Warhammer 40k: Collector of Terra

Chapter 14 The Arrival of Mortarion

According to statistics from the Ministry of Military Affairs, the traitor's activity in the Obscure Star Territory has increased tenfold.

Such an abnormal move naturally made several district governors in the Hazy Star Territory wary.For the empire, the most important thing in the Hazy Star Territory is the fortress world of Cadia that suppresses the Eye of Terror.

The "Eye of Terror" is a giant subspace rift that is several light years long. It is so large that it can even accommodate an entire fleet to move in and out freely.

Once the fortress world of Cadia, which guards the Eye of Terror, is lost, the betrayers hidden in the Eye of Terror can come out in full force without any hindrance.

The Eye of Terror and its surrounding space will become the springboard for the traitors to invade the Empire. From then on, the Empire will never have peace under the iron heel of the traitors.

In a sense, the fortress world of Cadia is as important as Holy Terra!

Therefore, as soon as the betrayers made any changes, the district governors mobilized their forces scattered throughout the Hazy Star Territory and went to the Eye of Terror to support the fortress world.

But what the governors didn't know was that their decision was exactly what the Warmaster of Chaos wanted to see.

Under the orders of the regional governors, more than two-fifths of the troops were transferred to the Eye of Terror!Except for the cosmic domain near Cadia, the defenses of the entire Hazy Star Territory are extremely empty.

At this juncture, a strange subspace storm visited the Hazy Star Territory!The violent waves caused by the subspace storm blocked all astrological signals and waterways in the star field!

From this moment on, the entire Hazy Star Territory became an isolated island unable to communicate with the outside world!Under the conspiracy of Chaos, the loyalists in the entire star field will be as lonely and dangerous as a lonely boat in the wind and rain.

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Obscure Star Territory, Gothic Star Territory, Hive World [Unswold].

Unswold is an extremely prosperous trading world. Before the subspace storm enveloped the Hazy Star Territory, thousands of merchant ships were taking off and landing in the star ports in the planet's orbit every day.

For the planetary governor of this planet, the arrival of every merchant ship is a windfall!Relying on the taxes generated by the merchant ship trade, the nobles living in the upper echelons of the hive city lived a luxurious life every day.

This is a paradise for nobles, but for the poor living at the bottom of the hive, this planet is almost like hell!
As a trading world, Unswold does not have the ability to produce food!The huge amount of food consumed by the entire planet every day is transported from other worlds by merchant fleets.

Food is not very profitable, so there are very few fleets dedicated to transporting food!As a result, food prices above Unswold remain high.

An ordinary person's daily salary cannot even buy enough brown bread for a full meal.

In addition to the trade of goods, in this extremely prosperous imperial world, the most profitable job is actually a worker in the corpse starch processing factory!
It has to be said that this is really a great irony.

When the planet was at its most prosperous, the common people at the bottom couldn't even fill their stomachs!Now that trade routes have been cut off, the food shortage on the entire planet has reached an extremely serious level.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians die of hunger every day, and dissatisfaction and anger are gradually accumulating among the civilians at the bottom.

In order to prevent the lower class civilians from starting a rebellion due to hunger, and also to protect the interests of the upper class nobles!The planetary governor is ready to deal with this group of ungrateful and unruly people once and for all.

In the third month of the warp storm, the Planetary Governor's personal guards blocked the passage between the upper and lower levels of the hive.At this point, the people of the empire living at the bottom have been completely abandoned by the nobles.

Pain, hunger and despair, endless negative emotions enveloped every civilian.

Domestic garbage, rats in the sewers, and even dead bodies of the same kind...all organic matter are put into the starch processing plant, but even so, death and hunger still follow them.

It was at this extremely desperate moment that the savior of the common people appeared!
It was a religious organization called the "Loving Fathers."

The leaders and evangelists of the organization brought a magical plant!Under the catalysis of a certain green "nutrient solution", the plant took root, sprouted, and bore fruits on the cold steel.

The attractive fruit exuding sweet smell was distributed to the hands of every civilian, and the juice-filled pulp soothed the soul of every hungry person.

In just a few days, the "Loving Father" has become the belief of almost every lower-class civilian!Even the most devout believers of the state religion were driven by despair and hunger to convert to the loving Father.

Of course, the "Loving Father" is not some savior of the common people!The god this religious organization believes in is Nurgle, one of the four gods of chaos.

As mentioned before, every gift from Chaos has already been secretly marked with a price.

The fruit provided to the common people by the "Loving Father" is not a plant, but a demonic entity from the Plague Garden.

Every fruit eaten by civilians is actually the seed of a demonic entity!The moment it enters the human body, this vicious creation begins to grow quietly.

After a few weeks, the seeds of evil have taken root and sprouted!The moment the coquettish bloody flowers bloom from the flesh, a great sacrifice to the evil god Nurgle is ready.

Under the control of the bloody flowers, tens of millions of imperial civilians "voluntarily" gave up their lives and souls.

Endless flesh, flesh and spirit form a vicious sacrifice!The intense emotions generated when life and soul dissipate tear apart the curtain between reality and illusion, creating a subspace crack in the physical universe that connects to the highest heaven.

Under the devout prayers of Nurgle believers, a strange figure exuding green aura walked out of the crack.

Along with it, there are countless kinds of virulent plagues and diseases.

Disease and subspace power began to erode the hive, and plague plants that should not appear in the physical universe began to grow wildly!A plague that can kill ordinary people in an instant spreads at the bottom of the hive city. All bacteria and viruses are shouting the same name——

Mortarion! ! ! !
Mortarion was once the Primarch of the No. 14 Legion "Death Guard", but during the Horus Heresy ten thousand years ago, the Death Sons betrayed the great Emperor.

The noble emperor's son fell into the embrace of his loving father Nurgle. The Death Guard Legion, which once carried the rise and hope of the empire, has become a "plague pig" that is despised by loyalists today.

But Mortarion does not regret his betrayal!

(End of this chapter)