Star Citizen Online: Isekai Edition

Chapter 132 Arachnid Complications

The flying Arachnids were always one of the most problematic bugs to deal with, because they were speedy and very agile. Anything that came from the bugs and could fly, was fast as heck and very troublesome to shoot down manually.

One would either need highly automated systems or powerful abilities that could cause an area of effect on the entire place that would wipe them out regardless of how they dodged the strikes.

Arcturus and Jenaiel were a bit caught off guard by the sheer scale and ferocity of the assault because the bugs were charging straight into the traps and minefields that Zehal prepared as everything went blank in a mere moment.

Enormous explosions that deafened even the two of Highborne Asuryani in a mere moment, when the entire part of the Frostearth Valley was turned into one huge flaming mess that was being covered by dust.

Once, the explosion subsidies took some time because there were too many of them, and they were also pretty powerful. Zehal was going all out in laying down the explosives, as she knew that they needed to be powerful enough to shred even some of the more durable Arachnids apart easily once they were doing the kaboom.

Soon after the explosions quieted down, the gunfire from the automatic turrets that Zehal created through the Super-High Risk Psyker Ability Deus Technicus echoed through the entire Frostearth Valley as they opened fire on the bugs.

The Warrior Bugs and a few Tiger Warrior Bugs charged through the hail of the energy projectiles that were fired on them by the Zehal's turrets, as their bodies were being shredded apart by the plasma.

It wasn't easy, even for the Zehal's advanced turrets and weaponry, which made short work of the bugs. The bugs were stronger than they seemed, and in many cases, their bodies even absorbed the damage as they were hit.

This was something respectable because, due to the material limitations and other things, Zehal wasn't able to create anything more powerful, but even what she managed to make seemed to be enough for the time being when it came to dealing with the average bugs.

The most problematic was the enormous Titan Bug that was barely damaged from the explosions, and the plasma energy turrets were barely doing anything as Zehal was forced to congregate the firepower of several of them together to actually cause some substantial injury on the huge towering bug.

Out of nowhere, the Titan Bug unleashed a torrent of acid spray, melting through the obstructions that were covering the locations of the plasma turrets under Zehal's control, which was slightly problematic.

Or rather...

It was a huge problem.

Once the turrets were visible, they became visible even to the engaged bugs, who, while already in their berserker state with lowered rationality, could, despite all of this, still recognize the threat and would go and destroy it.

At any cost.

Exactly what they were doing right now.

Once several of the hidden turrets were visible for the Arachnids to see, the enraged Warrior Bugs rushed towards their location, with complete disregarding for their very own existence as they had only one sole goal in their mind which was to destroy the turrets.

At the same time, the flying Arachnids swooped from above, attacking the turrets with their claws as they made use that their firepower was being concentrated on the WarriorBugs, Tiger Warrior Bugs, and primarily on the Titan Bug.

Several of the Zehal's turrets were already being destroyed by the frenzied Arachnid swarm that had left the Nest, but that was something within their expectations. Aside from the Titan Bug that wasn't in the plan, everything was going according to the plan.

'Arcturus, if you could... would it be possible for you to use the Dimension Empyrean in its most destructive form on the Titan Bug when you find an opening? It seems that my turrets are too weak to breach the Titan Bug's plating and defenses in a short time, and we don't have really much time for it.'

Suddenly, he heard Zehal's voice in his head as he pondered over the proposal because if they could bring down the Titan Bug as soon as possible, it would be feasible to inflict even greater losses onto the Arachnids that left the Nest without the interference of the Silver-Horned Tattooed Bears that they planned to lure here during the next phase of their plan.

'Give me some time.'

He sent her message back as he prepared to attack the Titan Bug.

Even though this wasn't in their plan, it would also risk their position because if the bugs could trace the attack's origin back here, due to leaving a very powerful and distinctive Psionic Residual, it was worth it.

The entire frozen terrain of the Frostearth Valley became a chaotic battlefield where the two distinctive civilizations, one rooted in Psionics and Technology and one rooted in Biology and Psionics, though leaning more toward devouring everything in their power.

Like the Greek God of Lightning, Zeus.

"Two."

The Dimension Empyrean was pushed to the limits as the Empyrean Power started cracking when it got oversaturated because not even Arcturus was aware of the true extent of his destructive prowess.

"Three."

The moment he finished the countdown, Jenaiel, who was standing some distance from him, bolted away at lightning speed and disappeared somewhere as far as possible while he threw the lightning bolt-shaped Empyrean Power.

Aiming directly at the weaker spot of the Titan Bug that was located between it's heavy plates of chitin armor.

The moment he threw the bolt of Empyrean Power at the Titan Bug, he mimicked Jeniel and disappeared from the place as the Empyrean Power Lighting Bolt hit the Titan Bug exactly in the middle of its joints where there was a slight weakness as it was a small place that wasn't covered by it's extraordinarily thought carapace.

In mere seconds, enormous purple-black energy burst around the entire place as several hundred Warrior Bugs and a few Tiger Warrior Bugs that were in the vicinity of the Titan Bug were obliterated by the Empyrean Power.

Though...

What was even more shocking was the state of the Titan Bug itself.

Almost the entire upper half of the Titan Bug was missing, including half of its head.

That certainly wasn't something that the bug could regenerate from, even with their fearsome regeneration factor. Soon enough, after the explosion of the Empyrean Power dispersed, the humongous form of the Titan Bug fell on the ground, crushing a few tens of bugs that rushed in there under the weight of its corpse.

'Well... it seems that I went a bit overboard. Even though I feel rather tired and also my entire Psionic Energy Reserves are empty, this power should be enough to kill someone at Beta-Grade if they are not careful, even though it would leave me out of cold.'

Arcturus thought, because this was really far above his expectations. The only reason why he was still standing was due to his own willpower and Neural Extranet Terminal Gene Implants that were preventing him from falling unconscious.

Fortunately enough, with his healing factor and the rate at which his Psionic Energy was being regenerated, he would be in top condition in mere minutes, which was a rather staggering rate of recovery.

The Neural Extranet Terminal Gene Implants basically biologically prevented him from blacking out while his body was regenerating. At the same time, another effect of the Neural Extranet Terminal Gene Implants was that they were speeding up the healing, bumbling pain, and other auxiliary effects.

'Are you still alive?'

As he was running from the place, while the bugs were a bit panicking due to the death of the Titan Bug that happened in rather a spectacular manner, he soon heard Zehal's voice in his head.

Zehal knew that Arcturus went a bit overboard because she only asked him to create an opening for her turrets to finish the bug. Yet he used so much power that it killed the Titan Bug, and the power output was so high that it would normally be enough to kill even most ordinary Beta-Grade Warriors.

'I am... just tired and exhausted, but I will be alright within a few moments; you focus on the destruction of the bugs as much as you can. Also, due to the explosion of the Empyrean Power, it seemed a few hundred of them were obliterated so that we can start phase 2 sooner, don't you think?'

Arcturus answered back as he swiftly arrived at the spot where Jenaiel was hiding after she ran away.

'Hmm... that seems to be plausible. All right then, give me another fifteen minutes maximally. I am activating the protocol to attract here the Silver-Horned Tattooed Bears, if we want for the bears to succeed the lesser number of the Arachnids is out there, the better.'

Hearing what Zehal said made Arcturus focus more on the healing because they would have something between ten minutes to twenty minutes before they would infiltrate the Arachnid Nest as Zehal was already in the process of doing her magic.

After this spectacle, the Arachnids were greatly weakened because of the Empyrean Power and disappeared from the Frostearth Valley at all, but it had latched itself onto the Arachnids and was continuing at what it was best.

Corrupting and destroying things.