Horus, who was on the front line directing operations, suddenly received the news.
[Planet Devin], which had just surrendered to the Human Empire not long ago, officially launched a rebellion against the Human Empire under the leadership of its planetary governor.
The first moment he received the news, Horus actually felt a little unbelievable.
He thought there might be something wrong with the message.
After all, he had seen the planet's governor with his own eyes.
The feeling the other party gave him was that the word "coward" was written all over his face.
This kind of person can be said to be the most peaceful type. As long as he is not forced, he basically has no courage to rebel.
But in the video communication that followed, the insults coming from the other party made him couldn't help but frown.
The words of the other party were full of disdain for Horus and even the Emperor, claiming that they were the sun that was about to fall, and that the human empire they established would also be destroyed.
'Something is definitely wrong...'
Although he was clearly aware of this in his heart, the pride of being the War Commander of the Human Empire still made Horus feel slightly angry after watching the video.
After thinking about it, Horus left a part of his troops to continue the Great Crusade, while he took his own private legion, the [Sons of Horus], directly back to [Devin Star], wanting to investigate the actual situation.
And after he reaches the planetary orbit of [Daven Star].
What happened below was far beyond his expectation!
Through the spacecraft's detection equipment, he directly discovered a large number of abnormalities visible to the naked eye.
For example: those alien monsters all over the mountains and plains!
They are like a raging ant colony, filling every corner of [Daven Star].
And through the remaining human characteristics on those alien monsters, it is not difficult to see their original identities even without any analysis.
As for those buildings that were originally full of human civilization style, they have now turned into ugly and muddy indescribable objects.
They are like twisted, rotten soft-bodied creatures, extending their bodies from time to time and exhaling a large amount of dark unknown gas into the sky. They look extremely hateful!
Facing these various situations, Horus frowned and guessed:
'An alien race conspiracy?'
As one of the leaders of the Great Expedition Plan of the Human Empire, he has experienced many conspiracies and conspiracies over the past few hundred years, and the situation that happened on [Daven Star] is not from humans at first glance.
Therefore, he suspected that the scene below was actually caused by a certain alien race!
After some thinking.
He made a gesture, signaling to the [Legion of the Sons of Horus] beside him - the captain of the first company - Abaddon to fire directly.
Then, pieces of high-explosive ammunition filled with explosives spewed out from each battleship like crazy raindrops!
Under the continuous offensive, red flame clouds bloomed one after another on the surface of [Dawen Star].
Countless deformed monsters didn't even have time to react, and instantly turned into pitch-black dry charcoal!
Then, under the attack that followed, it turned into countless powders and completely disappeared into the world!
The fierce artillery fire lasted for more than an hour.
Horus then signaled the fleet to cease fire.
By this time, [Planet Devin], which originally looked like a demonic realm on earth, had already been bombarded by countless cannonballs, and the entire surface had been cleared, turning it into a semi-glass planet filled with translucent crystals!
Everything that originally existed above was completely destroyed.
There was only a strange temple that remained motionless no matter how bombarded by the fleet's artillery fire, as if it did not exist in the physical universe at this moment.
Faced with this strange scene, Horus thought for a while and said to Abaddon next to him:
"Preparing for a landing battle."
Regarding Horus's order, Abaddon did not have any doubts and responded directly:
"yes!"
In his heart, Horus was both his commander and his father.
That is the most reliable person in the world.
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Soon after.
Leading the tens of thousands of Space Marines of the Sons of Horus Legion, Horus, wearing power armor, slowly walked up the steps of the temple, carrying his own exclusive power sword.
Although he knew that the temple in front of him was very unusual, he did not have any worries in his heart, only vigilance was always there.
In this metaphysical world, although the fleet is the basis for ruling the galaxy, the strong are the ones who dominate the battlefield situation.
As a strong man in the first echelon of the behemoth Human Empire, Horus has full confidence in his own power!
His ability to single-handedly destroy ordinary alien races is his greatest confidence.
With a little caution.
Horus finally took the lead and entered the temple first.
It was at this moment that he clearly felt a sense of change in time and space.
Before he could react, the distance between him and his subordinates was directly opened hundreds of millions of times!
And a bloated, fat, twisted figure with abscesses all over his body bleeding disgusting dark green pus slowly appeared in his eyes holding a bloody dagger.
The moment he saw Horus, the bloated figure began to whisper: "You are finally here..."
Looking at the other person approaching, Horus also recognized the other person's identity through the few remaining features on his face.
He immediately asked with a puzzled expression: "How did you become like this?"
As he spoke, he raised the sharp blade in his body that could cut through the stars, and got into a stance to fight.
In the other party's body, he felt the crisis of death!
He didn't understand what kind of power could make a fat, powerless governor become like this in a short period of time.
"reason?
...The truth, I saw the truth, the truth of this world..."
With a little bit of madness, the governor said to himself:
"...I don't want to do this, but I have no way or choice. Those existences are not something I can disobey... Those are gods who existed before time..."
'What a mess...'
After listening to these words, although Horus didn't say anything, his suspicious look clearly showed this meaning.
Although he has a certain understanding of subspace, he doesn't know much about the deeper and more secret things.
Facing his expression, the governor also knew that he was just saying useless words.
With some jealousy, some resentment, and some madness, he raised the [Blade of Disaster] in his hand towards Horus and said:
"Those great beings have chosen you, and this is a fate you cannot escape..."