Kabanhah: Horus!!!

That was when Mephiston, the Chief Librarian of the Blood Angels, was still called Calistarius.

At the time, he was just an ordinary Librarian member who, while attempting to suppress the ever-expanding Orks Green Tide in Armageddon, stormed into an Orks fortress.

Perhaps because they killed so quickly that Waaaaagh's energy was insufficient to sustain the continued destruction of those ruined buildings, the collapsing ruins ultimately killed almost all the Blood Angels, except for Calistarius, who survived.

But severely wounded, he was trapped under the rubble and unable to move. The Blood Angels gene also endowed him with a tenacious will to live and a determination to avenge his mother. Thus, while everyone thought that his squad had been wiped out in the Greenskin beast tide, Calistarius kept suppressing the dark visions that flashed through his mind.

[Black Rage]

Black Rage originates from the Psychic Power shockwave that occurred when Sanguinius, the Primarch of the Blood Angels, was killed by Horus —this pain and the fear of losing their mother Sanguinius will forever remain a curse that accompanies everyone.

All the offspring of Sanguinius retain a portion of the Primarch's memories. When Black Rage is officially triggered, certain minor events will trigger these memories, causing the warrior's mind to shift back to the distant Great Crusade era.

The terrifying memories of ten thousand years ago will instantly flood the minds of the Blood Angels, making them believe that they are Sanguinius, who faced Horus on the Vengeful Spirit, and are fighting fiercely with the "Horus" before them until death.

Angel with mothers are like treasures, those without mothers Horus!!!

Just as Calistarius was trying to suppress the increasingly uncontrollable genetic defect— the Mom Rage and the Black Rage— in his mind for seven days and six nights, a turning point finally appeared.

On the ruins where he was pinned down, a tall figure radiating intense golden light appeared. Calistarius could even sense an extremely familiar aura emanating from the figure.

That's right!

In a fleeting glimpse amidst his blurred consciousness, Calistarius managed to see the true face of the Golden Armor warrior in a daze.

That golden-glowing creature is— Horus!!!

Horus, I will kill you!!!

Kill!

Kill that damned traitor Horus! Kill him!

Struggling amidst the ruins Calistarius suddenly unleashed an extremely powerful Psychic Power force—frost once again coalesced around him, and the surrounding debris was suspended in anti-gravity by his power.

He struggled to crawl out from under those damned ruins, and then, as Calistarius, son of Sanguinius, granted the traitor Horus the death he deserved.

Huh?

Who is he again?

Calistarius, Mephiston, Lord of Death.

He's not Sanguinius, and this isn't Vengeful Spirit, is it?

Wait, that's not right!

Horus is dead. That's right, it's now the fortieth millennium.

He was Calistarius, a member of the Blood Angels' Librarian, who was crushed under the rubble during the battle against the Orks army.

That's right! There's no Horus here at all.

What he saw was not real, but an illusion, an illusion brought about by Black Rage.

Black Rage?

But why did his feelings about Horus just now feel so real?

It was as if the real Horus had appeared before him.

Moreover, unlike other Blood Angels Death Company warriors who succumbed to Black Rage and fought to the death, he successfully defeated Black Rage through sheer willpower.

Feeling the light and warmth emanating from in front of him, he experienced a moment of clarity from his chaotic mind.

Calistarius looked up and saw the warrior in Golden Armor seemingly muttering to himself.

"No, child."

"I am not Horus."

I saw Sanguin, who was radiating extreme astonishment and bewilderment.

Not Horus, it is... it is.

It's Mom!

"!"

Calistarius was filled with shame.

Damn it!

He wished he could slap himself a few times right now.

That's not Horus, you idiot!

Horus? He's Sanguin!

Seeing the spirit that had protected the Blood Angels for countless years display such a sorrowful expression at this moment, Calistarius was filled with immense shame.

What's wrong with him?

The reason he couldn't control his bloodline curse at the end was probably because he was only able to escape the influence of Black Rage with the help of the other party.

"Thank you for your help, Sanguin."

Ultimately, under the Radiance of Sanguin, he awakened an even stronger Psychic Power and successfully broke through with the opponent's help.

From then on, Calistarius, who had undergone a second Psychic Power awakening, called himself the Lord of Death Mephiston, and with his vast Psychic Power, became the Chief Librarian of the Blood Angels.

Despite being regarded as the only Blood Angels capable of regaining consciousness from Black Rage, Mephiston, or the other Blood Angels, never seemed to have considered this possibility.

--What if he never suffered from Black Rage?

What if the Horus he saw at the moment his Psychic Power potential was fully unleashed really was Sanguin?

Such an idea was too blasphemous for the Sons of Sanguinius to even consider, and this was an opportunity.

Even if it's true, you can't say it out loud!

"This is my plan."

The plan laid out ten thousand years ago is finally bearing fruit. Kasgar looked at Sanguin, whose expression remained silent beneath the Golden Armor and mask.

When Kasgar rescued Horus in the Cygnus System alongside Sanguinius, he recommended Horus to the Angel.

Since the curse of Black Rage will inevitably appear on all his offspring as prophesied, it's better to let Horus act as the guardian of the Blood Angels.

In this way, whenever Angel questions or sees through Horus's disguise, they will be more willing, or only willing to believe, that they themselves have been afflicted by the Black Rage.

And it's not that Sanguin was the damned traitor Horus?!

After informing the Emperor of his preparations, during the final battle on the Vengeful Spirit, when Horus realized the enormity of his actions due to the loss of the Four Gods' power, the Emperor spoke his final words to him with great clarity.

"I forgive you, I'll wait for you."

After successfully purifying the influence of the Four Gods, Horus became the guardian deity of the Blood Angels, "Sanguin." However, there was still one small problem.

--Sanguin is a woman.

Although Horus is now the spirit body of the E Greater Daemon, even clad in heavy Golden Armor, Horus still needs to disguise himself as Sanguinius to protect the Blood Angels.

After all, Sanguin still needs to soothe the Blood Angel's Mom Rage and become their mother!

Blood Angels: "Mommy! I want my mommy!!!"

Horus: "Mommy's here!"

In other words, ten thousand years ago, Horus was a Lunar Wolves Primarch who liked the "Centaur gold ring".

Ten thousand years later, he had become the mother of countless Blood Angels.

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

"Wait! You... you're not Angel!?"

But what Kasgar didn't expect was that the strongest reaction came not from any of the Sons of the Phoenix recruits present, nor from the Blood Angels veterans that Kasgar had salvaged from Commorragh.

The Sons of the Phoenix were beyond the comprehension of what they were seeing—even with the superhuman brains of the Space Marine, it would take them some time to process such a wealth of revolutionary information.

"No!!!"

The one who let out a painful roar in the arena was the demon wielding a sharp axe, Kabanhah!

"You absolutely cannot be Horus! Sanguin, tell me, aren't you!!!"

"Damn it, didn't you ever think about why I rejected your advances? Don't you have any self-respect, Kabanhah?"

"Ah!!! I was thinking that if it were Sanguinius, that would be quite exciting—no, Horus, you damn well!!!"

Judging from their conversation, there seems to be more to the story.

Tsk tsk tsk.

Kasgar was repeatedly astonished.

Such a fascinating encounter made even the most crucial Zerg invasion seem less important for a moment.

Horus!!!

"What have you been doing!!!!"

With even greater speed, Kabanhah raised his two large axes, his eyes gleaming with even more ferocity, and lunged towards the direction of Sanguin.

Although Bloodthirsters doesn't have the option of Black Rage, Kabanhah is clearly already in complete Black Rage at this moment.

It now sees Horus as Horus.

"Kill!!!"

Bear!

However, this time, what stopped Kabanhah was Kasgar's twin blades radiating golden-red Psychic Flame.

"The situation is urgent— Horus, forget about Sanguin. You stay with our people and prepare for Psychic Power to relocate our position."

"Okay, but!"

"I am not Horus, I am Sanguin."

The voice that came from the Golden Armor female warrior was a holy one, like that of the Angel Sanguinius herself.

Any normal Blood Angels would associate it with his mother, Sanguinius.

Is this Horus, that traitor, in disguise?

If Kasgar hadn't inexplicably shouted "Horus," everyone would probably have just assumed that Kasgar was experiencing Black Rage.

"What exactly do you want, Kasgar? I never thought that after ten thousand years, the ant of the past would actually be able to fight me."

The power unleashed by this opponent, who had been missing for ten thousand years, at the moment of battle was enough to astound her.

"Your skull will be a perfect offering to the Blood God!"

"Wait, Kabanhah."

Kasgar completely ignored the other party's provocation.

"Kabanhah, you wouldn't want Sanguinius and her offspring to be devoured by those damned Xenos insects, would you?"

"The swarms of Zerg have completely surrounded Baal Prime. If you insist on fighting me to the bitter end, then enjoy all the ashes after the battle."

Kasgar's words seemed to have struck a nerve.

Compared to the initially vengeful Kabanhah, it seems that after losing Sanguinius over ten thousand years, Kabanhah has begun to show signs of humanity.

What are your plans?

Despite past encounters, Kabanhah knew that this kid had the most tricks up his sleeve.

Even being toyed with is better than having the last hope of the Blood Angels's resurrection and her bloodline cut off by those ugly and disgusting insects.

This is something that Kabanhah absolutely cannot accept!

The end of the Blood Angels must be brought about by it Kabanhah!

"It's simple—our resources simply cannot sustain a swarm of trillions of insects."

Kasgar looked at the sky, which was almost completely obscured by the swarm of insects.

"Completely annihilating the swarm is unrealistic—our only option right now is to breach the Norn Queen's location and completely destroy the Leviathan Hive Fleet's command system."

"And then what? By killing this powerful figure, we can harvest the insects' skulls and blood?"

"No, killing the Norn Queen wouldn't make much difference—but I've already had our Apothecary develop a targeted drug, Primarch created using the DNA of the Executor."

The Tyranids very strong, but they are also the race most prone to demoralization.

If the Norn Queen and the Hive Mind node on the flagship can be severed and blocked, large swarms of Zerg will be thrown into a state of primal helplessness.

Having learned of the Tyranids' weaknesses in advance and having acquired the Chief Apothecary Melusine, Kasgar immediately demanded that she develop a targeted drug to combat the swarm.

Without Norn Queen, command slightly affects the efficiency of the Hive Mind, but if two Norn Queen conflict in their commands, the entire swarm will fall into chaos.

"We need to administer this medicine now—with your and Sanguin's help, our power will be invincible."

Even though Kabanhah is often killed by Angel and Sanguin in various ways, both of them are still powerful Primarch with top-tier strength.

As one of the most powerful Bloodthirsters under Khorne, Kabanhah could at least hold off a large number of Tyranid Fleet's firepower on Baal I.

--After all, if Khorne and Tyranids were to fight, one would get nothing and the other wouldn't be able to absorb souls.

It's a perfect match, a lose-lose situation.

"But how could you possibly know the location of the enemy Norn Queen?"

This time, it's Sanguin's question.

With thousands upon thousands of Tyranid Fleet in the sky, did Kasgar really know which Zerg warship carried the Norn Queen?

"I have a mole."

Kasgar chuckled, the pale blue Guanghua Psychic Power in his hand still gathering. "If you want the Angel to live, follow me to find me!"

Call out!

The very next moment, the last remaining Sons of the Phoenix vanished from the planet's surface along with Kasgar.

As for Titus —unable to teleport in, he led a small group of Sons of the Phoenix back to Baal Prime to continue their garrison, along with the previous group of Flesh Tearer had left.

They publicly declared that these were the last batch of Sons of the Phoenix, in order to somewhat conceal the fact that they were about to cooperate with demons.

"Kasgar!!!"

They even pressed the Bloodthirsters Kabanhah for details, but the light from the Psychic Power only made it and the Khorne army behind it jump up and down in Khorne.

With all other human forces withdrawn, the Zerg swarm surrounded these demons, which appeared to have little flesh.

"Disgusting bug, cunning brat!"

Faced with this situation, Kabanhah could no longer afford to make any suggestions and could only try to tear open more Warp Rift to provide a continuous supply of support for the Khorne army to Baal I.

"You just wait!!!"

"Roar!"

At the sound of Kabanhah's battle cry, the Zerg swarm and the nearby wandering Tyranid Fleet seemed to be drawn to Baal I to fight against Kabanhah's Khorne army. This sudden intrusion continued to clash.

So what if I'm just a tool?

For the sake of his beloved Sanguinius, Kabanhah, he was willing to risk everything!

Inside the flagship of the Tyranid Fleet.

Instead of setting up a teleportation point on the remaining Blood Angels warships in the guerrilla operations, Kasgar teleported directly into the core of the Leviathan Hive Fleet.

This living flagship was like a giant worm, and Kasgar could even feel its inner walls pulsating as if it were alive.

Psychic Power is a massive undertaking, especially since everyone is currently under the shadow of the Hive Mind.

But Kasgar seemed completely unaffected, leading the Phoenix Sages in the raid.

Although the surrounding walls were disgusting, resembling living insects, the anchor point they were told was relatively spacious and there were no insects lurking there.

There was only one Lictor bug right under everyone's noses—no problem, just two Bolter to kill it.

[Wait a moment!!!]

Kasgar's Psychic Power communications stopped the Sons of the Phoenix the instant they raised their weapons.

"What?"

"It was this Lictor that opened up a direct anchor point for us to the enemy's rear, and even calculated the most convenient path for us?"

That's right!

When Sons of the Phoenix asked incredulous questions, the Lictor worm nodded in agreement as if it were a sentient being.

Not only that, Lictor made a "BLOOD" gesture with his claws and facial tentacles.

(The picture shows someone in BLOOD. Uh, anyway, not Space Marine.)

"You know this too?"

They couldn't even tell whether it was a Lictor or a Blood Angels lurking in Lictor, guiding them.

"No. Tyranids is very cunning. They extract memories from their victims, and it's quite possible that these Zerg have also absorbed the memories of the Blood Angels."

[Now is not the time to delve into this question. All companies of the Sons of the Phoenix, prepare to chant <Centaur gold ring (Blood Angels Version)> and follow the Lictor Bugs before you!]

Although this traitor in Lictor could help Kasgar and his crew avoid most of the battles within the Zerg swarm, even the most foolish Zerg would swarm towards Kasgar and his crew like a tsunami once they were teleported directly into the flagship's interior.

"Quickly, chant the Centaur gold ring!"

As for the powerful swarm of insects appearing nearby, Kasgar's solution is simple—just memorize the Centaur gold ring!

"Thirty Years of Baal II"

Centaur, Golden Ring

"Grumble!!!"

Such a provocative aria caused large numbers of insects that dared to approach to collapse on the spot.

The insect died after listening. jpg

In an instant, accompanied by the firing of Bolter weapons and lasers and the sound of the Zerg's carapace exploding, a force never before seen within the Zerg fleet began to spread inward from the direction of the Sons of the Phoenix.