Chapter 1094 ‘Slug’ Lex
The soldiers broke through the crumbling corpses and rushed into the square, leaving enough space for the command team.
Then they stopped, weapons ready, and waited for the commander's orders.
Soon, Soshyan appeared in this huge square, followed closely by the rest of the command team.
Ahead, an arc of purple lightning leaps from a desecrated altar made of corpses on the ground, etching circles of scars on the ground. The air is filled with the stench of ozone and carrion that makes people feel... The smell of nausea, the energy of the warp rippled invisibly across the skin, stirred by the unnatural energy radiating from the vast ritual circle at the center of the space.
77 plague warriors covered in ulcers stood outside the circle. Their power armors full of pustules and exposed organs twitched from time to time in response to the ceremony. Various forms of eyes under the broken helmets flashed dimly. It was they who drove thousands of corpses against the Imperial warriors.
As soon as Soshyan saw them, he felt strong nausea in his heart.
If the followers of Slaanesh made him despise, then the followers of Nurgle left him with nothing but disgust.
The Plague Marines are Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the Chaos God Nurgle. Their bodies in their bloated armor are swollen with disease, rotten with swelling, and rotten with corruption, and their weapons and equipment may Very rusty, but even so, a formidable enemy.
These heretics possess an inhuman tolerance for pain, enduring injuries that would cripple other Space Marines, while their nerves are dulled by disease and even partially rotten.
Most of the time, Plague Marines appear in the Death Guard legions, but not all Plague Marines are from the Death Guard. Any Chaos Space Marine who dedicates himself to Nurgle may become a Plague Marine, and Abaddon the Despoiler for himself His conquests have recruited many Death Guard sorcerers to his service, so there are an unknown number of Plague Marines in the Black Legion.
The warband composed of Plague Marines in the Black Legion is called the "Bringer of Decay". These people are commanded by Abaddon's personal choice "Slaughterborn" Skylark (an old acquaintance) and are dedicated to spreading the message of the Good Father. Nurgle's blessing. But other Chaos Space Marines are unwilling to fight them, because they cannot stand the "blessing" bestowed upon these people by their father Nurgle and the strong stench that comes with it.
Behind the Plague Marines, seventeen Nurgle wizards stood at precisely determined points around the ceremonial circle.
These ostracized people in the Death Guard system wear torn and stained robes with mysterious marks painted on them and glowing with a strange transparent light.
Soshyan saw that their skin was like wax, with black and gray mottled skin, as if they were similar to corpses.
They all turned their heads when the Imperial Astartes arrived, but their leader, a tall figure with his back to the Astral Knights, rallied them with clenched fists and screamed curses, calling for them to get on with their work. .
It was a huge and bloated giant, without legs, replaced by a disgusting lower body like a slug.
Talos looked at the guy for a few seconds, and then introduced the guy's identity to Soshyan.
He is 'Slug' Lex, a powerful wizard wearing the Wither Overlord Terminator.
The so-called Wither Overlord is a new unit created after the Death Guard's fall. They were originally Terminator warriors in the Legion, but the corruption of Nurgle made these people and their mutated cavalry Terminator armor forever Blended together, thus combining the defense and firepower of a standard Terminator with the morbid toughness of the Death Guard.
Blight Overlord Terminators serve as the Death Guard's shock troops in battle and can be found in most Death Guard warbands, as these men spend so much time aboard corrupted plague ships that they are both inside and out. All are filled with Nurgle's corruption.
The filth pours out of their bodies in the form of waves, rotten flesh and rusty metal pile up around them. Wherever the Wither Overlord Terminator goes, there are veins of corruption spreading, and the enemy Once captured by the Blight Overlords, the power of corruption begins to consume them, and vehicles and defenses exposed to them quickly crumble.
In the center of the circle, Soshyan saw a huge pustule swelling. It was already as high as a three-story building and was still growing. Without even thinking about it, he knew that there must be something bad inside.
There is a power surging inside, which seems to be rising from the depths of the earth.
Black steam, smelling of sulfur and putrefaction, gushes from the pit where the pustule rests, and the ritual reaches its climax.
This place was able to remain so intact under the bombing. Soshyan guessed that the opponent must have used the power of subspace to deflect or even block the light spear. Then there is only one remaining option.
He raised his glowing sword.
"Astral Knights! Crush them!"
Soshiyan's voice echoed like a trumpet through the din of the ceremony.
"For the Emperor!"
The Astartes answered in unison, rushing forward as one.
At the same time, the vehicles on both sides and behind also opened fire, but the firepower was blocked by the invisible subspace force.
The circle of Plague Marines reacted immediately, raising their weapons and screaming angrily, before the distance between them was shattered by howling shells, scorching flames and horrific melt. surrounded by explosions. A large number of bullets passed through the psychic shield and exploded on the Plague Marine's limp body, leaving bloody craters.
But they didn't care at all, and quickly organized a tight formation, and also poured a deadly rain of bullets on the Astral Knights, as well as cannonballs carrying terrible plagues.
"Those who blaspheme their loving father are in trouble!!!"
'Slug' Lex raised the huge scythe in his hand and let out an indistinct howl.
“Come out! My servant!”
In an instant, with an overwhelming roar, countless corpses poured in from all directions, but they were not the same as before. The sluggish walking corpse.
Most of these zombies have the characteristics of slugs, and once killed, their bloated bodies will explode, and dark green slugs that are half a meter to a meter long and covered with herpes will emerge from them.
Although those disgusting molluscs have no eyes, they still have a head in a sense. Above and below the head are pairs of front jaws, forming a certain angle with each other and extending to the outside of the circular, jagged mouth. Cang was flapping her wings as fast as she could and grabbing them back and forth.
Each short jaw rubs against each other, like thousands of sabers unsheathed.
The slug zombies crowded into the battlefield side by side. They rushed in hungrily and made a rustling, wet and hoarse hissing sound when they rubbed against each other.
They charged towards the battle group, and the warriors opened fire, sending their bolts into a life-devouring frenzy.
A large number of corpses were destroyed, and then a large number of slugs appeared.
The swarms of insects were like a raging flood. Even though they were blown into bursts of blood mist, they were still pouring into the front line continuously, and the terrifying surge seemed endless.
The soldiers could only keep firing to suppress the rising insect tide.
(End of this chapter)