Emperor's Bane

Chapter 128 The History of Disappearance

The storm raged, sweeping the sky and the earth.

Like natural disasters falling suddenly, like waves raging, like the most vicious god wantonly ravaging the people who are no longer favored, like the most ruthless judgment burning the arrogant people who have committed crimes one after another.

The pale lady slowly raised the corners of her lips, and the world began to burn.

Long preparations and tens of thousands of souls supported this huge offensive. The huge cost even made Morgan feel a trace of the most sincere heartache, but its effect was also particularly obvious: from the scorching sun to the sunset , when Morgan was preparing his own spells unhurriedly, the Astartes army could barely wipe out about one-twentieth of the fortress colony, and the scream of [Soul Drinker] It completely flattened all opponents.

Tens of thousands of Luna Wolves, Death Guards, and White Scars witnessed this out-of-the-box wave of destruction, witnessed this ingenious The natural disaster of migration precisely avoided every soldier loyal to the human empire, and destroyed those who blocked their way to victory.

Afterwards, those who reacted first turned their gazes to the silver-haired lady who seemed to be able to handle things with ease. Their gazes were mixed with the instinctive respect and fear for powerful people, and there was only a little firmness in their gazes. Under such circumstances, the observers will maintain a calm attitude: for example, Yesugai, who is in charge of temporarily commanding the Fifth Army, observed the storm caused by Morgan with a very calm attitude, even more than Speaking of this appalling storm, he was actually more curious about the first company commander of the Death Guard Legion who was obviously in a state of unease beside him.

And all of these, whether it comes from the awe, fear, or jealousy of these angels of death, or even the rarest hatred and prejudice, Morgan doesn't care, because she knows very well that in the long time to come, these emotions will not matter. It can't have too much influence on her, and she doesn't care what attitude the soldiers of these legions will have towards her.

The silver-haired Ms. Spider is a complete interest supremacist. Even if she can feel some emotions slowly growing in her heart, it can't stop her from judging everything in the world from the most utilitarian and calmest point of view. Things, apart from some bottom lines engraved in her heart and genes by her Creator, short-term interests and long-term interests are the most important basis for her to make any choice.

On the other hand, Morgan also felt almost instinctively that looking at things from a cold perspective is the wisest choice. As for those so-called nobility, she doesn't think that these things that only exist in legends can really Anything that changes the world.

At least so far, although she has indeed encountered some rather tenacious enemies or resisters, some of the characteristics that shine on them are indeed in line with her cognition, those qualities that can be called noble , such as courage, loyalty and consciousness, but this does not prevent these people from eventually being wiped out in front of her or the army of the empire.

Noble didn't save them.

Noble didn't even get her to remember their names.

Because of this, Morgan insists on viewing and measuring everything in this world with calm and ruthless eyes, because the facts she has experienced have continuously proved that this is the most effective.

But even so, Morgan is also very clear that there are some things that she must never violate. For example, even this extremely vicious spider lady is also yearning from the bottom of her heart, that all races except humans will be in the same place. Howling in endless purgatory.

Of course, it would be great if at the same time, their souls could also howl in her stomach.

Alien doesn't deserve anything but this ending.

Such thoughts circulated in Morgan's mind again, and even the golden giant sword that hadn't made any sound for a long time was buzzing, as if echoing her thoughts.

Morgan closed her eyes and fell into a state of meditation. Her ears caught the shouts of those Astartes warriors, as well as the orders to assemble and transfer troops. Obviously, the battlefield has entered the cleaning stage. These came from three Soldiers of a legion are busy with these tasks, but that has nothing to do with Morgan.

Compared to these, Morgan cares more about the thing he cares about.

She is eager to end everything about the Druen sector as soon as possible, end this war, return to the First Legion, return to the front line of the war with Ran Dan, and return to the side of the Emperor's executioner.

There was still a big meal waiting for her.

Now, she has accomplished the part she was responsible for in this war, and now, before the complete end of this war, there is only the final beheading action by the three Primarchs.

Hope they don't waste too much time.

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It's true that Horus didn't waste too much time, but that doesn't mean the operation was a smooth one.

The ruler of Druen is a huge alien shape like a mountain. It is entrenched in an underground ancient fortress thousands of meters above the ground. It has been integrated with this indestructible building. This bloated body has tens of thousands of The blasphemous monsters of tentacles and derivatives did not hesitate to drain the souls of the same kind around them even at the moment before the war started, and its power swelled to a level that was enough to temporarily suppress the three primarchs joining forces.

Just to let Horus and others get close to this monster, the storm prophets who participated in the operation were out of ten, and when the Primarchs were really close to the culprit that caused the disaster of a star area, such a blasphemy The monster spit out a ruthless whirlwind from its hundreds of mouthparts, and this whirlwind is mixed with the most profane and craziest taboo witchcraft that will not be recorded in any book.

Mortarion and Horus, who rushed to the front, were unable to use their full agility due to the huge spiritual pressure. They were hit, temporarily lost their strength, and collapsed to the ground, unable to fight in this battle. make their own contribution.

And just when the Druen monster was complacent because of his victory, the last storm prophet present pierced his heart with a psionic sharp blade without hesitation, and his soul exploded, thus temporarily dispelling The huge psionic position set by the alien monster.

And grasping the brief moment brought by the noble sacrifice, the Primarch of the Fifth Legion, like a thunderbolt on a midsummer night, cut off the huge head of the blasphemous monster with his own sharp blade, and the shrill sound suddenly sounded, The evil thing came crashing down.

Black blood dripped from the curved blade of the Lord of the Ice Blue Sky, dripping on the pure white armor of his sacrificed son.

The battle is over.

It lasted less than 10 minutes, but killed Jaghatai Khan's bravest and wisest fighters.

Among them are people from Taila and people from Chogoris, among them are the fighters who stick to the ancient path of the legion that Chagatai deliberately alienated, and there are also the closest companions brought by Khan from the grasslands of his hometown, but now, they all With the same identity, he stayed forever in this barren and nameless world.

And when such victories were passed back to the three legions, no one was surprised. Only those soldiers who had friendship with the deceased would mourn briefly in their rooms and engrave their names On the inside of their shoulders, in the future, they will fight in the name of these dead comrades.

After all, in the Great Crusade.

An opponent like this is scattered like dust.

There are countless sacrifices like this.

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Mortarion was badly wounded, so bad that he needed extra rest and treatment.

Regardless of whether the Lord of the No.14 Legion was voluntary or not, he did help his two blood brothers resist most of the injuries in the battle, and used his innate talent to fight against those who could destroy the company and even the army. More than half of the Legion's psychic wave of glory, Jaghatai Khan's blade, belonged to Mortarion.

But the two Primarchs tacitly did not mention this matter. The Lord of the Ice-Blue Sky Vault never cared about these things, and the current Mortarion never bothered to compete with his brother for glory, even if it involved his efforts.

And when Mortarion went to rest for a while, Horus and Jaghatai Khan were the only ones sharing some emotions about this battle.

【Perhaps I should mobilize the Second Legion to participate in this battle. They always have some novel means or methods when fighting against these evil species. 】

Horus sighed softly, his warm and radiant voice like the sun is now mixed with some vicissitudes after the bloody battle. In front of his thorough-minded blood brother, Horus did not choose hide something.

Jaghatai Khan didn't answer his brother immediately, he just quietly watched his sons being carried away by their fighting brothers one by one, watching them gradually disappear at the end of his vision, this Joe The Great Khan of Goris used his pupils and silence to hold the shortest funeral for these victims. Afterwards, he slowly turned his gaze, and after a period of silence and thinking, he turned to his brother. issued his own doubts.

"You often mention to me the Second Legion that is still fighting under your command, Horus."

"I even feel a little regretful. If those fighters hadn't been replenished with new blood in the southern part of the galaxy, I might be able to meet them and see what the best auxiliary legion you say is like."

"After all, for any Astartes Legion, the title of Auxiliary Legion is not very popular."

[They are an exception, my brother Goshawk, if there is any one of the twenty legions that doesn't care so much about honor, I think only the second legion and the No.20 legion meet this point. 】

"What about those dark angels?"

Horus chuckled, and when he mentioned the First Legion, a gleam of admiration flickered across his pupils, the rarest.

[Even I have to admit, Chagatai, for a very long period of time in the early days of the Great Expedition, the First Legion was the undisputed leader among many legions, and how could such a legion not care about honor, honor It has long been a part of their history and even their soul, but their pursuit of honor has turned into a deep-rooted and natural arrogance, so it doesn't seem so conspicuous. 】

[As for my brother Zhuang Sen, he doesn't understand this point, or rather, he doesn't bother to understand it, and he will suffer for it sooner or later. 】

Khan chuckled, and he spoke in a somewhat sarcastic and teasing tone.

"Horus, you at this moment remind me of the Emperor, and the mask the Emperor wears."

[Stop joking, my brother, when did our father wear a mask. 】

"You should say when he took off his mask, Horus."

Khan's sarcasm was straightforward, and he didn't hide his personal attitude towards the Terran lord of mankind, while Horus just smiled lightly, without any further thought.

The God of Shepherd knew from the very beginning how his brother rejected his father, and he expressed his understanding of this, and even had a hint of secret joy in his heart.

There are enough brothers who are eager to compete with him for his father's vision and favor. Although he regards all brothers as his true blood relatives in his heart, it is always a good thing to have one or two less competitors.

Horus couldn't restrain such thoughts from forming in his mind, it seemed to be an innate instinct, even though he would deal with these dark thoughts in his heart during self-examination when no one was in private. And genuinely ashamed, but he just couldn't hold them back.

"Okay, my brother, although I can't see them yet, I think you can tell me why you care so much about those soldiers of the Second Legion."

Facing Chaghatai's question, Horus just kept his sincere smile, opened his mouth softly, and some mysterious historical fragments unknown to ordinary people came to him at his fingertips.

[At a certain point in the Holy Terra unification war, before the vast majority of the twenty legions were actually put on the battlefield, the First Legion had already demonstrated its strength on the battlefield. 】

[Our father was very satisfied with the performance of the First Legion at that time. He tried to select those who were good enough from other legions to make them all-rounders similar to the First Legion. 】

"I thought, he failed in the end?"

[Yes, it turns out that there is only one First Legion, and their success cannot be replicated. 】

[The Second Legion established after the First Group is the product of this failed experiment. They have indeed become all-rounders, but they are not as versatile as the First Legion. 】

[At the same time, it is rumored that the Second Army fought side by side with the First Army when it first entered the battlefield. 】

[For a long time, their task was to serve as the deputy of the First Legion, which made them used to this position, and they were able to skillfully match various tactical styles. After all, we all know that the former The First Legion is the template for many legions, and the Second Legion, which can cooperate with it for a long time, can naturally become the best partner for everyone. 】

"But the Second Legion has fallen into some kind of division, they can't exert their full strength, can't they?"

[That's right, my brother, it is said that the fully assembled Second Army will also be a formidable force. They are not a group of pure supporters, and their unique fighting style allows them to End a battle even at the legion level within the time limit. 】

[I have tried to find information related to this tactic, but unfortunately, they have not appeared for a long time, and the most recent one dates back to the Unification War of Terra. 】

"Oh? Which battle."

[A battle that I even doubt that it ever happened. 】

When he said this, Cha Hetai keenly noticed some special light in his brother's eyes.

That is a kind of...

escape?

fear?

Suspect?
Still shocked?

Or is it both?
All the judgments were meaningless, because soon, the God of Wolf Shepherd suppressed all these emotions, and he smiled, it was an impeccable smile.

[A battle in which the Imperial Army, the First Legion, and the Second Legion all participated, the last battle of the Unification War...]

Horus walked out of the ruined fortress. He looked up at the gray sky and sighed.

[A battle that I hope... is just a rumor and never happened. 】

(End of this chapter)