Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

The bright lights in the passage trestle were flashing one by one. Those bright spotlights illuminated the entire gray trestle, illuminating the ground, walls, overhead pipelines and connecting equipment lined up on both sides, but only Except for the black steel wall in front.

It was a wall made of pitch black steel. The black metal seemed to completely swallow up all the light. There was no reflection, no outline and no glimmer. All the light shining on the black surface seemed to be swallowed up.

They walked to the end of the connecting trestle of the Infinite Frontier and came to this long black steel wall. Bell looked at the wall that was almost completely sealed without any gaps, but the wall began to grow as they arrived. Something suddenly changed.

As Vito and Bell approached, the sealed black wall began to change as they approached the wall. Glittering green door gaps began to appear on the plane that had no gaps at all. The wall was divided into several The edges and corners of the block polygon shrink and open around, and its operation is not like a machine at all, but like a thinking life form.

Living metal, Bell is sure it is called, the undead will use these metals that can grow, heal and evolve themselves that the Empire completely cannot understand to create weapons, armor, buildings and ships, and its versatility is now vividly displayed in Bell In front of you.

As the black wall opened, Bell couldn't help but stop. This was almost a subconscious action. He looked warily at the dark space after the entrance was opened. That was the inside of the Necrons' Tomb Ship. Any Asta Te will instinctively prepare for a fight, even though Vito has clearly told him that this trip is not for fighting.

Bell stood in front of the entrance with a frown on his face under his helmet, while Vito patted his leg easily and walked in, as if he was just visiting an old friend's house.

Bell looked at Vito who walked through the gap in the black wall and hesitated for a moment, but soon regained his composure and let go of his hand holding the bolter to follow.

The Ultramarine walked through the gap and entered the tomb giant ship. He looked around vigilantly through the display window of the warrior's helmet. The scarlet glass of the Ultramarine's helmet looked directly at the surrounding building structures.

Giant black stone pillars are arranged on both sides, supporting this space with their towering and burly bodies. They are surrounded by completely devoid of reflective black steel, which stretches from the ground to the dome. The flowing green beam lines can give you a glimpse of the outline size here.

Bell looked around alertly, while Vito stood on the dark ground with his hands on his hips and looked around, "Where is that iron-clad bastard? He won't come out to pick us up."

Before Vito finished speaking, Bell heard a burst of footsteps inside his helmet, and the Ultramarines immediately looked in that direction according to the instructions on the tactical display interface.

Undead warriors walked out from behind the black stone pillars, and they were no ordinary warriors. These overlord guards with silver-gray cockscomb structures on their heads and green crystal-cutting blades walked out of the shadows, their steel hands holding a crescent-shaped sword. The blade, green decomposition lightning bursting on it.

Bell frowned as he watched them. Suddenly, an alarm began to sound inside his tactical helmet. The Ultramarines immediately saw the red dot captured by the individual radar with their peripheral vision, and that thing was on their head.

At the same time, a burly black shadow suddenly fell from above and hit the ground. The razor-like steel legs supported the centipede-like steel body. At the top of its layered iron armor was a shining eye. There is also a pair of iron pincers opening and closing under the red eyes.

Reaper, Bell pulled out his bolt gun the first moment he recognized the enemy. He instantly pointed the muzzle of his gun at the raised steel long-legged centipede, and gunfire erupted almost instantly, but before he Vito stopped him the moment he pulled the trigger.

"Bell! Put your weapons away!" Vito shouted, looking at the overlord guards slowly approaching in front of him. Obviously, this sentence was not very convincing.

"Marshal, this is a trap!"

"Listen to me and put the gun away! This is an order!"

Vito's words came into Bell's mind. He hesitated for a moment but obeyed the order even though he was extremely reluctant. He put down his bolter in the face of the terrifying steel monster, although his sense of crisis as an Astartes was sharpening. Calling the police, but Bell was also familiar with the Holy Scriptures and knew that obeying orders must trump his own chaotic emotions.

Vito breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and almost at the same time, a man walked out from behind a stone pillar with a smile. Both Bell and Vito looked at the hunched silver body walking between the overlord guards and coming to the front.

"This surprise of yours is not very fun, Trazin." Vito said with a wry smile, while the undead overlord in front of him laughed and raised his fingers one by one. He looked up at Bell.

"I have to make sure that the followers you bring will obey your orders and have enough restraint not to shoot me on sight like other religious lunatics."

Trazin said as he looked at Bell with twinkling eyes. He stretched out a hand to Bell, "I believe you are Bell Brutus. Vito has told me many things about you. It's an honor to meet you." you."

Bell hesitated for a moment. He knew he shouldn't shake hands with the alien, but for some reason he instinctively held Trazin's hand, so much so that he was extremely shocked when he discovered this action.

"Do you know the marshal?" Bell asked. Trazin shook his hand and let him go. He laughed and held the staff he was floating on the side.

"Yes, we have known each other for a long time, longer than everyone you know combined."

Bell was stunned for a moment and silently turned to look at Vito. He obviously had a lot of questions in his heart. If it were anyone else, he would have shouted "Heretic!" or "Traitor!" and shot Vito directly. You know, and What is the general outcome of alien cooperation in the Empire?

Vito knew what Bell was thinking and smiled jokingly. He pointed at Trazin in front of him, "Not all aliens are ill-intentioned towards humans. Bell, the same is true among the undead."

"It may be beyond your expectations, Ultramarines, but not every dynasty among the various Necronomicon dynasties has irreparable and deep hostility towards you, or all flesh and blood life." Trazin opened his mouth to explain this question. He obviously has the most say.

"We are all kinds of people, just like you humans, with different personalities. Some of them are indeed incorrigible and unreasonable lunatics, but among them there are also undead souls like me, the astrologers, who are willing to communicate with you and even cooperate with you. ”

Bell looked at Trazin hesitantly, but after confirming that Vito was indeed not hostile to Trazin, he nodded to show that he understood what Trazin said and would not have any unfriendly thoughts towards him.

Trazin smiled with satisfaction and looked down at Vito, "What do you want me to interpret?"

"Here it is." Vito said and took the box from Bell. Vito put the house on the ground and opened it, taking out the old man from the air mattress on the screen, and at the same time took out the Eldar bomb. .

Vito abandoned the bomb jokingly, and caught the bomb dangerously like he was doing acrobatics. He pointed a section of the bomb at Trazin and smiled, "I brought a bomb to show to the people on the ship. I hope you do not mind."

"Of course I don't mind. Besides, if you want to fight me and kill me, you don't need such fancy things." Trazin said with a smile, and Vito also stood up and threw the bomb to Bell.

"And I also know that even if I blow you up, you won't die. You, the iron-clad bastard, have God knows how many substitutes."

"I call it a proper risk protection mechanism. You know my collection work is very dangerous." Trazin said and took the old jade from Vito's hand.

The Endless looked at the undead artifact in his hand. The self-rotating structure shimmered in front of his eyes. Trazin looked at it, "Follow me, you will know what this is."

Trazin waved his hand for the two of them to follow. Vito followed naturally as if for a walk. After a brief hesitation, Bell held the bomb in his hand and followed the two of them away.

It’s not like Bell has never fought a springboard battle on a Necron ship since he joined the battle group, but this is the first time he’s followed the Necron Overlord on a tour. This also allows Bell to observe everything around him in a leisurely and detailed manner.

Bell was surprised to find that the surface of living metal was undergoing molecular-level changes, as if it were an ever-changing water surface. He obsessively observed the moving molecules through the molecular-level microscope of his tactical helmet, curious about what this metal was like. How it was made, and whether the Empire could copy it.

Bell couldn't believe how many breakthroughs it could bring in the military, civilian and scientific fields if living metal could be produced by the empire.

With curiosity about the surrounding technology, Bell followed Trazin and Vito through the maze-like corridors, walked up the long stairs in a wide hall, and passed through the arc-shaped door on the top floor.

Bell looked at the arch with green light flashing on the edge, which seemed to tremble and change the relationship between the spatial structure. He hesitated to walk over at first, but after Vito followed Trazin through the gate without hesitation, Bell also walked in. .

When he walked into the door, Bell felt a brief dizziness, as if everything around him was distorting and changing. But after a short moment, the discomfort ended, and was replaced by surprise, shock and awe.

Bell looked around at the exhibits, the endless collections that stretched into the distance. Countless precious cultural relics, technological artifacts and crystallizations were displayed here, spreading into the endless distance like a sea of ​​rare treasures.

Trazin raised her arms proudly, "Welcome to the Endless Museum."

They walked along the long corridor between the endless rare treasures. Bell looked at the things around him excitedly. He even took off his helmet after walking a certain distance to let himself see more clearly.

"You must have spent a lot of time collecting so many precious treasures, right?" he asked. Looking at the huge Titan next to him, Bell recognized that it was a warrior-level Titan. The weapon models on it were It is the standard model of the Great Crusade era.

Not to mention the other collections around, its wide variety includes the civilizational crystallization of all races in the entire galaxy, especially the specimen of the Tyranid Tyrant displayed not far away, which is restrained by an exquisite stance and still maintains the posture before being captured. , Bell has never observed the tyrant so closely.

Trazin walked along the exhibition area with a smile, "It did take a lot of effort. I spent tens of thousands of years collecting these treasures. I believe that knowledge, culture and all the precious creations created by them should be preserved to avoid today's dark galaxy. amid the devastation of war.”

"I think I can understand what you did." Bell said silently after looking at the surrounding exhibits and thinking for a while. He really didn't expect that he would say this to an alien, but he could indeed understand Trazin's Behavior.

"I'm glad you understand. I think we have a lot in common, my friend." Tarasim said as he came to a round table. Vito walked around him and stood on the other side of the table, while Bell was on the opposite side.

Bell looked at the round table, then looked up at Tarasim and clicked on the tabletop. As a small green light lit up, the table started to work, and its surface quickly decomposed into several rings and floated up.

Tarasim put the Jade of Old Age into the inner measurement of the surrounding ring. The artifact was suspended in it and rotated by itself. Tarasim gently clicked on the surface of the artifact. With a flick of his finger, the artifact stopped rotating, and the flashing dead spirit words on its surface were projected in three dimensions and suspended in the air.

Vito looked at the words floating in front of him. The closest one almost hit him. He wanted to take a small step back to make room, and Tarasim also began to operate.

He quickly clicked on the words to decompose them into countless data fragments. The fragments that rotated around like stars were shining. Tarasim's eyes watched them and soon understood everything.

"This is a key."

"Key?" Vito asked in surprise, and Trazyn nodded.

"This is a key that can be used to restart the lighthouse array. Ah, I forgot that you don't know what that thing is called." Trazyn said, turning his head to look at Vito, and also looked at Bell.

"In your human cognition, you generally call that thing the Sosa Beacon. It is located on the planet Sosa in the Ultramarine and is guarded by a sub-group of the Ultramarines. Ten thousand years ago during the Great Heresy, Guilliman used it to break through the warp storm and point the direction for the lost fleet."

Bell was shocked. Of course he knew what that thing was. He was sure that Vito knew it too. The latter frowned slightly and looked at Trazyn in front of him.

"The Sosa Beacon was destroyed by the loyal Iron Warrior Dantioch during the attack of the Night Lords."

"No, my friend, you technologically backward Mechanicus believers may think it was destroyed, but in fact it just triggered the protection mechanism after the overload, locking the system switch."

Tarasim said as he held the artifact. He handed the small pyramid structure to Vito, "And this key can restart the system and make the lighthouse work again."

"I believe you already know the crisis situation in Macragge, right? Aidalad told you." Trasim said, but Bell became nervous. He strode forward and asked hurriedly.

"Macragge? What happened there?"

Tarasim looked at him, "Plunderer, Warmaster Abaddon sent one of the main forces of his army of destruction to Macragge, and now the Five Hundred Worlds are under siege."

"The Dark Apostle Erebus slaughtered several star systems around Macragge and summoned a storm of destruction with the souls of tens of billions of people to cover Macragge. Now the connection with the outside world is cut off, just like during the Great Heresy, and you can also activate the lighthouse on Sosa as you did back then to guide the route of the reinforcements."

Tarasim explained, and Bell looked at Wei excitedly. Vito, he took a few steps forward and looked at the Jade of the Old, "We must go to Macragge immediately! Marshal, my brothers need us!"

Vito nodded and took the Jade of the Old. He looked at Trazyn and solemnly gestured, "Take us away, time is running out."

"No, my friend, the time has come and I must take you to see someone."

"Who?"

"Follow me."

After Trazyn said that, he walked in a direction. Vito and Bell followed after looking at each other. They followed Trazyn through a small corner of the Endless Museum and came to an exhibition area where a row of warriors were in exquisite positions.

There are many warriors here, including humans, greenskins, Eldar and Tyranids, etc. In addition, there are warriors of almost all external civilizations, even those that have been destroyed.

Vito and Bell followed Trazyn to a warrior, who was sitting on a silver-white throne. He closed his eyes and fell asleep. The sea blue armor he wore was still as new, and the amber gem eye on his chest was shining.

Bell looked at his armor and the sleeping warrior with short blond hair, feeling confused. He didn't recognize the armor coating and style of this warrior, until he saw the legion number marked on his shoulder and was extremely shocked.

"Marshal, he is the son of Horus!" Bell shouted, but Vito was far more surprised than him, staring blankly at the sleeping warrior in front of him.

"Loken?" Vito said almost blankly, while Trazyn on the side raised his scepter.

"His fate has come, and now it's time for him to return to the world." Trazyn said, knocking the ground with the scepter, and the green arc of light driven by the crisp sound instantly flashed and disappeared.

As the green fluorescent light on the edge of the booth disappeared, Loken's eyes slowly opened. He stood up with the help of the throne, but fell off the throne because of weakness and dizziness. He knelt on the ground and rubbed his head.

"Where am I?" Loken said confusedly, and saw Vito, who immediately squatted down to support him, looking at him in confusion.

"Vito?"

"Lorcan."

Vito choked up, tears welling up in his eyes but he didn't cry. He smiled at his old friend whom he unexpectedly met again after thousands of years.

"Where am I? What time is it now?" Lorcan asked in confusion.

"M41K.999, welcome back, Captain Gavir Loken." Trazin said.