Warhammer: Lord of the Endless Monster Horde

Chapter 592: Rhodes's Great Outburst, The Power of Monsters

Rhodes's figure stood like a descending god in the battlefield's center, his Cosmic beast greatsword burning with fiery energy.

Elena stood at his side, surrounded by an extreme cold storm, ice crystals condensing into countless sharp spears at her fingertips.

In truth, Rhodes was more adept at using his fists against enemies than a greatsword. However, among the Imperial army, standing on the battlefield with a flaming greatsword looked far more imposing than bare hands. So, when appearing in public, Rhodes had no choice but to wield a very impressive weapon.

The cosmic great buffalo's power could perfectly manifest as a greatsword, burning with roaring flames, looking extremely majestic and greatly boosting the human troops' morale.

"Father! These damned Necron scum have activated some kind of... Necron death field!

It suppresses all psychic powers in the area. Cosmic beast powers can still be used, but ordinary people's thoughts are suppressed too." Stark spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva. The Primarch's regenerative ability was repairing his damaged organs. In decades of service, this was the most perilous battle he'd faced.

If not for his father's timely support, he wouldn't know what to do.

"Our warriors are fully suppressed. Countless Battle Sisters and our gene-sons have died," Sterne approached and sighed.

Rhodes raised his hand to interrupt his son: "I know, but the Necrons forgot that Cosmic beast power doesn't come from the Warp.

It's a power from the material universe."

As he spoke, Rhodes thrust his greatsword into the ground. "Let me show you what true power is!"

If one were to describe Cosmic beast power, it was similar to the C'tan's power.

The earth began to tremble. With Rhodes at the center, a ring of golden-red ripples spread out. Wherever they passed, spiderweb cracks appeared on the blackstone obelisks. Rhodes was using Cosmic beast power in a brutally direct way to destroy the surrounding blackstone obelisks.

Overlord Kazakh's data core suddenly blared alarms—system detecting unknown energy overwriting the Necron death field!

A terrifying energy fluctuation was eroding their painstakingly built blackstone matrix; their Necron barrier was being corroded by some force.

"Impossible!" The green light in the Necron Overlord's eye sockets flickered violently. "This is something that can even suppress the C'tan—

No, this... this is C'tan power, the power of those damned beasts." The Necron Overlord clearly realized something and gritted his teeth.

The steel skull's face even twisted, green flames shining in his eyes.

Elena suddenly appeared before the Overlord, her speed so fast that even the Necrons' quantum computations couldn't track her. The cosmic frost leopard not only possessed powerful frost abilities but was also unmatched in speed. Back when she first fused with the Cosmic beast, she could suppress Chaos Warmaster Abaddon with the beast's power and even kill him outright.

"You metal skeletons," her ice-blue eyes reflected the Overlord's terrified electronic eyes. "You'll never understand the power of life."

Her palm pressed against the Overlord's chest plate, absolute zero chill instantly freezing the living metal. The Overlord tried to activate phase shift, but found his joints sealed in ice crystals.

Elena grabbed his neck and lifted him high. Terrifying ice power erupted from her, freezing the Necron Overlord before her into an ice sculpture.

She had fused with Cosmic beasts for decades, growing stronger alongside the cosmic monsters, and Rhodes had reinforced his cosmic monsters to their peak.

Elena's current power was no less than that of the Primarchs, perhaps even stronger with Rhodes's special enhancements.

However, this level of ice couldn't harm the Necron Overlord. A green glow emanated from his body, and he broke free.

The Overlord's quantum core spun wildly, attempting to analyze this human female who had suddenly appeared—her speed exceeded physical limits, and even the Necrons' most advanced phase tracking systems couldn't lock onto her trajectory.

Ice-blue energy surged around her, moisture in the air instantly condensing into countless tiny ice crystals, orbiting her like stardust. The power on her was from the C'tan, no mistake.

"Lowly creature... you're a follower of those filthy lapdogs, aren't you?" The Overlord's voice carried a mechanical hiss. He raised his arm, living metal rapidly reforming into a phase blade glowing with green energy. "Your existence is meaningless. We once defeated your masters; now I can defeat you too."

Upon first encountering Cosmic beast power, just like the Necrons Rhodes had faced before, the Overlord assumed it came from the cosmic C'tan.

Elena's lips curled into a cold smile. She had no intention of explaining to him, as it was utterly unnecessary. Today, he would die here.

Her figure blurred suddenly, reappearing at the Overlord's side the next instant. Her hands slashed through the air like leopard claws, leaving an ice-blue afterimage. Five sharp ice spears condensed from thin air, shooting toward the Overlord's joints with a piercing whistle.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The Overlord barely blocked with his phase blade, but the ice spears' impact still forced him back several steps. Frost rapidly formed on his living metal surface, the low temperature slowing his movements.

"Meaningless?" Elena's voice howled like a cold wind. "Then what are you undead? A pile of rusted scrap? How pitiful, without even souls."

The green light in the Overlord's eye sockets surged—clearly, Elena's words about lacking souls had stung him.

"Damn you! I'll make you pay."

His chest energy core suddenly lit up, firing a ghostly green annihilation beam.

Elena merely sidestepped lightly; the beam grazed her hair, blasting a deep crater in the ground behind her. Her speed was too fast for the Necron Overlord to react.

The Overlord's data core blared alarms—target energy index rising continuously, threat level exceeding limits! This woman before him seemed beyond what he could handle.

Now, the Necron Overlord considered whether to activate the secret weapon C'tan, but the cosmic energy on her made him hesitant.

The Necron Overlord attempted to activate phase shift to escape the battlefield, but the surrounding temperature plummeted, the pervasive frost energy interfering with his teleport protocol.

"Trying to flee?" Elena's voice sounded behind him, cold as if from the abyss.

The Overlord spun around sharply, only to see a palm covered in ice crystals pressing toward his chest plate.

"Absolute Zero."

A terrifying chill erupted instantly, freezing the Overlord's living metal into pale ice crystals upon contact.

The frost spread like a plague from his chest to his limbs, sealing his joints completely and even slowing his energy core's operation.

The Overlord struggled, but his movements grew slower until they stopped entirely.

Elena gripped his neck, lifting him high. Ice-blue energy gathered in her palm, rapidly encasing the Overlord's body in ice, turning him into a grotesque ice sculpture.

"This is the fate of those who despise life," she said coldly, her fingers exerting slight pressure.

"Crack—"

The ice sculpture shattered, the Overlord's body turning into countless ice crystal fragments scattering on the ground, reflecting cold light. He didn't even get the chance to activate his resurrection protocol.

Having two Eldar sisters, she knew how to kill a Necron. The Eldar had special psychic methods to deal with them.

Still, Elena picked up the Necron Overlord's green head, letting him witness his own failure firsthand.

"Watch closely, how you fail," Elena said with a cold laugh.

On the other end of the battlefield, Rhodes raised his greatsword high, summoning seven Cosmic beast shadows—EX Gomora's flames, EX Red King's lava, Yapool's other-dimensional energy, Mefilas's terrifying superpowers, cosmic great monster Bemstar's absorption power, and the most powerful cosmic great buffalo's might.

The roars of these ancient behemoths shattered the quantum cores of all Necrons within a kilometer radius. The power Rhodes now possessed was beyond what ordinary lifeforms could comprehend.

Reinforced by the energies of several monsters, Rhodes could wield the powers of his various monsters.

"Break!" Rhodes raised his greatsword high and swung it down. A seven-colored energy torrent swept the battlefield, tearing Necron constructs apart like paper.

Dozens of Monolith giants tried to resist with antimatter shields, but upon contact, they vaporized along with their shields in an instant.

The terrifying golden-red energy swept the globe, directly overloading and collapsing the Necrons' barrier.

Rhodes used the most brutal method to shatter the Necrons' barrier, turning their painstakingly researched technology into scrap.

He had two spies on their side, able to transmit effective intelligence at any time. What could they possibly do against him?

The green Necron barrier vanished instantly, leaving the surrounding Necrons in disbelief.

The Space Marines felt the pressure on their bodies lift suddenly. Sterne was pleasantly surprised to find his power armor systems returning to normal: "Machine spirits awakening! Titan units, restart immediately! Annihilate our enemies."

In the distance, the paralyzed King Joe Titan's eyes suddenly lit up red. It shook and stood, opening all its shoulder missile bays.

"Target locked, commencing Pedanium cannon charge." The Mechanicum priest's voice broadcast across the battlefield through amplifiers. "For the Omnissiah!"

Hundreds of Pedanium rays fired in unison, creating a sea of fire behind the Necron legions.

The Ultra Knight mech groups also recovered from paralysis, their plasma cannons firing in volley, blasting reforming Necron Warriors into slag.

"No! This is impossible!" Cracks appeared in Overlord Kazakh's frozen body. "My dynasty... my—"

Elena snapped her fingers lightly, and the ice crystals exploded, turning the Overlord's body into myriad metal fragments.

But in the last moment, she saw a strange red light flash in the Overlord's shattered head.

"Rhodes! Watch out underground!"

The entire battlefield suddenly collapsed, revealing massive Necron structures below. Countless green light pillars shot from the depths, weaving into a gigantic cubic cage in the air.

A metal construct ten times larger than a tomb spider was awakening—this was a Necron secret weapon capable of collapsing the entire planet into a black hole.

"It's the Necrons' tomb world," Stark recognized the legendary weapon. "They're going to collapse the entire planet into a black hole."

Rhodes held his greatsword across his chest, all the Cosmic beast totems on the blade coming to life: "Perfect, we'll take them all out at once." He turned to his wife and shouted, "Elena, prepare the combo attack!"

Elena nodded in understanding, crossing her hands over her chest, condensing extreme cold energy into an ice-blue orb. Rhodes began spinning his greatsword, his monster powers forming a vortex at the tip.

A metallic grinding roar came from underground; the tomb world's cannon muzzles began charging, gathering planet-destroying energy.

At the moment the Necron weapon fired, the Rhodes couple struck simultaneously.

Elena's absolute zero beam merged with Rhodes's Cosmic beast energy torrent in mid-air, fusing into a brilliant rainbow pillar.

The instant the two energies met, space itself began to distort.

The pillar pierced the tomb world's core; the Necrons' super-tech shields didn't last a second.

The struck metal megastructure began to disintegrate, a chain reaction causing the entire underground complex to explode in sequence.

The shockwave lifted several meters of surface soil, exposing the molten metal underbelly below.

When the dust settled, the surviving Necron Warriors on the battlefield all ceased moving, their electronic eyes extinguishing one by one.

The Necron death field dissipated completely, sunlight once again bathing the land.

Rhodes sheathed his greatsword and approached his battle-scarred sons. He first checked Sterne's injuries, then patted Stark's shoulder: "You brothers fought well today."

Elena went to the Battle Sisters, comforting these nominal genetic daughters of hers.

The Superior knelt on one knee: "Genet-mother, we have failed your bloodline. We couldn't defeat the enemy."

"You were very brave," Elena gently stroked the Superior's blood-stained white hair. "The Emperor would be proud of you."

The orbital naval fleet finally restored communications, and the Astropaths received the distress signal. When the reinforcing Thunderhawk gunship fleets appeared on the horizon, the surviving mortal soldiers embraced and wept.

The final victors of this war were the humans, not these damned Necrons.

Rhodes stood on the highest ruins, gazing at the devastated battlefield, his eyes piercing the clouds toward the distant stars: "This war is just the beginning. The Necrons won't stop here."

The Necron death field wouldn't affect only one planet.

Elena walked to his side, holding her husband's hand: "Then let them come. However many, we'll kill them all."