The two Astartes who emerged from the compartment showed no signs of corruption. They were perfectly normal Astartes, which made Li Qinwu breathe a sigh of relief and begin examining their heraldry.
Li Qinwu recognized them at a glance from their armor colors. One wore gray-blue armor with a large fur draped over his back: a Space Wolf.
The other wore white-and-red armor, leather gloves on his hands, and numerous red lightning-bolt decorations across his body: a White Scar.
The Space Wolves were modeled after Vikings and werewolves. They were boisterous, rough, fond of drinking, and compassionate.
They had very strong psychic resistance, with a special bonus when facing Astartes. It seemed that when the God-Emperor designed the Space Wolves, he had intended them as an internal enforcement force.
There had once been an incident in which the legendary Ogryn Magnus made a psychic phone call across an entire universe.
Old Man Huang had been repairing the Webway at the time. When that psychic call came through, it blew the Webway apart!
After the Webway exploded, vast numbers of Daemons poured out of it. Left with no choice, the God-Emperor could only sit upon the Golden Throne and use his psychic power to suppress the shattered Webway.
While channeling his psychic power to suppress the damaged Webway, the God-Emperor sent someone to bring Magnus back to sit upon the Golden Throne in his place.
Magnus was a Gene-Primarch-level psyker, and his psychic power was on par with the God-Emperor's.
The person the God-Emperor sent was Leman Russ, the Gene-Primarch of the Space Wolves.
Later, Leman Russ, the Gene-Primarch of the Space Wolves, faced off against Magnus, the psyker Primarch.
With a knee strike, Leman Russ snapped Magnus's back.
This showed that the Space Wolves had been designed as an internal