Chapter 313: Burrowing Worms
“All the demonstrations are done; now it’s time for us to reveal our trump card.”
Across the battlefronts, the situation was either balanced or disadvantageous, with no advantage to be seen anywhere. If this continued, the second wave of war launched by the Swarm would likely end in another anticlimactic failure.
Faced with various unfavorable circumstances, Sarah Kerrigan, as the supreme commander, remained calm—she had her own confidence to rely on.
On Planet Raze, due to the insufficient number of laser defense arrays, several land-based cannons were destroyed. However, all the destroyed cannons were outside the protective range of the laser arrays. With their destruction, the remaining laser arrays were now sufficient to guard all remaining land-based cannons.
Thus, in the final few rounds of bombardment from the Primordial bodies, the loss of land-based cannons was minimal. Later, the emergence of orbital defense cannons successfully diverted the Swarm’s long-range firepower.
Under such interference-free conditions, the land-based cannons freely unleashed energy beams, firing to their heart’s content.
But when Sarah gave her command, the Swarm forces hidden deep underground on Planet Raze, quietly developing for more than a decade, finally revealed their claws.
Years ago, the Riken’s land-based cannon bases, totaling over thirty locations, had turned into patches of purple on the map after being attacked by the Swarm. After trying numerous methods without success, the Rikens were forced to resort to nuclear strikes.
The tremendous power of the new nuclear bombs vaporized the bases and the Swarm units within them, along with several kilometers of the subsurface area, leaving behind semi-spherical craters.