[Timing: -78.30.05]

Marius led the first company aboard the Fury Blade, and they ran as fast as they could to the location of the Bell Tower, and although Marius could not believe what he heard, now, as an Ultramarine, and one of the four champion warriors under Killiman, Marius must take on the responsibility.

However, in addition to this, there was a group of strange guests on the battleship.

"To be honest, I don't think you should be here."

Marius stared at Duanmu Huai in front of him with a serious expression, if it was just him here, then Marius might not say anything. But looking at the girl sitting on Duanmu Huai's shoulder, and the girl standing next to her doing soft gymnastics, Marius felt that he had to say a few words.

"I'm also here to avoid just in case."

Duanmu Huai smiled slightly.

"After all, when it comes to fighting the evil gods of subspace, you are no different from ignorant children, and I'm really worried that if you capsize in the gutter and die inside, Killiman will think that I have played some kind of conspiracy, so to be on the safe side, I'd better go with you."

"Ultramarines are experienced fighters who have been in battle for a long time, and we can cope with any situation."

"Be careful, boy."

Duanmu Huai glanced at him.

"Horus is all planted in the hands of the evil god, and a large number of Astartes are kneeling at the feet of the evil god, do you think that your first company is more awesome than Horus and his shadow moon wolf."

“…………………”

Of course, Marius didn't dare to say that, but this is not where he objected.

"No, I didn't mean that, Mr. Inquisitor, I mean......... This kind of mission, we should not take children to the battlefield. ”

"They're no ordinary little girls."

Duanmu Huai smiled.

"Trust me, they're no worse than your Astarte, and they're not going to be able to save your lives this time."

"Report to your Excellency."

At this moment, the voice of the communication tube came.

"We've got in touch with the Clock Tower, but it's ..............."

"What's wrong?"

Marius turned his head to look at the Communications Officer, who had a look of horror on his face.

"You'd better come and hear it."

Marius walked up to the Communications Officer, who turned on the communications again.

"This is the Blade of Wrath of the Fifth Fleet of the Thirteenth Legion, we will conduct a routine inspection, please answer if you hear it."

“…………………”

However, there was no response from the other side, and Marius frowned, listened carefully, and then he heard.

It was screaming.

"Ah.........!!!h

It was as if countless souls in pain were being tormented, and their screams came from it, it was a sharp, tearing, painful, even if Marius was just standing here, a horrible and bloody image appeared in his head, and in the blood-filled cabin, the crew screamed as their skin was cut and their bodies were torn apart, their souls wailed in pain, and they ...............

At this moment, suddenly a hand reached over and turned off the terrible scream, which made Marius stunned for a moment, and suddenly came back to his senses, only to see Duanmu Huai standing behind him.

"It's not good for your health to listen to this stuff too much, so it's better to listen to it less."

"What's that?"

"Wail of souls, this ship has become a lair of evil, and the poor creatures who served on this ship have become victims of the blood gods, their bodies have been transformed and corrupted, and their souls will be imprisoned on this ship forever, tormented in untold pain."

“…………………”

Hearing Duanmu Huai's answer, the corners of Marius' mouth twitched, he wanted to say that this was nonsense, but the weird scream just now did make Marius feel an inexplicable emotion in his heart.

So he didn't say anything more, but just turned around.

"Prepare to board."

A Thunderhawk flew out of the Blade of Fury and came near the Clock Tower. The battleship was moving forward unswervingly, and from the outside, it seemed that everything was normal, nothing out of the ordinary, and the brightly lit windows were also normal. After the identification signal was given, the door of the parking room slowly opened, and the fighter flew into it, docking on the deck.

Then the hatch opened, and Marius led the soldiers of the First Company out.

When they saw the scene in front of them clearly, they couldn't help but be taken aback.

The deck in front of me was stained with blood, a large amount of blood covered the steel floor, and even bloody handprints and some strange marks that looked evil could be seen on the walls.

"The Emperor is above, what's going on here?"

"A massacre."

Duanmu Huai also took O'Gis and Lorena off the fighter plane at this moment, glanced around lightly, and then looked at a mark painted with blood on the wall.

It was an eight-horned, outward-opening imprint.

"The name of Yae, the trick of the Chaos Evil God."

Duanmu Huai snorted coldly and withdrew his gaze.

"It seems so."

Marius also quickly calmed down at this moment, scouting the surroundings, planning and then acting is the consistent style of the Ultramarines Legion, studying the enemy, dealing with the enemy, finding problems, and solving problems.

"There's obviously been an exchange of fire here, and there's been a lot of casualties, and while we don't know who the attackers are, why haven't we seen any bodies here?"

"You'll see them."

Faced with Marius's inquiry, Duanmu Huai shook his head.

"Their corpses have been contaminated by the chaos and turned into demons, as long as we move forward, they will appear before us, and when the time comes, I am sure you will regret seeing them."

"You mean mutating like those psionics?"

Marius frowned.

"If it's a similar situation, then I've seen some psykers who can't master the power of the subspace, so they twist into some kind of terrible monster..............."

"It's worse than that."

Duanmu Huai shrugged his shoulders.

"You don't believe me either, so you'd better see for yourself."

"Keep going."

Marius hesitated, but quickly made a decision, or he didn't really have anything to decide, after all, after coming to this ship, they only had one choice left.

It's to kill in and see what the hell this ship is up to.

The metal door slowly opened, and a dim and gloomy corridor appeared in front of everyone, blood flowing from the floor, and traces of filth everywhere. When Marius saw this scene, he couldn't help frowning, then he looked up, and then his eyes widened in surprise——— only to see that on the ceiling, there were corpses hanging densely one after another, judging from their tattered uniforms, they should have been the crew of this battleship when they were alive, but now, they were hanging from the ceiling like chickens, blood flowing from their bodies everywhere, turning into blood droplets and falling to the ground.

"It's ........."

"Sacrifices, rituals, cultists can't do anything new except for this little skill."

Duanmu Huai clenched the war hammer and strode in, and Lorena followed closely, seeing this, Marius didn't say much, he quickly calmed down, made a few gestures, and motioned for the soldiers of the first company to follow.

The scene inside the entire Bell Tower is like hell. Marius considers himself to be one of the four champion warriors under the original body, and he is already well-informed. He had followed Killiman to destroy the aliens and the orcs, but the atmosphere in the battleship was still more strange than Marius had expected, and they cautiously walked through the corridor and then came to a door.

"Prepare for battle!"

Duanmu Huai clenched the hammer at this moment and assumed a fighting posture, and in fact, without saying it, Marius also sensed from the violent trembling on the ground and the sound of footsteps that a group of enemies were frantically rushing towards them. He immediately raised the blaster in his hand, aimed ahead, and set up a defensive formation.

The next moment, the gate opened, and dozens of huge, bright red, wild dog-like monsters roared out of it, rushing towards the prey in front of them.

"Fire!!"

Gunshots rang out, bullets entered the bodies of these strange monsters, tearing them to pieces, the combat quality of the extreme warriors was completely displayed at this moment, although these fighters did not know what they were facing, but they still instinctively followed the patrol process, just like a weapon, a machine, no matter what happened to them, it would still operate according to the rules.

A large number of blood dogs were knocked to the ground, and those who finally approached would be smashed into meat sauce by Duanmu Huai wielding a war hammer, but this was only the beginning, and soon, gunshots also rang out on the opposite side. Later, Marius and the others saw several strangely dressed men holding Imperial weapons and firing at them.

Without the slightest hesitation in dealing with them, Astarte opened fire again, blasting the mortals who were struggling to resist with precision and ferocity. Then Marius led his men straight into the hall and rushed forward.

However, at this moment, suddenly a tall figure came out from the side, holding a battle axe in his hand, and slashed at Marius head-on.

At this moment, Marius only felt that the blood in his body had clotted.

This is not because he is afraid, but because he clearly sees the appearance of the other party, he is wearing almost the same armor as himself, but this armor has been dyed bright red at the moment, I don't know if it is the color of being smeared, or it is infiltrated with blood, not only that, Astarte wearing this armor, Marius has even seen it, and he also knows his name.

But now, the Astarte was no longer what Marius remembered, his skin was bright red, a pair of horns protruding from his head, stabbing upwards, his face was hideous and distorted, and his eyes burned with anger and hatred that almost destroyed everything.

In other words, Marius was able to dodge quickly even if he was attacked, but this time, his brain stopped thinking. Although he had heard the truth from the likes of Lorken and Taviz, Marius still didn't know what to do when he was actually confronted by an Astarte warrior——— the military manual written by the original Kiliman covered almost every aspect, but he did not write what to do when one Astarte was attacked by another.

After all, the Astartes have always been brothers, and they would never aim their weapons at another Astarte.

Not only Marius, but also the soldiers of the first company behind him were equally stunned by this completely incomprehensible and unimaginable state of affairs, at this moment they were like ignorant children, who did not know how to deal with the situation in front of them.

But luckily, not everyone will be shocked by this.

The whistling thunder hammer swung past Marius's side and smashed directly into the Astarte's body, knocking it flying, and then Duanmu Huai appeared in Marius's eyes with the warhammer on his shoulder.

"What are you doing in a daze, look at it, this is your enemy."

Then, Duanmu Huai spoke.

(End of chapter)