Nearly a month has passed.
At this time, the Wolf King Leman Russ, known as the Emperor's executioner, and his fleet of the Sixth Legion had arrived at the home planet of the Thousand Sons Legion, which was above the orbit of the planet Prospero.
.
What surprised the Sixth Legion's fleet was that, for some unknown reason, the Fifteenth Legion's fleet originally stationed in the orbit of the planet disappeared, so the originally planned space battle did not happen.
Although he didn't know why the fleet disappeared, as soon as he arrived, the Wolf King Leman Russ sent an ultimatum to his brother Magnus on the planet Prospero, asking him to
After disarming, evacuating civilians and unconditionally accepting the custody of the Sixth Legion, Leman Russ could not immediately execute the obliteration order, but instead escort Magnus and his Legion soldiers back to Terra?
Because, as the original body, the Wolf King felt that his brother, Magnus, did not have the will to fight, nor did he flee with the opponent's fleet in fear of crime, but stayed on the planet waiting for him, so,
Feeling that there might be some hidden secret, he decided to catch the person first and ask questions before talking about it.
Furthermore, he really didn't want to do that kind of fratricidal thing. If the Emperor was really determined to execute Magnus, then he could capture him first, and then kill him on Terra.
Execution is also possible.
But unfortunately, and I don’t know why, Wolf King Leman Russ never received any response from his brother.
Yes, not only did Magnus not respond to him, but even the planet Prospero did not give him any response!
After waiting for a few days, seeing Lord Prospero refusing to cooperate and seeing the entire planet in an uncooperative state, Wolf King Leman Russ, who had exhausted his last bit of patience, had to grit his teeth.
Made up my mind.
then!
Wolf King Leman Russ quickly ordered the fleet to launch a saturation bombing in low-Earth orbit on the surface of Prospero, which had lost the protection of the fleet and refused to respond to his request to surrender.
In an instant!
As the order was issued, the fleet that had been silent for several days in the silent space seemed to be instantly awakened by an invisible force. Then thousands of guns fired, and thousands of battleships, from cruisers to the huge glory
Queen-class battleships, the weapon systems they carried and had been prepared for a long time were instantly activated and began to release the kind of terrifying power that could almost tear the starry sky apart.
First, there are the heavy rail guns and macro cannons. After the shells they fire enter the atmosphere, each one is as bright and dazzling as a small star. Finally, it drags a long and terrifying tail flame across the sky, heading straight for Prospero.
And go.
Soon, each of those artillery shells with the power of tactical or even strategic nuclear bombs hit the target in the planet's atmosphere and exploded. The shock waves caused by one after another instantly caused countless mountains to collapse at the same time, and the fire of the explosion almost dyed the sky.
Orange-red, like a large blazing sunset.
However, it is completely incomparable with the beautiful sunset, it is a piece of deadly flames and shock waves!
The mountain ranges, the natural backbones that had witnessed the rise and fall of countless civilizations, seemed so fragile in front of that force at this moment. They were instantly flattened and turned into billowing smoke, directly covering the entire sky.
Along with the large and small macro cannons, there are also the fleet's plasma laser arrays, which almost simultaneously lock onto key areas on the planet's surface, such as cities, military bases, energy centers, etc.
Then, the terrifying plasma beams of various colors that were as terrifying as the death scythe continued to bombard, and the silent but extremely deadly energy began to cut and burn everything, easily melting steel and concrete buildings and even evaporating them into steam, just one by one.
The bombardment left behind scorched marks and twisted metal frames.
Not long after, the lights that marked the once glorious and civilized city were extinguished one by one, replaced by blazing flames and a glass-like surface, as well as the flames that covered the sky and almost made the night sky look like daylight!
And the most terrifying thing is those Queen of Glory flagships equipped with ‘heavy macro artillery’ weapons!
As they slowly adjusted their posture on the track, as the energy core of the huge gun group began to fluctuate violently, and as the deafening roar that everyone in the battleship could hear sounded, those weapons seemed to be able to tear apart.
The space structure caused a local gravitational collapse, and the terrifying cannonball flew out.
And when they touched the ground in Prospero, the entire planet seemed to be trembling, and huge energy vortices appeared on the surface and quickly swallowed up everything around it.
The ocean evaporated almost instantly, forming a huge steam cloud, which was then pulled by the ruthless gravity and severe cold at high altitudes, turning into an apocalyptic rainstorm.
But the fleet's bombing continued, and the heavy rain that was like the birth of a planet in the early stages of its life could not extinguish those terrible bombing flames. On the contrary, it continued to intensify under the continuous and continuous bombing.
At the same time, if anyone is on the planet, it will not be difficult to find that the air of the planet is beginning to be filled with the pungent smell of burning and the stench of radiation!
During the heat wave, all the breath of life was ruthlessly deprived...
Dust and debris obscured the sky, and even the light of stars could no longer penetrate the increasingly thick barrier. At this moment, Prospero fell into almost eternal darkness and silence.
The once prosperous cities, peaceful villages, and dense forests have all turned into dust that only exists in history at this moment!
Countless lives, whether human or otherwise, have come to an abrupt end in gunfire...
The originally beautiful, rich and prosperous planet was instantly turned into a scorched earth under the ruthless orbital bombardment, and countless cities and billions of civilians were instantly reduced to ashes.
However, even then, there was still one city that survived by chance, and that was Prospero's capital, Tizca, the City of Light!
It turns out that this is because most of the 'Thousand Sons' troops of the Fifteenth Legion on the planet Prospero are stationed there, and then the Falcon School psykers gathered all their strength to rise there.
The psychic shield enveloped the entire city, allowing Tizca, the City of Light, to barely survive the orbital bombardment of the 'Space Wolves'.
After the orbital saturation bombing finally ended, when the ships in the fleet stopped firing and began to overhaul the bombardment deck and maintain the macro guns, seeing the current situation of Tizca, the City of Light, Wolf knew that continuing the bombing might not make much sense.
Wang Liman Russ was upset and decided to marry him
He landed on the ground with his landing force, that is, a powerful force composed of Astartes Space Marines, Mortal Auxiliary Army, Custodes and Sisters of Silence, and immediately planned to hide in the city.
The stubbornly resisting "Thousand Sons" launched the final general attack.
As the battle began, the two sides soon started fighting in the city.
In a few days and nights, missiles, lasers, melt weapons, plasma weapons, etc. almost turned the originally magnificent city of light, Tizka, into a sea of ​​fire and ruins, with countless troops from both sides and civilians
Lost their lives in the flames of war, and the streets were filled with the roars of wild wolves and the cries of defenders and innocents.
But even after fighting for days and nights, the fighting still continued...
Although we are outnumbered, in street battles, the Thousand Sons' powerful psychic power often allows them to easily defeat the Space Wolves' Astartes Space Marines with one against a hundred, and even easily defeat a single enemy.
A powerful Space Wolf warrior was thrown into the air and torn into pieces with psychic powers, or burned into ashes with lightning and fire, turning every street and square in the city into a purgatory for the attackers.
and flesh and blood Shura field.
However, that is of no use!
When the Emperor's Custodians and anti-psionic forces like the Sisters of Silence, which specialize in restraining psykers, entered the battlefield, the advantage of the Thousand Sons was completely lost. Then, coupled with the powerful Custodes, under a double blow,
The front they could still maintain soon began to collapse on a large scale.
At this time, Magnus, the original body of the Fifteenth Legion's Thousand Sons, still did not show up. He was still hiding in the library, hiding in the great library of the Pyramid of Fetep, no matter how hard his descendants were.
He begged, but it was as if he didn't see the tragedy in the city and didn't hear the voices of his heirs.
The reason why Magnus was indifferent to the attack of Wolf King Leman Russ and the pleading of his descendants was naturally because he knew:
Not only did he violate the psionic ban imposed by the Council of Nikaea on the Astartes warriors never to use psychic powers again, but he also accidentally sabotaged an important plan of the Emperor on Terra. Therefore, he knew that he was guilty.
Unforgivable, he just wanted to wait silently on Prospero for the arrival of the Wolf King.
He even ordered in advance to divide the legion's fleet originally stationed over the planet Prospero into four battle groups and send them to different directions in the galaxy, in order to avoid them from engaging in firefights with the incoming imperial fleet, and at the same time, he also hoped that
Your descendants should not make any resistance to the Emperor's order that the Space Wolves Legion will carry out next, and accept any punishment that the Emperor sends down calmly?
Then, he himself hid in the large library of the capital, while searching for relevant measures that might remedy the evil deeds he had committed, while at the same time carefully teaching the person he unexpectedly found with extraordinary psychic talent.
students.
Just like now, even if the people of Wolf King Leman Russ have attacked his city, even if his descendants who don't want to sit still and die are eliminated in the chief wizard and commander of the first company, that is, the Thousand Sons Legion.
Under the leadership of Azek Ahriman, the most powerful wizard besides Magnus, they were resisting bravely, and when their number might only be a little over a thousand, he was still fighting against those who were resisting and begging him.
The heirs ignored him and just hid in the big library, even pretending as if nothing had happened and continued to connect to Ali who didn't know how many light years away through subspace spells and taught seriously.
"Ally..."
"Today, I will tell you about the differences in the application of psionic energy between different psionic schools. Since the content is too complicated, I will not go into details. You only need to know a general idea."
"To be specific, you can come to Prospero's library in the future, if you have another chance..."
Having said this, Magnus sighed, and then he didn't know what he was thinking of, and he was silent for a long time.
"..."
And Ali didn't think much about it, she just waited patiently.
She knew each other's situation and situation, and thought that the other party was worried about the other's own fate and the fate of her Ally, so she had that reaction. She did not think about the fact that Prospero's heart was said to be surrounded by a large group of people.
Psykers and scholars who are ostracized from the human world and focus on studying the warp and what is happening to places with psionics.
She had only heard Magnus say that it was a wild place far away from Terra with a long journey, and the distance was far enough to cut off the connection with the human world.
However, there is a place called the "City of Light", which is beyond words, and is filled with dazzling silver towers, towering obelisks, and solemn pyramids. Then the group of exiled human souls
Psionics devote themselves wholeheartedly to the pursuit of knowledge and the control of psychic powers. Is it a paradise for psychics?
Anyway, if there is a chance in the future, Ali will definitely go there and have a good look.
"Let's continue the topic just now..."
Magnus did not continue to remain silent, but sighed sadly again and continued to slowly explain to Ali:
"The Tianxiao school specializes in mind reading and telepathy."
"I have taught you the technique before. As the name suggests, after practicing, you can directly learn and even read other people's true inner thoughts through spiritual energy without relying on language. That is mind reading!"
"For example, our conversations here in subspace actually have some applications of mind reading and telepathy. Otherwise, normal communication would not be possible in this subspace without any physical rules."
"And this is the reason why some powerful subspace demons and evil gods are the most terrifying and difficult to guard against. Their whispers are pervasive, and the same is true for me. They have never stopped tempting me for a moment. If you hadn't If you have a strong enough spirit and will, once you are targeted, you will become their puppet sooner or later!"
"Horus, the Primarch of your Sixteenth Legion, is a lesson learned from the past. You must be cautious and don't be careless!"
Having said this, Magnus did not forget to mention the matter of Horus again and hoped that Ali would learn from it.
Then, when he saw Ali's humbly accepting attitude and nodding her head hurriedly as she should be, he turned and continued:
"Next is the Black Crow School..."
"They mainly practice psychic prophecy. I don't recommend you to study this school in depth. After all, I haven't dabbled in it much, and I always feel that it is a little impractical?"
"Although some predictions have indeed been proven to come true afterwards, in my opinion they are still a bit too far-fetched, and the probability of success is too low to be of much use."
"I won't tell you any more."
It could be seen that Magnus was not very optimistic about or believed in the power of prophecy and the like, so he thought about it and simply ignored it in a high-sounding way.
Anyway, he didn't quite believe it, otherwise, if there really was a prophecy, he and Prospero wouldn't be in this situation today.
"As for the Falcon School, let's talk about it in detail."
"This school is mainly about the application of psychic power, various applications, such as telekinesis control, protective shield, telekinesis cage, telekinesis rift and space collapse, etc."
"I won't go into details. I have taught you many of these applications before, and I have also made it clear to you before. Before your psychic power is developed to a certain level, their power will be limited. Can it be used as an auxiliary skill?”
"There is also the Liangyu School..."
"That's about flesh and blood remodeling and body strengthening. To be honest, I don't recommend you get involved."
"After all, you are not an Astartes, and I don't guarantee whether you will be able to maintain your current perfect body and spiritual talents after strengthening..."
"So, I won't tell you more about the knowledge of this school. Besides, we don't have that much time to study it."
"In short, there are different factions of various societies on Prospero. I won't bother to talk about those that are too complex and biased."
Having said this, Magnus glanced up and down Alli's body with some relief.
Because, he vaguely saw some shadows of the Emperor in Ali, and found that like the Emperor, she had extremely powerful psychic talents, and both seemed to be born immortals among mortals?
However, what is different from the Emperor is that the power of their father, the Emperor, has reached its peak, and the next step is to transcend the god-like existence in the subspace; and the student Ali in front of him has just It is just in its infancy, and his psychic talent has just been developed by himself. As for how far it will grow in the future, he himself does not know, and may never see it.
"at last……"
"It's the Fire Phoenix School..."
"They specialize in psychic flames, and are also very involved in the application of lightning and other psychic powers. They are also the most powerful faction among our Thousand Sons."
"This is also the easiest thing for you to master and transform into combat power and protect yourself at this stage. Therefore, I suggest that you specialize in the knowledge of this school for a long time in the future. You must use those skills of psychic energy.
Thoroughly master the hotel application.”
"After all, only by living and living can you have more time to study the knowledge of other schools of thought, and then improve and enrich yourself?"
Magnus began to be coaxing, and his tone and tone were different from usual. He seemed a little hasty?
"I……"
Then as he was talking, he suddenly stopped again, turned his head to look in a certain direction with some astonishment and solemnity, and did not say anything for a long time.
"??"
The other party's behavior naturally made Ali notice something abnormal very quickly. So after waiting for a while, she saw that the other party still had that weird expression, and she couldn't help but asked with some surprise and nervousness:
"teacher?"
"How did you..."
"What happened?"
What Ali knows is that the other party is definitely not observing the subspace. It seems that he is distracted to observe and listen to the real physical universe where the other party's body is located, that is, what is going on outside the library of the City of Light, the capital of Prospero, where the other party is currently located?
Although, Ali had been in contact with the other party with the attitude of taking advantage of the other party from the beginning, but after so many days, she saw that the other party taught her so wholeheartedly, and never kept secrets, and taught her almost everything she knew.
With her caring and responsible attitude, she was gradually moved to treat him as a teacher.
After all, she didn't seem to have any conflict of interest with the other party. In addition, the other party was also facing oppression and punishment from the emperor. She felt that the two parties were quite sympathetic in some aspects, so the back and forth came naturally.
emotion.
Of course, it is just the emotion between teachers and students, nothing more.
"..."
"Everything has become dust..."
"It's all over!"
Facing Ali's inquiry, Magnus continued to remain silent, as if he hadn't heard anything at all. Then after a while, he sighed with regret and turned to look at the worried Ali again:
"Ally."
"Actually, Wolf King Leman Russ has been in Prospero for many days..."
"Now they are attacking our last stronghold..."
"Today will be our last class. If you still don't understand anything, just ask."
After saying that, Magnus sighed again.
Because he had just felt the aura of Wolf King Leman Russ, who had already attacked outside his last stronghold, and his descendants, except those who were dispatched by him together with the fleet before, the number left now may be
It's less than a thousand.
Therefore, he knew that the last moment was coming soon, and he could no longer stay in the subspace.
"!!"
"teacher!"
Hearing this, Ali never expected that the truth would be like that, and her eyes suddenly widened in shock.
"teacher!"
"You'd better run away quickly!"
Then, Ali thought about it and realized that she was completely unable to help and had no good ideas, so she had no choice but to persuade her again.
Although she has advised her countless times, and although she also knows that with her ability as a cheap teacher, it shouldn't be difficult to use psychic energy to teleport over long distances?
"it's useless……"
"Goodbye, my student, I'm glad to meet someone as talented as you..."
"I hope you can find a chance to escape from Horus's fleet and live well..."
"I have nothing left to teach you..."
"Good luck?"
With that said, seeing that Ali was just anxious and trying to find ways to persuade him, Magnus smiled bitterly and took a deep look at Ali for the last time, then suddenly disconnected from each other, leaving the incompetent person behind.
Ali was kicked out of the subspace arbitrarily.
"!!"
"teacher!"
So, in a small officer's cabin in the Vengeful Spirit, Ali suddenly opened her eyes and jumped up from her single iron bed, exclaiming.
However……
The only thing that caught her eyes was her small personal cabin. Even if she wanted to lie down again and concentrate on connecting and calling, her teacher Magnus no longer responded to her.
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