Chapter 2821 The soul of the mourning hero has been exhausted (2)
Although Malakin was praised by Calgar after the expedition for his refugee rescue operation at Slaughterhouse Three, he refused all honors and left the expedition in silence with the Lamenters.
Even because of this matter, he asked the then chapter commander to resign as company commander, but he was not allowed. Even after his predecessor died in the battle, everyone unanimously elected him as the chapter leader, but this was still Malakin's life.
One of the nightmares that never goes away.
"...I recovered the gene seeds of my fallen brothers one by one, chapter leader, but now I can't even recover their gene seeds."
Malakin reached out and patted the shoulder of this old friend who had fought side by side for more than three hundred years.
"I know, but this is the mission that the Weeper inherited from the Gene Father. We will stand up again and save more people... Bring the Black Blood Holy Grail."
Upon hearing the name of the Blood Holy Grail, the Holy Blood Priest's eyes widened with disbelief.
"Chapter Commander, you - do you want to..."
"I heard it. The Tyranids are hitting the last gate. The Chapter cannot bleed any more... We have no choice."
"Do you know the consequences of doing this?"
After taking a deep breath, Malakin nodded weakly.
"I know that this is the source of the Weeper's taboo, but apart from it, nothing can help us anymore. Go get it."
After a few seconds of silence with a complicated expression, the Holy Blood Priest finally turned around and walked to a room nearby. Amidst a mechanical friction sound, something seemed to be opened.
Half a minute later, he came out with a simple skull-shaped wine glass, but the glass was completely black and had an ominous sheen.
"Chapter Leader, I still think we shouldn't do this. The Black Blood Holy Grail is a cursed object, which is also the reason why our chapter does not have as serious a red thirst and black rage as other brother chapters. This is a magic box. Once it is opened,
Perhaps we are doomed. According to the tradition of the Chapter, only the Chapter Master and the Chief Holy Blood Priest can know the existence of the Black Blood Holy Grail, but what we are deciding now is the fate of the entire Chapter."
The Blood Holy Grail is a unique holy object among the Blood Angels and their many sub-groups. The original Blood Holy Grail was awarded to the Holy Blood Priests by Sanguinius himself. Legend claims that these sacred vessels contain the blood of the original body.
This allowed the surrounding Blood Angels to hear the voice of Sanguinius in their consciousness. In the following 10,000 years, most of these ancient holy objects were destroyed, and only a few remained in the Blood Angels.
Some of the parent group also dispersed into a series of sub-groups of Blood Angels.
There is a special Blood Holy Grail among the Lamenters. Its origin is known only to the first generation Chapter Master and senior leaders of the Lamenters. However, a secret order was subsequently issued. The origin and existence of this object can only be disclosed to the Chapter Master.
As the Holy Blood Priest knows - according to the ancient scrolls in the Chapter's top-secret archives, this Holy Grail comes from a mysterious figure, and is also an existence spread among many Blood Angel sub-groups, the incarnation of Sanguinius, Sanguinius.
promise.
When the Lamenters formed the group, Sanguinor handed the Black-blood Holy Grail to the first generation Chapter Master, and told the Lamenters to guard it well and ensure that it stayed away from Baal, because once it returned to Baal, Sanguinor would
All the descendants of Leth will suffer a huge disaster. At the same time, it also directs the first generation chapter leader of the Lamenters to go to a mysterious place, where there is a way to suppress the curse of Black Rage and Blood Thirst by using the Black Blood Holy Grail.
But no benefit can be obtained for nothing. Only the previous chapter leaders know the horror of the Black Blood Holy Grail. It is not a gift, but more like a transaction, something that must not be known to anyone, even the top leaders of the chapter.
trade.
The Black-Blooded Holy Grail represents a power that the Lamenters love and hate. This allows their gene-seed to remain in a highly stable state for a long time. The curse that plagued the descendants of Sanguinius has almost disappeared, so
The Lamenters are particularly special among the Blood Angels, and Dante originally searched for Malakim to understand the inside story.
As for whether they actually mentioned the Black Blood Holy Grail, only the two of them know for sure.
Faced with the Holy Blood Priest's repeated dissuasion, Malakin said nothing. He reached out and took the Black Blood Holy Grail from the opponent's hand. Then he lowered his head and looked at the bottom of the cup. There was a black mist that seemed to be liquid, and it seemed to be rolling continuously.
The endless abyss.
This is the origin of the title "Watcher of the Abyss" for successive Chapter Masters. The Black Blood Holy Grail has always been personally kept by the Chapter Leader, which is different from other Blood Holy Grails that are kept by Holy Blood Priests.
Bang...bang...
The moment he got the Black Blood Holy Grail, Malakin heard the sound of a thousand beating heartbeats and the sound of blood flowing through blood vessels.
A blazing anger began to burn in his heart, and his blood burned even hotter, as if boiling in his veins.
In an instant, the gloom that originally enveloped him was replaced by a darker existence. His face began to turn red and his lips opened uncontrollably...
At this time, a loud noise came from outside, followed by a creepy invisible touch like static electricity. Malakin was very familiar with this feeling. It was the worm nest tyrant with endless greed.
The fury has come here again, intending to devour all the Sons of Sanguinius inside.
The last angel will tear his wings to pieces...
Leaving traces of flying by the broken window...
Waiting for tragedy to come among the ruins...
Stop escaping from the reality of dreams...
The prophecies of the past will eventually betray all memories of the future...
Malakin murmured the prayer engraved on the Black Blood Holy Grail in a low voice, asked the pharmacist to take off his gauntlets, then gently bit the back of his hand and pierced the skin with his overgrown canine teeth.
The bright red blood slipped from the back of his hand and fell into the black mist drop by drop.
The next second, the black mist began to billow, seemingly activated by blood, and eventually transformed into a strange dark red liquid.
Malakin held the Holy Grail, stared at his reflection in the liquid, and whispered:
"To fight the beast... we can only transform into the beast... Sanguinius... please forgive me... I cannot be a better angel..."
After that, he raised his head and drank the contents of the cup in one gulp!
"The Tyranids...how could a Tyranid fleet suddenly appear!?"
In the spirit bone chamber of the Trace of Victory, Soshyan looked anxious and kept walking back and forth. In front of the opened ghost door, Doral, Star Calamity, Moganla, and Kairis were all there.
The news obtained by the Rangers during the investigation really shocked Soshyan. The Sondheim 5 that the Weeper went to rescue was not just a riot of genestealers. Now the entire galaxy was being destroyed by a wave of immeasurable scale.
The Tyranid Zerg attacked, and even the Suffering Alliance on the Empire's side was unaware of it, let alone other departments and organizations of the Empire.
If Soshyan hadn't been careful, all the Lamenters might have been killed before he and the Suffering Alliance even knew about it, let alone the Alien Tribunal, which was focused on the Royal Court!