Chapter 246 The Rise of the Primarch: The Abyss of Hell

Those angels committed sins, and God did not forgive them. He threw them into hell and locked them in a dark pit to await judgment, and then the angels became demons.

——New Testament-2 Peter Chapter 2

Darkness, disturbing darkness enveloped everything around, statues, religious murals and stained glass windows were all shrouded in darkness, and the faces of those saints seemed to be sprinkled with a layer of black charcoal powder. The blurred surface completely distorted the faces of those sculptures, and even the bright flashlight was so blurry.

The flashlight that swept across the walls and the ground slid over every object. The defeated light looked so strange in the hazy darkness. Countless particles of dust floated in the beams of light. They were accompanied by the surrounding gloomy wind, blowing over the broken flags, the broken benches and the remains of the round table, and also blowing over the swaying cockscombs.

Sicarius walked at the front of the team holding a power sword. The cockscomb helmet on the second captain's head swayed in the cold wind. Under the feathers swaying diagonally was a bright flashlight. The light shone from Sicarius's helmet and pierced the vague darkness and shone on the ground.

Behind Sicarius were the Ultramarines who were advancing in battle formation. They gathered around Guilliman and Vito in the center with guns in hand. Each bolter had a flashlight hanging from it. The soldiers vigilantly held their guns and scanned every corner around them. The light of the flashlights was constantly projected into those corners of different distances.

The dead church was completely silent. Everything was completely shrouded in silence. The explosions and gunshots became the miserable sounds of a distant world. The only sound echoing in the dark and silent corridor was the footsteps of the power armor moving forward. Boom, boom, it echoed endlessly in this huge church again and again.

Suddenly Sicarius stopped, and the Second Captain raised a fist to signal to stop. Loken saw the gesture and immediately signaled everyone behind him to stop. The Ultramarines turned around and pointed their bolt guns at the front and back ends of the corridor, vigilantly forming a temporary defense line.

Beams of light projected into the endless dark maze. Guilliman looked around the twisted darkness and walked behind Sicarius. The Second Captain also turned his head to look at the Primarch. He rubbed his fingers on the ground slightly and raised them to signal the Primarch.

Guilliman looked at the blood on the blue armor fingers. The still scarlet blood was particularly eye-catching under the lighting of the Second Captain's helmet. Guilliman raised his head and looked at the ground in front of him. He slowly raised the flaming sword in his hand, and the burning flames illuminated the road ahead.

Blood, a large area of ​​blood winding on the ground appeared in the firelight. Sicarius turned around and stood up, holding the sword and standing beside the Primarch. The light on his helmet extended all the way to the end of the corridor, but the blood trail was completely endless, like a bloody road.

Vito walked past the silent two people. He looked at the blood on the ground and looked at the far end of the deep corridor. "It's here. The corpse material of the Flesh Gate was dragged from here. Just follow the blood trail to find that place."

Vito raised the grenade gun and pointed it forward. Guilliman looked at the blood on the ground and nodded. The Primarch stepped onto the bloody road without saying a word. The burly giant walked along the blood trail to the far end. Sicarius then raised the power sword to signal everyone to follow.

The Ultramarines stood up and gathered again with their grenade guns. They gathered tightly around Guilliman. The lights continued to move towards the depths of the church with the footsteps of the power armor.

The group passed through the maze-like dark halls and side corridors. Everything here was distorted by darkness. All the rooms looked the same, and every corner seemed to be the same.

As they went deeper, the surrounding space began to change strangely. The chair that was seen at the door a second ago would appear by the fireplace at the other end after turning their heads. The hanging lamp began to sway inexplicably, and the creaking sound echoed between the cold walls.

Sicarius began to see some vague shadows. Those black shadows were walking on the surrounding carpets. They sometimes sat on chairs and sofas, and sometimes appeared in front of the window, but disappeared when you approached them.

The soldiers' guns and flashlights penetrated from the hazy darkness. The light shone on those shadows as if they had no entity. The light would directly penetrate their bodies, and a burst of laughter came from between those shadows.

Sicarius looked around alertly for the source of the laughter. The soldiers turned their bolt guns and scanned the surroundings. The shadows were still moving around. They seemed to live here and did not seem to see the soldiers moving forward.

The laughter suddenly disappeared again. The ethereal laughter was as sudden as when it appeared. Sicarius and the soldiers looked at each other, and Guilliman took the lead. After everyone looked at each other and nodded, they followed the Primarch. The group quickly passed through this strange side courtyard full of shadows.

When they came to the next side courtyard, the laughter appeared again, but this time the direction of the laughter could be determined. Almost immediately, the Ultramarines pointed their guns at the same time, and the muzzles of more than a dozen guns were pointed at the source of the sound.

The flashlights hanging under each gun were all on the thing. In the light, Guilliman and Vito saw her, a woman, a woman sitting on a bench in this prayer hall.

It was the only intact chair in the entire hall. All the surrounding chairs were broken into pieces, and the wooden debris piled on the dark floor of the hall like grave mounds.

The woman was sitting on a chair with her back to them, her black hair not reflecting at all under the light. Her body was swaying back and forth and she was mumbling some inaudible words, like sentences from the Book of Psalms or hymns.

Guilliman looked at the woman and was about to step forward, but was immediately stopped by Vito who pulled out his sword. Vito nodded to Sicarius, who then signaled the woman to a soldier next to him, holding a gun. The Ultramarine nodded slightly and cautiously walked toward the strange woman.

The muzzle of his gun was always pointed at the back of the woman's head. As the footsteps got closer, she never turned around. It was strange that she should have discovered them earlier, but she still kept rocking back and forth mumbling those strange things. sentence.

The soldier walked up behind her and slowly pressed her shoulders, "Madam, are you okay?" the soldier said, but the woman still didn't answer him, and was still shaking and reciting the vague words.

The Ultramarine looked back at Sicarius, who nodded and clenched the power sword in his hand. The warrior then turned around and gently turned the woman around, and then the terrifying front of the woman appeared in the spotlight.

The woman's front was completely turned into flesh and bones, and the remaining skin was partially torn covering her face. There was only torn flesh and blood in her mouth as she muttered words. The eyeballs in her eye sockets were long gone, and the blood was gone from them. Blood and tears were left on the white bones of the face, and there was a bomb stuffed in the abdomen, which was completely disemboweled!

The bomb squeezed by the intestines and broken spine suddenly exploded. The soldiers who were close to her were instantly knocked out and fell to the ground. The surface of the armor was burning with scarlet holes, covering the entire breastplate like a hornet's nest. part.

The woman was completely exploded into a splatter of flesh and blood, and blood rained on Vito's head. He subconsciously looked up at the ceiling above his head. He stared at the corpses above his head with wide eyes, which were countless hanging on the roof. Rotting corpses, and each corpse had a bomb stuffed inside it!

"Everyone, be careful above your head!" Vito shouted and raised his hand to summon a shield. The psychic shield appeared just before all the corpses exploded. The corpses suspended above their heads all exploded one by one, shattering flesh, blood, and bone marrow. It fell like a torrential rain in the sky.

The heavy rain of blood in the room splashed on the shield, and the scarlet water curtain poured down from the shield. The soldiers clenched their weapons and leaned on the shield to observe the surroundings vigilantly, but their vision was completely covered by the scarlet blood. The rain blocked everything, and the downpour of blood completely enveloped everything.

The pouring rain stopped soon after, and Vito immediately lowered the psychic shield stained red with blood. As the shield lowered, everyone's feet were filled with blood that filled the hall, and the smelly blood surged in the hall. At their feet, the feet of their armor were dyed bright red.

Vito was even more unlucky. His entire trouser legs were completely dyed red, and the surrounding area was like the mist after heavy rain. The blood mist filled the surroundings. The blood mist rushed towards Vito's face and sprinkled a piece of blood on Vito's face. It was then that he began to envy other people wearing power armor.

But soon Vito would no longer spend his time on this. As he spit out the blood of the corpse that flowed into his mouth, a shadow fell from the ceiling filled with blood mist above his head, and with the figure fell also Has a bright paw.

The lightning claw fell from the air and instantly tore the back of a warrior who was too late to react. His entire back armor was torn open, and the cold claws were deeply embedded in the ceramic armor. The Ultramarines turned around to look at the fallen warrior. Brothers of the earth.

The shadow behind him pulled out cold claws, and the light illuminated the purple-black armor as he slowly stood up. The light illuminated the bat logo on his chest, and also illuminated the face with blood-red eyes and sharp fangs. toothy face.

The Astartes-like monster roared loudly, and the roar burst out from behind the completely inhuman fangs. In an instant, countless roars echoed above Vito and the others. Those monsters, those wearing The monster in armor with bat symbol falls from the ceiling.

These purple-black beasts fell into the bloody water, and their sharp claws swung in the tsunami of blood as they fell. The Ultramarines were caught off guard by the enemies that fell from the sky, and several warriors were ambushed and killed in an instant.

"Back off!" Guilliman shouted while maintaining sufficient composure. He raised his power fists and fired at the monsters falling around him. Several humanoid bloodthirsty monsters around him were killed and fell to the ground. They were scarlet red. His eyes and snarling fangs were shattered in the bolter's fire.

But at the same time, more monsters fell from the ceiling and walls, their hands flashing with cold claws. These beasts rushed towards the Ultramarines from all directions, and the latter began to fire violently around them.

The flames of the explosive bombs illuminated the entire hall, and the completely inhuman faces of those monsters were lit up in the firelight. Almost instantly, some soldiers were knocked down and torn to pieces by the monsters that jumped on them. The beasts stepped on the blood on the ground and rushed to the side to fight. Everyone retreated.

Loken leaned over the bolter and drew out the chain sword with his backhand. In the bright fire of the warrior's bolter behind him, he swung the chain saw. The roaring cut instantly chopped into pieces the face of the attacking monster, and the monster's face was shattered. It turned into pure mud, but it did not die after hitting the bloody ground.

The monster with half of its face rotten got up. The huge power armor supported him as he climbed up. The beast used only half of its jaw to tear and roar at Loken.

A bolt shell shattered his entire head. Guilliman turned the muzzle of the smoking bolt gun and fired fiercely forward. He and the surviving warriors fired a dense barrage towards the front, with flashing guns. Bullets pounded the beasts.

The chaos in the hall that repeatedly switches between darkness and light is like a vague nightmare. Everything is changing rapidly. The faces of those terrible creatures flash like slides in the intervals of gunfire, cold and cold. Its sharp claws and blood-red eyes flashed in front of its eyes as flesh and blood sprayed out.

Under the command of Guilliman, the Ultramarines retreated while fighting. With the flashing gunfire in front of their eyes, they retreated to the gate. Those nightmarish beasts continued to appear from the darkness, illuminating the range of gunfire. Countless eyes flickered at the edge of the darkness.

Sicarius stood in the bloody water. He waved his power sword to block the slashing claws. He withdrew the blade and chopped the monster's head with a backhand sword. The monster's huge body collapsed into the bloody water, causing a large splash. wave.

Sicarius turned and ran out of the gate. Behind the gate, the remaining warriors were firing fiercely into the door. The crazy beasts continued to pounce on them, as if they knew no fear at all.

Vito lowered the bolt gun in his hand and suddenly raised the Phoenix Sword. Golden lightning gathered and danced on the blade. As Vito struck with thunder, the swing of the blade shattered the doorway and shattered the remains. The sudden collapse blocked the door that the monsters were rushing towards, and also cut off the blood flowing on the ground.

"What is that?" Guilliman asked in surprise.

Vito looked up at the ceiling of the church where roars echoed, "The Night Lord's ghoul warband is the most depraved, the one who embraces the power of darkness the most among all the traitors. What a damn unlucky person."

Vito said, aiming at the ceiling above his head and pulling the trigger. The bomb roared into the ceiling and a roar came, "Run! Run toward the rock dome structure deep inside the church!"

The group of people began to turn around and run towards the core cathedral in the distance. They needed to run through the two to three hundred meter long central axis corridor, and this journey undoubtedly turned into a death zone.

At the top of this majestic promenade is a complex group of arched support structures. Those complex vaults with rose patterns in the past were very beautiful, especially in the afternoon after the sunlight filtered in through the long rainbow glass windows of the dome. The shadows of the roses will be projected onto the ground, making it look like a vibrant garden.

But now, this place has become the harvesting ground for the most corrupt traitors. A large number of Night Lords jump on the complex vault above their heads. These crazy monsters fall from the sky, falling from all directions, front, rear, left, right, and besieging the remaining Ultramarines.

The number of survivors continues to decrease in this corridor. The warriors are besieged and killed by the traitors above and around them. Their claws tear apart the armor and the flesh underneath crazily. These traitors who are devoured madly will bite the warriors. Their flesh and blood, devouring their blood, and then fell into an even crazier rage.

Loken pointed his gun at the traitor who fell above his head and fired. The monster was accurately hit before it landed. The bright gunfire illuminated the floor around Loken and also illuminated Sika, who was waving a long sword on one side. Reus.

The second company commander whirled at high speed and slashed with the sharp blade. The sharp blade cut and killed each enemy. The long and sharp blade turned like a windmill. But even so, Sicarius could not withstand so many enemies. He He was forced to fight and retreat with the survivors behind him.

"Lord Guilliman! We are blocked behind us!" shouted an Ultramarine in the front row. He and the battle brothers beside him fired fiercely forward, and many traitors fell in front of the door leading to the core church area. , they howled and charged at them brandishing their sharp blades and long claws.

The Ultramarines fired fiercely at them, blasting the traitors one by one with explosive bombs. After being shot, they fell forward and slid like ice balls, but there were still more traitors attacking from all sides.

"Big Blueberry, throw me over!" Vitor said and rushed towards Guilliman. The latter swung his holy sword and chopped off a traitor who fell above his head. As the traitor's skills separated, it broke into two pieces and fell to the ground. Guilliman looked at Vito, who was running towards him.

He stretched out the power claw of his right arm. Vito jumped onto the palm of the center of the claw and Guilliman swung it violently. Vito was thrown out like a stone in a trebuchet.

Vito whizzed through the air and slid through the air. In the blink of an eye, he flew across the entire hall and came to the top of the traitors in front. Vito began to fall at the end of the projectile force and at the same time released a giant lightning. Golden psychic power exploded from him in an instant. When Vito landed on the ground, he thrust the Phoenix Sword into the ground.

As the sharp blade pierced the rocky ground, countless bolts of lightning shot out from the tip of the sword. The roaring lightning shot out to the surrounding Night Lords. They were all struck by the lightning blooming in the center and fell to the ground screaming. The flesh and blood body that was no longer human was completely scorched, and the face began to collapse and disintegrate one by one.

Vito drew out his Phoenix Sword and looked back. All the traitors blocking the core church area around him were killed by this single blow. Vito pulled out his bolt gun and fired at behind him. With his fierce shooting, Guilliman Loken and the others also retreated to both sides of him, and now they were under the completely sealed rock dome above their heads.

The traitors can no longer attack from places such as the arcade ceiling overhead, but the survivors still have to face the traitors attacking from the front.

There were less than ten Ultramarines left squatting in front of the gate. They aimed at the traitors and fired fiercely. Those crazy guys rushed out from the darkness in the distance, with blood-red eyes and ferocious faces completely devoid of any sense. It can be said.

And the worst thing is that demons appeared in the attacking army. The bloodthirsty demons of Khorne emerged from the darkness, and the vampires mixed with the crazy berserkers and the madmen of the Night Lords and rushed towards the door.

Guilliman frowned as he looked at the enemy in front of him. He turned to look at the inside of the core church behind him. "We don't have much time. If the devil appears here, it means that the traitors are still starting to adjust their defenses."

"Lord Guilliman, please fight in with Marshal Vitor. We will hold these traitors here." Loken said as he inserted the new magazine into the bolter. He pulled the bolt suddenly to push the bullet out. Into the gun chamber.

"Can't we blow up this corridor?" Sicarius asked standing aside, Loken shook his head decisively, "No, if we blow up the corridor, the traitors will catch up with us from other places, There's no time now."

"We must stop the traitors here and focus all their attention on us, so that they will ignore Guilliman and Lord Vitor who are quickly entering with single soldiers. We must be this bait."

Loken tightened his grip on the bolter and looked up at Guilliman's face. He nodded to Guilliman seriously, "Please go in, my lord. The fate of us and Macragge is in your hands."

"I promise you, Captain Loken, I will not let you down. I will take you out alive." Guilliman pressed Loken's shoulders and said, and the latter nodded to Guilliman. .

"Good luck to you, my lord."

Guilliman nodded affirmatively, nodded to Sicarius, and then turned around and rushed into the door. Vito glanced at Guilliman and then turned around and followed him into the entrance of the core monastery.

"Vito." Loken turned around and called Vito. The latter stopped inside the gate with his sword and turned to look at Loken. The latter looked at him with a smile and a gun.

"If you meet Erebus, count my share and teach him a lesson." Loken smiled and held the trigger. Vito also smiled and gave him a joking salute. , "Roger that, company commander."

Loken smiled and turned around, pointing behind him and pulling the trigger. Vito looked at the row of shining lights and turned to chase Guilliman. Loken, Sicarius and others outside the gate were also getting further and further away. With the gun, As the sound of the cannon gradually faded away, Vito and Guilliman also entered the depths of the church.

The two people advanced along the broad central avenue of the core church. They followed the long blood trail on the ground. No one intercepted, no one blocked, and they did not encounter any enemies. There were only the towering stone pillars on both sides of the central axis cathedral corridor. with the statues.

The sacred statues looked down at them, and Guilliman's heavy footsteps echoed under the towering dome. He looked at everything around him in confusion, "It's too quiet. Since no one is blocking us, it seems that we were let in on purpose. ”

"I think so, someone is inviting us over, and I think we will know soon." Vito said, walking from the emperor statue at the end of the core church to the side courtyard doors on both sides, the wide The bloodstain suddenly turned to the other side here.

The two of them passed through the side courtyard door where the blood stains passed. Suddenly, something pounced on them the moment they stepped into the door. It was a head that was completely naked, with only its back covered with clumps of jet-black mane. The twisted hunting beast.

This huge beast was big enough to be compared with a Chimera troop carrier, and its wolf-like face had four tearing blood-spurting mouths. The beast pounced on Guilliman, opening its densely covered The sharp teeth bite the inside of the mouth towards the original body.

Guilliman raised his right power claw to block its bite. The beast was pressed in the air by Guilliman. There were dense teeth squirming in the four torn bloody mouths, and even the end of the tongue was sickly. The ground sprouted sharp teeth.

Guilliman's power armor helmet was covered with the corrosive sticky saliva, and the hissing acid made a crisp sound on the surface, but obviously, this corrosiveness could not penetrate the Destiny Armor.

The flaming sword stabbed fiercely with the iron fist, and the holy sword instantly penetrated the beast's belly. The mutated monster whimpered and screamed and was thrown to the ground. Guilliman stepped forward and stepped on it, holding the hand of master. The bolter aimed at the monster's howling torn face and roared.

The monster stopped howling, but there was a burst of applause in the silent hall, "Very good, very good, pretty much what I expected."

Guilliman raised his head and looked at the man. Vitor also stepped forward and clenched the flaming sword in his hand and glared at the guy in front of him. He was wearing a vermilion power armor with scriptures engraved on the shoulder armor. In the text, a book should be hung on a chain around the guy's waist, a book of blasphemy with human bones as the cover.

Vito looked at the guy's skinless face. The flesh and blood face was covered with scripture symbols. The face full of lies looked at him with a smile. Just looking at that guy's face was enough to make people sick. and disgust.

"I knew that Fabius's little pet couldn't kill you two, two noble adults." He looked at the two people with a smile. He stood on the podium in the side court with his hands behind his back and looked at the two people dimly. The rays of light shot in from the glazed window on his body, and the picture painted on the glazed window was the scene of the emperor's ascension.

"Erebus." Vito growled and tightened the hilt in his hand, and lightning almost instantly danced between his fingers.

"I also know that the beasts of the Night Lords can't stop you, so welcome, two adults, welcome to my playground." He chuckled, Guilliman tightened his holy sword and took a step forward, but he was blocked by Vito's sword as soon as he took a step forward.

Guilliman turned his head to look at Vito, who had a murderous look on his face. His expression was solemn and full of anger, and lightning danced from his body and hit the ground directly.

"He is mine, go to the portal, I believe there are still many enemies that need you to deal with." Vito said, pointing the tip of the sword at the side door where the blood extended. Guilliman looked at the door in silence for a moment and then turned his head to look at Vito.

"Good luck." "You too."

Guilliman said as he walked towards the side door. The man on the podium looked at Guilliman and raised his head slightly. Just as he stretched out his elbow from behind, a lightning bolt hit his ear, and the whistling arc instantly shattered a stone statue behind him.

The broken stone statue fell to the ground with a bang, and the man slowly raised his head to look at Vito in front of him. Guilliman had left from the side door, and now only he and Vito were left here.

"Be serious when fighting with me, and look where you should look. I don't intend to let you die quickly, Erebus." Vito's eyes turned completely golden as he said that arcs of electricity on his body bombarded the surrounding ground, and those arcs kept jumping up and down in the entire hall.

Erebas also smiled at Vito, and his hand stretched out from behind, "Ah, my marshal, I am very different from before. I got power from the four gods."

As he spoke, the meteor hammer in the incense burner in Erebas's hand fell down, and a ball of fire from the chaos world burned from the grid of the incense burner. He looked at Vito with a disgusting smile.

"I have always been curious, marshal, why do you refuse to embrace the power of the true god? Why do you refuse that power? Why not become a demigod like me?" Erebas smiled and raised his arms, like a missionary.

"Because I want you to pay the price, Erebas, today you will pay the price for everything." Vito said that lightning filled the Phoenix Sword, and he instructed Erebas to slowly raise the sword.

The blade flashing with golden thunder pointed directly at Erebas' skinless face, and the roar of lightning illuminated Vito's face, and his eyes flashed with lightning like the gods.

"I will come to tell you what kind of existence is called God."