Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

Kelgart was sitting in a dark basement with no light. There was an old table in front of him and a chair that was also of unknown age. Kelgart had already sat here before. There have been administrators of the Samoylov Colosseum for who knows how many generations, and he is just one of them.

This is the most famous Colosseum in the entire Webway. It is said that when the ancient Eldar Empire still existed, it was already one of the most famous Colosseums in the universe.

Audiences from all over the empire and the whole galaxy came here to watch the fights between war beasts, enjoy the excitement of blood and killing, and witness the death and the screams of beasts before their eyes. It is said that this is because the Eldar Empire has not yet fully devoted itself to joy. In the former, a substitute for the forbidden brutal wrestling between men.

Of course, it seems so stupid now, why ban fighting between people? Where is the civilization between beasts? But no one cares about it now anyway. People only know that the Samoylov Colosseum is the most famous and exciting in the entire webway.

Every day and every night, before every beast battle begins, guests from all over the web and the galaxy, even the dignitaries and archons of Gomo will come here to enjoy the most exciting bloody show. Performances, here can provide wonderful performances not found in Comoros or anywhere else.

This is also a gambling venue. People spend huge amounts of money, pouring all their desires and thirst for blood and killing into the game of the gambling winner, releasing the beast in their hearts in their cheers, as if they were here. Just like those above, when you enjoy the game and win in gambling, you can experience the excitement of fighting and the boiling of blood just like the beasts on the field.

But being a Colosseum administrator here is definitely a hard job. Although he has been working in the Colosseum, Kelgat rarely has the opportunity to go up there to watch beast fighting games. The only time he can participate in that is The only way to compete is to register the roster of fighting beasts here, and to sign up and ask people to drag away the bodies of the dead beasts.

Most of the time, those corpses will be broken into dozens of pieces, or even more, and Kelgat needs to do this kind of hard work, bringing several other arena guards with him, and driving the slaves to clean up those smelly arenas. Rubbish.

Other than that, Kelgat can only sit here every day, sitting in the dilapidated basement of this freight warehouse, listening to the faint cheers from the concrete top above his head, and the roars of war beasts fighting each other. The sound, or the cry of death, and then Kelgat knew how many corpses needed to be cleaned up today.

But this job also has an advantage, a very unique privilege, that is, as the registration and reception staff, Kelgat can be the first to see the war beasts that are about to take the stage. Those powerful and terrifying beasts always make people feel uncomfortable. Kelgat was excited and curious.

Kelgat didn't need to go up there. He only needed to see the new war beasts every time, and he would know what they would look like in battle, and what would happen in the cheers and war roars above his head every day.

But for the current Kelgat, his mood tonight is not very good, because he has heard the screams and dying struggles too many times, which means that the beasts participating in the battle tonight have now There wasn't much left, and to make matters worse, the night was only half over.

He needed to find a way so that in the remaining half of the night, the spectators who came from Gemo and other places to watch the fighting could see more blood and killing before dawn, and now, he heard it again A dying roar.

"Damn it, that monster has killed too many." Kelgat complained and crossed out another name on the thick notebook with a feather pen on the old table in front of him.

"Perhaps, I can help you?" A voice said in front of Kelgat. Kelgat raised his head and looked at the man in a black trench coat in front of him. He stood in front of him, holding his hands On the belt at the waist.

Kelgat looked at him, straightened up and leaned on the back of the chair behind him. He looked at the man in front of him up and down, and noticed the whip hanging on his waist, "Are you an animal trainer? Are you here to participate in the competition? "

"It's obvious, isn't it? Who else would come all the way here? What's the winning rate tonight?" He pressed his belt and looked left and right at the empty warehouse. The ground here was covered with blood, and it looked like it was the former What's left of the bodies hauled away overnight.

"Hmph, you came at a really bad time. Several of the beasts above have been killed, so yes, the winning rate is very good, but for its owner, not for you or your investors."

Kelgat leaned back on the chair, clasped his hands and looked at the Eldar man in front of him. He stood in front of the table and smiled softly, then raised his head and looked down at Kelgat in front of him, "Then it's the best. , which means the stakes are also high. Now, can you arrange for my beast to play? I think there should be no one in the front."

He raised his head as he spoke, smiling and looking at the ceiling where another scream came from above. Kelgat also looked at the ceiling, thought for a moment and then shrugged, "Okay, I will arrange for you to play, but if you lose Now, don’t come to me.”

"Of course not. I am a wise man. Now put my name on it." He raised a hand and pointed at the registration book in front of Kelgat. The administrator shrugged and lifted the table. pen on.

"Name." "Thor Constantine." "Very good."

Kelgat turned over a page in the huge notebook and wrote Vito's name on it. He put the pen on the notebook and stood up with the chair behind his legs. He leaned down and backed away with a squeaking sound.

"I still need to see your beast, is it outside?" Kelgat looked at the rolling shutter door on the side of the huge warehouse in front of the table. It was open, and there was only a long and wide plastic hanging cloth hanging there. , like the door to a slaughterhouse.

The blood slid out from under the plastic sheet, and the corpses or body parts of the beasts were dragged out from there. Kelgat looked in that direction, and Vito also crossed his arms and turned around to look towards that place. The plastic sheet on the door, he shrugged, tilted his head slightly to the side and motioned for Kelgat to follow.

Vito walked towards the plastic sheet, and Kelgat also walked around his desk and followed him to the door. They stepped on the slippery ground covered with blood.

Vito lifted up the plastic sheet and buried his head and got out, and Kelgat followed closely behind. He lifted up the plastic sheet and got under it and stood on the steps outside the warehouse door. When he got out, the fighting beast The cold wind outside the stadium blew on his face.

Kelgat glanced outside the Colosseum, at the strange sky suspended in the webway and beyond the shattered earth. Lightning and weird colors flashed across it, and the storm raged endlessly outside the eaves of the warehouse. Dancing, the heavy rain splashed on the ground outside, raising pieces of water curtains.

Kelgat glanced at the woman standing outside the door. She seemed to have arrived with Vito. Her silver hair hung down on both sides of her face, making her beautiful face and purple eyes stand out. She He also looked at Kelgat, but only once.

The woman then looked at Vito who was walking up. He walked to the edge of the crescent table next to the woman. Then he put his hands on his belt again and tilted his head forward slightly. Kelgat also leaned forward, his Boots stood at the edge of the crescent moon platform and looked at the big iron cage in front of him.

He looked at the beast bent down among them. It was a tall giant. It sat in the cage with two huge hands on its knees. Thick red mane covered its shoulders, chest and arms. , looking at it from Kelgat's perspective, the first thing that caught his eye was the hair.

The second thing I saw was that unique eye. The tall giant raised his head slightly and looked at him. It was a one-eyed eye, one that was so wide-eyed under the dim eaves of the freight passage outside the warehouse. Eye.

The horns on his head rose and fell with his breathing. It stared at Kelgat from above, who also looked at it. Kelgat had seen a lot of beasts since he came here to work, but he had to Admittedly, this beast seemed unique. He couldn't put his finger on it, but he did think so.

"What's its name?" Kelgat asked as he stood on the steps. Vito, who was beside him, held his arms in his arms, walked slowly from one side to Kelgat's side, turned around and whispered to his side.

"Blood Butcher." Vito said with a slight smile. He glanced at Lilith who almost couldn't hold back his laughter, but finally laughed out loud. She stood with one hand on her hips and glanced at the giant in the cage below. , muttering the name softly.

Blood butcher? This name would certainly be appropriate for someone from Khorne, but... for one of Tzeentch's men? Well, this can be regarded as Werther's unique way of irony.

Kelgat obviously didn't know all this, so he didn't feel anything strange. In fact, Kelgat had heard more outrageous names in this ghost place, and the Blood Butcher was just a very ordinary, even inconspicuous one among them. , but he also knows that strength and weakness are not determined by names.

Kelgat nodded, then raised his finger and pointed to a staircase door in a dark corner beside the warehouse door, "Where do you go up? Go straight down the corridor, and then you can reach the trainer's position. Come on, this war beast will be transported in from here."

After Kelgat said that, he raised his head and motioned to the dim track door in front of the cage. The door was open, and darkness shrouded it. The platform track at the lower end seemed to lead to some deep hell. , but judging from the roar coming from it, this may not be wrong.

Vito shrugged slightly, then turned around and waved his hand to Lilith to invite her to follow, and then walked towards the dark staircase door in the corner of the door. Under the crescent platform on their side, there was a cage containing the "Bloody Butcher" Transported by the conveyor track below, walk side by side to the front with them.

Vito walked side by side with the cage. He turned his head slightly and looked at Magnus in the cage. The latter was also sitting there, turning his head and looking at it with one eye. Vito glanced at Kelgat in the distance behind him. , he looked at himself and Magnus sliding into the dark door from behind, but it seemed that he couldn't hear what they were saying at that distance.

Vito glanced over and looked at each other with the huge shadow in the dark cage. "Remember, you can't use psychic powers and you can't speak human language. You know what to do."

Magnus sat in the huge cage. He gently raised his hands and placed them on his thighs. He turned his one eye to look at the darkness coming in front and nodded. Then the shadows emerged from both sides of the cage. It slid sideways and engulfed Magnus in it.

The big iron cage slid into the shadow of the prepared door. Vito also turned around at the door and walked up the dark stairs on the side. Lilith also stood at the bottom of the stairs and turned to glance at Kelgat, looking at the station. The administrator who watched them off from a distance smiled and then raised his head, watching the figure of Vito walking up, he also walked up.

They walked up the dark stairs, and soon reached the top of the stairs. In the dilapidated corridor in the dark corridor, it looked like it had once been a shrine building from the ancient Eldar Empire. On the walls on both sides They are all murals depicting legends.

But those are just ancient memories of the past. Now the place is dilapidated. Not much of the exquisite murals on the walls are left. The peeled off walls are broken into slag and scattered in the corners of the corridors on both sides. The portraits of the gods have long been forgotten. , now all here is only the most fervent cheers.

The bursts of crazy shouts came from the end of the corridor, and colorful lights flickered here, illuminating the ghostly color of the neon lights in the dark corridor. Vito looked in that direction, and Lilith walked behind him. Come up, stand beside him and watch the noisy end of the corridor with him.

Vito looked at the beautiful woman beside him. She put her hands on her hips and shrugged, then tilted her head in that direction. Vito then smiled slightly and walked towards the flashing exit at the end of the corridor.

His boots lined with silver iron plates stepped on the peeling wall on the ground, and the fragments shattered under Vito's feet. The hissing sound of breaking echoed in the deserted and deserted corridor with his footsteps. Tuo put his hands in the pockets of his windbreaker and followed Lilith to the end of the corridor.

Vito lifted up a huge plastic sheet at the end of the corridor. He got out from under the cloth, and then his entire face was illuminated by the colorful flashes around him. He raised his hand to briefly block the light. The glare, and then gradually restored the vision amidst a burst of cheers.

Vito looked around, looking at the cheering audience in the surrounding stepped auditoriums. The Dark Eldar stood on the towering corridors, raising their arms and cheering as they looked at the newly entered Vito below. , their voices mixed with the surrounding lights, turning into a unique magic like a hallucinogen.

Vito looked around and was surprised to notice that the piece of plastic sheet behind him was a flexible display screen. The light and variable flexible screen was flashing with colorful lights, like all the bright lights around it. It turned into a crazy world like a drug addict.

He smiled, and then threw off the display cloth on his shoulder. He walked onto the countertop in front of him that was illuminated by various lights. The dilapidated countertop was full of chips and signs of damage. The front wall stacks and handrails Everything has collapsed, exposing an observation deck directly facing the center of the arena.

Vito stepped onto the stage and looked around the auditorium. He looked for the captain he was looking for among the crazy dancing audience, but Vito did not find him. This place is very unique, different from Comoros. There is no VIP seat in the Grand Arena. All spectators stand in the surrounding auditoriums regardless of their status and watch the live competition and bloody killings.

Vito walked to the gap. He stood at the edge of the steps, overlooking the Colosseum below, which was filled with blood and corpses that had not yet been emptied. The walls that were destroyed after the fierce battle turned into rubble. Dumped in the corner, it was covered with dried or not yet dried blood.

Vito looked at the Colosseum. Lilith came from behind and looked at the host standing in the Colosseum with Vito. The host was wearing a vest and a short gentleman's hat. A pair of elegant leather boots, illuminated by colorful lights overhead, walked on the site full of ruins and bloody rocks.

He walked, raising his arms and looking around at the cheering audience, "Today is a great night, a very great night."

The host raised his head and looked up at the surrounding audience who raised their arms and shouted. The raised arms clenched their fists and raised their heads, "A cruel beast is killed in a contest, or kills its opponent. It is very bloody, very Violence!"

He roared at the top of his lungs, and his declaration of blood and cruelty also aroused cheers from the surrounding audience. The host laughed and turned to point to a high platform opposite the stage where Vito was standing, where there was also a peacekeeping tower. The same huge display cloth is behind the support.

The tall display cloth hung down from the roof, covering the position in front of the two magnificent gate pillars. The special light gradually changing reality on it illuminated the walls on both sides and the ground in front of it.

"The next person to appear next is tonight's fiery dark horse player, who has brought us countless killings and blood, Borgo!" The host lowered the last voice, shouted the name dullly from the deepest part of his voice, and then It was like a wild beast roaring.

At that sound, the display cloth opposite Vito instantly lit up, and it instantly showed the sky-shaking fire. The rolling flames billowed from the screen and the firelight instantly illuminated the surroundings, illuminating the ground and the auditorium on both sides. Audiences.

Everyone looked at the fire and cheered, cheering for the animal trainer who walked into the scene under the eyes of everyone. He raised his arms and roared like a roaring lion under the illumination of the curtain of fire behind him.

Vito stood on the high platform opposite him, tilting his head slightly to look at the guy who came up. His upper body was naked, and his entire skin was covered with tattoos in a cruel-looking way, cut out with a knife. Tattoo consisting of scars.

He walked to the gap, looked in the direction of Vito, pointed at Vito, and then pointed to Lilith behind him with a smile, "I will conquer your beasts, two, together, and the one behind you Will kneel down in front of us, like this!"

He then put his hands around his waist, as if he was hugging something.

"An idiot?" Lilith stood behind Vito with her arms akimbo and said with a smile. The latter shrugged slightly and put his hands on the belt on his waist. He looked down at the host below and looked around with a grin. Looking at the spectators around him, he then raised his finger and pointed sharply at a dark arch on the wall beside him.

"And his war beast, the Flesh Tearer!" the host roared loudly, and a roar suddenly sounded in the dark cave. A claw suddenly stretched out from the darkness, and suddenly grasped the side of the animal. On the door frame, a bright blue light shines down from above and shines on the paw.

Under the mixture of blue light and the firelight of the display cloth, a slender but tall dragon walking upright walked into the arena. The dragon's back was lined with bulges of thick chitin armor. The upper body had long been covered with scratches, but it still protected the flesh beneath it extremely strongly.

The beast's slender head is nailed under your armor, its flat and pointed nose thrust forward, and hard bone spikes cover it, making its head look like the head of a spear, named The flesh-tearing beast opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, its razor-like claws suddenly spread out on its arms, and its tail, which was longer and sharper than its body, swelled with the arms behind it.

It raised its towering body, jumped up its slender curved legs and roared into the air. The howl instantly caused an explosion at the scene. The audience all roared hysterically and cheered along with the roar.

The host looked around at the warm atmosphere with satisfaction, then turned around and pointed to the high platform on the other side, pointing to Vito standing under the lights, "And their challenger is tonight's rookie, Saul. Constantine! and his beast!"

"Blood Butcher!" The host suddenly raised his arm and pointed into the dark arch below Vito, where the iron cage suddenly opened outwards.