Traveling through the Warhammer world, but I didn’t cry.

Stunus' right eye was replaced with a bionic eye, and his nose, mouth and jaw were removed and replaced with metal pipes. After the lungs were injured, the lungs were also replaced with a piece of mechanical construction, so he absorbed nutrients from the outside directly by absorbing electrolytes and intravenous injections. Even less skilled mechanical mages would be ashamed of the extent of Stunus's mechanical transformation.

The transformation of Stunus is not uncommon among the Iron Hands. In fact, as long as you can become an Iron Hand veteran, it means that you can compete with the Dreadnoughts of the Chapter to see who has less flesh on their body.

The historical reasons why the Iron Hands are so obsessed with mechanical transformation are complicated, but Big Head must have a deep relationship with Slaanesh and Fulgrim.

For the Iron Hands, rationality and determination are necessary qualities for a warrior, and weakness is the beginning of destruction. They have seen too many cases of corruption and evil caused by weakness of will.

So what is strong? Naturally, it is steel and machinery. So what is weak? Can it lead people to fall? Flesh, Slaanesh, Fulgrim, and the damn Emperor's Children, of course.

The scene of Fulgrim decapitating his father in front of his children is really shocking, and the psychic shock caused by the death of the original body also gave birth to a powerful demon named the Sapphire King in the subspace.

The body of the Sapphire King was poured out of the extreme emotions such as frustration, anger, regret, unwillingness, and the loss of unrealized ambitions that filled the entire battlefield of Istvan III. Since his birth, he has become the inner demon that every Iron Hand needs to overcome, and every warrior who believes that they have failed to protect the primarch nourishes the bejeweled Sapphire King.

The Sapphire King is good at grasping the most vulnerable side of the Iron Hands warrior's heart, and then constantly amplifying it. He relied on this ability to secretly torture the Iron Hand's descendants for centuries, and finally made them go to more and more extremes on the path of "suffering flesh and blood, and mechanical ascension". The Hands of Steel pursue logic and have bottomless thinking, despising flesh and blood, and are obsessed with transformation. The desire to remove every ounce of weakness from your body to become stronger. They even have devices like subliminal modulators to suppress their limited humanity and emotions.

After 30k, Tie Shou became more and more confused. At one point they created a mechanical clone of Ferus. This clone was not as good as the skills of the old Chinese medicine doctor Fabius. Iron Hand, who missed his father like crazy, connected Ferus's arm to a mechanical doll, and then announced that Ferus was resurrected. This kind of behavior is not much different from tying Ferus' arm to the flagpole. Later, Vulkan found out about this. Vulkan, who has always been a good guy, was so angry that he directly dismantled the mechanical clone, and then angrily scolded the Iron Hands. Crazy behavior.

Later, the Sapphire King planned to set a trap for the Iron Hands around 41 in the 460st millennium, so that he could harvest all the negative emotions accumulated in these long years at once, and by the way, the Iron Hands Chapter Gave it to Yang.

The person working for the Sapphire King was naturally a warband of the Emperor's Children. Upon hearing the news, the Iron Hands directly led the army to crush the Emperor's Children and the Slaanesh sect that spread in the High Year system.

The Slaanesh sect of the Highland Year galaxy did a lot of tricks. They squeezed billions of planet residents into a space more than ten miles wide. Flesh and steel were glued together, and countless boilers protruded from this flesh and blood aggregate. chimney. Steam erupts from mortal eyes, gears turned from human bones rotate, and pieces of demonic weapons are processed from living conveyor belts made of wriggling human tongues. The reverberation composed of all kinds of blasphemous and obscene sounds was unacceptable to the Space Marines. They turned off the audio communicator on their helmets and prepared to completely destroy this blasphemous place.

Christos, the Father of Steel who led the Iron Hands, went crazy after witnessing the wonders and countless details of the factory. His character flaws and soul weakness led to his depraved ending. He connected himself to the machinery of the central nervous system. The tendrils pierced the walls of flesh and blood, sucking in pleasure crazily.

Then he assimilated with the factory facilities and turned into a huge monster. The Iron Hands directly under him were also shaken by the crazy scene, and were gradually possessed by demons and parasitized to attack their comrades.

The trap of the Sapphire King has been fully revealed. The more someone suppresses their emotions and the more obsessed they are with removing flesh and blood and replacing them with mechanical hands of steel, the easier it is to be corrupted.

Stunus, who came to support, witnessed the melee in front of him. His heart was suddenly filled with anger, and his suppression equipment was also fighting against this emotion so that he could act with cold thinking.

According to the ability of the Sapphire King, the Iron Hands could degenerate into the devil's minions even if they tried desperately to maintain their sanity. They should have transformed faster when they released their emotions.

But there is a saying that goes well, strength can overcome all tricks, and recklessness can overcome all things.

Stunus simply gave up suppressing his emotions and shouted, "Unleash your anger! Brothers!"

Then the Iron Hand, whose front feet were pressed and beaten by the demon of Slaanesh and the Son of the Emperor, suddenly stood up. The subspace curse of the Sapphire King actually helped the Iron Hands fight harder! Stronger attack!

Like a boiler that was about to burst suddenly found a breakthrough, the sudden release of the storm of rage even stunned the Slaanesh demon who enjoyed extreme emotions for a while.

Then this anger condensed into substance, turning into iron fists and explosive bombs and smashed into the body of the Slaanesh demon. The demons and the countless jewels and gold inlaid on their bodies were torn into psychic fragments flying in the sky.

In the world of Warhammer, as long as you are reckless enough, angry enough, and loyal enough, even if the Emperor and the others are too late to help you, Khorne will definitely be able to help you to some extent, especially when the one you are fighting is Slaanesh, and the speed of Khorne's blessings It's faster.

Seeing that something was wrong, the Sapphire King immediately jumped out and tried to use words to lure the Iron Hand into surrendering to him. Then he failed and was beaten to a pulp. From then on, the Iron Hands Chapter gradually got on the right track, and very slowly changed his crazy thoughts.

But this was all hundreds of years ago. For Space Marines who have lived a long time, it may be the same as what happened last year.

Slaanesh's situation has only changed in the past few decades, and it has always been clandestine. To the likes of the Iron Hands and other unsuspecting Imperial forces, Slaanesh was still the evil god who could glue the living together into works of art, and Fulgrim was still the damned traitor who beheaded their father.

The Iron Hands stood in line, and they could hear footsteps approaching steadily from the other end of the Mechanical Ark. Then Stunus, who was at the front of the team, felt a sudden unknown fire in his heart. The last time he was so angry, he faced the Sapphire King head-on.