40K: Where did the Emperor go?

Chapter 117 The Betrayal of the Betrayer
A pitch-black figure wields a dark alloy greatsword in his hand, looking at the endless darkness outside the window on the bridge of the unrecognizable Vengeful Spirit.

Vashtor came to him: "My lord?"

"The next thing doesn't need you, go back to the future and continue digging the network channel."

Vashtor nodded, "Yes."

Vashtor disappeared over the bridge.

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The battle on Isstvan V was extremely difficult, and Horus and his rebel forces had built this place into an extremely hard fortress.

Loyalists and rebels alike were locked in a bloody war of attrition, with Corax the Raven King and his legions among the first to be unacceptable.

The voice of the Crow King appeared on Ferus's channel: "Ferus, I request to retreat, my legion is too consumed."

The taciturn Primarch was the first to ask to withdraw from the battle, and his troops were the first to conduct a decapitation raid. Attrition was not their forte.

Vulkan's voice also followed: "I suggest that we suspend the offensive first and wait for the arrival of reinforcements. Horus built this planet into a fortress before our arrival, and continuing to fight will consume us too much." big."

Vulkan the Salamander Primarch also favored consolidation, and his Legion had fought the Death Guard most brutally.

The dark weapons of the No.14 Legion inflicted heavy casualties on the Salamanders, nearly all of Vulkan's men were wounded in battle, and their ammunition was nearly exhausted.

And after receiving the news that the Night Lords, the Word Bearers, the Iron Warriors, and the Alpha Legion are about to arrive, Vulcan and Corax believe that they can wait for the arrival of friendly forces and then wipe out the rebels with absolute superiority. Even Horus cannot Resist the siege of seven Legions Astartes at the same time.

Vulkan continued to persuade: "And I didn't see Horus' flagship, where did their ships and fleet go?"

Ferus: "I have received news that our reinforcements have jumped over Mandeville Point. They have entered this galaxy. Support is coming soon. Focus all artillery fire on the Ugol Highlands and lay down our support here. Now, this war is over."

Although Vulkan and Corax felt faintly uneasy in their hearts, they still chose to trust Ferrus, the appointed commander-in-chief of Terra.

The firepower of the three legions tilted towards the Ugol plateau where the rebels were located, and launched round after round of terrifying orbital bombing.

From the atmosphere, one can see strands of orange-red light permeating from the Ugol highlands, illuminating the earth scarlet.

However, although the land was devastated by bombing and some of the rebels' peripheral firepower and strongholds were destroyed, the fortress where the main force of Horus was stationed still stood tall with the anti-orbital attack equipment arranged in advance.

Most of the rebels hid in extremely deep underground facilities and tunnels so that they were not hit too hard.

When the orbital bombardment ended, the surface of the planet was crystallized due to the ultra-high temperature.

The sky darkened, countless airdrop pods and transport planes sent a large number of Astartes to the surface, and the general offensive of this war began.

The Warmaster's fortress is surrounded by mountains on three sides. They can only choose the depression in front of the fortress to log in. The enemy has deployed too much firepower on the surrounding mountains. The price to be paid for attacking from other places is really unacceptable to the three legions .

But even with the least costly strategy, the battles on Isstvan were brutal, with hundreds of thousands of Astartes dying almost every minute.

Whether loyal or betrayal, sets of superhuman organs can be seen everywhere on the battlefield, and precious gene seeds are scattered all over the battlefield.

Ferrus charged at the forefront, and he led ten companies of elite Morlock terminators to insert towards the command point of the rebels.

Three legions pushed the rebel line back to the fort, and at this time they also received word that the other four legions had arrived.

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The corner of Horus's mouth raised. Ferus thought that the reinforcements came to support them, but he didn't know that it was actually their urging talisman.

So far, Horus has not shown his real combat power at all. In order to ensure that this delicately arranged bait war can continue, Horus did not let Angron and his legion dispatch.

The disobedience of the World Eaters is the consensus of the entire empire, and Horus intends to release them from the bunker when they finally return to attack.

What Horus didn't know was that he was furiously directing the battle, calculating the loyal side, and Angron and his World Eaters were not idle at this time.

Abaddon commanded the fleet on the Vengeful Spirit, and Horus was in the bunker below. In this bait battle, Horus had to use himself as the bait to lure Ferus to put all his troops into Easter Fan No. [-] is in this trap.

So at this time, Abaddon was in command on the Vengeful Spirit, and Horus himself was on the Isstvan V.

On the World Eaters side, it was just the opposite. In the underground fortress, the person wearing the God of War armor was not Angron, but Lin Daiyu.

At this time, Angron was on board the Conqueror, and in front of him was a team of World Eaters fully armed with the best unyielding Terminator equipment.

The Warmaster used his authority to conveniently allocate the best equipment and weapons to the rebels. As one of the rebels, the World Eater was naturally one of them.

It's just that now Angron is about to carry out a fatal backstab rebellion against Horus. He asked Lin Daiyu to disguise himself as himself and go to Isstvan V, while he himself stayed on the battleship, just for this moment.

Angron looked at the think tanks around him. As soon as he waved, the think tanks immediately began to cast spells. Before that, Angron had asked Kahn to go to the Vengeful Spirit in the name of the messenger.

Kahn and his personal guards put on their weapons and equipment, and after confirming the time, they walked out of the room and headed for the weapon room.

The Son of Horus, who was guarding him, saw Kahn approaching aggressively, stepped forward and asked doubtfully, "World Eater? What are you doing here?"

Without any nonsense, Kahn hacked to death the Son of Horus standing in the front with an axe, and the soldiers behind him also raised their guns to unleash their firepower on the Astartes guarding the gate.

"We have been betrayed!"

"Attention all ships, the World Eaters are traitors, and the traitor Kahn is attacking us..."

Abaddon was stunned for a moment when he heard a large number of alarms and warnings coming from the communication, and then gave the order to counterattack with a dark face.

Kahn set up the teleportation beacon, and Angron walked out with a large number of World Eaters. Angron didn't talk too much nonsense. Looking at the Son of Horus in front of him, he said a word: " kill."

(End of this chapter)