NOVEL WEB Chapter 29 Alt POV
Heresy... Even though he didn't believe in such a tripe. He watched as his charge Jake Bariss folded the Sister of Battles souls one and all into a cohesive force, and then using his psychic might he flared out their souls in a way that gathered the attention of the Emperor's will that dwelt within the Warp.
And then in using the Emperor's power along with his own lesser version of the Emperor's Anathame flames against demons the group burned away the filth of the god of rot from the relic leaving a new relic of twisted metal that could be reforged and made into a relic bearing the Emperor's power.
The Custodian, Fulmus of the Aquilan Shield was sharing a video feed to his fellow members of the warrior band of the event that happened and quietly explaining the feel of their charge's use of the Emperor's flames however weakened as he was.
And for a tiny moment. He considered whether or not he needed to slay those Sisters of Battle with how they gazed even completely blinded if temporarily by the ritual's power towards his charge.
As he could already see their thoughts. For the good of all, they would cut into him, to find his secrets to find the core of his 'divinity' from within. All the while, the zealots would be whipping themselves and begging for forgiveness as they pleaded for him to make more holy artifacts even as they tore him apart.
His charge was making his life more and more difficult all things told. His brothers, numbered four more had been put through great trials in keeping him alive as already lesser manifestations of the Warp have appeared within the Hive City enmass... And even worse, the so-called Lost Hive City beyond this one that was being assailed by demons was filled with Xeno filth instead.
Genestealers had forcibly taken the other major Hive City on this Hive World and even now the collapsed tunnels and railways were being dug out by the Genestealers as they tried to continue their plans of planetary domination now that all the Enforcers and loyal guardsmen had to retreat from the middle and lower hive due to the virus and plague weapons being used by the plague gods soldiers.
But Fulmus's high-speed thoughts even if they had slowed with his own body degredation from his time serving to protect and contain the Dark Cells within the Imperial Palace stuttered as within moments after Jake took upon the materials that were the result of the ritual.
He had hugged the materials to his chest and then he heard watery noises and he saw one of his charge's ribs being pulled from his chest and the fiery mass that his charge had become as he kneeled in place.
"What are you doing?" He couldn't help but ask wondering if he could even do anything to stop this stupidly young and ignorant human who seemed hell-bent on making him even balder than he already was.
But Jake didn't respond as he seemed to meditate... No, his mind was seemingly within the Warp itself as his hands molded molten metal around the long rib bone that he pulled out to form the core and handle of a great sword which was far larger than the materials he had on hand which clearly showed that some Emperyan or otherwise Warp based material was used or created while he became a small sun that was currently melting the plasteel beneath him.
And finally, the flames dissipated leaving Jake sitting still before his head sunk forward with Fulmus snorting from within the privacy of his armor seeing the young man had knocked himself unconscious in forging the golden gleaming sword that reminded Fulmus so dearly of the golden light the Emperor could conjure during his golden days.
Fulmus walked through the soft melted metal surrounding Jake and then picked him up carefully while taking the golden great sword that even he desired to wield, and after making sure no molten metal was clinging to his frame he moved him and the sword to a different spot onto his bed as his nanomachine armor had within but moments had vented all extreme heat that had covered his form.
And with Jake placed within his bed, he seemed to take an ordinate amount of joy in sleeping in its soft embrace. Fulmus turned to his latest issue with the golden Greatsword sword in hand as he stared down the Sister of Battle Canoness who was staring silently at the sword and then back to Jake.
Not even a glance was given to the golden warrior of the Emperor of Mankind, no she was a zealous warrior of her god and she was worshipping him as a warrior and message of said god.... There was a deranged light within her eyes as she looked between the sword and Jake.
Finally, Fulmus opened up his Vox speakers and ordered. "Go and bring his enhanced Ogryns here Canoness."
He wouldn't relish in killing the Canoness for the clear zealotry she was facing as her eyes burned with the leftover power of the Emperor she so clearly grasped to obsessively. But he would do it without hesitation if she attempted to harm his charge while he was still bound to protect Jake by the Emperor's will.
The Canoness gave a slight start at hearing his Vox speaker breaking the silence and after a moment of hesitation. Showing her clear beyond normal desire to do... Something to Jake, she gave a bow before silently turning and leaving as Fulmus slightly relaxed as he knew that so long as Barghest and the other enhanced Ogryns were watching over Jake closely even he would struggle to get past them.
Though a small part of him... A small part of him thought. 'And who knows... With their powerful plasma weapons, and those Spartan Lances they may very well kill me and my Shield Brothers during a Blood Game should we attempt to reach Jake.'
At that thought Fulmus snorted as though Jake's genetically enhanced super soldiers had potential. They lacked the mental conditioning and brainwashing that Custodians and Astartes had to keep them loyal so it was likely the human and some of the humans would break before they managed to even get to Jake.
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