Warhammer Inquisitor

People always say that where there is light, there is shadow, and the brighter the place, the darker the place. This sentence is often true. In terms of Bell's more than two hundred years of service experience since he joined the battle group, it is often true. The most beautiful and prosperous places will have opposite existences that seem to be mirrors.

The more prosperous the mirror, the more decaying the mirror, the more holy the other is, the more corrupt it is. This can be applied to almost all empires in the empire, especially the most prosperous hive cities. The aristocratic metropolitan area of ​​the upper nest, and the middle nest, which is neither good nor bad, barely subsisting, is the mirror image of all that prosperity

In the low nest lurks all the abominations, the terrible alien parasite colony, the crazy and violent low nest gang and the savage mutant tribe, not to mention those who swim in the darkness of the emperor's light and hide in all shadows of the brutal Chaos cultists.

They are almost a kind of ridiculous mirror image of the bustling city above, from the most terrifying, horrific and unimaginable dark abyss written by some postmodern dystopian author, which is that no normal person would want to escape into. A place of madness, a place of distortion.

Bell knew that all the imperial cities and hives had similar places below the hive capital. The difference was the degree of chaos and the difference between the sojourners, but he never thought of it, and he didn't dare to think that there was such a place underground in the Emperor's Palace. The place.

Bell walked in the dark underground tunnel, which seemed to be some kind of weird dark temple buried deep in the ground. Everything around him was shrouded in a layer of unsettling and weird darkness. Bell looked around at everything. Countless stone pillars and sword-holding statues stand around the lightless underground palace.

Those statues are like sealed giant soldiers. They stand between the stone pillars with weapons in their hands. Their swords and the stone pillars beside them are engraved with prayer scriptures. The runes surrounding them The text on the scroll is like a series of magic spells, something is sealed here, something that should never see the light of day again.

Bell walked vigilantly and restlessly in this deep tunnel. He followed closely behind Vito. In front of him, Vitomai, who was wearing the emperor's golden armor, walked at the head of the team. The halo is like a lighthouse projecting light to the surroundings, illuminating the ink-like ominous darkness on both sides of the road.

Bell looked at the halo, which seemed to be the light of the astronomical torch. Speaking of which, the logic really makes sense, where there is light, there is shadow, and in this universe of the Milky Way, is there any place more beautiful than the palace? What about bright places? Here is the seat of the Golden Throne, the seat of the Astronomical Torch that illuminates the dark universe, the seat of the Emperor's throne.

Naturally, beneath it lies the darkest place in the universe, a dark place that no one is willing to step into, even those golden armored guards are not very willing to step here.

Trajan subconsciously held the Lightning Tomahawk, and the Forbidden Army squad behind him all surrounded Vito with their own weapons. They were wearing advanced golden power armor. There should be very few things in the universe that could threaten them, but here, in this dark place, all the imperial guards are holding their weapons tightly.

Bell looked at the imperial guards. He saw the blue standing lightning flashing on the blades of the powered halberds. Light up the darkness on either side of the road.

But this is useless at all, just like the lanterns held in the hands of the statues on both sides of the surrounding, the hooded statue guards standing on both sides of the road stretched out from under their robes, and the hanging lanterns It was hung in front of them with a thick black iron chain, shining a dim light in the hall.

Those lanterns burning with flames, those lanterns that should have illuminated the dark space, are like candles flickering in the darkness. The faint light of the flames can't illuminate the deep darkness here, and all the light only needs to leave the iron cover of the lantern a few steps away Far away, it will be engulfed by the darkness and disappear in the misty deep space.

Bell walked among the guards, and he and Eisenstein followed Vito closely. Logically speaking, there was nothing to worry about in the palace, but Captain Eisenstein beside him was almost out of instinct. An old warrior instinctively pressed his hand firmly on the hilt of the chainsaw sword on his waist.

It's very quiet here, so quiet that it's creepy. Bell can even hear the beating of his power armor's heart. He looked around at the silent warriors around him. All of them stared at the surrounding deep space without saying a word. The sound of breathing constantly echoed in the air.

Puchi, puchi, the heavy breathing of the giants is particularly loud here, as if a giant beast is breathing, but if there is really any monster here, then this monster is also hidden in the surrounding darkness, From the shadows spied the visitors who entered here.

Bell plucked up the courage to go up after hesitating for a while. He approached Vito and asked the marshal in a low voice, "My lord, what is this place? Is this really the palace?"

"Haha, it's terrible here, right? At least the emperor's local gold aesthetic decoration is gone here, and it won't blind my eyes." Vito said with a smile, his eyes scanning the darkness on both sides.

"Although it has changed from glittering gold to being invisible"

"But what is this place? Is this... the Imperial Palace?" Bell asked in a low voice, but his voice was full of awe. He looked at the lantern statue sliding past him, and the lantern hanging on the chain The dim light in the center shone on the statue's face, dimly illuminating the invisible face under the hood.

Bell looked at the face of the statue, and when the face appeared in front of him for a moment, Bell felt his whole body go cold, not because of how scary the statue's face was, on the contrary, the face was quite ordinary, calm and serene , but it was too calm, without even a little bit of emotion that people could feel, as if it was formed by this darkness.

"Shadow Prison, the full name is Shadow Prison, but you can just treat this place as a dark dungeon under the palace." Vito said, looking around in the darkness, walking at the forefront of the crowd, using the back of his head to burn The glowing golden halo illuminates the dark path.

"The dungeon? My lord, you say the dungeon, but it's underground in the palace? What's locked here?" Bell asked in surprise, and Eisenstein behind him also looked over. Not only him, Trajan and the surrounding guards all He looked over from the corner of his eye, looked at Bell, and also looked at Vito.

They all looked at Vito, who turned his head slightly, and looked at Bell with the cold expression of the statues around him, which made Bell feel cold from the end of his spine all the way to his neck.

"You don't want to know, Bell, you don't want to know at all." Vito said and turned his head, he continued to walk on this dark road, the surrounding environment suddenly became dead silent again, Bell kept There was silence for a while, and then slowly opened his mouth after a long time.

"Then where are we going? My lord."

"The prison door, the prison door guarded by the guards of the underground palace here."

"The prison door? Here? There are guards? Is it the imperial army?"

"Well, you can say that, but they won't make you like it. The things guarded by these imperial guards are not very likable. You will be fine soon. It doesn't have to be soon, you can already see them."

Vito raised his head slightly towards the front, and Bell raised his head to look at the things in front of the team. He stood in the middle of the road almost subconsciously after a moment of stunned. He looked up at the huge black door in front of him with a serious expression.

It was a completely black steel door, completely opposite to those golden doors in the imperial palace. It didn't have the slightest sense of sacredness or beauty. It was just like everything here on the other side of the mirror. It was a terrifying door. The cold and dreaded prison door.

Bell looked at the countless carvings on it, which were gloomy rune marks, and all the scriptures were arranged and extended along the ravines on it, just like a magic circle, but. It is a skull, all of which are deeply embedded with white bones.

It was a terrifying scene. There were screaming skeletons all over the gate. They scrambled to stretch out their hands from the gate, but they seemed to be caught by something, and they were screaming. The terrifying thing was dragged back into the dark door little by little, like sailors escaping in a dark sea, stretching out thousands of hands to the surface of the dark sea.

Bell looked at the skull on the gate, he swallowed and looked at those screaming bones, he didn't know what they were trying to escape, but Vito was right, he didn't want to know at all, he didn't want to know at all .

Bell lowered his head and saw the guards that Vito said, and when he saw them, he was stunned for a moment, Vito was right, those guards are just like this gate, just like everything here, which makes people frightened. People feel a sense of uneasiness that comes from the depths of their souls.

The guards of the underground guards stood in front of the gate, holding lightning halberds and wearing black armor with pale skulls on them. They stood silently at the grand gate, just like the people around them. Standing in front of the door is as cold as a statue, without even the slightest temperature, so that you wonder if there is really a person under the armor.

Bell looked at them, then turned his head slightly and widened his eyes. His eyes widened and looked at the things on both sides. There were different gates around the huge black gate in front of him. The carvings are all different, but what they all have in common is a heartfelt sense of dread.

Bell stared at the other huge door on the side of the towering wall in front of him. On that door was carved a giant dragon, a sinister dragon made of steel, coiled around the door, holding its grip on the Above the stars, they were nailed to the door like a doomsday dragon devouring everything.

It was indeed nailed to the door. There was a long spear in the center of the door, and a spear was directly pierced through the chest of the steel dragon, nailing the dragon to the door. The dying dragon Shaking its long head and roaring, its entire body was carved three-dimensionally from the surface of the door, as if it was really living there.

"Bell." Eisenstein shouted in front of him, and Bell took his attention away from those gates. He looked at Vito's group who had already walked in front of the gates. Sunstein was standing behind him, and together with him he received the shadow guards.

The guards in front of the black gate saw Vito, and after the latter stood still, they all knelt down in front of Vito, but they still held a handful of black halberds in their hands, as if they were ready to strike at any moment. It's like fighting against something indescribable.

Bell returned to Vito from behind, and the latter raised his head slightly to look at the shadow guards in front of him, "Get up, and then open this door."

The leader of the shadow guard who was kneeling in front of Vito raised his head slightly. Instead of looking directly at Vito, he looked at Trajan for permission. After the latter nodded his approval, the shadow guard stood up and turned around without saying a word. back among his brothers.

All the dungeon guards stood in front of the gate. They didn't say a word the whole time, and almost at the same time they raised their halberds and hit the ground with the steel end. The neat knocking sound seemed to have a regularity, a rhythmic sound. The sense of regularity hit the dark floor like that, clang, clang, bumping again and again.

Bell listened to the crashing sound, the sound seemed to have a unique sense of rhythm, like a melody, like an unknown bleak accompaniment, but suddenly the accompaniment stopped abruptly, as the shadow guards suddenly stopped He struck down the halberd in his hand, and then instantly slammed it heavily on the ground and stopped.

Accompanied by the impact of the shadow guards, the impact point of the halberd on the ground lit up instantly, and the light filaments extended from the end of the halberd, all the way from the ground to climb up to them. On both sides of the door behind you.

The path of light climbed up to the doorpost, climbing up like snakes, and along their path, all the runes they passed lit up, and those runes shone dimly on the entire gate. Light up, those complicated runes spread and light up rapidly along the facade, just like the previous impact with unique rules.

Bell looked up at the runes that gradually lit up, and as the eagle logo with wings surrounded by countless white bones lit up in the center, all the runes on the entire gate flickered without exception. Bell carefully observed that There is only a sky eagle, and the eagle is very different from the empire.

That is, the eagle has only one head, and it holds a planet in its claws, a Terra? Bell immediately recognized the appearance of the planet. It was not Terra now, but Terra a long, long time ago, before the era of strife and the nuclear war, the Terra full of vitality.

Bell was surprised that the door opened slowly. The huge black door cracked a crack from the center and opened slowly. Accompanied by the creaking sound of the heavy mechanical operation, the huge door slowly opened with a bang. Bell and Eisenstein both looked at a crack in the center that was gradually widening, and that crack was soon large enough for one person to pass through.

And when the rift opened, Vito walked up, and he walked towards the rift alone in silence. Bell was about to follow, but Trajan stretched out his hand and stopped him. Bell looked at the rift in surprise. Trajan beside him looked at Vito who was walking towards the crack and shook his head.

"What's inside, only the marshal can face it, and only he can go in."

Trajan said, Bell did not refute, he knew that what Trajan said was true, he just stood there and looked at Vito who passed by the shadow guards, he made way from both sides The shadow guard walked over and walked into the dark crack with big strides.

Soon, just like everything here, Vito disappeared inside the door, the halo behind his head was instantly swallowed by the darkness in the dark space, and he himself disappeared in the deepest darkness, completely disappeared up.

The shadow guard gate looked at Trajan. After the latter nodded slightly to them, the guards raised their halberds and hit the ground again at the same time. The opened crack was completely closed and then re-sealed.

"What are you doing?" Bell looked at Trajan in surprise and asked, while the latter looked at the door and raised his head slightly. He put his battle ax on the ground and pressed the face of the ax with one hand. the upper side of the , and fasten it to your side.

"When the marshal solves everything, the door will open again by itself."

"So what are we going to do now?"

"Wait, we can only wait here for the Marshal's return."

Bell looked at the door and was silent for a moment. Behind him, Eisenstein came up. He held the chainsaw sword hilt on his waist and looked at the dark door. "How long will it take?"

Trajan also fell silent, his fingers tightly gripping the surface of the battle axe, the commander of the imperial army looked at the gate in front of him, "Pray to the emperor, may he bless you."

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Vito walked into the dark corridor, he heard the sound of the door closing behind him, but he didn't feel uneasy at all because of the closing of the door, he continued to move forward without even turning his head.

He walked in the dark corridor, the burning halo behind his head illuminated the surrounding dark steel walls, Vito quickly advanced along the corridor to a terminal, he stood in front of the terminal and looked at the After a moment of silence on the screen, Helen took out Helen's CD from the waist bag.

Vito put Helen's disc on the terminal, and soon Helen's image appeared on the disc after flickering. The little blue artificial intelligence girl looked at the golden giant in front of her.

"Sir." Helen said softly, Vito looked at her and nodded slightly, "Start the lighting and power system here to make this place light up." "Yes, sir."

Helen closed her eyes, and the terminal screen under her feet lit up immediately. Countless icons and code arrays began to flash rapidly on the screen that had been silent just now, and the entire terminal began to operate rapidly, with the sound of mechanical clicking The silent corridor was constantly echoed and amplified.

At this moment, Vito turned around and walked to the other side of the corridor. He stood in front of the huge French window on the side of the corridor. It was a glass window that completely cut off the entire section of the steel wall, and it alone occupied a considerable area of ​​the wall.

Vito looked at the glass window, everything behind him was shrouded in darkness, the halo behind his head shone a dim light on the glass, but only his own face was reflected, Vito looked at himself His eyes were silent, because he knew that everything would change soon.

All of a sudden, lights were lit in the corridor, and the lights above Vito's head were suddenly turned on with a bang, and the light instantly lit up the entire corridor that was still in darkness just now, and the light quickly moved forward along the long corridor. Stretching and opening, one after another lights are rushing to the end of the darkness like dominoes.

Vito didn't look at the lights in the corridor, he continued to look at the darkness outside the window, and there were also lights lit up there, which were brighter spotlights, and the pale lights pierced through everything in an instant from the darkness. Shining on the shoulders of the steel body, the pale light reflected a little bit of luster on the reflective armor.

It was a robot, a battle robot standing in the hall under the huge glass window in front of Vito, there were more robots around the robot holding an unknown firearm in both hands, Vito looked at the spotlights Lights up in the hall, and as the lights turn on, more robots appear under the lights.

Vito looked down at those combat robots, those steel bodies called Iron Man, they densely covered the entire hall and stood like a parade team, and at the end of their team were several huge multi-legged giants. Mechas, they stood among the densely packed Iron Man infantry around them, standing under the pale spotlight.

Vito looked forward. He looked at the huge army of iron men that could not be seen at once. They stretched towards the tall iron wall at the far end. Under the palace, since there was an army of iron men buried deep.

Vito looked at the iron wall at the end, looked at the iron wall at the end where countless types of war machines stood up, a soaring eagle was branded on the tall wall, and an eagle was holding Terra or renamed the planet Earth. The Astral Eagle, but the Golden Age text beneath it has been blotted out and replaced by a line of tall Gothic script.

"Terra - The Final Wall Defense Project - The Last Iron Guard."