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Chapter 284 Chaos Wizard
Somewhere in the subspace.

A very large cruiser, the Sycorax.

The battleship bears the brand of the Eye of Terror, nightmarish geometry covering its former structure, ring-toothed macrogun muzzles, sculptures made of bone and flash silver, making it look like it came from A sick fish in a certain poisonous sea.

In the meditation room, the old Thousand Sons warrior sat cross-legged.

Ctesias, once a Legion Archon of the Thousand Sons, is now a Chaos Sorcerer of Azek Ahriman's cabal, the Ronin Warband.

In the distant past, Ctesias once belonged to the Aquila School known as the "rejected Sixth Prospero School" in the Thousand Sons Legion - this school once tried to study the nature of chaos and ether, and The Warp Daemons colluded and eventually disbanded under Magnus' direct orders.

Ctesias is a space warrior of the same era as Joestar, Satfaran, and Kalamanda, but he looks so old and weak.

Ctesias fell asleep.

To be precise, he was dreaming.

He knew that he was dreaming, he could feel the emptiness surrounding him, as gentle as a breeze, as cold as the deep sea, and he knew that what he saw and heard was all illusory.

A demon slowly rose from the dream in front of the Thousand Sons Warrior.

The hazy shape of the demon hidden in the smoke gradually took shape as it swung, its body like a feathered lizard, with nine short legs protruding from its flattened torso, each hoof It has a mouth and a tongue, and its head is full of opening and closing jaws and narrow yellow eyes.

Ctesias could hear a voice appearing on the edge of his hearing, eerie laughter and pleading.

Ctesias knew this demon. It once lodged on the body of an astropath, feeding on the host's soul. An astropath who once belonged to the Iron Warriors, it was finally banished back to the surface of the feudal world of Marzaan. subspace.

It was this demon who borrowed the power of the astropath to inform itself: the STC was hidden in the feudal world of Margaan, and the Iron Warriors Company needed support.

As a result, he lost a light cruiser, and the multi-party melee in the Eye of Terror lost a second light cruiser. In the end, he changed from a chaotic gang with a fleet to a bare commander with only one ship.

This demon has many names among mortals, Kil Tek, Dragon of a Hundred Gates, Infinity Words, blah blah... But now only Ctesias has its real name, so only he holds it in his hand. Chains that enslave demons.

"you!"

With a heavy voice, Ctesias ordered:
"Obey me, obey me."

The demon's mouth snapped open and began to howl:
"What's the matter with you, little wizard?"

"I need a prophecy, an instruction."

Ctesias said:

"Tell me where the fleet of the White Scars is, and paint me their future."

"Why should I tell you?"

The demon said in a voice that seemed to be crying and laughing:

"A dying Astartes, trying to use the mortal body to carry the power of the demon's real name, rattling, the chain is rusted, the flames are pouring out in the days that have not yet come, the broken bell is calling the end, we will tear you from the inside , and feast on it while your wreckage cools."

The demon flew around Ctesias lightly, each eye was blinking non-stop, and said cheerfully:
"You want to know the future? Then let me tell you, you are already dead. In the future, all of you will be dead!"

"Everything dies."

Ctesias replied calmly.

The demon burst into laughter, and his slender body trembled under the blue feathers that reflected the metallic luster:

"But the devil doesn't."

It grinned a big smile, its body arched into a snake shape, and suddenly unfolded, and said with a grin:

"Chaos lives on, wizard."

"Hmph, don't want to say yes."

Ctesias snorted coldly, sank his mind into his mind, and began to carefully explore one memory block after another in the field of thinking, unblocking and combining each fragment, trying to spell the name of the devil:
"Sah sul na gu..."

Obscure syllables poured out from Ctesias' lips, and the demon roared and rushed towards him. His body was constantly swelling, its skin was torn, its arms stretched out from the swollen body, and its fingers elongated into the bony razor—

"...th nul gu signal..."

The outline of the dream was stretched and distorted as the chaotic wizard chanted, and the sound of tearing skin was accompanied by painful cries, replacing the demon's original roar——

"Hey, stop! Stop!"

"... g·shu·theth."

Fragmented bytes continued to flow, burning in the air of thought, the demon's body began to crumble, flesh hissed and turned into pus, flesh and blood peeled from its outstretched claws, and the last of its true name The components are also about to be unlocked in Ctesias' mind...

"boom--"

The scene in front of Ctesias' eyes suddenly changed.

The grotesques in the dream disappeared, and he clearly "saw" that he was on the deck of an unfamiliar battleship. He summoned the power of psionic power and easily killed several white-scarred warriors, and then stepped onto the bridge. Thunder poured out from the blade, continuously slashing the white scars coming from all around. Ketesias held the sword in his hand, and the surrounding airflow formed a vague storm...

He kept fighting and killing, and finally, he saw the soldier. Although he had never met him before, Ctesias knew that it was Khan with the white scar. His face was full of despair and unwillingness. fell under his own sword.

The Chaos Wizard smiled contentedly.

The illusion disappeared, and the edge of the demon's silhouette shone with nothingness, and was driven back into the warp by the Chaos Wizard.

"I……"

The demon growled through its dissolving throat:

"Sooner or later...get rid of...your...shackles..."

Ctesias ignored it at all, just smiled, thinking about the two geographical terms in his heart:
"Marquez King Star District."

"The Hive World of Schwerin."

……

The fleet successfully arrived at the five hundred worlds of Ultramar.

Domain of Prince Regent Robert Guilliman.

The Conqueror-class interstellar voyage Emperor Coin, loaded with products brought from the Phaeton Forge World, separated from the Expeditionary Fleet of the Brotherhood of God, and joined the escort fleet of the Ultramarines.

The Combined Fleet became the White Scars Fleet.

Coincidentally, Fu Qinghai also knew the captain of the Ultramarines escort fleet.

Golden Curly, Papastathopoulos.

Vespato Industrial World, the airport boarding area.

"Hahahaha, Qingshan, I never thought that we would meet again!"

Papa laughed and walked towards Fu Qinghai. He had some scars on his face, and his curly blond hair was still on top of his head. The pain caused by the rebellion did not make him depressed. They hugged each other heavily, drawing the attention of the Ultramarines around them.

Fu Qinghai took a look at his military rank.

corporal.

Well, at least not a private.

"I didn't expect that my former defeated general was still alive and well."

Fu Qinghai said with a smile.

"Fuck you, Qingshan, why don't we go to the training cage and fight again now?"

"Let's talk about it when you become the company commander. A mere corporal is not qualified to challenge me."

Yolanda Altera stood beside the two ceramic steel armored giants, watched them chatting and chatting, and raised his evaluation of Qingshan Khan in his heart again.

He is not completely unfamiliar with the five hundred worlds, at least he has a good relationship with the Ultramarines Chapter.

Judging from the names that the two spit out from time to time, there are more than one or two Ultramarines who have a friendship with Qingshan Khan fighting side by side.

Yolanda put away her last little thoughts.

……

The expedition is over.

The fleet left Five Hundred Worlds and returned to the Obscure Star Field.

Before entering the Marquez King sector, the fleet first arrived at the capital of the Calixis sector, Sintila.

"Got to get the fraternity intelligence officer on board."

Fu Qinghai said so.

At this moment, Fu Qinghai led the astropaths, navigators, and a group of interstellar warriors to stand at the entrance of the airport connecting passage, ready to welcome the return of No. 56 in person.

He deserves it.

At this time, Camille came out from the passage behind, approached Fu Qinghai and whispered:
"The Kalamanda psychic energy has awakened."

"Oh?"

Fu Qinghai raised his eyebrows:
"No damage done?"

This is the Warhammer 40K universe. When everyone hears the words "psychic awakening", the first reaction is whether it has caused any damage, rather than bringing any benefits.

"No, old Qiao and Lin Yu are watching. It just scared the three servants to death."

Camille said.

"Scared to death?"

Fu Qinghai frowned and asked.

He noticed that the pharmacist's words were not "downtime" or "overload", but "scared to death".

Camille nodded:
"That's right, according to the psychic classification you gave me, Kalamanda's psychic ability should belong to the fear of the mind system."

Psychic power again.

Fu Qinghai was a little disappointed.

Kalamanda, No. 56, and Satfaran are all psychic powers, which are fear, mind reading, and invisibility respectively.

Why didn't Captain Nightbat inherit the divination psionic power of his Primarch?Soul Hunter Talos relied on this talent to become the "prophet" of the Chaos Warband.

Just thinking about it, a familiar voice sounded not far away:
"Khan!"

Fu Qinghai looked up and saw that the Alpha Warrior was leading a strange Space Warrior walking towards the side.

Um?Who is this?

Fu Qinghai immediately activated active and passive perspective, and then saw the big bald head of the space warrior hidden under the cloak and hood, and the small black characters branded on the bald head.

It seems to be some kind of annotations and prayers for prayer flags.

Word Bearers!
Fu Qinghai was taken aback.

How did 56 bring a Word Bearer here.

No. 56 knew that Fu Qinghai had already seen through Tristan's true identity at a glance, so he walked over and said in a low voice:

"Go back to the battleship and explain."

Fu Qinghai nodded slowly.

Turning around and leading No. 56 to walk backwards, he stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder:

"Thank you, welcome home, Chief Intelligence Officer."

……

Several Space Marines gathered on the boarding deck.

Paladin + Word Bearers = Space Marine of the Light.

No. 56 introduced the reincarnated Tristan to his teammates:
A human player from the World of Warcraft universe, who has undergone a space warrior transformation operation in the Word Bearers Legion, feels that the upper limit of the Warhammer 40K background is very high, and it is newly opened, so he dropped the anchor of the world here, and it just caught up with No. The 17th Legion launched a rebellion. Tristan couldn't bear the inhumane sacrifices and atrocities imposed on mortals by the traitors, so he finally found a chance to escape from the Legion and has been hiding in seclusion in the garden world of the Calixis sector.

Tristan saved No. 56's life. No. 56 clearly expressed his desire to join Tristan, and the paladin himself expressed his wishes with restraint—he didn't want to be a traitor again in Warhammer Hidden in the 40K universe, can't do anything.

Fu Qinghai agreed in principle, but because of the unstable factor of reincarnation and the sensitive identity of word bearer, he said that it still needs to be investigated for a while.

You must know that to accept a loyal faction of the Word Bearers, you need to solve not only the problems of the empire.

And a question from the Word Bearers side!

The most famous Loyalist Word Bearer in the original novel, nicknamed "The Hermit", his real name is unknown.

What an awesome thing this man did. During the Horus Rebellion, he was imprisoned in the underground prison of Terra Palace for most of his time. The first edition of the "Emperor's Holy Words" continued to be written until it was completed and was used as the official teaching of the Empire's state religion.

Although the state religion of the empire is currently insignificant, it will be a huge and important force in future generations, and it is an indispensable part of the life of the people of the empire. Such an important religious organization, its teachings and dogmas come from a fallen gene primarch and a traitor interstellar warrior?
It's worth spreading the word.

So the empire tried its best to conceal the truth and tried every means to hide the "hermit".

As for the Word Bearers Legion, they were the first "Shouyi" legion that converted to Chaos, raised the anti-flag, and vowed to overthrow the false emperor. It was unbearable that there was a "traitor" who helped the false empire teach a book. After learning of the existence of the "hermit", the Word Bearers attacked the imperial world many times in order to erase this "stain of the legion".

Accepting Tristan, the "traitor" among the Word Bearers, may face pressure from two aspects at the same time. Fu Qinghai feels that he needs to carefully weigh the pros and cons—the most important thing is whether this person's temperament is worth it. Do.

……

Marquez Wangxing area.

Outer Schwerin Galaxy, Mandeville Point.

A furious-class super large cruiser, quietly parked in the large meteorite ring belt around the outer galaxy.

Ktesias stood quietly on the bridge, watching the fishbone-shaped spacecraft that was performing some strange operations in the meteorite ring through the armored glass dome above his head.

What spaceship is that?
The Chaos Wizard frowned.

The size of the frigate is large, but there is no macro-cannon array or light array on the hull. It emits light blue rays covering the meteorite, and then absorbs, smashes, and swallows a giant meteorite with ease...

Is it mining?
Ctesias became more and more puzzled.

The Ishimura was unaware of the cruiser that was close at hand.

The Sycorax did not install advanced additional facilities such as the "Supreme Curtain" like the Suzheng, but Ctesias found a new way, by performing some kind of witchcraft ritual in advance, to shield the bird's divination instrument from Exploration of the cruiser.

In fact, there is no bird divination instrument on the Ishimura.

The Chaos Wizard shook his head, looked away, and stopped caring about the strangely shaped fishbone spaceship.

That's not his goal.

The real target has not yet appeared, so you can't startle the snake.

Ctesias waited patiently.

The entire bridge is very quiet, only the slight noises made by individual mortal crew members moving. If you carefully observe these crew members, the hard beaks on their faces, the stubble protruding from the skin, and the spots of bluish scales... I am afraid it is the same as " The two words "mortal" don't quite get along.

Ctesias is holding in his arms an Achaean-shaped helmet unique to the Thousand Sons, with a "Nemesh" crown on the top of the helmet-this is a local Prospero used to represent "a learned man". "A peculiar adornment of status.

He walked back and forth anxiously.

For some reason, there was always some uneasiness in his heart.

On the left and right sides of his power armor, the tanned human-skin cloak with 720 nine blood curses tattooed on it hangs on Ctesias' shoulders like feathers, rustling as he moves.

For every protection spell created, a mortal dies because of it, but this is only a small price to pay. For Chaos Wizards, without these protection spells, Ctesias may feel insects in his eyes. out, or pimples and festers over the tip of his tongue—

Mutation of flesh and blood.

The old heredity of the Thousand Sons is sick.

Along with Space Wolves' "Wolf Spiral" and the Blood Angels' "Blood Thirst" and "Black Rage", it is one of the most notorious genetic diseases, and even more serious than the previous three.

It is said that this is the price of using psionic power.

"My lord, subspace fluctuations have been detected!"

shouted one of the stork-beaked crew.

"it is good!"

Ctesias shouted excitedly.

It's finally here, it's finally here.

He strode towards the teleportation deck and said:

"Transportation platform ready!"

……

A big hole was opened in the real universe, and behind it was a strange and bizarre scene. A medium-sized fleet composed of four warships rushed out of the hole steadily.

The Suzheng and the Ritual, leading the captured two cruisers, had just returned to the real universe when the detection array on the bridge frantically called the police. The mortal crew stared and shouted:

"Khan, we are locked on by the light spear!"

what! ?

Fu Qinghai's expression changed.

Who hid here in advance to ambush us?
How did you expect the time and place of our return?

Before Fu Qinghai had time to think clearly about the above two problems, the thick golden laser had already hit the hull of the Suzheng, which had not activated the shield array of the castle master.

"boom--"

The ship trembled for a while, and the gravity generating device couldn't absorb the soles of everyone's feet. The lights flickered on and off, and the pictures on the screen flickered non-stop. Finally, the holographic projection of the ship was displayed again, and three red marks appeared in the middle of the ship. The place.

"The broadside macro artillery array is offline, Khan!"

"A set of spear turrets is offline, Khan!"

"Khan, it's a teleportation, the enemy has launched a teleportation!"

A series of bad news came up.

"Wait, teleport?"

Fu Qinghai frowned slightly.

When the void shield fails, the space warrior can be directly teleported to the inside of the enemy's battleship through the teleportation platform, but this method of jumping without the guidance of the teleportation beacon is extremely risky, and it is likely to be stuck in the internal structure of the battleship. Integrate with bulkheads, pipes, decks, etc.

Fu Qinghai couldn't accept such a useless method of reducing personnel, so the battleships under his guidance all jumped torpedoes as a forerunner, and then transmitted after establishing a transmission beacon.

"The location of the enemy's arrival has been detected, it is located in the front compartment of the middle deck near the NO.16 channel!"

The crew reported loudly.

"How long will the void shield be activated?"

Fu Qinghai asked in a deep voice.

"One minute, Khan."

"enemy?"

"One, one... It should be a furious-class super-large cruiser."

"What is 'should'?"

Fu Qinghai asked in an unhappy tone.

"Khan, come and see..."

The crew in front of the detection array swallowed.

Fu Qinghai walked over and took a look. Due to the relatively short distance, the image of the opponent's battleship had been completely depicted on the holographic projection by various detection devices.

It turned out to be a twisted and grotesque warship, covered with sharp thorns all over its body, and ring-shaped sharp teeth that were constantly opening and closing were attached to the muzzle. The most important thing was that this warship was near the bow. The huge eyes are still turning left and right!

It had been soaked in the energies of the Warp for too long.

This battleship...it came alive!

The ship sailed in the subspace without turning on the Geller force field for a long time, and this was the final result.

Fu Qinghai understood, he ordered:
"Activate the castle master's shield array as soon as possible, and then counterattack. Qiao Shida, Lin Yu, go to the middle deck immediately!"

After speaking, he picked up the helmet on the table and strode towards Suzheng's arsenal.

I didn't even try to help you, but you still dare to take the initiative to help me, have you eaten the heart of a bear and the guts of a leopard?

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(End of this chapter)