Warhammer: Dark Knights

(This chapter is for person that above 18 only, as there are violence scene in it. And if it make you uncomfortable, sorry in advance)

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"Home sweet home," you say, smiling while entering your room. "Even though it's just a room." The room is huge, containing a large bed, a large office table with multiple books, dataslates and a cogitator, four bookshelves, and have 4 servo skulls hovering around.

"Master Atharion," one servor skulls state while hovering Infront of you. "Do you in-need of our service?"

"Not now," you reply, while walking towards your bed. "I plan to have a rest, after all, I have been training for whole 3 years, now I finally have the chance to have a long rest." The servo skulls bionic eye light up three times before hovering to other place.

While you laying down, closing your eyes to rest, you can feel the room have gone quiet , other than the sound of servo skulls hovering. You remember the past 3 years. The years that you train and learn endlessly, worrying the test results everytime. Soon, you fall asleep with this thought still lingering in your mind.

Now, you have enter a special place inside your mind. A place for the last 5 years, you still can understand what is it's, other than it help you to train and learn more things that the Nine can't provide now. And you casually take the book, a book cover in red and blue, with shimmering gold trim. A book that contains all type of knowledge, governance, warfare, construction and more.

While a hammer is floating beside you, its main color is black, with silver trim on the handler.

Fog form around you, muffling the sound and creating a silent, eerie atmosphere. You can hear faint sound of movement coming out of the fog, sound of an animal walking or flying inside it.

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982.M35

"Huh? Where am I?" You look at your surroundings, which a fog have surrounded you. "Shouldn't I suppose to be inside the capsule? Why am I here?"

Suddenly, you heard sound of footsteps coming from Infront. "Hello," you shouted into the fog. "Is some body there? I need some help!"

After yelling for two more times and received no feedback, you decide to walk in the fog. 'If I walk straight, then I might meet the person that make the footsteps.'

While you walking, you realize the fog is starting to become thinner. Just then, you see a person, with suit of armor and a sword on his left hand. "Hey, can I...." Before you finish the sentence, that person started to attack you. You raise your raise your sword at your left hand to protect yourself. Only when the swords clash, the sound make you realize. 'When did I have this sword? And when did I wearing this armor?' Realize that, other that the sword, you also wearing an armor now.

While you parrying all the attack coming from that figure, you yelled at him. "Wait, why do you attacking me? I only need your help to escape this place."

"Killing you is my duty," the armored man replied coldly, his voice devoid of emotion.

Panic surged through you. You didn't understand what was happening, but one thing was clear, this man intended to kill you.

You do your best, using the knowledge you currently have to parry his attack and create chances to strike him down. While trying for it for 15 minutes, you suddenly can't see the man that is just right Infront of you, and suddenly you see his back facing you. 'What? Why did his back facing me? And where has his head gone?' Before you can process what is happening, you feel something grabbing your hair and when it pull you up, you see a helmet, his helmet.

*Gasp* after breath in a lot of air, you starting to cough violently and puke a little, while your hand move to your neck, hands trembling as the truth hit you. 'I just died, didn't I! That's wasn't his back, it's mine!!'

Panic engulfed you, and you stumbled backward, struggling to comprehend what had just happened. You sure you just died, then why are you still here, breathing, hearts beating. Is it a twisted dream or a hell that the four chaos gods create for you?

But, before you can collect yourself. You hear it again, the footsteps. You raise your head towards the sound. This time, you can hear it more clearly, the sound of armor clanking, the metallic scrape of a sword being dragged across the ground. There he is, the man that just kill me.

"You can't escape me, Richard." the ma said, his voice cold and void and without any hesitation, he lunged at you with his sword.

You quickly throw yourself to the sides and scrambling to get on your foot, sword at hand, ready to face the attack. "I don't who you are and what is going on, but I going to defeat you!!" You said to him.

The man gave no response, save for the eerie silence that followed. He simply raised his sword again, the blade gleaming menacingly, and advanced toward you.

Just like that, you fought the man again and again, dying at his hands countless times. Each time, you grasped more of his attack patterns - only to fall once more. You tried to create opportunities to counterattack, but every attempt ended in failure, his strikes become faster and more precise than your defense.

At first, the frustration was overwhelming, but slowly, you began to adjust. One death at a time, you improved. And then, in a moment of triumph, you landed a blow. Your sword sliced through his armor, and he staggered for a brief second. Excitement surged through you, 'he can bleed'.

But before you could press the advantage, something horrifying happened. The moment your life slipped away again, everything reset. His wound was gone, and he stood before you as if untouched, just like a boss resetting in a game when your character dies.

The realization hit hard. No matter how many times you injured him, each death reset everything. It felt hopeless. But a a determination rose inside you, to escape this blasted world and this man pay for what he has done. If this was like a game, then you would learn, adapt, and fight until you found a way to win—no matter how many times it took.

Sound of armor clank against the floor. The man know kneel in front of you, injury all over his body, strangely no blood coming out of the wounds. But you didn't take note of it, as yourself is full of excitement. "Finally!!!" You scream out loud. "Finally, you're the one that kneeling! You're the one that full of injury! You're the one that going to died!" You say it to the men, coldly. As you rise the sword and swing it down, aiming at the neck. You think you hear it, a faint chuckle coming from the men. Before you can confirm it, you already severed his head.

As his head hit the ground, and amor sound loudly from the ground, you think to yourself. 'Finally, this nightmare should end now, with him defeated, I should be able to leave this place.'

Then, you close your eyes, release your sword and try to embrace just a short moment of true silence and peace.

A sudden sound of something pierced into something resonance in the empty fog.

Cough Cough

You cough out blood, and see a spear pierced through your body from behind. When you look behind you, you see the helmet - that cursed helmet

"Why are you here?!"

It is him, the man that you just kill, the man tormented you, now holding the spear that killing you.

"I already say it, Richard"

"You can't escape me "