The soldiers broke through the shaky dead bodies and rushed into the square, leaving enough space for the command team.
Then they stopped, prepared their weapons, and waited for the commander's order.
Soon, Soshyan appeared in this huge square, followed by the rest of the command team.
In front, the arc of purple lightning jumped from a blasphemous altar made of corpses on the ground, etching a circle of scars on the ground, and the air was filled with the stench of ozone and the disgusting smell of rotten flesh. Subspace energy invisibly rippled on the skin, stirring by the unnatural energy emitted from the huge ritual circle in the center of the space.
Seventy scattered plague warriors stood outside the circle, their power armor covered with pustules and exposed organs twitched from time to time in response to the ceremony. The eyes of various forms under the broken helmets were flashing with dim light. It was them who drove thousands of corpses against the warriors of the Empire.
As soon as Soshiyang saw them, he immediately felt a strong disgusted heart.
If the believers of Slaanes despise him, then the impression that Nurgold believers leave him is only disgusting.
Plague Warriors are Chaos Space Marines who devoted themselves to the Chaos God Nurg. The bodies in their bloated armor were swollen due to disease, corrupted by swelling, and corrupted by corruption. Their weapons and equipment may be rusted, but even so, they are still terrible enemies.
These heresy have an inhuman endurance to pain and can tolerate damage that is sufficient to cripple other Space Marines, whose nerves are dull and even partially rotten due to illness.
Most of the time, plague warriors appear in the Death Guard Legion, but not all plague warriors come from the Death Guard. Any Chaos Space Marine who devotes themselves to Nurgur may become plague warriors. The Great Plunder Abaddon recruited many deathguard wizards to his command for his conquest. Therefore, there are also unknown plague warriors in the Black Legion.
The war gang formed by the plague warriors in the Black Legion is called the "Corruption Messenger". These people were commanded by Abaddon's personal choice "Born of Slaughter" Skylark (an old acquaintance) and were committed to spreading the blessings of the kind father Nurg. However, other Chaos Space Marines were not willing to fight with them because they could not bear the "blessing" imposed by the kind father Nurg on these people and the strong stench that followed.
Behind the Plague Warriors, seventeen Nurgle wizards stood at precisely defined points around the ritual circle.
These people who were rejected in the Death Guardian system were wearing torn and dirty robes, with mysterious marks painted on them, and a strange transparent light shining.
Soshiyan saw their skin like wax, with black and gray mottled spots, as if it was about the same as the corpse.
When the Empire's Astart arrived, they turned their heads one after another, but their leader, a tall figure with his back to the Astral Knight, clenched his fists and cursed sharply, summoned them together and called them to continue their work.
It was a huge and bloated giant, without legs, replaced by a slug-like lower body.
Talos looked at the guy for a few seconds, and then introduced the guy's identity to Soshiyan.
He is the 'slut' Lex, a powerful wizard dressed in the Withering Overlord Terminator.
The so-called Withering Overlord is a new unit that was produced after the fall of the Death Guard. They were originally Terminator Warriors in the Legion, but Nurg's corruption allowed these people to be forever integrated with their mutated Iron Cavaliers' armor, thus cleverly combining the standard Terminator's defense and firepower output with the pathological toughness of the Death Guard.
The Terminator of the Withering Overlord serves as the assault force of the Death Guard in battle and can be found in most Death Guards, because these men spent much time on corrupted plague ships, and thus they were filled with corruption from the inside out.
These dirt poured out of their bodies in the form of waves, rotten flesh and rusty metal accumulated around them, and the Withering Overlord Terminator had a vein of corruption everywhere. Once the enemy was captured by the Withering Overlord, the corruption force began to swallow them, and the vehicles and fortifications exposed to them would soon collapse and disintegrate.
In the center of the circle, Soshiyan saw a huge pustule expanding. It was as high as three floors and was still growing. You don’t have to think about it and know that it is definitely not a good thing inside.
There was a force surging inside, as if rising from the depths of the ground.
The black steam, emitting the smell of sulfur and rot, poured out from the deep pit where the pustules were, and the ceremony reached its climax.
This place can be kept so complete under bombing, Soshiyang guessed that the other party must have used subspace power to deflect, or even block the light spear.
Then there is only one remaining solution.
He raised his glowing sword.
"Astral Knights! Crush them!"
Soshiyan's voice echoed in the buzz of the ceremony like a trumpet.
"For the Emperor!"
The Astartes answered neatly and rushed forward like a man.
At the same time, the vehicles following both sides and behind also opened fire together, but the firepower was blocked by invisible subspace forces.
The plague warriors in a circle responded immediately, lifting their weapons and screaming in angrily, then the distance between them was surrounded by howling shells, scorching flames and terrifying hot melt explosions. A large number of bullets passed through the psychic shield and exploded on the plague warrior's soft body, exploding bleeding craters.
But they didn't care at all, and quickly organized a tight formation, poured deadly bomb rains on the Astral Knights and shells carrying terrible plagues.
"There is trouble for those who blaspheme the kind father!!!"
"Slut" Lex raised the huge battle sickle in his hand and let out a vague howl.
"Come out! My servant!"
In an instant, with the roar of overwhelming seas, countless corpses rushed from all directions, but they were not the slow zombies they had before.
Most of these zombies have the characteristics of slugs, and once they are killed, their bloated bodies will explode, and a thick green slug that is half a meter to one meter long is drilled out from it.
Although those disgusting molluscs do not have eyes, they still have heads in a sense. The top and bottom of the head are paired front jaws, forming a certain angle to each other and extending to the outside of the circular jagged mouth, grasping them back and forth at the speed of flapping their wings.
Each short jaw rubs against each other, like thousands of sabers unsheathed.
The slugs zombies squeezed into the battlefield, and they rushed in hunger, making rustling, moist and hoarse hissings as they rubbed against each other.
They rushed towards the battle group, and the warriors opened fire and shot the bomb into the frenzy of devouring life.
A large number of corpses were wiped out, and then a large number of slugs appeared.
The swarm of insects was like a surging flood. Even though they were blown into blood mist, they were still pouring into the front line continuously, and the terrifying surge seemed endless.
The soldiers could only keep firing to suppress the rising insect tide.