"Commander!"

"Commander!"

“……”

Dante felt someone shaking him and slowly opened his eyes.

It's a path and a room made of flesh and blood, like the interior of some kind of large creature.

After a two-second pause, Dante suddenly remembered that a giant bug had just come out of the deck and swallowed many people, and he and the people in front of him were swallowed.

The air is filled with biotoxins that are so penetrating that Power Armor can't even keep them all out.

A little bit of toxin isn't enough to kill the Space Marines, but it's enough to keep them unconscious for a few minutes, which is why Dante was woken up.

"The swarm has discovered our presence, and the flaming creature is holding back the swarm outside the battleship."

"We're underground, in the back half of the battleship."

"The Think Tank used psionic energy to kill the giant worm that devoured us, but he seems to have been targeted by something and lost contact with us."

The warriors of the Holy Blood Guard quickly reported the situation to Dante.

Dante thought quickly and finally made the decision to evacuate: "We must get out of here as quickly as possible to kill the Lord of the Swarm, we must be fast." ”

With that, Dante stood up and counted the soldiers who were with him.

Half of the Holy Blood Guard.

Three regimental commanders and three companies under their command.

The number of troops is completely sufficient.

Dante led the men through the flesh passage, and soon found a way to the outside world.

When they emerge from the worm's mouth, they find themselves in a chamber.

It's open.

The ground was covered in layers of slime and flesh, and the pillars and some of the wreckage were held together by flesh tentacles.

There are no bugs here yet, but they will soon be available.

"They're coming!" A member of the Guard spotted the approaching bug through Terminator A's scanning system.

At the same time, there was a muffled thumping sound from the pipes above everyone's heads.

More hissing sounds were heard outside the cabin door.

As you can imagine, countless bugs are rushing to the cabin from any path they can find.

The flamethrower-wielding fighter walked up to the exit of the pipe and sprayed flames towards the exit.

Twenty fighters armed with hot melt and assault guns set up salvo formations in front of the gate, while the others spread out to cover around the gate.

The figure of the bug appeared.

There weren't too many sword insects in the corridor leading to the gate, but a samurai insect that couldn't be seen at a glance and somehow evolved to a carapace attached to its whole body.

The assault gun can penetrate the carapace with more ammo, but the heat is enough to penetrate the carapace and the bug's body.

Everyone was firing at the swarm, which quickly halted their forward momentum.

Everything is going well on the side of the gate, and even more so on the side of the pipe.

The credging worms that can squeeze into the pipe are either fragile knives or genestealers, and it only takes two people to take turns using flamethrowers on the exit to intercept them.

But it didn't last long for the chamber to suddenly tremble, and a roar rang out at the end of the hallway.

An even larger, muscular tyrant rushed out, none other than the Lord of the Swarm.

The heat left a large crater in the carapace, and the blood evaporated before it could spurt out, but instead of killing the more powerful tyrant, the attack only angered it.

The tyrant rushed in front of the twenty salvos with fire and smashed through their formation, and the four bone knives swung out with great speed, and the ten space marines were split in two on the spot.

When the bone knives are swung out again and slashed at those who can't dodge, Dante quickly blocks each bone knife with his weapon in hand, and chops off one of the tyrant's arms.

"Give it to me!" Dante calls out to the others who are about to intervene, telling them to focus on dealing with the rushing swarm.

Dante begins a duel with the tyrant.

In the eyes of those who glimpse the duel out of the corner of their eye, each of the tyrant's swords is extremely fast and contains seemingly unstoppable power, but Dante can parry every slash and leave a heavy wound on the tyrant's body.

Dante, who has been fighting for 1,500 years since becoming a Space Marine, is now a little old, but still ready to fight.

The tyrant's huge body was pierced one after another, but it seemed that it could quickly learn and learn from the combat experience of other people in battle, and soon learned Dante's fighting style to adopt the best coping strategy, and suppressed Dante in reverse.

The three arms holding the three bone knives swung violently.

Dante had no chance to counter after parrying, so he could only keep blocking attacks.

As the tyrant became more proficient in how to fight Dante, he had to slowly retreat.

The tyrant pursued and struck, and every attack was in the best condition and with the best power and skill, and the physical damage it had suffered did not affect it much.

The Holy Blood Guard noticed Dante's situation and wanted to go over to help, but they were quickly blocked by the swarm, and even Dante could not be seen.

The battle lasted three minutes.

Dante was at a disadvantage and kept blocking and retreating, and he was waiting for an opportunity.

When there was a slight gap in the tyrant's barrage of fierce attacks, Dante seized the opportunity to attack the neck of the huge beast in front of him.

As the weapon was about to pierce the tyrant's neck, Dante saw the bone knife swinging diagonally from below.

He noticed, instinctively choosing to abandon the attack and retreat, but changed his mind before he could actually start retreating.

Two sounds of flesh being pierced with sharp weapons rang out.

A bloody hole appears in the tyrant's neck, as does a bloody hole in Dante's abdomen.

Amid the angry and mournful cries of the Blood Guard, Dante drowned in the runaway swarm.

……

After some time, Dante opened his eyes.

There was darkness in front of me.

But soon there was a light at the edge of his vision, and Dante felt that he was being picked up by someone.

First white wings appeared in Dante's line of sight, and then wings gathered around him.

And then a handsome face.

"Father......" Dante called out in a dry voice.

St. Giles smiled and nodded.

Dante opened his mouth and began to tell St. Giles about what he had been through, pouring out his breathless hardship and exhaustion from the death of Barr.

Dante said a lot.

St. Giles listened quietly.

After pouring out all his hardships, Dante begs the Father of Genes, "Please take me away...... I want to go to your side......"

"I know you're having a hard time." St. Giles spoke softly, "But the battle is not over, and your mission is not over yet. ”

Dante wanted to say something, but felt like he was sinking into the arms of the father of genes.

The face of St. Giles was getting farther and farther away from him.

Dante fell heavily and opened his eyes suddenly.

Still the filthy and foul-smelling chamber, the Blood Guard is slaying down the out-of-control bugs in the vicinity, creating an area that is as safe as possible.

Dante came back from the dead, the wound on his abdomen was gone, except for the tear in his armor.

(End of chapter)