I grabbed the red great coat I fashioned to be like the fuckmothering vampire himself's one and draped it over my shoulders and made my way out past the crumbling walls of the church.
It didn't take long to see my first poxwalker and I have to say, easily the most disgusting thing I have seen ever. I grabbed a Jackal from my right and put a single round between its eyes.
The effect was immediate as it's body burst into blue flames and was ashes in seconds, not focusing on it I started putting down the walkers with contemptuous ease.
I ducked as a bullet whizzed past were my head had been and my free hand flicked out to grasb my other Jackal and fired it at the origin of the attempted headshot.
Dropping my empty mags as soon as they were empty made them dissolve into blue motes of light only to reform in my head as soon as I reached for another mag onto now refilled with ammo.
I don't know how long I spent popping heads and killing cultists but I must have been a long time because when I refocused on my surrounding instead of the enemy now that they were all dead I was in a totally different area from my arrival in the church.
The desolate collapsed buildings had changed instead to a normal (for hive cities) housing area. And I could even hear the sounds of people talking normally very faintly (instead of the deranged screaming of the cultists).
I grabbed a railing and vaulted off it down to the floor about three stories down and only grunted as my shattered ankles healed themselves.
I crept my way deeper into the hab area until I reached the very quiet whispering I had heard.
"It'll be ok Anna" a male voice sounded out before it was answered by a gurgling you hear from somebody drowning in their our blood.
Decideding that I wasn't less human even if I was a monster I opened the door slowly and entered with my arms raised to show I didn't mean any harm.
My response was a bullet to the head but I expected it so I wasn't knocked back and the hole it made in my forehead was quickly healed.
"I don't mean any harm" I say as I am again shot between the eyes and again it does nothing beyond make them more scared at my not dying.
"I can help" I said and the offer of help gets the man to stop shooting me and instead only aim at me.
"What do you mean?" He spoke gruffly while clutching his daughter? To his side as the hole in the side of her neck seemed to heal and then reopen again and again.
"I can help her with whatever is causing her that" I pointed at her throat and she quickly covered her throat with scared eyes.
"Why?" The man asked and I just shrugged.
"Because it's something Sanguinius would have done" the mear mention of the angel of baal without myself combusting into flames seemed to relax the father.
I take a step closer but he raises the gun again and speaks, "swear on whatever you have for a soul that you won't harm my daughter" I nod and speak.
"I swear apon my soul and true name that I will not cause intended harm to this child" the oath echoes for a moment in the warp and he must of felt something because he lowers the gun and allows me closer.
I kneel next to the man and his daughter as I inspect the wound on her throat, "it's been infected by one of the plague father's many illnesses" it was a type of necrosis that progressed quicker the more the body fights it.
"Do you have any water?" I ask as I reach into my coat and grab one of the vials of my blood I had created.
He nodded and passed a canteen which I poured into a bowl to mix with my blood creating makeshift holy water.
Using a cloth I applied the holy water onto the cursed wound and as I did a horrendous screech came from the opening and closing wound as the demons that made up the illness were exorcised back to the warp.
Without the demons boosting the necrosis the would sealed shut in an instant as her healing factor took over.
I gave the dad a questioning look and he sighed, "our family are a variation perpetuals that can't die from anything but old age" I hummed as I watched the young woman cough up a black goop which I quickly wiped with a rag.
"How do you know what a perpetual is?" I asked the dad as their existence was very very uncommon so unless you were in a high position you'd never here the word.
He reached into his pocket and tossed me a rosary that I immediately recognised, "you are a inquisitor? What are you doing on a random hive world?" He corrected me.
"Ex inquisitor, I had a kid and disappeared to keep her from having to grow up like I did" I nodded as any children of inquisitors would be taken to be trained or would be made to disappear so they don't interfere with the inquisitor's work.
"And how did that work out" I ask and he shakes his head, "it worked but it took everything I had, and she decided to join the army anyway" I hummed as the young woman woke up.
"Wah, dad?" She asks and he just smiled at her before helping her back to her feet. "Yeah kiddo I'm here." She hugged him.
"Sorry to interrupt but I gotta ask what you plan to do now" I didn't want to interrupt the touching moment but I would need to start moving on soon as I could hear more poxwalkers gathering.
"We didn't really have a plan" the girl spoke before he father could say anything.
"I could use the back up?" I offered for them to follow me as I continued clearing the hive of nurgle's taint.
The girl looked at her father who shrugged, "I don't see why not, you seem to know what your doing" the father said before offering me a handshake, "name's David" I shook his hand before with my other hand pulling out one of my jackals and aiming past his head while pulling him past me and putting a bullet between the eyes of a cultist who was trying to sneak up on us.
"Well the name's Michael and if your intending to join me then you'll need new weapons" I tossed the other Jackal to David who caught it easily and inspected it.
"Holy weapon. Will put down anything weaker than an infected orgryn in a single headshot" I say and he snaps to attention and covers behind me while I asked his daughter what weapon she is proficient with.
"I was a sniper but I also have training in field medicine" I nodded and tossed the jackal I held to her so I could gather some parts I had hidden in my coat.
"Cover me while I make you something" they both look confused but none the less do as I asked.
Using some broken machinery in the room we were in I cobbled together a basic coilgun by using a hidden lasgun the owner of this house had and jailbreaking it's battery to dump much more energy than what it should be able to into the coil mechanism.
"Swap" I called out and chucked the coilgun over to Anna who caught it and gave me back my jackal, "use it like a lasgun but expect a bit of kickback" she nodded and aimed at a burster before taking its head off in a crack of thunder.
"if either of you run out of ammo chuck the weapon here and I'll reload" they nodded and we worked to clear the hab block of nurgle's taint, anytime David's jackal would run out of ammo we'd swap and I'd reload it using my Shard's infinite ammo.