Chapter 606: The Blood God: My Blessing Is Tainted

What would Korsakos do?

Flee

RUN!!!!

The great Regent Korsakos once said,

Not that one should not be angry, but that anger must be carefully planned, dynamically applied, flexibly channeled,

to fully leverage the combat efficacy of the Butcher's Nail, ensure stable daily combat operations, and lay a solid emotional foundation for anger at future critical moments,

it is slow anger, measured anger, planned anger, adjusted anger, high-quality anger—the kind that keeps anger from becoming a runaway horse,

Actively set reasonable anger thresholds and stop-loss lines to ensure anger remains stable and controllable, avoiding passive conflict caused by emotional exhaustion.

Therefore, fleeing is not cowardice, not timidity in battle—it is the faithful implementation of Regent Korsakos's spirit, a collective effort to maintain the stability and sustainable development of the World Eaters Legion.

Zanderek stared blankly as the World Eater Berserkers, who had just been roaring in fury, vanished in a flash.

Zanderek was not the only one who felt helpless at this sight,

within the Highest Heaven, upon the Brass Throne, the Blood God Khorne gnashed his teeth as he watched the situation in the Nephilim Sector,

the situation in the Nephilim Sector had been secretly engineered by Tzeentch,

but they were not here to sabotage Zhou Yun, cause him trouble, or prevent him from reclaiming the Necrons,

on the contrary, they subtly guided the course of the war, manipulated the flow of the Warp, ensuring humanity gained continuous advantage over the Necrons, ultimately driving the Necrons to turn toward Zhou Yun and deliver Tzeentch's carefully crafted technology into Zhou Yun's hands.

To achieve this goal, the Blood God had constantly monitored the war's progress in the Nephilim Sector, and thus had watched the World Eaters closely,

before his death, Angron had become aware of his own Warp nature and, using his own power, left an indelible influence upon all World Eaters within the pocket of Saint Doraemon,

whenever a World Eater's Butcher's Nail reached a certain operational threshold and neared total domination, they would experience a spiritual resonance with Korsakos,

they would be mentally influenced by Korsakos, instinctively beginning to learn from him, to act according to his reasoning,

thus, whenever they were about to be consumed by the Butcher's Nail's fury, they would simply choose to flee.

The Blood God had no shortage of ways to re-corrupt the World Eaters—most of their corruption had never even been removed,

if he so much as willed it, every single World Eater would instantly revert to being his warriors.

But are they worthy now??

The Blood God considered himself a merciful god—he could accept madmen, fools, idiots, even the weak.

But what does it mean to flee when anger reaches a certain point?

Where is your fury? Where is your courage? Where is your spirit of war?

Even though a single thought could re-corrupt them, the Blood God refused to do so—he believed these World Eaters were unworthy. The very idea of bestowing his blessing upon these cowardly, perpetually fleeing bastards made him nauseous, made him feel his blessing was tainted.

Of course, the World Eaters' problem was not unsolvable,

all it would take was killing Korsakos.

But before Angron passed away, he had used his power to embed a command deep within Korsakos's mind:

that Korsakos must use all his intellect to protect his own life.

The Blood God had launched seven attacks against Korsakos, each time deploying multiple Greater Daemons—but each time, Korsakos escaped.

Ultimately, to preserve his scarce assets for his own plan against Tzeentch, he had no choice but to temporarily spare Korsakos.

Once his plan with Tzeentch succeeded—when the Void collapsed, the Black Stone reversed, and the Warp ravaged the material universe—he would settle the score with Korsakos himself.

Zanderek stared, bewildered, as the World Eater forces withdrew without hesitation,

they had activated something resembling a Tomb Gate, vanishing in an instant from the Satyr System, gone without a trace,

leaving Zanderek with the feeling of having punched nothing but cotton.

He sat listlessly upon his throne and ordered the Tomb Technomancers to activate the Inertialess Engine.

But he had no intention of heading to the Morgoth System to reinforce Storm King Imotekh's forces,

the enemy now had a commander no less capable than Storm King Imotekh, who had realized that the offensives against Morgoth and Satyr were merely feints—traps designed to draw their attention and drain their strength.

Storm King Imotekh had hoped to trick the enemy into holding fast to these two systems, wasting their forces there,

but the enemy had seen through Storm King Imotekh's ruse.

The Inertialess Engine activated; the stars became threads slipping past the Tomb Ship,

the boundless, frigid void was crossed in an instant, and Zanderek's flagship drifted to a halt within an unremarkable star system in the Realm of the Dead,

this system was solitary, containing only a single star and scattered asteroids—no true planets existed here,

the Necrons had modified this system, siphoning the star's energy to sustain the colossal structure they had built,

it was a gate, far larger than Zanderek's own, woven from ancient living metal threads that twisted into cold, rigid angles, inducing a cascade of optical illusions at a glance; at its center, where the metal framework converged, reality and aether were sliced into fragments, and a dull, mysterious light pulsed within.

It was the Tomb Gate, one of the Necrons' faster-than-light travel technologies, based on the ancient God-Emperors' "Webway,"

in the final years before the War in Heaven ended, the Star God Burner Nyadrazar fulfilled his grand ambition,

this Star God, composed of untamed and chaotic fire, had always yearned to burn everything in the world—even the realms beyond the material universe,

he ultimately succeeded, using his flames to burn through the barrier between reality and the Webway, revealing it to the Necrons,

the technology the Necrons developed from this was the Tomb Gate,