Say, you will cut off your head in my name!"
Say, blood sacrifice to the blood god! Skull to the skull throne! "
Gustav's vision was gradually engulfed by the blood-red color, and his consciousness gradually blurred due to physical exhaustion. His charred lips opened and closed slightly: "Blood... sacrifice..."
Every time he spoke a word, the corners of the mouth of the dog-headed Khorne on the brass throne opened wider, and a part of the glorious runes symbolizing the champion of Khorne appeared on Gustav's body, but just when he sacrificed his blood to the Blood God 'After finishing the four words and about to say the second half of the 'Skull Sacrifice', suddenly, a strong subspace fluctuation came suddenly, and Khorne let out an angry roar.
A twisted subspace crack appeared out of thin air in front of the Ultramarines assault team. This crack was undoubtedly summoned by man-made psychic witchcraft, but a figure walking out of the crack made the Ultramarines subconsciously He held the Ultramar Glory Battle Ax in his hand tightly.
Because walking out of the sudden cracks in the subspace were a group of strange Astartes wearing rose-red power armor, Taoist robes on their shoulders, and scriptures hanging on their waists. The surface of the armor was densely engraved with 'Holy Words' and 'Oracles' Brother, the Ultramarines are all too familiar with this group of shameful traitors.
They are the renegade 17th Legion of Fallen Space Marines, the 'Word Bearers'.
Why did the Word Bearers suddenly appear here? !
Before the Ultramarines assault team could think this issue through, an even more shocking scene appeared.
A particularly tall figure, surrounded by Word Bearers warriors, walked out of the subspace portal and stepped onto the black stone land that was scorched and shattered by the Burners.
He was taller than the Astartes or even the Custodes. His appearance is handsome, even more handsome than Robert Guilliman, the genetic father whom the Ultramarines most admire, and is reminiscent of the supreme Emperor of Mankind. His purple eyes revealed a profound temperament, and every inch of skin from his face to the top of his head and even the back of his head was engraved with sparkling golden runes.
At least Lord Guilliman has hair." The Ultramarines Captain muttered to himself.
He already understood who it was that came here through the warp portal with the Word Bearers. It was the Emperor's 17th son, the shameful traitor, and the Primarch of the Word Bearers - Lorgar O Rilian.
Chapter 403 Divine Punishment
"Hey, Astartes over there, can I waste a little bit of your precious time? I want to introduce to you our heavenly father and savior, the invincible being who killed Nurgle, the only true god in this world for eternity - —Star Bouncer!" Lorgar Aurelion opened his arms, and the 'Light of Enlightenment' scepter in his hand emitted sacred light.
The Chaos Primarch's arrogant words stunned the Ultramarines assault captain on the spot. He clenched the Macragge Axe of Glory in his hand, staring at the Word Bearers warrior who walked out of the Warp portal.
As the distance got closer, the captain noticed that the armor of the Word Bearers was densely engraved with words, but what was engraved was not the blasphemous truth from Chaos, nor was it the content of the state religion scriptures or the Emperor's Holy Words, but a series of short and clear mottos:
[The first step to liberate all mankind should be to liberate the productive forces. To this end, we must develop science and technology by any means, because science and technology will always be the most advanced productive force. 】
[Our society must change its attitude towards learning. Only in this way can our cutting-edge technology and knowledge reach a new level. 】
[The fleet is the extension and execution tool of our power and will - the strength of the fleet determines the rise and fall of the Federation.]
[Some people say that war is not a good thing for business, but for us, war is business. 】
……
Looking at the words engraved on Lorgar's chest, "We follow the call of the stars. Hopefully nothing can stop us from wandering among the stars."... The Ultramarines said that although they did not understand, they were deeply shocked.
Gustav was even more shocked than the Ultramarines because he recognized the origin of the mottos carved on the Word Bearers' bodies.
——That is the motto of the star bomber.
Since the establishment of the Human Federation, the Order of Truth has held hundreds of high-level meetings every three years. Most of these meetings are chaired by Gray Wind. Star Bomber himself will also attend some important nodes and give some guidance. .
Russell would sometimes say things like "Science and technology is not a rigid discipline with one problem and one solution, but a product that makes us transcend the mundane..." in public to motivate his subordinates. These philosophical words would often be recorded by the participants as important theoretical basis, and would also be secretly circulated among religious groups that secretly worshipped the Star Bullet.
Over time, the mottos of the star bomber were compiled into a volume by his admirers and bound together into what can be called the Interstellar Analects. This book was last updated 11 years ago.
As a senior scholar of the Order of Truth, Gustav has naturally read the bound edition of the Star-Buster's Aphorisms, and is no stranger to these sentences, so he can recognize them immediately. But what he couldn't understand was why the Word Bearers would engraved the Star-Slinger's famous quotes on his armor?
Their Primarch Lorgar even had the famous saying 'There is no place for the weak in this vast galaxy, the only way to survive is to move forward, by any means necessary...' tattooed on his face.
What kind of group of people are they? They engrave the motto of the Star-Busters on their armor, tattoo it on their skin, and carve it into their flesh and blood. Even the most extreme emperor fanatic believers in the branch sects of the state religion are shocked when they see this scene. I can’t help but shout that you Word Bearers are too extreme.
"Oh! My respected Mr. Gustav, what happened to your body? Damn it, what did the damn Star God do to you?! Pharmacist! Where is the pharmacist? Our scholar needs treatment!"
While calling for the Word Bearers' pharmacist to come over, Lorgar continued to say to Gustav, "Don't worry, Master Gustav. As the most loyal follower of the Starbender and the most staunch supporter of his theory, I will definitely ensure your safety!"
Lorgar turned around and raised the Scepter of Illuminating Light in his hand high. He looked up at Anrakiel the Burner, who was floating next to the Blackstone Spire, and said loudly:
"You blasphemous person who disrespects the true God! The scars on Your Excellency Gustav's body are a reflection of your sins. In the name of the star bomber, I, Luojia, will act on behalf of the true God's wrath against the unbelieving madman who dares to harm the messenger of God. It’s just a divine punishment!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the Primarch's burly body shot out like a huge cannon shell. Powerful psychic energy lingered around Lorgar's body. The large areas of black stone around him were still infected by the virus, emitting a pure white light.
The huge array of black stone obelisks continued to amplify the influence of the warp and psychic power in this place, and also greatly amplified Lorgar's psychic spells. The powerful power of chaos gathered on the Scepter of Illuminating Light in his hand, converging into an unstoppable destructive force.
"You will be punished for disrespecting the true God!" Luojia roared loudly, and the psychic lightning wrapped around the scepter in his hand crackled.
The original body's speed was so fast and the attack was so fierce that there was no room for dodge or resistance. By the time Anrakil reacted, the opponent had already rushed in front of him, and extreme heat was on Anrakil's divine body. It boiled and collided with Luojia's powerful spiritual energy, erupting into a shock wave that shook the entire black stone land.
As the ground shook beneath their feet, a large number of Word Bearers warriors armed with live ammunition emerged from the continuously opening warp portals and surrounded the Ultramarines assault team.
Looking at the Word Bearers whose forces far outnumbered his own, the Ultramarines captain glared angrily. He was ready for all his men to die in battle.
"Mr. Gustav's health is not optimistic. He needs treatment." A Word Bearer pharmacist stepped forward tentatively. He removed all the firearms and cold weapons he carried with him to show his safety. "The pollution of the Star God and the Chaos God is destroying his body. We can't delay it any longer."
The Ultramarines remained unmoved. They stood back to back in battle formation, staring eagerly at the Word Bearers armies coming from all directions.
At this time, the tomb, which had just woken up and was still a little lost, seemed to have completed communication with the Burner Anrakir. The mechanical army on the ground quickly prepared, and the Gauss weapons turned their muzzles and aimed at the Word Bearers army under the Blackrock Spire.
"It's too late." The Word Bearer Apothecary gritted his teeth and quickly whispered to the rosary around his neck: "Conquer them!"
After the order was issued, a steady stream of Word Bearers warriors walked out of the subspace portal and simultaneously launched an attack on the undead surrounding them and the Ultramarines assault team surrounded by them.
At the same time, Lorgar called upon the name of the Lord of Change, borrowing the power of Tzeentch to amplify his own psychic spells. The Scepter of Illuminating Light in his hand shone brightly, and countless thick psychic lightning bolts bombarded the Burner's divine body like a violent storm. For a moment, the sky changed color and the earth trembled.
"Heresy! Feel this divine punishment!"
Luojia had a look of madness on his face, waving his scepter to stir up the turbulent waves of the sea of souls.
Chapter 404 Behemoth
When words like psionic power and witchcraft are mentioned, the first thing many people think of is the Primarch of the Thousand Sons, Magnus the Red. This is indeed the case. As the King of Wizards, Magnus is likely to be the first person in the galaxy. 2 powerful psykers, the first being his paraplegic father the Emperor.
But in fact, almost every Primarch has a certain psychic talent, such as the ability of Sanguinius and Konrad Curze to predict the future, or the lion's walk in the deep forest... all of which are inseparable from the power of the warp.
The Primarch of the Word Bearers, Lorgar, actually possessed a very powerful psychic talent. However, while following the Emperor, he seldom developed his talent in this area due to his religious beliefs. It was not until he betrayed the Emperor and embraced the Chaos Gods that Lorgar's psychic powers began to gradually emerge.
During the Horus Heresy, Lorgar had performed a ritual to set off a storm of destruction that swept across the galaxy, preventing the loyalists represented by the Dark Angels from returning to Terra for assistance. He also used a large amount of blood and flesh sacrifices to help his brother Angron ascend to become an immortal demon prince... All these evil and heretical acts foreshadowed his powerful sorcery power, and now, Lorgar used his evil sorcery to fight against the Star God.
The Scepter of Illuminating Light unleashed a powerful lightning storm, which intertwined with the terrifying flames of the Burner to produce a series of violent chain explosions, shaking the tomb. Lorgar praised the omniscient and omnipotent Star-Bombarder with the attitude of a fanatical believer. Billions of stars twinkled for him. The spreading virus code reversed the magnetic poles of more and more black stone creations. The venue itself increased the psychic power, making Lorgar seem to be assisted by God.
The Word Bearers on the ground fought hard amid thunderous roars, as if listening to war songs floating from afar. The armor engraved with holy words helped them resist the direct fire of the Undead Gauss weapons.
With their absolute advantage in military strength, the Word Bearers defeated the Ultramarines assault team guarding Gustav's body, then without any hesitation they immediately turned around and marched quickly, carrying the knocked down Ultramarines and the unconscious Gustav into the warp portal, leaving the increasingly tense and chaotic battlefield.
Only a piece of black stone land was left, which was burned by the Burners until it was transparent and cracked. The apocalyptic scene was recorded by the optical sensors of the Burning Sky Soldiers and transmitted back to the federal capital Falla through the super-light communication network.
"Gustav's life signal finally appeared on the surface of the Necromancer Tomb. It is speculated that he was taken away by the Word Bearers Legion through the warp portal, because the 'Death Wail' storm of Father Nurgle is still in the warp to this day. Due to the raging, we can't trace the Word Bearers' departure, and the clues have been cut off."
Looking at the mission information sent back by the Burning Sky Divine Soldier crew, Huifeng frowned.
"It's difficult. The Milky Way is becoming more and more chaotic. The scientific expedition team may run into this kind of thing even when they go out to dig a grave." Huifeng slumped in the chair in distress, tilting his head back and staring at the ceiling with flashing signal lights.
Browsing the real-time star map of the Milky Way rendered by the Sentinel Array in his mind, Huifeng felt a headache.
It is not a coincidence that the scientific research fleet led by Gustav got involved in the battle between the Eldar and the Necrons in the Hagia galaxy, but it was inevitable. Today, the situation in the galaxy is in chaos. The Eldar are awakening, the Necrons are resurrected, and the Tyranids are relying on The biological jump engine of the ether dragon is gnawing at random everywhere... It can be said that life is full of surprises, and there are conflicts everywhere in the galaxy.
Even if the scientific research fleet does not go to Hajia and avoids the god-ascended Anrakil, it will encounter other conflicts in other galaxies.
"Will our scientists have to bring Star God fragment-level thugs with them when they go out in the future?" Gray Feng thought.
As one of the first batch of new humans, Gustav's performance was actually very, very good. With the help of the Blackstone Obelisk Array's geographical advantage, he even beat the fragments of the Burning One to their knees. But that was far from enough. If it weren't for Lorgar's sudden arrival and disruption, he and the Ultramarines assault team would undoubtedly have been eliminated or captured by the Burning One Anrakir and the awakened Tomb World.
Facts have proven that in today's chaotic galaxy, ordinary people have no right to speak loudly unless they have combat power at the level of a Primarch or a Star God fragment.
"Hey..." Gray Wind sighed, and after sending an evacuation order to the Burning Sky Divine Soldier crew that was fighting a fierce battle with the Necromancer fleet in the Hagia galaxy, he turned his attention to another war zone.
The scientific research fleet led by Gustav is not the only fleet sent by the Human Federation. Now Gray Wind is focusing on another Titan battle group that was sent to fight in the galaxy, the 'Musbel Blade'.
The Musbell Blade battle group is currently located in a secondary star zone called the 'Gariel Cluster' in the northern part of the Ultramarine. The mission of this fleet is to seize control of the two dormant Necron Tomb Worlds in the Gallil Cluster, activate the Black Stone Array on them, deploy the Exorcist Dead Domain, and close a large subspace rift in the Gallil Cluster.
Chaos became aware of Gray Wind's intentions, and large numbers of Daemons emerged from the warp rifts in the Galil Stars to engage in a fierce battle with the Musbel's Blade fleet battle group.
In the battle with the demons, the Federation's fleet once firmly had the upper hand with the help of black stone creations and pure spirit fields. However, when the two sides were in a stalemate, a huge 'ether giant' suddenly made a super-light jump. Jumped into the battlefield of the Galil constellation.
"How strange." Gray Wind browsed through the battle records of the Garil Cluster and frowned in confusion.
The arrival of the ether giant Behemoth was unplanned by her, because before entering the Galil Star Cluster, the Human Federation had communicated with the local imperial administrators, and the Galil Star Cluster was not densely populated to begin with. All the empire's population has been evacuated to other surrounding star areas during the war, making room for the federal fleet to control the tomb world and launch the exorcism dead zone.
Therefore, the arrival of the ether giant Beamon seems very abrupt and unreasonable.
The population of the Galil Star Cluster has been evacuated long ago, leaving only a few hollow hives without much biomass and mining planets that are useless to the Zerg. The most densely populated in the huge secondary star sector is fighting against Chaos. The Musbel's Blade fleet battle group itself was at war with the demons.
"What drives the Tyranids to keep moving is the insatiable primordial hunger of the hive mind, but there is almost no biomass in the Galil Cluster to fill the stomachs of the Zerg... Why didn't the Ether Giants choose to go to the surrounding star regions with large populations to devour planets, but insisted on leaping to the center of the battlefield in the Galil Cluster?"
Gray Wind became more and more confused.
When your opponent not only makes no profit but also loses gas money when he comes to beat you, and still chooses to travel thousands of miles to beat you, then you'd better think about whether there is something wrong with you.
Chapter 405 The Root of Infinity
The abnormal behavior of the Great Devourer made Grey Wind, who had planned to send reinforcements to the Gallil Star Cluster, a little cautious. Although the Federation Navy has a large fleet, if it encounters an emergency of the same magnitude as the Hagia Galaxy, no matter how many warships it has, it will not be able to exert its due combat power.
Gray Feng is different from Russell. She actually doesn't like to win by quantity without thinking. In Gray Feng's opinion, meaningless losses should be avoided as much as possible, but how to avoid it? The Order of Truth's current technological level and army size are enough to compete with any race, including Necron and Eldar, on a frontal battlefield. The only thing they lack is the level of single-body combat between the C'tan fragments and the original body. force.
"The abnormal behavior of the Tyranids may be a sign that something is about to happen. The reinforcements sent to the Gallil Cluster not only need a considerable fleet size and weapons reserves, but also, if possible, a Primarch or a special individual at the level of a Star God Fragment to lead the team, as a safety guarantee for dealing with emergencies..." Gray Wind looked up and counted on his fingers: "...but where can I find a Primarch to lead the team?"
Soon, an idea flashed in Gray Wind's data center: "Wait a minute, there seems to be a original body in the laboratory of the Order of Truth."
As Grey Wind dug out relevant experimental files from his increasingly complex database, the candidate for the commander to reinforce the Galil star cluster was quickly determined.
Russell didn't get nothing after killing his loving father. He dragged back a cauldron from the ruined Nurgle Garden, as well as the Ascension Primarch who stood at a loss in the ruins of the Black Demon Mansion. He was Death. The genetic father of the Guard, the Pale King, Mortarion.
After Nurgle's death, Mortarion, who lost his father's blessing, was on the verge of death, but Aisha, the Eldar's goddess of life, healed the original body with a drop of her tear. The weak Mortarion was brought back to Falla by Russell. , and then he handed it over to the biologists of the Order of Truth for physical examination.
Neither Coroniel nor Grey Wind took Mortarion seriously at first, considering him only a rare biological chain metallurgy research specimen. Only now did the value of the Primarch finally become apparent.
When Gray Wind came to Falla and saw Mortarion lying on a gauze mat in the laboratory, eating and waiting to die, the former Ascendant Primarch calmly accepted Gray Wind's request to go to the Galil Stars. The entrustment of leading the army in the war did not show any unexpected emotions.
Mortarion was well aware of his situation. All those researchers who were fascinated by biology were coveting his body. If the value of the Primarch was not reflected through war, then he would only be chopped into pieces as research material for biological chain metallurgy.
It was precisely because of this mentality that Mortarion calmly accepted Gray Wind's minimally invasive surgery to implant nanorobots in his brain stem without any resistance, looking like a submissive little daughter-in-law.
After holding Mortarion's life and death in the palm of his hand through the nano-implant, Gray Wind felt relieved and officially handed over the command of the Musbel's Blade fleet battle group to him.
After receiving military power, the first thing Mortarion did was to re-read the Musbel Blade fleet battle group's investigation report on the Galil Star Group:
The Gallil Cluster is a small star cluster located in the northern part of the Ultramarine. Dozens of galaxies are distributed in an elliptical shape around a subspace rift. After systematic surveys by the scientific expedition team, the Order of Truth learned that among the dozens of galaxies distributed around the rift, more than half of the planets have rich black stone deposits buried underground or black stone artifacts.
From this, the scientific expedition team speculated that the Galil Constellation should be an ancient battlefield relic that has survived from the War in Heaven, where the Necrons and the Ancient Saints once fought.
The permanent, unhealable warp rift in the central region of the Galil Cluster may be a channel through which the Old Ones draw energy from the Sea of Souls. After the defeat of the Ancient Saint, the Necrons built a large number of black stone creations around the ancient battlefield, and used the 'Exorcist Dead Realm' to seal the subspace rift opened by the Ancient Saint.
The seal of the Necrons has been maintained here for tens of millions of years, and the Black Stone creation has been operating stably, blocking the subspace of the Gariel Cluster. However, hundreds of years ago, the seal malfunctioned, the Necromancer's Dead Zone automatically closed, and the ancient scar was torn open again, causing the Gariel Cluster to become what it is today.
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