Thunderhawks with conspicuous markings swooped down from the red-stained sky, their engines roaring like predatory beasts.
One after another, they stopped steadily on the cleared tarmac.
As the Thunderhawk ramp descended, Luft Huron, the Lord of the Red Pirates and the Black-Hearted King of the Maelstrom, slowly walked out, followed by those powerful Terminator champion guards.
On the other Thunder Eagles, other senior members of the Red Pirates and people from the supporting war gang came down.
The most conspicuous among them is a Chaos Lord wearing Terminator armor.
He is even taller than the Terminator champion behind Huron, wearing a towering Khorne crown (commonly known as rabbit ears), and the Terminator armor composed of Indomitable and part Hades-type parts is full of spikes With blasphemous symbols and Chaos Messages praising Khorne, a variety of decorations are embedded or hung on the Terminator. The most conspicuous and creepy one is a complete skeleton, which is fixed to the Terminator by wires. The political commissar's coat was also attached to the trophy spikes behind the attacker.
The skeleton is that of Morv, Commissar of the Krieg 143rd Regiment, who was slain by Chaos Lord Juff during the Siege of Vraks.
Therefore, this skeleton also reveals the identity of this huge Terminator——
Leader of the Skulltaker warband, Champion of Khorne, Zhufu the Impaler
This Zhu Fu can be called a maverick even among the many leaders of the Khorne warband, which is known for its madness. He is not from the ancient World Eater Legion, but a transformed "new blood".
Zhu Fu's original name was Balzac. He was once a sergeant of the Storm Lords of the White Scars. (After the Great Rebellion, there were many White Scar traitors). During the battle between the war group and a certain warband of the World Eaters, Zhu Fu unfortunately died. Wounded and subsequently captured.
Afterwards, he underwent some kind of "psychological correction surgery" by the World Eater Apothecary, as well as crazy physical torture (the ultimate insult probably...), and experienced the rearrangement and adjustment of brain wave consciousness thinking patterns.
After a series of inhuman ordeals, Balzac disappeared and Giuffre appeared, joining the World Eaters warband as a berserker.
But even so, Zhufu is different from most Khorne believers. The White Scar's unique calm thinking still occupies a place in his mind, which allows him to find the most beneficial way and path for himself in the fanatical bloody battle. , so not only did he not die quickly, but he climbed up the ranks, and even turned his back on the guest, conquered the war gang that captured him in the past, and finally established the Skull Reaver war gang.
His most famous incident is his participation in the siege of Vraks and the summoning of Anglath, the current chief demon of Khorne.
However, his role in the siege of Vraks also had a negative side. During the battle, he often found ways to annex friendly forces, plunder equipment and supplies, and even provoked internal fighting among the Chaos forces——
Yes, it was provocation, not personal participation. The most terrifying thing about Zhu Fu was that he was able to restrain the killing and bloodlust brought to him by the power of Khorne, and use the most efficient means possible to gain profits.
In the final stage of the siege of Vraks, seeing that the situation was over, Zhu Fu, who had already made a lot of money and suffered almost no losses, even left without even saying hello, patting his butt with the annexed materials and personnel. , leaving behind a confused friendly army.
But in the end, Zhu Fu chose to join Abaddon and became a Chaos Lord under his command. Relying on the rich arsenal and strong logistics of the Black Legion, the Skulltaker warband soon became a presence that cannot be underestimated in the Eye of Terror. Zhufu's status in the Black Legion is also rising, and there are even rumors that he will soon become a member of Abaddon's hand-picked.
Therefore, when this Black Legion reinforcement appeared, his aura of pride was no less than that of Huron. A huge power ax hung behind his back, and his left arm was a sophisticated weapon that combined a power fist and a bolt gun—— From a fallen Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers.
The crowd moved along the road and came to a shrine covered with debris. The shrine was slightly larger than a Titan's head. There was a slave tied to a stone slab next to it. The mutant's ears had been cut off. .
The stone slabs and skulls were surrounded by hordes of mutants. Their dirty and naked bodies were covered with traces of blood stains. They screamed fear, fear and other rare manifestations of the Khorne Blood God. nickname.
The mutant slaves stepped aside as the Chaos Space Marines thundered through.
Huron and others passed through these mutant tribes. At this moment, a huge fortress stood proudly in front of them. Compared with the size they had seen in the distance before, it seemed to have grown exponentially. Countless times, this simply does not look like reality but seems to be created by the distortion of some kind of power.
Planet 11 on the edge of the Angstrom system here is also the most complete stronghold established by the Red Pirates, and they renamed the planet Aquila Bane.
Therefore, this fortress was also named the Disaster Fortress.
Between the Chaos Space Marines and the cliff-like walls, there is a huge lake of boiling lava surrounding the entire fortress. Countless huge arch bridges span the hellish vast lava lake, and the vast avenues are made of metal.
The bodies of thousands of fallen Skitarii hang on both sides of the bridge, and the scarred road is rarely stained with the blood of the sacrificed. In these horrific scenes, the true glory of the Dark Gods is fully displayed.
Suddenly, someone in the team hissed hungrily:
“Behold, so many full souls waiting to be harvested.”
But Huron ignored the voice and walked across the bridge.
He could actually land directly in the center of the fortress, but he wanted to see with his own eyes how well built the fortress was. After all, what he saw in the center was completely different from what he saw on the edge.
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Behind the fortress walls, various large and small factions and warbands have their own territories. Their borders are marked with totems, flags, rune staffs or impaled corpses, and totems worshiping the dark gods are also One kind, some carved out the icon of the Corruption Fly with rotten roots, and some carved the all-seeing eye of the great Tzeentch on the rocks, praising the pale skulls of Khorne piled into a hill four or five meters high, wrapped in flesh and blood. The blasphemous statues are surrounded by the seductive incense of the Prince of Darkness.
In addition to the Chaos Space Marines, there are more slaves and cultists who serve them. Their exposed bodies are covered with strange symbols using various colored substances. Their shelters are huts made of rough materials, and the houses are cracked. Warning slogans and dark prayers were written on the earthen walls.
Death and killings were everywhere, and the order of the camp was only violence.
But soon, most of them knew that someone was coming, so they stopped fighting and either hid in the shelter or knelt on the ground. Only those Chaos Space Marines dared to look directly at the people walking on the road. Lords.
During this process, groups continued to join the fortress. Some joined spontaneously, some were brought in by a certain Chaos Lord, and some were controlled by a cult group. They all shouted:
"Long live the Black-Hearted King!"
'Kill the false emperor and burn the Milky Way! '
"Huron is the true eternal choice!"
The air was torn apart by thousands of people who were shouting praises and screaming in terror around Huron, causing the ground to tremble and vibrate like a living thing, and the smell of blood and sweat from the surrounding crowds spread.
