Man in Warhammer, starting Primarch

After taking away the Emperor's Shield, the Lion King launched operations in the dark side of the Empire. In this dark era, the Lion desperately hopes that more people of the Empire can survive.

He led the Dark Angels to worlds that were completely isolated by subspace storms.

Lions protect planets that are particularly in need of protection.

He did not hide his tracks. In fact, the Lion King had been waiting for news from the Empire.

But in the process of taking action, there was always uneasiness in the lion's heart. He was very worried about how his actions would look in the eyes of those suspicious and ill powerful people.

Will those people incite civilians or even interstellar warbands to fight against the protection he provides because they are afraid of losing their rights? Or denounce him as an impostor and call for war with him?

If the empire does not recognize his actions, what should he do?

The Lion acted with these trepidations in mind, but news of the Empire arrived in a way he did not expect.

"Your Highness, we have detected a combat ship." The Oracle reported. "The readings indicate that it is the Wrath of Baal."

"Blood Angel." The Lion King took a deep breath. After hearing this long-lost name, he felt mixed feelings.

It is gratifying that the Blood Angel is the son of his closest brother, the noble heir of Sanguinius. But if they refused to accept him, it could turn into a terrible disaster.

The Lion King was not sure whether he could still be recognized by the Astartes monks after thousands of years. Just when he hesitated,

"Lion King," the courier reported, "The commanders of the Blood Angels want to talk to you. They want to see you by name."

The bridge fell silent, and everyone present knew how important this moment was.

"We will accept them." Lion King said immediately, "Order all ships in the fleet to turn off their weapon systems. I don't want anyone among the Blood Angels to feel that we do not welcome them."

Facing a fleet that has never been in contact with, proactively shutting down the weapon system is undoubtedly an extremely risky decision. Once the other party is untrustworthy and launches a sudden attack, they will pay a heavy price for it.

The Lion King left the bridge and prepared to greet the other party.

He hoped that the children of Sanguinius would not make him regret this command.

The Lion King came to the hangar deck and welcomed the arrival of the Blood Angels with the Dark Angels.

When he saw the warriors wearing blood-red armor walking out in unison, the Lion King felt sad in his heart as he looked at the sons of the archangel.

Although in previous visions, he proudly declared that he would inherit the courage of his lost brother and regain the destiny of restoring the empire.

But when he actually saw these descendants of his deceased relatives and remembered one of them after witnessing this scene, it was another matter.

Emptiness and guilt filled the Lion King's heart almost instantly, which made him feel a little unexpected - why was I the one who survived? Among us brothers, why am I the only one left to accept this tragic fate?

At the same time, he also began to evaluate everything he saw in front of him. He was surprised by the strength of these Blood Angels. Almost every Blood Angel was close to three meters tall. They marched in a neat array, forming a powerful force.

The armor and supplies of the Blood Angels are things that his sons currently do not have.

The Lion King even thought in his heart - if these powerful warriors could obey my command, I would be able to do anything!

But in fact, he himself knew that these Blood Angels would not obey his orders. The Blood Angels came here simply because of the identity he declared to the outside world, and they were attracted by this identity.

Then, in the middle of a convoy of more than ten people, a warrior wearing gorgeous gold armor and a mask on his face walked out.

The Lion King looked at the mask, and he was suddenly filled with rage.

"Who are you?!" the lion strode forward and asked.

This move aroused the vigilance of the Blood Angels, but the Lion King did not care, it could not extinguish the anger in his heart at all.

"Who are you?" the lion roared repeatedly, "and why are you wearing my brother's face?"

The face of Sanguinius cast in gold had an expression immersed in pain and sorrow. This sad and angry expression once again tore apart the Lion King's newly mended heart.

"I am Dante, Commander of the Blood Angels." The warrior in golden armor saluted, "I salute you, Lion of Caliban, Lord of the Dark Angels, and the eldest son of the Emperor."

The Blood Angels all knelt down on one knee, landing smoothly like their Thunderhawks.

The Lion King frowned, he was caught off guard,

"Are you satisfied with who I am?"

"I hope you can forgive me, Your Highness, you are older than I thought. But it is telling that you recognized the face of our Holy Father so easily. Besides, I have never met anyone who can The general demeanor of the body, unless it is another original body."

The Lion King blinked.

"Wait." He asked eagerly, with a somewhat dry mouth, "Another primarch? Tell me, I have other brothers in the world!"

"Please forgive me, Your Highness the Lion King." Dante continued, "I thought that the news had already spread here before we arrived. The original body I first met was His Highness Guilliman of Ultramar. ”

"Guilliman is awake?" The Lion King's face showed surprise, but he did not speak out because of this and interrupted Dante's voice.

"The Lord Regent came to Baal with His Highness Duker. They drove back the Tyranids' shadows and saved my Chapter and my Bloodbrothers."

"What?! Who are you talking about?!"

After hearing this name, the Lion King could no longer suppress the shock in his heart. He almost rudely interrupted Dante's words and asked him to repeat himself.

"'Dukele,' is something wrong, Your Highness the Lion King?" Dante asked in confusion.

"Where did you hear this name?" The lion quickly questioned, but soon he overturned this question himself.

"No, you are so young and have only lived for more than a thousand years. It is impossible to detect such ancient secrets. Is Dukel really awake?"

His expression was extremely shocked, even with a kind of fear, as if the name was some kind of untouchable taboo.

"Not only that, His Highness also used great power to save our Holy Father, the Archangel of Baal."

Before the Lion King could recover from the shock, Dante dropped another bombshell.

"Sanguinius was also resurrected? Or was it saved by Dukel?"

At this moment, the Lion King can basically confirm that the other party's words are credible. No descendant of Sanguinius would ever use their holy father as a lie.

Because of this, the horror in his heart was even more intense. The Lion King felt his heart beating uncontrollably, his blood rushing, and his breathing quickening.

But the fear that followed immediately calmed him down. To be precise, it made the lion break into a cold sweat.

"Sir of Sanguinius, you can be trusted. Come with me."

The Lion King pulled Dante up and ordered to the heirs of the First Legion,

"Stand around and don't let anyone get close."

Then, he almost dragged Dante to a secret room.

"Your Highness the Lion King, may I ask why this is?"

Dante asked, looking at the dim surroundings.

"A disaster that is enough to overturn the entire empire is about to happen." The Lion King said solemnly, "In order to avoid the destruction of mankind, I must nip this disaster in the bud."

"But my current strength alone is not enough. I must combine all forces to save this crisis. Dante, are you willing to work with me to save the empire?"

The lion's eyes looked at the Blood Angel commander with incomparable sincerity.

"Before our fleet set off, the Archangel told me to cooperate with your actions as much as possible." Dante said thoughtfully,

"Although my Holy Father may have predicted something a long time ago. However, Your Highness the Lion King, the Blood Angels cannot act foolishly in blindness. If you need our power, please tell us the truth."

The Lion King fell silent upon hearing this, and then the leader of the first legion slowly spoke,

"In Caliban, there once was an unknown plant." The lion's voice sounded in the secret room, and Dante listened patiently.

The First Legion holds countless secrets of the empire. Dante understood at this moment that what the Lion King was talking about must be a deeper secret, so secret that the leader of the First Legion had to use some kind of insinuation.

He heard the Lion King continue to say,

"They are nameless plants that are extremely vigorous and aggressive. But from the outside, they look fragile, but they can just tame the strongest behemoths in the forest and make them fight for them.

"And as long as this giant beast appears in the forest, these nameless plants will also breed. Even if they are all burned up, they will still rise from the ashes."

The Lion King's eyes fell heavily on Dante,

"The First Legion has no secrets, but as the Emperor's eldest son, I always know more secrets. I have sworn to guard this secret for the Emperor and to be a watcher of humanity, wary of those who will rise from the ashes. enemy."

The lion's gaze is extremely solemn,

"Now, son of Sanguinius, I, too, swear that you will forever keep this secret."

"In the name of Sanguinius, I swear my oath to you, great Lion."

Dante did not hesitate and spoke the oath seriously. It was not until he said the last word that the Lion King nodded with satisfaction.

The Lion knew very well that any Blood Angel, no matter what position he or she was in, would never violate the oath he swore in the name of Sanguinius.

"I am in charge of this darkest secret, all in order to wait for this day to come. Now that the giant beast has awakened, the nameless plants will surely grow with it. Although we all do not want to face the disaster, it has indeed arrived. "

"Please tell me their names. The Lord of the First Legion, the Blood Angels need more accurate information." Dante said.

"Resurgence." The Lion King muttered.

"Please tell me their exact names, Lion King. Allusions here are not necessary."

"." The Lion King slowly spoke after a brief silence,

"Ran Dan."

He whispered, the blasphemy trembling in the lion's hood with utter disgust.

After hearing these two words, Dante's expression behind the mask was completely shocked.

This was not the first time he heard this word, but every time he heard it, it gave him extreme shock.

Moreover, the appearance of this word often follows the leader of the Second Legion like a shadow.

"Could the giant beast you are talking about be His Highness Dukel?" Dante asked almost cautiously.

"What do you think of Dukel?" the Lion asked.

The Lord of the First Legion's eyes became sharp, as if he wanted to penetrate Dante's mask and look straight into his heart.

"Strong, fearless, and invincible."

Under tremendous pressure, Dante returned as concisely as possible.

"I now believe that you have really met Dukel." The Lion King sighed,

"Yes, he is the strongest and most courageous of our brothers. He is an excellent scholar and an excellent commander. As a warrior, even Horus was openly jealous of his bravery."

There was a hint of inexplicable meaning in the lion's sigh.

Dante turned a deaf ear and did not dare to guess what this hint meant. He asked the Lion King again,

"I have heard that His Highness Duker once served as the supreme war commander of the empire?"

"You know a lot." The Lion King looked at him in surprise, with a bit of danger in his eyes. At this moment, he looked like a real lion. But then, he nodded,

"Yes, these qualities made the Lord of the Second Legion the most fearless pioneer. He once led twenty Imperial Legions to expand territory for the Empire in the early days of the Great Crusade. He was invincible and unstoppable. , in just a few decades, the empire’s territory covered most of the galaxy.”

The Lion King's voice gradually drifted away, as if it could cross the barrier of time and float to the years ten thousand years ago.

Dante's thoughts were moved by him, and his thoughts began to wander. In a trance, he seemed to be able to see the glorious years of the human empire thousands of years ago.

Twenty legions fought side by side under the leadership of their Primarch, and together they won the next victory. If these things were not told by a primarch himself, as a child born in the Dark Ages, these are things that Dante would not dare to imagine.

Just when his thoughts were wandering to the glorious days ten thousand years ago, he heard the Lion King's change of conversation, and huge sadness overflowed, bringing Dante back to reality.

"Until I met Ran Dan"

He heard the lion of Caliban speaking sadly.

"In the initial encounter, the Empire did not pay too much attention to Ran Dan's threat. The only three legions that went there first were the First, Second, and Mortarion's Fourteenth."

"The empire's estimate was actually not wrong. The power of three legions was enough to completely wipe out Ran Dan. The real mistake was that the empire should not have allowed the second legion to get close there."

The Lion King continued,

"The Randan aliens possess a special psychic technology. They use psychic energy to control many alien races."

"The power of the mind?!" Dante said in surprise.

"Have you heard of it?" The Lion King looked at him.

"I once heard His Highness Dukel mention that he seems to use similar power."

"Yes, it was the same back then." Pain flashed in the Lion King's eyes, "Neither Mortarion nor I know how the so-called psychic energy is generated and applied. Only Dukel, he has a similar power and took a keen interest in it.”

"We didn't pay much attention to it at first, but as the Lord of the Second Legion conducted further research."

"He's crazy."

"Crazy?!" Dante exclaimed in disbelief.

He originally thought it would be an evenly matched battle, or an epic battle, but he never expected that everything would be so careless.

"Yes, we have no way of knowing what kind of temptation Dukel suffered from the psychic energy of the alien. But since then, he and the Ran Dan alien have counterattacked the empire's legion. And he also claimed" the voice of the Lion King He paused for a moment, as if recalling these things made him extremely painful.

"Dukele declared that the Emperor was the greatest disaster to the Imperium of Man, and stubbornly wanted to attack the Emperor."

"What?! This is indeed crazy!"

Dante couldn't believe it. He really couldn't imagine that the unsmiling leader of the Second Legion would do such a crazy thing.

But the lion king ignored his feelings and continued to talk. This secret seemed to have caused the lion pain for too long. Rather than saying that he was explaining to Dante, it would be better to say that he was taking this opportunity to talk,

"It wasn't until Dukel launched the counterattack that we truly realized how powerful the Second Legion was. In that battle, we dispatched countless imperial troops and tens of thousands of God's Machines."

"Eight Primarchs led the legion to the front line together, more than half a million Adeptus Astartes"

"What was the outcome of the war?" Although Dante had some vague guesses, he still asked.

His tone was trembling, as if he was afraid of hearing the answer he guessed.

"We lost." But the Lion King didn't care about his feelings at all and broke his illusion without hesitation.

"In that battle, almost the entire galaxy was on fire. Even though more than half of the empire's military strength had been assembled, the defense line was still crumbling. No one could stop Dukel and his Second Legion. For the first time, the human empire was on the verge of defeat. destruction."

"It wasn't until the Emperor personally led the legion to the expedition that the situation of the war was gradually reversed."

Dante didn't speak. He was so shocked by the Lion King's words that he couldn't speak.

Eight legions, more than half a million Space Marines, and tens of thousands of divine machines. From these data alone, the commander-in-chief of the Blood Angels can understand the grandeur of this war.

But even so, it still couldn't stop the counterattack of the Lord of the Second Legion.

At this moment, he finally understood why the Lion King used giant beasts to insinuate the other party.

Because that is an existence that mortals cannot defeat.

Only God can stop the raging beasts.

"Now, do you understand what I am about to do, son of Sanguinius."

The Lion's voice awakens Dante.

"We need to prevent Randan's aliens from approaching His Highness Dukel again." Dante murmured,

"No, no, we must stop the Ran Dan alien from approaching. In order for the tragedy not to happen again, and for the empire, we will sacrifice everything we have!"

His eyes gradually recovered from the shock and became extremely determined.

"So you agreed?" Lion King asked.

"Yes, I will carry out your will, and the Blood Angels will do everything they can to bury Ran Dan again." Dante knelt on one knee and said,

"But I have a request, Your Highness the Lion King."

"explain."

"Please clear our memories after the war is over," Dante begged.

"This is not something we can live with."

Dante was troubled. For any Imperial loyalist, knowing such a secret would be unbearable pain.

"It should be so. Don't feel guilty about it. You just made the choice that everyone would make." The Lion King continued,

"These secrets buried in the darkness are left to the Dark Angels to endure alone. The First Legion will swallow the bitter pill and guard them forever."

"Thank you, great lion."

Dante said with sincere gratitude that although it was only the first time they met, the loftiness displayed by the Lion was no less than that of every Primarch he had ever seen.

Dante then left the chamber and remained silent about what happened there.

Only the old lion was left, standing alone in the shadow of the secret room.

"Father, this is what you want me to come back for. Do you expect what I will do?"

The Lion King said to himself. In his vision, the shadow of the secret room gradually faded, and the lion came to the forest of Caliban again.

He saw the king again.

He seemed to see an expression of approval on the king's face.

"Dukele, let the Dark Angel protect you and the empire this time."

In the king's approving eyes, the lion king said slowly.

The lion raised his head, he once again found the meaning of his existence, and once again, power ignited in his heart.

"This time, I will make sure that all tragedies will never happen again."

When the lion thought like this, his body became light again, and all the strength that had been lost in his body seemed to have returned at this moment.

His old body underwent astonishing changes as if he were going back in time. The wrinkles on his face were gradually smoothed out, full muscles grew out, and his pale hair turned dazzling golden in the blink of an eye.

When the lion walked out of this secret room, he was no longer an old man in his twilight years, nor was he the paranoid young man from ten thousand years ago.

But the image of a calm and reliable middle-aged person.