The Death Knell

On the planet Fenris, every time it is deep winter, strange people will suddenly appear on the snow-covered islands at night.

They would put out a little wine or food as a reward, and compete with the strongest warriors in the island tribe. The events included racing, drinking, arm wrestling, wrestling, etc.

As long as you think you have any skills in combat, even if it's diving or winter swimming, you can compare them.

These strangers have a terrifying appearance, tall and strong, with eyes that glow like burning flames at night. They are all covered in the fur of Fenrisian wolves, and their appearance alone would frighten any mortal.

But their attitude is fair and serious. They never get close to the islanders and never think too highly of themselves. They only laugh when the game is bloody.

It's just a matter of laughter. When faced with a challenge, these strangers will defeat any warrior at their best.

Once they have competed with all the challengers in the tribe, they will give away the meager prizes, then select the most outstanding person or people in the tribe and disappear into the darkness with these people.

It really disappeared. According to the legend, a group of people came to the seaside, boarded a strange-looking longship, and then flew towards the kingdom of God in a whoosh.

This is the divine selection ceremony passed down in various tribes. People will not be sad because their relatives are leaving. After all, being selected means that the bravery of their relatives has been favored by the gods. This is a supreme honor.

Being taken away means going to the abode of the gods to enjoy the blessings. This is something to be happy about.

And if after the competition, no one from the entire tribe is selected, everyone will feel shame and sadness, because if other tribes find out about the existence of such a useless tribe, enemies will soon come to exterminate them.

As mentioned before, every year the tribe needs to find new islands to live in for half a year in the cycle, and some of the newly born islands are larger in area and richer in products, including fresh water and animals.

And some are completely barren, with only poisonous springs and extinct volcanoes.

The former is a precious survival resource, and tribes will always go to war for survival.

Other tribes may come on the ice in winter, or they may come in long boats in spring, land on the islands of the weak, kill all the men, old people, and children, and only select some strong and suitable women. Go back and reproduce.

This is Plunder, the most popular fitness sport on the planet Fenris.

And every time a war breaks out and blood stains the black stone or the white snow, the same strangers will watch from the sky.

If a warrior shows some extraordinary qualities in battle, such as being particularly brave, particularly cunning, or particularly durable, etc.

The stranger will fall vertically from the sky!

At this time, both sides of the battle will stop according to the tradition in mythology, make way, and wait for the choice of the divine envoy.

The giant in steel armor will approach the chosen one in the awe of others. Generally speaking, the person they choose is on the verge of death, but the stranger does not care.

They will take the chosen ones and disappear into the blizzard or waves, and those lucky ones will also be never seen by anyone again.

Legend has it that they sat on the flying horse of the God of War and became one of the gods.

In fact, these mysterious strangers are the Wolf Chaplains responsible for selecting new recruits for the Space Wolves.

Those young people taken away by them will be rigorously tested and taught the necessary knowledge. Once it is confirmed that they really possess the glorious soul of a warrior, the legacy of the genetic primarch Leman Russ will be implanted in their bodies, thus Making it possible for them to become Space Marines.

If they switch to another battle group, gradually implant gene seeds, and modify the surgical hands, it will be almost a certainty that they will become Space Marine recruits.

But in the Wolf Group, this is just the beginning.

Next, there is the Moka Trial, because the warrior who has been implanted with gene seeds will be sent to the wasteland thousands of kilometers away from the Long Tusk Fortress, and fed bitter wine that can turn a human into a werewolf, thereby further stimulating the most powerful force in his body. The deadly gene seed, the unique wolf gene.

This step is somewhat like the 'Trial of Green Grass' in the wizarding world, at least in terms of mortality.

The potential contained in the gene seeds of the wolf group is almost terrifying. It has taken away the lives of millions of experimenters. What is the concept?

If the priests selected a hundred warriors from various tribes as candidates this year, then in the end only a few who could pass all the difficulties and become Space Wolves could be counted on one hand.

Of course, it is impossible to only select such a small amount of materials every year. Even if it is a dead world, it is still a planet, and tens of thousands of candidates can still be selected.

But this is similar to the admission ratio for the National Civil Service Examination that Su Ming had heard about in his previous life. It is still the kind where you will die if you fail to pass the exam...

Some recruits will be killed by bitter wine, but because of the implanted gene seeds, their corpses can still maintain terrifying vitality. They will twist and roll in the ice and snow in pain for several days, and remain dead until they are removed by a medical officer. Take gene seeds.

And sometimes they are not killed by the bitter wine, but are completely transformed into another creature, an upright werewolf without rational thinking. The genetic changes are too extreme and the body cannot withstand the power of the seeds, which also means failure. .

But no matter how low the probability of selection is and how high the mortality rate is, this step is still necessary. Without gene seeds, one cannot become a Space Marine. After all, the enemies of the Emperor are all terrifying creatures.

Some of the recruits were able to maintain their sanity after drinking the bitter wine, and the wolf priests and medical officers who were watching would leave, leaving them to walk back to the Tusk Keep on foot in the ice and snow.

This is a long road. Not only do you have to face the harsh weather, various terrifying predators, and various accidents on the road, you also have to face the bloodthirsty desire in your own heart.

At the same time, the inspired gene seeds will also reshape the warrior's spirit and body in an almost mutational way.

The bones of the mortal body will be broken and twisted, thick hair will be covered all over the body, the body will expand rapidly, and wolf teeth will grow from the gums.

When the body is destroyed with severe pain, the recruit Danzi must also overcome the darkness in his heart to avoid being completely controlled by bloodthirsty desire.

Su Ming knew that feeling very well. Just like the hunger caused by being seriously injured, biological instinct will make you always want to eat some raw meat and drink some blood, so that you will go completely crazy.

In short, if the candidate survives, retains his sanity, and finds his way back to Tusk Fortress, he will be implanted with the rest of the Space Wolves' gene-seed to stabilize his wolfish nature and become a Space Marine.

But even among these successful warriors, there are still a few who have not been able to completely conquer the original influence of the gene seeds. When they are under great pressure, they will return to a barbaric and bloodthirsty state and become madmen on the battlefield. warrior.

As for the effect of madness, that's a matter of opinion.

This is the curse of the werewolves in the Space Wolves Chapter. It has always been a secret, because the high degree of alienation of the gene seeds is not glorious, and will also arouse the suspicion of the Inquisition, suspecting that the Wolves secretly transform people into beasts or something. Then it can't be cleaned up.

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"Come this way, let's go down and join the Space Marines."

When Su Ming saw the reinforcements arriving, he immediately gave up on blocking the stairs and ran towards the nun on the terrace, arriving at her side in a flash.

"Are we going to jump down?"

Seeing him abandoning the stairs and a large number of greenskins pouring into the communication room instantly, Efilar felt that it was not wise.

Su Ming picked up the remains of the Orc helicopter and pulled out the bamboo dragonfly-like propeller on it: "Hold me, hurry up."

"Alas..." The nun sighed. She had no idea what this man planned to do. Ever since she met him, she found that her worldview was impacted again and again.

But the bad breath of the greenskins can be smelled, and now she has no other choice but to believe him.

As soon as she closed her eyes and gritted her teeth, she threw herself into his arms in a hugging posture, and the next second, she felt a hurricane coming from above her head, and the two of them lifted their feet off the ground!

The roars and bullets of the orcs in her ears were gone. When she opened her eyes, she saw that it was the man who was holding the propeller above his head and spinning it rapidly. His hands became an afterimage, acting as a humanoid engine. The two became a flying unit.

This is not like something that humans can do. He is truly worthy of being a god on earth.

"It's amazing that you can think of such a way!" She smiled with some emotion, watching the orcs swarming onto the terrace, jumping to their feet and shooting randomly, and the kid was pushed off the platform later, screaming. come down.

She slowly landed in the wind, feeling that she had never been so happy.

Su Ming smiled and blocked the bullet with his back without leaving any trace, and said modestly: "Don't thank me, thank Ouchi secret agent Ling Lingfa. This is someone else's idea. I'm just paying homage to the classic."

"ha?"

The nun in her arms raised her head with a black question mark on her face.

But one second Su Ming thought her expression was funny, and the next second the same black question mark expression appeared on his face.

Because he saw that on the other side of the relay station tower, many dark green airborne pods were also dragging flames and crashing down...

Sure enough, the ancients did not deceive me. The Warhammer world is really a magical world. The development of this matter does not follow the basic laws at all. Why is the Dark Angel also coming? !