Chapter 862 Love and Hate of the Iron Hand

Stunus' right eye was replaced with a bionic eye, and his nose, mouth and lower jaw were removed and replaced with metal pipes. After his lungs were injured, they were also replaced with a mechanical piece, so he took in nutrients from the outside by absorbing electrolytes and intravenous injection. Mechanical Magos with less technical skills would be ashamed of the degree of mechanical transformation of Stunus.

Stunus' transformation is not uncommon in the Iron Hands. In fact, as long as you can become an Iron Hands veteran, it means that you can compete with the Dreadnoughts of the Chapter to see who has less flesh on their bodies.

The historical reasons why the Iron Hands are so obsessed with mechanical transformation are very complicated, but the big head must have a deep relationship with Slaanesh and Fulgrim.

For the Iron Hands, rationality and firmness are the qualities that warriors must have, and weakness is the beginning of destruction. They have seen too many cases of corruption and evil caused by weakness of will.

So what is strong? Naturally, it is steel and machinery. So what is weak? And can it lead to corruption? Naturally, it was Flesh and Blood, Slaanesh, Fulgrim, and the damned Emperor's Children.

The scene of Fulgrim beheading his father in front of his child was too shocking, and the psychic shock caused by the death of the Primarch also spawned a powerful demon named Sapphire King in the warp.

The body of the Sapphire King was cast by extreme emotions such as frustration, anger, regret, unwillingness, and the loss of unfulfilled ambitions that filled the entire battlefield of Isstvan III. After his birth, he became the inner demon that every Iron Hand needed to overcome. Every warrior who thought he had failed to protect the Primarch was nourishing the jeweled Sapphire King.

The Sapphire King was good at grasping the most vulnerable side of the Iron Hands warriors and then magnifying it. He relied on this ability to secretly torture the Iron Hands descendants for centuries, and finally made them go more and more extreme on the road of "flesh and blood are weak, and mechanical ascension". The Iron Hands pursued logical and cold thinking without any bottom line, despised flesh and blood, and indulged in transformation. They longed to remove every bit of weakness from their bodies to become stronger. They even had devices like subconscious modulators to suppress their limited humanity and emotions.

After 30k, the Iron Hands became more and more crazy. They once made a mechanical clone of Ferrus. This clone was not as good as the craftsmanship of Fabius, an old Chinese doctor. The Iron Hands, who missed their father madly, connected Ferrus's arm to a mechanical puppet, and then announced to the public that Ferrus was resurrected. This behavior is not much different from tying Ferrus's arm to a flagpole. Later, Vulkan learned about this. Vulkan, who has always been a good guy, was so angry that he directly dismantled the mechanical clone and angrily denounced the Iron Hands' crazy behavior.

Later, the Sapphire King prepared to set a trap for the Iron Hands around the 460th year of the 41st millennium, so that he could harvest all the negative emotions accumulated over the long years at one time, and by the way, promote the Iron Hands Chapter.

The warband of the Emperor's Children was naturally working for the Sapphire King. When the Iron Hands learned of this, they led their army to crush the Emperor's Children and the Slaanesh sect that spread in the Highland Year System.

The Slaanesh sect in the Highland Year System did a lot of tricks. They squeezed billions of planetary residents into a space more than ten miles wide. Flesh and steel were glued together, and countless boiler chimneys stretched out from this flesh and blood aggregate. Steam spewed out from the eyes of mortals, gears made of human bones turned, and demonic weapons were processed from living conveyor belts composed of wriggling human tongues. The reverberation of various blasphemous and obscene sounds was unacceptable to the Space Marines. They turned off the audio communicators on their helmets and prepared to completely destroy this blasphemous place.

Iron Father Christos, who led the Iron Hands, went crazy after witnessing the wonders and countless details of the factory. His character flaws and soul weaknesses led to his fallen end. He pierced the mechanical tendrils connected to his central nervous system into the flesh and blood wall, madly absorbing pleasure.

Then he assimilated with the facilities of the factory and turned into a huge monster. The Iron Hands under his direct command were also shaken by the crazy scene and gradually became possessed by demons and attacked their comrades.

The trap of the Sapphire King has been fully revealed. The more people suppress their emotions and the more obsessed they are with removing flesh and blood and replacing them with machinery, the easier it is to be corrupted.

Stunus, who came to support, witnessed the melee in front of him. His heart was suddenly filled with anger, and his suppression equipment was also fighting against this emotion so that he could act with cold thinking.

According to the ability of the Sapphire King, the Iron Hands could degenerate into the minions of the devil even if they tried their best to maintain their sanity. When they released their emotions, they should have changed faster.

But there is a saying that goes, force breaks all tricks, and recklessness overcomes everything.

Stunus simply gave up suppressing his emotions. He roared, "Release your anger! Brothers!"

Then the Iron Hands, who were suppressed by the demons of Slaanesh and the children of the emperor, suddenly stood up. The Sapphire King's Warp Curse helped the Iron Hands to attack even harder! A more violent attack!

Just like a boiler that was about to explode suddenly found a breakthrough, the storm of rage that was released suddenly even stunned the Slaanesh demons who enjoyed extreme emotions for a long time.

Then the rage condensed into substance, turned into iron fists and bombs and smashed into the Slaanesh demons. The demons and the countless jewels and gold inlaid on them were torn into flying psychic fragments.

In the land of Warhammer, as long as you are reckless, angry and loyal, even if the Emperor himself cannot help you, Khorne will certainly be able to help you, especially when fighting Slaanesh, the speed of Khorne's blessing will be even faster.

Seeing that the situation was not right, the Sapphire King immediately jumped out and tried to seduce the Iron Hands to submit to him with words. Then he failed and was blasted to pieces. From then on, the Iron Hands Chapter gradually got on the right track and slowly changed its devilish thoughts.

However, these were all hundreds of years ago. For Space Marines who have lived for a long time, it may be the same as what happened last year.

The change in the situation of Slaanesh has only happened in the last few decades, and it is still a secret activity. For the Iron Hands and other uninformed Imperial troops, Slaanesh is still the evil god who can stick living people together to make works of art, and Fulgrim is still the damn traitor who beheaded their father.

The Iron Hands lined up, and they could hear the sound of steady footsteps approaching from the end of the mechanical Ark. Then, Stunus, who was at the front of the team, felt a nameless fire rising in his heart. The last time he was so angry was when he faced the Sapphire King.