Warhammer 40 A New Hope

At this moment, the struggling Balder kicked back Leman Russ who was holding him, and then rushed towards Freya who was gasping for breath not far away.

Kratos came between the two at this time and hugged Balder who rushed over. Balder was still struggling at this time.

"Why do you have to interfere? This is my business!"

"We have to settle our grievances here, and we must grow up." Kratos said, staring at Balder. "You leave me no choice..."

Click!

Kratos broke Balder's neck cleanly and quickly, ending his struggle. This powerful Norse God of Light fell.

"This is...liberation..."

"NO! NONONO--! My child!"

Freya, who witnessed all this, screamed and crawled towards Balder's body, and after an inspection, the light in her eyes finally faded.

"This is his choice..." Kratos explained, or rather stated the reality, but the mother whose child had died could not hear anything now.

"I swear..." Feeling Balder's body gradually losing temperature, Freya spoke slowly. "I will let all the pain, I will let all the disasters imaginable befall you..."

"I will drag your cold body through every corner of the Nine Realms..."

"I will feed your soul to the foulest being in Helheim! I swear!"

Freya roared the most vicious curse she could imagine at the person in front of her who saved her but took her son's life.

"We saved you..."

"You took everything from me!"

Yes, even though Balder tried to kill her several times, even though this child was no longer the same as before, Freya still regarded him as her own child, her everything, and now, Kratos killed her child in front of her!

"I'm glad we don't have such a mother." Leman Russ stood at the back and murmured quietly. "Otherwise, I can imagine her and my father's own ethical comedy..."

"Huh~"

628. Abnormal sound

Freya left with Balder's body in her arms, with a hateful expression on her face, while Kratos and others watched her go away.

"Why should she hate us? We saved her." Atreus asked as he looked at Freya who had disappeared.

"This question is actually very complicated." Mimir replied. "Although we saved Freya, in her mind she would rather sacrifice herself to save her child."

"Although we all know that Balder is beyond help, and in my opinion, the source of all these tragedies is actually Odin, but..."

"Your father killed his child in front of a mother. I don't think she can calm down and analyze the pros and cons."

Kratos remained silent for a long time before speaking.

"Let us go and accomplish our purpose."

"Okay, father." Atreus put on his bow and arrow, then looked at Leman Russ. "Is Uncle Leman Russ coming too?"

"Okay, I want to visit the Giant Kingdom too."

． ． ． Shortly after Leman Russ and others left ． ． ．

A [Elf·Revised] phase stealth battleship appeared above the battlefield, and then several automatic drones were released to begin an all-round search.

Soon after, the small pieces of Balder's flesh and blood that had been cut off by Leman Russ, as well as the ice and soil with his blood, were grabbed by the drones and sent to the ship.

[Codename: God of Light]

[Blood and flesh samples have been obtained]

[Returning]

. . . . . .

Jotunheim, Land of Giants

This is a place that Odin and his men cannot reach. After the giants destroyed almost all the portals leading to Jotunheim and commissioned the Norse god of war Tyr to close the last portal, most of the giants extracted their souls and placed them in beads that can store souls to avoid possible pursuit from Asgard and Odin.

This led to what Kratos's people saw now. When they finally arrived at the highest peak of the Nine Realms as described by his wife Fei after going through untold hardships, what they saw were countless corpses of giants as big as mountains.

Before that, they also saw the prophetic murals painted by Fei. These murals predicted almost everything that would happen during the journey of Kratos and his son, but... there was no Leman Russ.

There are even obvious blurs in several places in the prophetic murals. Based on Atreus' interpretation of the text in this area, the painter also raised questions here, wondering why they can't see the future, or why unforeseen changes have taken place in the future.

But for Kratos, none of this matters. Prophecies may not be accurate, and he has a deep understanding of this (when he was in Greece, Kratos killed the three goddesses of fate, so theoretically, general prophecies would not work on him).

The only part of the mural that was important to him was the part hidden by cloth in the corner - the scene of Kratos dying in Atreus' arms.

At that moment, Kratos, who did not believe in fate and even said that he had completely escaped from fate, felt a little panic and... relief...

After crossing the cave full of murals and arriving at the so-called highest peak of the Nine Realms, Kratos and Atreus walked to the edge of the cliff, looked at the countless corpses of giants in front of them, and untied the bag containing the ashes of his wife Fei.

(Go to the highest mountain in the Nine Realms and scatter NM's ashes (laughs))

Leman Russ, who followed, just watched the two men scatter the ashes in their hands until they finished.

"it's over?"

"ended."

"What are you going to do next?"

"go home."

"Yeah, good idea."

After a meaningless conversation, Leman Russ also began to follow Kratos towards the teleportation temple.

"What will Uncle Leman Russ do next?"

"Me? I should continue to travel and see things." Leman Russ said. "But it seems that my journey with you will come to an end for the time being."

"But you are welcome to come to me anytime, you know the place."

After returning to Midgard through the teleportation temple, Leman Russ parted ways with Kratos and his son and headed directly to the human empire's base.

The mecha monk Kabasi, who obtained the samples of Balder's flesh and blood there, is packing these precious samples and preparing to send them to the ring world for research.

"My mission in this world is temporarily over. To be honest, I actually enjoyed traveling with Kratos and the others." Leman Russ said. "It will take a long time before I can continue."

[Confirmed: The mission in this world is temporarily completed. Enter the latent state again and beware of revenge and spying from [Code: Asgard]]

"I can also take this opportunity to travel around. There are still many places in this world that I haven't been to."

[Warning: Our presence has been noticed by Asgard. It is not a good idea to continue going out.]

"Here's yours, just shut up."

As he spoke, Leman Russ handed Kabasi an old and dirty red bandage, and then walked towards the warehouse on his own.

"I'm going to eat something and then leave. Here's the food, just shut up!"

"..."

Looking at the red bandage in his hand, Kabas fell silent. He began to search for information about this thing in his brain, and soon after, Kabas, who had received confirmation, began to tremble all over.

[Probability: 99.8%]

[Item Name: Bandage that has been with Kratos for many years]

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Warhammer World, Warp

Crystal Maze

"Results of the 3754th experiment: No feasible world coordinates were found."

"The pathfinder lifeform lost its form after leaving the portal. Confirmed to have disintegrated."

"It's not easy to find a world where you can live normally in such a large space~"

The heroic spirit of Tzeentch, Tas murmured as he looked at the [Gateway to All Worlds] emitting blue light.

"Let's do one last experiment."

A dazed Tau man, escorted by two Tzeentch blue demons, walked to the Gate of All Realms. Under the gaze of dozens of eyes on the circular gate, he was pushed back in.

After a while, [Gateway to All Worlds] was still emitting a blue light, without any change. The experiment seemed to have failed again.

Suddenly, Tas, who had been indifferent, stood up, with surprise and enthusiasm on his face.

"Found it! Found it!"

"Although it's far away, judging by the scene he saw before he died, it's a new world."

"It's in the universe, there's a galaxy nearby, not too far away! I even heard radio waves that only intelligent creatures would use!"

"I finally found it!"

"Fine-tune the coordinates and place the teleportation exit inside the galaxy~"

"New unknowns and changes are waving at me!"

Having said this, he suddenly sat down again.

"Calm down~Calm down~ I still need to measure the strength of this new world. It wasn't long ago that the subordinates of Khorne, that reckless man, were beaten to death in that world of the God of Killing."

"Also, the last operation has been discovered. We need to be more cautious this time."

"First, I need to create some chaos to attract their attention~"

. . . . . .

New Star Regions

Yet another warship with Chaos markings was destroyed by the fierce artillery fire of the Imperial Navy. The warship, which had been corrupted by the power of Chaos, and the creatures within it that were bewitched by Slaanesh, became space junk in the universe.

Kerr's plan was successful. Soon after he announced the existence of the Pathfinder in this star region, sparse Chaos ships began to rush towards the star system where the planet Normans was located. Almost all of these enemies were destroyed by the prepared Imperial Navy fleet.

The organization of the Slaanesh faction has always been a problem. It is indeed a bit difficult to make these depraved beings who pursue the ultimate pleasure do or not do something in an orderly manner. After all, being pinned to the ground and rubbed by the enemy is also within the scope of their enjoyment. Running out alone and being caught by the enemy and then being subjected to the "ultimate humiliation" is also considered (Fulgrim could excitedly share it with others even after his brain was shot through and he was revived).

All this leads to their lack of order - wouldn't it be more fun if we were in chaos, each doing our own thing, or even just messing with each other and could still win?

But as more and more Slaanesh ships appeared and were destroyed, Bananak, the manager of this star zone, became more and more frightened: there were so many Chaos creatures in his territory!

Then he began to feel fortunate, fortunate that because of this small accident, these great enemies of humanity hidden in the newly developed star zone now ran out one by one.

Just as the plan was going smoothly, a piece of news from the reconnaissance fleet ahead caught everyone's attention.

A large and unique Slaanesh fleet is heading towards the planet Normanth.

There is no doubt that the enemy's main force is coming!

629. My dad might really like this one

A demon ship that had to be censored to be seen, and two Murder-class cruisers that were also severely corroded by the power of the Warp, appeared within the Imperial Navy's reconnaissance range and headed towards Normans.

This situation was immediately reported to the temporary command center on the planet Normans, and the wandering merchant Bananak immediately organized a meeting to discuss how to respond.

The conclusion they reached was very simple and unanimous - to intercept and destroy the enemy fleet in space as much as possible.

Because it is not clear how many enemies are on these three ships, whether there are enemy Space Marines, if so how many there are, whether there are demons or formed Warp Gates, so to be on the safe side, the best option is to destroy them all in the universe.

Even the Space Marines, who are called demigods, cannot engage in a head-on battleship without boarding the ship. After all, they are only demigods, not gods.

Besides, even if it was a 'God', it would have to consider whether it could withstand the full firepower of an entire ship.

However, just when they made up their minds and were about to give the order, another urgent message came:

Unknown energy fluctuations appeared in the target fleet, and the surrounding space was distorted to a certain extent!

Not long after this urgent message was delivered, everyone in the conference room heard the alarm - Normans had been invaded again!

A Chaos cruiser, along with another Imperial frigate, was falling from the sky.

． ． ． A few hours later ． ． ．

"There is no doubt that this is the [Curvature Jump] technology." Kerr, the leader of the [Pathfinder] Chapter, who was sitting in the main seat, said while holding the analysis report. "Although there are many problems, and these problems have also caused great damage to their ships, this is indeed [Curvature Jump]."

"According to the intelligence we have obtained in a short period of time, one of the three Chaos ships crashed into another planet due to a jump problem, and the crashed Chaos ship collided with an Imperial ship on its path due to the curvature state."

"That demon ship was the only local ship that reached the vicinity of the planet safely. Although the immature [Curvature Jump] technology caused some damage to its hull and overall structure, it is still in good condition."

"The crashed ship landed on the wasteland without causing any damage. The surviving enemies on board are being cleared out, but the process is not smooth. There are at least two squads of enemy Space Marines still alive on that ship."

"This has forced us to allocate a large number of troops to eliminate them, and the demon ship above our heads is about to break through the local orbital defense, and some landing capsules have even landed."