Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 1034

Chapter 1025, Incarnation and Key

The Lionheart King, upon entering the battlefield, made a stunning first impression.

This was a strategic move he had orchestrated.

He knew the naval guns wouldn’t destroy Ba’thor, but they could create an opportunity for an assault;

he had strategically placed a Chaos Titan in the path of his attack. Using his battle instincts, he dodged Ba’thor’s barrage, but the next wave of fire forced Ba’thor to avoid a direct attack—the Titan stood between them.

With a few more strikes, he slashed and destroyed the Titan, effectively closing the gap between him and Ba’thor.

This was not only a strategic move, but also a significant morale boost for his team.

Previously, no one had successfully dodged Ba’thor’s attack, practically being targeted or instantly killed.

The Lionheart King’s performance broke this pattern.

The roaring Space Marines, charging alongside the Lionheart King, helped to relieve the pressure from other sources.

In turn, the Lionheart King shouldered all the pressure from Ba’thor for his offspring and the Blood Angels who followed him.

Bassor recognized Leon’s identity.

He also understood that the battles elsewhere were no longer significant.

Kill Leon here, and the war would be won. The coveted monolith would fall into his hands, as he longed for.

If Leon wasn’t killed, the outcome of the battle would be vastly different. As the battle dragged on, the powerful backing of the Human Empire would continue to arrive with armies and experts.

A war of attrition… Honestly, sometimes the Void Zerg couldn’t outlast the Human Empire, and Bassor didn’t have that kind of confidence.

The thing he’d longed for for countless ages was right before his eyes. The success of his grand plan lay within reach, and he couldn’t wait any longer.

The Son of God, the untouchable god of the Warp?

Slay him without hesitation!

Bassor’s attack struck again, fiercely!

This time, it wasn’t an energy weapon, but a humble diamond-shaped crystal at the end of one of his mechanical arms, covered in delicate, scaly armor.

From it, a strange, almost imperceptible “neural stealing ray” shot forth.

This ray was silent and invisible, ignoring physical defenses, and pierced Leon’s brain!

The ray hit accurately.

“Ahhh!”

Even a mighty being like the Son of God couldn’t help but let out a short, painful groan! It felt like billions of red-hot steel needles instantly piercing his brain, like cold, venomous snakes biting madly through his nerves! His vision blurred, and countless fragments of blasphemous knowledge and twisted, maddened mechanical whispers flooded his consciousness like a torrent!

The intense nerve pain caused his sword-wielding arm to tremble uncontrollably for the first time, and his movements inevitably froze for a moment!

“I’ve got you, old lion!” Bassol’s incarnation let out a piercing electronic laugh, like the grinding of countless gears. The

pair of “demon wings” behind it, composed of dozens of mechanical arms, suddenly and mysteriously folded, combined, and transformed! With the teeth-grinding sound of metal rubbing and energy humming, they suddenly combined into two enormous, super-giant power claws, covered in layers of armor plating, with front ends extending several meters long and gleaming with the light of a decomposition field. Like a pair of mechanical dragon claws from the abyss!

With earth-shattering might, these terrifying claws, one on each side, closed fiercely, gripping Leon, whose body was slightly paralyzed by the excruciating nerve pain. The entire space seemed locked in these two claws, leaving no escape!

Organgron and all the other watching Angels of Death trembled with fear!

At this fateful moment, Leon’s golden eyes blazed with a light brighter than the core of the sun! It wasn’t despair, but a utterly infuriated, burning battle will!

“Get out of here!!!”

A soul-splitting roar, brimming with the will and power of the Son of God, erupted! This power fused together his millennia-old fighting spirit, his faith in the Emperor, his duty to his offspring, and his utter fury at the blasphemous existence before him! It fiercely assaulted the “neural theft” instilled by Bassol’s avatar into his mind, like a raging tsunami sweeping through a filthy mire, instantly dispelling most of the cold, venomous snakes and twisted whispers that had infiltrated his brain!

The excruciating pain subsided, and consciousness returned in an instant!

Facing the massive, destructive mechanical claws closing in front of him, Leon didn’t try to retreat—that would only lead to his being ripped apart even faster. He chose the most extreme, most frantic strategy!

Instead of retreating, he advanced!

He held the Lion King Sword across his body, the psychic energy radiating from its blade blazing like liquid gold!

Like an arrow shot from a bow, he plunged decisively into the chest of Bassol’s incarnation—the core of the complex fusion of pale flesh and delicate machinery—into the final gap before the claws closed.

The combined, massive power claws collided fiercely as their target suddenly “vanished” from range, erupting with a deafening metallic clang and dazzling sparks of energy, but they had already missed their target!

“Puff!”

The decomposition field’s scorching sound of flesh and metal was terrifying! The tip of the Lion King Sword pierced Bassol’s incarnation’s chest, a writhing mass of pale flesh inlaid with countless tiny tubes and gears! The sword’s raging psychic energy instantly poured in, attempting to disintegrate the blasphemous creation from within!

“ROAR!!!”

This time, it was the Bassol Avatar’s turn to roar in agony and fury!

It had clearly not expected Leon to resort to such a near-suicidal method to break through its carefully planned final blow!

Leon had succeeded! He had stabbed the Lion King Sword into the heart of the evil god’s incarnation! He could feel the resistance at the tip of the sword, the result of the fierce resistance of highly compressed chaotic energy and the twisted laws of the Warp.

However, just as the Lion King Sword’s psychic energy poured frantically, attempting to detonate the incarnation’s core, something unexpected happened!

The wound pierced by the Lion King Sword did not shed blood or energy. Instead, a deep, cold, cyan light suddenly erupted, seemingly capable of freezing everything!

This light was so familiar—it was the unique energy signature emitted by the “weapon” sealed deep within the Knight Star’s core that Gu Hang had described! It was also the core power that constituted the “key”!

Instead of exploding outward, it spun like a greedy tentacle, madly eroding the blade of the Lion King Sword and wrapping itself around Leon’s arm!

“Key… fragment…” Leon suddenly understood! Bassol had actually embedded a crucial key fragment, a key part of the Knight Star’s geocentric device, directly into his avatar’s energy core, serving as both a source of power and the ultimate bait and trap!

(End of Chapter)