Travel to Warhammer 40K with Grey Wind

Ahriman is still on the desperate road of finding a way to save the Thousand Sons Legion. It will not be until a thousand years later, on the eve of the 13th Black Crusade, that he will see the power of death that can reverse the red letter spell from the leader of the Death Army, "Everene".

And now, his life is still sunk in despair. The depressed Ahriman is slow to respond to the call of the Lord of Change, and is showing a negative attitude of sabotage.

Magnus actually hated this rebellious son very much, but under the evil arrangement of the Lord of Change, they still stood on the same warship reluctantly - this was the first time that the Red Devils and the Exiles fought side by side after the siege of the Space Wolves' home planet Fenris.

Ahriman raised his head and stared at the morbid starry sky that had already been dyed scarlet by the swarm of insects with eyes burning with blue psychic flames. After a few seconds, he quickly lowered his head again.

His psychic abilities were second to none among the Astartes, but this scarlet shadow covering the starry sky was beyond Ahriman's comprehension. The last time he had this feeling was when he saw the so-called gods of the Eldar.

Perhaps Magnus could see the true nature of this shadow? This thought flashed through Ahriman's mind and quickly dissipated. He was reluctant to ask the Red Devil for help.

"Ahriman, my son."

Finally, it was Magnus who spoke first to break the awkward silence between father and son. Ignoring Ahriman's soul fluctuations hidden under his helmet, he continued: "Do you know what kind of enemy we are about to face?"

Ahriman took a deep breath and said, "'The scarlet shadow', 'the abyss of despair', 'the unspeakable horror'."

He repeated the words of Tzeentch, the Raven God.

Magnus heard Ahriman's attitude, so he swallowed the words that were about to come out of his throat and did not say anything else.

In front, a huge biological mothership with long tentacles floating around, surrounded by countless adult battleships, pounced on the Tzeentch Holy Number Fleet that had just passed through the Eye of Mystery and arrived in the real universe.

The Zerg's offensive came from every direction. They had completely surrounded the entire Flare Galaxy. Their absolute size advantage allowed them to launch a saturation attack with no focus or all focuses.

Driven by the will of the Lord of Change, the Chaos fleet, which was pieced together from all sides, maintained basic tactical cooperation. The Thousand Sons wizards communicated with the machine spirits through psychic energy and manipulated the warships to form a defensive ring formation.

The Chaos flagship "Lost Feather of the Sky" where Magnus and Ahriman were located, and the Eumenides of the Death Stalkers Chapter, were surrounded in the middle by a defensive formation formed by other Thousand Sons warships. The outer circle was composed of a large number of alien warships.

At the outermost edge of the defensive formation were thousands of deformed "debts" entangled in ominous sorcery. They were used by the Thousand Sons Legion as cannon fodder to resist the Zerg swarm. Riding on the turbulence of the subspace that continuously poured out of the Eye of Mystery, they directly faced the aggressive Zerg swarm.

Chapter 137 Debt

The main force of the Zerg's attack is a biological warship named "Spirit-Seeking Bone Spider" by Coroniai.

After initially mastering the technique of shaping spirit bones, Coroniai devoured the brains of dozens of Eldar Bone-Singers, and finally designed this highly efficient killing machine with Eldar spirit bones as the frame, a chitinous shell on the surface, and a large number of nervous systems inside.

The light spirit bones themselves are excellent conductors of psychic energy. With a well-developed nervous system, the Bone Spider retains the deadly biological weapons characteristic of the Zerg, while also being able to be controlled by the Coroniai's LAN connection to release powerful psychic spells.

This is exactly what is needed to fight Chaos.

Tens of thousands of spirit-seeking bone spiders with well-developed tentacles completed mental synchronization outside the flare. Their mental connections were locked onto each other, forming a psychic network flashing with lightning and fire, and they launched the first wave of encirclement and annihilation attacks on the circular formation of the Holy Number Fleet.

The "sin debt" that exudes hatred and resentment uses the ominous sorcery entangled with itself to resist the spell attacks of the Spirit-Catching Bone Spider. A fierce clash of psychic energy occurs right under the nose of the Eye of Mystery, setting off a series of even more bizarre and unpredictable battlefield scenes.

The space was distorted, the electrical signals were disrupted, and the curtain separating the real and the unreal continued to ripple. The countless psychic lightning bolts that flew out from the mental network woven by the Spirit-Seeking Bone Spider became fragmented and grotesque in the process of being repeatedly refracted by the Sin Debt's subspace sorcery, almost becoming some kind of energy entity with independent will.

"When fighting against Chaos, you still have to use psychic power."

Behind the scarlet worm tide that flooded the galaxy, inside the flesh cavity of the huge biological mothership "Mother of Punishment", Russell, dressed in a black robe, sat on the flesh and blood throne prepared for him by Coroniai, observing with interest the astronomical-scale magical battle between the Spirit-Dwelling Bone Spider and the massive "Debt".

Unlike the spectacular battles between naval guns that were like a space fireworks show, the fights between wizards were not very entertaining. The scenes of destructive and transformative spells twisting each other would at best give mortals nightmares for half their lives.

However, the psychics who have taken advantage of Zero should be familiar with these chaotic scenes that can be described as mental pollution.

The fierce psychic impact swept through the entire Flare Galaxy, causing huge waves in the subspace corresponding to this star field, which could almost be called a small subspace storm; in the past, causing such a big commotion in any place would inevitably attract the attention of the evil god, but there is no need to worry about that now.

Because the Lord of All Changes was already watching this place, He simply squeezed one of his eyes over here.

Watching the battle together with the Eye of Mystery was the Void Cave floating quietly in the highest heaven. Russell and Tzeentch were like two spectators sitting high in the VIP seats, calmly watching the fight in the flares.

Every minute, a Soul-Driving Bone Spider was sunk and destroyed under the double blow of psychic spells and physical artillery fire. Coronia's First War Cluster was dying at an abnormally fast rate. With the assistance of the Thousand Sons Wizards in the rear, on average, the defeat of every 9 Soul-Driving Bone Spiders could be exchanged for the disintegration of a medium-sized sin monster.

The proud creation that he had designed and manufactured after spending a lot of energy and learning a lot of knowledge had produced such an ugly exchange ratio when it was put into actual combat for the first time. In addition to being angry, Coroniai also felt an extremely strong sense of shame.

"Although that Chaos Evil is strange, its structural strength is far inferior to that of the Spirit-Tending Bone Spider, whose body is supported by spirit bones. Its psychic strength is also inferior to that of a fully online insect nest LAN. But why..." Koroniel couldn't figure it out: "Why are we so passive in the battle when we have the advantage in numbers and the quality of individual ships?"

Russell had a faint smile on his face. He was in a good mood. Seeing tens of thousands of Bone Spiders being destroyed one by one on their way to the circular defense formation and the psychic network being torn into pieces, Russell was not anxious at all. Instead, he was quite happy.

The secondary reason is that he has too many cards and won't play without burning two.

The main reason is that Russell has already seen the principle.

"Coroni, bend down." Russell waved his hand and said, "Look here."

The humanoid queen insect standing beside him bent down obediently as he was told, and the long tail with neurotoxin needles on its buttocks circled nervously: "What's wrong, Master?"

Russell opened his palm and retrieved the last battle video of a Spirit-Driving Bone Spider before its death from the Zerg LAN.

"Huh?" Coronie looked at Russell in confusion.

As the highest-level unit that controls the entire Zerg swarm, any information collected by the senses of a Zerg sub-individual is equivalent to being experienced by Coroniae personally.

Therefore, it didn't quite understand the significance of Russell showing it the battle video.

"Look here, the psychic lightning created by the Spirit-Driving Bone Spider was refracted to other directions due to the interference of the witchcraft, and was refracted again on the way. After repeated repetitions, the psychic lightning became fragmented and distorted in nature, as if it had turned into a subspace creature with independent consciousness, and began to attack the Zerg LAN that created them in turn." Russell said.

Koroni nodded. It had also observed this: "That kind of magic seems to be invisible. It doesn't reveal any characteristics. I can't track it, let alone crack it."

"Of course you can't track it." Russell said with a smile, "Because this is actually the work of Tzeentch, or it is indirectly done by Tzeentch. There is more than one level difference between you two."

As soon as he finished speaking, the war of attrition outside the flare finally came to a conclusion.

At the cost of almost all casualties among the Zerg's First War Cluster, Coronia completely broke through the circular defense line built by the Thousand Sons Legion using the evil "debt" creatures.

Even for the Queen of Insects today, losing an entire war cluster is a heavy loss.

Because the enemies they face are fleshless evil creatures from the Warp. Not only will there be no biomass to consume after killing the enemies, but their own units will also be swallowed up by the Warp turbulence after being destroyed and cannot be recovered. This is a war of attrition with only output but no gain.

The swarm fears this the most.

"Fortunately, those evil creatures have been eliminated. The remaining enemies are intelligent creatures driving warships, living creatures, which are exactly what I am good at dealing with..." Coronie said to himself.

This time, it must not embarrass itself in front of its owner.

Soon after this idea came to its mind, it realized that it was wrong.

Indistinctly, Coronia saw that the mysterious eye that spanned the galaxy seemed to "blink".

Immediately afterwards, surging ether turbulence surged out from the pupils of the Lord of All Changes, carrying with it thousands of monsters formed by mechanical wreckage, mutated machine souls, and chaotic sorcery, and were also rushed out of the physical universe.

That was the debt that Coroniai had just eliminated with great difficulty at the cost of consuming an entire Zerg Hive War Cluster.

"Why are you trying to cheat at the table?" Russell was in a good mood and was still smiling.

Chapter 138 Soul-Eating Venomous Bee

"How could this be..." Coronia looked in amazement at the rolling debts that surged out of the subspace along with the soul tide and came to the real universe. She had a disgusting feeling as if she had finally worked hard to clear the Novice Village, only to find that the slime at the doorstep had immediately resurrected.

Russell patted its shoulder to comfort it and said casually, "Tzeentch is the source of all mysteries. He distorts cause and effect, reverses logic, and resurrects a bunch of chaotic evil creatures. It's as natural to him as breathing. You just need to get used to it."

The Warp Gods were not very good at playing, and it was common for them to flip the table if they lost. Moreover, the Warp vortex created by the Death Stalker in the flare was almost a mini version of the Eye of Terror, which gave Tzeentch an excellent window to interfere in the battlefield.

It is equivalent to saying that the subspace is under the feet of these monsters, and the resurrection point is behind them. No matter how they fight, there is no need to fight.

"Speaking of which, where are the Death Stalkers? I didn't see any Astartes in the retreating team." Russell frowned slightly: "Where are they?"

When the Necromancer Pyramid was destroyed by the vortex bomb, because their own forge ship was boarded by the Death Stalkers NTR, only a few high-ranking priests of the Mechanicus were able to take the ship of the Convent of Truth and escape from the opened Eye of Mystery. As for the tens of thousands of fighter servitors and ground combat armor they brought with them, they were all destroyed.

The strange thing is that the Death Stalkers, the instigators of all this, have been nowhere to be seen. Even with Russell's own psychic foresight, he cannot sense the existence of this group of people who have some close connection with him.

"Ah, I found it. It's here." Russell surprisingly cast his gaze to the center of the flare, in front of the pupil of the Eye of Mystery.

There was the center of the Thousand Sons Legion's circular defense formation, shrouded in a warp barrier that even Russell could not see through, interfering with his observations.

In this chaotic maze, Russell could vaguely catch a few extremely fine threads that seemed to be somehow connected to himself, and a dark red unknown existence.

"Master, since the enemy can be resurrected infinitely with the help of the subspace, do you want to use your own power to completely drain this area of ​​subspace?" Coronia seemed a little embarrassed when saying this, because in its opinion, this was the first opportunity it had gotten to express itself since becoming Russell's servant. It was really embarrassing to ask the master for help when it was used in actual combat for the first time.

Russell just shook his head: "How do you know that Tzeentch is not deliberately using this trick to lure my real body out?"

"Ah, this..." Koroni was a little confused.

"Tzeentch is the source of all mysteries, the embodiment of all curiosity and enterprising thinking. He never plays tricks, he is the trick itself."

Russell looked coldly at the fight between the Bone Spider Swarm and the Chaos Fleet in the flare, and said softly:

"Don't follow his guidance, or you will fall into the hands of the evil god. Don't deliberately disobey his will, because you don't know whether your rebellious mentality is also part of Tzeentch's calculations."

Koroni was even more confused: "We can't do what he wants, nor can we do what he wants. So how do we deal with Tzeentch?"

Russell turned his head and looked at its smooth face that looked like a gemstone with a half-smile, and said word by word: "Overturn the table."

Under the nose of the Eye of Mystery, the Thousand Sons Legion still led the Holy Number Fleet to maintain the circular defense formation, and tightened the formation once again, trapping the Eumenides, which was now more corrupted, in the middle.

On the chaotic flagship "Sky's Forgotten Feather" where Magnus the Red Devil is located, the Thousand Sons wizards are arranging a teleportation circle.

According to the will of the Lord of Change, they will follow the Primarch directly into the hull of the Eumenides, looking for something in the ever-changing labyrinth——under the eyes of the Mysterious Eye, Mag Nous himself can enter the cabin directly without teleporting spells. This magic circle is prepared by the Thousand Sons to keep up with the Primarch.

Among the Thousand Sons brothers who were busy chanting spells to guide psychic energy, Ahriman seemed a little out of place. The failed red letter spell made him lose the trust of most of his legion brothers, and the few followers also suffered heavy losses in their search for salvation.

Ahriman the Exile had always been alone, and he was alone now.

But he didn't quite understand why the Lord of Change summoned a fleet of Holy Numbers of such a scale, opened the Eye of Mystery in the physical universe, and even sent out his own Ascended Primarch. Such a big move... was just to get something from the Eumenides?

After thinking for a while, Ahriman gave up thinking.

He let out a long sigh with some self-mockery. He didn't expect that he would actually try to guess Tzeentch's intentions. This was too stupid.

Outside the circular defense formation, the Zerg has changed its offensive strategy.

The second war cluster consisting of 9 soul-seeking bone spiders and tens of thousands of "Soul-eating poisonous bees" completed its assembly under the belly of the biological mothership "Mother of Torture", and the second round of offensive began.

Unlike the previous all-round indiscriminate attack without a focus, the Soul Devouring Poison Bee is also a psychic unit with spirit bones as its skeleton and can cast vicious spells. However, if the Soul-Drawing Bone Spider is a full-time mage who can cast multiple spells by connecting spirits with each other through a local area network, then the Soul Devouring Poison Bee is a low-cost, high-damage assault assassin created for the purpose of one-for-one exchange from the beginning;

With Soul-Eating Venomous Bees equipped with deadly soul-poisoning spirit bone spears as the vanguard and Soul-Turning Bone Spiders maintaining the full connection of the Zerg LAN in the center of the attack formation, the Second War Cluster stabbed straight at the Chaos fleet that was almost completely submerged in the soul tide in the shape of a spear.

Amidst the soul-stirring screams, the psychic network created by the Soul-Driving Bone Spiders kept twisting to resist the long-range artillery fire from the Chaos fleet directed at the Second War Cluster, and quickly advanced under the fierce firepower coverage; the Warp Wave Cannons driven by the Thousand Sons Wizards continuously caused reality to tear apart, swallowing and exiling some biological warships on the side of the war cluster, but this was harmless, and the main body of the Zerg still maintained a considerable degree of integrity under the protection of the psychic LAN.

The soul-eating poisonous bees that covered the sky and the sun completed their life mission with a series of fierce collisions. The deadly soul-bone poison needles pierced into the bodies of the "sinful" machines. Even the steel machine souls were not immune to the fierce subspace poison contained in them. The forcibly pieced together parts began to wriggle and struggle in pain, but this was far from the end.

After stabbing the spirit bone poison spear into the enemy's body, the soul-eating poison bees lose their value as disposable weapons. They die quickly after emptying their poison sacs, and all the biomass in their bodies decomposes and disintegrates under the drive of the genetic program set by Coronie.

The molten biomass quickly and automatically reshaped into endless small Zerg combat units in the spirit bone frame, which drilled into the body of the evil creature in groups through the wounds pierced by the spirit bone poison spears and carried out further internal destruction.

In a sense, this is also a kind of boarding.

Chapter 139: Determining the Priorities

After mastering the Eldar's bone-chanting technique, Coronia created a variety of Eldar-based Zerg units including the "Soul-Drawing Bone Spider" and "Soul-Eating Venomous Bee" based on what he had learned. Each unit has its own strengths and different battlefield positioning.

The Zerg's second war cluster is the special attack force that Coroniai formed specifically for it after finding out the basic information of the evil creature.