After admiring the scenery that ordinary people could not appreciate for dozens of seconds, Leo spoke leisurely.
"woo woo woo woo--"
The response to Leo came from the darkness, and it didn't sound like a human voice at all.
"So, I can't allow that thing to devour it - Father, I have no choice. After you actually hooked up with them, I have no choice."
As he spoke, Leo's head strangely turned 180 degrees, staring straight at the dark corner where the voice came from, and ignited several balls of blue demon fire - under the reflection of the demon fire, a body... Although it had no hands and feet, although the eyes had been burned, although the skin was an unnatural blue, although there were only holes in the mouth and nose area, but in front of it, you can still see the outline of what was once a "human".
"Oooooooo-"
And it was obvious that this victim, who was the ruler of the Jodis world not long ago, could hear his son talking, and from Leo's expression, he could 'understand' what his father meant.
"The Empire? Ha, father, ever since you wanted to be immortal and colluded with those things, our world has been on the fast track to destruction. Look at those gene thieves who were forced to rebel because of my ritual! Do you really think that our family will not be purified by the Empire along with them?"
"Ka, ka ka ka——"
"Don't worry, you will see the end, father. You will see the sublimation of Jodis and the sublimation of our family. After that, you will know what a great blessing you have rejected."
Too lazy to listen to his 'father's' curse, Leo summoned the demonic fire floating around his father back to himself, turned his head back again, closed his eyes, opened them again, took back his 'pupil', turned around and left the hall, leaving only one sentence echoing in the air.
"Whether you surrender or not, father, the knowledge I possess has turned into power. It will usher in a new era of change, an era that will allow our family to rise in this universe..."
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On the Queen of Glory, after listening to the advice of a certain Hammer who was carrying a Black Legion pawn, most of the Hammers thought that it was a reliable tactic to use the Black Legion pawns to land in an airdrop chamber, directly raid the upper nest area, and directly behead those guys who betrayed the empire for no reason. However, in order to prevent the governor of this planet from simply betraying, the Hammers still mobilized the ghost of the Pai Gu family, strolled all the way to the upper floor, and went to the most conspicuous buildings. Then, they watched the "communication" between Leo and his father.
"Tzeentch stuff."
"It's Tzeentch's stuff."
"The father wanted to live forever and went to collude with the chicken thief. The son discovered his father's disloyalty and was worried that the planet would be polluted by the chicken thief. He turned around and ran to the Tzeentch family to ask if they had any way to solve the chicken thief problem. If I heard correctly, the planetary governor of this planet probably did something like this?"
"It is also possible that the son thought too much and looked for too much knowledge, so the Tzeentch family came to him, and then he was fooled into selling himself and helped the Tzeentch family count the money, and he thought he made a profit. Those sub-space guys are unreasonable. Once you cross the boundary, they will immediately lock your soul."
"Since the betrayal was indeed caused by Chaos contamination, Egg, have your oil man repair the communication system slowly! Before we deal with them, don't let the political commissar and his men get in touch with the outside world!"
"What?"
"We can't let the surviving loyalists know about Chaos, otherwise who knows what the Inquisition guys will do to them - even if the Inquisition doesn't do anything, their knowledge of Chaos will do them no good - just let them think that the nobles of the Upper Nest rebelled for power or something else!"
"That makes sense. So, how should we allocate our forces to attack the upper nest?
? It's impossible to let the Black Legion pawns perform, right? "
"The Astra Militarum and the Astartes will stay in the power station for now. Oiler will do what he is supposed to do. Black Bean Sprout will be in charge of sweeping the map of the lower nest, looking for living loyalists and clearing out the chicken thieves. If he finds any traces of a bishop or a patriarch, notify us immediately. Pai Gu will leave a few as scouts, and the rest will find a way to get to the upper nest. Once the Black Legion starts working, they will backstab the guy who defected to Tzeentch and give him an unexpected surprise. By the way...how do we lose the Black Legion's chess pieces? Where do we lose them?"
"The Tzeentch family must have chosen the number nine. They let the Ghostworker wander around again, lock onto the area with strong subspace energy reactions, find a pattern related to the number nine, and then randomly smash down one of the places - it would be best if they could blow up that area and make the psychic energy go out of control - anyway, the Tzeentch family likes changes, so I think their believers can accept nine turning into eight?"
"Of course. After all, for the old T family, change is good. It won't be a big problem to change from a mage to a slasher! And Tzeentch will definitely be very happy about this! Maybe that guy will even 'upgrade to a magic level' because of this! Wait, how about this, let Pai Gu go and burn some first, and then the Black Legion will come down? Cooperate?"
"Okay, okay, this should be more stable."
Amid the happy complaints of a group of hammer guys, the chess pieces fell one by one to the places where they were arranged. And far away at the highest point of the nest on the planet, Rio was still dreaming that he could take his family and his world to a beautiful sublimated Rio...
He had no idea that changes that would bring him endless 'surprise' and 'happiness' were about to happen around him...
16. The Black Army's Attack
Planet Jodis, Hive No. 1, State Religious Square.
This was once the most sacred place in this hive city. Statues of several saints once stood here. The Emperor's holy words echoed here all the time. There was once the largest library on this planet. It was here that several generations of rulers of the planet Jodis were enlightened...
However, now, distortion and blood have become the main theme here. The statues of the saints have grown wings and beak-like parts under the impact of the power from the warp. The words in the books in the library seem to have life, jumping around in the books, combining horrifying knowledge that is difficult for mortals to understand. The speakers whose appearance changes from time to time no longer emit the Emperor's holy words, but strange and meaningless mutterings.
What was even more blasphemous was that the hall of the State Church, a sacred place originally for offering prayers to the Emperor, had been occupied. Crazy blue replaced the dazzling gold, dyeing the entire hall as if it came from another world. The skull decorations that symbolized the purity of mankind were pulled into grotesque lines one by one, and blue smoke would occasionally emerge from the eye sockets. The fluttering flags were no longer made of cloth, but instead of flesh and bones. If someone dared to observe these things carefully and could maintain his sanity for a short period of time, then this daring thing would realize that these flesh and blood were essentially just adhesives, and what really made up the flags were the constantly changing, painful faces of people!
But these are just the tip of the iceberg of church blasphemy...
In the large square of the church behind the hall, nine huge execution pillars were erected in the nine corners of the square in a certain pattern, and nine howling state religion believers were hung on each pillar. The hands and feet of these warriors who did not succumb to Chaos were chopped off, their abdomens were cut open, their faces were bloody, and they were precisely maintained in a state of "dying but not dead" by the power of the warp - their will brought them terrible disasters, they had passively become part of the dark ritual, and when the ritual was completed, their souls were doomed.
"what......."
"this?"
"Can it be saved?"
When the Hammer guys took the simple map of the Upper Nest area obtained from Political Commissar Caikins, combined with the scanning device of this strange Queen of Glory and the detection device of the Ghost Worker, they successfully found the area that could be called the source of blasphemy on the planet Jodis. The tragic scene before them made the Hammer guys collectively silent for nearly ten seconds - until the Political Commissar activated the pattern filtering program, the Hammer guys with poorer psychological endurance recovered a little.
"I don't know - I don't even know if saving them is a good thing."
When he said this, the Lich King's voice trembled a little, which he himself did not notice - although they were all coaxed and tricked by Big E to come to 40K to help, after understanding their own characteristics and winning several crushing victories and protecting some loyalists, the Hammer Kings actually became a little inflated. But now the naked facts are in front of them - even if they are above the story, there are some things they can't do!
"Let them go. One of the supports of the power of the chess pieces you control now in this world is my psychic energy. After the blasphemy in them is burned away, I will accept their souls under my throne."
Just when the Hammer guys fell silent again, not knowing what to do, Big E's voice suddenly rang out in the hall - not as easy-going as when he played Warhammer with them, but full of majesty, and a hint of inexplicable sadness.
"Okay, Big E."
Knowing that the lich was in a bad state of mind, Silence walked to the lich, took control of the ghosts of the underworld from the lich, and took a deep breath.
"Necron, annihilate."
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Aka feels good.
As a follower who followed Leo to "do great things", Aka was a little bit resistant to what his master wanted to do at first. However, after seeing Leo use blue flames to burn the disguise of a scholar that his father had recently favored, revealing his twisted and alien true form, Aka no longer doubted that Leo was saving the world - even if Leo asked him to slaughter the state church, he readily agreed - what surprised him even more was that after completing the cleansing of the "alien stuff" in the state church, he actually gained some interesting powers...
"Look, alien, this is your true face. You should have repented long ago."
Standing under a rack, Aka raised his head and looked at a staggering Anglican priest with a smile on his face. This priest was an acquaintance of his, and could even be said to be his savior. If it weren’t for this Anglican priest who brought Aka out of the Lower Nest area, Aka might have already died in that intricate metal hell. Before, Aka would never have dared to say such words to this old man who was his adoptive father in some senses, but now?
Just when Aka felt that the "confession" of the state church priest was not pious enough, and stretched out his right hand that had turned into a bird's claw, gathering spiritual energy to teach everyone above his head a "small lesson", a strange feeling suddenly surged into his mind. Without hesitation, Aka gave up casting the spell, hugged his head and rolled over, moving as far away from the execution rack as possible - and he was immediately glad that he did this, because, the next second after he moved away from the execution rack, they all collapsed collectively!
"Who? Who is it?"
A-Ka, who was well aware of the strength of these execution racks, immediately ruled out the possibility that this was an accident, and once again raised his hand that had transformed into a bird’s claw—of course, his thoughts were soon interrupted, as a huge airborne pod with the Chaos Eight-Pointed Mark on it passed through the polluted clouds, smashed through the ceiling of the desecrated church, and mercilessly crushed him into a two-dimensional existence.
"Win every battle, move as fast as the wind!!!"
With a fanatical but somewhat ambiguous war cry, ten Space Marines from the Black Legion loaded into the drop chamber leaped out fiercely with various weapons in hand, and mercilessly began to clear out the cultists in the square. At the same time, the ghosts of the underworld workers also reappeared, slowly helping the Black Legion to carry out the cleanup work. After a short while, there were no more living people in the desecrated church area, and the entire church was set on fire after the cleanup was completed.
It turned into a huge golden fire.
17. The Ceremony of Initiation
"Help! Help!!"
“Impossible! We can’t possibly defeat these Astartes—Aaaaahhh!!”
"I surrender! I can lead you! I know... Gah--"
"Get back here, you cowards! We have to hold this line - my bones - ah!"
On a main road in the Shangchao area, hundreds of rabble were holding all kinds of weapons, trying to intercept the four Black Legion Astartes who were attacking them with a mantis arm - naturally, their attacks did not even scratch the power armor of these Astartes who represented terror and death in this universe, and their lives were perfectly harvested by these Black Legion Astartes with chainswords and bolters. Their commander was even grabbed by a Black Legion Astartes and thrown to the ground, his sternum and skull trampled to pieces one after the other - within less than ten minutes, the Chaos traitors in this block, along with their defenses, were all turned into scattered things.
And this kind of thing didn't just happen on one street...
"Attention! Those Astartes are coming! Uh..."
The rebel commander of a certain street had just marked it with an auspicious device when his life was taken away by the ghost of the underworld. Then, the rebels, whose morale had plummeted, were completely unable to stop the charge of the three-man team of the Black Legion Astartes and were slaughtered.
"Lord Leo has ordered us to retake the Church of the Holy Fathers. The cowards will be put to death..."
When a rebel officer was giving a speech, half of him was turned into ashes by an explosive bomb. The rebels, who were covered with the body of their leader, were instantly blown up and chopped to pieces by three Black Legion Astartes.
"This commander... can only give vague orders. I hope the emperor will not let them kill the loyalists."
This was the complaint of Hammer who had left the Black Legion pawns behind on the Queen of Glory. In fact, he had been trying to order the Black Legion pawns to F2A along the main road all the way to the main tower area. However, these Black Legion pawns obviously had their own ideas and directly split into three teams, each of which chose a road and chopped it over. As a result, the Necron pawns in the upper nest area had to actively cooperate with the Black Legion pawns. Although the Necron pawns had a command efficiency of about %, they also had various command problems, but it was good.
At least I can control the direction of action! (Monthly fee group 694936135)
"What's going on? Why did an Astarte suddenly appear?!"
This was Leo's roar after he learned that his ritual had been messed up by the fallen Astartes.
"Look, look..."
"Your world is falling, and you are not bringing change to it..."
"We need more souls, more dedication..."
"You need knowledge, you need more knowledge to change your destiny—"
"Open your eyes and look at the reality - the change has come -"
Just as Leo was forcibly controlling his emotions, concentrating his latest strength, and preparing to think carefully about how to solve the problem of damage to the ritual, certain voices - the voices that had friendly reminded Leo of the existence of gene thieves when he suspected that the nest had been invaded by aliens, and had helped him see the truth of the world - suddenly lingered in Leo's ears. What these voices said was so tempting that Leo immediately began to communicate with the voices.
"What kind of knowledge can help me solve this problem? I can obviously eliminate all the aliens in the world right away..."
"Hahaha, knowledge, the knowledge you need has slipped into your mind!"
"Open your heart, embrace them, embrace the changes, and you will soon understand the truth of everything - No! Wait -!!!"
A high-pitched scream, like the scream of some giant bird, rang out in Leo's soul, completely tearing the soul of this young man who thought he was capable. The psychic fire in his eyes burst and quickly spread throughout his body, as if something was stopping him from doing something. However, Leo, who had embraced the "knowledge" from heart to soul, had become the key to start the ceremony, activating the eight undestroyed blasphemous altars that served as ritual nodes one by one - the power of the subspace surged in the wailing of thousands of souls that were used as sacrifices, and the barrier of reality gradually became thinner...
“Nooooooooooo!!!”
The Tzeentch who had seduced Leo and arranged this series of plans in an attempt to bring all the human souls of the world of Jodis into his arms was squatting on the 'wall' of the world of Jodis. Leo, whose body had quickly collapsed into a chaos egg, looked at the room that had turned blood red with what were probably eyes of Leo, and wailed involuntarily - at the moment the ceremony started, the Tzeentch noticed that the most important core area of the ceremony had been destroyed, and the nine nodes had been reduced to eight nodes - to be honest, this had never happened in the future it had deduced, so it had not taken precautions against this problem at all!
"time?"
"Variety?"
"Completely unknown! A timeline that doesn't exist!"
"The fate of this world, which was bound to be destroyed no matter what, has changed! Changed!!"
"So, you have to fight hard! Go and see where the changes come from!"
Just as the great demon was wondering what to do because of the sudden change, waves of joyful, playful, and heart-pounding voices traveled through time and exploded in the ears of the great demon of Tzeentch. Then, the great demon of Tzeentch found that the environment around him had changed - the half-broken ritual still played its role, allowing part of the great demon's power to go to the material world.
that is......
"Blood sacrifice to the Blood God!!!"
Because the ritual starts at node eight, so... the great demon in place, and another Chaos God's subordinates...
18. The Great Demon Entering the Real Universe
Eslar is the great demon of Tzeentch.
Although it is too "young" compared to most of the Lords of Change. However, as a Lord of Change, the road of destiny has naturally accompanied it since the moment it was born. Using the wind of change blowing in the crystal maze, Eslar successfully interpreted the location in the physical universe that was linked to his own destiny, and glimpsed the myriad changes in it. With the understanding of the future, this great demon Tzeentch carefully planned the position of each soul that fell into his hands in the chess game, and guided them to take every step they thought was valuable. It ensured that the fall of each chess piece would bring its body closer to the physical universe, and it ensured that every trembling of the thread of destiny would make itself feel happy, so that more changes would override the real universe.
However, even in the worst and most failed changes, Eslar had never seen this fate. The sacrificial ceremony carefully arranged by his mortal servants under his guidance was inexplicably ruined and tampered with, and the sacred number was changed from nine to eight, so that the dogs of Khorne smelled his scent. If it was just like this, it would be fine. Unforeseen changes are what their creator likes most. This mistake of his might even make him very happy. But now, Eslar knew one thing clearly.
His master was very happy, but he wanted to see more changes. So, he was forced to come to the real universe through this unfinished ceremony! And the first gift he received when he arrived in the real universe was a huge battle axe swinging down at him!
"Servants of the Blood God, now is not the time for us to fight! We have all fallen into a conspiracy!"
Because it had 'forced' entry into the real universe, Eslar's condition was not good at all, so much so that it took a lot of effort to resist the first round of attacks from the furious bloodthirsty demon, and had to gather some souls to 'eat' in order to stabilize its own form - however, this made it discover the second problem, a more fatal problem.
Why are all the souls used as sacrifices in this world rotten? Where are those with firm hearts? Why are they all gone?
"howl----"
The bloodthirsty demon responded to Eslar with more violent axe swings and fire breaths - but this was understandable. Unless in extremely special circumstances, the way the Khorne demons would solve problems was to kill all the enemies. Then, a Tzeentch demon said, "Wait a minute, is there a problem?"
Kill the great demon Tzeentch, and this problem will most likely be solved!
“You know what! There must be a third party involved in this battle! We were all dragged out to change! You brainless dog! —Ahhhhh————”
Because he was trying to "persuade" the Khorne Demon, Eslar was a little distracted in the battle. While he was chattering, his wings were unfortunately "touched" by the flames spewed by the bloodthirsty demon. In an instant, the gorgeous wings of the Tzeentch Demon were burned half black by the eternal rage from the Brass Throne.
"Okay - then you can slowly release your anger here."
After realizing that the Khorne Daemon in front of him could never communicate with him normally, Eslar gave up the idea of using his mouth to make the Khorne Daemon act as his 'vanguard'. He raised his fingers, chanted a spell, and prepared to leave the tower first.
However.....
Its transfer spell had failed, and it had not been able to leave the tower at all - some power, some power that made it tremble, was rising along with the ritual, interfering with its power, making its connection with the warp inexplicably weak.
"Impossible! How can the power of the cursed be - the servants of the Blood God! We must unite - ah -"
Eslar continued to be beaten by the Khorne Daemon who didn't want to listen to what it said.
——————The dividing line for the hammer guys who see everything through the ribs————————————————————
"I changed the number to eight and it actually spawned a Khorne Daemon - and I also got a Tzeentch Daemon."
"This Tzeentch demon should be the culprit who lured the governor's family to betray. I wonder if its failure made Tzeentch very happy."
"I think he must be very happy - not only did we destroy the sacred numbers of the ceremony, we also ignited the Emperor's flame in the central area of the ceremony to help those souls who are worthy of going to the Golden Throne burn off the blasphemous power in them. The whole ceremony has become a mess - logically speaking, this Tzeentch demon cannot enter the real world unless Tzeentch himself takes action."
"So you suspect that this Tzeentch demon was sent by Tzeentch himself to experience the changes?"
"It's most likely that you all know what kind of temper Tzeentch has - maybe he is very excited because of some changes!"
