3.Dark Creed by me

Author:me
Format: epub

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Marduk swore as he received Kol Badar’s update, and he grunted with effort as he slammed his foot

into the heavy-gauge door, half tearing it off its hinges. Sparks spurted from damaged cabling, and the door crashed inwards as Marduk kicked it again. A pair of robed acolytes, their shaven heads tattooed with binary code, rose in alarm, and Marduk gunned them both down, his bolt pistol kicking in his hand. Their chests exploded, blood and bone spraying across the walls as the mass-reactive tips of the bolts detonated. The interior was dark and filled with the mechanical whine of gyro-stabilisers and grind of ammunition feeds. This was one of the dozens of flak turrets on the exterior of the defence tower, and as the powerful weapon began firing again the room was lit up harshly. The sound was deafening. Two gunners were strapped into the rotating turret. Their control harness was a framework capable of swivelling up and down and through one hundred and eighty degrees, powered by wheezing servos. Flickering green screens hung before them, showing targeting matrices and data streams, and they gripped the pistol-grip controls of the flak-turret tightly, thumbs depressed upon triggers.

Intent upon their targeting monitors and with their ears muffled from the roar of their guns, the gunners had no clue that their pitiful lives were about to end. One of the men gave a whoop as he brought down a target, and Marduk growled. Stepping forward onto the turret, he grabbed one of the gunners by the front of his flak-vest and ripped him from his seat, snapping his restraint buckles. He pounded the man headfirst into the turret’s framework, and tossed the lifeless corpse aside. The other gunner, seeing the fate of his comrade, struggled to release himself from his restraint. Marduk punched his hand through the soldier’s chest, fingers straight as a blade. Closing his hand around the man’s heart, he ripped it free with a yank. The man stared incomprehendingly at his own beating heart in his moments before death. Marduk dropped off the turret, which fell silent as its one remaining, lifeless gunner slumped backwards in his seat.

Marduk strode back into the corridor. Adepts were being dragged from side rooms and butchered. Conserving ammunition, warrior brothers broke necks and shattered skulls with clubbing blows from bolters and fists. Others had their throats torn out or were cut from groin to neck with knives the length of a human’s thigh. Others were merely slung into walls, their skulls caving in from the force, or tossed over the gantry banisters, falling to the distant floor below. More doors were kicked in as one by one the turrets of the tower were silenced and the occupants butchered or beaten to death. The entire structure shuddered as the defence laser fired, and Marduk swore once more. “Khalaxis,” he growled. “Why is the defence laser still active?”

Khalaxis stood amid a scene of absolute destruction, blood covering every surface of the room deep below the defence tower.

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