The Emperor’s Angel of Death

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"Huh? I am..."

Veronica opened her eyes, feeling that her consciousness was still in a state of some kind, and then she realized that her arm was pressing on something.

When she lowered her head, she found that she was lying on Soshyan and fell asleep!

"how come--"

She looked around, and she was still on the boat, but the piper and the boatman had disappeared, and the boat was drifting silently on an unfamiliar water.

Veronica carefully recalled the recent memory. The two were rowing a boat and playing the flute. They didn't say a word, so she didn't have the opportunity to ask her own questions, and then she fell asleep. ——

Confused, she raised her head and found that the sun in the sky had also disappeared, replaced by a nine-round crescent moon, with little stars sprinkled on the water, as if countless tiny flying insects were swimming.

Veronica looked around hesitantly, trying to determine where she was, but in vain.

Then she checked Soshyan's condition again, and it was similar to before. Although it didn't worsen, she was still in a coma.

Veronica still remembered something Soshyan had told her before, that there was a Primarch in the empire who was also injured by his fallen brother. Therefore, it has become the only "living" Primarch whose whereabouts are confirmed in the Empire.

He is the Primarch of the Thirteenth Legion, Lord of Macragge, Robert Guilliman.

It can be seen that even these existences that claim to be the strongest force of mankind are not completely indestructible, let alone Soshyan is not a primarch.

"The two people have already left, and they don't seem to plan to follow to the end."

A small voice suddenly sounded beside Veronica, making her alert.

"Who? Who's talking?"

"I, the great King of Armies! Amnak of gold!"

"Amnak?"

Veronica hesitated for a moment, and immediately remembered the origin of the name.

"Chief of Slaanesh!"

"I am the king of armies! Not a chief! Now I am a free being!"

"Um?"

Veronica frowned, but she didn't find anything around, and there was no demonic aura, but the other party actually had a conversation with her, and it didn't look like her hallucinations.

Suddenly, she noticed the golden ring on Soshyang's hand. If she remembered correctly, Soshyang didn't seem to have this ring before.

So she tentatively stretched out her hand and poked the ring.

"It's you?"

"Humph! Damn Ada, touching my noble body! If it was before—"

"I'll throw you into the water if you talk nonsense again!"

As soon as Veronica said these words, the other party's clamor suddenly dropped.

"How can a Slaanesh demon be in Soshyan's ring, and there's no demonic aura... How did you meet Soshyan?"

"I'm not obliged to tell you, let your lover tell you."

Amnak, who had never been angry with Ada, replied angrily, and Veronica didn't say much, and stretched out her hand to take the ring off Soshyan's hand.

"Then go into the water and wait."

"Oh, don't don't-"

"Speak before I run out of patience."

In desperation, Amnak had to tell a series of events before and after his encounter with Soshyan, including the matter of being hunted down by Slaanesh.

After Veronica heard this, she nodded thoughtfully.

"It turns out that you have something to do with the gray marrow..."

Then she turned around.

"Those two, do you know who they are?"

"This--"

"Don't hesitate!"

"It's not that I don't say it! My senses were blocked as soon as that person appeared, but I listened to the conversation between Soshyan and Talos before. They seemed to have encountered that existence on the way to Comoros through the net channel. , its name should be called the Bewitched, maybe...I guess, it may be related to the Lord of Humans."

"Then do you know where this place is?"

"I don't know either, but it feels...as if it's an enclosed space."

"Closed space?"

Veronica looked around, except for the calm water surface, that is, the diffuse fog, and there was no boundary at all.

"Does not look like."

Not long after she finished speaking, Veronica found that the boat was slowly docked.

At first glance, there is a large forest on the shore of the lake, and some trees simply grow by the lake, and their roots are deeply rooted in the water.

Veronica thought for a moment, and decided to go ashore to have a look, but she was worried about leaving Soshyan on the boat alone, and then her eyes turned to the trees.

She called out the Heart of Avalon, chanted the spells that had appeared in her mind not long ago, and as a green light merged into a tree, the lake began to rippling.

The water plants by the lake swayed slightly in the night wind, and the sound was like a whisper.

Soon, the tree moved, a face made of twisted bark appeared in the center of the trunk, constantly changing, the hands were rough claws of cracked wood, and the vines fluttered in the wind like long hair, with knots on it. Plump berries and sharp leaves.

When the tree man lifted his legs and moved forward, there were slight waves on the entire lake.

It came to the boat and stretched out its arms to embrace Soshyan. Many delicate branches stretched out at the same time, turning its hands into a soft hammock.

Veronica then got out of the boat, and the crystal shoes stepped on the water to the land, the tree man followed her silently, and the boat she was on before was scattered into clouds.

Not long after she had gone, she saw the remains of a stone arch, made of moss-covered rock, that seemed to be dedicated to some forgotten god, or something.

But now it's all gone, and the fragmented arches and flat stones underfoot are proof of its existence.

Continue to walk in, a tall circular stone tower stands, as if to reach the stars in the night sky.

"Where is this time..."

Veronica walked to a broken stone tablet~www.readwn.com~ and waved her hand to erase the attachments on it, but only saw a unique symbol composed of circles and squares.

At first she didn't recognize the symbols, but soon she recalled seeing rubbings of the symbols in the Ark's ancient library, representing an ancient and mysterious people.

"Ancient Sage!?"

Realizing that this was most likely a relic of the Old Sage, Veronica began to climb up the rough, winding stone steps, at which point she seemed drawn to something indescribable.

a call? An impulse?

She couldn't explain it, only knew that something, or something else, was waiting for her.

Soon she reached the entrance to the stone tower, but was blocked by a door.

She tried to push it with the strength of her arm, but the huge bluestone door remained motionless, and even psionic energy was useless.

So Veronica turned to the side and saw a disc made up of ten rings of different sizes, engraved with incomprehensible symbols, and a polygonal groove in the middle.

Veronica knew that this was the mechanism that opened the door, but she had no clue, because she had only seen the symbols of the Old Sage and did not understand it.

"Hey, there is something on Soshyan, which seems to be given by the incarnation of Kane, look at it."

Amnak's words reminded Veronica, she quickly fumbled around Soshyan, and soon found the polygonal stone in her belt.

Looking at the symbols on the disc, she contrasted it with the disc on the wall, and immediately placed the stone in the disc, and the disc turned to the correct position.

The gate that had been silent for countless years slowly rose, revealing a dark space like a lightless void.