Warhammer 40k: Melee Warriors

"You ant! You crippled piece of trash!" The Myriad Transformations Demon Lord roared at Gu Jian, slapping him hard and knocking off his helmet.

Looking at Komi's face, the Demon Lord of a Thousand Changes made the same decision as Shaka: to torture Komi to the end of time using the cruelest method he knew.

Koji was slapped so hard his eyes were seeing stars. He cursed at the Myriad Transformations Demon Lord, then spat a mouthful of highly corrosive saliva into one of the Demon Lord's eyes with a forceful spat.

A decisive blow! A critical hit!

The stronger corrosiveness was unbearable for the Myriad Transformations Demon Lord. Unlike Shaka, he did not have the ability to turn pain into pleasure. The pain of each corrosive attack was so clear.

The Demon Lord released Komi and covered his eyes.

The enormous body crashed around uncontrollably on the tarmac. Komi jumped onto its back and took a hard bite into its slender neck.

With a tearing motion of its teeth, it swallowed a piece of feathered, blood-stained meat.

Like chicken that hasn't been bled or processed, it has a strong, fishy smell.

The dog, watching Komi devour the Demon Lord's neck, covered its eyes with its paws in terror, unable to watch any longer. Its tongue, which Komi had described as tasting like bitter coffee, throbbed slightly...

Chapter 126: From then on, everything tasted delicious.

The feathers weren't as soft as they looked; they were at least much harder than the Space Marines' reinforced teeth.

Komi frantically bit and rubbed, triggering his critical hit passive amidst the sound of his teeth shattering.

The efficiency of stacking teeth seemed to be much faster than punching with both fists. At least Gu Jian felt that every time he stretched his neck back, he could tear a large chunk of flesh off this ever-changing demon lord.

Forget about spitting it out, it could only swallow it whole. Its stomach, which had always been filled with nutritional porridge and ceramic powder, had never been treated like this before. The organs of an ordinary being were simply unable to digest the flesh and blood of the great demon that contained terrifying knowledge, and could only wait for it to dissipate on its own.

The Myriad Transformations Demon Lord screamed and struggled under Komi's tearing bites, and this sound, which made Khorne very happy, entered His ears.

The arena in front of him was not as interesting as the sound, so Khorne immediately shifted his gaze and looked in the direction of the sound.

He chuckled at the disheveled appearance of the Myriad Transformations Demon Lord, but his eyes showed surprise when he saw that it was Gu Jian lying on his back.

Ah... a mere World Eater warrior... has caught my attention twice in such a short time.

Does he actually have the courage and ability to harm a Demon Lord of Ten Thousand Transformations?

This situation is quite rare.

Oh! He's even missing an arm... Let me see what happened. Did this ever-changing demon lord use some trickery?

Hmm? It smells like Slaanesh? Could it be that this kid went off to cause trouble for Slaanesh again?

Following the scent of blood, Khorne found the Slaanesh palace that had been burned down by the Demon Lord of a Thousand Faces, and Shaka was already a charred, foul-smelling corpse.

"We fought the Keeper of the Secret first, then the Demon Lord of a Thousand Faces!" Khorne deduced this from the battle's traces.

Tsk tsk tsk... What an intense fighting spirit! What an arrogant hunting ambition!

With just a few scoundrels by his side and his tattered, outdated equipment, he dared to provoke such a formidable opponent...

That's incredibly bold! I admire it! Keep it up!

Khorne couldn't help but look at Komi with newfound respect, after all, He had only cast Komi's name in brass, but had never given him any direct favor.

In His view, Komi accomplished these impossible things purely through his own power.

Khorne was even more pleased with this, and with a wave of his hand, he pulled the sword blank engraved with Markus's name a few inches higher, allowing it to be roasted by the scorching blood energy. This also signified that Komi had officially become a member of Khorne's daily must-sweep list.

With each bite Komi made, the broken teeth that flowed out of his mouth along with blood made Khorne's gaze toward him grow brighter and brighter.

Finally, He laughed eight times and with a wave of His hand bestowed His special blessing upon this fierce warrior who never prayed to Him for strength.

Flesh-devouring beast!

I will grant you an insatiable appetite and teeth as strong as iron! Anything that has blood can be torn apart by your teeth, and nothing can stop you from drinking their blood!

After doing all this, Khorne recorded the scene of Komi tearing apart the Demon Lord of Change and ordered his Blood Messenger to send this interesting scene to Tzeentch himself.

He wouldn't miss any opportunity to humiliate Tzeentch...

Komi has not yet realized that these powers are bestowed upon him; perhaps Khorne's blessing will not arrive for another eight days.

He felt that he had already bitten the bone in the neck of the Myriad Transformations Demon Lord, and that breaking his neck would only take a little more effort and time.

In this most urgent situation, the Demon Lord of Myriad Changes cried out, "Wait! Wait! I know your curse! I know how to break it! If you kill me, you will get nothing!"

That shout did bring Gu Jian back to some clarity. With a piece of bone from the Myriad Transformations Demon Lord's neck still in his mouth, he mumbled, "How do I undo this?"

"Bone and Blood Forest! The key to lifting your curse lies with the lumberjacks of the Bone and Blood Forest! Their axes, capable of splitting mountains and chopping trees, can sever your shared curse of life and death!"

Bone and Blood Forest?

An unfamiliar place...

Gu Jian was distracted, and the bone he was holding in his mouth suddenly retracted and slid away. The disheveled Wanbian Demon Lord fled into the shadows and disappeared, leaving only a pile of feathers and the terrified cries of birds on the helipad.

Are all the battles over for now?

Komi swayed precariously; he was truly exhausted. He glanced at Elaine before collapsing heavily to the ground.

"Master! Master!" Elaine lay beside Komi, too weak and too afraid to shake his exhausted body.

Bennett, the only one who could move, walked over, put his finger into Komi's nostrils to feel her breathing, and then reached deep into her neck to record Komi's heart rate.

Finally, under Elaine's tense gaze, he shook his head. This action caused Elaine, who had never felt fear in front of the Great Demon, to instantly shed large tears.

“Master…Master…” Elaine asked, choking back tears, as if she was about to throw herself into Komi’s arms and cry.

Bennett wasn't good at dealing with young girls like Elaine; he always treated those who annoyed him with ruthless cruelty.

So Bennett abandoned his idea of ​​teasing Elaine and waved his hand dismissively, saying, "Alright, stop crying. He's just exhausted, not dead. Let him sleep here for a few days and he'll recover."

"Really?"

Do I look like a liar to you?

Elaine sniffed and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes with her dirty sleeve.

Traveling through the warp was extremely difficult, and even after plundering some resources from the void station, they lived a very frugal life, with no extra water to wash themselves.

Bennett kept shouting that Faylen was a damned plague pig, but he himself was hardly clean; throwing him and his armor into a clear lake would only turn them brownish-yellow.

Elaine's little face was dirty and messy from wiping away tears, which made Bennett smile. He settled Antoine and the others in, and then asked Elaine why she was so attached to Komi.

"What I mean is...aren't we the enemies who raid your Void Station? Isn't it a bit abnormal for you to have such feelings for your enemies?"

Elaine was taken aback, her fingers twisting into a knot. She lowered her head and stared blankly at the ugly patch on Komi's chest. After thinking for a while, she answered softly.

"I think... I think you guys aren't that bad..."

"Ok?"

"No, no!" Elaine hurriedly waved her hands, the nimbleness she had displayed when deceiving the Demon Lord of Myriad Changes vanished, and she looked more like a novice new to the game. "That's not what I meant. What I meant was... even if you hadn't come, the Void Station would have fallen anyway. And even more people would have died... I saw that clan leader on the surveillance footage; he was no match for either the Sanctuary Guards or I. Your arrival actually saved more people, since you only killed the soldiers who fought bravely, and didn't attack the defenseless civilians, did you?"

Seeing that Bennett didn't interrupt her, Elaine gained even more courage and continued, "It's already a good ending for those guards to die a glorious death. Our family's rules are quite strict. Although the riots at the Void Station escalated because of my stupidity, the family won't care about that. They will only send new people to train and instruct me, and execute all those generations of Sanctuary soldiers for failing to protect the Saintess... That's a more shameful ending, not even enough to leave a pension or a story for their families. They will only become objects of contempt, used to warn other Sanctuary soldiers what will happen if they don't protect the Navigator with their lives."

Bennett, who knew the Empire's ways very well, said sarcastically, "Oh ho ho ho... then we really are great people."

Chapter 127: Settling Accounts After the Autumn Harvest

“You might not be so bad…” Elaine looked at Bennett. “I can see the colors of your souls with my third eye. Although they are tinged with the chaotic light of disorder, compared to those I’ve seen who are truly beyond redemption, you each have your own troubles…”

“Shh…” Bennett put a finger to Elaine’s lips to signal her to be quiet. “Don’t use your youth to judge our past. When you’ve lived a few more years, you’ll look back and realize how foolish your thinking was.”

Seemingly agreeing with Bennett's assessment, Elaine obediently lowered her head, then muttered softly as Bennett turned away, "Master Markus... is actually a very gentle person at heart..."

gentle?

Bennett's lips twitched. Recalling how Komi had jumped onto the back of the Myriad Transformations Demon Lord and devoured him, he simply couldn't associate him with the word "gentle."

Okay, okay... Everyone's crazy, even this naive and innocent navigator is starting to evolve in an abnormal direction.

Bennett shook his head, ignoring his tired body, and found cleaning agents, brushes, and an iron bucket, and began to carefully clean the filth inside and outside Hella.

Hela trembled slightly at the feeling of the brush brushing against her armor, and locked her laser beam onto Bennett's hand holding the brush.

"What's wrong? Is it itchy?" Bennett only showed his gentle and playful side when he was with Hela. He used a brush to probe into the crevices that were unknown to ordinary people and gently cleaned away the dust and impurities inside.

Hela's only reaction was to spew out a small flame from the engine, which significantly raised the temperature on the helipad. The ambiguous relationship between the woman and the aircraft made Elaine blush.

......

Awakening from the darkness, Koken felt his mouth was dry and his eyes were very sore. He blinked several times before the halo that was bothering his vision disappeared.

"What's the situation now?"

Komi asked in a hoarse voice. Hearing the noise, Elaine immediately came over, holding a bowl of purified water with the smell of disinfectant and bringing it to Komi's lips. "Master... we won the battle. That ever-changing demon lord escaped. We are now only a short distance away from the Shattered Steel Fortress."

After drinking the water in the bowl little by little, Koji felt much relief from his dry and cracked throat. He looked around and found himself on the tarmac, with Hela in the airdrop pod sitting quietly on the catapult opposite him.

He tried to use his hands to support himself to stand up, but lost his balance and fell to the ground. Only then did Komi realize that he had lost an arm in the battle.

Sigh... it's just an arm.

There's always a chance to install something better—mechanical prosthetics, biological cultivation, or decay and proliferation. In this place, as long as you're not dead, you can put back any missing parts.

On the way back to the room, Komi asked about the other fighting brothers, and Elaine answered them one by one.

With their injuries too severe, the Space Marines' self-healing abilities could barely keep them alive. In desperation, Bennett found a blood collection tube and injected it into Gujian's neck, hoping the blood would help the two men.

After listening, Koji touched his neck and indeed found three small scars.

Wait... this blood was used on Faerun too?

He's a plague warrior, you know. Injecting this vial of blood into him is no less than giving an undead creature a life potion. The conflicting attributes will surely torture this guy to death!

"Huh? You're asking about Ferren's condition? After he was given the blood vial, the sticky stuff on his body hardened, and he became like a stone. After a few days, it crumbled and cracked, and then he jumped out of it. Ferren looks much cleaner now; he's covered in nothing but some rust."

Koji nodded, understanding that Feren had been purified by an inexplicable power within the blood, but the purification was not thorough.

I wonder how this optimistic guy, Feren, views the fact that his body is riddled with rot. As far as I know, Feren likes to give his cysts and tumors cute pet names.

“Antoine has become handsome. His face, which only had half a face left, has completely healed, and even his tattoos and nails have disappeared.” Elaine stuck out her tongue in disgust after saying this. “But his personality hasn’t improved at all. He still looks at me and you with that lewd gaze.”

Komi remembered that Antoine was a bottom, and subconsciously covered his crotch with his hand, asking Elaine, "Did you let him get close to me?"

“Of course not… In fact, he was just standing far away at the door watching you, and then doing something with some tools I didn’t recognize…” Elaine couldn’t describe Antoine’s behavior, but could describe to Komi the rhythmic buzzing sound.

Koji was speechless; he was completely exasperated by Antoine.

“Shalang didn’t change much after he was struck by his own magic. He just kept shouting to everyone that he had only missed once when he was fighting in the palace, and he claimed that it was a great step forward.”