Star Citizen Online: Isekai Edition

Chapter 135 Target Captured

It didn't take him a long time for Arcturus to regroup together with Zehal and Jeniael as they together addicted to the lowermost floors of the Arachnid Nest that were being wrecked apart by the Empyrean Power and also by the native beasts of the Ziras IV.

"How far are we from the central chamber where the Brain Bug and Pseudo Queen Bgu are located?"

This place was already complicated and big enough, so he would have preferred to get out of this place as soon as possible. After what has happened in this place after today, it was more than clear that the Arachnid Nest was destroyed because the bugs were on their last legs.

If it wasn't the Empyrean Power that destroyed the entire Arachnid Nest today, then it would be the local beasts that would come and finish the beasts. At the outside of the Arachnid Nest in the Frostearth Valley, several hundreds of Silver-Horned Tattooed Bears that were wreaking havoc and killing everything in their path.

"We are several floors apart from the central chamber."

Zehal stated that they started cutting through something that appeared to be doors made from biomass. Everhint in the Arachnid Nest was made from Biomatter, so even this basic act of cutting through it was rather hard.

"Dammed bugs... and their cursed Biomatter."

Arcturus was using Aetherius, as the Disintegration of the Power Weapon was destroying the Biomatter rather easily, but it was still an arduous process. Despite its fleshy appearance and everything, it required a lot of power to properly decompose through the flesh of the Biomatter.

"Well... the Arachnid Biomatter is known for being especially hard and tough, while also having regenerative properties which complicate the entire matter. According to my scouting bots, after this, there are only two similar defensive measures, and we are free to go."

Zehal stated that she had already long ago released her nanomachines into the Arachnid Nest as they were scouring through the entire Arachnid Nest, and they already knew of every single nook and cranny of the entire Arachnid Nest.

Nothing would escape the watchful eyes of the nanomachines that were monitoring everything in real-time. With that being said, Arcturus continued cutting through the Biomatter doors together with Jeniael, who was doing the exact same thing with the sword in her hand.

***

Meanwhile, the strike team from the Eternal Empire of the Asurya was attempting to cut through the doors and were achieving moderate success at the time, as the Biomatter that was in these parts of the Nest was much stronger.

When the Arachnids were building their Nests, they used various types of Biomatter for various purposes.

They use stronger or weaker types of Biomatter for different purposes; for example, if they were building just on upper floors, they would use the weaker Biomatter, and when they were building their defenses, they would use stronger Biomatter.

The bugs could also incorporate various elements into the Biomatter, like the one that was installed in all of the defenses, which made them resistant to the Disintegration of the Power Weapons.

The Brain Bug observed everything that was happening in the Arachnid Nest, albeit it was very hard. With the backslash that it suffered from the Psionic Energy that one of the Asurynai sent its way, the Brain Bug was barely conscious.

Not to mention, its power now was nonexistent, as it was forced to sacrifice all of its Psionic Energy and crippled its Psion Nuclei to remain conscious and in the control of the Bugs that were present.

At least within the central breeding chamber that was located on the lowest floor of the Arachnid Nest, there were still a few hundred bugs remaining. What was the bad news was the fact that only six of them were Praetorian Bugs, and the rest were Worker Bugs, Drone Bugs, and other types of bugs that were not really combat-oriented.

This was a serious problem for the Brain Bug, because now the only option that it had was to escape from the Arachnid Nest. Yet that would be highly improbable because there was only one escape route from the Arachnid Nest, and they were having many complications.

Not to mention escaping from the Nest under these circumstances without the protection detail would be hard. Transporting the Pseudo Queen Bug would be another challenge, but the Brain Bug still decided to go with the escape as there was no other choice.

The Empyrean Power was slowly devouring the entire upper floors of the Arachnid Nest and had already started spreading toward the Middle Floors of the Nest, and the situation was looking very bad.

And the beasts...

Suddenly the Brain Bug released a few incomprehensible screeching sounds as it started commanding the bugs to move its body and that of the Pseudo Queen Bug that was being encased in the biological exoskeletal cocoon.

Suddenly countless Worker Bugs and Drone Bugs started surrounding the Brain Bug that couldn't even move even an inch due to the injuries that it had suffered and also that of the Pseudo Queen Bug, as moving the cocoon took a lot of effort even for the Worker Bugs.

The Praetorian Bugs surrounded the Pseudo Queen Bug from all sides as they were her guardians and the other bugs went on the transportation of the more important bugs.

There were not many people within the entire colony that had the Secondary Clearance and it could be easily filtered out. Aside from the few people, the overall number of people with the Secondary Clearance was no more than five.

Yet if even a single one of them was compromised, it was terrible news for the entire colony.

"I will be taking my strike team and arresting everyone, and it would be for the best if you declared martial law and the emergency situation on the entire colony. We need to capture all of the infected, preferably alive at the time."

Agent Mercury of the Directorate stated that there was a rather long list of people who needed to be arrested and tested for the bug infestation. Fortunately enough, with the new data that were sent by the trio of the Highborne Asuryani youngsters, they could now detect the infested people.

Even with this new method.

Albeit, it was much harder to detect.

This new method that the Arachnids came up with were specifically designed to avoid the detection methods of the High-Level Star Nations and High-Level Civilizations and one could say that it even worked to a splendid degree.

"I have ordered to conduct the screening on the Colonial Defense Forces elite units; soon enough, they would be complete, and we could start the operation."

With just the strike team, it wasn't enough, as a project like this would require the cooperation of the Planetary Defense Forces.

Luckily enough, even the basic Planetary Defense Forces were as disciplined and trained like the trained forces of the Imperial Army so the process of the screening was very fast.

As they were talking, suddenly, the Agent Mercury got an incoming message from the trio of the Asurynai that he sent to the mission into the Arachnid Nest. The more he read from the message, the more satisfied he was because the apocalyptic scenario had passed, it seemed.

"The station has changed Governor-General. The trio of students from the Imperial Phoenix Military Academy that received the Imperial Conscription Order and was sent to the Arachnid Nest carried out the mission perfectly and managed to capture the Brain Bug and destroy the entire Nest."

Such unexpected development meant that they would need to cut open the Brain Bug as the first thing and then trace the Psionic Network of the Brain Bug's brain to the infected people within the colony and get all of them in one go.

"This is really splendid news..."

Once the Brain Bug was transported back to the Ziria, they could trace everyone who was infected by the Arachnids and capture all of them in one go and end the crisis of the entire colony in mere moments.

***

Around half an hours earlier

The entrance to the central chamber of the Arachnid Nest exploded as Arcturus and Jeniuael rushed inside, directly targeting the Praetorian Bugs that were protecting the Pseudo Queen Bug; as they unleased their strongest attacks that they could concentrate in their blades as they killed two Praetorian Bugs.

With two of the Praetorian Bugs killed, the remaining four screeched on them as they attacked two of them, only to be swarmed by the Zehal's nanomachines that started harassing them while Jeniael and Arcuturs immediately stabbed their swords into the heads of the Praetorian Bugs.

Soon enough, all six Praetorian Bugs were killed, and the remaining Worker Bugs and Drone Bugs were of zero importance. Neither of them was practically powerful, and with a single wave of Arcturus's sword, a whole bunch of them disintegrated in one move.

Same with Jenaiel, who was killing them in bunches, and soon enough, they were overwhelmed by their instincts and started running all over the place. Soon enough, the only things that remained were the Brain Bug and the Pseudo Queen Bug.

Neither of them was in a state of resistance.

"It's done."

Arcturus heard Jenaiel say because they had effectively won.

"Yeah, it's done."

Zehal then activated the Deus Technicus and controlled the nanomachines as they started to create a swarm surrounding the Brain Bug that was crippled and the Pseudo Queen Bug and lifting them as they would be taking with them.

The original plan was to kill the Brain Bug and only take its brain, but Zehal wanted to take everything with them.