Chapter 46 Prophecy
Fu Qinghai looked through the porthole of the Stormbird at the ugly land below, which was devastated and covered with cracks caused by the movement of the earth's crust.
The transport ships are still hidden in these vast and deep rifts.
It doesn't matter. The locations of the three ships have been discovered, and their power systems have been destroyed, so they can't fly even if they have wings.
In this desolate and dead land with no living creatures, no history, and no legends, the Ultramarines and the Word Bearers fought a bloody battle.
Including Fu Qinghai himself, this group of the most elite and advanced biological weapons of the human empire, called Astartes, fought here with bloodshed.
They come up with all kinds of ideas and they fight with wits and courage.
Magic and technology, loyalty and faith.
They fought, they died.
After all, it is just a small microcosm of a local battle.
The Horus Heresy swept across the entire human empire and caused the loss of hundreds of billions of lives.
In the entire history of the Milky Way, compared to events such as the War in Heaven, the Birth of Slaanesh, the Iron Rebellion, and compared to those wars that led to the overthrow of the galaxy, genocide, and the change of dominance, the Horus Heresy was just a war of modest intensity and scale.
Thinking about all this, Fu Qinghai easily fell into a state of nihilistic melancholy.
What is the purpose of living... What is the meaning of fighting... What do you gain from sacrifice...
After all, it is just a speck of dust in the universe.
Fortunately, the cold reminder sound of the reincarnation world pulled Fu Qinghai back from Plato's three philosophical questions in time.
[With your help, the Ultramarines cruiser Sotharan won the encounter battle on the planet Loswell 7, achieving a milestone event! ]
[Start calculating assimilation points... 1675 points]
The assimilation points rewarded by the reincarnation world are much higher than those of the annihilation of the Qinping group.
I guess the reincarnation world thinks that the enchanted warriors and hell beasts that appeared on the planet Loswell 7 are beyond my capabilities... Fu Qinghai was thinking wildly, guessing the logic of the reincarnation world in giving assimilation points.
The Storm Bird was getting farther and farther away from the planet. The deep rift had become blurred, leaving only a bare black-gray sphere.
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At this time, on the Bloody Worm transport ship in the surface rift, the story is not over yet.
Inside the main control room of the Bloody Worm.
Ryoushita Hiro was in a panic. Unlike the pretense of elegance when he showed his abilities in front of Klofa, at this moment he was like a frightened fly, running around aimlessly.
"What should I do…what should I do…"
Liaoxia Hong held his head, feeling confused.
He originally thought that his spell field was successfully cast, and according to Klofa's original plan, it would be easy to kill these Extreme Warriors.
Unexpectedly, even Klofa himself was killed.
The two trump cards of the Word Bearers transport fleet - sacrificing the enchanted warriors and awakening the hell beasts that should have been sent to the Terra battlefield - were both used by Krofa.
Originally, Ryoshita Hiroshi didn't know why Krofer was so confident that he could keep the Extreme Marines on the surface of the planet.
The moment he saw the terrifying enchanted warriors and hell beasts, he understood.
Ryado Hiroshi felt that this one was a sure win.
But no one expected that even the powerful hell beasts and enchanted warriors were defeated.
"It's all because of that Space Marine in white armor..." Ryoushita Hiro thought with a sad face.
Fu Qinghai was wearing a white power armor with red edges, which was completely different from the dark blue power armor of the Extreme Marines. He was very conspicuous in the eyes of the Reincarnations.
What's more, he single-handedly killed Klofa, the Word Bearers commander of the transport fleet, the mysterious and extremely powerful being in the minds of the rebel Reincarnators of the fleet.
This is different from Alicia the Heartbreaker, who knew that the white-armored warrior was powerful, but decided to assassinate him to earn more assimilation points.
Liaoxia Hong, who was lying in front of the porthole and witnessed Fu Qinghai killing Klofa in a single fight, has lost the courage to fight him.
Knowing that the Word Bearers were doomed, Ryoshita Hiroshi didn't know whether the Ultramarines would search the entire transport ship after their victory, so he tried desperately to find a place to hide himself.
However, he saw the Ultramarines either teleporting or boarding landing craft, leaving the surface of the planet.
"It seems that their losses are also very huge. They have lost the ability to search the entire transport ship..." Ryushita Hiro thought secretly in his heart.
Ryoushita Hiro, who breathed a sigh of relief, forgot what Klofa had told them at the beginning.
The Ultramarines have a Moon-class cruiser parked in space orbit, ready to launch orbital bombardment here at any time.
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Outside the engine control room where Fu Qinghai was stabbed.
The blood spilled on the ground had dried, and the corridor was quiet.
A short old woman with gray hair and brown spots on her face, wearing a tattered cloth robe, walked over with a smile.
It was the old woman who claimed to be the prophet Agu whom Fu Qinghai met in the prison in the lower cabin.
She said to herself,
"I've been looking for a long time, but I still can't find where the existence that has attracted the attention of the four gods is. Who is the existence mentioned in the prophecy?"
She walked slowly to the door of the engine control room and looked at the body of the woman in black lying on the ground inside.
"Could it be that kid with white scars? He's the only one who looks a little strange in this whole incident. He seems to have a heroic streak, but... it's not enough. He's far from enough."
"...It's still far from enough to attract the attention of the Four Gods."
The old woman walked into the cabin while whispering, and slowly squatted down in front of a pool of coagulated blood.
"But no matter what, the future of the galaxy is always the most important. Even if it's an ordinary human hero, the cult should have information about him in advance."
Thinking in her heart, the old woman stretched out a skinny old finger and dipped it in the coagulated blood on the floor.
"Let me see your future, strange white-scarred boy."
She put her blood-soaked finger into her mouth, closed her eyes, and tasted it carefully.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Suddenly, a picture appeared in her mind.
It was as if she was in someone's dream, the surrounding scenery was blurry and chaotic, and she was floating above a church like a ghost.
At this moment, this spire church with a distinct Imperial Gothic style seems to be under attack by some kind of alien, a humanoid alien with blue skin, no nose, and a thin body.
But they were wearing a tall, agile combat device with great long-range shooting power.
Prophet Agu lowered his head and quickly came into the church.
Inside the church, the large and tall hall was packed with religious figures in gorgeous robes. They ignored the hail of bullets outside, chanted and praised loudly, and surrounded a crystal coffin.
The prophet Agu could tell at a glance that this crystal coffin was a stasis field device. The time inside would be solidified, and the objects inside could be preserved for tens of thousands of years.
The ordinary imperial soldiers outside the church were gradually unable to withstand the alien attack and retreated step by step into the church.
Alien bullets and lasers had pierced the church's stained glass and sent pages of books and candles flying and flames splattering from the shelves.
But this group of religious people still ignored it and chanted loudly around the coffin.
It seemed as if the person in the coffin was their last hope and savior.
It seems that waking up the person in the coffin will lead to a Jedi counterattack.
The prophet Agu looked into the transparent crystal coffin and saw a young man with a youthful face and handsome black hair. Judging from his size, he was most likely an Astartes.
If this isn't the kid with white scar, then who else could it be?
Suddenly, just as the defenders were losing strength and the enemy was about to break into the church, the man in the crystal coffin suddenly opened his eyes!
He suddenly sat up from the stasis field.
All around him, religious figures who saw him wake up burst into cheers, and voices praising the God-Emperor rose one after another.
The morale of the soldiers who were defending the city with great difficulty was also boosted.
Unexpectedly, the black-haired young man who woke up grabbed a plasma pistol at hand and shot a religious person next to him in the head with one shot.
The head cracked and blood splattered everywhere.
The black-haired young man sneered and said:
"I hate religion the most!"
"Boom--" The picture in her mind disappeared at this moment, and the old woman returned to the quiet and cold engine control room.
She opened her eyes wide, gasped for breath, and her face was full of fear.
Big drops of sweat dripped from her wrinkled forehead and splashed on the cold metal floor.
"No…no…I can't let him live to the afterlife…" The old woman was trembling all over as she recalled the scene just now.
At this moment, the old woman still didn't know what the state religion was, what the God-Emperor was, but she knew, or rather, a branch of the esoteric religion believed:
only that man, the being called the Emperor, the cold sun, could truly become a god, and then he could fight against the four evil gods of Chaos in the warp and protect all mankind in the galaxy.
And if the black-haired young man, a staunch materialist, were to live to the future ten thousand years later, he would definitely be a disaster that would cause endless harm.
In the beginning, the most mysterious organization in the galaxy, the Cabal, supported the Horus Heresy. Their prophecy held that the vast empire would eventually become nourishment for the Four Chaos Gods of the Warp, nurturing their growth and ultimately destroying all life in the universe.
So they have been planning to assassinate loyal Primarchs, and have also used certain means to incite Alpharius, the Primarch of the Alpha Legion, to rebel.
However, some prophets of the Eldar had different views from them. The Eldar prophecies believed that after the destruction of the Eldar Empire, only if the Human Empire continued to exist could it serve as the main force in the Milky Way to fight against the forces of Chaos.
Thus, many actions of the esoteric sect were prevented.
As a result, a split occurred within the esoteric sect, with some people believing that they should no longer support the rebels.
Among them, only Prophet Agu herself knows what faction and branch she belongs to.
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1. The esoteric schism is something I made up myself. This setting does not exist in the official novel.
2. The prophecy of the prophet Agu may not be filled in for a long time. In the outline, this is a foreshadowing for the subsequent plot of Warhammer 40K, "Age of Apostasy". I will say it clearly!
(End of this chapter)