Outside The Forge.
"I really want to know what's happening inside."
Standing next to the young Gardinerian, Santar sighed and looked at Arcur Tona, who was still constantly writing and drawing on a piece of parchment.
He was a little bored.
"What is this?"
"A little hobby of the Emperor's Children, drawing."
As she spoke, Arcur seemed to be a little dissatisfied with her own drawing skills and tilted the entire drawing board to one side.
She didn't want outsiders to see her clumsy drawing skills.
But this was useless against First Captain Santar.
His eyes were mechanical bionics, enough to retain an image that had flashed for even an extremely short time.
"Perhaps your current level is not high, but I can see your outstanding talent in it," Santar comforted her.
"These two mating Grox are drawn very vividly."
And Arcur also paused for a moment in the face of this compliment.
"Thank you for your encouragement, but I was drawing the Primarch Fulgrim and Commander Kasjia."
"..."
"Forget it, I'm not drawing anymore."
Arcur crumpled the parchment into a ball with a displeased look.
"Sister Arcur, I didn't mean to—"
"It's not your fault," Arcur said, lowering her voice and switching to the communication system on her helmet. "That Gardinerian is not right."
Following Arcur's words, they saw the young attendant anxiously waiting for something, his small hand movements seeming to be manipulating some kind of device of his own.
"What Kasjia said is very likely to be true. They are very likely planning to assassinate the Primarch."
"Get ready."
The Forge, the most sacred place in the eyes of the Iron Hands legion, at this moment, a huge explosion sound came out.
The old man's body swelled rapidly, and countless particle beams extended from all parts of his body, and finally aimed at the Primarch Ferris.
The energy of the particle beam's muzzle began to accumulate, and with the poison-coated needles, blades, and chainswords on his body, they were all fired at Ferris in an instant.
Logically, after countless weapon checks, the Gardinerians should not have the ability to complete an assassination.
But all the weapon equipment on his body was a unique weapon assembly method developed by Gardiner.
Not only that, but it was also equipped with Gardiner's best and most powerful particle weapon.
With laser beams, power blades, chainsword blades, and neurotoxin needles, they burst towards the Iron Hand Ferris in an instant.
And through advanced genetic modification technology, it was embedded in his own flesh and blood, integrated with his body, to successfully pass the detection device of the Iron Hands.
BOOM!
In that instant, Ferris Manus was instantly swallowed by a dazzling white light.
"Protect the Primarch!!!"
The Thousand Sons Librarian, Amal, seeing this, anxiously activated the psionic power in his body.
He didn't understand why the Terminator guards, who should have been the Primarch's first line of defense, were at this moment as if they were dazed, standing on the spot without any movement.
CRACKLE!
His surging psionic lightning shot towards the crazed Gardinerian High Lord.
As a diplomatic emissary who could independently represent the 413th Expeditionary Fleet, the Thousand Sons Librarian Amal's psionic power was among the best even in the legion.
His psionic talent was so great that even his gene-father had marveled at it.
But just as the full-power psionic lightning he had unleashed was about to hit the other party, a faint blue psionic force field barrier turned it into nothingness.
How is this possible!
Subconsciously, Amal looked at the other party.
It was the middle-aged man standing behind the High Lord, the sorcerer of Gardiner.
His body was emitting a strange and splendid blue light, which made Amal, who was looking straight at him, suddenly feel an incomparably strong dizziness.
And in the next instant, he, like the Terminator guards, lost consciousness.
They had indeed underestimated the power of Gardiner.
Not just the Ultramarines Chapter Master Cicero, but also Ferris.
No one could have predicted that in this small Gardiner system, which was composed of only eleven planets, there would be such a powerful psyker.
The Gardinerians' research on psionics was far more advanced than that of the Iron Hands (and even the Thousand Sons at this time), who believed in the Imperial Truth.
This was the final product of generations of breeding and genetic iteration, after being specially enhanced and customized at the genetic level to strengthen psionics.
Not to mention the Thousand Sons Librarian Amal.
Even the Primarch herself would be dragged into control for a period of time under such a powerful mental psionic power.
In Amal's eyes, everything began to spin.
No longer in the grey-black warship, Amal sensed the ancient runic obelisks and pyramids standing on the oasis, and felt the trickling stream...
...Prospero.
The capital, Tizca.
Amal remembered this place. He had successfully graduated from the most famous Tizca University on it, and had joined the Great Crusade with excellent results.
But somehow, a very serious problem had begun to spread between him and his brothers.
The flesh-change.
Amal's mutation was still slight, with only his skin becoming as scarlet and shriveled as his gene-father Magnus.
No!
Not just that!
Hands!
His hands were shrinking, and at the same time he could feel countless hands extending from his eye sockets, ribs, and chest.
His eyes were always watching, from the highest forehead to the lowest sole of his foot, scanning all the knowledge in the world and taking it all in!
Everything about him was changing invisibly.
Amal felt his flesh and blood disintegrating and deforming, constantly changing shape like the infinite and ever-changing Empyrean.
He was about to... about to not be himself anymore!
And then, Amal felt a warm flame.
"Hey, buddy. Why is everyone ignoring me? Is my presence really that low?"
The ball of fire spoke human language.
"Amal, right? Afraid of the flesh-change, right?"
Who are you?!
He was more afraid of the secret of the Fifteenth Legion's genetic instability being leaked.
No, this flame must not know about this!
The glory of the Thousand Sons must be—
WHOOSH!
A fierce flame burned his body, instantly freeing him from the illusion.
"Hey, wake up."
Amal opened his eyes and saw the commander of the Emperor's Children, Kasjia Sherlock, smiling at him from behind a red helmet.
"What's going on? How did I—"
"Don't ask too many questions, and don't spread it around."
The right hand of Kasjia suddenly began to catch fire, and the flame extended to the power sword in his hand.
The next moment, he flew forward and chopped at the Gardinerian sorcerer.
As if he had not expected that someone could still escape his control, the sorcerer was flustered for a moment.
But he quickly recovered and tried to use the same trick again, to control Kasjia with psionics.
Ineffective.
Under the Warp-fire that swirled around Kasjia, his mind magic could not have even a little effect on Kasjia.
What's going on!?
The sorcerer was anxious, watching Kasjia charge straight at him with a flaming greatsword.
This was bad!
He could only close his eyes and open a psionic shield around himself.
And pray that this temporarily propped-up shield could block the other's attack.
Kasjia's full-power, flaming strike hit the psionic shield squarely.
However, surprisingly, it could not advance any further.
Even with the burning of the psionic flame, it was useless.
A gentle flame.
It would only burn and kill those unborn daemons, and heal the physical abnormalities caused by the influence of the Warp.
However, when it came to attacking, it couldn't even burn through the other sorcerer's psionic shield.
It had no offensive power at all.
Very gentle.
Kasjia, seeing this, was also a little on the verge of collapse.
So it really has no attack power at all, and can only be used to burn Chaos filth?
Before, he had not really believed the nonsense that the pointy-eared Eldar had said about him being Asuryan.
But now, looking at the flame in his hand, he was a little suspicious.
The higher the hype in the background, the lamer it is in actual combat.
His psionic power perfectly matched all the characteristics of that guy Asuryan.
Kasjia, diagnosed as Asuryan.
Gah!
Emperor protect me, I don't want to be a waste!
CRACKLE!
At that very moment, another surging psionic lightning bolt shot out from behind Kasjia, and with his sword, it completely shattered the other's psionic shield!
It was Amal.
Perhaps Kasjia's combat power was not strong.
But the ability to clear the negative debuffs of his teammates was already very powerful.
"Kasjia!"
"Forget about them for now, go and help the Primarch!" Amal shouted anxiously.
The Primarch?
Kasjia smiled and looked at the iron throne, which was surrounded by layers of smoke.
"Friend, she doesn't need my help."
"Overconfident ants."
"You have thoroughly angered me, fools."
Under the continuous fire of the Gardinerian High Lord, the lingering smoke and dust finally dispersed.
What appeared in everyone's vision was a pair of metal arms, flowing like mercury.
And under those silver arms, was the grim and terrifying face of Ferris.
She had originally wanted to show some mercy to the Gardinerians.
Mercy.
Yes, as the future Warmaster, she should be more merciful.
But why, whenever she tried to show even a little kindness to the weak, was it seen as weakness and something to be bullied?
If this was the price that had to be paid for mercy, then what was the corresponding reward?
She didn't know.
Right now, she only wanted to make these two overconfident fools realize the price of provoking the strong.
Even though the armor on both of Ferris's arms was now cracked and broken, the silver-white iron hands under the broken armor were still intact.
It was as if it was not the power armor that was protecting her iron hands, but her iron hands that were protecting her power armor.
Just as Ferris had underestimated the psionic power of the Gardinerians, they had also underestimated Ferris's combat power.
Especially the terrifying degree of those silver iron hands.
The particle cannon, which could penetrate all armor in the world, was completely harmless when it hit Ferris's iron hands.
It could be said that apart from a surprise attack to slit her throat while her iron hands were not reacting, there was no other way to defeat her.
(Unfortunately, this thing can't be put on the neck, otherwise it would be invincible.)
"How is this possible!? How can you be completely fine?"
"What are you, human or ghost!"
The two assassins were horrified.
Under the particle cannon, no object at the molecular level should have survived.
But that one, called a Primarch, was still standing there, unscathed.
"Die."
In a rage, Ferris began to act.
She picked up the power hammer beside the iron throne, a master-crafted piece that Fulgrim had later given her.
In an instant, like a cannonball fired from a cannon, she rushed towards the Gardinerian High Lord.
BOOM!
At this time, the sorcerer was tied up by Kasjia and Amal. The High Lord could only face the furious Iron Hand alone.
This was not going to be easy.
The first explosive hammer from the Iron Hand was barely blocked by the energy shield on his body.
But the second one directly broke his lower body, which was attached to a bio-machine.
"Quick, use your mind magic to control him, help me!" the High Lord cried out for his sorcerer teammate's assistance.
"I can't! This guy is very strange! His flame can burn my mind magic, I can't do anything!"
But it seemed his teammate behind him did not have good news either.
It was all over.
The High Lord's heart was now filled only with bitterness.
Like a mad female leopard, Ferris, holding the Forgebreaker in her hand, was slowly approaching the shattered upper body of the Gardinerian High Lord.
Unable to move, he could only watch in despair as Ferris and her hammer got closer and closer.
Perhaps, only at this moment, could he truly understand how foolish his actions had been.
But it was all too late.
Ferris suddenly threw the warhammer to the side.
Perhaps she felt that using a hammer was not satisfying enough. The silver iron hands clenched into fists.
Liquid metal, in that instant, once again covered her entire arm.
Hiss, can we reconcile?
This was what the terrified expression of the High Lord was trying to convey.
And what answered him were countless iron fists from the Iron Hands.
BANG!
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
"There's still an assassin outside, Amal. You keep an eye on this sorcerer. I'll go and deal with that guy outside!"
"Alright!"
Kasjia quickly turned his head, preparing to rush out the door.
However, at that very moment, he saw something strange about the Thousand Sons Librarian.
"Wait!"
"Amal, you—"
"Why have you changed color?"
Not only was his skin no longer shriveled, but its color had also become the same as a normal human's!
"I... I'm normal?"
Amal's muttering was filled with disbelief.
It's the flesh-change curse!
It's gone! The flesh-change curse is gone!
Just now, when the flame had broken the illusion, it had also removed his flesh-change curse!
Kasjia!
He could lift the flesh-change curse of the Thousand Sons!
Amal suppressed the strong desire to take him to Prospero right now.
If one day, I can introduce him to the gene-father Magnus...
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