Warhammer: Start with a dog

Chapter 373 Flawless and perfect...

The Heartless Flame is the flagship of the Gorda dynasty. This converted cruiser was built as the only prototype of the Ignis-class heavy cruiser in the famous forge world of Ryza's shipyards some forty centuries ago. The ship was born.

But later, this experimental ship with a wonderful design idea, but in fact Reza's existing technology could not allow her plasma engine to meet the needs of propulsion and combat readiness weapons at the same time. It was considered to be too expensive to maintain and ordered to be decommissioned and sold. Since then, it has been used in various fields. It has been wandering around in the hands of humans and horses for at least three thousand years.

Ten centuries after she was last sighted in the real universe and subsequently disappeared, she emerged as a space hulk in the SR-651 shipbreaking yard in the Kronos Expansion, awaiting her final fate.

But then she met her current mistress, Lady Elspeth Gorda. So even though her machine soul is difficult to appease and prone to losing temper, the Ruthless Flame has always had an extra level of tolerance and concern for the female lord who gave her new life with a lot of wealth and long hours of maintenance.

Just as now, the Merciless Flame noticed with concern that a figure that should not have been brought aboard her glorious and proud decks was now becoming increasingly impossible for her to ignore.

But she felt a deep powerlessness: she could get angry at the captain, technical officers and navigators, but she could not influence the female lord's decision.

The Relentless Flame could only continue to watch with concern what was happening on her decks, while her plasma engines were reported to be becoming more temperamental and unruly.

But despite this, even among the famous dynasty of Rogue Traders, the Merciless Flame can be said to be a quite eye-catching and awe-inspiring ship.

Because her standing crew numbered nearly one hundred thousand people, and the owner, absolute mistress and ruthless executioner of this veritable little mobile city was Lady Elspeth.

After retiring from the Imperial Navy, this female lord took over the commercial rights of her dynasty as the last and sole heir at the speed of light. She used her flaunting of wealth and pursuit of beauty, and her treatment of people she didn't like or who she considered heretics, The ruthless and violent methods used by the enemy are well-known throughout the sub-sector, and in the recent "Maw Opening Festival" holiday banquet, the entertainment and banquet she provided were both luxurious and unique. It left a deep impression on the guests present.

This year was supposed to be no exception, and she unexpectedly but luckily locked in on this year's "main course" and managed to capture him using a one-off cube mini-cage from an unknown planet outside the Kronos expansion. ——It is as simple and easy to use as the mysterious aliens who "voluntarily sold" it to her howled, but unfortunately it is one-time.

Her Mechanicum allies had begged her not to use it - "This item contains the sophisticated technological secrets of time and space! You can't just waste it on an ordinary, possibly Space Marine." On the transformed person!”

But she refused, because it had to be a hit, and it had to be 100 percent sure not to cause any commotion, and this was the only device suitable.

Besides, that goal is so beautiful and perfect.

She originally planned to steal the waiter with the generous smile in the "delicious and nutritious" restaurant, but Ms. Gorda knew immediately when she saw the target who had just stepped into the passage at the port window, this gorgeous heart. , sparkling purple and silver gemstones are the ghostly sparkle she wants this year.

She used that precious device and got her wish.

At first, the female lord of the dynasty thought that her method of inflicting pain was effective. It seems that the Astartes monks are not as unshakable as the rumors say. She is indeed very confident in the psychological pressure caused by the alien punishment techniques that she has practiced on countless unlucky people.

But Ms. Gurda began to realize that there was a slight possibility that her carefully laid plans were about to change annoyingly.

But...this Emperor's Angel of Death is truly beautiful.

The lines of his body were longer and slender than those of the Astartes that the Lord had glimpsed from a distance during her distant and unspeakable journeys, or outside the hidden battlefields, and his face was He was also more refined than anyone she had ever seen, especially when he raised his amethyst eyes and raised an eyebrow, there was even a strange enthusiasm and innocent vitality in it.

Even the female lord who is accustomed to welding twisted sneers and sarcastic expressions to the corners of her mouth sometimes has to admit that maybe the gods have given some people a natural gift of charm from the beginning.

The sound of chains came.

I should check on him again, she thought, walking away from her bridge, not seeing the uneasy glances exchanged by her officers and aides.

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"So, you originally planned for me to be the highlight of the 'Discovery Day' or the 'Big Mouth Opening Festival', right?"

While saying this, Lucius leaned elegantly on the couch armchair that was the favorite of the Gorda dynasty female lord.

"Oh, God-Emperor," Lady Elspeth thought to herself, "He looks like a large, dangerous, gleaming silver brained cat with wings, but there is no creature like him. This makes people feel dangerous. The sacred throne is so dangerous and fascinating. How could such a space warrior be created by the power of the God-Emperor?

Thinking like this, she stepped forward and answered him. "That's right, so you should perform well. At this year's Giant Mouth Opening Festival, I will be the absolute protagonist and the one being praised, because I will show you at the banquet - my well-behaved and beautiful prey, the new guard and the 'main course' of the banquet, and I will use you to entertain others at the subsequent banquet."

"Oh, throne, forgive me for being frank, this sounds simply... very fanciful. Madam, use me to 'entertain' others? Is that what I mean?"

"Not only may it be what you mean, there may be more meanings."

The female lord's stern and cold gray eyes stared closely at the beautiful Astartes' every move. He now has shackles on his wrists and ankles for the most ferocious aliens, and the alien technology collar on his neck is combined with the forbidden Mechanicus creation, which can ensure that once he wants to attack his mistress, his head will be completely blown into fireworks starting from the neck.

However, after being told the use of this thing, the person concerned did not care about it. Instead, he touched the collar curiously, and praised them for their ideas with a strange pleasure.

This abnormality initially made Ms. Gorda feel a little more uneasy.

However, timid people can't make a fortune in the abyss of the Kronos Expansion and the Halo Star Cluster, right? What's more... he is so beautiful and perfect. When Ms. Gorda thought about this, her eyes were attracted by Lucius lying there.

On the other hand, on the Ruthless Flame, except for the worried and irritable machine spirit, people who can observe these fluctuations with the eyes of the warp are very different from what ordinary mortals see with their naked eyes, which even the female lord cannot fully experience.

The star language choir of the Ruthless Flame and her navigator have been shocked by what they saw and lost their words, or they are so terrified that they lost their words.

Uneasy internal communications and whispers circulated among the crowd, but no one dared to raise this point with the cruel and indifferent female leader who was obviously obsessed with her new captive.

A fact that made those who tried or intended to oppose Lucius feel horrified from the bottom of their hearts was that despite being a captive, he cleverly convinced the female leader to now believe him more than her loyal servants, officers and assistants. What's more terrifying is that those who raised objections to Lucius soon began to fall under his charm.

When the female leader of Gorda didn't notice it at all, everything on the Ruthless Flame had quietly changed.

Apparently, although the Legion veterans who were busy with their feet and heads in "Delicious and Nutritious" were certainly wrong, someone was also having a lot of fun because of this unprecedented single-player fresh experience.

Therefore, when the Emperor's Children and the Moon Wolves "finally" remembered, or rather, when the body of a certain Iron Lord finally remembered that it had such a special collection and began to look for it, they were surprised to find that an Astartes veteran had actually disappeared on an outpost space station, and most likely - had been kidnapped.