Chapter 382

Blood is flowing on the battlefield, the Eternity Wall is like a wall that cannot be crossed.

Priest Țepeș had listened to the legend of this wall forged by Dorn ten thousand times, and had told the legend of this wall forged by Dorn ten thousand times.

But this was the first time in his life he had seen this wall with his own eyes, and he had never hated this wall so much.

Țepeș was a pious child since he was young; he worshipped the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang incomparably.

He worshipped the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's courage; in the gray Age of Strife, only the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang was willing to stand up and save all humanity.

He worshipped the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's power; aliens, daemons, and traitors could not defeat the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang and all loyal humans.

He worshipped the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's justice; in the face of those evil and depraved things, only the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang protected humanity.

It was precisely because of this that Țepeș became an Ecclesiarchy priest, voluntarily going to the most chaotic, disorderly, and poor areas of the Hive World to spread the faith of the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang.

He hoped that he could have one-billionth of the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's courage, power, and justice to protect those poor and weak people.

He had always believed so, always acted so, and always protected the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's subjects with the humblest power.

Until the rift tore the galaxy, until the Day of Blindness descended, until hunger, drought, and suffocation spread in the Hive World.

Priest Țepeș watched in a daze as one after another of the pious believers he was familiar with died, watched as they had to gnaw on the corpses of their loved ones to survive, drawing blood from the deceased, but even so, they couldn't escape the fate of death...

But what about those nobles, supervisors, merchants, and lords who ruled Terra in the name of the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang?

Their palaces never lacked food, their warehouses were always hoarding goods, and their banquets could eat up a family's rations for a year.

They used the only remaining shipping lanes to transport soldiers, ammunition, and apples and pears, but were unwilling to transport even a drop of rations and water for the poor.

Priest Țepeș was confused; he knelt before the saint's bones in his small church, praying to the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang a thousand times.

Why do you give such a cruel fate to your subjects?

Why can only hunger be enjoyed by believers who are pious until death?

Why are those nobles who rule in your name unwilling to protect the humblest civilians?

God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang, the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang who has sat withered on the Golden Wang Zuo for ten thousand years without speaking.

Please open your mouth and tell me.

Tell your poorest subjects, why are you unwilling to protect us?

The God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang did not answer, but another god answered Priest Țepeș.

The saint's bones gushed with blood, baptizing Priest Țepeș.

That god did not require Priest Țepeș's faith; He never craved hypocritical faith.

That god did not require Priest Țepeș's sacrifice; He never craved the flesh and blood of livestock.

That god blessed Țepeș, but only required Țepeș to kill.

"God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang!"

Priest Țepeș stood on the altar built by angry, hungry, and violent mortals, roaring at the Eternity Wall:

"I know! I know!"

"I know how to protect your subjects!"

"With courage! With power! With justice! With killing! With killing! With killing!"

"Kill!!!!"

But Priest Țepeș's roar stopped abruptly.

The veil of reality trembled violently; the mutated mortals who had gathered into a blood tide like ants were forcibly scattered, and corpses, blood, and internal organs were sprinkled like raindrops.

Strong psychic power flowed uncontrollably into the surroundings, shattering those half-beast, half-human guards protecting Țepeș.

A woman wearing a washed-many-times gray-green Cadian uniform, with a deep scar under her left eye, landed abruptly on the altar of flesh and blood built by mortals.

This altar shattered under the impact of the woman's strong psychic power, flesh and blood flying in all directions, and Priest Țepeș fell from mid-air, falling toward the ground.

But the woman in the Cadian uniform was mobilizing strong psychic power, rushing toward Priest Țepeș in mid-air like a cannon.

Priest Țepeș let out a barbaric laugh; he slammed the battle flag in his hand toward the psyker woman.

Hanging on the battle flag was that holy corpse from his small church.

No, that was never the saint's corpse of the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang; that was the corpse of a person blessed by the Blood God, the corpse of a person who had caused boundless slaughter in ancient Terra, the corpse of a person who had once craved to protect his own country with slaughter.

From the bloodline, Priest Țepeș was his descendant, so the Blood God chose him, letting him inherit the slaughter, madness, and roar in his ancestor's blood.

Blood flowed down from the corpse, turning into a tide and surging toward the psyker woman.

Strong psychic power collided with the tide of blood turned from slaughter and anger.

Tens of thousands of years of faith full of the smell of blood gushed out from the corpse, directly pushing the psyker woman back for a time.

But...

Priest Țepeș looked away in a daze, looking at the psyker woman who had suddenly appeared behind him, wearing a ridiculous hat.

Psychic sorcery?

But in the realm blessed by the Blood God, how could such weak power be allowed to take effect?

The mechanical hand on that ridiculous hat pointed at Țepeș, and a power completely different from psychic power instantly restrained him.

Then, strong psychic power roared and smashed toward Țepeș's body.

Flesh twisted, the world spun, blood covered the earth, and the Eternity Wall looked down on Priest Țepeș.

He fell heavily to the ground, only feeling that all the bones in his body had shattered.

Țepeș could feel that his body below the chest had been turned into complete fragments by psychic power; even the blessing of the Blood God couldn't protect him.

If it weren't for the fact that blood, anger, and the desire for slaughter were still flowing in his body, he should have been completely dead by now.

"God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang..."

Țepeș spat out a mouthful of blood, watching the woman in the gray-green Cadian uniform appear before him.

"Go kill."

He roared with his remaining life:

"Go kill! Go kill! Go kill!"

But the woman with strong psychic power remained calm, just slightly raising her arm covered in psychic power.

"First to land!!!"

But at this moment, a roar rang out from behind the woman, from in front of the Eternity Wall.

The woman turned her head in surprise; she clearly realized Priest Țepeș's tactic.

Priest Țepeș himself was just a bait; strategy and tactics were also the domain of the God of Blood and War.

A rioter with horns on his head, his body mutated to blood-red, his muscles exposed, rushed toward the Eternity Wall.

He held a coarse iron blade like a horseshoe firmly in his hand, stepping on the ladder built by countless corpses, rushing toward the highest point of the Eternity Wall.

Lasers, artillery fire, and bolter fire were constantly vented toward that mutated demon-like rioter.

But the ladder built by countless slaughter, blood, and corpses under his feet was like an altar, constantly receiving the blessing of the Blood God and surging toward his body.

All long-range artillery fire lost its effect, and the rioter's body swelled more and more, looking more like a scarlet demon than a mortal, and he ran faster and faster.

"Pious believer of the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang! Do you know that Terra has never been protected by only the God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang!"

"Blood, the moment humanity first forged blades, the God of Blood cast His gaze upon Terra."

"He protects nothing! But He gives us courage and power! Let us seek justice and desire through killing!"

"He gave us the greatest fairness, the fairness of violence!"

Priest Țepeș laughed barbarically, laughed crazily:

"That blade was forged from the horseshoe that trampled the last Caliph tens of thousands of years ago."

"Even the shadow of a god on earth will be killed by violence!"

"Collapse! Dorn's Eternity Wall!"

As if hearing Țepeș's roar, that mutated demon-like rioter raised the horseshoe-like blade in his hand high, about to stab the Eternity Wall.

"I am the first to land!!!"

"The first to land among ten thousand armies!"

Roars, screams, anger, and blood surged on the wall of the Eternity Wall.

That rioter climbed to the highest peak of the Eternity Wall, the Blood God praised, and the horseshoe-like blade swung down heavily.

Whether it was mortals or Astartes, none could keep up with his speed, and it was almost impossible to stop him.

But there were not only mortals and Astartes on the wall.

Shield-Captain Valerian left only a golden afterimage in everyone's eyes, and the power spear named Wisdom pierced straight into the rioter's chest.

The ancient disintegration field burst suddenly, and that mutated body decomposed into a flare, disappearing from the wall.

Only that horseshoe-like blade fell from the Eternity Wall, landing on the muddy ground covered with blood and corpses.

"You failed." Xiang Xiang Leina said calmly, raising her hand, intending to give that fallen priest on the ground a death.

"No..."

Priest Țepeș said like a murmur.

Then, a roar rang out on the Eternity Wall, and eight ferocious blood lights rose from afar.

Like a light veil being torn, like a curtain shattering, reality let out a sharp cry, the sky seemed to be soaked in blood,

A blood rain filled the sky, falling from the clouds, and cracks appeared on the Eternity Wall that had stood for ten thousand years.

Just in an instant, everyone saw another dimension.

The dimension belonging to the unliving, the dimension belonging to the Blood God, the dimension belonging to daemons.

At this moment, the Imperial Palace and reality were not as tough as before; battle cries rang out under reality, and the Blood God's army strode across the scarlet wilderness in the Warp, strode across those burning Hive Worlds, tore the veil with the wind of slaughter, and stepped into reality.

"You thought it was only me?!"

"You thought it was only us!?"

"So many people are full of anger, so many people crave slaughter; as long as one person succeeds, it's enough!"

"This is the justice exchanged with courage and power!"

Țepeș roared with his last bit of strength:

"God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang above! Please open your eyes!"

"Open your eyes and see clearly! See how many people are full of anger!!"

"God-Hua Hua Hua Di Huang!! We all hate you!!!"

His head exploded under Xiang Xiang Leina's psychic power.

In an instant, the blood rain flooded the entire Terra.

The Imperial Palace, the Wang Zuo Room, the Eternity Gate opened with a heavy sound.

Bright light shone and flickered, and a corpse sat withered on the throne at the end of the hall.

He lowered his head, and violet tears flowed from his hollow eye sockets.

(End of chapter)