Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

"You just said, that was lightning, right? You are the god that the Dan people believe in, right? Called Sova or something like that? Shouldn't you be holding a hammer?"

"First, my name is Saul Constantine. Second, I don't use a hammer."

————During the Viking Conquest, Vito’s conversation with an Anglo-Saxon in ancient England, before he was hacked to death by Vito.

Explosive bombs and laser beams shot everywhere in the narrow corridor. Those roaring warheads shattered the lights above. As the lights were destroyed by the chaotic barrage, the corridor did not fall into darkness. The place was completely ignited by gunfire. Bright, dense laser guns and solid bullets roared and sprayed out dazzling tongues of fire.

The guards shot at the man walking at the end of the corridor in fear. Laser beams and explosive bombs roared towards him, but they were instantly bounced and deflected in front of him. Intense artillery fire bombarded him, but they were all destroyed. Being hit against the surrounding walls and ceiling.

The shattered wall dust and bricks fell with a crash, and Vito strode forward on the broken dust. He walked calmly in the corridor, waving his fingers gently in front of him, as if he was the conductor of a symphony. The roaring bullets all deflected and hit the walls on both sides under his command.

The flickering gunfire completely engulfed Vito's face, but did not cause him any harm at all. On the contrary, Vito was mercilessly attacking the defenders. His other hand was waving in the air, streaks of red gold. Lightning roared out from around him, and those lightning spheres that appeared out of thin air were suspended around him. The ball lightning jumped with countless electric currents, bombarding the walls and the ground, and also bombarding the guards in the corridor.

Thunder and lightning struck those guards. The moment they were hit, they turned into charcoal and fell to the ground after a short scream. The strong Bardock looked down at the knocked down guards beside him. His chest was instantly Burned through, the flesh and blood melted and collapsed, and even the bones underneath turned into brittle powder.

Bardock raised his head and looked forward. Vito was slowly walking forward. He was like a god of death in the corridor, constantly harvesting lives. The guards at the front had all been slaughtered, and the survivors hurriedly moved toward them. Then they ran away, but they were all burned to death one by one by the electric current ejected by the ball lightning.

Their bodies fell to the ground with steam, and the eyeballs in their eye sockets were exploded by electricity. One after another, the charred corpses fell in front of Vito, and he would step over the charred corpses and continue to move forward, golden lightning flashing from him. The body rose up, and those lightning swallowed up everything.

Flesh, flesh, bones, and even steel will be shattered under its bombardment, leaving behind wreckage wherever he passes. The lightning that attacks independently keeps jumping between the ground and the walls. Those firearms hit by the current will be instantly destroyed. Burned, the unfired ammunition in the magazine and barrel was activated and exploded.

The flames of the gun explosion impacted at Vito's feet, and the steel fragments hit the flickering psychic shield and disappeared. Vito walked forward slowly. He stepped over the corpses and debris and moved forward. Every step he took All of them created endless fear in those who faced him.

The guards around Bardock completely lost their courage as men. They were engulfed by fear. The fear of the enemy in front of them occupied their minds. These people screamed and fired randomly. They pulled the triggers one after another. Shooting meaningless bullets, not even knowing that all the bullets in their magazines are empty, they will continue to scream and pull the empty guns, their bloodshot eyes looking at the lightning in front of them and their pupils widening.

Bardock watched as three more guards in front of him were killed by lightning. They collapsed backward to the ground, and dust of powdered flesh and blood flowed out of their empty eye sockets. Vito stepped over the bones and continued to move forward.

"Alarm! Sound all the alarms!" Bardock shouted to the guard beside him in front of the terminal. The man was hurriedly clicking the buttons on the screen, but those buttons did not respond to him at all. He panicked. Continue clicking buttons randomly.

"All systems are offline! Alarms, jamming positions and all facility permissions in the factory have been disabled! Sir, we are trapped!!" He almost shouted, Bardock looked at Vito who was coming and shouted loudly Swearing, "Close the second armored door, I said close."

No one answered Bardock. When Bardock turned to look, he knew why. The guard's head exploded, and the cracked skull exploded like a grenade. His brain sprayed onto the surface of the terminal and the surrounding walls. , the limp body sat limply on the ground, completely dead.

Bardock cursed loudly and fired at Vito. He held the bolt gun in one hand and fired while retreating. He picked up the panicked people around him and pushed them towards the door behind him, "Retreat! Everyone retreat inside Court! Hurry!”

The gray bolt gun roared with every pull of Bardock, and the vibrating gun body continued to tremble as the bolts streaked out of the barrel. Those bolt shots were instantly bounced in front of Vito, and even one exploded. The bullet hit Bardock at his own feet. He looked up at the terrifying golden god of death, who was walking towards him at a slow but unstoppable pace.

Bardock continued to fire violently at Vito. He knew it was meaningless, but people would always make some instinctive actions under extreme fear. It was a creature's instinctive desire to survive. He continuously pulled the trigger to kill a person. He fired explosive rounds at Vito, and after emptying the entire magazine, he finally retreated through the door behind him.

Many guards retreated into the door, but a considerable number of guards were still outside. They fired at Vito while retreating. The roaring lightning and their own deflected bullets hit them. These guys were After being hit, they collapsed to the ground, and corpses fell smoking in front of Vito.

Bardock looked at Vito approaching and cursed. He pointed to the guard on the side, "Close the door manually! Close it immediately!" "But sir, we still have many people outside. They" "You heard the order!" Close the door!"

Bardock almost roared and gave the order. The guard looked at his comrades running screaming outside the door, and then at the golden god of death. In the end, fear completely overwhelmed his responsibility to his colleagues, and he suddenly pulled the door open. As the red wrench was pulled down instantly, the armored door at the end of the corridor also crashed down.

The guard closest to the door screamed and ran over. He shouted and rushed towards the door but was a step too late. The door crashed down, blocking them from Bardock's group inside. Everyone inside the door looked at that. Open the steel door and listen to a series of screams outside. The screams lasted for a long time, but suddenly stopped at a certain moment.

Suddenly all the sounds disappeared, the screams, the sound of electricity and the sound of gunfire all disappeared, everything outside the door fell into deathly silence, but suddenly in this deathly silence there was a roar from the door, and everyone Everyone was frightened by the sound and instinctively backed away.

Bardock and the guards stood behind the door. He looked back in the direction of the rune stone. The steel arch in the center of the inner court was inlaid with rune stones on both sides. The rune stones arranged along the door frame were shining with light, green and white. The halo tore a crack in the door.

That was something he had to guard. It was the task assigned to him by the Phantom Lady and her envoy. Bardock turned his head resolutely and looked at the door. The remaining guards around him raised their guns in horror, but The fear in their hearts could no longer be suppressed. Every time the door banged, their hands holding the guns would tremble.

The door roared again and again and began to dent and deform inward, as if there was a force constantly hitting the armored door. With every violent impact of the force, the surface of the door began to twist and dent, and rivets flew out like bullets. The steel reinforcement bars broke instantly.

The door was almost crumbling, and the surrounding door frames that were deeply embedded in the wall were also shattered. Even the surrounding walls were cracking rapidly. Everyone looked at the door that was about to collapse, and the door was completely destroyed by the next impact of the force. It overturned. In fact, the door panel was blown away directly, and the steel debris instantly knocked four or five guards into a pulp.

"Destroy the rune stones! Don't let the false emperor get them!" Bardock shouted and ordered to the guard behind him. He did carry out Bardock's order. The man ran towards the door frame with the rune stones embedded in his hand. , but the moment he reached the door and picked up the gun, he was shattered by lightning.

The man's body instantly collapsed into ashes. Bardock suddenly turned his head to look at the door. Vito's lightning struck the almost collapsed door frame and wall and walked in. The guards in front of him shouted. They fired at him wildly, but all the attacks were just a meaningless lament for their inevitable death.

Vito waved his fingers gently, and bolts of lightning shot from around him into the guards. The ejected current bounced continuously in a very short period of time. Each bounce would kill dozens of guards. Almost in the blink of an eye, a large number of The survivors were killed.

Bardock roared when he saw this. He suddenly pressed down the control handle on his waist. The moment he pressed the red button, the purple hormone was injected into his body along the hose. The penis inserted into Bardock's body The hormones began to be pushed in one hose after another. As all the purple fluorescent medicine was injected into his body, Bardock's muscles began to expand rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, Bardock's body expanded several times, and the exploding muscles made him grow rapidly. In a very short period of time, Bardock became as tall and strong as a Space Marine, with eye-catching blood vessels beating on those muscles. , the whites of his eyes swallowed by countless purple bloodshot eyes were torn from under the pupils. Bardock pulled out the chain sword from his waist and rushed towards Vito like an angry beast.

He rushed in front of Vito at the speed of a space warrior, and the raised chain sword hit Vito's head with all its strength. The latter dodged the chain sword and dodged it, and the roaring chain sword instantly hit Vito. The bricks and tiles on the ground were broken, and the entire ground exploded and cracked under the heavy impact.

The angry Bardock instantly withdrew the chain saw. He swung the chain saw at a speed far beyond ordinary people. The almost uncaptured blade whizzed past Vito's eyes. Vito leaned back at the last moment. Dodging the slashes, those roaring slices slashed past his eyes, cutting off several of Vito's eyelashes at a very close distance.

Vito moved back and forth. After several backflips, Vito pulled away. The moment he landed and stood firm, Bardock also rushed up. He rushed in front of Vito like lightning, as thick as a space warrior. Large swollen blood vessels burst out on his arms, and he howled and slashed the chain sword towards Vito's forehead.

The roaring slice slashed towards Vito's head. He looked at the falling roaring chain saw and instantly punched Bardock in the abdomen. The punch containing psychic energy hit the muscular abdomen hard, and the fist Like a cannonball being fired, the penetrating force instantly caused Bardock to lose his balance and retreat.

Vito almost caught it. He turned around and punched Bardock on the wrist holding the chain sword. His palm was instantly opened by the force, and he grabbed the falling chain sword, and then slammed it with a sword. It penetrated Bardock's abdominal cavity.

The strong warrior wailed and retreated repeatedly. He knelt heavily on the ground, blood spurting out from the rotating slices of the chain sword. The tearing pain impacted Bardock's thoughts. The huge pain brought anger. He wanted to get up and fight back, but the chainsword penetrated his flesh and blood and made him kneel on the ground helplessly.

Vito walked up to him. The standing golden god of death was level with Bardock's head. There was nothing he could do. After all, although Vito was nearly 1.9 meters tall, a Space Marine was a Space Marine after all, wasn't he? At their size, they could even kneel down and look at Vito's eye level.

Vito looked at Bardock in front of him with his hands behind his back. He looked at the warrior kneeling on the ground in front of him. The latter also slowly raised his eyes dripping with blood to look at Vito in front of him.

"You said you believe in the Phantom Queen. You are a follower of Slaanesh but you opened Nurgle's portal here. This is puzzling. Major Bardock, can you give me an explanation?" Vito looked at Bardock. Dark's purple bloodshot eyes already looked no different from those of a Slaanesh demon, with black pupils squeezed into a goat-like square shape.

"I will never betray them! I will not tell any truth to the puppet emperor's lackeys, or you should have seen the truth long ago." Bardock growled, blood flowing from his teeth. down, but he still endured the severe pain and said.

"The Emperor doesn't care about us at all! He doesn't care about any of us. He turns a blind eye to our pain. Everyone tells me that the Four Gods are the evil gods. Bah! The Emperor is the real evil god!" Bardock roared, Because he spoke loudly, he tore the flesh of his abdomen, and the blood flowed all over the ground under his knees, like a pool of blood.

Bardock looked at Vito with anger, and every word he spoke was accompanied by splashes of blood, "I have fought for the Emperor all my life. I fought to the death for him in the Astra Militarum. When I When I retired and returned home, they told me that I would be treated like a hero and that we are heroes of mankind.”

"Do you know what greeted me?! My wife, children, and children were executed as heretics by the National Church, but the reason was simply that the National Church wanted to expropriate our land to build another damn stupid church of theirs!"

"My son refused. He denounced them for having built too many churches. They were just trying to make money. Did the Emperor bless him? No! The state religion killed my whole family in the name of the Emperor! It took away my home, and I A loyal warrior of the Emperor, I begged the Emperor for mercy and punishment for the sinner, but do you know what happened?"

Bardock roared, he resisted the chain sword to tear his body further and roared, "I knelt in front of the Emperor's statue for three days! Three full days! He didn't say a word! Those evil people of the state religion are still here Preaching his teachings and amassing wealth in his name, the bishops sit on mountains of gold and silver, but we are forever in pain!”

"The Phantom Queen's envoy found me. She gave me an opportunity to take revenge, to take revenge on the false emperor and his lackeys. I will not miss this opportunity!"

Bardock's teeth were stained red with blood, and a large drum of blood spurted out from his mouth. He stared at Vito with anger, "I don't want you to tell any truth, the puppet emperor's lackey, just kill me. I won't betray my queen!"

Vito looked at Bardock in silence for a moment. He sighed deeply and then opened his golden eyes, "Where is your hometown? Major, tell me, and I will handle the rest."

"Another false promise from a false emperor? Save it." Bardock said resentfully, but Vito shook his head. He saw that there was no anger in Bardock's eyes, but pity and distress.

"Not this time, I promise you, the guilty person will pay the price." Vito stared at Bardock's eyes and said, the latter looked at him silently, Bardock stared at those golden eyes, staring at After thinking for a while with those eyes that contained endless power, the major finally spoke.

"My home is on Charon on the southern edge of the Ultramarine." "Very good, I understand, and I also know that you will not betray her, Major."

Vito pressed Bardock's shoulders. He looked into his eyes and sighed for a long time, "You are a brave warrior. When you go to her, remember to tell him that Vito Constantine expresses his gratitude to you." With respect, she will be kind to your soul.”

"You are a strange person, Vito Constantine, do it now." Bardock said, looking at Vito in front of him, who nodded slightly and grasped the chain sword on his abdomen. Vito suddenly Pulling it out, blood spurted out from the gap. In the severe pain, Bardock roared and suppressed his screams.

He hummed and lowered his head. He placed his head flat in front of Vito, who held the chain sword in both hands and raised it high. He was like an ancient knight who beheaded another respectable knight. Swinging down the chain saw, the sword fell and he fell down.

Vito held the chain sword with both hands and stood next to Bardock's body and sighed. After a moment, he raised his eyes and looked at the portal on that side. He walked to the flashing portal with the chain sword in hand and gave instructions. Looking at the horrific hell beyond the portal.

Vito's palm suddenly spread towards the ground, and a golden lightning struck the ground. The thunder quickly circled along the ground, and the lightning decomposed into several branches. The lightning carved a magic circle on the ground, and one circle surrounded it. The magic circle of the portal.

"Old fool, I know you are looking at me, move your butt, and prepare to pull me back." Vito said and looked at the magic circle. Suddenly, golden light flickered from between the runes and lines. Get up, like silent words.

Vito smiled and took out the pendant from his arms. He looked at the small silver pendant. Vito's eyes looked at the space within the portal and he stepped into it.

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He stepped into the realm of Nurgle. When Vito passed through the twisted portal and passed through the thin and twisted smoke, Vito came to the most twisted place in the galaxy, the endless death and war hidden in the subspace. What lies at the end of the aberration - Nurgle's Garden.

In front of Vito is a world that is intolerable and incomprehensible, a living swamp composed of black stars and dying worlds, a rotten galaxy composed of countless twisted things.

The worms of the universe gnaw at the foundation of infinity, the galactic plague devours all flesh and blood, and the endless hunger turns everything into deformed remains. This is the dark mirror image of the evil wind of life, and the most horrific blasphemy against life.

Vito's boots stepped on the living earth, and the squirming earth made a sound like living maggots under him. Diseased plants, fat and thin, like a cloud of smoke or a puddle of oil, grew around him. , insects linger above their heads, and the endless flapping of their wings constitutes a violent song that tears apart all reason.

That laughter, countless wails resounding in pain and despair, the laughter that is always crying for something that will never come, that painful laughter echoed in the forest, Vito looked into the depths of the forest, He knew that the manor of the Lord of All Things was there.

Vito sighed deeply. He looked at the sky above him that was shrouded in sickly clouds and tree canopies. Vito looked at the eternally silent starry sky. Suddenly, lightning jumped out of his eyes again, and the lightning quickly jumped out of his eyes. Spreading throughout the body, the surging spiritual power pours out like a waterfall.

That was Vito's full strength. Here he no longer had to worry about any consequences, he could use his full strength.

And that is one of the most terrifying forces in the galaxy. It is a powerful force that is infinitely close to the four gods and the emperor. The raging psychic storm accompanied by the dancing storm of lightning came, and the plants in Nurgle's garden were destroyed. Sweeping away and demolished, the tall blight trees burned and fell in the red lightning, and even the land screamed in its power.

A sudden change occurred in the sky. Dazzling electric lights flashed in the eternally silent starry sky. The dull sound of thunderstorms rushed in from the sky. In a very short period of time, the sky turned into a world of storms, endless thunder and flashing electric lights. Tearing apart the poisonous clouds and shattering the distorted starry sky created by the Lord of All Creation, the thunder fell from the sky and struck into the garden, destroying everything.

Vito's body floated up. He floated up from the living earth beneath his feet. His body had turned into a golden light. Endless lightning shot out from his fingertips and struck the earth. The golden sun wheel flashed with thunder. Appeared in the back of his head instantly, and with the appearance of the sun disk, the light burned everything around him.

The swamp was screaming, the forest was wailing, the blazing heat brought by the light was burning everything, and the person who caused pain flew up, suspended in the forest, and endless rain fell above his head. Thunder and lightning, the huge canopy of trees shattered and burned in his thunder and lightning, and huge wreckage fell to the ground from all around him.

Vito raised the chain sword high, and countless lightnings quickly climbed around the chain sword made by mortals. The sword body began to shatter in an instant. All the shells, the chain saw and everything began to shatter. Those explosions The wreckage turned into fleeting sparks and scattered, and from the wreckage of the chain saw, a lightsaber composed entirely of golden light was reborn in the core.

The lightsaber formed by the gathering of psychic power guided all the thunder in the stormy sky. Those lightnings converged on the blade from all directions. The moment Vito fell back to the ground, he held the lightsaber with both hands and thrust the blade into it. On the surface, the thunder blade instantly penetrated the creeping strata and penetrated into its core. As Vito suddenly turned the hilt of the sword, the unparalleled power was released.

With Vito as the center of the circle, huge cracks began to spread from all around him. The shattered land caused the woods in the Plague Garden to fall into the abyss of the cracks. Countless red golden lightnings roared into the sky, and those lightning bombarded into the storm. The sky brought back a more powerful force in an instant.

The power was so strong that the entire sky of Nurgle Garden was covered by storm and rain. The roaring thunder even shocked the Lord of all things in the manor. His fat and bloated body crawled out of his manor, his round and round body like smoke. He turned his eyes to the sky and let out a howl of pain. He witnessed with his own eyes the huge thunder bombarding his garden.

The entire Plague Garden began to ignite with raging flames, and with the lightning, large areas of the forest were reduced to nothing. The wriggling plants screamed in the flames, stinging the eternally diseased heart of the loving father, and the shattered earth simultaneously split the land. The master's own skin, the destructive power was also transmitted to the body of the incarnation of this land. The abscesses on his rough and swollen skin burst and exploded. His skin was also cut open piece by piece in the splashing juice, causing Nurgle to suffer. The wailing, decaying voice cursed the one who brought pain.

Vito heard his father's voice. He smiled and shrugged slightly, then immediately held the silver pendant on his chest. He poured his power into the pendant. Almost instantly, the pendant began to tremble and flicker, and outside the portal The magic circle also lit up with a shining light, and the two forces were connected with each other. In an instant, Vito's body turned into a golden light and flashed into the portal.

The flash of light escaped before the final destruction. A moment after Vito left, the thunder fell to the ground, and the flashing electric light swept around with the bright light. Everything in the Garden of Nurgle, a huge light group came from a corner of the garden. It exploded, and the light swallowed up everything in its path.

The magic in the garden instantly collapsed and then collapsed. The chain of devastating disasters almost shattered part of the entire Nurgle Demon Realm. A large piece of Demon Realm land shattered and exploded, turning into a meteorite belt in the void background of subspace.

Not only in the garden, the powerful force also passed through the portal. The archway flashing with rune stones exploded and disintegrated in an instant. Father Nurgle's hissing cry of pain accompanied the surging force that shattered the rock formations of the factory and shattered the walls. With everything in it swallowed up, people in the factory screamed along the corridor and tried to escape, but they were all engulfed by the incoming flames.

As the flash of light rushed from the top of the factory to the sky, a huge explosion engulfed the entire factory. The guards outside the factory looked up at the cloud of fire that lifted up the top of the entire factory. The rising explosion surged from every corner of the factory. Out, the crumbling steel factory fell to the ground like a toppling giant.

Raging flames swept from around the factory. The raging flames engulfed the surrounding guards and high walls. Large areas of forest disappeared instantly in the sea of ​​​​fire. The huge fire cloud rose straight into the sky, and the shining fire engulfed half of the sky of the planet. , the atmosphere surged under the impact of the fire, and the sea of ​​fire spread rapidly along the sky of the planet. People in the distant city could look up and see the terrifying sky of fire.

Even in space, the raging flames on the planet's surface can be observed. In the distant nebula, Macragge's Glory hovers in the starry sky, and countless battleships gather around it to witness the planet's fire.

On the side of Macragge's Glory, Guilliman stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, overlooking the churning sea of ​​fire on the planet's surface. Beside him, Cato Sicarius could no longer be proud. He, Bell and the others They looked at everything on the planet in shock, not just them, but many Ultramarines were here.

"Is this the power of God?" An Ultramarine next to Guilliman said in shock, but his comrades on both sides were speechless. They stood in front of the side window and stared at the burning fire with wide eyes. of fire clouds.

Guilliman frowned after listening to their words. His eyes suddenly discovered something. He discovered something from the planet-level psychic disaster.

Vito's power seems to have become stronger than it has been in ten thousand years, but why?

Guilliman was silent as he looked at the burning sea of ​​fire. He didn't know the answer, but a word suddenly rang in his heart. He had heard it from countless people, a word that made him feel ridiculous, God-Emperor.

Guilliman spurned the vocabulary of feudal superstition. He believed in the truth of the empire and did not believe that there was a god in the world. All supernatural things could be explained by reason and knowledge.

But when he saw Celestine, and now witnessed Vito's power with his own eyes, the lightning and flames burning on the surface of the planet illuminated his eyes, maybe there was a reasonable answer to this, an answer that could be explained rationally.

But now, there is doubt in his eyes, doubting whether the truth of the Empire that he firmly believes in can be regarded as the real truth. Is there something in this galaxy that he has never known about, and the Emperor has never told them? the truth.