Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 260

  Chapter 260 The Rise of the Primarch: Trouble, and a Plan

The Macragge Glory is floating on the edge of the shining nebula. This giant star cluster known as the Pillars of the East is located on the border of five hundred worlds. It is said that this is the time when those unknown civilizations fought in an ancient war tens of thousands of years ago. The remains of broken stars left behind, tens of thousands of star systems were detonated and destroyed, and hundreds of billions of fragments formed the eternal shining pillar of glory on the edge of the Milky Way.

  Many people will travel thousands of miles to visit this giant pillar, hoping to witness one of the most beautiful spectacle in the Milky Way. Guilliman also confirmed this statement, this nebula is very beautiful.

Guilliman stood on a prototype viewing platform of the Glory of Macragge, the surrounding Roman pillars reflected the faint light of the stars, and the air wall separated the ship from the void, without the isolation and barrier of glass. The starry sky appeared even more shining in front of Guilliman's eyes, and he looked up at the beautiful scenery rising from the edge of the Milky Way.

The light of the stars shone on his face unhindered, and the blue-purple halo smoothed his facial features. In the most beautiful light of the film.

Purple, blue and emerald light reflected on his blue pupils, and the most magnificent pillar of starry sky rose slowly from his glasses, beautiful and magnificent, Guilliman admired this natural wonder Scenery, admiring this great creation of uncanny workmanship.

While Guilliman was admiring the starry sky, a soldier walked in from the porch of the viewing platform behind him. Cato Sicarius, the commander of the second company of Ultramarines, took off the cockscomb helmet on his head and clamped it under his arm , he stood at the door and looked at his original body, and the latter naturally discovered him.

"This scenery is still so beautiful. I accepted the emperor's appointment in Macragge. It was the first time I saw it after stepping into the sea of ​​stars. It made people aware of the feat of this galaxy, and it gave birth to and strengthened the conquest of the sea of ​​stars. The goal."

As Guilliman put his hands behind his back, Sicarius came from behind and came to Guilliman. The commander of the second company held his helmet and nodded respectfully to Guilliman, "Indeed, this is beautiful, but Your Excellency, someone is visiting, and Marshal Vito has returned with Bell and the others, and they are waiting for you in the first conference hall."

"His speed is faster than my impression. It seems that he has not been idle for ten thousand years, but has improved a lot." Guilliman smiled and removed his eyes from the sky full of stars, he turned to face Sikaliu Si smiled slightly and walked towards the exit of the arch.

   "Come on, although I don't really mind making him wait a little longer, but Five Hundred Worlds can't afford to wait, we don't have much time." "Indeed, my lord."

Sicarius said and followed Guilliman. He followed Guilliman through the left promenade of the Macragge Glory, and the second company commander followed the Primarch through the long Roman-style corridor. In the colonnade, the tall Roman column stands tall on the right side, and the shining stars shine brightly outside the shield of the stand, and statues are silently located here.

Guilliman walked in this artistic corridor. He walked past a huge mural. He nodded to a group of Ultramarines walking towards him. Saluting, Guilliman walked past them with a smile, and Sicarius walked past these young warriors holding his sword hilt.

Guilliman is obviously more used to the feeling of being respected. He is not as uncomfortable and uncomfortable as Vito, which is actually not surprising. After all, although he has been sitting in a static position for ten thousand years, but for Guilliman In terms of it, it was like a very long dream. The days of being the king of Ultramar and the regent of the empire seemed to be still yesterday.

Sicarius looked at the primarch walking in front of him in awe. Guilliman had an indescribable aura that made people unconsciously want to follow him, follow him up the mountain of swords and into the sea of ​​fire, just As if it was born this way.

He is a born leader, a monarch and a king, he is destined to be so, he is the noble heir of the emperor, the father of his genes, Sicarius swore secretly in his heart, he must follow him, his loyalty belongs to the front For this extraordinary being, he vowed to fight by his side until the moment of death came.

Sicarius may not have realized that this emotion, this infinite sense of loyalty to the Primarch has surpassed that to the Empire, and even to the Emperor. He never knew that before the great rebellion ten thousand years ago, the influence The Luna Wolves and those warriors who chose to stray from the Emperor's mission also had the same thoughts as him.

  Sicarius doesn't know, he doesn't know now, maybe he will know in the future, maybe he won't know, and only time can give the answer to this point.

But now, Cato Sicarius followed the Primarch into the grand gate at the back of the corridor, and after passing the gate with two stone lions in front of it, came Macragge Glory No. conference hall.

Sicarius walked into the gate and stood on the steps. He overlooked the conference hall surrounded by rows of stone benches. Rows of actions were arranged downwards, like countless arc circles Putting them together, this meeting room was finally formed, and the core of all of them was in the center, at the small ring in the center.

   And in the small circle, Vito and his soldiers had been waiting there for a long time, they were all doing their own business, Sicarius glanced at them one by one.

Vito is chatting with Loken in front of the functional platform in the center, Ragnar, Lancelot and Olaf, Eisenstein is leaning around the table and chairs on the left, and the young wild wolf is gesturing to the son of Lion Then, the two held a tomahawk and a long sword and yelled at each other and hit each other with the tip of the weapon, just like two children playing around, while the calm old wolf Olaf was discussing something with the equally calm Captain Eisenstein.

And his brother, Sicarius looked at Bell with a slight frown. He strictly followed the code of conduct of the Holy Code as always, and the Ultramarine Apothecary was carefully adjusting his weapon. He disassembled the bolt gun and carefully Inspecting, maintaining every part, no complaints about a job that would tire Sicarius.

   This made Sicarius very upset, because it was like silent irony, provocation, as if proving that he was better than himself, Sicarius thought displeasedly.

   "No, I am the winner, I am the commander of the second company and not him." Sicarius muttered resentfully, and he looked around the group of people below.

They didn't seem to notice Guilliman's arrival, but when Sicarius was about to announce the arrival of the Primarch loudly, Guilliman stopped him. He smiled and shook his head. Step by step, he walked down the ladder-shaped long steps in the middle.

"Hi everyone, I hope everything goes well." Guilliman said cordially. After he opened his mouth, a group of people discovered his arrival. Bell immediately got up and saluted the Primarch, Eisenstein also got up immediately, and Loken turned to Kiri. Man gave a standard military salute.

   Ragnar, who was obviously unresponsive, hadn't reacted yet. He was still yelling and stabbing Lancelot with his battle axe, "Eat me with a sword!" "You idiot, this is obviously an axe."

The two waved their weapons and struck each other. The crackling sound and their laughter completely made them ignore the giant behind them. Guilliman looked at them with a kind smile, but Olaf would not be the same as before. The body is so indifferent.

  The old wolf stepped forward and slapped the two of them on the head. The two idiotic warriors turned their heads to look at the old wolf. Just when they were about to complain, the old wolf turned their heads away. Now they finally saw the Primarch.

  Ragnar was silent for a moment, and hummed meaningfully, "Ah, good afternoon, my lord."

Well, he is still such an idiot, but this way of greeting reminds Guilliman of Riemann, although his way of greeting is to come up and give you a bear hug, then put you down and punch you in the chest, This generous way of greeting can make Guilliman feel sick for a while every time.

"It seems that you are in a good state of mind, which reassures me." Guilliman smiled and nodded, while Ragnar unconsciously put his hands on his hips and laughed, "That's right, we hacked Lao Duo to death." Heresy, but they all smell like walking shit, hahaha!"

"You idiot! You are talking to the Primarch." Lancelot elbowed Ragnar and warned, but Guilliman still smiled kindly, and he raised his iron fist to Lancelot hint.

"No need to be restrained. In private places, I hope everyone can relax and be more natural." "I heard you, be more natural." Vito said very directly and sat on the multifunctional projection platform with both hands. Good guy, he can It really shines with some sunshine.

Sicarius walked down the stairs behind him. He looked at Vito with dissatisfaction but he couldn't say anything. After all, he was the Supreme Marshal, and even he had to maintain respect in the presence of Guilliman, and besides Well, the Primarch didn't look angry either.

Guilliman smiled jokingly and walked to Vito's side. He put one hand on the table and nodded to Loken next to Vito, "You sabotage guy, did you find anything when you went down? Don't tell me. I was so busy hanging out with some lady that I forgot about business."

   "Fuck, am I such an unscrupulous person?!" Vito said righteously.

"Like." Ragnar on the side said decisively, and Lancelot also agreed, followed by Bell, Loken and others. Vito looked around them and waved his fists angrily, "Damn! Destroy your boss , what about professionalism?"

   "You have the quality of a fart, hurry up, have you found anything?" Guilliman is not tactful and decent, he knows that you don't need to talk to Vito, you'd better call him an idiot directly for the best effect.

Vito cut and waved his hand. He took out the palm-sized rune stone from his arms. Vito tapped the surface of the holographic projection. As he let go of his hand again, the rune stone also floated, spinning and stagnating on the holographic platform. In the gravitational light belt.

Guilliman watched the thing take a few steps forward. He leaned on the table and looked at the floating rune stone with a slight frown and a wry smile, "So, you went down and went around a long way to pick up a stone? What's the matter? You wrote There are too many things, so we need to find a nicer stone to use as a paperweight?"

"Take this **** thing? What do you say, although I do have a strong taste sometimes, I don't think Nurgle's rune stone is suitable for me." Vito laughed jokingly and bounced the floating stone, and the rune stone followed suit. With the flick of the fingertips, it spins in the air.

"What?!" Sicarius shouted after being startled. He stepped forward and looked at the stone in shock, then looked at Vito and frowned, "Marshal, are you crazy?! How can you Bring the creation of Nurgle aboard, by the Emperor! This thing will kill the ship!"

"Calm down, Sicarius, don't rush to yell, this thing will neither kill you nor anyone else." Vito said and flicked the stone lightly, and the tractor beam was quickly The rotating rune stones are constantly flashing, and the rune stones on it emit a faint green light.

   "The psychic power of rune stones is inherently weak, and this rune is one of the weaker ones. Only a few rune stones can be effective if placed together in an array."

Vito waved his hand easily as he spoke. He sat on the edge of the stone jokingly, completely ignoring the flashing Nurgle runes on it. There is a problem, let alone you are Asta Puba!" Vito stopped before finishing speaking, raised his head and sneezed loudly.

"Aha! It looks like you're not in good health, you must have a kidney deficiency!" Ragnar immediately seized the opportunity to shout, he pointed at Vito and laughed, and poked Lancelot with his elbow, The Caliban knight smiled jokingly and clasped his hands together.

   "Yes, kidney deficiency, it must be kidney deficiency." Seriously, a dark angel, Ryan's gloomy, serious and strange heir is so active, it can really make people call heresy.

"Fuck you two, my body can last another hundred thousand years!" Vito confidently pointed his thumb at himself, and then he sneezed again, this time it was Loken's turn to laugh jokingly behind him up.

"Kidney deficiency." "My god, Loken, what are you talking about, all you virgins shut up!" Vito yelled, he was obviously a little out of breath, Ragnar and Lancelot laughed, But Olaf beside them looked at Vito in confusion.

   "Virgins? I don't know about them, but I'm not, I" "Damn! Heretic! I gotta tell Logan, you heretic!"

Vito waved his fingers and shouted, the soldiers around were amused, even Eisenstein showed a rare smile, Guilliman looked at Vito and smiled in a low voice before looking up at the rune stone, "Okay Now, let's get down to business, what the **** is this?”

  Vito also smiled. He propped his body back with his hands and looked at the rune stone. The thing was spinning in the air, and its rough workmanship and desperate carving skills were clearly displayed in front of everyone.

"The rune stone is an ancient trick. To spread the plague of Nurgle in the world, it needs the ability of the Nurgle Domain itself to maintain it, and the Nurgle Demon itself is the projection point of Nurgle's power. It is similar to a signal base station. The power of space is projected into the physical universe, causing plague and flu."

"In other words, each demon itself is a node, a key to open the realm of chaos, so every time a demon of Nurgle appears there will definitely be a plague, and the empire can also interrupt it by beheading the demon of Nurgle. Nurgle's abilities are stabilized, thus ending the plague."

Looking at the shimmering rune stone, Vito took a deep breath and let out a lot of memories, "And rune stones are a trick, they can tear apart a piece of paper without the presence of demons. A small gap that penetrates the magic power of the Chaos Realm, I remember that guy a long time ago, that is, the emperor called this thing the wind of magic."

"Wind of magic?" Guilliman asked strangely from the side, and Vito shrugged helplessly, "Understand, it was still in the Middle Ages, and his vocabulary was limited. such a word."

"In short, the rune stone can create a weak window connected to the subspace by engraving the words of different evil gods, their holy numbers, profane words, etc. Although it can be connected with the subspace, the wind of magic that blows out It will be very weak, and basically can't do much, so the demons never use this thing."

Vito spread his hands and sighed helplessly, "So, this thing was invented by humans. Ancient Terra was invented by a group of cultists a long time ago, but it hasn't caused any major problems. After all, the energy is too weak. The devastating plague can't be sustained at all, it can only summon a little bit of innocence."

"I remember that the fire disease in the Middle Ages was caused by a certain rune stone circle, but the general symptoms of this plague are not fatal, and it will not have a major impact on the human body. Most of them can be cured, and you don't need to believe in Nurgle. So it's pretty useless, I've never seen Nurgle demons and their followers use this kind of thing."

"So over time, this thing was forgotten, except for the occasional idiot quack warlock who turned up and made a fuss, but this kind of quack warlock doesn't need me and the emperor to do it, just find a knight or an old farmer to carry a scythe They can fix him up."

Guilliman raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at the rune stone in front of him. He raised his iron fist and touched the stone, and the stone spun rapidly in front of Guilliman, "From your words, it seems that this kind of thing has disappeared. It's been many years, and its power is quite weak, but it doesn't look like it's very weak in terms of the plague of tears that is spreading across the entire galaxy now.”

"That's right, someone has enhanced it. Although I don't know how it was done, it has indeed been enhanced. The fallen monks in the monastery also developed initial Nurgle disease, and planet-level plagues can also appear, but other It's still weak."

"Very weak?" Guilliman asked in confusion, and Vito nodded seriously, "Yes, it is still very weak. Although it has been strengthened for a round, it still cannot support any demons to appear. When we meet down there, all demons appear. The believers didn't even see a single Nurgling."

   "And the plague of tears is very weak, weaker than I expected. There is no fatality rate at all. It can recover even after crying blind, and there are no side effects. This is completely inconsistent with Nurgle's characteristics."

Vito sat on the table and pondered seriously with his chin in his hand. He waved his hands as he said, "Nurgle's plague is highly contagious, sick and fatal, and almost incurable, so that the desperate sick Believe in Nurgle, but the Plague of Tears does not meet any of the above points at all, the symptoms are limited to crying, and there is not much impact of the disease, the most important thing is that you can recover without believing in Nurgle."

   "When I was down below, I discovered that the plague infection is very suspicious. It will only infect half of the people, and the other half is completely healthy. This cannot be done by Nurgle believers. This is more like a game."

"Game?" Guilliman frowned and asked, Vito nodded solemnly, he sighed softly and looked at the rune stone, "Yes, game, half infected, the other half asymptomatic to set off chaos, riots and human instincts Fear, most of the casualties in Kehaxing have nothing to do with the plague itself, but the chaos and suppression caused by the riots of panicked people."

   "This is like an interesting social experiment, creating an opportunity to observe and appreciate the suffering of humans and humans themselves." "I don't think this is interesting."

  Guilliman frowned and stood up. He looked at the stone and pondered for a moment, "What's your conclusion?"

Vito also looked at the rune stone and was silent for a moment, then he sat up and nodded slightly, "This plague was not caused by Nurgle believers. It may be ironic to say that Nurgle actually attaches great importance to the lives of believers and the existence of the disease itself. They will evacuate the plague inexplicably, and Korha obviously evacuates frequently, as long as you pass by, you will withdraw, and you will let it out after you leave, this is not something Nurgle would do."

   "Only the two evil gods and their followers would like this set, like chaos, turmoil, and trickery." Vito said, raising two fingers, and Guilliman helped him speak out the final answer.

   "Tzeentch and Slaanesh, I understand." Guilliman dragged his chin and remained silent for a long time. The surrounding Astartes warriors looked at each other in silence, and no one interrupted the conversation between the Primarch and the Supreme Marshal.

After a long silence, Guilliman moved around. He walked around the function table, "If it is the believers of these two evil gods, conventional strike methods will definitely be useless. , isn't it easy to destroy and rebuild the rune stone array?”

"Yes, it's very simple to make a runestone, as long as you know the name corresponding to the Garden of Nurgle." "Name?" Vito said in distress, and Bell, who was silent at the same time, opened his mouth. He asked which Guilliman also wanted to ask The problem.

Guilliman also stopped and looked at Vito, who slapped his head and smiled wryly, "Look at my memory, I forgot you don't know, sorry I haven't explained this kind of problem to people for a long time, usually The emperor is responsible for explaining, and I am responsible for killing the opponent."

"The so-called name is also very simple. Every kind of Nurgle plague, no matter how serious or not, is blown from a corner of the Nurgle Garden. Where does the source of the magic power of the plague gather? Every garden has its own name, Nurgle Get it, but if you know its name and how to spell it, you can inscribe it on the runestone, and open the connection between the garden and the physical universe."

   "So rebuilding the rune stone array is very simple, just engrave a circle, zero cost, and you can go to that place if you know the name of the garden"

Vito stopped while talking, he was stunned for a moment and then stroked his chin thoughtfully, Guilliman looked at him a little confused, "So what should we do? This kind of guerrilla warfare is almost indestructible, we can't always Tired of dealing with this delay, I'm almost sure it's a delay war, someone is delaying our trip to Terra."

Vito seemed to have thought of something and suddenly patted his head with a smile. He looked at Guilliman jokingly and snapped his fingers. A small electric arc jumped from his fingertips. He turned on the communicator on his wrist, followed by With a crisp ticking sound, the Mechanicus logo appeared on the display.

"Caule, if I remember correctly, at the request of the Inquisition two centuries ago, you developed a Lightning Teleportation Beacon for the Gray Knights Chapter that can pull the Gray Knights' battle brothers back from the Warp, right? ?”

"Correct, but that project did not meet the target requirements. The teleportation beacon needs to be powerful enough to break through the subspace curtain and form a stable energy transmission belt under extremely harsh conditions to succeed. And this, in the chaotic subspace interference , it is impossible.”

  Kor's strange mechanical electronic sound came out in the communication channel, and the audio line under the Mechanicus logo also trembled.

Vito smiled jokingly, golden arcs danced between his fingers, he looked at those arcs and smiled, "Give me a beacon and set the teleportation point on the Glory of Macragge, I will I believe that the large expedition model of this ship is equipped with a teleportation array, which can be adapted to your little toy."

   "But it still can't solve the problem of subspace interference, Vito, you can't, complete the transmission." "Don't worry, I will solve this problem, and I will send the beacon over before I leave."

  Vito turned off the communicator, and Kiriman looked at Vito's smile in confusion. He smiled sinisterly, and the iconic old sinister smile came to the corner of his mouth. He touched his chin and smiled.

   "What the **** are you up to?" Guilliman asked hesitantly, while Vito looked at him with a wicked smile, shaking his head slightly.

   "I have an idea."

  (end of this chapter)

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