"Primarch? Pfft!"
"Hahaha! That's a hilarious joke—half a Primarch standing in front of !"
Elena clutched her stomach, laughing uncontrollably.
A Primarch—those were ancient historical figures from ten thousand years ago.
To Elena, the days when the Emperor still walked among n—the Primarchs, the Great Crusade—felt like stories from a mythical age.
Even though the Emperor's Death Angels remained, Holy Terra stood firm, and the great Astronomican continued to guide all of humanity,
she still couldn't believe that the person standing before her was a Primarch—let alone that he claid to be only half a Primarch.
It was like soone saying they were half a human—so what was the other half supposed to be?
Just yesterday, she had perford a genetic test on this guy—he was as purely human as one could be.
Rhodes chuckled at her reaction. From her perspective, what he had just said was indeed quite ridiculous.
It was like soone suddenly claiming, "I am Kuffy, give so at!"—who would believe that the person in front of them was the real Luffy?
But Rhodes was about to use this identity to deceive humanity. The fact that he could control monsters had to remain an absolute secret—or rather, in the future, he could create a false identity specifically for controlling the monsters.
For now, though, his ability as a human to command a monster army had to remain hidden—at least until he was strong enough to ensure his security.
"I'm not lying. My current appearance is just a disguise. If you don't believe , I'll prove it to you." Rhodes looked at the young Hospitaller Sister in front of him and spoke.
"Pfft! Alright then, great 'half-Primarch'—how do you plan to prove it to ?" Elena covered her mouth, looking at Rhodes with amusent.
"Then watch closely, little girl!"
It was ti to activate his monster power enhancent—Rhodes was looking forward to experiencing even one ten-thousandth of Red King's physical capabilities.
Now that the Tyranid swarm had abandoned their assault, Rhodes needed to push Red King to his peak condition and begin implenting his new plan.
Rhodes opened the system shop and imdiately spent over ten thousand system coins to fully upgrade Red King—
3,000 points for height enhancent,
4,000 points for weight enhancent,
4,000 points for another height enhancent.
As for the final 5,000-point height enhancent opportunity, Rhodes decided to save it for later—to keep a last-resort recovery option and allow for so margin of error.
In the outside world, Red King once again radiated a golden glow—evolving further.
Height: 53 ters
Weight: 32,000 tons
"Roar! Roar!"
The Tyranid swarms that had been fleeing from Red King saw the transformation and imdiately increased their distance, trying to get as far away from this predator as possible.
Even now, the Tyranids had not co up with an effective way to deal with Red King—but one thing was certain: they could not allow this behemoth to grow any stronger.
So under the command of the Hive Mind, countless Tyranid creatures were now desperately retreating.
At this point, aside from a minor two-ter height boost he could still apply, Red King had been enhanced to his absolute limit.
Rhodes then activated a free monster power enhancent granted by the system—gaining one ten-thousandth of Red King's physical strength.
An unimaginable power surged through Rhodes' body. He could feel his bones, muscles, organs—every single cell in his body—being reinforced by so mysterious energy.
At this mont, Red King's arm strength alone had reached a terrifying 200,000 tons—a level of monstrous power beyond comprehension.
This, in turn, granted Rhodes 20 tons of arm strength—still an overwhelming force.
Furthermore, with his enhanced physique, Rhodes' body and skin had beco incredibly resilient.
His height shot up from 1.75 ters (5'9") to 1.95 ters (6'5"), and his entire body was now packed with dense, rock-solid muscle.
Additionally, he had gained another of Red King's abilities—[Monster Strength Burst]—which allowed him to temporarily double his strength with no side effects.
Elena stared at the transford Rhodes in utter shock, unable to say a word.
"For certain reasons, I chose to conceal my strength and disguise myself as an ordinary person. But this—this is my true form."
Rhodes clenched his fists, feeling the unparalleled strength coursing through his body.
Right now, his normal arm strength was already 20 tons, aning he could easily lift at least 70 to 100 tons and throw punches with well over 100 tons of force—without even using Monster Strength Burst.
If he did activate it, Rhodes could effortlessly lift 200 tons and throw punches exceeding 200 tons of impact force.
In theory, he could now bare-handedly kill a fully armored Space Marine—
...as long as the Marine didn't use a chainsword, kinetic weapons, or a boltgun against him.
There was still a gap between his abilities and those of a true Primarch, but in ti, he could undergo a second, or even a third or fourth, monster enhancent.
Reaching the physical level of the Emperor himself was not out of the question. As for psychic abilities, he could compensate for that in the future with monsters possessing special abilities.
For now, the only thing separating him from a Primarch was the lack of Warp-based talents.
The origins of the Primarchs had always been a mystery—
Why had the Emperor created exactly twenty of them?
Why had two been erased from history?
Why had half of them turned traitors?
So theories suggested that the Emperor had struck a deal with the four Chaos Gods in the Warp, exchanging sothing for twenty embryonic lesser Warp deities.
Others speculated that the Emperor had outright tricked twenty lesser gods into inhabiting artificially created human bodies.
Still, others believed that the Primarchs were humanity's own naturally born Warp gods—brought into the material world by the Emperor.
After all, the Tau had their Aun'Va, the Eldar had nurous gods, and even the Orks had Gork and Mork. It would be strange for humanity to have none.
Regardless of the truth, one thing was clear:
The creation of the Primarchs was inextricably linked to lesser Warp gods.
That was why Rhodes called himself "half a Primarch"—after all, nobody alive today had ever personally witnessed the true power of a Primarch.
As for the Custodes, Rhodes was confident that his current physical strength surpassed theirs.
The only beings stronger than him were the actual Primarchs and the Emperor himself.
Of course, Rhodes still lacked combat experience—but that could be trained over ti.
And as the saying goes:
"Pure strength overcos all technique."
If technique alone could overco raw power, then the Custodes would have been able to defeat the Primarchs—which they couldn't.
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