Warhammer 40 A New Hope

"That doesn't matter. I won't let you kill him!"

"You don't think that if you die, Bud will stop fighting us? This battle won't end that easily woman!"

"He is my son!"

"It doesn't seem to make sense..."

Balder suddenly broke a tree root that was blocking his way in one direction, and punched Kratos. The latter insisted on immediately deploying a shield for defense, and then pushed Balder out.

"I almost forgot what pain felt like! I almost forgot what cold felt like! This is really... awesome!"

With a roar from Balder, a large amount of cold air gathered around him, and then he slammed the ground, and an ice wave wrapped in ice crystals and cold wind rushed towards the three people.

Leman Russ, wearing heavy power armor, took the initiative to stand in front of Kratos and his son, using his solid armor and tall body to withstand the wave of ice. But the next moment, Balder, who was emitting ice-blue light all over his body, attacked and punched the tall figure in front of him!

Bang--!

Kratos appeared in front of Leman Russ at this time, and opened the round shield in his hand again to block the heavy punch. Then several lightning arrows hit Balder's left leg, forcing Balder, who could already feel the pain, to kneel down on one knee.

Spikes, Leman Russ took out the orbital rifle again and pointed the weapon in his hand at Balder who was kneeling on one knee, and blue electric light began to flicker.

call out--!

The high-speed metal bullet directly pierced through Balder's abdomen and knocked him dozens of meters away. At this moment, Somur, who was controlled by Freya, attacked again, and a huge hand like a mountain separated the two groups of people.

"You are not allowed to fight anymore!"

Freya's voice was heard again, trying to stop the battle, but as Leman Russ had said before, this was no longer a battle that could be stopped by them stopping. Balder was determined to kill them all, or die in this long-lost battle!

As mentioned before, when Odin abandoned Freya, he not only cursed her so that she could never leave Midgard, but also took away her Warrior's Heart, which made her attacks unable to cause harm to any other creatures. This undoubtedly reduced her chances of stopping Balder a lot.

Sure enough, Balder, who was knocked flying, jumped over the giant hand that was blocking them, and the wounds on his body began to heal under the influence of his divine power. However, because the undead spell on his body had been broken, the wounds recovered very slowly.

"Don't you ever try to control me again, old woman!"

Balder fell from the sky like a meteorite, the ground shook as he landed, this time engulfed in flames.

As Balder waved his arms, one hot fireball after another flew out and flew towards Kratos and others not far away. Leman Russ recognized a metal sphere, and a transparent energy barrier appeared in front of them.

A scorching fireball exploded on the barrier, and then Balder, covered in flames, rushed out from the flames, smashed the energy barrier and rushed towards the tall Leman Russ.

Leman Russ, who had more combat experience than Balder, grabbed Balder's right fist with his backhand, knocked him to the ground, and picked him up and threw him to Kratos before he could react.

Seeing Balder being thrown over, Kratos raised the [Leviathan Axe] in his hand and chopped down with it, but Balder who was thrown over actually grabbed the axe handle of Kratos' weapon at the same time as being hit, and then punched him on his shiny bald head, knocking him to the ground and then rising on him.

"Father!"

Atreus shot all the arrows in his quiver at Balder, but even though the other party was no longer immortal, his damage and magic were still insignificant to this powerful Norse god of light.

"Next!"

At this moment, Leman Russ threw the golden sword that was totally disproportionate to Atreus's size. Atreus, who got the new weapon, immediately jumped towards Balder, holding the sword high in his hand!

"you...!"

Balder, who had intended to ignore Atreus' attack and capture him as he had done before, felt an unbearable pain the moment the long sword pierced his left shoulder.

This also caused Balder to lose his balance in an instant, and Kratos seized the opportunity and punched him in the face and sent him flying. Several bombs hit him while he was in the air and exploded on his body.

"Everyone stop it!"

Freya controlled Somur's body to disrupt the situation again. The giant smashed down with his palm, completely shattering the ground under everyone's feet, and the three began to fall.

The group fell for more than ten seconds before landing. A large number of tree roots appeared again, forming a circular dome that completely surrounded them.

"This woman doesn't make any sense at all!" Leman Russ said.

"We wanted to kill his son, and that's understandable."

"But you also saw that Balder never thought of stopping, and we can't just sit there and wait for death."

"...This is indeed a problem..."

"I said! Don't stop me! You damn woman!"

Balder's roar sounded again, and there was a noticeable tremor in the surroundings, and several huge rocks fell from above.

Bang, bang, bang--bang!

With several loud crashes, the ice wall on one side and the tree roots that restricted the three people were smashed. Freya flew out in a mess and was caught by Kratos.

"Freya..."

"You really want to disturb me, right? You really want me to kill you right now?!"

"She's your mother! How could you..."

"So what?!" Balder roared as he walked out of the hole. "She made me feel nothing for a hundred years! She made me suffer so much! And now she wants to control me again!"

"I will definitely take revenge! I will definitely make her pay the price!"

627. Dusk Begins (Part )

ET-09-05-【Glory Death/Glory Blood】

Danger level: TETH level

This is an artificially created abnormality from the Empire World.

The cause of the creation was that members of the Mechanicus tried to replicate the original process of the emergence of the singularity technology of [K Company] and create their own abnormal existence.

After this experiment was approved and implemented, a total of about 23 experiments were carried out - that is, people were organized to go to the suburbs and make medium and long-distance contact with everything in the suburbs.

Among the experimental troops sent to the suburbs, half of them suddenly lost contact; 6 reported encounters with the enemy or abnormalities, and were confirmed dead dozens of minutes later; 5 successfully confirmed that abnormalities had occurred and were within the controllable range, and only 2 of them confirmed the existence of abnormalities, and this abnormality was one of the 2 successful cases.

The process of the creation of the abnormality is similar to the process of the first abnormality of the known [K Company]: a former Star Army soldier who retired due to severe disability and served as a test subject and exploration member said something after discovering the existence of an unidentified relic. Then all members of his team lost contact. After the subsequent exploration team went to the last location where they lost contact, they found a huge human heart with golden blood flowing and still beating.

Through DNA comparison and limited video data, it can be basically confirmed that this huge golden heart is formed by the fusion and mutation of the members of the exploration team who have lost contact.

Subsequent experiments determined that the golden blood flowing from the golden heart can be used for a variety of different purposes, including forging/manufacturing, medicine, psychic power, biological transformation, etc.

At this stage, the use of this golden blood is temporarily limited to the manufacture of cold weapons and for hot metal bullets. After preliminary testing, cold weapons infused with golden blood can have a good lethality to subspace existence. After being integrated into the warheads, it can also increase the damage to subspace existence, but there is a certain limit to the improvement.

Due to the particularity of the [Moon World] and the harsh and changeable environment of the Warhammer world, large-scale actual combat tests have not been carried out for the time being.

[Audio Appendix: 'Unconsciously, I have been away from the battlefield for almost ten years. I didn't expect that I would live for ten years...']

['We are both lucky and unlucky...']

['Luckily, we survived the battlefield, but unfortunately... we will forever suffer from our mutilated bodies and may never be able to serve the Empire...']

['If you have the chance, would you like to step on the field again, old man?']

['My life was born to fight for the Empire. I never thought of coming back alive, but...']

['The entire platoon is gone. We are powerless against the fallen angels...']

['When I was fortunately found from the pile of corpses by reinforcements, I was ready to step onto the battlefield again with this broken body to accompany my comrades, but...']

['Can you believe that the war is over? My deceased superior actually used his privilege to grant me an honorable discharge after his death? ']

['They all said it was an extremely glorious thing. During this period, someone from the Military Affairs Department found me and asked me to tell the new recruits about my story. ']

['It was not easy for me. I should have died on the battlefield with my teammates, died under the attack of the fallen angels...']

['I survived, they call it 'surviving with glory'...']

['But if possible, I would rather the blood of glory be left on the battlefield...']

"For the Empire"

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There is no doubt that Baldur wanted to kill Freya, his mother.

Because of Freya's spell, the Nordic God of Light had long gone mad. Ordinary people could not imagine a life without any feelings at all, but Balder lived like this for more than a hundred years.

Although Kratos and others knew this, they still felt somewhat shocked when they saw the obvious bruises and wounds on Freya's face.

"Are you crazy?! She's your mother!"

"Oh, yes, she is my mother," Balder said. "The mother who has caused me so much pain for hundreds of years!"

Seeing Balder approaching, Kratos was about to stand up to fight, but Freya suddenly pulled him back.

"No, don't hit me again..."

"I'll convince him..."

"Atreus, take her away." Kratos was silent for a while, then stood up and said, "Take her to a safe place and come back."

"Okay father."

"I can't understand why she still favors him after all this." Leman Russ said as he looked at Freya being carried away by Atreus. "Like I said, even if she died, Balder would not stop there. We would still kill Balder at that time."

"This is the persistence of a mother..." Kratos responded, thinking of his past. "Okay, spare his life."

"I can't guarantee that."

． ． ． A few dozen minutes later...

boom--!

Balder, with several golden daggers stuck in his body, was punched away by Kratos in the [Spartan Fury] state, crashed through the ice on the road, and flew all the way to the ground.

Before the embarrassed Balder could stand up, several black round metal spheres fell under him, and the next moment a huge force of gravity hit him.

The defenseless Balder was pressed to the ground by the sudden gravity, and the ground beneath him also sank and cracked due to the sudden gravity.

“Ah ...

boom--!

The scorching flames ignited on Balder's body again, followed by a violent explosion. The scorching flames directly melted a large area of ​​the surrounding objects.

Whoosh—Puff!

Before the flames on his body dissipated, Kratos's [Leviathan Axe] flew through the erupting flames and directly hit Balder, and the deadly cold air began to spread.

The sudden change of cold and heat caused great damage to Balder's body, but this was not the end. Leman Russ rushed to Balder at this time, pressed him back to the ground when he tried to stand up again, dragged him on the ground for a while, and then threw him out.

The Chaos Twin Blades were thrown towards Balder who was thrown out. The sharp blades pierced through Balder's body once again, and he was thrown heavily to the ground again. Kratos followed closely behind, and jumped directly onto Balder, followed by continuous critical strikes under the [Spartan's Fury] state.

Bang--!

The last punch hit Balder's face hard. At this time, the arrogant god was breathing in more than out, and his face was covered in blood, and he no longer had the arrogance he had before.

"Go on, bastard... come and kill me!" Balder was still shouting.

"Please, please stop, he's no longer a threat."

At some point, Atreus supported Freya and came to Kratos. The poor mother was still pleading for her son, even though he had said more than once that he wanted to kill her.

After listening to Freya's request, Kratos stopped, and after a moment of silence, he stood up from Balder.

"I'm sorry, father, but Freya begged me..."

"I understand. It's not your fault." Kratos said, stroking Atreus' head.

"So, even in this situation, you still want to control me, mother?!" The wounded Balder said angrily as he struggled to get up from the ground. "Everything I'm going through now is because of you! Are you going to control me again?!"

Without the protection of the spell, Balder is no longer the powerful god who can completely ignore any injury. Relying solely on his own divine power, it is very slow to heal himself. Moreover, the venom of the World Serpent is not so easy to remove or cure.

"We can start over. We don't have to fight to the death..."

"Start over? The only thing I want to do now is to kill you and make you pay for what you did before!" Balder stood in front of Freya and roared.

"I have already paid the price..." Freya said, looking at her son. "But if this can make you calm down..."

Balder didn't wait for his mother to finish her words and directly grabbed Freya's neck, gradually exerting more force. A look of pain appeared on Freya's face.

But even so, Freya did not resist at all. Instead, she stretched out her hands to her son in front of her, as if she wanted to hug him.

"I love you..."

"I hate you!"

However, doing so did not awaken any conscience that might have existed in Balder's heart. Instead, he increased the strength in his hands, and Freya's pupils began to dilate.

At this moment, Leman Russ's big hand wrapped in gravity armor grabbed Balder in front of him, and then slammed him to the ground again.

"I told you, this guy will never give up on killing you." Leman Russ said. "From his current performance, even if he kills you, he will not give up fighting us. Everything you do is in vain."

"How come you are even more awkward than Perturabo..."

Baldur, who was pinned to the ground by Leman Russ, was still struggling. Just as he said, even if Baldur killed his mother and even if he was already wounded, he would not learn any lessons. He would still blindly follow Odin's will and hunt down Kratos and Atreus until the mission was completed or he died (considering that Baldur had lost his immortality, Odin should find a suitable time to abandon him).