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From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
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Heruk left in search of Vezulah, hoping to end him and the madness he suffered. Soon, Heruk came upon the lightning bolt representing the Thunder Legion in a stairway down into the Flood, the catacomb beneath the Swathe. Heruk found Vezulah, wounded across the stomach and with broken weapons nearby. He was also blind from acid attack after having been attacked by Legionaries who were in the Swathe. In his dying moments, Vezulah made it clear that he was attacked and not responsible for the deaths. Suddenly, Heruk could hear a battle and he ran towards it. Elsewhere in the catacomb, Tagiomalchian was wounded by his prey, but he also had wounded it. In his conversation with his handlers, he reflected on other incidents on Terra after the Alpha Legion attack before acknowledging that the source was near him. He then shut off communication as he entered into a hall to find a possessed Alphia Legion warrior waiting.
Tagiomalchian attacked the possessed legionary and its 8 cultists, attempting to stop the sacrifice. As Heruk arrives, Tagiomalchian was on his back and being attacked by the possessed legionary. As he charged the cultist, he reflected on Tarrigata's paranoia at a conspiracy as being correct. The fight was messy, and Heruk received many wounds as he cut down the cultists. His failing, cancer-racked body a dim shadow of it's former might. Eventually, he dispatched all but one, who killed herself. Finally able to battle the legionary, he witnessed the daemonic for the first time, and he recognized that the evil behind it. Heruk charged the legionary, giving oaths to his loyalty and to unity as he battled. He was beaten back, partly drifting to found himself fighting against becoming lost in his past flashbacks as much as he tried was fighting the demonic legionnaire, eventually allowing the possessed marine to fightdeliver a mortal blow. Wounded and dying, he fought raggedly until he was able still continued to fight, eventually managing to blast it with the rad pistol. Once woundedWith the monster stunned from the blast, Heruk was able to slash it with cleave his sword through the beasts' shoulder, chest, and partially behead itup into its neck. It While now cripplingly wounded, the possessed marine still lived, and but Heruk was too weak from his wounds to continue fighting. This However, Heruk's assault had allowed the Custodian to recover , and behead it fully the gold clad warrior beheaded the possessed Alpha Legionnaire, before ripping out its heart, finally killing the monster.
As Heruk was dying, the Custodian gave him thanks for the aid before questioning if he was of the Thunder Legion. After admitting he was, the Custodian was surprised to see that they still existed. ThenAs the Custodian readied to leave, Heruk asked for one last favor, : to be given an honoured death. The Custodian respectfully agreed to his request. While the Custodian stood over him and raised his sword, Heruk released his grip on reality and remembered the raising of the Lightening Banner atop Mount Ararat, which the triumphant cries of victory. As the sword was granteddriven through his heart, Heruk began to weep in joy and whispered "For Unity…".
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