Bang!
It was the pure sound of a fist smashing into flesh.
The savage head that took the blow immediately twisted out of shape, then burst apart like a water balloon that could no longer withstand the pressure.
At the same time, the chainsword in his other hand carved out an almost circular slash. Three of the creatures surrounding him were cut clean in half at the waist on the spot, while the rest rushing in lost either legs or arms.
Behind the power-armored figure, now drenched head to toe in green blood, the ground was already carpeted with green chunks of meat smeared with all kinds of gore.
A closer look at the area roughly five hundred meters behind him showed even more scattered flesh. The ground there looked as though some enormous beast had torn everything open and chewed it to pieces.
And it was not just Orks.
There were other species as well, the by-product lifeforms born alongside the Orks themselves, things like squigs and gretchin.
The so-called squig-type creatures were mainly Squiggly Beasts. Their appearance was a lot like those "hounds" in Valley of Awakening, the kind with only two hind legs, basically a bouncing hunting beast with its head and body fused into one.
They could be considered the Orks' livestock, pets, and mounts, and were also one of their main food sources.
As for the gretchin, they were similar to goblin-type monsters from fantasy games.
There were a great many of those as well, swarming everywhere, endlessly irritating.
Hm?
Suddenly, one Squiggly Beast that felt a little different lunged in. He did not blow it apart. Instead, he casually batted it away like a baseball.
That proved to be the correct choice.
The thing exploded the instant it was sent flying.
It was not the sort of explosion caused by a bomb, not the kind that killed through physical shockwaves. This self-detonation sprayed out a massive amount of liquid, a highly corrosive liquid.
Just looking at the metal deck was enough to tell how violently it had been eaten away in an instant.
While that level of corrosion was not much of a problem for his current suit of power armor, if he kept getting hit by that kind of corrosive projectile over and over, quantitative change would eventually become qualitative change.
Bang! Bang bang bang bang!
He had been trying to fight as much as possible with pure blade work instead of firepower, but in the end he still opened fire.
He even launched melta grenades, wiping out whole swathes of them in an instant.
The reason was simple: too many greenskins had already clogged the exit.
With those melta shots, he tore straight through them with ease and finally made it back up to the surface.
And when he looked out, the ground in every direction was packed solid, like a surging green tide rushing in to drown him.
Then "Haki" was unleashed.
In reality, it was the null field of an Untouchable, and it was highly effective against Orks too.
In that instant, it was as though a violent gale had swept across them, sending great numbers of them flying backward.
Not all of them dropped, though. Some staggered around like drunks.
As for those that had fallen, some collapsed face-first. Whether they had merely blacked out or were already dying was impossible to tell.
Others shook their heads and lurched unsteadily back to their feet.
At the very least, it had drastically weakened them, making it even easier to carve through them like chopping melons and vegetables, so he could hurry back to the ship.
The vessel below could not simply be flown back up directly. The moment it started moving, the quantum ghost-state would be canceled and it would return to realspace.
So there was only one option left. He had to get back to the surface, fly this one down there himself, assemble the exoskeletal armament that belonged to it, and then get out with it.
...
[Fallen Angel Kuroneko: This feels just like a game where you're grinding monsters for EXP by slaughtering huge waves of mobs.]
[Tendo Civilian Security Company: Exactly. That's exactly what it feels like.]
[Aslu: There are this many of them? Just how are they supposed to deal with all that?]
[Target is Becoming S.T.A.R.S.: Say, if something like this appeared in each of our worlds, how do you think we could wipe it out with the power of our own worlds?]
That sudden hypothetical brought the entire channel to a halt.
One by one, they genuinely began thinking about how they would exterminate such creatures, monsters with vitality more terrifying than cockroaches, if they appeared in their own worlds.
[Whisperer: Depends on the era. If it's only on the scale of what Mr. Kain is facing right now, then we could just clean them out directly.]
[Martian: Spore reproduction means that as long as humans are active anywhere, these monsters will always have the conditions needed to reproduce. If you want to purify them completely, you'd have to disinfect every last human habitation zone on the whole planet, inside and out.]
[Dr. Kouzuki: The simplest and most effective method is burning. Didn't his world use something called a Cyclone Mine before? A weapon like that was probably developed specifically to deal with this sort of monster.]
The price of that, of course, was that not a single living thing on the planet would survive. It was mutual destruction.
And Kouzuki Yuuko, bitter as she was, was currently thinking about something else.
If she wanted to bring humans over now, and have them provide assistance in her world, then naturally there had to be something there that would attract his interest.
And when he had been in the planetary core earlier, he had browsed some of the data related to that gigantic energy engine. Yuuko had seen something in it that left her momentarily stunned.
The description stated that when the energy engine burned stone, it extracted a certain special substance.
The description of that substance, specifically the part involving fifth-power gravity, looked remarkably similar to the G-Elements in her own world, though unfortunately he had not clicked further into the detailed file.
If that really was the G-Element of her world, and if it also existed in the encyclopedia inside his interface, then her world would finally have something capable of attracting him.
From the look of it, extraction of G-Elements in that other world was not especially efficient.
Of course, her world's own ability to extract G-Elements could also be described as utterly helpless.
The only reason they had found G-Elements at all was because what they discovered were effectively finished residual scraps that had already been extracted.
And those things had been found only after humanity had pushed deep into a BETA Hive.
Those things were undoubtedly created by the BETA.
And it was precisely because of the discovery of G-Elements that many of the technologies in her world had achieved leap-like breakthroughs.
The most important of them was the construction of the colonial fleet.
And how many years had it even been since Alternative V was first proposed?
Humanity had already begun constructing colony ships at the Lagrange points, ships capable of reaching a stellar cluster in the Milky Way five light-years away.
Even though Alternative V still had not received open international support, the forces backing it from the shadows had already begun work.
And according to Yuuko's understanding, testing on experimental vessels had already begun.
All of this had advanced at astonishing speed. From the moment humanity became aware of it until now, only about half a century had passed, yet they were already on the verge of entering the interstellar age, all because of the discovery of G-Elements.
Correction: G-Elements had been discovered in the seventies. In other words, it had taken less than thirty years to produce interstellar colony ships. That was the scale of the technological explosion brought about by G-Elements.
Suddenly, her attention shifted back to reality as she noticed something and answered the call.
The reply was simple, but a look of delight appeared on Kouzuki Yuuko's face.
The XG-70B Susanoo Unit Two Strategic Air-Mobile Fortress looked, on the surface, like a giant robot, something similar to a Tactical Surface Fighter.
To put it simply, it was an enlarged TSF, except that it could also fire a super-heavy laser cannon.
This thing also made use of G-Elements, and its entire design purpose was to allow a single unit to break into a BETA Hive.
However, a massive problem had arisen: the onboard computer's computational power was insufficient, making normal operation impossible.
The force field it generated would also affect the cockpit and crush the pilot into paste.
Now, however, Kouzuki Yuuko had obtained equipment with immense processing power.
And that equipment had come from the world of Kuroneko, in the form of consumer electronics, which had already been installed directly into the machine.
That also meant one thing: she had already made the intelligence of her world public.
Now, the XG-70B Susanoo Unit Two had already been transported to the base, and experiments could begin anew on this machine, which had once been nearly abandoned and sealed away.
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