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Chapter 80: God of War Guilliman
[Gene Engine initialisation failure detected. Cause: Unknown. Initiating emergency retrieval protocols.]
[Failure analysis: Cosmic parameter deviation beyond acceptable thresholds.]
[Scanning local universe matrix... Establishing baseline reality constants... Redefining operational parameters...]
The Gene Engine's cold litany echoed through Roboute Guilliman's consciousness. Data flowed like rivers of liquid light behind his closed eyelids.
Reality constants, physical laws, and dimensional parameters, all being catalogued against his transhuman biology.
When the Lord of Ultramar opened his eyes, those azure depths held more than awareness. They contained the tactical genius of a thousand campaigns and something new: the fundamental equations of an alien reality.
His massive frame stirred within the impact crater. Ceramite plates ground against pulverised earth.
Every breath filled lungs designed for toxic atmospheres. Every heartbeat pumped blood engineered for superhuman endurance.
When Guilliman exhaled, the air rippled with barely contained force.
The entire Wakandan battlefield fell silent. Even distant war engines seemed to pause.
Two armies found themselves holding their collective breath. Primal instincts whispered warnings older than civilisation.
Apex predator. Primarch. Death incarnate.
Guilliman spread his arms. His massive frame began to rise from the crater without visible means of support.
Psychic energies lifted him skyward. His presence radiated authority that made mortal minds quail.
The spell of silence shattered like crystal.
"He's not with us!" Cull Obsidian bellowed across the battlefield. "Kill him!"
The Black Order lieutenant launched himself into the air. The ground shook under his force.
To mortal eyes, his leap seemed superhuman. Tons of alien muscle and armour hurtled through space with lethal intent.
Guilliman's eyes blazed with cold fury.
No mortal perception could track what happened next. Reality seemed to stutter.
One moment, Cull Obsidian was ascending. The next thing he was falling in two separate pieces.
Blood painted the sky in crimson arcs. The alien warrior's remains crashed to earth with bone-jarring impacts.
The Avengers stared in stunned silence.
"What the hell was that?" Falcon's voice crackled over comms.
"Earth's greatest Heroes struggled against that thing," War Machine observed. "This guy just cut him in half."
Captain America adjusted his grip on his shield. "Stay alert. We don't know if he's friend or foe."
"Eliminate that target!" Corvus Glaive shrieked with desperation. "All units, converge and destroy!"
The Outrider swarms responded with mindless fury. Their alien voices rose in cacophony as they surged toward Guilliman.
The Primarch's Gene Engine processed tactical data in microseconds. Troop dispositions, weapon capabilities, and battlefield geography are all catalogued and analysed.
The strategic situation became clear. Two forces locked in desperate combat.
One defending this world. The other is seeking to claim it.
Humanity's children stood against an alien invasion.
The choice required no deliberation.
"Enemies of mankind," Guilliman's voice rolled across the battlefield like thunder, "behold your doom."
The Lord of Ultramar descended upon Thanos's legions like divine wrath.
Where his fists struck, alien flesh ceased to exist. Where he passed, formations dissolved into component atoms.
This wasn't a battle. It was a fundamental force applied with surgical precision.
"Holy shit," Rocket muttered from his position. "Who is this guy?"
"Language," Captain America replied automatically, then paused.
"Actually, never mind. Holy shit is right."
Outriders that had weathered Asgardian lightning found themselves torn apart by bare hands. Their nervous systems couldn't process the speed.
Chitauri warriors watched their weapons fail against armour forged in Mars's deepest forges. Ammunition sparked harmlessly against blessed ceramite.
"This is incredible," Black Widow observed. "He's cutting through them like they're made of paper."
In minutes, the tide of alien flesh became scattered corpses littering the savanna.
The survivors fled beyond the energy barriers to regroup with their master.
"Thank you, sir." Captain America approached with careful respect. Shield held loose but ready. "Your intervention saved countless lives."
Guilliman's visor retracted with a soft hiss. Features that belonged more to classical sculpture than mortal flesh were revealed.
High cheekbones framed eyes that held centuries of experience. His jaw spoke of unshakeable determination tempered by wisdom.
The assembled heroes felt an immediate impulse to kneel, not from fear, but from instinctive recognition of nobility.
"The defence of humanity's interests requires no gratitude," the Primarch replied. His voice carried the authority of one born to command star systems. "It is duty incarnate."
"Damn," Falcon whispered. "Even his voice sounds like royalty."
Black Panther stepped forward. He offered the greeting gesture of his people. "Welcome to Wakanda, mighty one. Thanos's servants nearly broke our defences."
"Your arrival has preserved more than just our kingdom. If Wakanda falls, Earth loses this war entirely."
Guilliman's tactical mind processed this information with growing bewilderment.
"This conflict encompasses your entire world?"
His gaze swept the battlefield. Defensive positions catalogued with increasing dismay.
"Where are your orbital defence platforms? Your artillery positions? Your strategic reserve forces?"
War Machine blinked. "Orbital, what now?"
"We don't really do orbital platforms," Falcon added. "Budget constraints."
"Wakanda requires no such crude weapons," Black Panther replied with evident pride. He displayed his vibranium spear.
Energy coruscated along its edge like captured starlight. "We possess technologies beyond the outer world's comprehension."
The Gene Engine completed weapon analysis in 0.73 seconds.
Guilliman's expression shifted from confusion to outright incredulity.
"Your 'advanced technology' consists of a superior mineral refined through primitive techniques."
His criticism cut with surgical precision. "Attached to a delivery system that would shame a feral world blacksmith."
"Remove the vibranium's natural properties, and you possess weaponry inferior to items produced in Terran factories thirty millennia past."
The assembled Wakandans flushed with indignation.
"Okay, that's just rude," Shuri's voice came over the comms. "Our spears are perfectly functional."
"Such tactics suffice against enhanced individuals," Black Panther retorted. His pride was stung. "Conventional firepower proves useless against beings of such power."
Guilliman's laugh was utterly without humour.
"Because you face opponents marginally superior to baseline mortality, you cease considering yourself mortal?"
The Primarch's tone carried the patience of a teacher correcting a slow student.
"I could end your existence seventeen distinct ways in the span of five heartbeats."
"Well, that's not ominous at all," Rocket muttered.
Before Black Panther could formulate a response, his communication array crackled with panicked transmissions.
"Thanos has breached the outer perimeter! We cannot contain him!"
"Wanda has retreated with Vision toward the forest sanctuaryāsomeone must reach them beforeā"
The transmission dissolved into static and screaming.
Captain America's expression hardened. "Vision carries the Mind Stone."
"If Thanos claims it..."
"The universe dies," Guilliman completed. His Gene Engine had assimilated sufficient data to understand the stakes. "Lead the way."
"Can you keep up?" Falcon asked.
The Primarch's response was to vanish simply, reappearing fifty meters ahead in the direction of the forest.
"Never mind," Falcon sighed. "Stupid question."
They arrived too late.
In a clearing surrounded by ancient trees, Wanda Maximoff cradled Vision's lifeless form. Her hands still glowed with chaos magic that had destroyed the Mind Stone.
And with it, the synthetic being she loved.
But Thanos stood unmoved by her sacrifice.
The Time Stone pulsed with eldritch energies. Reality reversed itself, undoing death with casual indifference.
Vision's form reassembled from constituent atoms. The Mind Stone blazed to life once more in his forehead.
"No," Wanda whispered. "No, no, no..."
"I am sorry," the Mad Titan rumbled. He lifted the synthetic being by the throat.
With deliberate cruelty, he tore the Infinity Stone from Vision's skull. The corpse dropped like discarded refuse.
"You monster!" Captain America hurled his shield with all his strength.
Thanos caught it one-handed without looking.
Six gems. Six aspects of universal law made manifest.
Thanos raised the final stone toward his gauntlet. Triumph was written across his scarred features.
"At last."
Reality tore open behind him. Space folded upon itself.
A portal yawned wide. Through it came a fist wreathed in azure lightning.
The blow connected with force that made the continental shelves shift.
Thanos's massive form catapulted through the air. He impacted Earth with enough force to create a crater visible from orbit.
The Mind Stone spiralled away from his grasp. Its light painted rainbow patterns across the sky.
"What just happened?" War Machine asked.
Guilliman materialised fully through his spatial gate. The Mind Stone settled into his palm as if drawn by magnetic force.
Around him, air still shimmered with dimensional distortions from his transit.
"Impressive," Thanos emerged from his crater. Purple skin was split and bleeding. "Another champion rises."
His voice carried grim satisfaction. "No matter. None can stand before infinite power."
The remaining five Infinity Stones blazed with collected fury. Thanos channelled their energies through his gauntlet.
Reality, Power, Space, Time, and Soul. Fundamental forces that have shaped existence since the universe's birth.
They converged into a beam of annihilation that made supernovas seem like candle flames.
"Take cover!" Captain America shouted.
[Detecting conceptual-level threat. Engaging emergency protocols.]
[Constructing reality anchor barriers. Estimated duration: 4.7 seconds.]
Energy barriers materialised around Guilliman. Layers of crystallised physics are designed to deflect attacks beyond mere matter and energy.
"Is he insane?" Rocket yelled. "Nobody takes a hit from five Infinity Stones!"
The beam struck like the death of stars. Reality itself screamed as infinite energies met Primarch defences.
For precious seconds, the barriers held. Ancient technologies forged in the Dark Age matched themselves against the fundamental forces of creation.
Then cracks appeared.
[WARNING: Barrier integrity compromised. Gene Engine loading is incomplete; complete defensive suites are unavailable. Recommend immediate tactical withdrawal.]
"The barriers are breaking!" Shuri's voice crackled over comms.
The barriers shattered like spun glass. Raw infinity claimed its due.
Guilliman's massive form hurtled backward. Ceramite plates were scored and smoking from contact with forces that should have rendered him atomic vapor.
The Mind Stone tumbled from his grasp as he carved a furrow through earth and stone for nearly a hundred meters.
Momentum finally abandoned him.
"Is he dead?" Falcon asked quietly.
Thanos stared at the fallen Primarch. Genuine shock replaced his earlier confidence.
The combined might of five Infinity Stones should have erased any mortal being from existence. Yet this unknown warrior had merely been knocked unconscious.
"Impressive," the Mad Titan murmured. He claimed the Mind Stone once more. "But still insufficient."
The Divine Realm - City of Omnipotence
In the spaces between spaces, two more Primarchs had found themselves cast adrift by dimensional turbulence.
The City of Omnipotence stood as a testament to divine cooperation. Spires reached through seventeen dimensions.
Architecture existed in conceptual space as much as in physical space. Forums where beings of unimaginable power debated philosophy.
Lesser gods maintained the infrastructure of prayer and worship across a thousand worlds.
It had endured for two hundred billion years, a refuge built from the ashes of the War of the Gods.
That terrible conflict had seen pantheons rise and fall like wheat before cosmic scythes. Until the survivors realised cooperation offered the only path to continued existence.
Into this realm of ancient treaties and careful diplomacy had fallen two beings that defied all classification.
Leman Russ, the Wolf King, lay unconscious against a crystalline plaza. The surface sang with harmonics audible only to divine senses.
His massive form twitched occasionally. Locked in dreams of endless hunts through forests that spanned galaxies.
Beside him, Lion El'Jonson had awakened first. His Gene Engine was apparently more compatible with divine space's reality parameters.
The Primarch of the First Legion crouched in a defensive position. Power sword drawn.
Figures in elaborate armour approached with evident hostile intent.
"Damn you, you mangy wolf!" Lion's voice carried frustration sharp as a blade's edge.
God Guards surrounded their position with weapons that blazed with conceptual fire.
"You had energy enough to fight for twenty-seven hours. But now you sleep like a lap dog!"
The Lion hefted his unconscious brother's bulk onto one shoulder. No mean feat even for a Primarch.
Russ's mass exceeded that of a main battle tank.
With his free hand, he activated his power sword. Its energy field howled with barely contained fury.
The God Guards closed in. Their forms shifted through multiple-dimensional phases.
Weapons trained on the intruders who had somehow bypassed the City's defences.
The Lion of Caliban bared his teeth in a feral grin.
"Come then, little gods."
His blade hummed with anticipation.
"Let me show you why mortals learned to fear the Knights."
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So yeah, I'm getting my shit together, get exercise rope skipping, actually, maybe gym, don't know.
And read some good things, maybe develop some skills.Ā
I love Jim Ron's quote, "Work on yourself harder than you do on your school, college, or Company"
It doesn't mean you work less on those, just enough.
Well, Winter is coming, so I guess this will be the time to join the trend. I mean, it comes up every year, who knows?
And yeah, working on this Friday, and well, we'll work on the Warhammer 40k one, which is quite long. It is good; you guys will like it. I mean, who doesn't like this one?
Yeah, that's it, and no, I did not forget the power stone or the challenge.Ā
Have to say you guys are persistent.
Now bye. Live well.Ā