Konrad 3 - Warblade by Warhammer

Author:Warhammer [Warhammer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER NINE

The Wasteland lay to the west of the Reikwald Forest, and it took much longer than

two days for Konrad and Wolf to reach the border. By then, Konrad’s five years of

service had expired. Neither of them made any mention of the subject.

The Wasteland was barren and inhospitable, a cold wind from the Middle Sea

perpetually sweeping across the plains, and so poorly populated that there was only

one town in the whole desolate country. That was Marienburg, the largest port in the

entire Old World. But that was not where Wolf led Konrad, and neither did they stop

at any of the small villages or farms where the rest of the inhabitants dwelled.

Wolf would not reveal their destination or who would be there when they reached

it, and Konrad soon gave up asking. This was the reason that Wolf had suddenly

appeared out of the night to rescue Konrad from the bull-headed beastmen: so that

they would ride together into the Wasteland to meet the mysterious “someone” who

could answer all of Konrad’s questions on Chaos.

Or at least he could pretend this was what fate had intended, that there was

nothing else he could do but allow himself to be carried along with the course laid

out for him. And the further west that he travelled, the more he seemed to escape the

web which had threatened to trap him amongst the interwoven strands of his life.

Wolf had also refused to reveal how and when he had become infected by Chaos.

Konrad could understand that, because he was unwilling to speak about his time

within the bronze armour and what it had done to him. But the fact that Wolf had

survived for so long since he must have been affected, and that he was still such an

implacable enemy of Chaos, gave Konrad renewed hope. He knew that the touch of

warpstone had condemned him to ultimate destruction, but perhaps he could delay

the time of his inevitable doom.

For as long as he had known him, Wolf had been fighting against Chaos,

although he had never used that word. Wolf had been aware that the battle took on

many forms, that the world was in danger upon many fronts. Because he was a

warrior, he had chosen to combat the legions of damnation the only way he knew—

by force of arms. He used military might to hold back the northern hordes which

sought to break through the frontier defences in Kislev, and in this he had proved

very successful. The mercenary army he built up had even pushed the barbaric tribes

back towards their own benighted realms. But then came the day when the feral

invaders had swarmed south, eliminating the mining town and destroying everyone

within. Or almost everyone. Krysten had been the final victim.

Konrad and Wolf rode on, day after day, across the wilderness. The Wasteland

was aptly named. The grass was parched and withered, the occasional tree was

stunted and twisted.

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