The Emperor’s Angel of Death

"Hurt."

Hearing Soshyan's words, Tech-Sergeant frowned, obviously unable to understand.

"We are warriors, warriors fear no life or death, Legion Commander, just entrust the war to us."

"That's not what I meant."

Soshyan shook his head with a smile and sat back in his chair.

"Just now, talking about the Tech-Sergeant brothers, didn't you doubt anything Lee said? How did that priest know your identities?"

Tech-Sergeant was stunned for a moment, and soon he realized something was wrong.

"Yes, I sometimes feel strange, why did the Imperial Fist's bastards suddenly know our identities, and even we didn't know why Lee was able to secretly get the dying me into his hands... it's just that sometimes I suddenly don't bother to think about these things."

Sitting in the chair, Soshyan narrowed his eyes, looking at Tech-Sergeant's somewhat confused expression, realizing that the effect of the mind-locking beetle had disappeared.

"I see."

"What?"

Tech-Sergeant looked at Soshyan blankly.

"Some of Lee's words and hints misled you, he used the identity of a life-saver to interfere with your thinking, preventing you from thinking about these things."

At this time, mentioning the mind-locking beetle, Soshyan felt that the blow to Tech-Sergeant was too great, so he changed to a gentler explanation.

After saying this, Soshyan's vigilance and disgust for Lee became even stronger. No matter what his purpose was in doing this, it really hurt these Astartes who had once desperately protected humanity.

This made him think of the Dragon Guard he saw at the Void Dragon's place. Obviously, her relationship with Lee was unusual. Was Lee's research on gray marrow relying on her power? Or was it directly related to her? If so, then it would involve the Void Dragon again.

All things are linked, but once you try to explore the source, it becomes a blur again.

But Xerxes' memory does not contain Lee, so how did he get in touch with gray marrow?

Perhaps it is related to Macardo's organization, or perhaps it is related to Dorn.

Who gave him the mind-locking beetle?

Originally, after going to Terra, he thought he had straightened out the events, but now it has become a tangled mess again.

At least for now, the appearance of Tech-Sergeant and the others is definitely a good thing, allowing Soshyan to see the hidden side of Lee, making him vigilant, so that he would not be fooled by the other party, and he would have a direct understanding of the means of mind-locking beetles. Next time, if another unfamiliar blood brother appears, he will have a way to test whether the other party has been implanted with a mind-locking beetle.

"He... why..."

Tech-Sergeant was a little confused for a while, and Soshyan immediately comforted him:

"It doesn't matter, you have returned to the Legion, don't worry about the past, I will take care of it myself. Now your main task is to integrate into everyone. I plan to appoint you as the 9th Company Commander, but the number of people in the company should not be too many. It may be necessary to split some people into other companies. If you think it is inappropriate, you can say it, and we will discuss a new plan."

Tech-Sergeant shook his head.

"Since I have returned to the Legion, all personnel transfers will be arranged by you, Legion Commander. All we have to do is obey. And I have never regarded combat brothers as my subordinates or subordinates."

"Well, it's good to understand. You've been wandering outside for so many years, it's been hard."

After talking about the personnel arrangements, Soshyan chatted with the other party for a while. During this period, Tech-Sergeant and Soshyan talked a lot about the battles they had fought in the past four hundred years and the various aliens they had encountered. Among them, he focused on a traitor legion called the Ashen Claws. This is also a group of Astartes who left the Empire and did not join the embrace of Chaos. They are large in number and of unknown origin, but they often engage in looting activities. Tech-Sergeant and the others had also "teamed up" with these people to do a few highway robbery deals. In addition, Tech-Sergeant also revealed one thing, that the Carcharodons Chapter is in contact with this group of turncoats. They had seen a Carcharodons Chapter warship enter the territory of the Ashen Claws.

Moreover, Tech-Sergeant had chatted with the raiding lord of the Ashen Claws and learned indirectly that this organization was very old. They had been wandering here even before the Horus Heresy. And according to his observation of these people, the tactics used by this group of turncoat warriors are a bit like a combination of the Raven Guard and the World Eaters. They like to secretly approach the target and then launch a violent attack.

This is very interesting information for Soshyan, but it is only interesting, after all, the Ghoul Stars are too far away.

Soshyan told the other party about the equipment situation inside the Chapter, some internal and current situations of the Anguish Alliance, and some battles of the Great Whirlpool Expedition.

From the conversation, Soshyan could feel that Tech-Sergeant should be a more talkative person. His strong sense of justice in the past still had a small part of it left, but it was swallowed up too much by revenge and anger. He did not fall into Chaos entirely because of the gray marrow supporting him. In order to help him get rid of the viper biting at his soul, Soshyan made a request.

Hand over Belisarius' skull to him.

Tech-Sergeant showed hesitation in front of him for the first time—

"Tech-Sergeant, I hope you can forget the past, forget the self who once joined forces with Chaos traitors for revenge. We can take revenge, but when revenge becomes unscrupulous, it will destroy our beliefs. I am not blaming you, nor am I asking you, I just hope you return to your original self, the one who argued for the oath and the civilians."

Soshyan stood up from the chair and stretched out his hand to Tech-Sergeant.

"All this is just to forget, let go of those painful memories."

Tech-Sergeant gritted his teeth, the metal on his face changed again, but it soon subsided, and the Necron symbol did not appear again.

"Legion Commander, I cannot forget the dead brothers, but I am willing to forget that person. I will prevent hatred from entangling my heart again, but it may take some time."

Saying that, he turned around.

"I will help you, and other brothers will help you. We are brothers, we are all one."

Soshyan stretched out his hand and broke the spikes on Tech-Sergeant's back directly. Looking at the dim yellow skull on it, Soshyan sighed softly and crushed it with one hand.

"Take off your armor and have a good rest, get a real sleep, or chat with the warriors."

"Yes, then I'll go first."

Tech-Sergeant nodded and walked towards the door.

After the cabin door closed, Veronica reappeared out of thin air. After looking at the broken bones on the ground, those broken bones burned by themselves, but the flames were pale blue and had no temperature, and in the blink of an eye, not even the slag was left.

"This Lee is not only not a good person, but also a rotten person! This kind of thing and his cold and unscrupulous father are really quite similar."

Soshyan sat in the chair, facing the huge projection screen. At this time, the warship was still staying near Naiton VII. His eyes were fixed on the blue planet in the distance. After hearing Veronica's words, he shook his head and sighed:

"Good and bad, I can't tell the difference now."