Warhammer Inquisitor

Chapter 328 The Rise of the Primarch: God of War

People always say that where there is light, there is shadow. The brighter the light, the darker the place. This sentence is often not wrong. As far as Bell's more than [-] years of service experience has been in the battle group to the present, it is often true. The most beautiful and prosperous places have mirror-like opposites.

The more prosperous, the more the mirror surface decays, and the more holy the other side is, the more corrupt it is. This can be applied to almost all empires in the empire, especially the most prosperous hive cities. The upper nest aristocratic metropolitan area, and the middle nest, which is good or bad, barely survives, is the mirror image of all that prosperity.
All the abominations lurk in the lowlair, the terrifying xenos parasitic colonies, the mad and rampant Lowlive gangs and the savage mutant hordes, not to mention those roaming the darkness of the Emperor's Light, hiding in all the shadows The brutal Chaos Cultists.

They are almost an absurd mirror image of the bustling city above, drawn from the most terrifying, terrifying and unimaginable dark abyss that some postmodern dystopian writer has ever written about, into which no normal person would ever want to escape and step into. Crazy place, twisted place.

Bell knew that all the imperial cities had similar places below the hives, the only difference being the level of chaos and the difference between the sojourners, but he could never have imagined it, nor dared to think that there was such a thing in the underground of the Emperor's Palace. The place.

Bell walked in the dark underground tunnel, which seemed to be some kind of eerie dark temple buried deep in the ground, and everything around was shrouded in a disturbing eerie darkness. There are countless stone pillars and sword-wielding statues around the lightless underground palace.

Those statues are like sealed giant soldiers. They stand between stone pillars with weapons. Their swords and the stone pillars on their sides are engraved with prayer scriptures, and the runes that surround them. The text on the scroll is like a magic spell, something is sealed here, something that should never see the sun again.

Bell walked vigilantly and uneasy in this deep tunnel. He followed behind Vito. In front of him, Vito, who was wearing the Emperor's golden armor, walked at the head of the team. The halo projected light around like a beacon, illuminating the ominous darkness like ink on both sides of the road.

Bell looked at the halo, and the halo seemed to be the light of a star torch. Speaking of which, the logic really made sense. Where there is light, there is shadow, and in this universe of the Milky Way, there is no place more than the palace. What about bright places?This is the seat of the Golden Throne, the seat of the torch that illuminates the dark universe, the seat of the Emperor's throne.

Naturally, beneath it lies the darkest place in the universe, a dark place that no one wants to step into, not even the Golden Armored Guards are willing to step into it.

Trajan held the lightning axe subconsciously, and the squads of the forbidden army around him were holding their own weapons and surrounding Vito. They were wearing golden advanced power armor. It should be said that this There should be few things in the universe that could threaten them, but here, in this dark place, all the Custodians clenched their weapons.

Bell looked at the Imperial Guards. He saw that the blades of the power halberds were flashing with blue lightning. Those pulsating arcs were constantly illuminating the surroundings, accompanying the advance of the Imperial Guards like torches. Light up the darkness on both sides of the road.

But this is of no use at all, just like the lanterns held by the statues placed on both sides of the surrounding, the statue guards standing on both sides of the road wearing hoods stretched out a hand from under their robes, and the hanging lanterns It hung down in front of them with thick black iron chains, illuminating the hall with dim light.

Those lanterns burning with flames, those lanterns that were supposed to illuminate the dark space, are like swaying candles in the dark, the faint flames can't illuminate the deep darkness here, all the light only needs to leave the iron cover of the lantern a few steps away. Far away, it will be swallowed up by the darkness and disappear into the misty space.

Bell was walking among the guards, and he and Eisenstein followed Vito. Logically speaking, there was nothing to worry about in the palace, but Captain Eisenstein beside him was almost instinctive. An old warrior instinctively pressed his hand to the hilt of the chainsaw sword on his waist.

It's very quiet here, so quiet that it feels creepy. Bell can even hear the heartbeat in his power armor. He looks around at the silent warriors around him. All of them stare at the surrounding dark space without a word. The sound of breathing reverberated in the air.

Puchi, Puchi, the heavy breathing of the giants is particularly loud here, as if a giant beast is breathing, but if there is really any monster here, then this monster is also hidden in the surrounding darkness. In the shadows spy on the visitors who enter here.

After hesitating for a while, Bell gathered up his courage and walked up. He approached Vito and asked the Marshal in a low voice, "Sir, what is this place? Is this really the palace?"

"Haha, it's so bad here, right? At least the emperor's local gold aesthetic decoration is gone, and it won't blind my eyes." Vito said with a smile, his eyes scanning the darkness on both sides.

"Although it has changed from glittering gold, it has become invisible to the five fingers."

"But where is this place? Is this the Royal Palace?" Bell asked in a low voice, but his voice was full of awe. He looked at the lantern statue that slid past him, and the lantern hanging from the chain. The dim light shone on the statue's face, illuminating the invisible face under the hood.

Bell looked at the face of the statue, and when the face appeared in front of him in an instant, Bell felt a sudden chill all over his body, not because the face of the statue was terrible, on the contrary, the face was quite ordinary, calm and peaceful. , but it was too calm, and there was not even the slightest emotion that people could feel, as if it was made of this darkness.

"Shadow Prison, the full name is Shadow Prison, but you can treat this as a dark dungeon under the palace." Vito said, looking around the darkness, he walked in front of the crowd, using the back of his own head to burn A golden halo illuminates the dark road.

"Dungeon? Your lord, you said dungeon, but it's underground in the palace? What's locked here?" Bell asked in surprise, Eisenstein behind him also looked over, not only him, but also Trajan and the surrounding imperial guards. Out of the corner of the eye, he looked over, at Bell, and at Vito.

They all looked at Vito, who turned his head slightly and glanced at Bell with the icy expression of the statues around him, and that look made Bell cool all the way from the tip of his spine to his neck.

"You don't want to know, Bell, you don't want to know at all." Vito said and turned his head, he continued walking on this dark road, the surrounding environment suddenly became dead again, Bell kept After a long silence, he spoke slowly.

"Then where are we going? My lord."

"The prison door, the prison door guarded by the dungeon guards here."

"The door? Here? There are guards? Is it the Imperial Army?"

"Well, you can say that, but they won't let you like it. The things guarded by the Imperial Army are not very popular. You will be fine soon, not very soon, you can already see them."

Vito raised his head slightly towards the front. Bell raised his head and looked at the things in front of the team. After stunned for a while, he almost subconsciously stood in the middle of the road. He looked up at the giant black door in front of him.

It was a completely dark steel gate, completely opposite to the golden gates in the palace. It didn’t have the slightest sense of sacredness and beauty. It was on the other side of the mirror like everything here. It was a terrifying gate. A cold and dreaded prison door.

Bell looked at the countless carvings on it. They were gloomy rune signs. All the scriptures were arranged and extended along the ravines on it, just like a magic circle. It's a skull, all of which are deeply embedded with white bones.

It was a terrifying scene. The gate was full of screaming skeletons. They scrambled to stick their hands out of the gate, but they seemed to be caught by something. The terrifying thing was dragged back into the dark door little by little, just like sailors who were escaping in a dark ocean, stretching out their thousands of hands to the dark sea.

Bell looked at the skulls on the door, he swallowed and looked at the screaming bones, he didn't know what they were trying to escape, but Vito was right, he didn't want to know, didn't want to know at all .

Bell lowered his head and saw the guards Vito said, and after he was stunned for a second when he saw them, Vito was right, those guards were like this gate, just like everything here, so frightening, let One feels a sense of unease originating from the depths of the soul.

Those underground Custodian guards stood in front of the gate, armed with lightning halberds and dressed in pitch-black armor with pale skulls branded. They stood silently at the grand gate, just like the surrounding Standing in front of that door as icy as a statue, there is not even the slightest temperature, so that you wonder if there is really a person under the armor.

Bell looked at them, then turned his head slightly and widened his eyes. His eyes stared hugely at the things on both sides. There were different doors around the huge black door in front of them. The carvings are all different, but they all share a feeling of genuine terror.

Bell stared at the other giant door on the side of the towering wall in front of him, on which was carved a giant dragon, a ghastly dragon of steel, coiled around the door, holding his grip on the door. Above the stars, they were nailed to the door like a dragon of doom that devoured everything.

It was indeed nailed to the door. There was a long spear in the center of the door. One directly penetrated the chest of the steel dragon and nailed the dragon to the door. The dragon who was dying here Shaking its long head and roaring, its entire body was carved three-dimensionally from the surface of the door, as if it really lived there.

"Bell." Eisenstein shouted from the front, and Bell turned his attention away from those gates. He looked at Vito and his party who had already reached the gate, the Golden Armored Guard and Love Sunstein was standing behind him, meeting the shadow guards with him.

The guards in front of the black gate saw Vito, and after the latter stood still, they all knelt down in front of Vito, but they still had a black and gloomy halberd in their hands, as if they were ready to attack at any time. It's like fighting against something indescribable.

Bell returned to Vito from behind, and the latter raised his head slightly and looked at the shadow guards in front of him, "Get up and open this door."

The Shadow Guard headed by kneeling in front of Vito raised his head slightly. He did not look directly at Vito, but looked at Trajan for permission. After the latter nodded in approval, the Shadow Guard stood up, and he turned around in silence. back to his brothers.

All the dungeon guards stood in front of the gate. They didn't say a word the whole time, and almost at the same time they started to raise their halberds and hit the ground with the steel end. The neat knocks seemed to have a pattern, a rhythm. The sense of regularity hit the dark floor like that, clang clang, clang clang, hit again and again.

Bell listened to the impact, the sound seemed to have a unique sense of rhythm, as if it were a melody, like an unnamed gloomy accompaniment, but suddenly the accompaniment stopped abruptly, as the shadow guards suddenly all stopped. The halberd in his lower hand immediately slammed into the ground and stopped.

With the collision of the shadow guards, the impact point of a halberd on the ground instantly lit up, and the strands of light extended from the end of the halberd, extending from the ground all the way up to them. On both sides of the door behind.

The light path climbed up the doorpost like snakes, and all the runes on their way lit up, and those runes flashed dim light all over the gate. When it lights up, those complex runes quickly spread and light up along the facade, just like the previous impact with a unique pattern.

Bell looked up at the runes that were gradually lit up. As the winged eagle logo surrounded by countless bones in the center lit up, all the runes on the entire gate flashed without exception. Bell carefully observed that. Only the eagle, that eagle is very different from that of the empire.

That's because the eagle has only one head, and is holding a planet in its claws, a Terra?Bell immediately recognized the appearance of the planet. It was not Terra now, but Terra a long, long time ago, before the Age of Disputes and the nuclear war, the living Terra.

In Bell's surprise, the door slowly opened. The black giant door cracked from the center and opened slowly. With the sound of heavy mechanical operation, the giant door slowly opened in the rumbling. Both Bell and Eisenstein looked at a crack that gradually expanded in the center, and the crack soon reached the point where one person could pass through.

When the fissure opened, Vito walked up. He walked in the direction of the fissure alone in silence. Bell was about to follow but was stopped by Trajan beside him. Bell looked at him in surprise. Trajan beside him, the latter looked at Vito who was walking towards the rift and shook his head.

"There are things in there that only the marshal can face, and only he can enter."

Trajan said, Bell did not refute, he knew that what Trajan said was true, he just stood there watching Vito walking through the shadow guards, he made way from both sides The shadow guard walked over and strode into the dark crack.

Soon, just like everything here, Vito disappeared inside the door, the halo behind his head was instantly engulfed by the darkness in the dark space, and he himself disappeared in the deepest darkness, completely disappeared. .

The shadow guard gate looked at Trajan. After the latter nodded slightly to them, the guards once again raised their halberds and hit the ground at the same time. The gate slowly closed in the neat sound of the crash. The crack that opened was completely closed and then closed again.

"What are you doing?" Bell asked Trajan in surprise, who looked at the door and raised his head slightly. He placed his battle axe on the ground and held the face of the axe with one hand. the upper side, and fix it on your side.

"When the marshal settles everything, the door will open again by itself."

"Then what are we going to do now?"

"Wait, we can only wait here for the return of the marshal."

Bell looked at the door and was silent for a moment. Eisenstein came up behind him. He pressed the hilt of the chainsaw sword on his waist and looked at the dark door, "How long will it take?"

Trajan was also silent, his fingers tightly gripping the surface of the battle axe, and the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army looked at the door in front of him, "Pray to the Emperor, and may he bless him."

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Vito walked into the dark corridor. He heard the door closing behind him, but he was not at all disturbed by the closing of the door. He continued on without even turning back.

He walked in the dark corridor, the burning halo behind his head illuminated the dark steel walls around him, Vito soon walked along the corridor to a terminal, he stood in front of the terminal and looked at the person in front of him. After the screen was silent for a moment, Helen's CD was taken out from the pouch at the waist.

Vito put Helen's CD on the terminal, and soon Helen's image appeared on the CD after flashing, and the little blue artificial intelligence girl looked at the golden giant in front of her.

"Sir." Helen said softly, Vito looked at her and nodded slightly, "Activate the lighting and power system here to make this place light up." "As ordered, sir."

Helen closed her eyes, and the screen of the terminal under her feet lit up immediately. Countless icons and code arrays began to flash rapidly on the screen that had just been silent. The entire terminal began to operate rapidly, and the mechanical click sounded. The silent corridor was constantly echoed and amplified.

Vito turned around and walked to the other side of the corridor at this time. He stood in front of the huge French window on the side of the corridor. It was a glass window that completely cut off an entire section of the steel wall, and it took up a considerable area of ​​the wall by itself.

Vito looked at the glass window, everything behind was shrouded in darkness, the halo behind his head shone a dim light on the glass, but only his own face could be reflected, Vito looked at himself His eyes were silent, because he knew that everything would change soon.

Suddenly, the lights in the corridor lit up, and the lights above Vito's head lit up with a bang. The light instantly filled the corridor that was still in the dark, and the lights quickly started to move forward along the long corridor. Extending and opening, the lights run towards the end of the darkness like dominoes.

Vito didn't look at the lights in the hallway, he continued to look out the window at the darkness, where the lights were also on, brighter spotlights, the pale lights pierced through the darkness instantly. Shining on the shoulders of the steel body, the pale light reflected a little sheen on the reflective armor.

It was a robot, a battle robot standing in the hall under the huge glass window in front of Vito. There were more robots around the robot holding an unknown firearm in both hands. Vito looked at the spotlights. Lights up in the hall, and as the lights turn on, more robots appear under the lights.

Vito overlooked those battle robots, those iron men called Iron Man, they densely covered the entire hall and stood like a parade, and at the end of their line were several huge multi-legged giants. Mecha, they stood among the densely packed Iron Man infantry, standing under the pale spotlight.

Vito looked forward. He looked at the huge iron man army that could not see the end at all. They extended towards the tall iron wall at the far end. Under the palace, there was an iron man army buried deep.

Vito looked at the iron wall at the end, at the end of the iron wall where countless kinds of war machines stood, and on that tall wall was branded a soaring eagle, one holding Terra or renamed the planet Earth. The Astral Eagle, but the Golden Age text beneath it has been smeared out and replaced by a line of high Gothic.

"Tera - Final High Wall Defense Project - The Last Iron Guard."

(End of this chapter)