This is our Warhammer journey

Chapter 463 The Night Embracers, Defeated in All Their Might!

It's dying.

He grew weaker and weaker, slower and slower, and found it increasingly difficult to think.

boom!
An explosion occurred inside the Caliban jungle, the massive shockwave dispersing the thick fog, and at the center of the impact was a fragment of a star god that had accidentally fallen into it.

The Nightbringer crashed into a giant tree in the endless jungle, a tree that would take a hundred people to encircle, and smashed into the soil with its intricate root system, shattering the plant remains that were crammed there into pieces.

Steel knights clad in dark green armor surrounded them.

As the Guardians that Lion once declared would no longer be replenished, the Inner Ring Guardians were all brave and skilled warriors, carrying a tradition of glory and dedication. It is indeed quite remarkable that they were able to survive such close contact with the Star God.

Their exceptional skills allowed them to truly immerse themselves in the myths and legends woven for them by the Warp, their swords—the very blades that had once drawn blood from the Star Gods—striking and slicing through the Nightbringers' shells.

A distinct but not eerie psychic glow flickered, accompanied by a large output of warp energy and various ways of contacting and disrupting the Star God's actions. The Star God's power to manipulate the laws of the real universe, especially the Nightbringers' power to literally stop all activity of any creation, was almost completely lost.

For the Star God, such an attack was no less than a bombshell that kept flashing before its eyes, leaving this fragment completely disoriented.

Reducing such an impact is also simple. Generally speaking, it is enough to kill these weak life forms. Fortunately, the individual strength of the Star Gods can be considered top-tier in this universe.

but--

The Primarch was with them.

Exposing oneself in the shadow of a hunter in the dense jungle will only lead to one outcome.

The dark angels, enveloped in golden light, crashed down around the Nightbringers. Some even brazenly trampled the ancient deities back into the earth, and their blades began to wield once more.

Needless to say, they fought alongside the Primarch. Even though the elites of the First Legion were separated from the galaxy by tens of thousands of years, their eyes were only on orders and enemies. Their furious momentum of attack was merciless, and the sharp blades wielded freely in the terracotta were like surging tides washing over the living metal shells of the Star God fragments.

The Nightbringers, who had just crawled out of the tunnels, were gradually forced back by the attack.

To it, the runic armor was an eyesore, and the incantations swirling in its ears were utterly filthy.

It can feel itself weakening, with each strike accompanied by the stripping away of a part of its body. Now it can focus on the battle, but it can also feel that it is missing something.

They were so inconspicuous, but they accumulated with each attack until the consciousness of the Night Bearers gradually left large blank spaces.

'Who did I make a deal with again?'

'It seems to be Mortarion.'

'And who is Mortarian?'

'.'

Howl——

He let out a howl that transcended matter, and the warp energy on the surface of these 'demons' instantly dissipated. The Nightbringer swung his giant scythe and sliced ​​the three nearest people in half on the spot.

The final opponent was a tall, strong champion warrior, clad in Hades-style Terminator armor and wearing an unusually simple iron crown. The Nightbringer used all his strength to shatter his blade, snap his neck, and end him with his own hands. The Star God Fragment wielded a scythe made of living metal, hacking at the paralyzed opponent and piercing his heart.

Energy flickered on the scythe, causing the enemy's limbs to twitch violently before death, until the Nightbringer pulled the scythe out again, at which point the enemy's body was restored in the jungle.

This is never going to end!!!

That's how it was when I played against Kane back then.

Seeing the Dark Angel pull out a sword from who-knows-where again, the Nightbringer was reminded of some rather unpleasant memories, and the scythe in his hand creaked.

Those warriors blessed by the goddess of life, Isha, are like leeches, impossible to kill. Even if you manage to kill them with great effort, you can still resurrect them in this warp realm.

That war ultimately ended with Kane being banished by his own scythe, his living metal body reaching its limit and being destroyed, and Kane being implanted with fragments of death, beginning to fear his own demise.

The warp also has the ability to warp reality. Although these humans are not like Eldar who have someone to give them cheat codes in a game, as long as they have enough sacrifices, the warp can do the same things as the Stargods in the real universe.

Moreover, the other party has more than just that.

With a slash across the neck of a familiar dark angel, the Nightbringer attempted to implant death into the warrior's body as it had done when it annihilated the Eldar heroes, but was forced back by an even larger blade.

More powerful, more composed.

The Nightbringer dodged the sudden attack with a look of horror on his face, once again burning with rage at his fruitless return.

The lion emerged from the mist, fully armed, blocking the Nightbringer's weapons, which were completely different from those of ordinary people. It maintained a suffocating focus and silence, as silent as a pure killing machine.

'How does it always manage to seize the opportunity!'

Several more swords, which had left their marks on its body millions of years ago, slashed down, causing the power it had finally managed to gather again to disperse once more.

It's one thing if it's a minor god, but what frustrates the Nightbringers the most is that the other party is extremely familiar with its attack rhythm and power usage. Whenever the Nightbringers try to break the deadlock by killing these warriors who are part of the ritual, the mastermind behind this hunt will appear one after another.

The opponent focused more of their power on the warriors who were fighting alongside him to kill the Star God fragments, and to some extent abandoned their attacks. This made his movements appear unusually calm. He protected his offspring time and time again, watching them scrape fragments off the Nightbringers, as if he were watching an elephant being bled dry.

He remained calm and composed, handling the sudden change in attack posture with ease, as if he had known all along that this was how to fight against the Nightbringers.

Unlike warp beings, the Star Gods can replenish themselves even with only a few fragments remaining—although the current warp environment is mostly populated by products of astonishing wisdom, including those capable of causing the Joker God's ranking to drop.
But tell me if it's complete or not?

For the Star Gods, once shattered, they are shattered. Unless they are pieced back together, their consciousness gradually becomes duller and more stupid as the fragments separate. This is one of the reasons why the Eldar, under Cain's leadership, were able to defeat the Nightbringers.

Back then, space necromancers were slaves of the Star Gods. They could be destroyed, rebuilt into living metal bodies, and have their consciousness stuffed inside, unlike now where they have to rely on living metal fragments.

Even though these beings didn't exist in his own era, how could the gods of these strange races be so familiar with him, as if they had fought him a thousand times?

'It's Kane—'

'Who is Kane again?'

The thoughts of hatred extended, followed by a brief period of doubt that lingered in their consciousness, but the Nightbringers quickly grew accustomed to this after being shattered to pieces by the Necromancers at the end of the War of Heaven.

It quickly shed these irrelevant aspects of the battlefield and focused on dealing with the opponent at hand.

And then there's this unpredictable way of moving around.

Click!

Accompanied by heartfelt complaints, the sword's edge sliced ​​through the trees.

Rolling awkwardly past the Lion Sword that seemed intent on cleaving him from head to toe, the Nightbringer realized he was missing even more of his living metal body and felt as if he had always lived in the other's shadow.

The attacks continued for eight consecutive days without end.

I came here to have a nice meal, but I ended up falling into a septic tank.

'wrong--'

The Night Embraceers were once again plunged into an overwhelming sense of doubt.

Why did I come here?

Over the past few days, the Nightbringers had thwarted countless attacks like this, but now, as their consciousness gradually faded, they even began to wonder why they were there.

The defenders' resistance was finally crushed.

Not just those annoying dark angel warriors and lesser gods with physical bodies, but also those familiar robed figures, lesser god servants composed of pure spirits.

Strange lesser gods, fanatical followers, and the ever-growing number of hideous demons in this realm.
The monstrous torrent of creatures has begun to blur the veil of barriers, dragging their long-range weapons, previously unable to reach the Star God, into their firing range. The roaring demonic engines have begun unleashing demonic fire at the Star God fragments. They possess numerical superiority and firepower, and they feel the time has come.

"Come forth, Ancient Ones! And all your inferior creations."

Rising once more from the forest, the Nightbringer faced the increasingly dense army before him and shouted:
"Let me grant you death!"

It can sense the power of death entrenched in its hands; with a mere push of its hands, these inferior creations will vanish into nothingness before it.

It could sense that these intelligent beings, who had a profound connection with the Sea of ​​Souls, had been implanted with death, and were thus destined to perish.

It felt like stepping back into the time of the Battle of Heaven.

With a wave of its hand, it could feel the countless lives it had annihilated, yet the enemies continued to pour in.

It's time to let it once again bury these annoying things!
The Nightbringer raised his hand again, even forgetting that he was still enduring the impact of Kane's artifact.

it's time.

Ryan noticed that the Nightbringers were becoming increasingly incoherent and were taking their powers for granted.

He first used himself as bait, probing several times before grabbing the neck armor of the Nightbringer's living metal body and throwing it further away from the fire net. Then, Ryan's body blurred, and he suddenly appeared at the other end of the forest, intercepting the fragment that was trying to escape, his longsword piercing the opponent's chest.

Without hesitation, the others swarmed forward, ignoring their own danger, and used all their strength to try to strike the Star God fragment. Everyone would excitedly step forward and slash, just to hit the target and expend a little power to make a small contribution to the victory that was now within their grasp.

"Well played!"

Under Ramses's cover, the Clown God was cheering them on, while the few remaining remnants of the ancient race, the Clown Troupe, watched over the entire battlefield.

If the Dark Angels can't hold out, then Ramses will have to step in.

After all, he had been worshipped by the Eldar in the park for so long, and no one really understood the warp better than him; at least he could access the Eldar's local area network.

"It was much easier than I expected."

That's incredible, he's really developed Alzheimer's disease from the beating.

While studying Guilliman's resurrection process, Ramses also scouted the battlefield.

The fragments of the Celestials can stabilize the surrounding reality, and they are also sensitive to the components of the warp, so it is very difficult to do something like throwing a freely moving fragment into the warp and destroying it directly.

Fortunately, Ryan has Caliban, who can set up a trap in the real universe to contain the Nightbringers. The wretched warp beings won't have to come to the real universe to beg for food, and they can still fight the Celestials.

"After all, it's just a fragment; even if it's relatively complete, it's still just a fragment."

The Joker God was in high spirits, perhaps because he had witnessed that Ryan could indeed defeat the Nightbringers.

Those four strange and eerie things, whose nature remains unclear to this day, cannot be generalized. Now that Ryan is able to lead his Dark Angels to solo the Star God Fragment, even with the strict training and assistance of the Eldar, it is exciting news for Chogochi.

"Hmm, it seems that as long as the offerings are sufficient and the familiars are reliable enough, the Primarch's combat power should be quite strong enough to take down a Star God fragment on its own."

Ramses expressed his approval, watching the Nightbringers being trampled underfoot by Ryan, unable to resist due to their weakness.

The biggest problem after the Star God shattered was that all the passive abilities had become active abilities, so he couldn't use any skills when facing the EMP bombardment of Kane's artifact.

At the same time, he did not rush to collect the fragments that had been finely chopped into meat sauce and erase the consciousness within them that became increasingly fragmented as they were divided.

Taking advantage of the large number of people around and the good safety conditions, he also needed to test whether the human army, led by a normal Primarch like Ryan, could guarantee the short-term containment of the Stargod fragments.

After all, there were nine Loyal Primarchs, while they only had four.

Those guys we catch later will all be used for work, especially someone like Khan who has basically realized the true nature of his power. He absolutely needs to be sent out to protect the safety of the subspace and the real world of a star system. We can't all end up like that guy, being beheaded in the subspace and unable to defeat him, needing their help to save him, or being beheaded by his opponents in the real universe and unable to defeat them, needing their help to save him.

With this data accumulated by Ryan, the Primarch will have a set of measures to refer to when facing these monsters and demons in the future.

In addition, since the Primarchs all have their own homeworlds that are highly bound to them, Ramses can simply take a piece off and give it to them as a mobile domain in reality and the warp, which can be used as their main battlefield at any time.

Yes, thank you, Erda.

Although this Primarch Mother caused a lot of messes, suffered from postpartum depression and went crazy, and squandered the Emperor's good hand, her faults outweighed her faults. However, the fact that she created a homeworld for the Primarchs was in line with the Dawnwing's subsequent strategic plans.

Ramses quickly jotted down the thoughts that had wandered off into the unknown.

While making plans for these fleeting inspirations, she also informed Arthur that they could begin work.

Arthur is currently stationed at the Lighthouse of Pharos, also known as the planet Sosa. After escorting them, Corax quickly went there to begin preparing a plan to contain the Supreme Star God there.

Having learned from Ryan's experience, we basically just copied it.

As for the Nurgle Domain, which was previously managed by the Nineteenth Elder.

Ramses glanced at the warp again.

Good heavens, Tzeentch and Nurgle are still locked in a fierce battle.

It's best not to push things too far in the current situation, lest the villain resort to desperate measures.

Everyone here is one of the Four Gods. In the Warp, Nurgle can't really do anything about Tzeentch, but that doesn't mean he can't do anything about a Lesser God who dares to roam around Nurgle's Domain.

Anyway, Nurgle is acting strangely right now, like he's reckless. Everyone feels that we can't joke around with people's lives. If something really happens, we'll have nowhere to cry.

The 'subspace probe' has withdrawn its troops. Currently, the Imperial Guard and the Silent Sisters are responsible for blocking the entrance and observing the battle situation.

According to reports, the pressure wasn't too great. Both Tzeentch and Nurgle's demons were focused on fighting each other, and Tzeentch himself was working exceptionally hard, seemingly more concerned about the outcome of the war than Dawnwing.

Now it all depends on the outcome of the struggle between Karna and Mortarion, and who will ultimately be the victim of this war ignited by Nurgle.

As Llane dismantled the Nightbringers and began the subsequent fragment recovery work under Tarasim's guidance, Ramses was also considering what might have been overlooked at the warp level.

It doesn't seem complicated at the moment; everyone is just waiting.

For humanity, which now largely believes in angels, Karna's victory or defeat is indeed crucial.

For humanity today, Arthur is an insurance policy that guarantees a fresh start; Ramses is a pioneer in the realm of warp knowledge; and Romulus ensures that every idea they conceive is grounded in reality.

Karna is the torch.

He was responsible for combining the efforts of the three people mentioned above to explore the most widely accepted and practical method in the current universe, so as to provide a torch for every human living in the dark forest, given that almost no living thing can escape the subspace.

The battle against the Star Gods signifies that the Primarch has acquired the ability to independently resolve the most terrifying threats in the real universe. Therefore, the struggle between Karna and Mortarion—or rather, Nurgle—represents whether the torch can ultimately be passed to the humans.

The emperor waits, and so do the humans who crave revenge.

We'll wait and see how brightly this fire eventually burns.

　P.S.: Characters appearing in the story

　　Ryan, the Dark Angel: Forcibly redistributes the power of the real universe by dismantling the Celestial Fragments using combat methods provided by the Eldar.

　　Night Embraceers: Judgment Debtors
　　Qiao Gaoqi: After examining the actual strength of humanity, Ryan is more valuable as a reference compared to Dawn Wings.

　　Ramses: Record Ryan's combat data, promote popularization efforts, conduct practical verification of the Primarch's future work, and await the results of the Allied Forces' combat competition.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)