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Chapter 144 Titus is still unsatisfied
When the crimson sword Vitalus in Mephisto's hand pierced Hargon's shoulder armor, the psychic energy attached to the blade had already destroyed the Chaos Champion's life.

"Your atrocities are nothing but galactic dust." The power of the Great Think Tank firmly imprisoned the Chaos Champion who still wanted to fight to the death, until the last ray of light in the other's eyes disappeared.

Although as a Chaos Champion, Hargon's combat power is actually above average.

If it were a Space Marine from an ordinary regiment, it would be difficult to stop his attack, but he was facing Mephisto, the chief think tank of the Blood Angels and one of the most powerful psychics in the Empire.

So much so that a champion of the Khorne warband died so silently.

When he fell, the warbands he brought with him were still fighting the Blood Angels' Death Company.

Mephisto looked at the brothers who were still fighting and did not rashly join the battle again. He needed to make sure that these brothers who had just been awakened from the Black Rage would not fall into the Black Rage again.

Mephisto, who had once been caught in the Black Rage and was assigned to the Death Company to carry out the final honor charge, knew what it felt like to be caught in the Black Rage.

The Blood Angels, caught in a black rage, would relive the memory of their genetic father Sanguinius's death aboard the Vengeful Spirit at the end of the Heresy, and would regard the enemy before them as Horus, fighting and destroying everything with endless madness and anger.

This is a curse that resonates in the genes of Sanguinius' descendants. Every descendant of Sanguinius will awaken this memory when they lose their mind and fall into uncontrollable rage. In the memory, they become the Primarch himself on the Spirit of Vengeance at that time, fighting against the imaginary Horus.

This rage was so intense that when the children of Sanguinius fell into the Black Rage, they were even able to inherit some of their Primarch's power.

This also makes the Blood Angels who are caught in the Black Rage become far more powerful than usual. They are fearless and even feel no pain. Even if they are fatally wounded, they can still fight endlessly.

But before the advent of the Holy Wine, once the descendants of Sanguinius fell into the Black Rage, they could never regain consciousness.

Their will was no match for the wrathful will of Sanguinius that ran through their blood and genes, even if that was only the final echo of the Primarch's death.

Throughout the history of the Blood Angels, there have been approximately three individuals who have been able to escape the Black Rage. The current Chapter Master, Dante, was awakened by a slap from the vision of Sanguinius when he was about to fall into the Black Rage. Mephisto himself encountered the vision of Sanguinius after being buried by a building.

Mephisto is also known as the only one in the Blood Angels Chapter who defeated the Black Rage and is the hope of the entire chapter.

Besides these two, the Death Company Chaplain Lematus was the only other Son of Sanguinius to have restrained the Black Rage through his own will.

(In the old version of the military book, Lematus was the first Blood Angel to restrain the Black Rage. After the eighth edition, it was changed to Mephisto)

However, despite their cases, it is still almost impossible for ordinary descendants of Sanguinius to restrain the Black Rage.

It is precisely because of this that Mephisto is very concerned about the soldiers of the Death Company in front of him. They are too important to the Blood Angels.

However, it seemed that because the battle in front of them was not fierce, the soldiers of the Death Company showed no signs of falling into black rage again.

Especially after the Embers' Terminators teleported in, the battle became one-sided, and there were no conditions that could cause the Blood Angels to fall into the Black Rage again. This finally put Mephisto's mind at ease, and he sincerely praised the Emperor's blessing, although for Space Marines, they rarely truly worshipped the Emperor as a god.

But this time, Mephisto was truly praying to the Emperor for all the Blood Angels, thanking Him for His blessings and salvation.
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On the other side, Titus, wielding a chainsaw sword, easily killed a group of cultists, with an expression of unsatisfied satisfaction on his face.

For the former Captain of the Ultramarines' Second Company, it had been a hundred years since he last saw action.

Although he had been imprisoned in a stasis field for most of the past hundred years, Titus could still feel the passage of time because of the interrogation and torture from time to time by the inquisitor who imprisoned him.

A hundred years is an extremely long time even for Space Marines.

Especially during the one hundred years, he had to face the torture of the Inquisitor and constant tests of loyalty, which made Titus suffer mentally.

Although he has been released now, Titus still cannot accept not being able to return to the Ultramarines, and even considers it a humiliation.

After all, the accusation of "traitor" was very serious, which almost denied all of Titus' past honors.

This also caused Titus to accumulate great resentment in his heart, and he wanted to vent it through killing.

But these unqualified enemies obviously could not satisfy Titus's desire to fight.

However, as a mature Astartes who already had two golden service nails driven into his forehead, Titus was able to control his emotions well and suppress his anger.

He simply asked with lingering interest, "Are there any other enemies of sufficient magnitude? Slaughtering these infidels can hardly be called a battle."

"I'm afraid we can't make it. This Chaos warband has run into the Blood Angels' chief think tank and the Death Squad he brought with him." Guterres already knew that the Blood Angels had released the Death Squad to end the battle, and said to Titus with regret.

They arrived fairly quickly, but unfortunately they were unlucky and didn't run into the main attack direction of the Chaos War Gang, so they only got some cultists and didn't even get a can of food.

But this is not surprising. After all, strictly speaking, there are three interstellar regiments involved in the starport battle, and the total number of Astartes is almost one hundred.

Not to mention that there are well-known strong men like Titus and Mephisto here, who are enough to defeat those fallen legions. This Chaos war gang that doesn't even have a name is really not enough for these uncles to kill.

In particular, the Blood Angels deployed two full Death Companies, and the Embers Knights also put all of their Terminators into battle.

"What a battle... it's hard to feel honored." Titus could only make such a helpless comment in the end.

Guterres couldn't say anything about it, but the killing team he brought with him did accumulate some experience through this battle. At the same time, he himself completed a temporary combat mission of "expelling the Chaos Gang from the Starport", and gained 200 experience points and 100 points.

(End of this chapter)