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He had been in position for weeks, limbs in a state of voluntary bio-paralysis so that he could remain flat against the ceiling. Muscles locked, his mind had been in a trance that was only now coming to an end.  \nIt had taken every iota of his skill to infiltrate this stronghold of the damned. The place had been so painstakingly maintained as a safe haven from prying eyes that despite its decrepitude, breaking in had been harder than gaining entrance toa Proteus-class battle bunker. Layers of misdirection, industrial espionage, cultured redundancy, blackmail, extortion and simple murder had kept the Cult of the Pauper Princes gene-sect in Megaborealis a closely guarded secret. They had infiltrated that troubled, earthquake-racked continent with such skill that even the knowledge-obsessed Machine Priests high above had no conception of their existence. They guarded their heartlands with vile hybrids so disgusting inform and faith that Klotec found them repulsive, and many of them had senses so sharp he had thought on more than one occasion they would sniff him out. He was almost impressed.  \nIt would likely take months, if not years, for the other five operatives detailed in Klotec’s remote briefing from Neo-vellum to make planetfall. His old comrade, Elixa de Mornay of the Vanus temple, was amongst them. She would have been fascinated by the way the xenos cultists wielded propaganda and misinformation as a weapon. With their psychic gestalt to coordinate them, the Genestealer Cultists were uncannily good at it. On Vigilus the hybrids had mingled with the machine slaves of the populace, sowing the seeds of their eventual uprising and escaping notice until the greenskin planetary assault had forced their hand.  \nBut no matter their disguises, some aspects of the cult remained immutable truths. There was always an inner circle, just like the one that was gradually revealing itself to him as its members walked, one by one, with great reverence down the processional underway leading to a colossal four-armed statue of their false god. Their fellow cultists chanted, low and insistent, proclaiming the glory of the star gods they revered above even their own lives. And there was always one they worshipped as their avatar – one, and only one: the spider at the centre of the web.  \nThere was the robed Magus, bald and tall in the manner of all their war leaders save one. Then came the Primus, each of his three limbs holding a weapon that could kill with the merest scratch. In his wake came Acolytes and Neophytes, ranging from simple industrial miners to the engineers of the protean mutagens that were genetically altering the Vigilus underclasses as they drank the polluted water. Klotec knew that some amongst them considered themselves expert saboteurs, even assassins. The Vindicare allowed himself a sliver of mirth, but his face did not move a muscle. These xenos-struck fools had no idea just how lethal a true assassin could be.  \nHe would educate them on behalf of the Officio Assassinorum soon enough.  \nThere was a sound like scraping stone, and there it was – the mark he had been sent to kill. Grandsire Wurm.  \nThe Genestealer Patriarch crawled from underneath the altar raised to its glory. First one limb emerged, as thick as Klotec’s leg and capped with three vicious sickle-talons. Then came another, and another. The chanting, slow and insistent, gathered in pace and volume until dust trickled from the pipes and stanchions all around him. With a triumphant screech, the Patriarch stood up to its full height, casting its vile red gaze across the congregation. Then the Magus brought his rod of office down in a sharp gesture, and the room fell silent.  \nKlotec breathed out through his nose, releasing his biostasis with a flood of  \nwarmth that tingled to every fi","cbCaia5Y8TDrKQQ1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaia5Y8TDrKQQ1","pdf",818020,6,"English","# TO KILL A DARK KING\n## Klotec’s infiltration and wait\n## The cult’s hierarchy and ritual\n## The assassination attempt and escape","[{\"question\":\"Who is the assassin and what is his mission?\",\"answer\":\"Emeret Klotec is the seventy-first executioner of the Black Lance Vindicare Temple. 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