Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 296 Slaanesh's Great Thunder?
As the smoke cleared, squads of Blood Ravens emerged from the drop pods in strict tactical formations.

Gabriel led half of his warband, a thousand men, to attack Crimson Harbor.

Crimson Harbor originally housed a considerable number of Eldar warships. Some of them had been drawn to the main battlefield, while the remaining warships that had not yet taken off were mostly destroyed by the Blood Ravens' attack. The few remaining Eldar warships that had successfully taken off dared not approach and could only attempt to harass the enemy.

The Blood Raven's airdrop pod crashed into the chaotic cluster of buildings, accompanied by a legion of Rangers.

Faced with all the Dark Eldar and non-human aliens here, Blood Raven and the Rangers showed them no mercy. Although the Dark Eldar attempted to retaliate, their counterattacks were thwarted by the sheer number of them.

The four Thors deployed by the Ranger Legion alone were enough to make the Dark Eldar here despair.

The two sacred Dreadnoughts relentlessly swung their powered gauntlets and claws, destroying buildings in their path. Under the watchful eyes of the warships overhead, Thor's cannons would arrive the moment the Dark Eldar gathered in numbers.

Gabriel was holding a captured samurai from the Poison Tongue Gang in his hand.

This area is too large, with dozens of layers stacked on top of each other to form this port. Gabriel could not find the location of the factory, and Adalard also did not know its exact location.

The armor and weapons the enemy wore indicated that they were not members of any gang, nor were they minor figures in the conspiracy. As soon as the ground battle began, Gabriel realized that the fighting power displayed by some of the enemies was far beyond that of a ragtag force.

Instead, they were elite intrigue squad soldiers.

Upon seeing this Dark Eldar serving as commander, Gabriel immediately led his team in a decapitation strike.

Gabriel forcibly ripped off the other man's arm and demanded to know the exact location of the factory.

But the other person could still laugh despite the pain.

"Is that all the pain you've got?! You filthy monkeys! Don't expect to get anything out of me! You'll all die in the Comoros!"

Gabriel looked at his opponent with disgust. The armor on his opponent's body was not worn at all, but rather forcibly pierced into his flesh. Black Sprout, who was enjoying the pain, had a higher resistance to physical pain than he had imagined.

From the other party's words, Gabriel guessed that the other party's master had made a deal with the Blood Spirit. Even if they killed him now, the Blood Spirit might actually resurrect him. This was the real reason why the other party was so fearless.

Seeing that conventional interrogation was ineffective, Gabriel looked at Jonah.

Jonah then placed the metal box he was carrying on his back in front of the dark Eldar.

Upon seeing the metal box, the Dark Elf was no longer as composed as before.

He sensed from the box the Slaanesh's urge to devour his soul.

That was a fear that came from the very soul and could not be suppressed.

"You monkeys! What is this thing?! Aren't you afraid of being branded as heretics by your empire?! This is not something you should touch!"

"Heretics? We've always adhered to the principle that if no one knows, it's as if it never happened. To deal with lunatics like you, we obviously need to use some unconventional methods."

The box was now emanating the aura of Slaanesh, a power so great that even the great Slaanesh could hardly possess this level of divine power.

If it weren't for this specially forged box, this level of subspace power would have been enough to create a subspace rift.

Gabriel and Jonah dared not open the box, for neither of them had seen what was inside.

The Blood Ravens were all holding pure marks, ready to stick them on the metal box at any time to prevent it from going out of control.

This box had been tightly sealed in the Blood Raven's vault for thousands of years, and this was the first time it had been taken out of the vault.

Gabriel learned from the most confidential chapter history documents that this was obtained during a grave-digging operation at the Eldar Empire ruins at the very beginning of the Blood Ravens' founding, but the process and the specifics of what it was were all concealed.

All he knew was that this thing had an extremely close connection to the evil god Slaanesh. A think tank had once attempted to open it, but the moment they saw its contents, they were completely corrupted and became Slaanesh's followers. From then on, every Chapter Master and Chief Think Tank forbade Chapter members from taking anything from the vault.

Because he needed to extract information from the Eldar through their fear of Slaanesh, and given the importance of this mission, Gabriel mustered the courage to take it from the vault.

To be on the safe side, he also sought out Gao Yi, knowing that Gao Yi possessed the power to purify subspace, which was the main reason he dared to take out this item.

He hoped that Gao Yi could get the item insured again.

As Gabriel recounted the origins of the box, Gao Yi suddenly recalled a satirical anecdote: the Blood Raven's treasure vault contained one of Slaanesh's most outrageous plot points.
When Gao Yi used the mechanical power to attach himself to the mechanical box and tried to explore its contents, he was immediately stunned into silence.

It is indeed a thunderbolt... but it is not a thunderbolt. It is an entity formed in the real universe by the divine power of Slaanesh, and its form is constantly changing between different limbs.

Gao Yi, who had once absorbed Slaanesh's power, was all too familiar with it; it was indeed a power directly derived from Slaanesh.

For safety, Gao Yi immediately covered the metal box completely with his magic steel nerve plexus. This way, he could use the purifying power within his authority to suppress the spread of Slaanesh's power and prevent it from getting out of control.

As the magic steel nerve plexus covered the area, it was indeed discovered that beneath the shell of human technology lay runes belonging to the Eldar.

Only after Gao Yi was certain that his current level of absorption was sufficient to completely purify it did he allow Gabriel to remove it.

However, I kept reminding them not to open it without permission.

I really don't know where Blood Raven's ancestors obtained this outrageous thing. Does the Emperor know about it? Does Slaanesh himself know about it?
"Could it be something left over from the battle between Slaanesh and the Eldar gods at the beginning of his birth?"

Gao Yi could only think of this possibility.

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"Perhaps you can be resurrected, but what if your soul is devoured by Slaanesh?! I wonder if your Bloodlust people have the ability to snatch your soul from the hands of the evil god."

Gabriel's words caused the dark elf to tremble.

There is no punishment more terrifying than this. The souls captured by Slaanesh are not simply eaten, but tortured. There is no one in the world who knows how to torture better than Slaanesh.

Ultimately, under Gabriel's threat, this Eldar chose to betray his master.
When Gabriel brought the Eldar to the junction of Crimson Harbor and the ruins abandoned by war, he indeed discovered an incredibly hidden entrance.

After confirming the intelligence, Gabriel killed the Eldar directly. He didn't care about resurrecting him or not; he couldn't possibly open the box.

Two Dreadnoughts acted as the vanguard, tearing apart the sturdy gate at the entrance, and the Blood Ravens filed in under their cover.

The Rangers were left outside to establish positions and defend against attacks from the outer perimeter.

This relatively narrow area is more suitable for the Astartes to operate in.

However, after a preliminary search, no trace of the Dark Eldar was found. Various instruments and equipment were still in operation, and the traces here proved that not long ago, many black bean sprouts were working here.

"We did not encounter any enemies."

"No aliens were found in the Second Company!"

"The area where the Third Company is located is safe!"

The various companies explored different areas of the factory.

(End of this chapter)