The Astartes Family's Notebook

So Kaz couldn't understand what kind of magic the Ishimura had that made it deliver takeout every day, causing its demon host to get fat.

Hmm, can corpses grow flesh? I'll have to look into that sometime.

Qiongen and Trois were initially quite worried about this matter, but after witnessing the "little" chaotic evil spirit that Kaz mentioned, they both chose to give up.

Especially those who are poor.

Generally speaking, the Astartes Chapter does not select psionicists for apothecary/technical sergeant training.

However, the human empire has developed less than 0.1% of psionic power. Large-scale psionic detection devices are easy to obtain, but among more than a thousand portable warbands, there may not be more than twenty.

Therefore, there are generally only two ways to determine whether a member of a gang is a psychic.

The first possibility is that this combat comrade inadvertently used psychic power, which was witnessed by other soldiers in the same company.

The second possibility is that this fighting brother claims to be a psionicist, and if you don't believe him, he can give you guys a go.

Before deciding to defect, Qiong En was completely unaware that his "dreams" were a form of psychic prophecy. He himself was unaware of it, so he certainly wouldn't openly proclaim it.

And so, a fish that slipped through the net was born.

After Choun decided to become a "free" Astartes, he became even more tight-lipped.

Kaz had not yet gained Choon's complete trust, so even though there was a "prophet" by his side, the great [Destroyer Blade] was still full of doubt.

Why does everyone in this Star Harbor seem to have that peculiar smell of a major ward?

Chapter 431 Northwest Shanxi

The greatest enemy of justice is not evil, but the justice of others.

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"Compared to the gang leader, the decapitators in the warband are no different from newbies."

Although Qiong En was rather deep-thinking, his greatest strength was his pragmatism.

The gang leader and Troys are both senior figures who have lived for countless years. It is perfectly normal for a newbie like me, who has only lived for half a century, to have his background seen through by these two senior figures.

I'm coming clean, I'm not pretending anymore. I, Jon Snow, am a traitor to the Silver Skull Chapter.

Troys didn't actually know anything about the Silver Skull Chapter; he only found out indirectly during a conversation with the leader.

As an unfortunate soul accidentally swept into the warp during a planetary explosion, Troys himself was filled with questions: Had Horus's rebellion succeeded or failed? Who was now in charge of the empire? Was his genetic father a loyalist or a rebel...?

I don't know!

Katz's intention was simply to let Choon deal with the "spoils" he had collected.

After all, the Chaos Astartes heads he selected and took away were all severely corrupted and mutated, belonging to the top tier whose alignment could be determined from phrenology alone.

With these minds paving the way, Katz could easily gain the trust of the loyalist brothers in the guild.

One or two heads of Chaos traitors might be a ruse, but three or five hundred are not enough to prove my loyalty, Karz. I think you're just sympathizing with Chaos Astartes.

The bonds of trust within the human empire are extremely fragile, and the relationships between different factions are even more distant. Forcing contact without a suitable entry point will only backfire.

Katz, an old Astartes who had served as a company commander for decades, naturally understood the principle that haste makes waste.

So he's not in a hurry, not at all.

The hexagram Tun (屯) states: "The first line, Nine: Hesitant and uncertain, it is advantageous to remain steadfast and to establish a fief."

The gist is that everything is difficult at the beginning, but the key is to persevere. Just like a seed that can grow into a towering tree when it first sprouts, you must first lay a solid foundation before you can wait for the opportunity to make a name for yourself.

If there's no opportunity, then just lie low. When you're weak, the worst thing you can do is act rashly. The more you do, the more mistakes you make; the less you do, the better.

So Kaz didn't even tell the other two members of the Warband his name.

I am the esteemed Eighth Company Commander of the Desolate Wings Legion, the most loyal of the loyal, the Emperor's Chosen, whose loyalty is beyond words. It is already a great injustice for me to have to compromise myself and associate with traitors.

If the time, place, and location were different, this top-tier fighting gang in the makeshift world would have fallen apart long ago.

But all Qiongen wanted was a place to stay, and Trois hoped to get more information from the "Legion Brothers" who denied being Dark Angels.

Then something amazing happened: the three non-human creatures actually got along quite well.

After losing the bet, Qiong En found himself a bunch of jobs.

Actually, it wasn't really a lost bet; it was just a wonderful misunderstanding.

The Eye of Fear lacks everything; even preservatives like formaldehyde are rare commodities. The heads of that chaotic Astartes were treated with only the simplest preservation methods.

Kaz's original intention was to have Qiongen add some preservation measures later, since the abundance of resources in the Starport was incomparable to that in the Warp.

As it turned out, Qiong En, who came from the Silver Skull Chapter, misunderstood. He thought that his leader knew a lot about the Silver Skull Chapter and asked him to follow the chapter's tradition and have all the heads silvered and artistically treated.

This is a big job!

Although he was very resistant to the Silverskull Chapter culture, Choon surprisingly wasn't opposed to the Silverskull thing itself.

So the technical sergeant, not daring to pull his own leader's laborers, called on Troys instead.

Then, one person was eager to make friends, while the other deliberately tried to get information out of them. As they chatted, they ended up talking about how these brains came about.

Qiongen believed that all of the gang leader's former subordinates were dead, while Troys, after examining the wounds on the severed head, said that the executioner was the same person.

Qiong En was naturally unconvinced, so Trois showed off his sword skills, giving his little brother a boost.

Then Qiong En was convinced.

Wow, Astartes can be this powerful!

Wow, our faction actually has two Astartes that are this powerful!

"Stop spouting nonsense. I'm no match for the leader. But why don't I have any recollection of someone as powerful as him as Astartes?"

Katz seems to have a particular obsession with eating hot food.

It is only natural that one should remove their tactical helmet to eat.

After establishing a basic level of trust, Katz would often invite his two younger brothers to eat out at Star Harbor to improve their meals.

But no matter how hard Trois tried to recall, he couldn't remember ever seeing Katz in his hometown.

However, his swordsmanship clearly bears the characteristics of the First Legion, which cannot be faked; it is a very experienced Caliban swordsmanship style.

Although he incorporated other styles, he definitely received orthodox Caliban swordsmanship training during his recruit training.

How could the gang leader not be a dark angel...?

Who is it? Is this a disguise? What is he hiding?

While the Ishimura band trio suffers from daily mental strain, the treacherous struggles within Starport intensify.

Trois knew that there was another group of Astartes warriors operating in the starport, but he glanced at them from afar and they were clearly Eighth Legion power armor.

The first meow and the eighth bat cub didn't get along, so Trois didn't continue to contact them.

And to this day, Choon still hasn't realized that the band that offered him the job is not the same band he's currently working for!

Kaz's heart was in turmoil.

Eliminating evil is the sacred duty of righteous people like myself. If all else fails, the [Destroyer's Blade] will return to the world...

No, no, we can't let it happen again, it'll cause a huge problem.

If the Ishimura were a normal destroyer, Katz would have dared to show off his skills.

Was the Ishimura a normal Imperial-class destroyer?

No, that's not it.

Amaterasu was fairly conscientious in his work, but the atmosphere within the Eye of Fear was so corrupt that, apart from the three men in the bridge crew who were barely usable, Kaz truly didn't trust a single one of the thousands of sailors maintaining the equipment on the lower decks.

Without armed sailors or gunners to operate the light spears and macro cannons, if it weren't for the unofficial security force occupying the middle decks and naturally isolating those on the lower decks, Katz would have suppressed countless crew riots.

And so, Katz still had to prepare food for them.

Suddenly, it dawned on Karl that this was exactly the life his brother Amaterasu had lived.

The space pirates were still happily playing with the evil creatures on the ship.

Losing hundreds, even thousands, of cannon fodder every day is an unbearable pain when you're out hunting in the wild, but at the Starport base, the captain says, "What's a little pain?"

The progress of the strategy is normal. This is how it is when clearing a dungeon. The worst thing you can do when raiding is to be half-hearted. The game continues. The second raid group is short of a tank. 249Q1.

Whatever makes you happy.

Captain and helmsman are mandatory requirements. Although a captain can also serve as helmsman while lying on the command throne, Kaz would not dare to let his carefully selected captain directly connect to the machine spirit of the Ishimura.

Therefore, there must be a helmsman.

The operators of the communication equipment, who seem insignificant in the Eye of Fear, suddenly become crucial once they return to the territory of the Human Empire.

Katz's daily work mainly involves sifting through the massive amount of messy information on the wide area public communication network and summarizing what is useful to him.

Some newcomers and veterans who won the resurrection match might ask, "Wait a minute, Kaz, shouldn't you be figuring out what year it is right now?"

Yes, yes, what you say is correct, but I cannot do it.

Aside from the fact that the capital city of a sector has professional calibration equipment from the Time Court, even the capital cities at the sub-sector level may not have this privilege.

In the human empire, time control is also an important means of maintaining control over the vast empire. On most planets of the empire, even the planetary governors are unaware of the exact time and what year it is, but that doesn't stop the lords from living a life of debauchery.

When it comes to strengthening the trunk and weakening the branches, the Holy Terran insects, led by the Highlord Council, are experts.

At this point, Kaz's limitations as a Cloud Hammer were fully exposed.

Katz knew that the Badab Wars started in the last century of the M41 era, and it was incredibly brutal, arguably the most damned civil war in the Empire before the Great Rift began.

Katz also knew which Astartes factions were participating in the war.

However, Kaz doesn't know when the Vortex Guardians, including Star Claw, Mantis Warriors, Lamenters, and Executioners, who were core factions, were transferred by the Empire to guard the Vortex.

After painstakingly piecing together some useful information from the Starport's public information network, it still proved completely useless in determining the era, which frustrated Katz greatly.

Why don't we go out and chop something to relax and unwind?

Because the space pirates wanted to keep all the spoils for themselves, they dragged the Ishimura to the "back" of the starport, which allowed Kars to avoid the turmoil on the "front."

In the port district, the conflict between the Astartes and the Dark Eldar is escalating.

What started as a small-scale attack has escalated into a large-scale military conflict.

However, the managers of the Star Harbor discovered that all the money they had spent and the number of local black market agents they had employed were completely useless when it came time to increase the intensity of their operations, which caused them to have a meltdown.

That's obvious. You've already become a space pirate, and you're talking to me about loyalty?

I'll eat your food, use your things, and take your things. I'm happy to do some dirty work for you.

Astartes is fighting the Dark Eldar, and you're sending your brothers to their deaths?

Who is G4+4? I don't know them.

Don't interfere with the brothers' dungeon runs.

The human pirate forces, originally regarded as a source of military strength by the Starport administrators, used the pretext of attacking the Stone Village to stand by and watch. Their attempt to intervene in the war between the Astartes Warband and the Dark Eldar raiders with only a few hundred tax clerks in the port was nothing short of wishful thinking.

The result was that the massive Star Harbor, with a population of tens of millions, was turned upside down by two forces with a combined population of less than four figures.

Against this backdrop, Ysera, the War Priestess of Atansar, sensed something strange about the Ishimura and prepared to investigate.

There was nothing they could do; the Eldar of Usvi's Ark were too well hidden. Ysera had been tracking the situation for days, but hadn't found the Eldar water vent behind these dark Eldar pirate raiders.

So far, it seems as if the matter is simply a conflict of interest between the Dark Eldar and the Astartes.

It can only be said that great minds think alike. Kaz was also secretly monitoring the situation and would occasionally go out to a restaurant to improve his meals.

Ysera had no intention of associating with her cousins ​​in the Comoros. Although the Ark of Atansar was still trapped in the Eye of Terror, the family traditions and values ​​of this Ark world were excellent, and it was completely at odds with the Dark Eldar.

With nothing else to do, the Ishimura, a mysterious ship with enormous psionic disturbances, should be a good tourist attraction.

The only problem was that Ysera's attempt to perform a psionic prophecy on the Ishimura was unsuccessful.

Something on this strange human ship seems to be interfering with divination spells' ability to detect its psychic powers.

Qiong En sneezed.

There's too much work to do, I can't finish it all. Making three or five silver-plated skulls is a hobby, thirty or fifty is a happy satisfaction, but three or five hundred is a daunting task.

No matter what it is, it becomes particularly painful when hobbies become arduous work.

"Boss, your little pets seem to need something from you."

Trois contacted Katz, who was still on the bridge collecting and organizing intelligence.