Chapter 604

"Traitor!!"

In the gladiatorial cage, Sol growled and swung the training sword at Alkenex, the sword style extremely fierce, stabbing straight at Alkenex's throat.

Alkenex, this last Phoenix Guard, also swung his sword to meet him, the swords intersecting like an urgent symphony.

"I have never betrayed..." Alkenex said in a low voice; his teeth were as sharp as a shark's teeth.

This was the only change in his body in the ten thousand years since his fall... but this was actually not some kind of Chaos corruption, but Alkenex polishing them into this shape to slightly blend into the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's Children group after the rebellion.

"Never betrayed? Then what were you doing on Isstvan III ten thousand years ago?" Sol saw the scene of Isstvan III back then in fragments in the memory of the gene-seed.

He turned back and swung his sword, drawing an extremely elegant arc in the air.

Alkenex retreated a step later, and then blocked Sol's sword body with one sword.

"I have never betrayed the legion and the Primarch." Alkenex emphasized: "Everything I did was based on loyalty to the legion and the Primarch."

"Then what about the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang?! What about your brothers?!" Sol fiercely pressed the sword in his hand toward Alkenex.

"I admit that that was one of the many promises I broke." Alkenex's face sank: "But you don't understand, Sol, you don't understand what Fulgrim means to us."

"Before the Primarch returned, our legion was already dead in name; when the Luna Wolves' hundreds of thousands of warriors were gaining honor among the galaxy, we were being painfully tortured by the blight; when the Imperial Fists were building magnificent fortifications, we couldn't even conduct expeditions independently; when the endless Ultramarines were carving up territory, we only had two hundred people left."

"It was Fulgrim's return that saved us; he let the legion be reborn from the ashes of destruction; we bathed in his fire, followed behind him, and changed from the most obscure legion to the most glorious legion."

"Fulgrim is the legion, the legion is Fulgrim."

Alkenex's expression became painful; he whispered:

"I have never believed in the Chaos Gods, and I have never been interested in the Warmaster's rebellion."

"Sol, I just chose to be loyal to the Primarch between the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang and the Primarch."

"But... but I have to admit, that was a wrong decision."

"I didn't expect it to become like that; he once saved us, but in the end, he sent us into the abyss of corruption and depravity..."

"Pitiful Alkenex, ridiculous Alkenex, poor wretch Alkenex." A sharp mocking voice sounded from the depths of Sol's consciousness.

That was Lu Xiusi's voice; he was mocking Alkenex.

"He deserves to die, you don't even deserve to die." Another voice, a more steady voice, sounded.

Sol was restless because of Lu Xiusi's voice; he swung his sword to push aside Alkenex's sword, but Alkenex found an opportunity to meet him, forcing Sol to retreat repeatedly.

Sol had to admit that Alkenex's martial arts were extraordinary.

In the memory that Tarvitz passed on to him through genetic inheritance, although Alkenex was not the top swordsman among the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's Children, he was also in the forefront.

And in these ten thousand years, Alkenex had not indulged in indulgence, wasting his martial arts, but instead became even more proficient in swordsmanship.

This was perhaps why the Phoenix Children Chapter felt convinced by Alkenex.

Before Sol returned, Alkenex had been training the Phoenix Children Chapter as an instructor.

Sol felt inexplicably restless watching his brothers show respect to Alkenex.

This was actually very strange; Sol himself had received instruction from Khârn back then, and Alkenex could not have betrayed more deeply than Khârn in any case.

But Sol just felt restless, felt unbearable...

"How could the Phoenix become like that? I still dare not recall that memory to this day!"

Alkenex said with a trembling voice:

"Lu Xiusi, that bastard, subdued us; he took a group of people to... to the Primarch... to the Primarch... force Lu Xiusi, that bastard..."

"Poor wretch Alkenex, can only watch the Primarch and our game from afar, watching the Primarch show an expression of enjoyment." Lu Xiusi's mocking voice sounded in Sol's mind again: "Simply like an incompetent husband hiding in the closet and peeking..."

"Shut up!!!" Sol growled, the sword style suddenly fierce, forcing Alkenex back for a moment.

"... You listen to me finish!" Alkenex thought Sol was talking about him.

He hesitated for a moment, skipping that part of the content; after all, he himself was not very willing to recall those things.

"I just watched the legion degenerate day by day; I tried many times to save all this; I tried to find the Primarch to come out and discipline them, but... but the Primarch's degree of depravity far exceeded the sum of the entire legion..."

"I gradually despaired, and even joined the Phoenix Conclave formed by that liar Eidolon, just because he promised to make the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's Children great again."

"Damn it, it was clearly he who destroyed our Phoenix Guard with his own hands..."

"I just spent ten thousand years in a muddle, until I saw him on Fabius's ship."

Alkenex's tone suddenly became excited:

"Sol... Tarvitz, he is really different; I saw the glory of the former Primarch in him."

"Although he is a clone, he is a true Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's Child; he can really lead us to change back to that legion full of glory."

"Believe me, Sol, as long as he is here, I can undo the mistakes I once made..."

"Then why do you delay in taking action? Why do you disappear without a trace?" Sol questioned in turn; he felt more like the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang's Child named Tarvitz in his body was questioning.