The Bizarre Adventures of Cloud Hammer

Bayar and Lanny were devouring canned food. Xianyu felt that their eating habits were comparable to those of the Space Wolves, and it was obvious that these two had not had a full meal for several days.

This also gave Xianyu a clearer understanding of the physical fitness of humans in Warhammer 40k. Although Kashejin and Storm Loyalists are the elite of the Astra Militarum, mortals are mortals after all. They can survive for so long by relying on a bucket of corpse starch that has been expired for who knows how long and a "rats" with an unknown number of bacteria in their bodies. It can only be said that the genes that were modified in the Dark Technology Age are really powerful.

"Are these two okay?" Xianyu specifically asked Gloria, just in case some green-skinned fat guy blessed them and allowed them to survive.

"Blessings aren't that cheap. Simply having good physical fitness, bacteria, viruses, and so on, will just settle down."

"I'm a 40k athlete."

While they were chatting, Bayar and Lanny had finished their meal. When they were extremely hungry, everything tasted delicious to them. They felt like they were flying after eating something good. Although they didn't know why the Astartes would carry mortal food with them, this meal did bring them back to life.

"Praise the Emperor, praise the angels, this is the most wonderful meal I have ever had."

"Have you finished eating? Is this helmet yours?" Xianyu took out Kashejin's sealed helmet.

"Yes, sir, this is my helmet. This was originally a message I left for my teammates, but I didn't expect it to be seen by the adults." Bayar claimed the helmet.

"Where are your teammates?"

"I don't know. They may have all returned to the Emperor."

Bayar and Lanny really hope that their teammates can survive, but the current situation can only make them think of the worst.

"Sir, how is the battle situation up there?" Lanny asked.

"It's going well. The Imperial warriors are slaughtering these heretics who betrayed the Emperor."

This was the first good news the two had heard in a while, but before they could even feel happy, Xianyu continued:

"But don't be too happy too soon. The heretics haven't bared their fangs yet, and we don't know their true conspiracy yet."

Just now, Xianyu had learned about the Black Templars' loss of contact. The only ones who could do such a thing were the Chaos Astartes hiding in the dark. This practice of not letting any news leak out and the Chaos cult's slogan close to the Blue-Feathered Bird made everyone wonder what these people were doing.

Xianyu looked at the two people in front of him. These two elite leaders were important sources of information. He asked them:

"The information in your heads may be related to the survival of this world. I need to know everything that happened after you entered the Underhive."

"Everything? We understand, my Lord."

The two began to tell Xianyu everything that happened after they entered the bottom nest.

Kashejin and Storm Zhongzi did not set out at the same time, but one after the other. Both teams entered the bottom nest through the hidden route in the hive map provided by the planetary governor.

As elite members of the Astra Militarum, Kashejin and Storm Loyalists would not make the low-level mistake of exposing their whereabouts. The reconnaissance mission went smoothly at the beginning, but the heretics soon discovered their whereabouts.

After that, the team was separated. Bayar and Lanny met unexpectedly. While trying to find a way to leave the bottom nest, they continued to gather intelligence. During this time, they discovered the rituals of the cultists.

"These heretics are using rituals to summon demons."

One of them was a Cadian who had stared into the Eye of Terror since childhood, and the other was a Storm Heir who served the Inquisitor. They both had a good understanding of the power of Chaos and would never be wrong about such matters.

"These demon-summoning rituals should be the same small-scale rituals Gloria observed, but why didn't we see a single demon during the attack?"

Apoo was puzzled. After summoning demons, how could they not bear to throw them onto the battlefield? And after summoning demons, how could the subspace index of the base nest be so low?

As creatures of the Warp and fragments of evil gods, demons are primarily composed of Warp energy. Once summoned, they will pollute and distort reality. The more powerful the summoned demon, the more serious the pollution. When a great demon descends upon the real universe, the vast area centered on it will be polluted and become a 'demon realm'. Those with weak wills will be instantly corrupted and turned into supporters of Chaos.

As for those weaker, lesser demons, their impact on reality individually is far less than that of the big demons, but there is a difference between summoning one demon and summoning a bunch of demons. If an army of demons is summoned, the stability of the real universe will also be impacted.

That's why the situation of the Bottom Nest is completely counterintuitive. After summoning so many demons, the Bottom Nest was not affected at all. Anyone would be confused by this.

Apu wanted Xianyu to ask which sect's demons the heretics had summoned, but after thinking about it carefully, if this sect really had some blue-feathered birds mixed in, it wouldn't be surprising if they summoned any kind of demons. Tzeentch's followers loved to confuse people, and it was too difficult for mortals who had not received professional training to distinguish demons.

Tzeentch, also known as the Lord of Change, is an evil god in charge of change, lies, cunning, ambition, magic, knowledge and other fields. He is even the god of hope and fire. He and a certain skeleton sitting on the golden throne are known as the two hardest mouths in the galaxy.

As the most unfathomable of the Four Chaos Gods, Tzeentch wishes to see chaos and change, regardless of whether this change is good or bad for him. Believers in Tzeentch must be prepared to be manipulated by him at all times, because a smoothly proceeding conspiracy is boring to him, so he is very likely to add some extra ingredients to his believers just when the plan is about to succeed, so as to make the development/ending of things look more interesting. Tzeentch will not give his believers any "benefits" without cost. If you fail to withstand the blessing when you confidently accept it and turn into a Chaos Egg, it is most likely that Tzeentch did it on purpose.

Among the four Chaos Gods, believing in Tzeentch is a lifelong belief. Believing in the Kind Father or worshipping the Terror Brother is better than this abstract blue-feathered bird. If the stories of Tzeentch's followers were used as scripts, at least hundreds of seasons of warp stories could be filmed.

So, may I ask, has anything happened in Warhammer 40k that allowed Tzeentch to break through its defense?

Don't say it, there really is.

The genetic father of our strongest, most powerful, most domineering and most stylish Black Warmaster Abaddon..., the Emperor's First Born Son (Music), the most beloved son, the Great Warmaster of the Empire - Horus, once performed an unprecedented and astonishing feat of breaking the defenses of the Emperor and the Four Gods of Chaos at the same time.

Anyway, based on the slogan of the Eternal Soul sect, no one believed that the Blue-haired Bird had no hand in it.

After the two soldiers spoke for a long time, they took a break, drank some water, and then continued.

After summoning the demon, the heretics would immediately restrain the demon in a method that the two could not understand. Then the heretics would bring a person up and use strange means to put the restrained demon into that person's body.

"Ah, this...why does it sound like I'm creating a demon host?"

This method of forcing the demon into the human body made Xianyu think of the Demon Host in Dark Tide. This kind of defense unit is similar to the witch in Left 4 Dead, but at least the witch can be killed quickly with a shotgun. The Demon Host is so difficult that I really don't want to even look at it. It's troublesome and there is no reward. It's a purely negative monster.

"It's a little different. Regular demon hosts aren't made like this."

Because he was accidentally punched by the Demon Host when he was playing as a prison soldier, Apu specially read some popular science about the Demon Host, wanting to know why this thing could be so annoying.

A demon host is a living mortal body used to bind the demon, but unlike possession, the demon does not control the mortal body, but is imprisoned within it.

Since demons are subspace entities and cannot appear in the physical universe under normal circumstances, various means are needed to allow demons to remain in reality, and demon hosts are one of these methods.

A Demonic Host is a trap used to ensnare demons. The host utilizes many runes and spells, including a necessary rune called the 'Spell of the Empty', which clears any previous souls from the host's body, effectively housing the demon. However, the Inquisition occasionally overlooks this rune when creating a Demonic Host, preferring other methods of controlling the demon.

Why mention the Inquisition? Because demonic hosts are not uncommon in the Inquisition. The Inquisition may not be the one that creates the most demonic hosts, but it is definitely the most famous.

Some Inquisitors create demon hosts in order to use the demon's knowledge to help them solve problems. Because of the characteristic of 'knowledge', many demons in demon hosts are from the Blue Bird family.

However, some Inquisitors may just want to have a big burst of S attributes and want to make a demon inquisitor for fun. The demon host is a relatively safe way, but it is only relatively safe.

This method of the demon host is undoubtedly painful for both the demon and the host, which puts the demon host at risk of losing control. The demon host in the Dark Tide was thrown down by the Inquisitor because he was about to lose control.

But the above is just the method used by the Inquisition to create demon hosts. It is unknown whether there are other methods.

"But that's not right. Why would a heretic want a demonic host? Besides, a demonic host isn't immune to warp reactions."

Apu thought, if the Chaos Cult wanted to use the power of demons, they didn't need to do it in this way, so why would they need a demon host that could get out of control?

Moreover, the heretics have performed so many rituals, they can't all be used to create demonic hosts, right?

"How many times have you seen this kind of ceremony?" Apu asked Xianyu to ask the two.

"We've seen it several times over the past month."

"Several times...Take me to the ritual site you discovered. I need to see with my own eyes what this ritual is all about."

The heretics' various actions indicate that their plan is anything but simple. What exactly are they going to do with the demon host?

Bayar and Lanny began to lead the way for Xianyu. When the two left the basement, they were still shocked when they saw a team of Astartes outside. How did these Astartes get so deep in here wearing power armor?

On the way, Bayar discovered that the Astartes made very little noise when they walked, and could even move silently. He was a little curious, but didn't dare to ask.

An Astartes would replace the accessories on his power armor according to the mission he was performing. Before this mission, Xianyu and the Astartes team had made special silent treatments on their power armor, so that even when running, it would not make much noise. If it walked like a tin can, how could it sneak into the reconnaissance? The subtle sound that the two soldiers heard before was deliberately made by Xianyu.

When they passed a fork in the road, Xianyu asked his team to go in another direction. Lanny saw this and asked:

"Aren't these adults with us?"

"They have other missions to perform."

Xianyu asked the team to leave in order to search for the Black Templar team that disappeared in the Bottom Nest.

"Just keep going."

Inside the lower nest, Eryu moved according to the route map provided by the castle lord before the Black Templar team disappeared. He ordered his team to disperse and look for possible traces around.

"This is Er Yu. There is no trace of the Black Templar team at this location." Er Yu has replied like this several times in a row. He will soon reach the location where the Black Templar team disappeared.

As he continued to move forward, Er Yu suddenly felt a sense of disharmony in his vision. He approached the location and drew out the only single-molecule sword from his waist.

When the Space Wolves left, Aivor reminded Eryu not to carry two Chanabal sabers around with him, as it would cause unnecessary trouble if they were discovered by some demonic warbands.

So whether he was on the Condemnation before or on the mission now, Eryu always carried a precision-grade monomolecular sword. Although it could not fully display Eryu's extraordinary strength, it was enough to deal with some small Karami. If he really encountered an opponent that needed to be dealt with seriously, Gloria would send the saber to Eryu.

Er Yu swung his sword in front of him, and his blade touched a hard object.

"There is something."

After a few more touches, accompanied by a twisting phenomenon, this thing appeared in front of Eryu.

Er Yu took a few steps back to prepare for engagement, to prevent the enemy from taking the initiative.

But this hidden object is not an enemy or something dangerous.

It's just a stone pillar.

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Chapter 58 What did you just say?

Let's go back a bit in time. At this time, the team of the Tianshi Regiment had just entered the largest city in Isil except the hive city, which was also the place where the rebellion first broke out.

This city has been around for quite some time on Isil. In the center of the city once stood the largest state church in the galaxy where Isil is located. It is said that it took several planetary governors to complete the repair of this magnificent building. The relics of a saint are also enshrined inside. Many pilgrims from the Taiping star field would come here to pay homage.

Logically speaking, the bishop here should be the most devout believer of the Emperor, but the funny thing is that the current bishop is one of the masterminds of the rebellion. No one knows what the bishop is thinking. He may just want to use the heretical sect of the Ancient Soul to achieve his own goals, but from the results, he failed. Now the church has been destroyed, the saint's relics have been desecrated, and the bishop himself doesn't know where he died in the sewer.

The Celestial Lions entered the city, which had been a dead city since the outbreak of the rebellion. The bodies of civilians and loyalists killed by heretics at the beginning of the rebellion could still be seen on the streets.

"Did you find anything?"

The Tianshi warriors first came to the destroyed church. The ruins no longer resembled their former grandeur.

"No, the traitors destroyed this place completely." The Death Speaker in the team sighed, angry at the traitor's actions.

The Celestial Lions have their own set of names for the positions of Astartes. They call the chapter's think tanks Soul Walkers, and Death Speakers are their name for priests.

The angel team that came to this major city consisted of ten people, including a priest and a think tank. The think tank was an essential personnel for this operation, while the priest was to strengthen the warriors' faith when facing the Chaos evil spirits they might encounter.

"There's nothing noteworthy on the surface of the city. We'll proceed underground as planned."

Tianshi's initial destination was the underground of the city. The huge drainage system could lead to almost every corner of the city, and the traitor was very likely hiding in this intricate drainage system that could reach any location in the city.

They found the nearest entrance according to the map given by the planetary governor. As soon as they entered the sewer, the think tank in the team vaguely felt something.

"I sense a hint of discordant Warp energy. The Nebula Hammer think tank might be right. The traitors might be hiding in this drainage system." The think tank told everyone about his feelings.

"Report this matter to the battleship first." The priest ordered. At this time, the news of the disappearance of the Black Templar team had already come. He was not sure whether his team would end up with the same fate as his Black Templar brothers.

When reporting the news, the priest activated the servo skull he was carrying, which could act as a reconnaissance aircraft in this complex drainage system, helping the team to detect possible threats in advance.

"Start advancing, keep the formation tight, and don't give the traitors any opportunity to take advantage."

The Tianshi team began to explore the underground of the city. With a map, they would not get lost, but it would take at least several days to investigate the entire underground.

Every hour, the team would call the battleship. In order to ensure that they would not be disconnected due to their own location, they would drop a small signal repeater every time they passed through an area so that the battleship could observe their location at all times.

Twenty-four hours later, the team still did not encounter any danger and had not lost contact with the warship. It seemed that their caution was meaningful.

As the second day was about to end, the pastor noticed something unusual.

"No, we have been to this area before."

The priest found that they seemed to have walked through the same area several times in a row. Although the structure of the area changed each time, he saw the marks he left behind.

"Re-contact the battleship, quickly!"

The Tianshi team regained contact with the battleship, but this time they did not report their own situation. Instead, they asked the battleship about some things about the regiment.

There was silence for a moment on the other end of the communicator, and then suddenly an extremely strange laugh came out.

The Tianshi team's expressions changed. When did they start to be attacked?

Er Yu touched the strange stone pillar in front of him, wondering why the enemy would hide this thing.

"Gloria, sweep..."

He was just about to ask Gloria to scan the stone pillar to see what the enemy was doing, but the stone pillar disappeared again.

"What the hell?"

Er Yu immediately touched it with his sword again, but this time he didn't touch anything. The stone pillar did not become transparent again, but really disappeared in front of Er Yu.

"What happened?"

Gloria heard Eryu calling her, but she was slacking off just now, so she didn't pay attention to Eryu at first.

Er Yu told Gloria and everyone what he saw. The sudden disappearance of the strange stone pillar basically indicated that the heretics were doing something unknown.

"That's strange. I didn't feel anything unusual just now."

"...Next time I see you, I'll immediately place a beacon for you to teleport back."

Er Yu was no longer surprised by Gloria's usual unreliability. He put away his sword and continued to approach the location of the Black Templar team.

Before completely losing contact, the Black Templars team will eventually arrive at a food factory. This factory is still in production, providing the cultists with food they need for life. As for what it produces, there is no need to say more.