective captivity, including the man who had poisoned the machine soul with the Soul Eater toxin and angered the clay artist, Joshua, the head of biology, who was also brought to Pamenio by Glory of Macurag.

But this kindness was only met by Gray Wind's exclamation of "Ah, Joshua, you're just in time, Colonia needs someone who understands biology to help with the project".

"Well, please wait a minute......" Looking at the silver-haired girl who turned decisively and was about to leave, Harding hurriedly said something to stay.

"Anything else?" Grey Wind blinked.

Harding exhaled lightly and pointed to the neat fleet phalanx anchored in the distance above Pamenio's orbit: "...... Won't they go away with you? ”

Gray Wind nodded: "You said those boats, they can't go for the time being." The Demobol Fleet jumped directly from Maculag, and the jump engine required about 200 standard Terra days of cooldown after a single reflex before it could be used again. ”

Harding's face was strange, and he glanced at the several Titan ships that were slowly passing in front of the Shark of Maculag in the distance, dragging the corpse of a giant worm: "...... How are these ships going to transport the corpses of the Aether Worms back to Falla? ”

"Jump." Grey Wind said.

“……”

Harding felt slighted.

Grey Wind looked at Harding's gloomy face and smiled happily.

"Why is the lady laughing?" Harding asked.

"Actually, even if the cooldown time for the jump engine is up, I won't let the exterminator fleet leave Otlama." Gray Wind said with a light smile.

Harding opened his mouth to speak, but suddenly, he realized something, and he thought of a terrifying possibility, if that was the reason why Grey Wind had left the Exterminator Fleet here......

"It seems that Ling has already thought of it, and he is worthy of being a genetic descendant of Robert Killman, and he is really smart." Grey Wind smiled and gave Harding a 'thumbs up!' gesture, and continued: "It's too early to withdraw the fleet, you know......

- The death of the Aether Worm is not the end, not even the beginning of the end, it is just, the end of the beginning. ”

Grey Wind left the Glory of Macullag with the released Joshua, and the three Titans jumped with the carbized and disintegrated body of the Aether Giant Worm and disappeared without a trace, leaving the Glory of Macullag to hover quietly over the battered Pamenio for a long time.

"It's just ...... The end of the beginning? Hardin Hermes stood on the bridge of the Glory of Maculage, Pamenio still churning with a scarlet cyclone beneath his feet.

It was a swarm of spores that had permeated the atmosphere and had not yet been cleaned.

"Yay! This super handsome line is finally used! ”

Grey Wind is super happy.

In the past, when Russell told her the story of the Tyranid War, he used this sentence to summarize the invasion of the Great Devourer, and at that time, she felt that the marshal said this line with an indifferent face was particularly handsome.

"I wonder if that old head thinks I'm also handsome?" Grey Wind thought again.

“…… So, Lord Grey Wind, what do you mean by that to Captain Harding? Joshua's words pulled her back from her self-congratulatory assertions.

"That." Gray Wind thought for a moment and said, "It's nothing to tell you...... That's what the marshal told me before, about the invasion of Tyranny......"

In the 41st year of the 745th millennium, the Hive Fleet-Behemoth invaded Macurag, and the Ultramarines paid a huge price to break it up.

In the 41st millennium and 990, the Hive Fleet-Kraken invaded the Itza system, and the world of the Elven Iyanden Ark was almost wiped out, and both the Titanium Empire and the Human Empire suffered heavy losses.

The two hive invasions were known as the First Tyranid War and the Second Tyranid War, respectively, and the arrival of the two hive fleets was about 200 years apart.

"The original course of history should have been like this, but due to the Great Devourer accidentally obtaining the genes of the Aether Dragon, the Behemoth Hive Fleet, mimicking the 'Aether Giant Worm', arrived in the Otrama Domain 1700 years ahead of schedule with the help of a new biological leap engine, and the primary invasion site changed from Maculag to Pamenio."

Grey Wind snapped his fingers and said, "The Hive Fleet-Kraken was supposed to arrive about 200 years after Behemoth's invasion of the galaxy, but due to the special nature of the Hive Will, the Kraken may have mimicked the Aether Giant Worm and obtained the Jump Engine...... The Hive Will will not give humans another 200 years to breathe, and the Aether Worm-Kraken could arrive at any moment. All-out war is already within reach. ”

Although, the human empire has been fighting an all-out war for 10,000 years.

Joshua nodded thoughtfully.

In fact, there is one more thing that Grey Wind has not said - the Hive Will is very intelligent, and has a strong ability to learn and grow. After learning the lesson of Behemoth's annihilation, the later hive fleets such as Kraken and Leviathan will definitely be more complete and more difficult to deal with, and it will be difficult to kill them with unexpected concentrated fire snipers.

As the marshal said, this is only the end of the beginning.

For Greywind, the impending all-out invasion is just another stirring of the Great Devourer in this messy galaxy. But for the Ultramarines, this is nothing less than shocking news.

Because the first stop of the Zerg invasion is Otrama.

On the devastated Parmenio, the head of the regiment, Hatting, urgently convened a secret meeting. There was only one theme for the conference:

"Should we trust the Bulletin?"

Harding's voice was loud, and he said to the Ultramarines company commander and a few military high-ranking people from Macurag who participated in the meeting: "According to the bulletists, the attack on Pamenio by Behemoth is only a prelude to a full-scale invasion of the Zerg, and more Aether Giant Bugs are about to arrive, and the situation is very serious......"

"Not necessarily? My esteemed leader. ”

Before Harding could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by an arrogant voice with the characteristic tone of aristocrats.

The old regimental commander's face was slightly gloomy, but he did not scold sharply, because it was no one else who interrupted him, but an Imperial Admiral with a golden emblem on his shoulder, the absolute real power of the Otrama Navy, Wagner Ebolon Sivitas.

This person was born into the Sivitas family, the great nobles of Maculag, and had been operating in the Imperial Navy for many years, with deep roots and a close relationship with the Mechanic Order. There are also many Astartes from the Civitas family in the Ultramarines warband, and even the head of the group, Hatting, is quite close to the Sivitas family in terms of family blood.

This is the norm throughout the Otrama Field, and the nobles who control the planet regard it as a great honor for their heirs to become Ultramarines.

Wagner Civitas smiled apologetically at Harding and said, "Although it is a bit rude, I would like to say that the true face of this person may not be as good as the image he shows in front of you and me. ”

(End of chapter)