[Warhammer 40K - The Horus Heresy 17] - The Outcast Dead by Graham McNeill
Author:Graham McNeill [Graham McNeill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Military Fiction, Science Fiction, Warhammer 40K
ISBN: 9781849700863
Publisher: The Black Library
Published: 2011-11-14T11:00:00+00:00
THIRTEEN
The Crusader Host
Freedom
If You Want To Live
WITH THE POWER of the Great Ocean at his disposal, there was little beyond the reach of an Adept Exemptus of the Thousand Sons, but even Phosis Tâkar would have been hard pressed to create a kine shield capable of withstanding so many guns. Atharva could protect himself with such a shield, but the rest of the Crusader Host would surely be killed, and â for the moment â he needed them alive.
Freed from the limiting confines of his cell, Atharvaâs power flowed back into his body. He wanted to savour this moment, to revel in the return of his full gamut of abilities and the clarity of thought that was his to command, but time was now his enemy and the Eye had work for him.
Custodian Uttamâs blood flowed from the ruined stump of his neck, spilling over Atharvaâs hand and streaming down his arm. The cracked tip of a crushed vertebra jutted from the wound and the grey matter within would beyond use in a few moments.
But a few moments was less time than he had.
The guns on the cavern walls opened fire and a cascade of lasers and solid rounds drowned the din of alarms. Thousands of shells bombarded the floating island in a blitzing storm of fire. Atharva dived inside the cell that had recently housed Tagore, but the World Eater sergeant flattened himself against its outer walls, too stupid or too proud to take refuge within its confines.
âCan you stop this?â bellowed Tagore, his voice almost lost in the crescendo of gunfire. Acrid propellant smoke and billowing clouds of pulverised permacrete filled the air as the solid rounds smacked into the cells and chewed them apart like necrotic viral strains attacking healthy cells.
âThat remains to be seen,â shouted Atharva in response, pushing his consciousness into the Custodianâs head, directing the living power of the warp into the myriad dying blood vessels in an effort to keep brain death at bay.
A breath sighed from the head as the mouth fell open in a silent scream. Atharva felt the crackle of neural activity in the fitfully sparking synapses, and meshed his mind with the dying brain. He goaded it back to life with immaterial energy, letting the power of the Great Ocean reanimate cells that had been on the brink of disintegration. Atharva felt Uttamâs horror pricking the edge of his perception, and briefly wondered what manner of awareness the dead Custodian might yet be experiencing.
As more of Uttamâs brain returned to life, the stronger the maddened horror became, but Atharva kept it at bay for now. With his mental architecture attuned to the rhythms of the Pavoni in the sixth Enumeration, Atharva let his bodyâs newfound familiarity with Legio Custodes blood restructure itself, altering his biometrics to more closely match those of his erstwhile gaoler. Though Atharvaâs body did not change outwardly, his inner flesh took on the guise of Uttam Luna Hesh Udar at the cellular level. A crude
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