"leave!"
72. Battle of Udal - Gathering of the Armies
Outline the path of fortune and draw the star palace.
As one of the Tzeentch demons whose concepts tend to be "fate" and "destiny", the Eye of Luck's favorite thing to do is to stroll in the crystal maze, and use its gorgeous staff, driven by its random curiosity, to gently touch the lines of possibility of those mortals who have intentionally or unintentionally connected their fate to the crystal maze, so that they are fragmented and then reorganized into new veins in chaos. In this process, if the fate of a mortal attracts the pupil of the Eye of Luck, then the fate of this mortal will be pinched in the palm of this Tzeentch demon by all means - the Lord of Change has the patience and time to weave the future of the mortals in his palm little by little, so that it can change for him according to his own ideas. At the same time, the Lord of Change will also use the fate of these mortals controlled by him to open up more destiny for himself - the Eye of Luck is sure that as long as he continues to operate like this, sooner or later, he will be able to step into the deepest part of the crystal maze and stand beside the magic bird god as one of the nine great demons.
But now?
Through the supernatural vision exclusive to the Great Demon of Tzeentch, the Eye of Destiny raised its head and stared at the golden flames in the sky that suddenly erupted after thirteen strange noises and then began to slowly spread. It trembled as it felt the golden flames, whose owner it should know, burning the path of destiny it had drawn one by one. Its unpredictable heart was turbulent. As a changeable demon king, it was undoubtedly happy to have the opportunity to face the unknown, and solving the unknown would definitely bring it closer to its creator. However, it was arbitrarily facing the power of the cursed...
If you are not careful, this day next year in the physical world will be your real death anniversary!
Therefore, under the dual stimulation of the ecstasy of thinking that he had guessed the idea of the demon bird god and the fear that he might really die, the Eye of Luck burst out with amazing action, trying every means to drag the resources that he could mobilize in the subspace to the real world - with its unremitting guidance, the torrent of the subspace continued to flow into reality, allowing nine unpredictable chaos gates to open in the void. At the call of the Lord of Change, 90,000 Tzeentch demons passed through the portal and stepped into this world with wild laughter. With its unremitting chanting, bizarre crystals sprouted and grew on the metal ground, turning into a magic tower maze.
"Gah - come, servants of the cursed, I will send you into the maze and make you my new destiny - Gah???"
Sensing the ninth magic tower gradually taking shape in reality, sensing the surging power of the usurping heaven around him, under the guidance of instinct, the depths of his pupils began to reflect countless
The new, all-powerful, and victorious Lord of Change spread his wings, raised his head, and proudly screamed provocatively toward the sky. He was sure that even though his opponent was a terrifying cursed being, the omniscient Saint Tzeentch had already pointed out the direction for him to get the answer. As long as he...
However, before the Eye of Fortune screamed for about nine seconds, something it had never predicted happened in the real universe. As Abathur sent all his Tyranid swarms into the battlefield as the vanguard, the thick clouds above the sky were suddenly torn into a series of cracks by the powerful impact. Amid the whistling sound, the Tyranid airborne cysts with their fangs and claws dragged the tail flames produced by friction with the air and smashed into the reality where demons were already dancing wildly. The Tyranid Tyrant, which was surrounded by smoke and looked a little green, stepped into the crystal realm with the roaring swarms of insects, causing a demon tower to crumble and fog to fill the air. The power of the warp became thin in front of the shadow of the swarm, and thousands of weak demons were exiled back to the warp without even a howl.
"Impossible. Why would the Tyranids invade this world?"
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The howling of the wind.
The rumbling sound of a mechanical engine.
Uniform footsteps.
The sound of horse hooves.
Apart from that, there was no other noise.
On the wasteland outside the main city of Balaton Forge, in the dust blown up by the wind of the Forge World, the soldiers of the Krieg Death Legion, the only troop of the Empire that could not be persuaded to stay by the Hammer Men, were neatly arranged into a square formation with no end in sight. Accompanied by their vehicles and led by the Lich Lord's Krieg Death Troopers, they marched silently towards the horizon. A little further away, Hammer's other Imperial chess pieces were also arranged in a firm formation, accompanying them forward - among them, the most conspicuous chess piece was the Political Commissar's Shadow Sword. This legendary vehicle covered with kill labels was serving as the sharp edge of the vehicle formation, leading the Hammer's heavy vehicle army, with an unstoppable momentum, rushing to the assembly point set by the Hammer. At that place, Liang Feifan's Douya had already prepared the Webway gate, and the moment the Chaos troops on Udal were torn open by Abathur's Tyranid troops, these Webways would be collectively activated, allowing their main force to quickly step into the battlefield that had already been contaminated by Tzeentch's monsters.
"......"
Behind them, on top of the tallest wall of the largest forge city in the Balaton Forge World, the Galli Wolf was leaning against the edge of the wall, quietly watching his battle brothers leave. Beside him, the Rune Priest Tolom was also holding his weapon, looking in the direction where the troops were leaving, silent.
"Rune Priest, I need you to keep an eye on the strength of the warp storm surrounding us from now on. When the warp storm surrounding the Morton Hess system dissipates, we must take the STC away from here and return to Fenris as soon as possible to hand it over to our Alpha Wolf. After that, I will visit the battle brothers of the Raven Guard and learn more from them about what I should know."
When the figures of the last row of warriors disappeared from the sight of the Galliwolf, the Space Wolves Astartes withdrew his gaze and turned to issue orders to Tolom. After hearing the order from his captain, the Rune Priest, who already knew what the main task of the Space Wolves was now, nodded slightly to indicate that he understood.
"Go back. Our battle brothers have already rushed to their duties, and we, too, must perform ours."
73. Battle of Udal - Roar of the Eye of Luck
What are the most painful things for the demons of the Tzeentch faction?
Before encountering this battle, if the Eye of Luck heard someone or a demon asking it this question, it would laugh nine times and spit out a string of answers that were difficult to distinguish between true and false in a very changeable way, luring the questioner into one crystal vortex after another and into the destiny path that it had set for the questioner.
but now?
The Eye of Luck can be very unbiased and give a completely unambiguous answer without any Tzeentch traps - what is the most painful thing for the Tzeentch demon? It must be facing the unknown that suddenly appeared in front of him, which is theoretically related to his advancement destiny. Not only can he not parse out any helpful things from these unknowns, but he is about to be beaten up by these "things that shouldn't appear"!
Moreover, what made the Eye of Luck even more difficult was that these Tyranid swarms, which had never appeared in the thread of fate that he had glimpsed before, still did not show their future path to him even after a serious exchange of fire with his subordinates. In other words, the Eye of Luck had to rely on his own "wisdom" to fight these Tyranid swarms that suddenly intervened in the battlefield. Obviously, the Eye of Luck, which had long been accustomed to pulling the threads in the torrent of fate and future, was very, very unaccustomed to such a "fair battle".
"#%...￥#!%&)&(*...!"
However, despite losing its greatest ability to cheat, the Great Demon of Tzeentch still has a lot of means beyond mortals that can allow it to gain an advantage in the game. As it loudly chants spells that normal creatures can't understand at all, the Chaos Winds are
Its fingertips spun, and supernatural blasphemous runes were cast in its palms. In the blink of an eye, a terrifying Tzeentchian spell took shape on the battlefield, and a hurricane of demonic fire with thousands of changes blew towards the Tyranid swarm that had already broken through a bunch of Tzeentchian demons' defenses at lightning speed and was trying to gnaw off the foundation of the crystal magic tower at the edge, vowing to twist the flesh and blood of these abominable things and dissipate their existence.
Then, the demon fire became a candle in the wind halfway - the warp shadow formed by Abathur's Tyranid swarm constructed by the power of the Emperor easily interfered with the structure of the Lord of Change's already formed spell, causing a fundamental change in the logic of its internal magic operation. As a result, this spell that could easily turn millions of mortals into indescribable things, after going through "untold hardships", finally reached its target area, but it had become a thing that a slightly trained psychic could extinguish with one hand.
"...Are these things also transformed by the power of the cursed one?"
Just like the Lord of Change who had completely "died" on the timeline when the Hammermen first encountered in the Star Hive of Jodis, the Eye of Luck also realized the nature of the Tyranid swarm that was attacking its defense line the moment its spell was eliminated. Naturally, as a great demon of Tzeentch, it was briefly ecstatic about this incident, and then, the fear from the depths of its own existence began to sweep its consciousness.
The sky of this world has been devoured by the power of the Cursed Ones, and the Tyranid swarms falling from the sky are actually constructed by the power of the Cursed Ones. Does this mean that whatever I encounter next could be an apostle of the Cursed Ones? This world is actually not a hive world at all, but a...? If this is the case, then doesn't it mean...?
"Quack—that's impossible—impossible!"
More and more bad guesses poured into the soul of the Eye of Fortune, the intertwined changes and terrors made the Great Demon Tzeentch tremble, and the various changes it perceived further pleased Tzeentch himself, who was carefully observing every bit of this world, causing this ever-changing evil god to joyfully bestow all kinds of blessings without sparing any effort - in the blink of an eye, nine brand new long feathers with ever-changing power grew on the wings of the Eye of Fortune, and nine new runes also floated on the staff in its hand - before, the Eye of Fortune would have been ecstatic that its creator valued it so much, but now, this Great Demon Tzeentch just wanted to figure out his current situation!
"????"
Just when the Eye of Destiny was troubled by multiple problems, a breath of mortal souls suddenly followed the veins it had laid out in this world and was drawn into its "nostrils", and along with the smell of these mortals was the new thread of destiny of the world that finally began to flicker in its vision.
"Gah! That's great!!"
Although one of his crystal magic towers had been torn to pieces by the Tyranids, who were actually servants of the Cursed, and although his most advanced subordinates had suffered heavy losses, facing the ecstasy of having the possibility of glimpsing his favorite thing again, the Eye of Destiny did not hesitate to shift all his attention and analyzed these threads of fate based on his latest gift.
However, the scene that the Eye of Destiny expected did not appear before its eyes through its supreme power. On the contrary, the moment it saw the flickering new thread of destiny, a golden flame rose from one of its eyes.
“GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
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"that's it."
Above the Queen of Glory, Big E's somewhat tired voice echoed in the command room - and on the Lich King's command board, his Krieg chess pieces had been "marked with golden light". Because they were worried that fighting in the demon world would cause the souls of the Empire's Krieg soldiers to be tortured after death, the Hammers discussed again and again and asked Big E to see if he had any way to prevent this from happening. As a result, after learning of the Hammers' concerns, Big E directly gave some extra power to the Lich King's Krieg chess pieces, and these powers were enough to ensure that the mortals who fought side by side with these Krieg chess pieces would not have their souls tainted by Chaos no matter what, and could all follow the light of the Astronomican and return to the Terra Throne world in the sense of the Warp.
"Well then, Big E, I'll activate the Webway Gate."
After taking a look around and making sure that the Hammers' pieces were in place and there were no other problems, Liang Feifan placed his hand on the command board in front of him and gave orders to his Eldar pieces. As the light of the Webway Gate was lit, a large door 'cut through the void' and appeared on the landing site that the silent Necrons had already prepared.
At the same time, the Eye of Destiny, which had just barely suppressed its eyes that were burned by the Emperor's power, looked up in astonishment because of the abnormal fluctuations in the subspace, and looked at the golden tide in the sky that was becoming more and more turbulent for some unknown reason. Questions surged wildly in its mind, and countless answers emerged and fell.
But in the end, all its problems turned into just one roar.
"Quack! What on earth happened???"
74. Battle of Udal
—The broken Tzeentch line
Next year in the real universe may really be the anniversary of my death.
If at the beginning, the Eye of Luck only 'instinctively' felt this possibility that had never appeared in its destiny, then now that one of its eyes had been burned by the Emperor's flames and could not be restored, this great demon of Tzeentch has ninety-nine percent determined its fate - after experiencing such a series of things that were a bit explosive for it, the Eye of Luck has already glimpsed the intentions of its creator.
'The cursed seem to have gained new powers, powers whose sources are completely unknown. I want answers, I want answers!'
"Holy Tzeentch, by the way..."
Driven by the dual emotional fluctuations of "I'm afraid I'm going to die today" and "This is something that even Saint Tzeentch finds interesting, I have to see it even if it turns to ashes!", although he had lost the power to peek into the fate line, but thinking that according to the creed of the Tzeentch family, he might still be able to save it, the Eye of Fortune quickly screened the vast knowledge he knew, and quickly selected 999 tactics that were suitable for the current situation, and then quickly applied these tactics to his current situation, found nine of the most suitable solutions, and simultaneously projected them into the field under his control. With the series of intensive operations of the Tzeentch Demon, the power of chaos successfully gained an advantage on the battlefield, the momentum of the invaders was curbed, and the first crystal tower, which was shaken by the impact of Abathur's Tyranids, slowly regained stability.
“........??”
However, before the Eye of Luck could happily calculate what advantages this new change would bring to itself, a heavy tremor was transmitted to its senses along the metal ground of the hive city. Realizing that something was happening, the Great Demon of Tzeentch raised his head and looked in that direction, and its remaining eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets.
"Do not!!!!"
"Aim—shoot!!!"
In the distance, accompanied by an angry command, the first batch of Imperial long-range fire forces that had already completed their formation roared in unison. With the help of the coordinates provided by the Necron chess pieces and the Tyranid Swarm chess pieces, and led by the firepower of Hammer's Astartes troops, thousands of shells accurately penetrated the evil sorcery set up by the Great Tzeentch on its position, and fell like a rainstorm on the tower and vicinity of the No. 1 Tzeentch Tower. Flames billowed, shock waves shook the polluted earth, shrapnel flew, and the power of the material world began to shatter the demonic shadow of the subspace!
“Rumble, rumble————!!”
Along with the explosion of the shells, in an instant, the crystal fragments that made up the crystal tower flew everywhere, and the cracking sound that mortals could not hear echoed in the subspace. Before the groaning of the Great Demon Tzeentch faded away, the first crystal tower had completely become history in the real world. One of the most direct results of the collapse of this tower was -
A fatal gap was torn in the battle position carefully arranged by the Eye of Destiny!
"Tyranid Swarm! Charge Forward!"
Seeing that the most direct obstacle line blocking his Tyranid swarm had disappeared, Abathur waved his hand without hesitation and issued the most extreme order to his swarm - as this simple and crude order began to be executed by the Tyranid swarm, most of the remaining Tyranid swarms, led by the Tyranid Tyrant who was still in good condition, turned into a destructive torrent, and crashed into the defense line of the Crystal Tower. After that, the Tzeentch demons were collectively "shocked" because of the broken Crystal Tower. In the blink of an eye, these things that should not belong to the real world were sent back to their home in the High Heaven by various biological weapons - or, they were unable to go back at all?
However, the Tyranid swarm's frenzy was only the prelude to the real attack.
"Necron, advance."
Near the second crystal tower, under the command of silence, his group of Necrons have set out again, heading straight for the crystal tower and the group of Tzeentch demons under the crystal tower. These things, written as E-shaped demons, are completely in line with or even surpass their combat effectiveness in this world. They silently sweep away all enemies that stand in their way. The dark green light spreads forward, and the bizarre lights of the Usurper Sky are shattered in the face of absolute power - whether it is the Tzeentch crystal, the Tzeentch magic fire, or the Tzeentch demons, they are no match for the Necrons.
"Mobile warfare, continuous bombing."
Above the third crystal tower, Liang Feifan's Aida and Black Aida aircraft were circling gracefully, using their speed and agility to dodge the seemingly impenetrable anti-aircraft fire surrounding the magic tower and destroying the most important crystal area on it effortlessly. Although the third crystal tower still looked okay, Eye of Destiny knew that it was only a matter of time before this thing collapsed.
"Gah! Great Saint Tzeentch! I am surrounded by the real unknown! I can no longer see the way forward!!"
Three "alien" troops were deployed from three sides, and the power of the Emperor that formed them was beating against them in waves. Although they still maintained considerable power, the crystal field in the eyes of the Great Demon Tzeentch was already full of holes. For the first time, the Eye of Luck felt the feeling of being completely swallowed by the unknown and screamed in joy or misery. Will he fail or succeed? Can he really continue to exist? Why can the cursed be mobilized?
The power of a being that has nothing to do with humans or even has no soul? Are the thirteen sounds before the number of the cursed? If the cursed have a number, why is there no place for them in the highest heaven? The answer to these questions is - I don't know! !
"You're doing very well, very well. I can already feel it, I can already touch it. Keep going, keep going, don't stop, keep going - hehehe -"
The laughter of the demon bird god lingered in the ears of the Eye of Luck, stimulating the great demon of Tzeentch to "regroup". Although the ever-changing demon king had already figured out that his boss was the culprit for his current situation, after hearing Tzeentch's laughter and feeling the new spells appearing on the codex on his waist, the morale of the Eye of Luck, who felt that he could control the new changes, suddenly rose.
"As you command, the omniscient and omnipotent Saint—"
Before he finished speaking, the whistling sound of something falling reached the Eye of Fortune's "hearing", interrupting the Eye of Fortune's praise of Tzeentch. Amid the sound of crystals being shattered, dozens of Space Marine airdrop pods violently smashed in front of it. Elite Space Marine chess pieces from three Space Marine chapters stepped out of the airdrop pods, raised their weapons, locked onto the Tzeentchian demon who had never expected to be hit in the face by a bunch of airdrop pods, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
“Ga gaga gaga——————!!”
75. The Battle of Udal - The Mad Lord of Change
It flapped its wings madly, blowing the crystal gale in all directions.
The mad chanting of spells caused Tzeentch's demonic flames to run disorderly on the battlefield.
Shaking the staff, he tried desperately to induce the great power of the crystal maze.
Remove the seal on the book and release the evil smile of the Lord of Tampering with Heaven.
The Great Tzeentch is fighting, the Great Tzeentch is laughing, the Great Tzeentch is casting spells, the Great Tzeentch is... fearful.
Yes, the Eye of Luck was afraid, even though it was facing only a hundred Astartes warriors who had no think tank organization, did not carry too many heavy weapons, and even felt a little bit of fighting on their own, even though it could easily use its terrifying spells to knock these Astartes warriors away or even defeat them, even though it could effortlessly control the power from the warp to turn the firepower that was enough to turn thousands of mortals into ashes into dust. However, the Eye of Luck was still afraid of this battle.
"What is the matter with the Cursed One? Is it sitting on the throne? If so? Why are its servants so strange?"
Looking at the Astartes team in front of him that had just been knocked away dozens of meters by him, with the changing fire on its body still churning with wildly changing colors, but was still able to quickly get up from the ground, pick up weapons that were not affected at all and continue to pour ammunition such as explosive bombs at him, he was overwhelmed and used his shield to block a bunch of seemingly ordinary plasma balls, but in essence they were things transformed by the power of the curse. Then he flapped his wings and blew out a wave of crystal storms, forcing back several Astartes who were holding various melee weapons and rushing over to try to engage in close combat with him in a fearless manner. From the appearance, he looked more elite than the other Astartes. He also picked up his staff and pried away a warrior who was swooping down towards him with a jet backpack on his back. Finally, the Eye of Luck, who had barely caught a little gap, cast a spell without hesitation and used a short-distance teleportation to retreat to a place that was more suitable for escape later. Indeed, the Great Demon Tzeentch was sure that as long as he kept fighting like this, it was inevitable that he would win this round of battle, but he just didn't dare to gamble!
'Why does the cursed still insist on using the power of the 'empire' when they can control other powers? Why is the fighting power of the servants of the cursed almost the same as their prototypes in the real universe? Why does the servants of the cursed not change even their external shapes no matter how much they endure the power of change? Why don't the servants of the cursed choose a more efficient way of fighting? Why doesn't the cursed project the 'power of other servants' onto this battlefield? '
Questions lingered wildly, the fog became more and more entangled, and the laughter of Tzeentch himself mixed in the throat of the Eye of Luck, making the great Tzeentch's eyes appear colorful - for a moment, the Lord of Change felt that he had become part of the problem, a real crowbar that could reveal the answers to these questions - as long as he was reduced to ashes, then the great Demon Bird God would know something!
"Yes, that's right, keep fighting, keep going - changes, unknowns, show me all of this -"
The voice from the High Heavens lingered softly, the essence of the Eye of Fate trembled wildly, and the choice between left and right became extremely difficult in front of it - and after enduring another round of explosive bombs in the face, the Great Demon of Tzeentch finally made his decision.
That is--
RUN first! !
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“.......ran away?”
Looking at the combat hologram floating in front of him, Gu's expression was subtle.
".....I guess I'm not mistaken. The Tzeentch has escaped?"
After repeatedly confirming that there was no trace of Tzeentch in the field of vision of his Imperial Fists chess piece, Liang Feifan's expression became strange.
"It probably ran away, but the chess pieces we threw down basically have no chance of killing it. At most, we can only injure it halfway.
Considering that this guy has been blessed by Tzeentch, we may even be able to only cause it minor damage. With the cunning of the Tzeentch demon, it is impossible for it not to realize this - why did it run away? "
The political commissar rubbed her brows, thinking that something must be fishy. To be sure, the Hammers knew that it was impossible to figure out what a Tzeentch was thinking. However, when a Tzeentch was in good shape and even had an advantage, it suddenly retreated....
It's still enough to surprise the Hammers a little.
"Can you find its current location?"
After controlling his chess piece to sweep around the hall where the battle had just taken place and confirming that the bird shadow of the Great Demon Tzeentch had really disappeared, Gu looked at Silence. After the battle began, the master of the Necron chess piece had been monitoring the subspace pollution of the Udal Hive, which served as the battlefield. Silence played an indispensable role in the Hammer guys being able to smash a bunch of Astartes chess pieces around the Eye of Luck.
"-- Its warp reaction has temporarily disappeared. I speculate that it has either returned to the warp or used some advanced Tzeentch magic to hide its whereabouts. In my opinion, we should ignore where this guy went and redouble our efforts to demolish the crystal tower. After all, if all the towers are demolished, the warp pollution of this world can be roughly put to an end. By then, how to flatten or round a Tzeentch without the support of the warp will be up to us, right?"
Silence shrugged his shoulders after letting his Necron units floating in space scan the war zone at the highest intensity but failed to capture any signals that might be from the Great Demon of Tzeentch, and at the same time commanded his Necron troops to advance one grid forward - this meant that God knew how many more Tzeentch's monsters were purified by the dark green beams and turned into the remnants of the High Heaven.
"Having said that, I always feel that it is impossible for us to destroy the Tzeentch thing so easily - hey, a question suddenly occurred to me. In the previous Hive World, we knocked down a ritual platform to change nine to eight, which led to the entry of the Great Demon of Khorne, proving that the summoning rituals of the four gods are interoperable in certain circumstances. Now, if the number of these crystal towers becomes a coincidental number at a coincidence, will it be...?"
Although the Chosen One did not finish the second half of his words, the Hammers all understood what he meant.
"Probably... no?"
76. Battle of Udal - Six Towers
Can the devil dream?
This question is quite stupid.
However, the Eye of Fortune now felt like it was dreaming, or rather, what words could be used to describe the absurdity it was facing? Something that was considered absurd even for the Great Demon Tzeentch?
I clearly just wanted to return to the Crystal Maze temporarily to rest for a while, avoid the limelight, and then think about how to deal with a bunch of things that might be the subspace forces of the cursed, whose origins, combat effectiveness and other key information I haven't figured out yet, in order to obtain more information that my creator likes. However, after casting the spell, not only did I fail to return to the world of the Lord of Change, but I plunged into the realm of Paradise?
