They Still Have Me
Two Ultramarines stood back to back, their eyes still sharp as knives despite being battered by blood and in poor condition.
One of them chuckled, his voice coming through his mask, carrying undisguised contempt:
"The ramblings of a traitor."
"A bunch of scum who have abandoned honor and embraced filth, do they even deserve to discuss Destiny before us?"
Before the words were even finished, the two of them suddenly exerted their strength!
The rubble beneath their feet exploded, and they shot off in two directions like cannonballs!
Despite being weakened, the newly formed power is still terrifying!
A soldier twists in mid-air, his Power Armour fist striking at a precise angle.
With a loud bang, it smashed right through the side of the hideous helmet of the nearest Chaos Warrior!
Red and white substances sprayed out from the other side!
The battle erupted instantly!
Two figures in blue weaved through the crimson crowd.
Each punch and kick carried explosive power, sending hordes of Chaos Cultist flying.
The weapons clashed with those of the Chaos Space Marines, producing dazzling sparks and deafening roars.
However, the omnipresent rain of blood, like a leech, continuously weakened their strength and eroded their endurance.
Their movements began to show a barely perceptible slowing, their breathing became heavy behind their masks, and their once perfectly smooth Smart Atom Force Field began to flicker.
"Hahaha! Look! They're finished!"
A Night Lords, exceptionally tall and shimmering with unstable Chaos energy, wielded a longsword burning with green, malevolent flames.
He easily parried the heavy blow from an Ultramarines fatigue was becoming apparent, and with a backhand strike, left a deep, smoking burn mark on the warrior's breastplate.
"What a wonderful power... a new seed from the Primarch?"
Once I pluck your heads, dissect your hearts, and extract those precious Gene-seed... that power will be at my disposal!
He approached step by step, enjoying the gradual exhaustion of his prey.
Several other Chaos Warriors also surrounded them in unison, blocking all escape routes.
"How pitiful, how lamentable."
"It's just the two of you... If your golden-haired father had sent more men, perhaps you could have struggled a little longer."
The champion raised his fiery sword, the tip aimed at the neck of one of the Ultramarines who was kneeling on the ground, struggling to stand:
"Unfortunately, who can save you now?"
Who else can you rely on?
His voice was filled with the cruel, smug satisfaction of a cat catching a mouse.
The two Ultramarines ' vision was blurred by fatigue and decay, and their strength was draining away from their limbs and bones like a receding tide.
They stood back to back, preparing for their final moment.
Just as the burning blade was about to strike—
Boom!!!!!!
A deep blue meteor, moving at a speed beyond the limits of visual perception, tore through layers of blood rain and crimson clouds.
It landed precisely on the open ground between the two Ultramarines and the Night Lords Champion!
The shockwave exploded in a ring, blowing dozens of Chaos Cultist and several nearby Chaos Warriors away like trash!
Amidst the mist of smoke and blood, a figure as imposing as a mountain slowly straightened up.
A perfectly proportioned blue hand, covered in Armor of Eternity, firmly grasped the blade of the falling evil fire sword at the critical moment!
The green, malevolent flames burned fiercely against the palm, yet they couldn't leave even a trace.
A calm, composed voice, yet containing an immense, oppressive force that instantly silenced the entire battlefield, resounded like thunder:
"They still have me."
Robert Guilliman raised his deep blue eyes, as cold as polar ice.
The next second, he gently tightened his grip on the sword blade.
Snap—Pfft!
That Power Sword, burning with evil fire and made of extraordinary materials, was crushed to pieces by bare hands, just like a fragile piece of glass!
Fragments and the still-burning evil fire shot out and dissipated from between his fingers.
Before the Lord of the Night Lords could recover from his shock...
Guilliman's other hand shot out like lightning, grabbing the shoulders of his two nearly exhausted offspring, and then violently hurling them upwards!
"Call out--!"
The two Ultramarines were like cannonballs launched from a catapult.
It shot straight up into the sky along the path opened up by Guilliman's power, which briefly dispelled the blood rain's pollution.
The speed was so fast, and the high temperature generated by friction with the atmosphere, along with the pure Psionic Energy attached to Guilliman, instantly burned and purified the Chaos filth remaining on their bodies!
Almost the instant they were out of the blood rain's range.
Fresh air rushes into the circulation system, and the powerful self-healing ability begins to work frantically, causing fatigue to recede like a tide.
They steadied themselves high in the air, exchanged a glance, and both saw the shock and... absolute reassurance in each other's eyes.
They knew that the battlefield below no longer needed them.
The Gene-Father has arrived.
Guilliman didn't even glance at the Night Lords champion whose weapon he had crushed.
His gaze swept over the weapons around him, stained with blasphemous runes, the mycelium beneath his feet devouring metal, and the air thick with despair and madness.
He spoke slowly, his voice carrying a hint of heartbreaking sorrow:
"Look at your creation."
Look at what you have done to the homeland of my people."
"Ha ha ha ha!"
The Night Lords champion recovered from his initial shock, perhaps relying on being in the lair, or perhaps the madness brought by the blessing of Chaos overwhelmed his fear.
He then let out another piercing laugh, pointing at Guilliman and shouting:
"What's so interesting about this? I only appreciate my own masterpieces!"
Guilliman, son of the God-King?
You're too late! A full ten thousand years too late!
This Imperium is rotten to the core! It is destined to decay and collapse under the might of our God!
You can't save it! You can't change anything!
Guilliman finally turned his gaze to him, his gaze eerily calm.
"Whether the Imperium will decay, I may not be able to say for sure."
He took a step forward, and with just that one step, the earth cracked open like a spiderweb around him, and the Chaos mycelium deep underground emitted a mournful cry of being crushed.
"But you've got one thing wrong."
His voice suddenly rose, like Emperor's Sword drawn from its sheath, resolute and carrying an irresistible will:
"Who gave you permission—"
"They've conquered my planet?!"
The moment the last syllable faded, Guilliman vanished.
It wasn't a high-speed afterimage, but a true disappearance, almost like a short-distance teleportation, before reappearing in front of the Night Lords Champion!
The Night Lords Champion didn't even have time to react.
A giant steel hand had already gripped his throat, lifting him off the ground like a marionette!
He struggled in vain, his Power Armour feet kicking wildly in the air, but he couldn't budge those five fingers an inch.
The surrounding Chaos Warriors suddenly snapped out of their daze, raising their Bolter and plasma weapons in terror and unleashing a furious barrage of fire at Guilliman!
Guilliman simply held the struggling Lord of the Night Lords in one arm and slowly turned his head.
With those cold blue eyes, he calmly looked down at the traitors below who were unleashing their firepower at him.
The bombs exploded into useless sparks on his eternal armor, and the plasma jets were deflected and annihilated by the energy field that flowed naturally around him.
He stood unscathed, like a rock in a storm.
"You have desecrated this place."
His voice rang out again, proclaiming the final judgment. "Then, let your deaths cleanse my world of this filth."
Before he finished speaking, he moved!
He held the Night Lords's Championship without using any techniques, simply treating it as a human weapon in the purest and most violent way.
It slammed down fiercely onto the largest, most blasphemous, and constantly billowing filthy smoke main building of the Soul Forge below!