Chapter 2760: Labyrinth Creatures
“Let’s go!”
In the dark steel wreckage, a group of dirty man-made creatures were walking swiftly in a muddy land - this is a land made of blood , a filthy swamp composed of highly decomposed corpses and feces, but it once had a name that terrified countless people, Night Number.
This battleship was once a symbol of the most glorious era of the empire and the lost flagship of a legion. Even after suffering the devastation and destruction of countless wars, it is still one of the most proud and majestic existences among human battleships. .
It was once regarded by the Empire as a symbol of the brotherhood of the demigods, because it was a "gift" designed by one Primarch for another Primarch, but this gift reflected the Empire's Some unknown dark sides of the most glorious and bright era - when Pettula designed the Night Veil, he added a large number of labyrinths and traps into the belly of the ship. When he got the ship, Coze used these labyrinth traps to torture and Killing whoever he caught.
Even before the Great Rebellion, the interior of the ship was in disgrace, with mutilated corpses hanging everywhere.
After the Eighth Legion rebelled, the crazy original body turned his flagship into a morgue filled with corpse odor. Until he disappeared on his brother's flagship, the battleship It became the arena for political struggles within the Night Lords, where the Nightbat Council fought against each other, and was eventually seized by the Tattooed Earl.
When it participated in the attack on Terra, it also fired bullets into the heart of the Empire it protected, and with the end of the rebellion, the scarred Nightfall became the lair of the Daemon Prince. In addition to various demons, there are also countless evil creatures of chaos. They regard the Midnight Labyrinth as their home, carve out territories in it, thrive and fight. The largest group among them is the beast that believes in the gods of destruction. tribe of people.
Beastmen, also called beasts of chaos by the empire, are deformed humans born under the influence of the power of subspace. In the early days of the empire, there was a certain tolerance for these "deformed children". They often Recruited into the Imperial Army to serve as part of the rapidly expanding Empire of Man, the Beastmen of the Imperial Expeditionary Army were considered to be very useful warriors. Stubbornly loyal, but ordinary soldiers disliked them very much because they were noisy, dirty, and usually had some quirks such as eating human flesh or worshiping lunar eclipses. At that time, they were still regarded as "subhumans".
But the situation changed after the Great Rebellion. Chaos was brought to the surface as a problem that could not be concealed. Although the Emperor's belief also appeared, those beastmen who believed in the national religion had a simple view of the Emperor. The fanatical loyalty believed that he was a god of vengeance who needed to be worshiped with the blood of his enemies. However, with the intervention of the Inquisition, the Beastmen began to suffer severe persecution in the empire, and were listed as prohibited landing registered citizens by the Ministry of Justice. Obtaining tithe obligations was also prohibited, and nearly all Beastmen within the Astra Militarum were purged.
Eventually, the vast majority of beastmen were labeled "mutants" and became the targets of hive bounty hunters, forcing them to turn to the dark side and begin worshiping the gods of destruction.
In the 41st Millennium, Beastmen can be seen in almost all Chaos warbands.
While these fallen creatures retain human wisdom to the maximum extent, the blessings of the gods give them unparalleled supernatural brute force. Their iron hooves and heavy horns can tear through the hardest armor and crush it. The flesh and bones inside are undoubtedly the realistic carriers of the power of chaos. Among the beastmen in the galaxy, all kinds of horned beasts are respected. While they make the most of the blessings of chaos, they also have the closest connection with the gods. The group of sharp-horned beasts with similar facial features, the bloodthirsty and martial Khorne bloodhorns with swollen muscles, the evil and debauched evil horned beasts with a strange smell, and the rotten horned beasts with a foul smell and surrounded by flies. They are all Follow the mark of the power of Chaos, and be willing to serve until death.
The tattooed Earl's men naturally have a large number of Chaos Beasts. They fight in the midnight maze on weekdays. When the war horn sounds, they will gather in large numbers at the Devil's Gate. Under the banner of the prince, these despicable creatures full of destructive desires vowed to destroy all civilizations and build altars and monuments to the Chaos Gods in their fanatical destruction.
However, in the system of Chaos warbands, they are the lowest level existence. The Demon Prince only regards them as cheap cannon fodder and slaves, and even regularly allows his bloodthirsty Night Lords to hunt in the maze and unleash their cruel killings. desire.
This kind of activity is also called "Skinning Night" by the beasts. They regard it as a manifestation of the impermanent side of the gods of destruction, so they will not resist and will only huddle in their lairs and use up everything they have. They blocked the gates and various pipelines, expecting the skinners to leave after they were satisfied with the killing, so that their lives could create more value for the gods.
When the Tattooed Earl was attracted to the surface of an unnamed planet, part of the Beastmen tribe followed him, but due to the insufficient capacity of the transport ship, a considerable number of them stayed on the ship. When the Nightfall was After taking control, these beastmen didn't know what was happening at all, they just felt violent shaking, which was a bad omen for the superstitious beastmen, and they hid in their lairs more carefully.
Until all the abnormalities disappeared, they just thought it was back to the old days, except that the tribes that left never returned, but this is not surprising, after all, every war is like this, there will be A large number of tribes disappeared, but the beastmen reproduced very quickly, and more tribes would appear soon.
But what happened next exceeded the wild beasts' expectations. In the huge and bloated maze, some things in red robes began to appear in large numbers within the wild beasts' sphere of influence.
They are armed with various advanced weapons and carry symbols of mechanical gears on their bodies. They will shoot and kill beastmen immediately when they encounter them. At the same time, they also bring many slaves whose arms have been transformed into weapons. Beastmen have seen this kind of thing, so they simply His brain judged a somewhat bizarre conclusion based on the opponent's color - a new force that believed in Khorne had invaded the territory.
What followed was a war that swept through the entire midnight maze. Although the weapons were not as good as the opponent's, the beasts who had lived in the maze for generations knew this very well. They used the complex terrain to continuously ambush and make detours. , harassing the intruders, really caused a lot of trouble for the people in red robes, and slowed them down.