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

Chapter 656 Plague Cavalry VS Caliban Knights (Three in One) Ask for monthly tickets
Chagatai is one of the few intelligent people among the Primarchs. He has an extremely sharp and thorough insight into things and has his own unique philosophy of life.

He never fought for anything and always stayed out of the empire's sight.

In fact, strictly speaking, Chagatai Khan and his Chogoris were not subordinates of the empire, but allies of the Human Empire. He had never truly submitted to the Lord of Mankind.

Even Ryan sometimes admires this brother's free and unrestrained nature.

He never cared about worldly opinions or other people's evaluations. Even though many people thought that the White Scars from Chogoris were barbarians similar to the Space Wolves, he never got angry.

If someone said that Ryan was a barbarian, he would have been secretly disappeared by the Dark Angels long ago.

The charge was leaking the Corps' top secrets (wrong).

But now the Chagatai in front of Ryan looked completely different. He wore a plague crown on his head, like an arrogant king, looking down on his brother Ryan Johnson.

It was as if he was born to be the ruler of everything, the god in charge of war, death and plague.

"My brother, why have you become like this?" Ryan said with great sorrow.

He originally thought that it was bad enough that he and Leman Russ had swapped birthplaces, but seeing Chagatai's appearance, it was obvious that he was luckier.

The intensity of the chaotic power in the opponent's body is even comparable to Horus.

However, compared to the combination of various chaotic forces in the Wolf Shepherd God, Chagatai only has pure plague power.

Is Nurgle crazy? He is no longer blessing his chosen one, but looking for a successor for himself.

Was the loss of Mortarion really such a huge blow to the Plague Lord?

"Have you awakened your memory? What should we really do? Brother!"

Ryan still held on to a last bit of hope. He hoped that Chagatai had also lost his memory and had been bewitched and corrupted by the Chaos God before awakening.

"Of course I know. We are following the Emperor to board the Spirit of Vengeance." Chagatai's answer made Ryan's heart sink.

"The moment we left Terra and set foot on the Spirit of Vengeance, I knew we would be separated because different Chaos Gods had chosen us."

"Dorn is undergoing the test of the Blood God, while you and Russ are chosen by the Lord of Change. Roxie and Curze are trapped in the wonderful dream woven by the Prince of Pleasure himself. As for me..."

The Khan laughed, a laugh that was extremely arrogant.

"The Father of Plague gave me a welcome gift. He is completely different from other evil gods and will never use word games to deceive others."

"He disdains deception, and even more disdains to set traps for his own choices like Tzeentch did."

Under Chagatai Khan's chest, there was a faint green heart flickering.

It seemed to be the source of all epidemics in the world, the cradle of death, and the beginning of new life.

That heart was crystal clear, surging with infinite power, enabling the Plague King and his army of billions to tirelessly conquer the galaxy.

"This is the Plague Heart. I think you know what it is."

The Khan stroked his chest, and his otherworldly heart was making a calm and powerful sound, like the beating of a war drum.

Ryan's face looked extremely ugly. He suddenly understood why Chagatai, who was also corrupted by the evil god, would specially come to his Caliban.

Chogorius and Caliban are not close.

The Plague Lord comes for the Ouroboros imprisoned on Caliban.

"I have understood everything. Our universe will inevitably move towards entropy and eternal silence. All struggles are meaningless."

Chagatai closed his eyes and spoke silently.

Countless plague cavalry emerged from the webway behind him. They were humans, elves, and even contaminated orcs.

Under the power of Plague Heart, the boundary between life and death is blurred, and these cavalrymen hovering on the brink of death are murderous.

"Our father must ascend the Golden Throne. As long as he cannot let go of his love and obsession with humanity, he will never be able to break free from the shackles of the throne. Everything is his choice. He cannot allow the Dark King to be born, so he cannot abandon his own body."

"I have seen the end. The end is inevitable. Everything decays, but in decay new life can be ignited."

Chagatai Khan's tone became more passionate, and more and more Plague Riders were shouting loudly for their monarch. The loud war roars formed an overwhelming tsunami, wreaking havoc on Caliban.

"Since humans are born to suffer countless pains, father will inevitably become an immobile walking corpse in the future, so it is better to let everything end quickly."

"Speed ​​up, end it, I've had enough of this!"

"After the plague comes new life, just like the grasslands of Chogoris, which always flourish again after withering."

"Death now is for rebirth in the future. The more people I kill, the more people will be freed from this hell.

All those who died are stored in this plague heart, and when the critical point is reached, I will be able to rebuild this galaxy."

Chagatai Khan's words are horrifying, but his logic is extremely clear.

This is an extremely crazy ambition, even a lion would be amazed at it.

"The flames can only be passed on when they are extinguished, the world can only be saved when it is destroyed, the alternation of life and death is the essence of Nurgle's power."

“This is the heart of the plague!”

Ryan placed his hand on the lion sword and called Leman Russ using the communication device on his armor.

Faced with such a Chagatai Khan, Ryan Johnson was unusually unsure. With the blessing of Plague Heart and the power of Nurgle, the Chogorians became extremely terrifying.

He seemed to no longer be a specific person, but an indescribable natural disaster.

His mind was filled with the insane obsession of destroying everyone and then saving everyone.

Chagatai Khan stared at Ryan with fanatical eyes. He hoped that his brother could join his camp and save the world together.

Ryan planned to delay for a while, as Ruth and the others were on their way.

He pointed at the Webway gate behind Jaghatai, showing genuine confusion.

"What did you do to the Eldar's Infernal Web? Could it be..."

"Guess who created the Heart of Plague? My brother." Chagatai saw through Ryan's desire to wait for reinforcements, but he did not stop him because he wanted Russ to join his camp.

"In the secret vault of the Dark Angels, there may be a trace of records from the past. The name of that extinct race was the Ancient Saints."

"The Ancients created a superluminal channel that spans the entire galaxy, and the thing composed of the Plague Heart, the Tuchucha Engine, and the Ouroboros is the tool for digging a webway between the real universe and the subspace."

“Only when the three become one can they show their original form, and I hope so.”

"With the Heart of Plague in my hands, I can naturally enter the Webway. Those damned Eldar have occupied the Webway for too long, and now that the true master of the Webway has returned, there is naturally no role for them."

Ryan had experienced the magic and power of the Webway in Macragge. Compared with warp navigation, the Webway almost completely surpassed the former in terms of speed and safety.

In space warfare, maneuverability is even more important than warship performance. Relying on the elusiveness of the webway, he can easily defeat the strong with the weak.

He was even confident that he could defeat the enemy without causing any casualties himself.

Chagatai's plague cavalry, combined with the ultra-high mobility of the Infernal Web, is a nightmare for any enemy.

"Don't think about the Eldar. I have already entered through the hidden webway of Chogoris and captured their Commorragh. I have liberated the biggest cancer in the webway and burned down that disgusting webway city."

Speaking of the Dark Eldar, even Chagatai Khan, whose mind was controlled by the Heart of Plague, showed an expression of disgust.

He saw too many blasphemous existences that refreshed his worldview in that Eldar world that had accumulated countless sins and sufferings, which further intensified the Khan's desire to destroy everything and start over.

Given the Khan's obsessive moral values, even if he killed ninety-nine out of a hundred Eldar in Comoros, there would definitely be some that escaped.

So he simply killed all the Dark Eldar who were constantly causing pain and torture in order to escape Slaanesh.

Correspondingly, all the Ark Eldar and Eldar pirates who were willing to surrender to the Plague King were also forgiven. They were qualified to live and follow him.

They helped Chagatai mobilize all the warships and fighter planes that could be driven away in Comoros, and became an important force in his plague cavalry.

In return, Chagatai used the Plague Heart and the power of Nurgle to block the Dark Prince's surveillance of these Eldar, which made the Eldar ecstatic.

Why would you have just said that you could help the Eldar escape from Slaanesh's covetousness instead of starting such a war and bloodbath?

"Look at me, Ryan. I am awake, awake as never before. Follow me, and we can change everything."

Every word of the Plague King carried a heavy sense of power. His face was hideous, and countless strange dark green threads glowed under his skin, outlining one chaos rune after another.

Every seven runes form a larger symbol, and every three symbols form a new whole.

Three and seven cycle with each other, like an endless Möbius strip.

"Jaghatai!"

An angry roar sounded from the forest nearby, and Leman Russ's figure flashed at full speed like a super heavy tank.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"Have you forgotten what happened to Horus? How I saved you from being beaten half to death by Horus on the Spirit of Vengeance? Have you forgotten?"

Compared with Lion's rebuke, Leman Russ's reproach caused Chagatai's mind to be shaken violently.

The eagle of Chogoris once saved the Wolf King of Fenris, and the Wolf King almost perished along with him, rescuing the eagle at all costs.

This is a friendship of life and death, an inseparable affection.

The friendship and bond between the two has already reached a new level, and the relationship between the White Scars and the Space Wolves is also unbreakable.

"Have you forgotten that Horus was just like you, thinking he could control the power of the warp, and now he has become an old man with dementia. Are you going to follow in his footsteps?"

"No matter how well-intentioned Nurgle is, he is still a damned Chaos God. The underlying logic that drives him is still his authority. This is true for all Chaos Gods. They may have a certain degree of self-awareness, but they can never transcend their own essence."

"Forget the plague heart, forget the promise and blessing given to you by Nurgle. That power does not belong to you."

Under Leman Russ's verbal attack, Chagatai Khan showed obvious pauses and hesitations, and the endless plague cavalry behind him also fell into a state of sluggishness along with their king.

What emerges from the portal of the Webway is no longer just corrupted life in the real universe.

Even great Nurgle demons like the Great Unclean One began to squeeze out of the portal in a bloated manner.

With the help of Jaghatai, Nurgle's power has broken through the defenses of the Webway. After taking over the central hub of Comoros, most of it is under the control of the Plague Lord.

The Great Unclean One Ku'gath and the Rainfather Rotigs, who appeared in the Battle of Lion's Gate, have begun to show their power.

Plague swarms gnaw across the jungles of Caliban, transforming those lower down the food chain into beasts of Nurgle.

Father Rain splashed huge waves as dirty as sewage, and the tsunami-like torrent rushed into the forest, even startling the hostility and counterattack of the native beasts of Caliban.

Under the threat of external enemies, the giant beasts, who were originally irreconcilable with humans, even began to unite and fight back against the plague army. This situation, which the people of Caliban could never have imagined, actually happened.

But no one felt happy, because it meant that the enemy had become so powerful that even the behemoths were afraid of it, and if they didn't unite, they would all die.

However, facing the plague army that had already conquered Comoros and taken over the Webway, such resistance was too weak.

The Plague Lord did not even bother to use the looted Eldar warships to launch an orbital bombardment to completely destroy the pristine planet of Caliban.

He came for Ouroboros. If Caliban was destroyed, although Ouroboros would not be eliminated, who knows whether Ouroboros would take the opportunity to escape and disappear without a trace.

"Listen Russ, I'm sober and I don't want to attack you." Khan seemed to be suppressing the twisted emotions in his heart, and spoke to the Wolf King in as calm a tone as possible.

"Wake up, mother!" the wolf king cursed directly.

He activated the chainsword in his hand and charged towards Chagatai Khan with unmatched force.

He believed that his best friend was forcibly bewitched by the power of Nurgle and that his sanity was taken away by the damned Plague Heart.

Seeing Leman Russ taking action, Lion was not idle either. He immediately activated his teleportation ability, and a dark forest with floating mist covered the entire battlefield.

As the Plague Lord opened the webway gate connecting to the Warp, the Warp energy in the area soared rapidly.

The dark green flames of plague began to spread all around. They did not have a scorching temperature, and were as erratic as ghost fires in the underworld. The Caliban knights who were affected had their flesh dissolved instantly and died miserably.

The Plague King moved, and all the firepower fired at him was left behind. The Caliban Knights were not only good at close combat, they also possessed some more primitive long-range weapons.

The dense firepower network turned the giant trees in the jungle into sieves, but it was useless against Chagatai Khan.

His speed was even faster than before. Only a faint green afterimage could be seen passing through the sight, and then the plague scimitar would chop off the head.

Even some extremely lucky metal bullets that hit the Plague King could not break through the protection of the armor, and would only turn into a ball of completely rusted metal debris and fall to the ground.

There were also brave Caliban knights who followed Leman Russ in the charge, but they were powerless against Chagatai's scimitar.

The Plague King spun, chopped, and danced like a top dancer, and in the blink of an eye, the most elite Knights of Order were killed or wounded.

"You retreat, this is an order!"

Russ roared over his shoulder, blocking the fierce attack of Jaghatai's scimitar with his own chainsword.

Even an Astartes who had undergone enhanced surgery was nothing more than a lamb to be slaughtered in the hands of the Primarch, not to mention that these Caliban Knights were still mortals who had not been transformed.

It was just suicide, and they didn't even have a deadly weapon that could threaten the Primarch.

"Caliban isn't just yours!"

"It's ours too!"

Faced with Leman Russ's order, Luther, who always strictly abided by discipline, simply ignored the order.

He rarely roared at Leman Russ to vent his inner dissatisfaction.

"Our homeland is being polluted and invaded by these abominations. How can we possibly escape?"

"Are we putting all the blame for the resistance on you? We are not that shameless. This is really an insult to our creed!"

Seeing that ordinary attack methods were ineffective, Luther immediately led the knights to dig out some energy storage tanks of the immigrant ship's power system from the wreckage of the immigrant ship under the fortress monastery.

Then the leader of the Knights of Order went into battle himself, led a group of knights to carry the energy tanks, and threw them out using the giant catapults in the fortress monastery.

The energy storage tank, which has been baptized for thousands of years, with the assistance of Caliban's primitive bombs, has directly transformed into a powerful destructive bomb, exerting a destructive power far beyond the limits of Caliban's technological level.

Relying on this large-scale lethal weapon, the Caliban Knights barely managed to withstand the impact of the Plague Cavalry.

Huge explosions occurred on the battlefield, and the dust clouds they raised even threw countless enemy corpses into the atmosphere.

Chagatai has a large number of Orks corrupted by the power of Nurgle under his command. They ride on giant Skug beasts and wield crude but incredibly lethal power weapons to kill the Caliban knights.

It was the first time that the Calibans encountered such a strange enemy. Their armor and weapons were almost pieced together, but they were surprisingly able to produce extraordinary effects.

When the orc cavalry shouts "waaaagh!!", an unstoppable green tide will come.

The pointy-eared Eldar rode slender dragon beasts at high speeds, which was completely different from the Ork cavalry.

They came and went like the wind, seeking only speed instead of defense, and the high-speed flying dart pistols made the Caliban people suffer greatly.

Even the armor made by the Caliban forging masters was extremely fragile in front of these star darts with a thickness of only molecular scale, and was easily turned into a sieve.

The Knights of Sirius released all the Caliban beasts they had imprisoned, allowing them to charge and prey at will among the enemy groups, attracting a large amount of firepower.

The entire battlefield has become a mess, and all the Caliban knights have been united. At this moment, they are not the private soldiers of a certain knight order, but are fighting for the planet where they have lived for generations.

The originally opposing Knights of Sirius fought side by side with the Knights of Order, and their potential allies were even the ferocious and brutal beasts of Caliban.

The behemoths possess intelligence that is no less than that of humans, and they feel a strong threat of death and an instinctive disgust from the outsiders that appear.

Ryan rushed out from behind Chagatai, the lion sword in his hand flashing with dazzling blue electric light, and the energy field was perfectly stimulated along the lines on the sword, and he was about to stab the Plague King in the back.

Chagatai, who was fighting with Leman Russ, seemed to have predicted it in advance. He turned around in an instant and chopped Ryan to the ground with his scimitar.

The Lion King only felt that he was knocked away by a Titan machine. All the bones in his body seemed to be broken and the pain went straight to his brain.

The oppressive feeling of the Plague King was so strong that it almost reached Horus, who was chosen by the four gods. Even Lion, who was close to awakening his essence, and Leman Russ, who had already awakened his essence, felt insecure.

"This guy..." Leman Russ couldn't help but take a breath. Compared with that guy Mortarion, the Chagatai in front of him was obviously more of a chosen one of Nurgle.

Chagatai was as fast as lightning. He had no mercy on Ryan and planned to give the lion a fatal blow.

However, at the moment when the plague scimitar fell to the ground, a cloud of mist appeared without warning and covered Ryan Johnson's armor.

The mist engulfed Lion's figure, and the lion of Caliban retreated into his own dark forest.

Some ancient and weathered branches stretched out from the mist, and the power of plague emanating from Chagatai was blocked and eroded by the mist.

"Is this your warp nature? Lion, I thought it would be a dark and violent lion."

The Plague King even had the leisure to comment, and seemed to not care at all what tricks his brothers could come up with.

Now, he even has the confidence that he can defeat Horus whom he met in the Spirit of Vengeance in the past.

The Wolf God has only integrated part of the power of the four gods, but now he controls the Heart of Plague and part of the power of Nurgle, so he is by no means inferior to the others.

Russ was also surrounded by Lion's forest mist field. The figures of the two primarchs flickered on the battlefield, appearing from time to time to attack Jagatai.

The swords of both sides collided, and the battle space of the three people was transferred to the fortress monastery that had become a ruin.

Ryan, who grew up on Caliban, and Russ, who has lived here for thirteen years, used their familiarity with the terrain to target Chagatai.

Some hidden traps in the monastery, the defensive measures of the ancient tower, the ammunition depot storing primitive weapons, etc. are all means used to contain Chagatai.

The Plague King didn't mind the delay of his two brothers at all. In his eyes, everything was a foregone conclusion.

It would only take some more time. He had already arrived at Caliban, so the Ouroboros hidden on the planet was naturally in his grasp. There was no need to rush.

Chagatai Khan's attacks were known for their swiftness and sharpness, but they were slightly inferior in terms of power.

But now his attacks were heavy and swift, as if he had combined the characteristics of the Death Guard and the White Scars.

"Jaghatai once said that Fulgrim's swordsmanship was flashy and that he could defeat that guy in just a few rounds. Now I really believe it."

A deep knife wound was left on Leman Russ's breastplate, almost penetrating the armor's protection.

Ryan was kicked away by Chagatai, and the two brothers did not get any benefit at all in front of Chagatai.

Only with the help of Ryan's Misty Forest Domain were the two of them able to barely delay Chagatai's pace.

Ryan attacked in the mist, retreated, and then attacked again, fighting his brother in a completely unchivalrous manner.

"No, Ruth. If we continue to waste time like this, we will only die."

"Take all the Caliban knights, we must retreat."

Although Ryan used this shameless tactic to consume Chagatai's army, with the endurance of Plague Heart, the Plague King was not afraid of a war of attrition at all.

On the contrary, the casualties of the Caliban Knights are rising, while the enemy's plague army is growing in number.

Even the knights who had died in the battle got up again after a period of shaking, grabbed their weapons and fought desperately with their comrades who had just fought side by side.

"But they can't retreat with us. I know the character of these Caliban knights very well. It would be the greatest shame to flee without a fight."

"Don't forget, we have never fought alone. We joined the Spirit of Vengeance together, but those evil gods were afraid of our power, so they separated us and defeated us one by one." said Leman Russ.

"We need to find Dorn, we need to find Curze, Roche, Sanguinius and the others."

Ryan and Russ didn't know whether everything they were experiencing now was an illusion created by the evil god or it was really another timeline.

But they didn't dare to gamble at all. If they failed here, it would undoubtedly lead to a worsening of the situation on the Emperor's side.

But at this moment.

Suddenly, a bright sun appeared in the dark cloudy sky!

The Plague Lord Jaghatai, the Lion King Lion's Jonson and the Wolf King Leman Russ were attracted by a golden sun shining in the sky.

That incomparably sacred and powerful light instantly penetrated all the fog of plague, bringing hope of victory to the exhausted humanity.

Countless rays of light fell, like sweet rain that moistened the earth corroded by the plague.

Even those behemoths contaminated by the Chaos Plague gradually recovered in the rain of light. The festering scars on their bodies healed completely, and the endless pain was swept away.

Those extremely tired Caliban knights felt infinite strength and courage surging in their bodies.

They fear no enemy.

"This is the power of the All-Father! Hahahaha!" Russ laughed without grace. He had already felt the power and call from the Emperor.

"The Emperor is calling us!"

"Chagatai, if you don't wake up, our father will come and kick your ass himself!"

"You know, our father is invincible in the real universe. Even if Nurgle gave you his power and made you this damn 'Plague King', you wouldn't stand a chance!"

"Now I will return to you what you told Ryan - surrender to me immediately. You are our brother and you have the qualifications!"

(End of this chapter)