manynovel Chapter 69 Neither a loyal subject nor a rebel, his identity can only be...
Chapter 69 Neither a loyal subject nor a rebel, his identity can only be...
Chapter 70 Neither a loyal subject nor a rebel, his identity can only be...
The Great Tyrant, lower deck.
Erlen swung his chainsaw axe furiously, letting out a deafening roar as he mercilessly cleaved open the helmet of the World Eater who had once been his comrade.
Seeing the opponent's irrational eyes and the Butcher's Nail twitching above his head, the combat pleasure brought by Khorne's Blessing was completely overshadowed by the pain of fratricide.
In that instant, Erlen recalled his conversation with Liu Bei a few days earlier—
"Give up, Liu Xuande! Although your abilities have indeed miraculously freed us from the Butcher's Spike, Father... that Angron's Butcher's Spike is the most primitive and vicious version! There's no other way but to fight him to the death!!"
That was the first time Liu Bei tried to use his skills against Anglong.
The ability, however, only made the Primarch even more insane and brutal; Erlen barely managed to rescue him with all her might.
"No... I can sense that beneath his violent and bloodthirsty exterior, there exists a soul that can be redeemed... just like my third brother."
At this point, Liu Xuande's voice suddenly paused.
"Company Commander Erlen, I don't mean to blame you... but I really want to know, why would loyal men like you allow such an evil thing as the Butcher's Nail to harm yourselves?"
Upon hearing Liu Xuande's question, Erlen lowered his head in shame and humiliation, unable to meet the other's sincere gaze.
"We just wanted to get closer to our father... to understand his pain and thoughts, but unfortunately we couldn't in the end."
"Do you understand...your thoughts?"
Looking back now, if he had paid closer attention to Liu Bei's expression at the time, he might have been able to prevent what happened later.
Later, when he and Liu Bei visited again, the other party suddenly went on a killing spree. If Lucius hadn't struck the other party's head, Erlen's group of warriors, who were immune to the Butcher's Nail, would probably have been wiped out.
The rage of being betrayed led Erlen to accept Khorne's gift, but it was only after learning from the communicator that Erlen realized the truth of Liu Xuande's "betrayal".
That's incredibly foolish. He actually implanted Butcher's Nail into himself just to save Angron.
How foolish! To mistakenly trust a loser like me who could be so easily seduced by the Chaos God.
Now that things had come to this, Erlen knew that having received Khorne's blessing, there was no turning back. His only remaining thought was to use this blasphemous power to free his manipulated brothers as much as possible, to free Liu Bei from the sins of the World Eater, and then—
He fought to the very last moment, then committed suicide to return to heaven!
[Attention all loyalist warriors! The following is an order from Captain Sun Qian of the Great Tyrant!]
Just then, Loken's voice suddenly came through the previously silent broadcast arrays inside the ship.
[Captain Sun Qian is about to arrive at the battlefield. All loyal soldiers, please prepare.]
Erlen frowned. Did they have to clear the way for that guy named Sun Qian?
He himself didn't care, but he didn't know if the other warriors, already bloodthirsty from Khorne's blessing, would still obey orders...
[Once Captain Sun Qian is spotted, immediately attack him with your melee weapons! I repeat, immediately attack him with your weapons!]
What?
That guy wants us to attack him?
When Erlen heard this absurd order, his first thought was that Khorne's blessing had distorted his perception.
"Hahaha! Even if he hadn't said it, I was already planning to do that anyway!!!"
However, Lucius's frantic reaction nearby proved that Erlen had not misheard.
"That damned bastard dared to humiliate me like that, I'll make him feel the same pain!!"
Lucius, who miraculously recovered from his severe injuries with the help of Slaanesh's energy, seems to have fallen into the corruption of Chaos more deeply than anyone else.
Just as Erlen was about to warn him that this might be an enemy plot...
Rumble!!!
It was as if the sound of the Rand speedboat charging at full speed had caught Erlen's attention.
The next second, Erlen thought he was hallucinating.
A burly figure shrouded in black mist appeared on the battlefield and began to rampage. Loyal warriors and world devourers controlled by the Butcher's Nails, anyone who was in his path or even just approached him would be sent flying into the air like a wave being torn apart.
Moreover, his speed was astonishing even to Astartes; in a mere fraction of a second, he had gone from appearing in sight to a distance where Erlen could easily make out his face.
Although his right arm had completely transformed into a demon's claw, although his size was vastly different from before, and although his face was as ferocious as a demon.
But without a doubt, he was the one Erlen had seen before.
"Sun Qian, prepare to die—"
'
Lucius, laughing maniacally, charged at Sun Qian with his saber raised, his eyes gleaming with the purple light of Slaanesh's chaotic power, and mercilessly aimed for the man's throat.
Boom! !
But almost in the next instant, Lucius was smashed into the ceiling, and his weapon was in Sun Qian's hands.
Sun Qian didn't even notice this "enemy" that wasn't even a speed bump; to put it another way, it didn't matter to him whether the person in front of him was friend or foe.
He casually hurled the military knife he had just snatched from his right arm, the Demon Claw, into the crowd, imbued with "qi".
The enhanced attack instantly wiped out a group of Astartes warriors.
The attack was then triggered again.
As a result, more "Qi" was absorbed into Sun Qian's body, causing his demonic possession level to rise rapidly.
Although the Demonic Possession Value should theoretically decrease every second, the Demonic Possession Value he gained decreased by hundreds of times.
The meter is running backwards!
"I see, huh, alright then, let's see if you can handle it..."
'
Sun Qian seemed to have been struck by a particularly heavy chainsaw axe, but he immediately snatched it and threw it in the direction the attack came from. He had no time to pay attention to the details of the battlefield now.
Time is tight and tasks are heavy.
Moreover, the faster he runs, the fewer deaths and injuries he may cause.
In just a few seconds, Sun Qian silenced the battlefield area and then continued his advance to the next area following Loken's newly planned route—
Rumble...
The area that took the least time was the central cabin where the mortal crew members gathered. Most of them didn't even have time to react before they saw a black afterimage flash past them.
Having been unattacked, Sun Qian naturally did not retaliate, except for a few unlucky Astartes guarding the entrance and exit areas.
Acton Cruz was one of them, but fortunately he only took an elbow and flew out. When he got up, Sun Qian was nowhere to be seen.
"Cough cough... What on earth is that guy doing now...?"
'
"At this moment, Euphrates Kira understood that Sun Qian was no longer the Sun Qian of the past; he had become a true—" Hmm, how should we describe him here? A monarch? A tyrant? Or perhaps a villain...?
'
Cruz turned his head and saw Qi Le, who was holding her chin and looking in the direction where Sun Qian had disappeared.
"Oh, don't worry about it. I'm just a chronicler, carefully considering the words I'll use in my memoirs. After all, we're witnessing history right now."
Qi Le winked playfully at Cruz, and the veteran sensed that this woman had transformed from a "living saint" who was willing to sacrifice herself just moments before back into a "narrator" with more human emotions.
"Now that he has revealed to everyone that he has used the power of chaos, it means he has completely abandoned being a loyal subject," but he is also unwilling to become a traitor.
"But in any case, he has already chosen his new identity."