How can a retired savior be considered retired if his price drops to 40,000?

Chapter 51 Night Lord Ghost Story

It was an entangled cause and effect, an abominable fate, a lingering curse, and an abhorrent and despicable shame.

This is how Iron Father Malkan Feros defines the Emperor's Children in his heart of hearts.

Of course, if he met him face to face on the battlefield, he would not describe it so gently and euphemistically.But to describe it in words and sentences, these are enough.Language and phrases are used to convey to new recruits the grand history of the Chapter since the Great Crusade, so rhetoric needs to be as restrained as possible.Having seen that history, new recruits of the Iron Hands will naturally understand things that are not in words.

Then they will understand how, like their countless predecessors, they should choose to tell the rest of their evaluation in front of the enemy on the battlefield using weapons and bombs.

As one of the few members in this war group that overly values ​​reason and logic, Malkan Feros is naturally filled with a lot of anger when facing the current situation:
While sailing through the Warp, the battle barge "The Claw of Destruction" came under attack from a small group of the Emperor's Children warband.If such an attack occurred in the physical universe, then their chaotic and random "volley" of macrocannons would not even be worth a damn.But the tricky part is that this happened in the subspace, and this battlefield obviously favors those betrayed and fallen ones who are protected by the master of Chaos.

Although the Claw of Destruction successfully tore apart the enemy's formation and sank two small boats whose appearance had been modified to make them blasphemous and disgusting, it was not unscathed and was joined by the enemy.The brothers of Clan Dovok are not afraid of such a battle, whether they are the firstborn warriors or the new blood of the Primaris.All the warriors were full of hatred for those enemies who staggered into the ship through the breach, laughed evilly, played with weapons or musical instruments with their mutated limbs, and were covered with colorful decorations that even the descriptions were disgusting. Anger and hate.

As always, the precise calculations of mathematics and logic always find the path to victory for the Iron Hands.The Emperor's Children's gang had eaten away many small holes in the Claw of Destruction, but with the precise detection of the divination runes and the accurate and fast command of the data link, the most suitable troops were dispatched in a blink of an eye. The most suitable position.The battle brothers poured out their hatred and anger on the enemy like a storm. It cannot be said that the battle was easy, and it cannot be said that they were unscathed, but most of them did complete their tasks beautifully and in accordance with logical calculations. .

Except for the two teams sent to the bottom cabin.There must be something going on there beyond observation and prediction.

Things always happen in the subspace that are beyond what logic and common sense can predict, so Feros is not overly surprised by this.After receiving the rune signal that the two teams were completely wiped out, he chose to dispatch a team composed of Iron Think Tank, Primaris Scouts and heavy firepower team, hoping that this team could figure out what was going on there. So that the command system can make more accurate judgments.In addition, he also made the decision to awaken some Dreadnoughts in advance - the complex environment and narrow alleyways of the bottom cabin are not suitable for the huge Dreadnought mechas to display their abilities and firepower, but out of some emotional push similar to intuition , he still chose to do so.

This decision saved their lives a short time later.

It's hard to say which came first: the sight of some Chaos ritual transmitted back by the newly dispatched investigation team to the bilge, the alarm in the main power room, or the angry and painful roar of the Doomclaw's machine spirit.The visual intelligence shows that the slave laborers and mortal servants in the bilge have been desecrated by the wizards of Slaanesh in a rather creative way, and there is no doubt that the energy they wail from the soul has a clear source. Destination:

The plasma reactor in the main power chamber, the heart of the Claw of Destruction.

The evil and dirty hands of Chaos successfully and secretly grabbed it before anyone in the Chapter realized it, and the filthy invisible venom was injected into it, causing it to produce some disgusting mutation.Infected by chaotic and blasphemous consciousness, it let out a comfortable and euphoric cry at the moment it "came to life". This cry even disturbed the thoughts of the Astartes monks stationed nearby for a moment - and then , in this chaotic moment, a dozen battle brothers who were near the defense line of the main power room were dragged into the reactor by the activated metal.

Then, the contamination of Chaos began to spread along the pipes in the heart of the ship to the limbs and remains of the Claw of Destruction.The furious machine soul screamed and tried to stop all this, but the machine itself could not completely defy the laws of its own operation, and the machine soul's efforts were in vain.

Then Feros, who was equally angry, rushed out of the command room, led the battle brothers and the newly awakened fearless battle group, and rushed to the newly formed battlefield - after that, what may have been a day, or it may have been... After a year of fierce fighting, they succeeded in completely cutting off the main power room's erosion of the ship itself after paying a heavy price, and advanced to the vicinity of the lesion itself.During this period, the tactical planning of other parts of the Destruction Claw was completed by his lieutenant.As the surrounding pipelines and transmission mechanisms were actively cut off and isolated by violent means, Feros gradually became unable to receive messages from other directions on the ship.But he believed that his adjutant could at least maintain the situation.As long as he can deal with this most difficult problem, all other difficulties will be easily solved.

All he and his team need is a method that allows them to safely disable the reactor - which is a pity, considering that the demon-engined reactor seems to have its own consciousness, and they want to do it without causing serious consequences. Ordering it to be incapacitated requires some...fine skills.

The Father of Steel and the Lord of the Forge do not lack this kind of fine skills, but if they want to use them in the face of huge external interference, and they are not able to use their best fire suppression to clear the external interference, it is another very serious problem. The test: Everyone knows that if the reactor explodes, the entire ship will be destroyed.Both Battle Brothers and Dreadnoughts were constrained by this when fighting in front of the main power room.

However, those damn "interferences" always come like a tide. The activated cables are wrapped in flesh and blood. The mutated and fused machines are mixed with the remains of the Iron Hands battle brothers. The weapons worn by the victims are destroyed by the power of chaos. Twisting and deforming, they then pour their effectiveness onto their original colleagues under the control of a hated enemy.Feros led the brothers of the Chapter to surround the reactor from all sides, trapping its influence within the main power room as much as possible, but could never really get close to it - it shouldn't be so difficult, but this damn thing keeps changing. own structure.

Even after crossing his own Rubicon, Markan Feros still felt irritated and anxious because of the stalemate battle situation.Although he believed in his adjutant's ability, the fact that he was isolated on a single battlefield and unable to have an overview of all battle situations still made him unconsciously have the idea that "things might get out of control."

It is said that the Primaris Space Marine's performance is always more stable in the face of Chaos contamination, but he is still not 100% sure whether this idea comes from himself, from Chaos, or from some kind of experience and experience in battle. A "war premonition" based on piles of probabilities.He turned to his battle brothers, wanting to get more direct data and information from them, but when he looked in that direction, he found that his battle brothers were not there.

A giant with a dark blue impression took his place, and no one knew how he appeared here.His body was tall, calm and powerful, and his armor was luxurious. His shadow was like a slice of midnight, and even his presence itself made the already dim lighting in the ship even weaker.The darkness bowed for him, and the thunder surrendered to him. His dark eyes were locked on Markan Feros. The latter felt as if he had been completely cut open at that moment, and was forced to reveal all his secrets to the other party.

The giant made no sound at all, but Feros was instantly seized by a ridiculous fear: he had never seen this giant, never seen the armor on the other side, and he didn't know how the other side appeared. He didn't know the other person's name, whether he was a human or a ghost - but a legendary name emerged from the bottom of the data uncontrollably in his mind, desperately clamoring for his existence.Feros's sensibility and reason both wanted to reject this conclusion at the same time, but his intuition told him that that was the correct answer.

The pale face of Konrad Coze hung high in front of his eyes, and he asked him questions in a high Gothic accent with a soft hiss:
"Are you the commander of this team?"

　One more update.Six o'clock.

　　Markan Feros: The 40K iron-handed man, a rare normal person among a large group of cold logical paranoiacs who believes that emotion and logic should be balanced, Primaris.Senior Sister Fei's (very probably) favorite episode. Station B has his column. If you are interested, you can search for details.In short, it is one of the antagonistic characters that must be mentioned when mentioning the King of Sapphire.You all guessed it was sapphire, oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...

　　Dofok Clan: The bulk iron clan is roughly equivalent to a company of new recruits. In actual operation, there are also some veterans who lead the new recruits to fight.Because there are so many recruits who haven't had time to upgrade their strength, it's normal that the proportion of flesh and blood in this clan is much greater than that of mechanical modifications.

　　Dreadnought: Ironhand's Dreadnought is not necessarily an elder.Although it shouldn’t be a problem to call the elders, there is a chance that once you open the sarcophagus, you will find that it is actually empty...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)