kingnovel Chapter 14 Sword of Destiny
Chapter 14 Sword of Destiny
The emperor defeated the demon with one move, and the emperor is invincible in the world!
If it were the Howard of the past, he would probably jump up and cheer like this.
But now, facing this big blue guy with golden light all over his body, Howard chose to take two steps back.
God knows if this is another lie.
Moreover, even if this really was Guilliman possessed by the Emperor, when they faced a mortal in the realm of Slaanesh, they might not necessarily think that this was a Chaos believer and kill him with one sword.
"My child, you have passed the test of the devil. You have done well." Unexpectedly, Guilliman or the Emperor looked at Howard and said directly: "I hope I am not too late."
Howard thought for a moment and said, "So you've actually been watching me being tortured?"
Guilliman, or the Emperor, didn't mind Howard's rudeness. After a moment's silence, he explained to Howard, "My child, I have been watching you since you were born. You are our hope, but before that, I must make sure you are ready to shoulder the heavy responsibility."
Through these few sentences of conversation, Howard was basically certain that the person talking to him was the Emperor, not Guilliman.
Then the Emperor added, "But now you have proven yourself, so I have come to take you."
But Howard still didn't believe it: "I can't tell if you are a demon in disguise."
Emperor: "You don't need to trust me, because I will take you away from here, even if you don't want to."
Howard: "You're taking me to Holy Terra?"
The Emperor nodded, but the golden flames once again blazed on his blade. "But before that, let us first deal with the trouble at hand."
The trouble the Emperor was talking about was naturally the overwhelming demons that attacked like a flock of migrating birds, so many that even the sky was covered in them.
But the Emperor faced everything without fear. He took a step forward, the Emperor's sword in his hand burning brightly. He raised his hand and swung out a sword energy composed of psychic flames. The sword energy carried an unstoppable momentum like a tsunami, and pushed back the black tide in the sky.
Howard was admiring the Emperor's performance from behind. Although he knew that the Emperor could crush a star with his bare hands, that was just a description he had read in books in the past. But now the Emperor was displaying power in front of him at the level of a natural disaster.
Although the holy sword energy caused considerable damage to the demons in the sky, more demons soon began to gather. Winged banshees in the sky approached from all sides, and mortals on earth who believed in Chaos, Space Marines and Chaos war machines also began to join the battlefield. Among these low-level demons and mortals, there were also high-level demon princes of Slaanesh and even archdemon warlords.
At the end of the horizon, the demon army regrouped and launched a round of long-range attacks on the Emperor and Howard. Various artillery shells, missiles and psychic light balls shot towards the two.
But Guilliman, who was possessed by the Emperor, spread his psychic wings, and the warm psychic light enveloped Howard. All attacks against Howard melted on the shield.
Howard was a little surprised, because the Emperor once possessed Guilliman's body and snatched Guilliman out of the Garden of Nurgle. At that time, facing the Emperor, Nurgle chose to let go of a Primarch who was about to be corrupted. This time, the Emperor came to Slaanesh's territory to snatch him. Why did Slaanesh go to such a great lengths to stop him? Could it be that in Slaanesh's eyes, he was more precious than the Primarch?
"I came here not only to take you back, but also to take something away." The emperor saw Howard's confusion and answered him.
After saying that, the Emperor used his psychic power to protect Howard while advancing towards the demon camp. The psychic light on the Emperor was as dazzling as the sun. Every footprint he stepped on was burning, burning all the filthy things.
Many demons and Chaos believers were afraid of the Emperor's might and did not dare to approach, but the high-ranking demons supervising the battle screamed and whipped their subordinates with whips, forcing them to rush forward and die.
Despite the threat from the Overseer, many demons still rushed towards the Emperor, but they were burned to ashes by the psychic light before they could even get within a hundred steps of the Emperor.
But the demons' charge, at the cost of their lives, had an effect. The area of the Emperor's psychic light was shrinking. In fact, if the Emperor himself were to appear, the psychic light would be enough to illuminate the entire galaxy, and it would last forever.
But now the Emperor is in the upper body state after all. Even if his psychic energy is endless, Guilliman, as the carrier, cannot bear such a huge power.
But even though those demons could use their lives to continuously compress the range of the psychic light, once the range was reduced to about ten steps around, it would no longer shrink no matter what.
The area within these ten steps is the demon's forbidden zone. Any demon that enters this range will be reduced to ashes in an instant.
But the demons supervising the battle were waiting for this opportunity. One of them found the right moment and stabbed the Emperor from behind with a blade tempered with deadly poison. The ominous blade began to melt like an ice cone thrown into a flame the moment it entered the range of the psychic holy light, but the demon's attack speed was even faster, so until it was about to pierce Guilliman's body, it still maintained an awe-inspiring sharpness.
Howard only felt a shadow flash before his eyes, and then he saw the Emperor controlling Guilliman to hold the demon's wrist with his backhand. The poisonous blade finally melted completely at this moment, and the dripping poison was burned into harmless gas by psychic energy in the process of falling to the ground.
When the demon saw that his arm was caught by the Emperor, he decisively cut off his arm and escaped. The Emperor did not pursue him because the demon had been seriously injured and it would take him an incalculable amount of time to recover. The premise was that he would not be devoured by other warp creatures because of being too weak before that.
With the lessons learned from the previous demons, the rest of the demons seemed to be much more cautious. They did not launch an attack rashly, but instead encircled the Emperor and Howard little by little.
It was obvious that the demons wanted to use the tactics of encirclement and annihilation. Howard and the Emperor both saw this, but the Emperor still walked into the encirclement calmly, because he was the Emperor of mankind, the glorious ruler of millions of worlds in the galaxy. How could he be afraid of the trap of ants?
As he gradually went deeper into the center of the demon encirclement, Howard finally saw clearly what these demons were guarding so fearlessly. It was also a divine sword radiating endless light, suspended above the altar of a temple.
At this time, the Emperor had completely arrived at the center of the encirclement. The high-level demons seized the opportunity and fired special shells at the Emperor. The shells of the shells exploded under the burning of psychic energy, but the black crystal fragments wrapped in the shells were not affected by the psychic energy.
A few fragments fell on Guilliman, who was possessed by the Emperor. The psychic shield emitted by the Emperor flickered a few times and finally went out.
A psychic cannonball was fired at Howard. This time, the Emperor controlled Guilliman to use his body to block it for Howard. Although the psychic cannonball failed to penetrate the Kai of Destiny, it still left traces of overheating.
"Child, draw out that sword!" The Emperor spread his golden wings again with the anti-psychic device on his head. He blocked all the demons rushing towards him head-on. In the dazzling golden light, he was like a god standing tall.
"Child! Draw that sword!" Seeing Howard's hesitation, the Emperor spoke again to encourage him, "Draw that sword! You will suffer more pain, you will make more sacrifices, but you will bring hope to countless people. Child, do not be afraid, this is your responsibility, hurry! I can't hold on for much longer. Draw that sword! Become a hero for mankind! Become the hope of the galaxy!"
Amid the Emperor's encouragement and hopeful and expectant gaze, and amid the hostile gazes of countless demons, bathed in holy light and demonic blood, Howard walked step by step to the top of the altar and stretched out his hand toward the sword that represented his destiny.