Chapter 70

However, just as Erebas was about to think about what kind of holy words he would tell his subordinates, the appearance of those gods' messengers who looked wrong flashed through the mind of the dark apostle again, causing this scum who was already half a frightened bird to involuntarily reach out to another switch - the gods are moody, what if... what if... what if the test given by the gods is much more difficult than he imagined?

"Boom!!!!"

Just as the dark apostle was brainstorming wildly, a shockwave was transmitted to Erebas' body, and a terrifying explosion of a door being blown open also reached his ears, followed by the continuous sound of Astartes power armor boots hitting the metal ground. Without looking any further, Erebus already knew that something he thought was impossible had actually happened. He could no longer trust anyone in this world. If he wanted to survive, he had only one choice...

"Zizizizi————"

However, for the Dark Apostle, he realized this a little too late. When he pulled down the switch that could seal the secret room with the heavy adamantine door and open another secret passage, the sound of metal being burned by something echoed clearly in the secret room. Erebus, who was already captured by fear, looked in the direction where the sound came from and found that a large hole had been cut out in the thick wall in that direction. A gray knight was holding a war blade and striding towards him from the hole in the burned wall.

"——You, you are..."

"I am the messenger who brings you judgment——Although I would like to execute you right here, there are too many judgments waiting for you, so I am sorry that you can still live for a moment."

Saying this, Diego reached out his hand, grabbed Erebas' body, and lifted him up like a little chicken. Knowing that his doomsday was imminent, Erebas screamed and wanted to escape from the hands of the Grey Knight Grand Master. Erebas screamed and prayed to his gods for strength, but...

There was only silence.

There was only silence.

Thirty-five. Erebas must die! ——The end of Erebas

Dazed, dazed...

Thousands of nothingness lingered in my mind, thousands of words were spoken in my ears, countless pictures were shattered in front of my eyes, and the incomplete memory made it impossible for me to recall everything about myself...

Who am I?

Where am I?

What am I doing?

Am I still alive now? Wait? What does it mean to be alive? Why am I thinking about this question?

Gods...ah, what are gods? Can they help me? Why do I need the help of gods? I begged so much! Gods! All gods! I...what am I thinking?

"Wake up, big scum, stop pretending to be dizzy, open your eyes and face your fate."

Just as more and more confused

thoughts continued to pour out, constantly tearing the body and soul of the thing called 'Erebus', the elegant and graceful voice of the Dark Lady gently tore open the curtain between reality and illusion, like a rose vine with countless thorns, easily cutting through the unpredictable energy wind of the High Heaven, accurately locking onto the soul of Erebus who was escaping from reality in this ocean in a 'autistic' way - after entangled with it at lightning speed, Erebus's consciousness returned to reality with a scream that a mortal could never make, and successfully recalled his current situation.

He was caught! Caught by a Grey Knight! Moreover, he was escorted by the Grey Knight to the ruins of his temple! And then, and then...?

Erebas, who was firmly bound to an oversized Imperial double-headed eagle emblem by chains and nails engraved with the Emperor's Word and other worse things, stared blankly at the audience who were "watching" his existence, and even forgot the heart-wrenching pain in his body for a short time - Gods above! What did he see?

He saw the Grey Knights and the messengers of the Four Gods coexisting peacefully, he saw the Astartes who stayed in the rotten Empire and the warriors under the command of the Great Predator, he saw the Eldar aliens whispering with their absolute enemy, the Slaanesh Daemon, and he saw that there were even Tau watching him! - Wait! The Blood Warrior with one arm exposed over there looked slightly different from what he remembered, but wasn't that Kahn? Why did he find the world he was in? And who was the green-robed warrior standing next to him holding a power long sword that the White Scarred Astartes liked to use the most? Why do I feel an indescribable sense of oppression from him!

"What...what are you going to do? Kill me if you want to, don't...don't waste time - my death will not be worthless, the Four Righteous Paths will avenge me! You will all be destroyed and annihilated at the last moment!"

Although he was already flustered by what he had witnessed, Erebus still summoned up his little courage and shouted loudly - but before the dark apostle could finish his harsh words, the descending body of the lich Zhang swung the power knife on his neck, causing the traitor among traitors to swallow all the subsequent words.

"The last moment? You should first consider how you are going to survive the soul judgment I will give you next?"

Amidst a silver bell-like laughter, a sword flew from the Dark Lady's descended body and pierced into Erebus' heart, causing the Dark Apostle to scream again, which even Slaanesh might praise.

"Gah————————!"

The extreme pain stirred the power of the Supreme Heaven to an extreme extent. Under the impetus of supernatural power, Erebus suddenly felt that his soul had once again left his body and floated to a small house. On the door of the house, the double-headed eagle logo of the Empire was extremely eye-catching.

"No...No! My soul doesn't want to go there!!! Elysium's messenger! Why are you doing this to me! Do you know that you are stepping into a taboo!!"

--Having guessed how his soul would be treated in that room according to the style of the Great Demon of Slaanesh, Erebus, who was so scared that his three souls and seven spirits were lost, howled wildly while trying hard to concentrate his attention, trying to guide the power of the Supreme Heaven to escape from the Dark Lady's grasp. However, when the smell of the best incense commonly used by the Imperial Church of England entangled Erebus's soul, all of Erebus's resistance was ineffective.

"Gah???"

The incense made his eyes blurry, and the next moment, the dark apostle found that his soul had been firmly bound to an interrogation chair - the things placed in the area he could see were all holy objects of the state religion, and the most terrifying thing was that on the table opposite the interrogation chair, there was a book of "The Words of the Emperor"!

"Gah! Don't torture me like this! I... I beg to die, beg to die! No! Don't open that book! Don't let me read the words on it!"

Watching the pages of the Holy Words in front of him slowly turn, Erebus, who thought he was forced to read the words on it, howled three times - but what relieved him was that after turning a few pages, the Holy Words stopped on a certain page and stopped moving.

"Huh..."

Erebus, who felt that he had 'escaped a disaster', had just let out a long breath when he saw the words on the page of the Holy Word in front of him suddenly jump. Amid the low sound of birdsong, a Tzeentch demon - the one he had seen before - walked out of the Holy Word leisurely, and suddenly brought its head with pupils burning with golden flames in front of him, staring at him!

"Honorable apostle of the Lord of Change, you..."

"Erebus, do you know your sin? Do you know that your actions have violated His way?"

Golden flames continued to pour out of the mouth of the Tzeentch demon, and then turned into various runes circling around Erebus - he had never expected that the messenger of the 'power of destruction' came here to ask for an account of the dark apostle's throat. He was so choked that he didn't know what to say.

"You don't know, of course you don't know, you destroyed the greatest hope, you destroyed the most interesting change in the galaxy, you made the whole world fall into a destined spiral! - Do you think that your sword is the will of the vast ocean? That's just what you think!" "No... Messenger of the Supreme Eagle, listen to my explanation..." If Erebas felt horror when he was held accountable just now, now Erebas only felt panic - why did this messenger of the sky actually blame his actions against Horus back then? Didn't he do this to spread the righteous way of the Supreme Heaven better in the world? "You have never understood what tolerance is - others treat you with sincerity, but you choose to repay with swords and lies, Erebas, you betrayed all your family."

The Great Unclean One, who should perhaps be called the 'Great Clean One', appeared in this trial room with golden flames jumping. His slow words were all disappointment in Erebas - in the sad tone of this 'Great Demon of Nurgle', Erebas's sight passed through the time curtain of the subspace, he saw his past, saw every betrayal of his own, and even saw the beginning of his 'stealing' of the name Erebas!

"Messenger of the loving father, I, I..."

Erebas, who had never expected that the messenger from the Decaying Heaven would also accuse him, and his soul was dizzy. He hurriedly cut off the half-spoken defense to the Great Demon of Tzeentch, and tried his best to dig out the words in his mind. As a result, before he could say another two words, the body of the third 'Great Demon of Chaos' had already appeared in this small room.

"You have no courage at all, you don't know what glory is!!"

The roar of the bloodthirsty demon shook the entire interrogation room. The Khorne demon holding a golden magic sword walked out of the surging golden waves. The turbulent subspace energy behind him frantically narrated the scene of Erebas killing Angertai with despicable means. Staring at the eyes of the angry incarnation filled with anger, Erebas lost the courage to defend himself. His upper and lower teeth - or what should be teeth - clashed wildly, and his soul unconsciously shrank down, as if he wanted to curl up in this judgment chair.

"Ah, ah, ah - so, look at you, you keep saying the Four Noble Paths, but you have never walked on the right path - Erebus, you have never loved God, and you have not pushed your faith to the 'extreme'. How can you be worthy of walking on the right path and calling yourself a messenger? You are a pseudo-believer. In your eyes, the gods of the warp are just tools for you to achieve your ambitions - you say, should you encounter the most terrible divine punishment? Should you endure eternal torture?"

The last 'great demon', the descended body of the Dark Lady, had been leaning against the wall before. The being who was watching the play on the wall, when he felt that the script was almost ready, twisted his waist in a very Slaanesh-like manner, and walked slowly to Erebas, whose soul had been bombarded with words by the first three Chaos Demons, and showed an unstable aura. He stretched out a hand, lifted his chin lightly, and forced the great rebel to look at him. Suddenly, Erebas felt that his soul was attracted by the bottomless thing reflected in the eyes of the Dark Lady, and all his past deeds were completely transformed into a scroll, playing back and forth in his mind continuously!

"I... I am pious... I... I..."

Although the memory of being 'awakened' by this Slaanesh demon has clearly 'pointed out' that he is a false believer, a person who wants to use the power of the Chaos Gods to realize his ambitions under the banner of the Four Right Paths, Erebas, who does not want to encounter 'divine punishment', still decides to fight back. Naturally, his words are exchanged for the rumbling laughter of the four demons present.

"Divine punishment!!"

The Tzeentch demon screamed sharply, and the sound tore Erebas' spirit.

"Divine punishment."

The Nurgle demon spoke compassionately, and the sound shook Erebas' will.

"Divine punishment."

The Khorne demon roared angrily, and the sound destroyed Erebas' luck.

"Divine punishment? - But before that, you have to endure the punishment in reality - That's right! Let everyone present cut you once, right? Don't worry! The target of divine punishment is your soul. As long as your body is still alive before your soul is punished, it is not considered dead, and I have plenty of ways to keep you alive!"

The Dark Lady, who finally spoke to summarize everything, flicked her fingers, causing the Emperor's Word on the table to fly up and pounce on Erebas' face. The sacred text was imprinted on Erebas' soul without reservation. Erebas screamed loudly, but found that his consciousness had returned to reality - the position of the blood flowing from his body had not even changed. What he had just encountered was an illusion?

Of course, in an instant, Erebas' unrealistic fantasy was shattered by the Dark Lady's voice.

"Come on, the real execution of Erebas has officially begun. Considering that Erebas's endurance has an upper limit, all units are only allowed to cut or shoot at Erebas once. Sister Political Commissar, your Kahn chess piece goes first? It's better to use some Yin force! Lich Zhang, you want to use your current chess piece to cut him twice more? Sure! Just don't use your other chess pieces!"

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Regret.

Very regretful.

Endless regret.

When Erebas' life was finally "mercifully" ended by Diego's holy sword, the rebel found that his soul fell to the gate of a magnificent palace. At the gate of the palace, the four Chaos Demons who had just judged him were "leisurely" waiting for his arrival. When they saw their souls stand up, the four demons laughed wildly and walked into the palace gate.

"Ah...Ah?Ah!!!"

--Seeing the actions of these great demons, and then seeing the burning double-headed eagle on the palace gate. Erebas, who felt that he understood everything, ignored the pain that penetrated into his soul, dragged his steps, staggered to the gate, and chanted the words in the Emperor's Holy Record loudly--However, as soon as he opened his mouth, the turbulent wind of the warp blew him up, making the dark apostle speechless, and sent Erebas straight into something that looked like a coffin!

"Gah!!!"

When the lid of this coffin-like thing was closed, Erebas' screams resounded throughout the golden palace--pain! Endless pain! Endless torture! It was a pain that was hundreds of millions of times more terrible than the pain of being cut into pieces and still having a breath left! In less than a moment, the soul of this great sinner was drowned! Such pain made Erebas' soul unconsciously begin to break, but this thing used unknown means to tightly bind the soul of the dark apostle, allowing him to soberly endure it all.

"Erebus, I hereby sentence you to bear all the sins and sufferings caused by you. Feel it well. In this vast galaxy, there are billions of sorrows, billions of pains, billions of despairs caused by you. They are all coming to you."

——In the endless surge of pain, Erebas heard the voice of 'His', heard the voice of Him who pronounced 'divine punishment' on him. He wanted to pray to Him for forgiveness. However, all the suffering he had caused, His soul had been dragged into the ocean of pain - the golden flames rose up and firmly 'welded' Erebus' coffin under the floor at the palace gate, leaving millions of loyal souls trample.

Eternal torture, eternal damnation.

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"It has been determined that the captain of the Ship of the Holy Word that completely wiped out the demons is the Grand Master of the Gray Knights, Caldo Diego? Change his identification code to a friendly force - in addition, try to determine the pattern of the Ship of the Holy Word appearing in the real world. We often need its support.”

Robert Guilliman, the imperial regent who was no longer surprised by certain things, was calmly giving orders.

Thirty-six. Erebus must die! ——External chapter: brought by video

Broken limbs and broken arms scattered everywhere.

There is still warm blood flowing slowly in the soil.

Skulls piled up in the manner of some very profane ritual.

The tall man standing among these things, with one bare arm and holding his battle ax tightly, created a tyrannical presence in this slaughterhouse.

——The Chief Chosen Champion of Khorne, the Betrayer ‘Kahn’.

"Strange, why did I feel a little relieved just now?"

However, what was different from the past was that after completing this tribute to the blood god Khorne, the chosen god of Khorne did not rush to the next battlefield immediately, but stood there without knowing why. Frowning - In the massacre that was the same to him just now, Kahn inexplicably felt a sense of security of unknown origin at a certain moment. At the same time, the blood in his hand was also suddenly excited at that time. He easily cut off the weapon of a blood god warrior who had been fighting with him for two rounds, and then chopped off the weapon on his body that was obviously filled with blood without losing any strength. The power armor blessed by God - this change confused Kahn, making him involuntarily want to take a break and find the source of this feeling.

"Kahn, my people received a very interesting message. Maybe you should read it."

However, just when Kahn used his great willpower to suppress this idea, his partner this time - a certain person from the Great Crusade era who chopped off a small warband with a sword in the Eye of Terror. The voice of the World Eater veteran suddenly sounded in his headset, causing the Blood God champion to frown. Interesting? For the followers of the Blood God, this word should have been lost in the vast ocean of turmoil long ago!

"You'll be interested, Kahn."

As if he knew the meaning of his old comrade's silence regarding his words, the World Eater veteran spoke again.

"OK."

The betrayer thought for a few seconds, turned around and walked towards the aircraft. At the same time, he made up his mind. If his 'old brother' simply made a silly joke for himself or wanted to dig a trap for himself, then, He didn't mind sacrificing all his warband to the Blood God Khorne. A few minutes later, the Blood God champion, who terrified most of the beings in the Eye of Terror, stepped into the overflowing room of his partner. In the cabin of the ship that smelled of blood.

"Show me what you said."

After striding to the bridge, Kahn didn't waste any more words and directly addressed the war gang's members.

The leader asked for what he mentioned. The World Eater veteran who knew Kahn's temper didn't waste any time. He walked to a data pad and tapped the projection button on it a few times - and soon, a certain person who had made Kahn fight bloody battles in the Eye of Khorne for thousands of years What cannot be forgotten is that although it is distorted, the face with clear outlines appears on the screen, and it continues to howl silently.

"Erebus, it seems that you have obtained information about him. I admit that this thing has indeed aroused my interest. Where is he?"

After confirming that the Erebus on the screen was indeed Erebus, Kahn unconsciously touched his exposed left arm with his hand, his tone was extremely calm - but everyone on the bridge could easily understand. , the blood god’s chief champion warrior’s calm tone was filled with turbulent anger.

"He died, and he died miserably."

The World Eater veteran who served as the leader of the warband pressed a few more buttons, and the subsequent fate of Erebus was presented in front of Kahn - when he saw on the screen that Erebus was actually killed by almost all the founding groups. I said hello once, and there was a Slaanesh demon next to me. When he was restoring Erebus's wounds with malice so that he would not die so quickly - Kahn almost raised his own blood because the video was too absurd. However, after the moment of absurdity passed, Kahn Then I realized that this video was real, absolutely true!

"So, is this the reason for your excitement, Xuezi? So, it turns out!"

Staring at the screen, a Khorne warrior walked out of the crowd with his left arm exposed and holding a battle axe. Although his appearance was completely different from his own, he could feel the belligerent and bloodthirsty intention of the warrior even through the screen. He chopped the battle axe in his hand heavily on Erebus's chest, causing the disgusting thing to bleed. Kahn, who suddenly understood something in his heart, laughed out loud. This laughter echoing in the bridge lasted for almost a minute. Finally, the chief champion of the Blood God, who had controlled his emotions, reached out and patted the leader of the World Eaters war gang standing beside him. The tone of voice was the tone that Kahn had not used for God knows how long, expressing appreciation for someone.

"Not bad, not bad! Brother, very good!"

"Kahn, are you satisfied with what I showed you?"

The Blood God Champion's unwarranted show of goodwill made the old soldier tremble in his heart, and he couldn't help but worry whether Kahn was going to do something big. Kahn actually laughed so happily, and greeted him in the same way as he greeted his brothers? This is not his style at all!

But... he soon found that his worries were completely unnecessary.

"I am very satisfied with this news, brother. In this way, after this battle, except for the necessary heads, all the spoils will belong to you - how about it?"

"?? Kahn?"

Hearing that Kahn not only showed his goodwill to him, but also took the initiative to share a lot of benefits with him from the spoils he would get in the next battle, the World Eater veteran was even more stunned - he knew that Kahn would not lie, and the chief champion of the Blood God always used a battle axe to get what he wanted. However, he only showed him the video of Erebus's death. With Kahn's personality, while he was satisfied with Erebus's death, he should also regret that he could not personally chop Erebus with an axe. Why does it seem that Kahn does not have such regrets now?

"Don't be surprised. I'm in a very good mood now. Very good! Let's go! Let's continue to pay tribute to the Blood God - skulls to skulls, blood to the Blood God!"

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"Erebus is dead!"

"How did he die?"

"He died miserably. He seemed to want to transform a very special planet into a world that pays tribute to the Four Righteous Paths. As a result, he was killed on that planet!"

"Is this video real?"

"Incredible, incredible, how did these servants of the false emperor sneak into the Eye of Terror without being discovered by us - but this video is indeed real!"

"These dogs of the Corpse King must have devoted themselves to at least one of the Righteous Paths, otherwise there is no way to explain why they completely ignored the actions of the messenger of Paradise - wait, is there a greyhound of the throne corpse in it?"

"..... Strange, why didn't the greyhound of the throne corpse fight with the messenger of the Supreme God? Could it be that this greyhound has also embarked on the right path, but it doesn't make sense! This kind of thing has never happened!"