"Who are you."
Thor stared at Dauntless's shell, which was clean enough to reflect light, but he got the same answer as before.
"Just think of me as an unknown person."
"An unknown person would not know the words Eagle of Death."
"Because I have lived too long, long enough to experience most of the events, but I am still curious about how you and your brothers survived the flames of Isstvaan III."
The East III incident was also the first shot of the great rebellion.
The four legions of the Sons of Horus, the World Eaters, the Death Guard, and the Emperor's Sons used the pretext of suppressing the rebellion to send all the warriors loyal to the Emperor to the surface. Then they dropped virus bombs on the planet and finally ignited it. the entire planet.
However, the preset purge plan was discovered in advance by the Tenth Company Captain of the Emperor's Children, Sol Tarvitz. He personally flew a fighter to the ground and issued an early warning to the loyal troops.
Most of the loyalists of the four legions were able to retreat into bunkers before the virus bombs fell, and escaped the first wave of blows.
After realizing that the loyalists had not been truly eliminated, the traitorous Warmaster Horus had no choice but to send ground troops. The loyalists, under the leadership of outstanding warriors such as Thor and Loken, fought bravely against the rebels, making this supposed The battle that ended in one day actually lasted for several months.
In the end, the loyalists resisted to the last moment without reinforcements. After Horus completely bombed the entire planet, he left this dead wasteland and moved towards Istvan V. .
Therefore, in the official historical records of the Empire, including the Space Marine Chapter, there are no survivors of the Istvan III incident except for the seventy warriors who escaped early.
Thor lowered his head and looked at the scroll of records about Istvan III that Soshyan found from the bookshelf. He just glanced at it a few times and then re-rolled it.
"The ancient ruins beneath Coral City saved our lives."
He returned the scroll to Soshyan, and without covering up anything, he said very straightforwardly:
"The Warmaster thought he knew everything about the planet, but he was so wrong, as if he thought the galaxy was destined to be within his grasp... Beneath the Coral City lies a very ancient ruin. When the bombardment began, the ruins It was exposed, and I led the remaining warriors to quickly escape into the deep underground canyon."
"Who dug you out of Istvan III after that?"
There was a rare tone of curiosity in Brother Said's voice.
"Imperial Prime Minister Malcador, he sent Garro and his company back to the ruins of Istvan III. He seems to know that we are still alive."
"Malcador again... This makes sense, the Eagle of Death appeared almost at the same time as the Knight Errant."
"No more Death Eagles."
Thor shook his head bitterly.
"there is none left."
"Then how did you end up alone on a Word Bearers ship?"
"After the outbreak of the Great Rebellion, we have been fighting against the traitors, vowing to recover the blood debt for our dead brothers... With battle after battle, our number is getting smaller and smaller. In the battle on the Forgotten Star, the last three hundred of us were We were ambushed by traitors, and after a bloody battle, the remaining thirty soldiers and I seized a battleship and left the battlefield."
"And ended up encountering the Word Bearers?"
"Yes, we were attacked by the Word Bearers on the way back to Terra. Before the battleship was about to be destroyed, we made a last stand of resistance, a gang-hopping fight."
"Thirty people."
"Yes, thirty people... As it should be, we failed and most of the soldiers died. I kept hide-and-seek with them on the lower deck and killed many of them. With no choice, they decided to summon some kind of Warp creations to deal with me.”
"Those guys are so incompetent, and Luojia's descendants are all useless."
"They used those captured warriors as sacrifices and summoned something they couldn't control. That thing dragged the entire battleship into the subspace and swallowed everyone."
"You are the only exception."
"It can't swallow me, because it can't digest the fire in my heart, and it can't break through my faith."
If everything was true, Soshyan had to stand in awe of this tenacious warrior.
In that hopeless environment, he still persisted in fighting and resisting, even allowing the devil to find no opening in his soul.
What a strong will this is.
What is sustaining him?
After listening, even Brother Said fell silent.
It wasn't until a minute later that his speaker buzzed again.
"Do you hate him that much?"
"Eternal blood feud."
Sol said these four words lightly.
"So when he appears in front of you -"
"I will swing the sword without hesitation."
Brother Said's body sank slightly, as if he was observing the sword Soshiyang held in his hand. It was a simple long sword that had gone through thousands of years but was still sharp.
The hilt of this sword is a swept-back eagle wing, but it is not a pair of wings, but a single wing, which is very similar to the emblem of the Emperor's Children.
"What's it called?"
"The Hate of Solomon."
"Ah, that second company commander... he is indeed a passionate warrior."
At this time, Sol suddenly turned around and looked at Soshyan.
"I've answered everything I should, now it's your turn to answer my questions."
His eyes looked directly at Soshiyang, and his sharp gaze even made the young chapter leader subconsciously want to avoid it.
"How could an untouchable become an Astartes?"
As he spoke, he paused.
"But you're not now."
Then he turned sideways and looked at Brother Seid.
"And you, Venerable, your memory is too good. I have been in contact with many fearless people. As time goes by, their memory will decline rapidly. After ten thousand years, your memory is not the same as that of a different person. It’s almost like a young man in his fifties.”
Only a few dry laughs came from Brother Seid's loudspeaker.
"We are the Astral Knights, a sub-group of the Imperial Fists. Captain Thor, you may not know that after the end of the Great Rebellion, the original body of the Thirteenth Legion promulgated a Codex Astartes requiring all legions to be split up. , into a smaller war group."
"I see."
A smile appeared on Sol's face for the first time, but there was no warmth in it.
He stretched out his hand to Soshyan, with his palm facing up, and then before the other party could react, he suddenly reached over and pinched Soshyan's cheeks.
"Um!?"
Soshyan spat subconsciously, and before he pulled out the gun, Thor withdrew his hand.
"Feel sorry."
Thor apologized to Soshyan and then raised his palm.
"Brother Said, you are lying."
In the palm of his hand, a thin wisp of smoke was rising slowly - Soshyan's saliva was corroding his gauntlet.
"You are not a so-called sub-group of the Imperial Fists at all."
