Chapter 977 The hunting pack comes out of the cage
The battle ax of Erquessus 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.
"Warmaster, his eyes see far and wide, but what should I use to carve a shadow in his peripheral vision?"
The adjutant remained silent because he knew that his 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 about this world. Just imagine, if we can be so cruel here
After ruthlessly slaughtering the puppet emperor's lackeys, what else can those Slaanesh trash say?"
"I know you firmly believe that the enemy has exhausted all their strength, sir."
At this time, the adjutant's cautious voice came from behind him.
"But my advice, including the Warmaster's mission, is just to disturb the enemy's evacuation of mortals and consume their vitality, but you have invested too much."
The Chaos Lord's fist clenched 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——"
Erquessus 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 serving the Blood God, or are we hiding under Slaanesh's skirts?
A coward? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The knight family will not arrive so quickly. The empire's reinforcements are only a meager amount. They only need to allocate some more power to stop them. And there is a whole company of astral knights in the fortress. They can destroy it.
What an honor it would be to kill them!"
"But the wizard reports that—"
"I know what they said, but I don't believe in those things that smell of witchcraft and rancidity!"
Erquisos'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 made the Chaos Lord slowly turn back.
In his field of 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 various traitors.
Looking at it, his thoughts focused again.
"A full-scale attack will be launched in two hours. I need everyone to be ready, including the engine and the fearless. Now, go and send 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 had felt the enemy's skull pulsing and struggling between his fingers.
Suddenly, a wave of malice surged up his back, almost making him dizzy.
"grown ups?"
Arquesus 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, sounding like talking.
He ignored it and refocused his attention.
"What have the Words of Destiny brought us this time, Vargas?"
The warrior standing behind the Chaos Lord hesitated and did not answer immediately.
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 Warp continued to infuse this ability with vitality and formed an unsightly lump on the forehead of his head. Even the ceramite on his armor had turned into a weird obsidian texture.
, but Erquesos has 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.
"Sir, I can't say too many concrete words, but in my field of 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.
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"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 out of sight...Imagine a figure standing within reach of the fire, so that sometimes its shape will be touched by the fire..."
"I think I understand."
Erquessus 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.
"Sir, I must make a bold guess. There is a web of conspiracy opening up. I vaguely saw the shapes formed by the minds of the conspirators as they gathered together, and I felt... there was a crack in my vision. I originally thought it was here.
The door to subspace, but then I realized that it was not, it was opening and closing, and it was full of unknowns..."
He stopped talking when Erquessos clenched his fist into a fist and bent it.
"A foreshadowing...this is a foreshadowing!"
When he was about to speak again, the adjutant's call came from the communicator.
"Sir, the troops are ready."
Erquessus immediately 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.
The 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 Erquisos, leading more than a thousand Chaos Space Marines and tens of thousands of cultists and mutants, used underground passages to move covertly, and attacked the two Astral Knights with lightning speed.
The company launched a fierce attack on the defensive Fortress No. 7. At this time, there were more than 150,000 residents in the fortress who had not evacuated.
In the end, there were only two options left before Second Company Commander Ustad:
Abandon the fortress, decisively choose to evacuate, and leave the residents alone.
Or, hold on until reinforcements arrive.
But the mission given to him by Soshyan Alexei, the leader of the Astral Knights Chapter, was——