Chapter 157 Duel Ground
The two company commanders walked out of the triumphal hall.
Along the corridor, walking among the mortals who bowed after seeing them, heading to the arena on the flagship.
Some legionnaires are already fighting bloody battles in the arena.
Orenst, the violent champion of the Eighteenth Company, is among them.
He had a conflict with a sergeant, and he was forced to keep the conflict until now in the hive world, so when the 18th Company and the 8th Assault Company returned to the fleet, he immediately grabbed the person who had the conflict with him. Go to the duel arena to solve problems through duels.
Mago and Kahn stood in the waiting area outside the duel arena and watched them fight.
Mago also saw the flag officer of the 18th company standing on the edge of the arena.
The flag officer saluted his company commander, Mago returned the salute, and then the former continued his work of supervising the duel.
Before Angron's return, the Flagbearer was the most senior officer in the legion after the legion commander and company commander.
People who can become flag-bearing officers are either highly respected and highly qualified, or they are brave and fearless and have amazing military exploits. They often give up the opportunity for promotion and choose to become a flag-bearing officer, because the company's flag is the soul of a company.
When others see the flag, they will immediately recognize the company represented by the flag and the glory it represents, so the flag bearer is often regarded as the representative and soul of the regiment.
Whether it is before or after the return of the original body, the flag-bearers are responsible for enforcing the discipline of the legion. Now after the original body stipulated the new duel rules, they have become referees and supervisors.
“For Angron!”
The Battle Ax Champion swung the two-handed battle ax that was invincible in his hand and slashed at the Space Marines in front of him.
The latter couldn't resist, the chain sword shattered, and one arm was cut off along with the blade.
When Orenst subconsciously decided to continue the attack, the flag officer of the 18th company raised his arm and gave a thumbs up.
This is a new tradition.
During the Nuceria Uprising War, Qin Xia entered the arena and gave a thumbs up, and together with Angron destroyed the guards present, leading the gladiators The moment to fight out together.
It means the end of a battle and that the participants in this battle must live.
The duel is over and the winner has emerged.
Orenst roared angrily, and the battle ax in his hand hit the ground with a bang. His other hand reached out and grabbed the neck of the Space Marine in front of him: "If you think there is something wrong with me, then use a duel. Tell me! Otherwise I will chop off your limbs one by one!"
The loser has nothing to say and is willing to admit defeat and nod silently.
The pharmacist stepped forward to pick up the defeated arm, took out a small box with the "Crow Bio" LOGO, took out the ointment and squeezed it on the broken arm and fracture surface, and then attached the arm and shoulder combine.
The defeated man sat on the ground and calmed down for a few minutes, stood up and stretched his broken arm, and then saluted Orenst.
Orenst returned the favor.
The two walked out of the arena side by side like innocent people who had lost their memory, and saluted again when passing by Mago and Kahn.
Conflicts between fighting brothers can be brought into the duel field, but not out of the duel field. This is tradition.
"Call the people in the company to assemble, and I will start the commendation ceremony within the company later."
Mago ordered when Orenst passed by Mago.
The Tomahawk Champion nodded and left.
"Come." Kahn walked ahead and entered the vacated dueling arena. After glancing at the other dueling arenas that were swallowing up conflicts, Kahn walked to the weapon rack and picked up the chain axe.
Mago also walked to the weapons rack and picked up a spear.
"Captain of the Eighth Company." The flag officer of the Eighteenth Company saluted Kahn, "I think the brother flag officer of the Eighth Company should also be present."
"No need, Ah. Brothers Starks." Kahn retreated to a place fifty meters away from Mago and saluted the flag bearer, "This is not a wrestling match, I'm just venting with the commander of your 18th company because we are all too excited. ”
The flag-bearer named Astarcus saluted, turned around and walked to the duel field next door holding the flag of the 18th Company, indicating that the two soldiers of the 18th Company inside could start the duel under his supervision.
"When you wiped out the Thunder Warriors on Terra, you used a spear." Kahn pointed to the spear in Mago's hand, "This is even the one you used at that time."
Mago looked down at the spear in his hand.
Kahn is right, this is the spear he used back then, but there is a reason why he doesn't use it now.
Bang——
The weapons collided, chain axes and spears passed by, causing large sparks to fly.
Kahn suddenly charged at Mago, and Mago also blocked with his spear and quick hands.
The first round of the confrontation did not result in a winner, and the two distanced themselves.
"Thunder Warriors." Kahn said with a smile, "They are too powerful. They completed the cause of unification because of their strength, but they were abandoned and purged because of their strength."
Mago recalled Thunder warrior.
When Terra was filled with warlords, the Emperor - he wasn't called the Emperor then, he was called the Lord of Thunder. In short, the Emperor at that time began to clean up the warlords and tried to complete the great cause of unifying Terra.
The Thunder Warriors were the Emperor's original supporters during the great unification period.
They are amazingly powerful.
The MK1 armor they wore was the armor originally equipped for the Superman Warriors. That thing didn't even have a power backpack. The Thunder Warriors relied on their strong physical fitness to support the heavy armor.
Then the Thunder Warriors were eventually purged by the Emperor's order, and the Custodes and several Space Marine Legions killed the Thunder Warriors, including the Twelve Legions.
And he and Kahn were the witnesses of that war.
"They were abandoned for a reason." Mago said, "They couldn't control their desire to kill, they were unstable, and they decided to express their dissatisfaction with the Emperor through rebellion, we all It's a last resort."
"Just like us before the original body returned." Kahn rushed in front of Mago and slashed with his axe.
Mago responded calmly with a spear in hand, blocked the attack, and said in a deep voice: "We, the Twelve Legions, are tools and weapons. We were once owned by the Emperor, but now we are owned by the Primarch. We have no self. When the emperor needs to suppress the rebellion, of course we must kill all the rebels as weapons." The saw teeth roared and turned, leaving scratches on the shaft of Mago's spear.
Sparks splashed out from between the teeth like raindrops, pouring on the helmets of the two company commanders.
"It's a little late for you to say this now. You should have said it when we first met the original body." Kahn slashed again.
Mago resisted again.
The two fought for a few more rounds.
Kahn said again: "Fortunately, our original body has the ability to read minds. He realized that we are weapons and tools, so he did not choose to cleanse us."
"Or choose to exile us and replace us with Nucerians." Mago thrust out his spear. "Yes, we should feel lucky. Our weapons are being transformed, not abandoned."
Mago could predict what Kahn wanted to say.
The two of them are not just fellow Terrans, more than just friends.
Before becoming a Space Marine... When Mago finally couldn't bear the hunger and killed the entire family of the Horde Chieftain, and when the Horde surrendered and the Emperor Queen was accused by the new Chieftain and imprisoned for it, he knew Karn. .
So of course Mago knows Kahn exceptionally well.
"Once we were executioners, now we have become saviors, we act according to the will of the original body."
Kahn said standing still.
“We are weapons, tools.”
“We turn from executioners to saviors, not because of how much we love those mortals, but because our users ask us to do so . ”
“If he asks us to kill, of course we will kill. If he asks us to save, of course we will save. If he asks us to die, of course we will die.”
"Maybe one day in the future, the original body will feel that he is a slave master, because he has 150,000 slaves. Don't correct me, there should be no difference between weapons and tools and slaves in the eyes of the original body. They are all dominated."< br>
“…”
When Kahn wanted to continue, Mago raised his hand to interrupt: “You actually want to ask me, will we be like the Thunder Warriors? Abandoned, replaced by Nucerians, right?”
Kahn didn’t nod, didn’t shake his head.
Mago stared at Kahn.
He knew that the Eighth Captain did not completely obey and belong to the original body physically and mentally like the others. This did not mean that Karn would refuse the orders of the original body, or the changes brought about by the original body, but it meant that Kahn has his own opinions and judgments on the matter of loyalty.
While everyone else believed that they were the Emperor's Chosen, a descendant of the Primarch, Karn realized that the Legion was and still is essentially doing what it is meant to be, a weapon and a tool, even though everyone else might not Didn't realize this.
But Mago also knows that Kahn understands everything, but will not make any moves or changes.
Kahn will accept it honestly and clearly, whether he wants it or not, whether he thinks what he accepts is good or bad.
There is only one thing that makes Kahn suspicious, and that is that weapons or tools can be discarded at any time, as long as there is something more convenient, just like the Thunder Warriors.
"You know everything, but you speak." Seeing his old friend's silence, Kahn asked loudly.
He wanted to seek an explanation from Mago because he knew that Mago was not a follower of the crowd.
When Mago chooses to do something, he must first think that it is right, otherwise he will resist, whether the other party is the legion commander or the original body, he will do this.
Margo responded.
The Eighteenth Company Commander approached Kahn at a speed that seemed astonishing to Kahn, and stabbed Kahn in the head with the spear in his hand.
After a muffled sound, Kahn felt that his brain stopped functioning for a moment, and when he reacted, he found that he was already sitting on the ground.
He realized that he was so eager to seek explanation or comfort from Mago that he neglected that the two were on the duel field.
"Kahn." Mago threw the spear back to the weapon rack and stretched out his hand to Kahn, "You are really smart. Sometimes the philosophy you speak casually makes me think you are You used the gene seeds of the Thousand Sons, but sometimes you are so stupid that I feel helpless.”
Kahn frowned and looked up at Mago, silent.
“You said that the original body did not choose to punish or cleanse us because we are tools and how we use them depends on the will of the user.”
"I have to agree, but this is not the whole reason."
"Secondly, you should worry that the original body is too emotional and perceptual, so it will make choices and decisions beyond your expectations. This is something you cannot rest assured. The reason."
"But first, our genetic father, Angron, is a primarch."
Mago said, knocking his head.
"He can judge, he can think, and he can make decisions. On Novshendak No. 5, he did not choose to let us go to war with the Iron Warriors, and did not choose to kill the Iron Lord, proving that he Able to make appropriate judgments.”
Kahn listened silently and gradually became thoughtful.
“I don’t believe you are unaware of this.” Mago said, “It’s just that the Thunder Warriors thing left such a deep impression on you, so deep that... when those Thunder Warriors shouted how they were Betrayal and abandonment, and then easily tear apart our battle brothers of the same period with your hands, and even kill the imperial army that is invincible in our eyes, you were stunned in place."
After saying that, Mago still maintained his attitude toward Ka. Well, the gesture of reaching out.
Kahn pondered for a while, looked up at Mago, and nodded silently.
Then Kahn suddenly moved.
Mago subconsciously stepped back to block, expecting Kahn to sneak attack him, but Kahn just sat on the ground and moved, and then looked at him with a smirk on his face.
Mago turned away angrily and left one sentence: "Don't want me to spar with you for the second time."
"You should say you don't want me to spar with you for the eighth time." "Times." Kahn looked at Mago's back and shouted, "This is the seventh time you have said something like this."
Ma Ge didn't respond, didn't even look back, he just raised his hand. Middle finger.
(End of this chapter)