After sleeping for an unknown length of time, he woke up in an unspeakable complete darkness. He tried hard to get up and move, but found that he couldn't. He tried hard to breathe, but a row of tubes stuffed into his throat made him suffocate. .
He began to struggle, but he could only tumble at the level of consciousness. It seemed like a dark sea with raging waves. He was sinking and floating in the black sea water. The cold sea water slapped his face, leaving him no time to think. Then he looked in the sea water. There are countless faces——
Most of them have been forgotten by him, but there are still a few unforgettable ones that remain in the corner of his memory——
"I am not a pirate, Aruhun. I am a Space Marine just like you, from the Star Claw Chapter."
"Fuck you, you bastards! The Star Claws betrayed the Emperor! You stopped calling yourselves Space Marines a long time ago. You are just a bunch of bandits and pirates."
"Anyway, we're coming to the Maelstrom. It's time for you to reclaim your precious psychic powers and try to remember what it truly means to be a Space Marine and a Codex."
"I swear to the Emperor that I will prove the truth of my words and restore the Star Claw's honor."
"Then the Emperor may grant mercy to your soul, pirate."
Suddenly, a bolt gun appeared in his sight and was held in his hand.
"Kill that white scar."
A voice sounded in his ears that made him tremble, but he couldn't remember who made it.
"But, he, he helped me escape."
"He helped you escape so that you could bring him here. He is a White Scar agent. He was undoubtedly sent to kill me. Now, take the gun and kill him!"
"Do it, pirate."
Aruhun's face appeared in the sea water, and he was so calm.
"I knew you were going to kill me eventually."
"no no!"
He tried to resist, but his finger pulled the trigger, and the White Scars died without a word or complaint.
The bolter slipped from his fingers and he began to sink, in the cold, dark water.
In a daze, he didn't know how long he had been sinking, a day, a year, or a hundred years?
"Blood! Blood sacrifice to Khorne!"
"Blood! Blood sacrifice to Khorne!"
"Blood! Blood sacrifice to Khorne!"
The noisy sound woke him up, and then he saw a gloomy warrior being forced to fight with a terrifying bloodthirsty madman. He wanted to rush forward, but countless hands grabbed his body.
Finally, he watched the man fall to the axe.
At that moment, all sounds and resistance disappeared, and there was only the dying man lying on the ground in the darkness. He walked over with difficulty, because this was his only close friend in the battle group.
"Forgive me, Losar, I couldn't find you."
"I was...discovered."
Losar panted, but managed to squeeze out a blood-stained smile, as if it was some kind of relief.
"But I have found out that the attack...the attack will come on the Expeditionary Planet. May the Emperor...save us."
Suddenly, his friend disappeared, the blood disappeared, and he was left alone in the darkness kneeling on the ground.
boom!
A loud noise made him turn his head sharply.
A half-machine, half-flesh giant wearing broken armor towered in front of him. His broken face exuded a full threat, his eyes were burning with an unclean flame, and his huge claws were dripping with blood. billions of blood
"Garen told me that you were contacting the White Scars... I wanted to come over and thank you personally."
"Thank you...thank me?"
He took a step back, but his mind was in confusion. He couldn't remember who this person was, but he hated him so much that he even wanted to kill him immediately.
Who is this guy?
"Yes, Star Claw."
The man grinned maliciously.
"I want to thank you for telling the White Scars that I was going to attack the Expedition. It was a touching display of misplaced loyalty, especially when you consider that I have changed my mind!"
"Have you changed your mind?"
He was shocked and suddenly remembered something in his heart.
Star Claw, Maelstrom, Expedition Star
"Uh-huh, no, I lied to you. I haven't changed my mind because we never went to attack the Expeditionary Planet. In fact, we were rushing to San Diego."
As he spoke, the man waved his hand contemptuously.
"Thanks to you, though, the White Scars will be miles away from us while the Red Pirates raid that helpless planet."
Red pirate, Huron!
At that moment, he remembered everything. He remembered his name, his identity, and even those dark days in Badab's world.
At that time, Huron poisoned the Star Claw Chapter and made them betray the Emperor. Sartak was originally loyal to the Emperor - just like a Space Marine should do, but he also followed Huron into the war. However, many years of plundering have taken their toll on this once idealistic warrior. Sartak was like a sleeper who was awakened. He opened his eyes and saw the man who was once called the "Tyrant of Badab". "The depravity and corruption that occurs in people.
He realized that he was wrong.
Sartak drew his sword and pointed it at the opponent, but the tip of the sword was trembling and wavering.
"Santiago? There's nothing there to plunder, just an agricultural world with absolutely no military significance."
"Oh, but you're mistaken, there's still something there."
The other party pointed his fingers around in gloating. Sartak turned his head and suddenly found himself in a burning world. There were corpses everywhere. Human skeletons were stacked on top of each other hundreds of meters high. They were everywhere. Evil statues pieced together from broken limbs, screams and howls are the only sounds.
"There are more than a billion unarmed civilians there, laughing and joking!!!"
Huron hissed with uncontrollable pleasure, and Sartak felt a cold rage burning in his soul.
"My loyal little wizard, think about it, if I sacrifice the blood of a billion victims overnight, what will happen in the subspace?"
"Huron, I followed you, I trusted you, but you brought me and all of us into hell! Are you worthy of the names of those martyrs engraved in the hall of the Eternal Gate? (Because of participating in the blocking of the fifth black war Expedition, the Chapter banner of the Star Claws was placed in the hall of the Eternal Gate in the Palace of Terra) Do you deserve the trust of Chapter Master Rovik? If I must follow Aluhun and Lothar to their death, Then I will take this sacrifice as repentance.”
After saying that, he roared and rushed towards Huron, but the other party just let out a shout of joy and blocked the force field sword with a huge metal claw block.
"You want to die now, don't you, last Star Claw?"
The Librarian let go of the sword in his hand and stepped back. He said a calm prayer, then concentrated his attention and launched a psychic attack on Huron's sick consciousness. The power of justice roared in his heart, and lightning clearly and truly came from It flew out of his hand.
But Huron, immersed in black evil energy, defused the attack with a flick of his wrist, and then giggled with perverse pleasure.
"That's not the case, Sartak. Ordinary psychic tricks can no longer hurt me, so... farewell, lovely traitor."
The think tank did not give up. He stretched out his arms, and more powerful electricity rushed from his arms towards the abominable heretic traitor.
Suddenly, he felt a pain in his wrist, and then his arm was cut off. When he staggered back, the opponent stepped on him to the ground.
"But you don't die a hero."
Huron bent down and brought his hateful face close to Saltak's bloody face.
"Instead, I will give you the greatest gift a Starclaw could ever receive."
He wanted to hold the sword that was lost in his hand, but he could hold nothing. Sartak roared in despair. He had failed Aruhun, he had failed Lothar, and he had failed the Emperor even more. ——
Tears mixed with blood slipped from the corners of his eyes, and his world fell into boundless darkness until that voice appeared.
"Sartak?"
(End of chapter)
