The Resilient Death Guard, Whose Will Cannot Match My Unyielding
881. M30.
On Drun's orbit, Ethan, who had just met the Primarch and become a "Brawler," gazed at the deathly gray warships and vehicles from within the black Stormbird.
Death Guard.
He muttered to himself, unconsciously clenching his fists. He recalled again how he had been chained up like livestock.
Mortarion dragged him along, stumbling forward, intending to burn himself alive in front of the Barbarus.
Ethan, lost in his memories, suddenly felt his eyelids grow heavy and his head feel sluggish.
Ethan immediately realized that what had entered his mind was the image of the Enslavers mentioned in the documents his father had sent to the Shadow of Order war.
They try to infiltrate their own minds and manipulate themselves.
Enslavers live in the Warp and are drawn to Psyker, especially untrained Psyker, whose projections act like Astronomican to attract Enslavers.
But he is an indomitable Psyker personally trained by the Chief Librarian, and he has endured the trials of Prospero's Psyker -eating Soul-Eater Bee.
Ethan instantly ascended to the Third Mindset Thelema' state of mind, and his blurred consciousness instantly became clear.
The Indomitable Discipline Psyker drew his Force Staff, and a mountain peak proudly appeared in his eyes—his own Warp phenomenon.
An indomitable will infused the surging Warp energy, converging at the summit and shooting forth from his eyes.
A scorching blade of spiritual energy shot out rapidly, following the spreading consciousness.
The mental blade flew 2.5 kilometers in an instant, shooting towards the jellyfish-like creature with one eye and twelve tentacles on the ground.
Bang bang bang...
The jellyfish creature killed by the mind attack, along with ten human puppets that attacked the helipad from a hundred meters in front of it, all fell at the same time.
The Indomitable Discipline Psyker confirmed that he had achieved his first victory, a new gift he would present to his father.
His primary areas of ability involve the mind and prophecy.
In terms of mental abilities, unlike the "Thousand Sons '" "Pavoni Cult," which focuses on mind reading and Telepathy, he specializes in mental attacks.
Unlike those in the psychic and prophetic systems, his will plays a dominant role in the use of Psionic Energy, rather than the Warp energy he can mobilize.
[A good start.]
Ethan understood why his father had mobilized the Librarian to come to Drun.
They and their Enslavers will find each other.
Psionic Energy attacks are also an effective way to kill Enslavers.
After deducing his father's intentions, Ethan immediately realized that this was another test the Librarian would face after the war with Rangdan.
Fortunately, Lord Thomas has always valued the cultivation of willpower in the Librarian, and his requirements are getting higher and higher.
Now, Apprentice are required to master the first Mindset of Thelema, Lexicanum the second level, and Logis and above master the third Mindset.
More than two-thirds of the Librarian, after being transferred to Mankora in rotation, also mastered the "Gryphon's Roar".
As Ethan pondered this, he felt a tremor beneath his feet. After stepping off the deck, he looked up at the sky.
The deathly gray Stormbird spun out of control in the air.
Mind control!
Ordinary Enslavers can only control puppets that are fifty meters long, but my father said that Drun has now become a world of Enslavers.
A powerful entity, like when it tried to control me just now, can reach objects several kilometers away.
Ethan stared at the crashing, deathly gray Stormbird. "Death Guard, Resilient?"
On the fourteenth day after arriving in Drun, Ethan, along with the Third Company of the 11th Chapter, launched an attack on the north side of Rampton.
Third Company Captain Chambers said to the Librarian beside him, "The Death Guard's 7th Company is also targeting Rampton; they're attacking from the south side of the Hive City."
Ethan gripped the Force Staff tightly. [Finally, are we about to meet?]
He wanted to reach the city center before the Death Guard, but he did not make that request of Chambers.
Ethan knew that the "Death Guard" was organized into seven companies, with the 7th Company being a combat company, numbering nearly seven thousand.
After the "Rangdan Xenocides", the 11th Chapter recovered to 28,500 men. However, the Chapter had ten companies, and the Third Company had 2,900 men, less than half the size of the 7th Company.
The Vostonia-type command vehicle rumbled along, and Ethan turned his gaze to the window.
Ahead, apart from "Shadow of Order" and "Iron Hands," the Sicaran Tank, which have not yet entered the other eighteen legions, are not only being deployed on a large scale, but new variants have also appeared.
The Sicaran Longbow- type battleships manufactured in Vostonia were positioned at the front of the battle line.
Inside the Hive City fortress, the puppets of the Enslavers unleashed a barrage of projectiles.
But it missed; the swift-moving Sicaran Longbow swept past, leaving the cannonball behind.
The earth trembled, and smoke filled the air.
The Neutron Flux Warhead, which the Adeptus Mechanicus refused to use, soared into the air and slammed into the steel walls of the Hive City.
The entire city wall erupted in flames, vibrating amidst neutron shockwaves.
Ethan saw cracks appear on the steel exterior wall and spread rapidly.
At the bottom of the Hive City, gaping portals appeared, wide enough for armored vehicles to pass through.
Sicaran Longbow flew forward at breakneck speed, the Neutron Flux Warhead precisely destroying the fortress, and the bunker and fortress turned to ashes in the flames.
The Vostonian Rhino then drove into Rampton Hive City.
Ethan got out of the car and looked around.
The black vehicle sped along the wide avenue, its side-mounted Lascannon firing dazzling beams of light.
Some faltered, while others collapsed in droves like clumsy dancers, human puppets falling to the ground.
The speed that the Sicaran Longbow was so proud of allowed it to leave unscathed after the attack, like an arrow.
"Rampton is neat and bright, quite unlike any other Hive City in the world." Chambers looked around, glimpsing the city's former glory from the buildings that had survived the war.
"A beacon of Great Crusade, Astronomican of human civilization—no wonder the Emperor dispatched three legions."
Ethan watched as the towering buildings rose from the ground, neat, orderly, and bright, a stark contrast to Upper Hive crowded and chaotic urban landscape of the Hive World.
He nodded in agreement. "Only the Paragon City of Vostonia, and Arjia and Calth can compare."
Ethan immediately thought of the other legions, "There's also Tizca and Macragge."
"Forward!" Chambers withdrew his gaze and gave the order.
The faster the "Briber" run, the more completely the Astronomican of civilization is preserved as they clear away the Xenos.
The neat, white buildings were quickly left behind.
Suddenly, he saw a black Sicaran Tank explode without being hit by artillery fire.
The black armor disintegrated with a deafening roar, but the driver and gunner seemed completely oblivious, melting into their seats.
[Enslavers!]
Ethan, the Indomitable Discipline Psyker, was the first to sense an Enslavers. Mountain peaks appeared in his eyes as he raised his staff high.
Rumble!
A clash of minds unfolds in a supernatural realm, stirring up towering waves in the Sea of Souls.
Tentacles stretched out from beneath the sea, coiling towards the mountain peaks.
While Ethan was engaged in a mental battle with his Enslavers, Chambers also began to act.
While maintaining Thelema Third Mindset, he felt evil tentacles enveloping his head like drills, trying to force their way in.
Having undergone three rounds of mental reinforcement, the "Briber" swayed slightly before regaining his footing.
He suddenly tilted his head back and let out a Roar of Fury.
The Shadow of Order keenly heard a slight tremor behind the building on the left.
He immediately took a step and rushed in that direction.
What came into his view was a radiant creature, suspended above the crowd like a pocket, as if floating in mid-air.
Its shape is pear-like, resembling the giant ticks of Vostonia Underhive.
It resembles an embryo, but it has a jaw.
Tentacles dangled from the face-like tissue.
The "Briber" raised his Bolter and fired a barrage of bullets at the Enslavers.
The explosive gift struck the shimmering light screen, and the "Bribery - Weakening" boosted the Adamantine Warhead, piercing through the Psionic Energy shield like it was shooting into Water Curtain.
Boom!
The Enslavers smashed into more than twenty human puppets, Chambers turned and left.
The Shadow of Order had keenly sensed this, and they fell at the same moment their Enslavers died, ending their enslaved fate.
Indeed, as my lord said, there is no need to consider the lives of the Drun.
They were already walking puppets when they were enslaved.
At the same time, on the edge of the city center.
Nathaniel Garro of the 7th Company the Death Guard led his squad in a charge alongside the combat company commander.
His company commander's voice rang out in the company's Sonic Array channel, "Unwavering will, Death Guard!"
"His swift and decisive actions leave the young wizards shrouded in the shadows of Shadow of Order."
Garro frowned slightly as he listened to the synchronized roars from the Sonic Array channel.
He raised his Bolter and unleashed a roaring four-round burst of explosives, striking the leaping humans.
Garro switched the team's communication channel and spoke calmly and forcefully.
"We are the Death Guard, we are the craftsmen of war, seeking neither vanity nor duty."
Garro's squad moved with steady steps, unlike the other Death Guard who were in a hurry.
He watched as the deathly gray armor surged through the blood mist, and the combat boots trod over mangled limbs.
"Two o'clock, five hundred meters," Garro commanded loudly. He saw two Death Guard suddenly open fire as the shimmering creature appeared, killing the other combat brothers.
He raised his Bolter and fired a barrage of bullets at the abominable Xenos.
The bomb collided with an invisible, Distortion force field, bent and Distortion, and detonated in mid-air.
Bang bang bang...
"Cover!"
"Garro shouted, and he strode forward, passing two squads and disappearing into a building."
Boom!
The deathly gray armor crashed through the wall, and a blue light slashed towards the jellyfish creature.
The Disruption Field hissed as it tore the Xenos into a scattering mass of light.
After landing, Garro continued walking.
"Support!"
He saw in mid-air a gigantic creature with seven eyes, suspended in the air. It was much larger than the two-meter-tall Xenos and as tall as a four-story building.
Below him stood fifteen humans.
One of the humans spat out a dazzling arc of electricity from its hand.
As he swung his sword, dazzling electricity coursed through the bodies of the two ashen figures.
The armor shattered, and the body split open.
The company commander's guards raised their guns and fired.
Another Psyker, enveloped in light, raised his hands, and Psychic Field rose up.
Amid a series of explosions, the combat company commander charged forward, scythe raised high.
Garro was astonished to see that the combat company commander seemed to be acting in slow motion.
The deathly gray figure moved slower and slower, the scythe became increasingly decelerated.
[The company commander has been taken into custody.]
Garro caught up with the guards and together they charged toward the company commander.
A streak of flame hurtled towards him, and he knew he was in trouble, so he quickly rolled away to dodge.
The flames engulfed more than a dozen Death Guard, the fire waves churning within their deathly gray armor.
The explosion sent Garro flying, and as he tumbled through the air, he looked toward the combat company commander.
He twisted the sickle and slashed down at the back of the neck.
At the same moment that Garro thought the combat company commander would be sacrificed, in Ethan's mind, twelve tentacles emerged from the sea and firmly entangled the mountain peak.
Ethan's mouth stopped abruptly.
Chains flashed through his mind, along with Mortarion's merciless silhouette.
I will not yield to those Enslavers!
The Indomitable Discipline Psyker roared in his mind, his will enveloping the entire mountain.
The mountain trembled, and the tentacles shattered.
The Indomitable Discipline Psyker suddenly opened its mouth and let out a deafening roar, "Roar!"
Golden light erupted from his throat, and the deafening roar of the "Gryphon's Roar" drowned out the explosion of the shells, which reverberated in the minds of all living beings within a kilometer radius.
Ethan's gaze shifted from the bodies of Enslavers enslaved Psyker lying on top of their corpses to the combat company commander, where he saw the scythe slip from his grasp.
A poisoned blade tears through the Power Armor.
[Even the most resilient Death Guard cannot match my unyielding spirit.]
Garro struggled to his feet and saw the company commander's guards, who raised their scythes and charged at the Xenos corpse.
"He's mine," the voice suddenly rang in his mind, and he saw Ethan holding the Force Staff, standing in front of the Xenos corpse.
"Get out of the way! I'm going to blast him to pieces and avenge the company commander!" the Barbarus guard captain shouted, looking with disgust at the corpses of the Librarian and the Psionic Energy monster.
"I have avenged your company commander," Ethan's voice was calm but firm. "Is all you can do is vent your anger on corpses?"
As Garro watched the black-armored figure appear in the distance, and saw the captain of the guard angrily raise his scythe, he frowned slightly.
He stepped forward and said to the guards, "As he said, he has avenged the company commander and is entitled to the spoils."
"Don't get cocky, kid wizard."
The captain of the guard put away his scythe, and together with his guards, carried the body of the combat company commander, then turned and left.