The Resilient Death Guard, Whose Will Cannot Match My Unyielding

881.M30.

In orbit over Drun, Ethan, who had just met the Primarch and become a "Brawler," stared at the dead-gray warships and vehicles from inside the black Stormbird.

"Death Guard."

He murmured to himself and unconsciously clenched his fists. Once again, he recalled how he had been chained up like livestock.

Mortarion had dragged him stumbling forward, intending to burn him alive before the people of Barbarus.

Immersed in memory, Ethan suddenly felt his eyelids grow heavy and his head sink.

Ethan immediately realized that what had intruded into his mind was the Enslavers mentioned in the data his father had issued to the Shadow of Order participating in the war.

They were trying to seep into his thoughts and control him.

The Enslavers lived in the Warp and were drawn to Psykers, especially untrained Psykers, whose projections attracted Enslavers like beacons.

But he was an indomitable Psyker personally taught by the Chief Librarian. He had undergone the trial of the Soul-Eater Bees on Prospero, creatures that fed on Psykers.

In an instant, Ethan ascended to the third level of the Thelema Mindset, and his hazy consciousness instantly became clear.

The indomitable Psyker drew his Force Staff. In his eyes, a mountain peak rose proudly—that was his Warp apparition.

Unyielding will poured into the surging Warp energy, gathered at the summit, and shot from his eyes.

A searing blade of psychic energy shot out along the spreading consciousness.

The psychic blade swept across two and a half kilometers in the blink of an eye, lancing toward a jellyfish-like creature on the surface with one eye and twelve tentacles.

Bang, bang, bang...

The jellyfish creature slain by the psychic attack collapsed at the same time as the ten human puppets a hundred meters in front of it, who had been attacking