Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

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night.

More than five hundred people gathered around a bonfire.

They are all people who escaped from the gladiatorial arena.

Yaoen, Chen Ye, Rhodes, the female alien, and other prisoners.

Eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight people were killed until less than 500 people were left. Except for Rhodes and his aliens who were present and did not feel sad, everyone else felt heavy and unable to extricate themselves.

"So..." Rhodes was exhausted, leaning on the female alien's arms and looking at Yao En with his chin raised, "You are a ruthless character."

This sentence has no beginning and no end. The reason why Rhodes said this is because he recalled what happened in the arena and sincerely felt that Yaoen was a ruthless character.

If Yao En wanted, he could rush directly into the foundry and rescue everyone.

He and his power armor can fight alone, equivalent to two main combat forces.

Rhodes is also a smart man. After a little thought, he figured out why Yao En was deliberately caught and why he didn't immediately call out the power armor to join the battle.

This was actually a trap designed for Kwien, to get him back, then kill him and stop the entire ritual.

"..." Yaoen didn't give any response, as if he didn't hear Rhodes' words at all.

"Since you are so strong, why don't you protect everyone and just rush out of the arena?" Rhodes asked with a smile, "It's impossible that the more than 8,000 people who died have nothing to do with you, right?"

He knew why Yao En didn't fight out of the arena, and why he didn't get the power armor out from the beginning... Rhodes likes to stir up trouble, and he would feel uncomfortable if he watched such a good opportunity to stir up trouble slip away from him. .

"The enemy is performing a ritual. If this ritual succeeds, the consequences will be disastrous." Yaoen raised his head and looked at Rhodes, directly responding to the question, "Between the lives of more than 8,000 people and preventing the ritual, I chose the latter. "

As soon as he finished speaking, all the prisoners present looked at Yao En, and then lowered their heads.

Chen Ye also glanced at Yaoen. After careful consideration, he thought it was the right decision. If it were him who made the decision, he would definitely choose the latter.

The gladiatorial fight was not only carried out once, but was carried out all the time. Thousands of people died every solar hour, and their lives and blood were used as sacrifices... If a ceremony of this scale is successful, the entire forging world will be affected. It's all dangerous.

"Aren't you taking advantage of everyone? You are so strong, can't you just find Kwain's location and kill him?" Rhodes asked again.

Chen Ye rolled his eyes at Rhodes and thought to himself, what did you say when I asked you where Kwein was in the arena?

"I can't find Kewei En, so I can only use this method to lure the snake out of the hole." Yao En answered frankly again without any hesitation.

Yao En made a plan from the beginning, which was to interfere with the ceremony by pretending to be a prisoner of war, and then lure out the person responsible for performing the ceremony and kill him.

That's why the Praetorian Power Armor wasn't used from the beginning, because Kwaine hadn't returned yet.

"It's boring." Rhodes felt that Yao En was indifferent and didn't show any guilt at all, so he stopped conducting this kind of moral torture.

Rhodes used psychic powers many times while being suppressed by the Soulless. He felt exhausted and fell backward into the arms of the female alien, communicating with the alien in a strange language.

Yaoen looked at the alien behind Rhodes. He thought it was definitely not an alien but a demon.

the reason is simple.

Yaon recalled hearing about the Chaos Warbands, some of which were Chaos Space Marines who summoned daemons for their own use.

Rhodes is obviously the one who can summon demons.

"Ahem..." Chen Ye cleared his throat and looked at Rhodes, "Do you think we have forgotten you? You damn traitor and heretic, don't think that you will not be punished if you perform well in the arena. Are we considered enemies?"

After hearing this, Rhodes sat up straight and looked at Chen Ye with some surprise: "I thought we were already friends. In the Eye of Fear, the relationship between people is that they don't know each other even if they don't fight. We may be from different war gangs. But as long as we work together, we will become friends.”

When he said this, Rhodes was not generally sincere, and sounded a little aggrieved, as if he really regarded Chen Ye as a friend, but Chen Ye did not regard him as a friend.

Yao En originally wanted to remind Chen Ye not to believe anything a Chaos Space Marine said, but Chen Ye seemed to know better than him.

"They are talking nonsense, don't believe it." Chen Ye frowned and warned Yaoen, then turned to stare at Rhodes, "Don't pretend to be innocent, you are not a fuel-efficient lamp, you must have been thinking about what to do for a long time. Are you going to kill us?"

After hearing this, Rhodes was silent for a moment and shook his head very seriously: "I did want to kill you all before I came out, but now I don't want to."

Listening to the conversation between the two, others present felt that their breathing had become heavier. They didn't know whether it was because the filters in their lungs were no longer working or something.

The air in the Forge World still smells of iron even if it is filtered, but at this moment, the smell of gunpowder can be smelled.

The crisis that Chen Ye and Rhodes needed to face together has been resolved. Now the two of them are back to the state in the cell, that is, they also want to cooperate with each other, but they are also planning to kill each other after leaving the arena.

"Find a settlement." Chen Ye stood up slowly, walked to the open space next to the bonfire, and stared at Rhodes.

Yaoen stood up and walked to Chen Ye's side. His position was already very obvious.

The newly rescued prisoners saw Rhodes fighting the enemy in the arena. They didn't really want to kill Rhodes, but as Imperial people, they still had to make a choice between the enemy and ourselves.

"This has nothing to do with you!" Chen Ye shouted to the prisoners, signaling them to stay away and retreat as far away as possible.

Yaoen stared at Rhodes, the shoulder cannon was locked and ready to fire. He saw Rhodes' girlfriend-like alien... no, it was a demon. The demon also sensed that something was wrong in the atmosphere, and took a fighting stance with the bone knife in hand.

Rhodes didn't stand up. He was still sitting by the campfire. He just raised his hand to signal the devil not to interfere in this matter.

"Get up and fight." Chen Ye clenched his fists, "I won't kill those who don't resist."

"Don't be too anxious, young man." Rhodes laughed from under his helmet. He did not get up to prepare for battle, but was still sitting next to the campfire.

This young man made Chen Ye very dissatisfied: "I have served for eighty-four years."

"Ah?" Yao En was stunned for a moment.

Rhodes did not take off his helmet. No one knew what he looked like, but everyone thought that Yaoen and Chen Ye looked like the same age.

"Eighty-four years? Haha..." Rhodes suddenly raised his head and looked up at the starry sky, "How long ago did I leave my home star... It seems to be one hundred and twenty-nine years in the 30th millennium, or maybe one hundred. Forty years..."

Sorry, brothers, I still have something to do today.

So I stayed up late and wrote five chapters and posted them.