Assault on Vengar

After a moment of traversing the Warp.

Lu Jin regained consciousness, feeling the ground beneath his feet. He looked up to see a cabin filled with miscellaneous items, with Kao and ten Fierce Angels surrounding him.

Looking down, he saw a pattern resembling a hexagram formation beneath his feet.

This was the anchor point established by the teleportation device on Vengar's ship.

After learning the art of using people from Huron, Lu Jin left and returned to the Ragefang. He then went to the teleportation device, one of the three Legion Relics, and was teleported to Vengar's ship.

Seeing that the Chapter Master had arrived, Kao felt more confident.

Regardless, this was an operation taking place on Vengar's ship. No one was familiar with the environment here; at best, Onaas could use the Navigator's third eye to help observe the situation. Even with no significant disadvantage in information, their numbers were dozens of times smaller than Vengar's forces.

"Command is transferred to Kao. The objective of this covert operation remains unchanged."

The Fierce Angels saw that Lu Jin was still in his classic attire.

He wore power armor custom-made by the Red Corsairs' Forge Master, wielding a two-handed warhammer and a two-handed battle axe in each hand. A mechanical arm on his shoulder held a Legion Relic scepter.

Lu Jin knew he lacked combat experience, so he let Kao take command: "I'll only be responsible for breaking through, or leading you all back if we're exposed."

"Yes, brother." Kao looked at Xenos. "Leave two men to guard this place. This teleportation array is crucial for our return; don't let anyone get near it."

"Brother Kao, I suggest Brothers Agus and Selene guard this place."

Hearing Xenos's suggestion, Kao seemed not to hear and looked at the others.

Ultimately, he chose others besides Agus and Selene to guard the location.

In Kao's eyes, the "Xenos's Law" was undoubtedly stricter, so strict that he couldn't listen to any advice from Xenos when not in combat.

This law could also be applied in reverse: if it was Xenos's advice, doing the opposite would ensure something wouldn't go wrong.

Apart from the two left behind, the others left the cabin and moved through the corridors of Vengar's ship.

"Brother Xenos's advice is like a form of fate, cause and effect..."

Kao said to Lu Jin over the comms channel about Xenos.

But Lu Jin didn't listen, as Onaas was speaking to him.

"I see the Terminator armor you're looking for, but it's not in the armory; it's on a person."

"You might have to take that person down to get the Terminator armor."

Kao also heard these two sentences and nodded to Lu Jin, who was about to speak to him. "We'll go take down the person wearing the Terminator armor now."

Now, Kao realized this operation was a frame-up.

After the operation, they would find someone to wear the Terminator armor and kill Aels, thereby shifting suspicion away from themselves and onto Vengar.

The ticking time bomb that was Aels would be defused.

The operation continued.

Far away in the Navigator's Sanctum aboard the Ragefang, Onaas observed the ship with her third eye.

Her words were transmitted through psionics, guiding the Fierce Angels to advance or stop, to move directly or take detours.

The usefulness of psionics was once again evident. The Fierce Angels traveled for over ten minutes without encountering a single mortal crew member who saw them.

Finally, Lu Jin and the Fierce Angels arrived outside a warehouse, hiding behind the blast doors on either side.

"What's the situation inside the warehouse?" Lu Jin asked.

Onaas directly transmitted what she saw into everyone's vision.

Approximately twenty Space Marines, their armor in various colors.

And some mortal slaves.

Fresh water and synthesized food were piled on the warehouse floor.

A Space Marine in Terminator armor was directing others to work.

The Terminator armor bore the name of its owner directly branded on it, with previous owners' names crossed out by slashes. The armor's surface also had numerous decorations to display its owner's faith and achievements.

"Should we raid the docks for this food and drink? Will Huron find another excuse to kill people for stealing something again?"

"We're not stealing; we're temporarily safeguarding it. Do you understand?"

"That's right, these supplies were originally meant for those Fierce Angels by Huron. We intercepted them at the docks before they could be transported, so it's not wrong. But we're not trying to possess them; we just want to add a little something to them, to get revenge."

"Revenge by poisoning? Heretics are truly laughable... He, our temporary leader, neither dares to say anything to Huron nor can he defeat that hyperactive lunatic wielding heavy weapons, so he resorts to poisoning for revenge... Next time you choose a leader, support me!"

"..."

The people inside the warehouse had no idea there was anything unusual outside the blast doors.

Mortal slaves opened the containers and poured a green gas into them.

The source of the green gas was a Space Marine covered in pustules, an obvious follower of Nurgle—dozens of tubes connected to his armor, which the mortal slaves were using to spray into the containers.

"We thought Huron deliberately didn't send the food," Kao said over the comms channel.

As the supplies Huron gifted to the Fierce Angels were being unloaded onto the Brutal Tusks, it was discovered there was food or drink, only weapons. Kao suspected this was a method to control the Fierce Angels.

"That Terminator is a psyker," Onaas suddenly sensed psionic fluctuations, her tone tense. "You... you have to be careful... this is a psyker wearing Terminator armor!"

Lu Jin nodded, first looking at Kao, then at Xenos.

As the two closest to the gate, they were already prepared for battle and nodded.

Lu Jin approached the gate, his mechanical arm controlling the scepter and pointing it at the gate.

After Xenos removed a heavy anti-materiel sniper rifle from his back and knelt on one knee, the tip of the scepter released a shockwave.

The gate shattered with a roar.

Lu Jin led the charge, the first to rush into the warehouse.

The Space Marines in the warehouse were also battle-hardened veterans. The moment they heard the roar, they reacted, raising their bolters or chainswords to prepare for battle.

The first person to aim a bolter at Lu Jin had their bolt fired by Xenos, a 40mm caliber bolt, before they could pull the trigger.

As Lu Jin raised his right hand, holding his warhammer, ready to swing, this bolt passed through his armpit, impaling the two furthest Space Marines.

Xenos was undoubtedly a genius among geniuses in combat. Not only did he aim and fire in an instant, but he also deduced an excellent trajectory for the bolt based on his knowledge of Lu Jin's combat habits.

Thump—

In Lu Jin's peripheral vision, the headless bodies of the two furthest Space Marines simultaneously knelt.

The warhammer he swung also smashed out.

The chainaxe of the Space Marine in front of him was shattered, followed by his armor and upper body.

With brute force, a heavy two-handed weapon, and the momentum of his charge, this single blow even created a mist of blood. As Lu Jin passed through the blood mist and raised his chainaxe towards the next person, the armor and flesh fragments of the previous victim rained down on Kao's helmet.

Kao was more skilled in tactics.

His gaze shifted to an enemy standing atop a shipping container, who had the best vantage point and had already raised a bolter.

He wanted to speak, but a 40mm bolt grazed Kao's pauldron. The person firing this large bolt directly used Kao's pauldron to deflect the projectile, avoiding wasting precious seconds searching for the best firing angle or moving into position.

Xenos continued to fire, precisely eliminating four more enemies. After emptying his magazine, he discarded the sniper rifle. While others would have wasted time reloading, he retrieved a disposable rocket launcher from his back and fired.

The rocket flew over Kao's head and landed in an open area not far away. It didn't kill anyone, but the shockwave from its explosion caused at least six enemies to miss their shots.

The Fierce Angels moved through the hail of bolter fire, either shooting or swinging their chain weapons.

After Xenos reloaded his sniper rifle, he precisely eliminated three more.

Finally, the Fierce Angels surrounded the sole remaining psyker in Terminator armor.

This entire sequence of killing and being killed, from Lu Jin blasting the gate with his scepter to everyone surrounding the psyker, took less than a minute.

"Onaas, try to use the Legion Relic scepter to unleash your psionics and defeat him!"

Lu Jin commanded Onaas in his mind.

Others aimed their weapons, and Xenos used his sniper rifle to shoot the weapon from the psyker's hand. However, no one focused fire because the objective was to obtain the Terminator armor.

If Onaas could use the scepter to unleash her psionics, incapacitating him directly, just like when he killed a crew member and fought Lu Jin on Aels, it would be ideal.

"I... I can't... there's something about him..."

Before Onaas could finish speaking, the Fierce Angels who heard her words placed their bolters behind them and uniformly drew their combat knives, preparing to "pry" the armor off with cold weapons.

"For a psyker, even a novice psyker, losing their weapon does not mean losing their combat ability."

The psyker held no weapons, and the Terminator armor made him exceptionally clumsy. Even scanning the Fierce Angels was limited to a 45-degree field of vision due to the restricted movement of his helmet.

However, his tone held no tension, only a sense of assured victory.

Lu Jin was the first to charge.

As the other Fierce Angels moved in unison, the psyker suddenly raised his hands.

Flames and a shockwave spread outwards from him.

The entire warehouse was engulfed in flames, and the mortal slaves turned to ash.

Lu Jin and the Fierce Angels were swept by the flames as they charged forward. The protection of their power armor prevented them from being incinerated, but the subsequent shockwave sent them all flying, landing dozens of meters away from the psyker.

"Hahahahahaha!!!"

"Psionics... Psionics!"

The psyker lumbered forward towards Lu Jin.

A Fierce Angel got up from the ground and attempted to flank him, only to be casually swatted away by the psyker, smashing a dent into the bulkhead.

The psyker was undoubtedly delighted and proud of the power he wielded. He claimed to be a novice psyker, but his ability to casually wield psionics indicated that his talent made him far more powerful than Onaas, more than ten times over.

"All of you, get back," Lu Jin ordered as he got up from the ground, pointing the scepter on his shoulder at the psyker.

He made a wise decision at this moment – he would no longer try to seize the armor. He would use the Legion scepter to blast this person to death.

But when the Legion scepter unleashed a shockwave, followed by flames, and then a torrent of lightning, each psionic strike was easily deflected by the psyker.

A white amulet was embedded in his chest. Every time a psionic attack struck, the amulet would flash... This was why Onaas could not affect the psyker with her psionics.

"Which one of you can leave?"

Psions could even use psionics to hear the information carried by the signals transmitted between helmets.

He gently raised a hand, and everyone was pinned to the spot by gravity, unable to move.

Lu Jin instinctively held his chainsaw axe in front of him, then realized that psionics couldn't pin him to the ground.

This was perhaps related to the fact that the two weapons in his hands came from the Blood God.

"Without psionics, I was like an ant, my armor even stolen by others."

"But now, I am the master of your lives. I can crush you with a flick of my wrist."

The psion was a talkative sort, and the feeling of crushing enemies several times his own strength with psionics made him particularly excited.

When Lu Jin approached him, he merely glanced at Lu Jin, then used psionics to yank five Fierce Angels off the ground and smash them back down.

"You will be the last."

"Because..."

Before he could finish speaking, a muffled sound suddenly reached everyone's ears.

Lu Jin, who was about to charge forward with his chainsaw axe, froze. Everyone else froze too.

And in their daze, they discovered that for some reason, the psion's body suddenly stiffened, then he knelt on the ground, and then fell over.

He was dead!

The Fierce Angels thought Onaas had done it... it was normal for psions to have some remote killing abilities, like crushing someone's head.

However, Onaas was also surprised by the psion's death: "He... he... his head exploded inside his helmet!"

Lu Jin sighed helplessly: "His head exploded from overusing psionics, it's normal."

Psionics were an extremely dangerous power. The stronger the psionic talent, the more dangerous it was.

Every use of psionics was equivalent to a "check," like gambling. This psion had used psionics frantically, and he was still a novice. He must not have "won the gamble" on his last use of psionics, and his head exploded.

This kind of psionic feedback phenomenon was quite common. Fortunately, he only exploded his head and didn't create a flesh gate that could allow daemons to enter reality.

"Take the body away!" Kao got up from the ground and rushed towards the corpse.

Some of the Fierce Angels had broken bones, and some had been knocked out by the blast, but fortunately, there were no casualties. They all went to move the body.

Under Onaas's guidance, they left the warehouse before the sound of gunfire drew anyone else, returning to the chamber with the teleportation array.

After being transported back by the teleportation device, the operation concluded.