Chapter 124: Not Blowing Up, But Cooking the Planet!

The Empire had multiple ways to execute Exterminatus.

One was orbital bombardment, using the Imperial Navy's conventional firepower to cover the surface.

This type of strike could adjust its power and precisely hit every corner.

But this method of extermination required a massive fleet.

Besides carpet bombing by massive fleets, there were also special weapons to use.

First, virus bombs. The use of this weapon released a special virus called the Life-eater, genetically designed to rapidly spread and destroy the cellular structure of all organic life it infected. All life on the planet, including animals and plants, would be converted into indistinguishable organic sludge and a byproduct composed of biochemical substances and organic gases.

Next, one simply needed to ignite this gas, turning the entire atmosphere into a flaming prison, further subjecting the planet to scorching torture and killing any life that might still survive.

Second, cyclonic torpedoes, which came in various models of mass destructive weapons.

One type ignited all free oxygen in the atmosphere through thermonuclear reaction, burning the planet's atmosphere into a vacuum. The oceans would also be completely evaporated, leaving only the barren bedrock of an extinct world.

To put it simply, it was a planet-level incendiary bomb.

Finally, the entire ground would be burned until vitrified, appearing from space like burning amber.

This burning naturally exceeded that of virus bombs—the subsequent burning after virus deployment wouldn't turn the planet into a glass sphere.

There were also special thermolite torpedoes that directly penetrated the crust and mantle, directly affecting the core and blowing up the planet.

Besides the above, there were other methods.

Currently, Ejie couldn't determine exactly which type he was witnessing.

He only saw the dead sea still glowing, still evaporating. Like thermite burning continuously underwater, evaporating liquid.

Other than this, there were no other anomalies.

Wait, could this be trying to cook this planet?

Using this method to kill all life forms on the entire planet, steaming and cooking until all flesh rotted?

He also saw that besides the dead sea's obvious steam eruption, other surface areas were beginning to seep vapor.

However, just this level of power couldn't completely clear biological life from the surface.

Perhaps most humans would be cooked and boiled to mush, but how could some special Tyranid individuals be so easily steamed and cooked?

No wait, he had nearly removed the hive nest now.

In that case, this was an attack targeting daemons that had invaded reality.

To clear out daemons, they would disregard all costs and cook and boil all humans on the entire planet?

But to truly cook daemons until they lost mobility, one hundred degrees certainly wouldn't be enough.

To continuously raise water vapor temperature also required sufficient atmospheric pressure.

Hmm?

A window that suddenly popped up on the ship made Ejie's pupils contract at the information.

The ship was being affected by this planet's gravity, which was gradually increasing.

This planet's gravity was intensifying.

If so, as the planet's gravity increased, the atmospheric air density would also change accordingly.

This way, water vapor's power could be further enhanced.

This really was going to cook and boil the creatures on this planet.

Of course, increased gravity would also burden the organisms themselves.

If it reached a certain level, it could crush people into meat paste.

Thus, that special warhead just now not only released high temperature but also caused changes to the planetary core.

Then, this planet's rotation speed was also affected by this, changing and accelerating.

Although the current acceleration wouldn't produce huge changes in the short term, if this level of acceleration continued, the planet's surface would be deformed beyond recognition within a day.

"Are you executing Exterminatus? Didn't you detect that the hive nest is gone?"

A voice with suppressed anger came from the communicator in Ejie's hand—the voice of the Salamanders squad captain.

Upon discovering this situation, the captain had immediately tried to contact another Astartes unit, only now getting through.

"We are executing Exterminatus. We did immediately discover the hive nest's destruction."

"Then why still execute Exterminatus? Do you know how many people you're killing?"

Not waiting for the other side to finish, the Salamanders captain roared another question, resulting in silence from the other end.

After several seconds of silence—

"Sorry, what exactly is the situation?"

Obviously the captain had calmed down somewhat.

"Are you calm now?"

"Speak."

"See for yourself."

See what?

Surely they had transmitted some intelligence to the Salamanders captain.

Hmm.

Ejie also saw that his side had received intelligence. Obviously it couldn't have been sent to him by the Deathwatch, but Captain Airet had also forwarded a copy to him.

This was intelligence about that warp rift.

The general situation was that they had discovered traitor Night Lords causing trouble, using some device to expand the rift.

According to calculations, if it couldn't be quickly destroyed, this massive warp rift would rapidly expand.

How large the scale would be was unclear, but tearing apart this star system was no problem.

So they feared another appearance of a great warp rift that could tear through the galaxy.

Of course, the tear probably wouldn't reach the level of splitting the galaxy again. But another obvious gap between real space and the warp, another small Eye of Terror, would still be quite ominous.

Who knew—this might become the final straw that broke the Empire's back.

For this, using Exterminatus wasn't excessive at all.

The weapon used for extermination was indeed a type of cyclonic torpedo.

Part of it heated the planet's moisture, while part went deep into the core, changing the planet's gravity to cook the planetary surface.

The reason destructive weapons couldn't be used was that the energy from destruction might be absorbed and utilized—they might fail to destroy this rift and instead help it along.

So to assault here, they also couldn't directly bring warships into the atmosphere for forced entry.

Because warships themselves possessed great energy and power, plus considerable ammunition. If they entered, the mortal soldiers inside might be corrupted by daemons and turn against them—a real headache.

The current goal was to cook the surface daemons, reducing over ninety-nine percent of daemons, so the Deathwatch forces could conveniently kill their way in directly.

Otherwise, this tide-like daemon army would seriously impede their progress.

Now, the Deathwatch was about to launch a second cyclonic torpedo to accelerate the planet's cooking.

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