Chapter 284 Chaos Wizard

Somewhere in the Warp.

An extra-large cruiser, the Sycorax.

The warship bore the marks of being poisoned by the Eye of Terror, with nightmarish geometric shapes covering its former structure, the ring-toothed muzzles of the macro cannons, and sculptures made of bones and shining silver, making it look like a sick fish from some poisonous sea.

In the meditation room, the old Thousand Sons warrior sat cross-legged.

Ctesias, formerly a Legion Archon of the Thousand Sons, is now a Chaos Sorcerer in Azek Ahriman's cabal, the Ronin Warband.

In the distant past, Ctesias was once a member of the Aquila School of the Thousand Sons Legion, known as the "Denying Sixth Prospero School" - a school that once attempted to study the nature of Chaos and the Aether, and colluded with daemons of the Warp, but was eventually disbanded under the direct orders of Magnus.

Ctesias is a Space Marine from the same era as Joestar, Satfaran and Kalamanda, but he looks so old and frail.

Ctesias fell asleep.

To be precise, he was dreaming.

He knew he was dreaming. He could feel the emptiness surrounding him, as gentle as the breeze and as cold as the deep ocean. He knew that everything he saw and heard was false.

A demon slowly rose from the dream before the Thousand Sons warrior's eyes.

The demon's shadowy form, hidden in the smoke, gradually took shape as it swayed. Its body was like a feathered lizard, with nine short legs breaking out from its flat torso. Each hoof had a mouth and tongue, and its head was covered with jaws that opened and closed constantly and narrow yellow eyes.

Ctesias could hear a voice at the edge of his hearing, an eerie laugh and a pleading.

Ctesias knew this daemon, it had once inhabited an astropath, feeding on the soul of its host, an astropath who had once belonged to the Iron Warriors, and was eventually banished back into the Warp on the surface of the feudal world of Malzan.

It was this demon who used the power of the astropath to inform himself that the STC was hidden in the feudal world of Malzan and the Iron Warriors needed support.

As a result, he lost a light cruiser, and in the multi-party melee in the Eye of Terror, he lost a second light cruiser. Eventually, he went from being a Chaos warband with a fleet to a lone commander with only a single ship.

This demon has many names among mortals: Chil-Tek, Dragon of a Hundred Gates, Infinite Speaker, Blah Blah Blah... but now only Ctesias knows its true name, and therefore only he holds the chains that enslave the demon.

"you!"

Ctesias' voice was heavy as he commanded,

"Obey me and follow my orders."

The demon's mouth opened and began to howl:

"What's wrong with you, little wizard?"

"I need a prophecy, an instruction."

Ctesias said:

"Tell me where the White Scars' fleet is, and describe their future to me."

"Why should I tell you?"

The devil said in a voice that sounded like crying and laughing:

"A dying Astartes, attempting to carry the power of the demon's true name in his mortal body. The chains have rusted, and the flames are pouring on the days that have not yet come. The broken bells cry out for the end. We will tear you apart from the inside, and then feast on your remains when they cool."

The demon flew around Ctesias, blinking its eyes, and said cheerfully,

"You want to know the future? Then let me tell you, you are already dead. In the future, all of you will be dead!"

"Everything dies."

Ctesias replied calmly.

The demon burst into laughter, and his slender body trembled under the blue feathers that reflected the metallic luster:

"But the devil won't."

It grinned widely, its body arched into a snake shape, then suddenly stretched out, grinning and saying:

"Chaos lasts forever, wizard."

"Hmph, you don't want to say it, right?"

Ctesias snorted coldly, sank his mind into his head, and began to carefully explore one memory block after another in his thinking field, unlocking and combining each fragment, and trying to spell the devil's name:

"Sah·sul·na·gu..."

Obscure syllables poured out from Ctesias' lips, and the demon roared and rushed towards him, its body constantly expanding, its skin torn, its arms stretched out from its swollen body, and its fingers stretched into bony razors -

"...th·nul·gu·ignal..."

The outline of the dream was stretched and distorted as the Chaos Wizard chanted. The sound of skin being torn was accompanied by painful cries, replacing the original roar of the demon.

"Aaaaah, stop! Stop!"

"…g·shu·theth."

The fragmented bytes continued to flow, burning in the air of thought, and the demon's body began to collapse, flesh hissing and turning to pus, blood and flesh peeling from its outstretched claws, and the last component of its true name was about to be released in Ctesias's mind...

"boom--"

The scene before Ctesias' eyes suddenly changed.

The bizarre lights in the dream disappeared, and he clearly "saw" himself on the deck of an unfamiliar warship. He summoned the power of psychic energy and easily killed several White Scar warriors. Then he stepped onto the bridge. Flames and thunder poured out from the blade, constantly cutting at the White Scars coming from all around. Ctesias held the sword in his hand, and the air around him formed a vague storm...

Fighting and killing non-stop, finally, he saw the warrior. Although he had never met him before, Ctesias knew that it was the Khan of the White Scars. Despair and unwillingness were frozen on his face, and he slowly fell under his sword.

The Chaos Wizard smiled contentedly.

The illusion disappeared, and the edges of the demon's outline flickered with a vague light as it was driven back into the warp by the Chaos Sorcerer.

"I..."

The demon screamed with its dissolving throat:

"Sooner or later... I will be free from your... bondage..."

Ctesias ignored it and just smiled, pondering the two geographical terms in his mind:

"Marques King Star Region."

"Hive World of Schwerin."

…

The fleet successfully arrived at the Five Hundred Worlds of Ultramar.

The domain of Regent Lord Roboute Guilliman.

The Conquest-class interstellar voyage ship Emperor's Coin, fully loaded with products brought from the Phaeton forge world, separated from the expedition fleet of the Brotherhood of the Gods and joined up with the escort fleet of the Ultramarines.

The Combined Fleet became the White Scars Fleet.

What a coincidence, Fu Qinghai also knew the captain of this Extreme Warrior escort fleet.

Golden curly, Papastathopoulos.

Vespato Industrial World, air port boarding area.

"Hahahaha, Qingshan, I never thought that we would meet again!"

Papa walked towards Fu Qinghai with a big laugh. There were some more scars on his face, but his hair was still curly blonde. The pain brought by the rebellion did not make him depressed. He was still as enthusiastic as ever. He and Fu Qinghai hugged each other tightly, attracting the attention of the surrounding Extreme Warriors.

Fu Qinghai took a look at his military rank.

corporal.

Not bad, at least he's not a private anymore.

"I never thought that my former defeated opponent would still be alive and well."

Fu Qinghai said with a smile.

"Go to hell, Qingshan, how about we go to the training cage and have another fight now?"

"Let's talk about it when you become a company commander. A mere corporal is not qualified to challenge me."

Yolanda Altera stood beside the two giants in ceramsite steel armor, watching them chatting and laughing, and her evaluation of Qingshan Khan in her heart was raised to a higher level again.

He was not completely unfamiliar with the Five Hundred Worlds. At least he had a good relationship with the Ultramarines.

Judging from the names that the two men kept saying, there were more than one or two Ultramarines who had a comradeship with Qingshan Khan.

Yolanda put away her last bit of thought.

…

The expedition is over.

The fleet left the Five Hundred Worlds and returned to the Hazy Star Region.

Before entering the Marcus King sector, the fleet first arrived at Sintira, the capital of the Calixis sector.

"We need to get the Brotherhood's intelligence officer on board."

Fu Qinghai said so.

At this moment, Fu Qinghai led the astropath, navigator and a group of space warriors, standing together at the entrance of the airport docking channel, ready to personally welcome the return of No. 56.

He deserves to be treated as such.

At this time, Camille came out from the passage behind him, approached Fu Qinghai and whispered,

"Karamanda's psychic power has awakened."

"oh?"

Fu Qinghai raised his eyebrows:

"No damage was caused, right?"

This is the Warhammer 40K universe. When everyone hears the words "psychic awakening", the first reaction is whether it has caused any damage, rather than whether it has brought any benefits.

"No, Lao Qiao and Lin Yu were watching. They just scared the three robot servants to death."

Camille said.

"Scared to death?"

Fu Qinghai asked with a frown.

He noticed that the pharmacist's word was not "downtime" or "overload" but "terrified."

Camille nodded:

"Yes, according to the psychic classification you gave me, Kalamanda's psychic ability should belong to the psychological fear."

It's psionic power again.

Fu Qinghai was a little disappointed.

Kalamanda, No. 56, and Satfaran are all psychic powers, namely fear, mind reading, and invisibility.

How come Captain Nightbat didn't inherit his Primarch's psychic powers of prophecy? It was with this gift that Soul Hunter Talos became the "prophet" of the Chaos warband.

Just as I was thinking about it, a familiar voice sounded not far away:

"Khan!"

Fu Qinghai looked up and saw the Alpha Warrior leading a strange Space Warrior towards him.

Hmm? Who is this?

Fu Qinghai immediately activated the active and passive perspective, and then saw the big bald head of the Space Marine hidden under the cloak and hood, and the small black words branded on the bald head.

It seems to be some kind of annotation and prayer on a prayer flag.

The one with the words!

Fu Qinghai was stunned.

Why did No. 56 bring a Word Bearer here?

Number 56 knew that Fu Qinghai had seen through Tristan's true identity at a glance. He walked over and whispered:

"Return to the battleship and explain in detail."

Fu Qinghai nodded slowly.

He turned around and led No. 56 back, then reached out and patted him on the shoulder:

"Thank you for your hard work. Welcome home, Chief Intelligence Officer."

…

Several Space Marines gathered on the embarkation deck.

Paladin + Word Bearers = Space Marine of the Light.

Number Fifty-Six introduced the Reincarnator Tristan to his teammates:

a human player from the World of Warcraft universe, who had undergone a Space Marine transformation operation in the Word Bearers Legion. He felt that the background ceiling of Warhammer 40K was very high, and since it was recently opened, he dropped the World Anchor here. As a result, he happened to catch up with the rebellion of the Seventeenth Legion. Tristan could not tolerate the inhumane sacrifices and atrocities inflicted by the traitors on mortals, and finally found a chance to escape from the legion, and has been living in seclusion in the Garden World of the Calixis Sector.

Tristan saved No. 56's life, and No. 56 clearly expressed his desire to recruit Tristan into the group. The Paladin himself also expressed his wish in a reserved manner - he didn't want to hide in the Warhammer 40K universe as a traitor anymore, unable to do anything.

Fu Qinghai agreed in principle, but considering the unstable factor of the Reincarnationist and the sensitive identity of the Word Bearer, he said that it would take some time to observe.

You know, accepting a loyalist of the Word Bearers requires solving more than just the Empire's problems.

And then there are the issues from the Word Bearers!

The most famous loyalist Word Bearer in the original novel, nicknamed "The Hermit" and his real name is unknown.

This man did something amazing. During the Horus Heresy, he was imprisoned in the underground prison of the Terra Imperial Palace for most of the time. He continued to write the unfinished version of "The Words of the Emperor" written by the fallen Primarch Lorgar Aurelion. After it was completed, it was used as the official doctrine of the Imperial State Religion.

Although the Imperial Church is not very powerful at present, it will be a huge and important force in the future and an indispensable part of the lives of the people of the Empire. Such an important religious organization actually has its doctrines and dogmas coming from a fallen Primarch and a traitor Space Marine?

If this gets out, it will be terrible.

So the empire tried its best to conceal the truth and tried every possible way to hide the "hermit".

As for the Word Bearers, they were the first "first uprising" legion to convert to Chaos, raise the banner of rebellion, and vow to overthrow the false emperor. However, they could not tolerate the emergence of a "traitor" who helped the false empire to teach. After learning of the existence of the "Hermit", the Word Bearers attacked the Imperial world many times in order to erase this "stain on the legion".

Accepting Tristan, the "traitor" among the Word Bearers, may lead to pressure from two sides at the same time. Fu Qinghai feels that he needs to weigh the pros and cons carefully - the most important thing is whether this person's character is worth doing so.

…

Marquez Wang Xingqu.

Mandeville Point, outside the Schwerin Galaxy.

A Fury-class super-large cruiser was quietly anchored in the large meteorite ring surrounding the outer periphery of the galaxy.

Ctesias stood quietly on the bridge, observing the fishbone-shaped spacecraft performing some strange operations in the meteorite belt through the armored glass dome above his head.

What kind of ship is that?

The Chaos Wizard frowned.

The frigate was of similar size, but there were no macro cannon arrays or light spear arrays on its hull. It emitted light blue rays that enveloped the meteorite, and then easily absorbed, crushed, and swallowed up a giant meteorite...

Is it mining?

Ctesias became more and more confused.

The Ishimura was unaware of the cruiser that was so close.

Unlike the Rectification, the Sycorax was not equipped with advanced additional facilities such as the "Shroud of the Most High", but Ctesias took a different approach and performed some kind of witchcraft ritual in advance to block the auspicious instrument's detection of the cruiser.

In fact, the Ishimura did not have a augury instrument.

The Chaos Wizard shook his head and looked away, no longer paying attention to the strangely shaped herringbone spaceship.

That wasn't his goal.

The real target hasn't appeared yet, so we can't alert him.

Ctesias waited patiently.

The entire bridge was very quiet, with only the slightest noises made by the movement of individual mortal crew members. If one looked closely at these crew members, the hard bird beaks on their faces, the protruding stubble on their skin, and the patches of bluish scales... I'm afraid they don't really fit the word "mortal".

In his arms, Ctesias held an Achaean-style helmet, unique to the Thousand Sons Legion, with a "Nemes" crown on top - a unique decoration used by Prospero to indicate the status of a "learned man".

He paced back and forth anxiously.

For some reason, he always felt uneasy in his heart.

On the left and right sides of his power armor, tanned human skin cloaks with seven hundred and twenty-nine blood curses were hung on Ctesias' shoulders like feathers, rustling as he moved.

For every ward created, a mortal died, but this was a small price to pay for a Chaos wizard. Without these wards, Ctesias might have felt insects bursting from his eyes, or acne and ulcers covering the tip of his tongue -

Flesh and blood mutation.

An old genetic disease of the Thousand Sons Legion.

Like the "Wolf's Spiral" of the Space Wolves, and the "Blood Thirst" and "Black Rage" of the Blood Angels, it is one of the most notorious genetic diseases, even more serious than the previous three.

It is said that this is the price of using psychic powers.

"My lord, subspace fluctuations detected!"

A crew member with a stork head and beak shouted loudly.

"good!"

Ctesias shouted excitedly.

It's finally here, I've finally waited for it.

He strode towards the transport deck and said:

"Transmission platform ready!"

…

A huge hole appeared in the real universe, and behind it was a bizarre and strange scene. A medium-sized fleet consisting of four warships rushed out steadily from the hole.

The Supremacy and the Fiery Horse, leading the two captured cruisers, had just returned to the real universe when the detection array on the bridge started to alarm frantically. The mortal crew members stared and shouted:

"Khan, we are being targeted by the Light Spear!"

What!?

Fu Qinghai's face changed.

Who hid here in advance to ambush us?

How did they predict the time and place of our return?

Before Fu Qinghai had time to think clearly about the above two questions, a thick golden laser had already hit the hull of the Suzheng, which had not activated the castle lord shield array.

"boom--"

The ship trembled, and the gravity-generating device was shaken so hard that it could not hold the soles of everyone's feet. The lights flickered, and the images on the screen kept flashing. Finally, the holographic projection of the ship appeared again, and three red areas appeared in the middle of the ship.

"The broadside macrocannon array is offline, Khan!"

"A group of lance turrets are offline, Khan!"

"Khan, it's teleportation, the enemy has activated teleportation!"

A series of bad news came in.

"Wait, teleport?"

Fu Qinghai frowned slightly.

When the void shield fails, Space Marines can use the teleportation platform to teleport directly into the enemy's warship, but this boarding method without the guidance of a teleportation beacon is extremely risky and may get stuck in the internal structure of the warship and merge with the bulkheads, pipes, decks, etc.

Fu Qinghai could not accept such a cowardly way of reducing personnel, so the warships under his command would board with torpedoes as the guide and then transmit after establishing the transmission beacon.

"The enemy's arrival position has been detected. It is located in the front cabin of the middle deck near Passage 16!"

The crew reported loudly.

"How long will it take for the void shield to activate?"

Fu Qinghai asked in a deep voice.

"One minute, Khan."

"enemy?"

"One, one... It should be a Fury-class super-large cruiser."

"What do you mean by 'should'?"

Fu Qinghai asked in an unhappy tone.

"Khan, come and see..."

The crew members in front of the detection array swallowed.

Fu Qinghai walked over and took a look. Due to the close distance, the image of the enemy warship had been accurately portrayed on the holographic projection by various detection devices.

It turned out to be a twisted and bizarre warship, covered with sharp thorns and with ring-shaped sharp teeth around the muzzle that kept opening and closing. The most important thing was that there was a huge eye near the bow of the warship, which kept turning left and right!

It had been soaked in the energies of the Warp for too long.

This battleship...it's alive!

This is the final result of a ship sailing in the subspace for a long time without turning on the Geller force field.

Fu Qinghai understood, and he ordered:

"Activate the castle lord's shield array as soon as possible, and then counterattack. Qiao Shida, Lin Yu, go to the middle deck immediately!"

After saying that, he picked up the helmet on the table and strode towards the armory of the Purity.

I didn't even go to help you, but you still dare to help me. Are you so bold?

......

(End of this chapter)