The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Soshjan originally thought Amnak wanted the Warp weapon, so he didn't ask much about it.

But when the two returned to the landing craft, Amnak gently stroked the blade with his palm, then suddenly gripped it tightly.

Under Soshjan's astonished gaze, he pulled a patterned viper from the blade. The viper writhed in his hand, then its tongue transformed into a human face, emitting a wail.

“King of Hosts! I am willing to serve you! Serve you——”

Amnak opened his mouth and bit down on the snake's head, then slurped it down like a noodle. Immediately, the wounds on his body healed rapidly at a visible rate, and his pale face regained its color.

Soshjan blinked.

“You ate it?”

“Ah, I am your servant now. Naturally, I have some of the abilities of the Grey Seer. Actually, me eating it is equivalent to you eating it.”

He picked up the blade, which had returned to its cyan color. It now looked clear and pure, but upon closer inspection, a faint grey line remained deep within the blade.

“This should be made from a gem from Isha's temple, its origin being Isha's healing power, and it also gathers the power of many believers' consciousness. It was originally a good thing, but it was wasted by someone who didn't know its value, actually using it to forge a mediocre weapon. Fortunately, its power hasn't been lost much.”

Then he handed the weapon to Soshjan.

“However, because it was forged in the Soul Forge, even though the demon inside has disappeared, it is still inevitably tainted with the evil power of Chaos. It will require a complex purification process to truly restore it.”

Soshjan looked at the weapon in his hand and asked:

“Can I do it?”

“You might directly destroy it.”

“Okay.”

When Soshjan returned to the Star Dragon, which served as the temporary flagship, all the Chaos warships had been annihilated. He immediately ordered spindle drones to collect the fragments of the spiral obelisks and place them in the best insulated equipment, waiting to return to the royal court for further research.

After eliminating the troublemakers, the Eldar fleet returned to the Kingdom of Lyra'susus. Soshjan immediately found the seer who was in contact with the royal court to ask about the situation there. The answer he received was as Soshjan had expected. Not long ago, a group of former residents from Commorragh in the royal court suddenly launched a rebellion, and also opened two Webway gates. Then, led by Krytz Verix, the "Serpent's Kiss Whip," one of the five Archons of the Black Heart Kabal, tens of thousands of Kabal warriors and a dozen Bloodbrides and their twisted creations poured out of the Webway gates. This force could completely overwhelm a heavily guarded human world.

But they ran headfirst into the ambush force led by Jain Zar and Maugan Ra. These two ostensibly went on an expedition with Soshjan, but in reality, they were just two bishops who had their armor shaped to look like them. The two had been hiding in the royal court.

And Soshjan had secretly borrowed two mountain dragons from the Lynnae world. They had been on standby in orbit, and when the enemy appeared, they were teleported directly to the square of the Webway arch, blocking the Black Heart Kabal army. Moreover, because the two Webway arches were located in a semi-enclosed space, the Kabal's personnel were highly concentrated when they poured out. Each of the two mountain dragons unleashed a plasma breath, directly wiping out thousands of Kabal warriors. It is said that the scene was extremely tragic at the time.

And the Bloodbrides' Pain Engines and twisted creations also collided with the wrath of Bandaram. The Black Heart Kabal knew about this thing, but they didn't know its power. Bandaram's highly charged breath even directly penetrated the Webway arch, destroying the Kabal forces waiting behind the arch. The psychic storm it stirred up directly dismantled the Pain Engines like toys.

Afterwards, the residents of the royal court also took up weapons and launched a counterattack against the stunned Black Heart Kabal, and the situation quickly became one-sided.

But there were also some interludes. Just as Veronica had Vilethz sit in the palace and moved to the front line herself to close the Webway and command the royal court's guards to annihilate the enemy, the four maids around her suddenly betrayed her and launched an assassination attempt - according to the seers, it wasn't a betrayal. If they had harbored malice, they would definitely not have been able to escape Veronica's senses or the perception of other forces in the royal court, such as the guardian cat Garfield. In fact, they were hypnotized, or rather, an instruction was implanted in their subconscious at some point. They themselves were unaware of this, and when the instruction was activated, they would lose their self-awareness and act completely according to the instruction, so that the murderous intent and malice in their hearts would not be perceived.

But their assassination had no possibility of success. Veronica restrained them with a single thought. Because she rarely took action, most people, including the citizens of the royal court, believed that her power was limited to healing and comforting people.

In fact, Veronica also had a violent psychic attack power and precise control.

However, Veronica didn't do anything to the four betraying maids, because they had been with her for a long time and she still had some feelings for them, and she also knew that they weren't acting voluntarily.

But she didn't know that the four maids' betrayal was not only to assassinate her. Vect had considered the situation where the assassination failed, so they would have another role in case of failure, which was as coordinates - to mark Veronica's location.

At this time, the real trump card appeared.

“Fabius.”

Veronica, surrounded by her retinue and maids, looked at the old power armor covered in human skin in the distance, the old face, the sparse and withered hair, the torture device-like supports on the back, and the weapon resembling a cane in his hand, and softly spoke his name.

This was Vect's real trump card, a seemingly harmless but extremely troublesome existence, and also someone who was very interested in the Eternal Royal Court, or rather, Soshjan.

Accompanying Fabius were not only his new humans, but also a demon, or rather, a greater demon.

It was called N'kari, one of Slaanesh's Dark Consorts, and also the former lover of the corrupted Primarch Fulgrim. Some Emperor's Children even speculated that the relationship continued to this day.

But now, the greater demon, who had been arrogant at first and proclaimed that he would show the corrupted Veronica to Soshjan, was very miserably nailed to the ground, a spear similar to the Avatar of Khaine piercing through its head, from its mouth all the way through the back of its head.

A towering, majestic eagle-headed spirit construct emitting golden psychic energy stood above the Slaaneshi greater demon, one leg still踩 on N'kari's chest, like a falcon capturing its prey.

Looking at this sudden turn of events, Fabius's withered face squeezed out a slight smile, and the cracked lips uttered words without any fear.

“The Eternal Royal Court... truly unexpected. It seems Fulgrim still underestimated his opponent. But he has always been like this, failure is also expected.”