harleyscars Chapter 88 The Essence of Horus
Chapter 88 The Essence of Horus
Knowing Magnus's dissatisfaction, Livy sighed and said softly:
"My Lord Archmage, we must complete our conquest objective faster, achieve more merits, and let the Empire know of Thousand Sons' strength and loyalty."
"That makes sense." After listening to Li Wei's earnest advice, Magnus could only manage a forced smile.
But his mood was not as cheerful as the smile on his face; in fact, he was even more depressed.
Today, the Emperor and Horus, the Primarch of the Shadowmoon Wolves, are leading a raid on an orc stronghold.
Although Magnus's relationship with Horus had improved considerably during this time, he was still deeply resentful that Horus had taken away the Emperor's attention.
Seeing his original body looking so sullen, Li Wei shook his head inwardly and sighed.
"The Emperor is truly a succubus. Although the Primarchs are all his offspring, most of them are extremely dependent on the Emperor. It is because the Emperor does not educate his demigods who are far beyond mortals that this tragedy occurs."
Boom!
Gunfire and explosions continued as Magnus had just sent his Thousand Sons into the cave to wipe out the orcs, and had won a great victory.
Before long, the hundreds of Thousand Sons warriors who had been temporarily transferred out walked out of the dark cave with their heads held high and came to their Primarch Magnus and Chief Think Tank to await orders.
"Well done, my offspring."
Magnus gazed at his offspring with satisfaction. Although they were covered in gunpowder and blood, their "spiritual energy" was mostly filled with high fighting spirit, which was enough to prove that his offspring were no less than Shadowmoon Wolves.
He wanted to prove to the Emperor that the Thousand Sons were just as powerful. Magnus changed his next target to a large orc settlement near the border between the Thousand Sons' and Shadowmoon Wolves' defense zones.
He wanted to prove to the Emperor, who was in the Shadowmoon Wolves army, that the Thousand Sons Legion was by no means a weak force and was in no way inferior to the Shadowmoon Wolves, with a clean and decisive victory over the orcs.
"All personnel, move to C-24 Orc settlement and wipe them out."
At Magnus's resounding command, the Thousand Sons immediately formed ranks and marched swiftly toward the next place to be conquered.
After Magnus led the team away, Levi, who had come to his senses, realized what had happened and muttered to himself.
He knew that the C-24 orc gathering point was not the next target originally assigned to his thousand-man extermination squad.
However, he also understood Magnus's intention in changing his target: to impress the emperor.
Because the Emperor was right there, and the Emperor's familiar spiritual energy fluctuations were constantly guiding Li Wei in the right direction.
"Li Wei, hurry up and catch up!" Magnus, who had already walked a distance, turned back and called out when he saw that Li Wei hadn't caught up yet.
"Okay." Hearing the call, Li Wei quickly followed.
......
C-24, the Orc Gathering Point, is a basin surrounded by sunken peaks formed by the wreckage of abandoned warships and meteorites.
At this moment, the air was filled with the sounds of cannon fire and battle cries. Hundreds of warriors were launching a fierce attack, and the ground was already littered with the corpses of orcs.
Boom!
Amidst a deafening explosion, the city gate, constructed from discarded metal scraps by the orcs, collapsed with a crash, just as the Thousand Warriors were about to step into this core gathering place of the orcs.
A chaotic surge of psionic energy suddenly emanated from afar, and all the Thousand Sons warriors present simultaneously felt the wailing of psionic energy, causing their offensive steps to halt.
"The Emperor? Something's happened?"
Li Wei was stunned. He sensed the rapidly weakening spiritual energy aura, which was definitely the aura of an emperor.
But isn't the Emperor the most powerful psionicist in the galaxy? How could he be injured?
No, he was injured. In his past life, the Emperor was defeated by the Orc war leader during the conquest of the Ulanor Orcs and almost died. He was eventually saved by Horus, the Primarch of the Shadowmoon Wolves.
However, after actually arriving in the Warhammer universe, especially after becoming a psionicist himself, he absolutely did not believe that the Emperor could be injured by an orc; there was definitely something fishy going on.
"Quickly, Li Wei, let's go save the Emperor."
Magnus's expression changed drastically, and his crimson spiritual energy surged suddenly, transforming into a streak of crimson light that swiftly swept across the ground and flew towards the direction where the Emperor was.
With a solemn expression, Li Wei glanced at Magnus's fading crimson light, forced himself to calm, and sent a telepathic communication message to all the hundreds of Thousand Sons warriors before him.
"Thousand Warriors, this is the Chief Think Tank. Now, abandon your combat mission and head southeast at full speed to save the Emperor."
After sending the psionic communication, Li Wei ignored the reactions of the Thousand Sons warriors and transformed into a streak of purple lightning, speeding towards the southeast, the direction from which the Emperor's psionic energy fluctuations originated.
As for Li Wei's special command of these Thousand Sons warriors to go to the rescue, it was simply because he thought that having more strength meant having more leverage!
Of course, Li Wei still didn't believe that the Emperor could be defeated by mere orcs and suffer such serious injuries.
Li Wei, surrounded by purple flames, had just chased after Magnus and rushed into the battlefield where the Shadowmoon Wolves and orcs were fighting fiercely when he witnessed what happened before him, which shocked him greatly.
The Emperor was indeed at a disadvantage. A five-meter-tall orc war chief pounced on the Emperor, his powerful hands gripping the Emperor's throat, almost suffocating him.
Magnus was struggling to break free from the encirclement of the war leader's elite guards.
It wasn't that Magnus had become weaker, but rather that the superior physiques of those guard orcs, far exceeding that of ordinary orcs, proved their extraordinary nature.
The crimson psionic flames and crimson lightning that Magnus unleashed roared continuously, but these elite guard orcs fought bravely and relentlessly to defend the battlefield where the war chief and the emperor were.
Just as Li Wei was about to rush over to help, he heard a roar of Horus in the distance.
"Father, I've come to save you."
These words were filled with anxiety and anger, and Li Wei, startled, unconsciously turned his attention to the direction from which the voice came.
In the distance, a gigantic, upright crimson eye, radiating scorching, majestic purplish-red flames, forcefully tore through the guard orcs' defenses, instantly reaching the Emperor's side and delivering a powerful punch that sent the orc war chief flying.
The next instant, Li Weina's eyes, which had involuntarily turned purple, returned to normal.
"No, that's not a giant crimson eye, that's Horus's warp essence, the Eye of Horus."
It was only at this moment that he began to speculate about the Emperor's intention in deliberately losing: was it to activate Horus's warp nature?
Although the war leader was powerful, I could defeat him without using my full strength, so how could the emperor possibly be defeated?