Chapter 941 The Situation of the Death Guard

Nurgle, who was stirring the cauldron, picked up the hilt with two fingers. He thought the hilt was really interesting, so he carefully selected a dying flower bud in his garden, put the hilt in it and gave it to Mortarion who was going out.

At this time, Mortarion had led the entire Death Guard Legion to the edge of the Eye of Terror on the wind of plague, and they would be able to join the fierce battlefield immediately.

When Mortarion first went out, he didn't want to go to Cadia. He really didn't want to see Typhons's ambitious face. But he didn't discipline Typhons too much. After all, he didn't want to control his captain like the Emperor controlled him.

Typhons didn't have to be disobedient, as long as he didn't hang around in front of him and make him angry.

He was very interested in the Five Hundred Worlds that Guilliman had always been proud of. It happened that he had learned a lot of gardening skills of tending flowers and plants under his father in the past few years. It was a good choice to find a place to practice.

But not long after sailing, Mortarion felt an unknown fire stirring his heartstrings. At first, he didn't understand why, until one day when he was lying in bed and fell asleep, he dreamed of Chagatai's old face.

"Ask the real Lord of the Death Guard, Typhons, to see me."

These words directly made Mortarion lose all sleep, and he was sulking for a long time after waking up. Then he realized that his dream was a revelation, telling him that Chagatai Khan had returned.

He immediately changed his destination and sailed towards Cadia with his fleet.

The scale of the collective deployment of the Death Guard was really terrifying. You have to know that even Typhons, the Plague Lord who made the Empire feel like it was facing a great enemy, only led the Plague Company. The entire Death Guard Corps has seven Plague Companies, each of which is composed of varying numbers of pus and blood battalions. Each pus and blood battalion is composed of 700 Plague Warriors as the main force, supplemented by a large number of mortal auxiliary troops, armored formations, demon engines and plague zombies.

Today, the Death Guard has a total of 77,777 Space Marines, but Mortarion is not satisfied with the current scale. He hopes that the Death Guard can have 7 million warriors. This is not because he is attracted by the powerful force of 7 million warriors, but because he thinks it is very auspicious to make the Corps into seven digits.

This was a very difficult goal in the past, after all, the warp is not a peaceful place. The Death Guard needs to fight with other warbands all the time. More than a thousand Plague Warriors were killed in the battle with Perturabo alone. Moreover, the Plague Corps is not united internally. Different interpretations of the nature of the benevolent father often cause them to fight internally.

For example, the Purifiers, who were not part of the Death Guard, saw the close connection between the Warp and reality after they fell into the embrace of Chaos, and the profound influence of the Dark Gods on mortals. Their superhuman brains began to think based on the bad situation in front of them, believing that humans would always make mistakes and make themselves weak and incompetent, and that the mundane life form would only make the animals and plants around them and even the land itself a potential hotbed of evil.

The core of the Purifiers' thoughts is the lofty idea of ​​eradicating all evil, but the specific actions they show are indiscriminate killing. As long as there are no living things in this world, there is no possibility of making mistakes, and true peace and justice will be achieved at the end of the mass extinction of life.

So they prayed to Nurgle for a plague that would destroy all living things, and before the plague came, they would spare no effort to complete the work of mass extinction.

Facing the Purifiers' brain circuits, other Plague Warriors could only say: You are a little too extreme.

The world after the Death Guard attack will become a dark, fertile paradise. The world after the Purifiers attack will become a scorched, lifeless wasteland. Even followers of Nurgle who diligently spread the gospel for him will be mercilessly killed by the Purifiers.

Therefore, the Death Guard and the Purifiers often clash. The plague garden that the Death Guard worked hard to cultivate was burned clean by the Purifiers. Even if the Death Guard has a good temper, they can't stand it.

The father doesn't have much opinion on the Purifier's philosophy. After all, death is a part of life in his eyes. If there is a great prosperity of life, there should also be a great extinction of life. Both must be experienced to be considered healthy.

Apart from the ideological conflicts between fundamentalists and Protestant sects, the current warp is becoming more and more friendly and safe for Nurgle's children. Tzeentch disappeared, Khorne ceased to fight, Slaanesh was lazy and sleepy, only Nurgle was in high spirits, and his hands stirring the cauldron were getting stronger and stronger. The cauldron swayed and spilled a lot of soup full of germs. The soup moistened the dry wasteland, which undoubtedly provided an excellent living environment for the growth and spread of bacteria, and the Death Guard could expand the legion by taking advantage of the increasingly wide swamps and wetlands.

Becoming a Space Marine requires a complex operation and a complete gene seed, but the Death Guard, who completely turned to the father, simplified the process and added interesting features. (Note: I didn't find the details of how the Death Guard replenished their members after the rebellion, so I just made it up myself.)

All things go through the process of reincarnation and death on the nutritious earth. In order to get as close to this process as possible and get more blessings from the loving father, the Death Guard will cultivate the fields diligently like farmers. Nurglings will jump around them curiously, and the Plague Scribe will hurriedly lead the Nurglings away and smile apologetically at the busy Plague Warriors.

Fertilizing the fields is an important task, and barren land cannot produce a good harvest. Plague Warriors will drive rusty tractors or lead a scarred bull to plow a large number of corpses that have decayed into giants into the ground. At this time, the corpses will explode from time to time, spraying out the internal organs and rotten gas together, weaving a string of funny sounds behind the Plague Warriors.

Finally, the seeds are planted. The mortals who have a breath left in the hotbed of diseases and poisonous insects are called seed recipients by the Plague Warriors. They will be buried in the pits in the fields and closely combined with the fertile plague in the soil for seven days.

Then a strong and straight seedling will push out from under their skulls. The seedling will grow vigorously in a cycle of seven days. Finally, after seven cycles, it will be fully mature. The plump and heavy fruits will lie on the ground waiting to be harvested.