Chapter 975: The hunting pack emerges
The battle ax of Erquessos was taken from the hands of a demon prince. This thing will only remain silent when it is full of blood.
Abandoning the noise, the Chaos Lord twisted his wrist and held the ax handle in a more solemn posture, which was a posture commanding the demon to obey.
“War Commander, His eyes are far-sighted, but what should I use to carve a shadow in His peripheral vision?”
The adjutant remained silent, because he knew that his The commander was mostly talking to himself.
"I'm thinking, could that be an opportunity? Is it because they are so close that my self-esteem has been so damaged? I have a feeling... of this world. Just imagine, if we can be so close here Kill the lackeys of the false emperor, what else can you say about those Slaaneshi trash?"
"I know that you firmly believe that the enemy has exhausted all his strength, sir"
At this time, from now on. The adjutant's cautious voice came from behind him.
"But my advice, including the Warmaster's mission, is only to disturb the enemy's withdrawal of mortals and consume their vitality, but you have invested too much."
The fist of the Chaos Lord He tightened his grip on the battle ax again, and the demon on the top of the handle began to bark and curse again.
"The enemy's support troops are about to arrive. Our ambush has failed, but the outer area of the fortress has not been cleared. Do you really think it is worth the risk? It seems that the enemy still has a lot of strength at present, and we are not sure that the enemy still has How many reinforcements, including the knight family in the report, or——"
Equisos turned around.
“I told you, I could feel the cunning Imperial bitches singing to me. I looked up to the sky and saw their faces dancing in the clouds. Are we warriors who serve the Blood God, or are we warriors who serve the Blood God? A coward hiding under Slaanesh's skirt? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The knight family will not arrive so quickly. The empire's reinforcements are only a mere amount. They only need to allocate some more strength to stop it. And there is a star realm in the fortress. A whole company of knights, how glorious it would be to destroy them!"
"But the wizard reported that-"
"I know what they said, but I don't believe it! Something that smells like witchcraft!”
Urquisos's voice didn't quite reach the level of a roar, nor was it necessary.
The adjutant's sight trembled, and a rustling sound filled his ears. The systems on his armor had long been poured into the power of Chaos, and they were trying to retreat from the wrath of the Chaos Lord.
"I have made a decision! Wajdi, throw away those unnecessary thoughts of yours, you are becoming less and less like the warrior I know!"
The adjutant bowed and accepted the rebuke, which caused the Chaos Lord to slowly turn back.
In his vision, he could see pairs of noisy Chaos Space Marines and their minions - cultists wearing suicide collars, mutants and beastmen from the Eye of Terror, and traitors of all kinds.
Looking at it, his thoughts came into focus again.
"A full-scale attack will be launched in two hours. I need everyone to be ready, including the engines and the fearless. Now, go and deliver the latest batch of prisoners to me."
The adjutant bowed again, and when he turned to leave, a layer of dust was scraped off the stone.
The Chaos Lord walked to the ramparts and watched the slaves working hard on the wall below. His arms were twitching, as if he could feel the enemy's skull pulsing and struggling between his fingers.
Suddenly, a wave of malice surged up his back, almost making him dizzy.
"My lord?"
Equisos was disturbed by the sound and turned around suddenly. At the same time, the tip of his battle ax turned into some kind of weird insect, chirping, which sounded like say. He ignored it and refocused.
"What has the word of fate brought us this time, Vargas?"
The warrior standing behind the Chaos Lord hesitated, and did not immediately answer.
Vargas is not a wizard in the true sense. He is not as proficient in witchcraft as the Thousand Sons. He was just a priest of the Word Bearers in the past, but thanks to the power of darkness, he has revealed a divination nature. Spiritual vision is almost a prophecy.
The mutant gene that gave him the Eye of the Warp energized this ability and formed an unsightly bump on the forehead of his head, and even the ceramite on his armor had changed. It became a strange obsidian texture, but Erquesos had long been accustomed to the way the giant milky eyes throbbed and rolled between the corners of Vargas' helmet.
Although the Chaos Lord dislikes wizards, he appreciates and reuses Vargas' abilities.
"My lord, I can't say too many practical words, but in my vision, I see shadows and echoes in the corners, and I will explain it to you. You know, you can't expect too much from the devil. ."
"Explain these shadows and echoes, I have the patience."
"Since we first landed, I have been observing the nature of this world, my lord, it has a... texture that I have taught myself to recognize, and by the grace of the dark powers, I have caught some ripples, some in I don’t know how to explain the invisible things dancing outside my sight. Imagine a figure standing within reach of the fire, so that sometimes its shape will be touched by the fire..."
"I think I Got it.”
Equisos didn’t realize he was nervous until he felt the trembling of the armor and the creaking of the joints as it tried to assume a comfortable position.
"My lord, I must make a bold guess. There is a web of conspiracy opening up. I can vaguely see the shapes formed by the minds of the conspirators as they gather together, and I feel... there are cracks in my vision. I I originally thought it was the subspace gate here, but then I realized that it was not, it was opening and closing, and it was full of unknowns..."
He clenched his fist in Erquessos and bent it He stopped talking.
"A prediction. This is a prediction!"
When he was about to speak again, the adjutant's call came from the communicator.
"My lord, the troops are ready."
Equisos then left the wall and came to the highest point of the settlement. This was the second time today that he looked down at the rows of helmets. days.
Chaos Lord leaned forward and looked down at the bright eyes of the crowd of cultists and mutants below, but this time, his thoughts and words were particularly clear.
"Hold your weapons, I will lead you at this moment. Today, Abaddon's hunting pack is about to fight in a bloody battle!"
Half an hour later, Chaos Lord Erquessus led more than a thousand Chaos Space Marines and Tens of thousands of cultists and mutants used underground passages to move covertly. With lightning speed, they launched a fierce attack on Fortress No. 7 defended by the Second Company of the Astral Knights. At this time, there were more than 150,000 people in the fortress. Evacuated residents.
In the end, there were only two options left before Second Company Commander Ustad:
Abandon the fortress, decisively choose to evacuate, and abandon the residents.
Or, hold on until reinforcements arrive.
However, the task given to him by Soshyan Alexei, the leader of the Astral Knights Chapter, is——
(End of this chapter)