Chapter 122: A Twisted Attachment

Emerich's head had actually been embedded into his sister Dre Kelisi's abdomen by her using an extremely cruel and alternative form of Chaos witchcraft, and in this form, the two had become "one person"!

"You, why... would you do this?!"

Even though Alvin had prepared himself mentally, he was still deeply shaken by this bloody and bizarre scene.

Weren't Dre Kelisi and Emerich on very good terms?

Emerich doted on his sister; the last time they met, he had even specially prepared an eighth-birthday gift for Dre Kelisi!

Wait...

Just then, Alvin's pupils contracted violently.

Eight years old?

Emerich had discovered Dre Kelisi, who had been abandoned in the wild, eight years ago during an extremely cold winter.

Eight... is the sacred number of Khorne!

Suddenly, Alvin seemed to recall vaguely hearing a voice when he first saw the two siblings.

The voice had said exactly... eight!

"No, that shouldn't be!" Alvin held his head in some pain, feeling every nerve twitching violently as sharp pain swept over him: "Such an important thing... how could I have forgotten it?!"

Khorne's sacred number is "eight"; he could never have forgotten that!

Yet, he hadn't noticed any abnormalities at the time; this wasn't logical, there must be a problem here!

Emerich, who had only his head left and had been embedded into Dre Kelisi's abdomen by some evil witchcraft, struggled to open his eyes. With despair-filled, dim pupils, he looked at him in pain: "Mr. Alvin... help me..."

"Brother... must be with me forever!"

Dre Kelisi, her face twisted by Chaos, roared ferociously: "I won't allow it... I won't allow Brother to be with anyone else! Brother can only love me alone!!!"

"It's all Brother's fault, it's all Brother's fault!"

Dre Kelisi's emotions were extremely unstable, like a powder keg ready to explode at any moment, alternating between clinging affection and furious hysteria: "It was Brother... Brother ignored me. It's all that woman's fault; she... she wanted to snatch Brother away from my side!"

That woman?

Alvin suddenly froze.

He remembered that girl; he had seen her in the Mid-Nest last time. She was the girl Emerich loved dearly. When they parted, they had even talked about how, once his sister was a little more normal, the three of them would live a good life.

But he hadn't expected... to wait for such an outcome!

"Mr. Alvin..."

Emerich was in great pain; the girl's death seemed to have hit him extremely hard, and his eyes were filled with longing: "Help me... help me... I don't want... to become like this..."

"No! I won't allow you to leave me! Brother!"

Dre Kelisi swung her battle-axe frantically. Every strike carried full killing intent and power. Even though she had never systematically practiced any techniques, under Khorne's blessing, her killing arts were near perfection!

"Didn't you say you loved me the most?"

"Why... why did you have to be with that woman?! And you even scolded me for her sake! Before she appeared, you had never scolded me! It's all her fault!"

"Brother... you can only be mine alone!"

"Be with me forever!"

Suddenly, Dre Kelisi turned her tyrannical gaze toward Alvin: "It's you! It's you! You were driving a wedge between me and Brother! Kill you... as long as I kill you, Brother will be with me forever, just like that woman who snatched Brother away from my side. You are all bad people! Bad people who want to snatch Brother away!"

"Kill you——!!!"

Dre Kelisi drew her demonic battle-axe, shattered the ground with a single step, and charged over, wrapped in a suffocating, bloody wind!

Alvin recovered from his shock, drew the power sword that Gray had thrown before he died, activated the bio-disintegration field on it, and blocked the strike sideways!

Clang!

The battle-axe hacked into the power sword!

The blade, forged from adamantium, was actually chipped by "Dre Kelisi's" axe!

The violent power descended like a landslide and tsunami.

In an instant, Alvin felt his whole body shake violently. His legs were bent by that force, his knees nearly smashed into the ground, and his feet sank several inches deep!

What terrifying power...

Fortunately, he was wearing bio-armor.

The elder-level bio-core of the Engineer race still had some technological value; under the furious strike of a Khorne Chosen, it was able to actively dissipate the vast majority of the impact.

If not for that, he feared that even in the best-case scenario, he would have ended up like Gray, blown away by a single strike!

Yet even so, taking "Dre Kelisi's" strike head-on had already left Alvin's muscles and bones numb, his internal organs aching as if twisted, and his eyes filled with extreme horror.

"Damn it... it's like being hit by a train!"

In an instant, Alvin realized that he absolutely could not fight "Dre Kelisi" head-on; otherwise, even with two layers of armor, he couldn't withstand a few more axe strikes from this thing. Even if he wasn't hacked to death, he would be shaken to death!

Whoosh——!

Suddenly, the surrounding temperature dropped rapidly.

Visible frost covered most of the battlefield at an extremely fast speed, and even "Dre Kelisi's" arm holding the battle-axe showed signs of freezing!

The Warp surged, and in the Empyrean, where the thoughts and souls of all living beings flowed, violent power surged out like a torrent!

Veins bulged on Alvin's forehead, and his pupils were bloodshot.

"Psychic—Impact!!!"

The impact formed by psychic energy amplified his voice hundreds of times, like a vast and mighty angry wave, sweeping with hundreds of tons of impact, knocking Dre Kelisi flying dozens of meters away.

That nauseating body, like a cannonball, dragged a rolling air wave and smashed straight into the crowd of onlookers, instantly smashing a dozen unlucky souls into meat paste!

However, such a bloody scene not only failed to make the surrounding cultists fear, but instead ignited their ferocity!

"Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!"

"Charge! Slaughter him!!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

"For the Blood God! For glory!"

"Dre Kelisi," who had been knocked flying, roared in anger, casually swung that profane demonic battle-axe, smashing several noisy and clamoring people nearby into meat paste, and stared fixedly at Alvin with tyrannical, blood-red eyes, revealing a cruel smile: "That's it... this is the prey worthy of me!"

Looking at Dre Kelisi, who had been blown away by psychic energy but was completely unharmed, Alvin's heart gradually sank: "Among the eight blessings Khorne bestowed upon her, there is indeed resistance against psychic energy!"

The "Psychic Impact" just now was almost his greatest strength, and because of the Warp rift torn in the Upper Nest, he had drawn more massive psychic energy than usual.

But the result was no different from a heavy hammer striking Alvin's heart!

Psychic energy, ineffective!

No, to be precise, it should be that "his" psychic energy was ineffective. With "Eta-level" psychic power, it was difficult to harm the essence of "Dre Kelisi," unless it was a much higher level, for example... Alpha?

"Dre Kelisi" was different from Rashid.

The latter was a weakling, and even lost all face for "Khorne," so he couldn't fully manifest the strength that a true blessed one of a Chaos god should have.

And... "Dre Kelisi," the predestined one of the sacred number.

She was a true "Chosen," and would never show a "begging for mercy" situation. The "Eight-fold Blessing" bestowed upon her undoubtedly proved this!

Judging only from the current intelligence, Alvin speculated that her "Eight-fold Blessing" should specifically include strength enhancement, battle desire, rage, psychic immunity, killing techniques, and so on.

Relying on psychic energy to win was clearly unlikely...

Then, the only opportunity to win was close-quarters combat, walking on the edge of life and death, using the power sword in his hand to aim for gaps and decapitate "Dre Kelisi"!