Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 321: Daven Temple (Please subscribe)

The three legions of Astartes arrived at the huge basin surrounded by the jagged craters.

The airdrop pods cut through the sky, and Thunderhawk gunships and Stormbirds flew across the clouds, forming a huge formation and landing here.

Both the aucmagraph and the psychic divination showed that there was nothing in the basin canyon below. The environment was eerily quiet and lifeless.

"Notify the troops to build positions. We must be fully prepared." Guilliman passed on the order.

For this expedition, the Ultramarines brought over 50,000 Astartes, and with 20,000 Dark Angels and 30,000 Blood Angels, there were already about 100,000 Astartes gathered in the Davin system.

This is a force that is powerful enough to sweep across the eastern galaxy, but looking at the Devon galaxy, the force that can match it has yet to show up.

With the temple in the center of the basin as the core, a series of fortifications were built at a speed visible to the naked eye. The STC template sponsored by Luo Xi played its due role and saved a lot of time and energy.

There are always Thunderhawk gunships and Stormbirds patrolling in the sky, keeping vigilant. A large number of drone bees are spread out, searching for the specific situation of the entire planet.

These Luo Xi were already very familiar with the tactics. Whenever they arrived at a battlefield, they would first use these three tricks and spread out the cards in their hands to collect intelligence.

Heavy armored vehicle units poured down from the transport ships, led by the Apocalypse tanks, various Leman Russ tanks and Sikaran tanks, as well as some Chimera troop transports carrying mortal auxiliary troops, whose engines began to roar.

These products of war aesthetics exude a cold metallic luster, and fully armed mortal auxiliary troops will cooperate with them in infantry and tank operations.

If the terrain here was not too narrow and not suitable for the Titans to appear, Guilliman would not mind airdropping the Sun Titan Legion that came with them to the ground.

The priests of the Mechanicus held holy oil and incense, diligently blessing these crystals of the God of All Machines. At the same time, the Crusader troops also arrived at the battlefield. These dangerous guys emitting strong radiation were placed in the farthest area.

The three primarchs of the Second Empire, plus Roche and Conrad Curze, who was temporarily granted parole, stood in front of the broken and cracked square of the Temple of Daven.

Luo Xi was wearing a special power armor. Although the environment of Daven Star had been transformed by the colonists in the distant past, no one knew whether this seemingly lifeless place would have any unexpected dangers.

The power backpack behind Luo Xi roared, and he could feel the touch of the ground of Daven Star. Everything here seemed to be no different from other death planets.

Except for the temple in front of us.

This temple called Delphos is a giant octagonal building. If you look down from space, the whole thing looks like a blood-red eight-pointed star imprinted on the surface of the planet.

From a symbolic point of view, the eight-pointed star is a symbol with special significance. The Word Bearers used the eight-pointed star extensively in the Battle of Calth.

"The scanning array shows that this temple is hundreds of meters high. Those huge red stones were excavated purely by humans and piled up to form the main body of the temple."

It is purely man-made. No one knows how many Devins died to build this magnificent temple. Those blood-red stones may even be made of the blood of Devins.

The drone bee compiles every centimeter of nearby land into data and uploads it to the intelligent brain system in space, where a complete holographic projection is being generated.

There is a tall tower at each corner of the octagonal temple, and in the center of the octagon is a huge dome building. At this moment, the tops of the two spires have collapsed, and the magnificent dome has cracked under the movement of geological structures.

Ashes or dust left after something burned out covered the entire square, and the magnificent dome cast a deep darkness, making it impossible to see what was inside.

In addition, there are tall pillars symmetrically arranged on both sides of the stairs, with countless exquisite snake sculptures entwined on the stone pillars. Those lifelike giant snakes gaze deeply at the humans who are gathering.

"Let us put an end to this fate," said Sanguinius, leading the way towards the huge rusty iron gate of the temple.

You can see exquisite snake patterns on the iron gate. Two giant snakes are entwined around a big tree, forming a special structure similar to the genetic double helix. The gate on the left is open, and the joints are damaged, which shows that someone has been here before.

Everyone knew who that man was: Horus Lupercal, the former wolf-herder god, the empire's warmaster, and now the leader of the rebellion. Behind the iron gates lay countless neatly arranged braziers and candlesticks, but the lights that once burned day and night had gone out, leaving only ashes in the silence.

"It seems that there is no difference between the inside and outside of this temple. Everything is dead and there are ashes everywhere. Who would have known that the war that Horus started that ignited the entire galaxy started from here."

"A tiny planet in a corner of the Milky Way, an extremely tiny temple of heresy, could actually cause the Wolf God to fall here."

Luo Xi sighed and said that from a symbolic perspective, this temple is connected to the trillions of dead lives in the galaxy. Every brick and tile here is condensed with endless sin and blood.

The skull planet above their heads and the deserted and dilapidated temple seemed to indicate that everything had disappeared.

Yes, according to intelligence, at least before Horus came here, there was a prosperous primitive civilization on the planet Daven. This temple decayed into this state in just a few years.

Horus was assassinated in the year 31 of the 004st millennium, and Roche and his companions arrived here in the year 31 of the 010st millennium. In just six years, this place has reached a state that would not have occurred even if it had decayed for thousands of years.

This was undoubtedly the work of the Warp, the corruption of Horus bringing unknown effects.

Luo Xi kicked Veronica's leg. Conrad Koz had been silent since he landed on the surface. It was obvious that this guy was up to something bad again.

Of course, a mortal body could not cause any harm to Iron Man, but Veronica received the command, and its leg module suddenly contracted and tightened, and immediately Coze's screams rang out through the loudspeaker.

"I don't know anything. I can't see anything here. This is a kind of intersection of fate. The future is nothing here."

"Sanguinius knows I am not lying, and he certainly cannot see it."

Curze said as he inhaled, he felt his leg being strangled, although it was only a minor injury for the Primarch, it did not mean that he would have no reaction.

Everyone was a little disappointed and simply ignored the prisoner.

The temple seemed to have experienced the baptism of time for tens of millions of years. The doors of the rooms had all decayed, and the few remaining murals showed a glimpse of the past. The remaining marks seemed to be whispering, and Luo Xi vaguely felt that the remaining portraits seemed to have eyes moving.

Everything here... is a little bit evil.

The Space Marines from the Ever-Victorious Army, the Sanguine Guard, and the Deathwing Company that followed searched every corner of the temple, but they only found ashes on the ground and dull footsteps everywhere, but did not find anything useful.

Sanguinius closed his eyes, and suddenly, he seemed to see something.

"Over there, follow me."

The Archangel came to the very center of Delphos, facing the dome of the sky above, but the Space Marines had already searched it and there was nothing there.

Yet when Sanguinius reached out his hand, he encountered a door that was not there.

This invisible door is located in the void, like a mirror in a mirror, a lake in a reflection. It alternates between existence and non-existence, but the archangel has discovered traces of its existence.

Luo Xi and others followed Sanguinius into this non-existent room. It was an altar with a giant black stone slab placed in the middle. On its surface, there seemed to be dirt from dried blood.

In a trance, everyone saw an illusion. A once great man was carried to the center of the altar by his descendants. He was bleeding continuously, and the wounds left by the enemy's blade could not heal at all until some beings performed a blasphemous ritual on him.

This is the place where Horus suffered and also the turning point of his fate. It was here that the wolf-shepherd god Horus died, and the leader of rebellion Horus was reborn here.

(End of this chapter)