Man in Warhammer, starting Primarch

Duker looked at the Emperor on the throne. When he heard that the Emperor's change was due to the collapse of the spiritual world, he gradually understood the Emperor's thoughts.

In the spiritual realm, the collapse of the emperor's will will inevitably lead to changes in his behavior. And what the Emperor sacrificed in that war was not just his 'polite' side.

In Dulquer's view, the Emperor's refusal to step down from the Golden Throne and hand over the blade of his 'reason' was not just to declare war on the Dark Gods.

What's more, after the emperor's personality and will collapsed, even he himself couldn't predict his own behavior.

So he waited quietly on the golden throne, waiting for the rebirth of human will.

This is also a healing process.

When Duker understood all this, he stopped asking too much.

The Primarchs began to communicate with the Emperor. Thanks to the existence of the speaking machine, this not only ensured that the Emperor could express his thoughts clearly and accurately, but also ensured that he would not spew out immeasurable words as soon as he opened his mouth. Psychic storm.

This spared the Primarchs a lot of suffering.

This conversation lasted for two days, and no one knew what kind of will the Emperor conveyed to his heirs during these two days.

Two days later, the Primarchs emerged from the Eternal Gate.

And when the Primarchs walked out of the palace.

A piece of news that can be called a bombshell also walked out of the palace with them.

——Dukele, the leader of the Second Legion, will hold a ceremony to take over as war commander in one month!

This news caused an uproar throughout Terra, and it can be expected that the impact of this news will continue to spread outward until it spreads to the entire galaxy.

Even the Warp was rippled by the great emotions of humanity.

Countless dark lords watched uneasily as the human empire once again welcomed their supreme war commander. This was obviously not good news for them.

In a dark star dominated by the daemons of Khorne, the bloodthirsty selection process of the daemons is drawing to a close.

They fought each other to determine the final champion - eight hundred and eighty-eight demonic armies of Khorne and eighty-eight bloodthirsty demons. These champions will bear the will of the Skull Lord and rush to Terra to break into the Supreme. The Warmaster's Celebration.

For the uninvited arrival of the Daemon of Khorne.

Duker was completely ignorant, and now he returned to the palace with Magnus.

Seeing the demonic original's flushed expression, he couldn't help but release the opponent's restrictions and chuckled,

"Magnus, what are you angry about? Just because our Majesty insulted you? I heard before that you have only knowledge but no wisdom, but now it seems true. If you want to know a person's true thoughts, it's not It’s not about what he said, but what he did.”

Duker continued, "The emperor could have executed you directly, or completely sealed you in the dark underground of the palace, leaving you alone for eternity. But he did not do this, and even helped you find someone. Return the missing soul fragment, that’s the truth.”

"Do you want to say that he has forgiven me?" Magnus asked angrily.

"Isn't it true? Even though he is now lacking in humanity, he still did not impose the death penalty on you."

"I'm not wrong, why do I need to be forgiven!" Magnus shouted,

"Why don't you lift the restrictions on me and let me confront him in court!"

"That's right?" Dukel sneered and used the power of his mind to pour a piece of information directly into his mind.

"Take a good look at the disaster you have brought to the empire!"

In that message lay a place that none of the Primarchs in the Throne Hall had ever seen.

It was a dusty room, a horrifying creation the size of a Titan, surrounded by machines built for bad purposes.

The living people in coffins nearby kept dying, just to maintain this terrible mechanical creation. It continuously drains the lives of suffering people. Some people roar in despair in their coffins, while others endure it silently with their mouths wide open.

Some raised their heads, their facial features bleeding, and they were extremely ferocious.

These are psykers, who have been drained of everything from their bodies alive to maintain the Golden Throne, and a thousand psykers die in such tragic ways every day.

"Is this the result you want? Your so-called lack of mistakes has caused countless people, including the Emperor, to suffer for your sins. And in the Webway, there are still traces of 'Magnu' This is the gap of stupidity. You destroyed the hope of mankind with your own hands, and now you are pretending to be innocent just to maintain your poor self-esteem?"

Dukel questioned him.

"The Webway Project can't succeed, we all know it! It's just an unrealistic dream. Even if I don't accidentally destroy it, someone else will!" Magnus shouted angrily. shouted,

"Because the first person to collude with Chaos was our Emperor! He made unknown deals with the gods before we were born! He deceived us into pursuing an impossible ideal and brought us A lifetime of tragedy and dragging the entire galaxy into darkness. Now he is just reaping the consequences. He is atoning for his own sins. He was never the savior of mankind, just a liar who messed up everything. gambler!"

Dukel heard this and immediately refuted him.

Because from a certain perspective, what Magnus said is indeed the truth.

The so-called war that set the stars on fire, the so-called Horus Heresy.

In essence -

It is the story of the emperor, a gambler, who went to the gods, a gang of evil forces, to obtain huge loan sharks, but failed to repay on time, and was beaten to the point of paralysis by the debt collector.

In the early days of the Great Crusade, the Emperor was extremely eager. He always seemed to be running out of time, demanding that the Primarchs conquer planet after planet as quickly as possible and plunder the resources of world after world.

This once puzzled the Primarchs. At that time, almost no one could understand the Emperor's thoughts. They could have carefully managed every world in the Empire.

But after conquering a planet, he asked the other party to pay taxes on time and then left in a hurry.

Now that I think about it, the Emperor was racing against time. He wanted to establish a network channel to isolate humanity from the subspace before the arrival of the group of subspace "debt collectors", so as to isolate the evil forces. Collection.

In the countless years that the gods have existed in the supreme heaven, they may have never encountered a being who defrauded them like the emperor.

They are determined not to give up, and are determined to destroy the Emperor's plans for the Webway.

Even if Magnus hadn't been stupid, there would have been Rignus and Lagonus.

"So, what do you want the Emperor to do, surrender to the so-called dark power like you do? Even if this will cause all human souls to succumb to darkness?" Dukel could understand Magnus What he said, but he didn’t agree with it,

"Just because the darkness is too huge, we have to give up resistance and bow to them. Using weakness to hope that they will let us go? Don't be stupid, my brother, the gods are not philanthropists."

Magnus was silent. The more he learned about what the Emperor had done, the more he understood that he hardly had much choice. As the demon prince of Tzeentch, what Magnus lacked most was to understand the past. A chance for the truth.

Even if the Emperor did not make deals with the Chaos Gods, disaster would still befall them.

To the gods, all the souls in the real universe are just things on their plates. Regardless of whether those souls resist or not, they will come as scheduled and enjoy this delicious meal.

Just when he hadn't figured out how to refute Dukel.

The other party's voice rang again,

"But to be honest, brother, I don't think the Webway plan is reliable. It's not because the Webway is not good, but because the Empire's Webway is too crude. How can such a fragile creation block out the Chaos Gods? ?" Duker continued,

"So I have a more bold idea. I have been thinking about this project for a long time and invested unimaginable energy. If this can succeed, even the sea of ​​souls should fear the will of the empire. I named this project ——Spiritual Void Realm, or Imperial Void Realm!”

"Are you interested in hearing about this project? My learned brother, maybe you can give me some good inspiration!"

Duker's bright eyes flashed with an almost excited light, and he introduced this project to Magnus with unprecedented enthusiasm. In order to make this idea more perfect, he even did not hesitate to ask the other party for advice.

"What do you want to do again? Is it your unique psychic witchcraft that inspired you again?!"

The Lord of Destruction did not hesitate to ask the Crimson King for advice, which undoubtedly proved his talent. He should have been proud of this, but after seeing his expression, Magnus didn't feel any pride, only felt fear and uneasiness.

he screamed back at Dukel.

After following the other person for so long, he knew his brother very well. If he didn't have a crazy enough idea, he would never make the other person so excited.

To be honest, Magnus already thought that Duker's thoughts, which he thought were very ordinary, were crazy enough.

But now, an idea that even the Lord of Destruction finds crazy appears.

He didn't even dare to think about it.

But Duker's words did not stop because of Magnus' panic.

"This is not psychic power." He explained, "The matter started a long time ago. In the early days of the dark side expedition, after my psychic network reached a certain scale, I had already noticed that in my subspace The prototype of the realm has gathered around the essence, and as the spiritual network expands, this prototype becomes more and more complete.”

"Since then, how to use my domain in subspace is a question I have been thinking about."

"Here's what I think."

Duker expressed his idea to Magnus without reservation. In this room covered by a psychic force field, he was not worried that his words would be heard by a third person.

But what puzzled him was that in his narration, the face of Magnus, a pure scholar, did not show the excitement that he should have when encountering a new topic.

On the contrary, Magnus's red face turned white at a speed visible to the naked eye, and by the end, even his lips were trembling unconsciously.

The Crimson King looked terrified.

"Dudukl. Can I ask you a few questions?"

"You ask."

"First of all, when this 'virtual realm' built based on the prototype of the domain is completed, will it be like a loudspeaker, spreading the knowledge you have mastered, or even the knowledge mastered by the members of the Heart Network?"

"It should be so." Dukel nodded without hesitation, "The virtual realm is different from the spiritual network. This brand-new realm is not afraid of the intrusion of any will. On the contrary, I hope to have as many souls as possible. Join here.”

"My ideal is for all humans to join the virtual realm and completely get rid of the corrosion of subspace. But it is not easy to achieve this goal. A sufficient price must be paid in advance - knowledge is undoubtedly the best The price tag, whether it is spiritual cultivation technology, biomagnetic field technology, or even the various techniques mastered by the members of the Heart Network, will radiate in the sea of ​​souls and eventually spread to the entire universe, eventually attracting those souls into the virtual realm. ”

Magnus got the answer he wanted, or rather, the answer he didn't want.

"Then let me guess that every soul that is attracted to join the 'virtual realm' will practice that knowledge in meditation or dreams. The higher the level of practice, the more significant the individual will have in the virtual realm. exist?"

"Have you guessed all this?" Duker asked in surprise.

Magnus's face trembled, and the demon prince's fear became more and more obvious.

"Ultimately, the virtual realm will become a collection of wills. At first, these individuals just practice the knowledge they are interested in through the virtual realm. Then some special beings learn to use the power of the collective. They master the laws of the virtual realm, even in the outside world. It can also explode with unimaginable power.”

Duker also noticed something was wrong at this time. He no longer had the excitement before. He spoke silently,

"What did you notice?"

"Don't you realize, brother! The same is true for the realm of the dark gods!" Magnus exclaimed,

"The birth of Nurgle absorbed all the despair of the War in Heaven. The birth of Slaanesh stemmed from the sacrifice of the Eldar. Even the Emperor was worried that mankind would be destroyed because of this, so he became the cursed one on the throne."

"And now, brother, do you want to ascend to the throne of God? Become the first and final destroyer? Becoming the creator of the place where all directions meet, the price you have to pay may be unimaginable by the Chaos Gods. "

"I am not a god, let alone become a god." Duker replied coldly.

Then he stopped talking and began to re-examine his idea.

Yes, everything seems so obvious now.

But why was my previous self so unaware of it?

"It's bad, my cognition has been affected." After a brief thought, Duker's heart sank.

Just like the demons of Nurgle do not feel that they are smelly, the demons of Slaanesh do not feel that they are evil.

Dukel was also affected by the instincts of his warp entity.

"Dukele, do you still want to stick to your idea?"

"Why not?" Duker asked, "I don't have any more choices, do I?"

"According to the original plan, a small-scale test will be conducted in the state church first," he continued.

Since the Emperor ascended the throne, the Ecclesiarchy has been the largest organization in the empire. After Dukel returned to Terra, he has not taken any action against the Ecclesiarchy, not because he has forgotten.

The State Religion is a very special organization. Unlike other organizations in the empire, they are neither stupid nor bad, but simply crazy.

For example,

One day the Emperor stood up from his throne and declared to the universe: "I am not a god!"

False believer Luojia: "We are doing great things in your name, but you say you are not God?! You liar, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

One of the most common state church priests: "Only a true god would say that he is not a god. The emperor is a god. Everything he says is the truth. If he says he is not, then he is not. Maybe the title of god is not worthy of him. The omniscient and omnipotent Lord of mankind, He is a more advanced existence.”

It can be said that the state religion played a huge role in bringing the empire to its current crazy state.

For such a group of people, even if Duker wants to clean them up.

The madmen of the state religion will also say: "The great Son of God actually wants to execute me personally. This is the most glorious moment in my life."

In order to get the qualification to be killed by Duker.

They will even take the lead in a war among themselves, and only the victor deserves to enjoy the blade of the Son of God.

Faced with this group of crazy people, conventional methods obviously cannot succeed.

But Dukel didn't plan on taking a conventional approach either.

A long time ago, he had the idea of ​​experimenting with the "virtual realm" on a small scale within the state religion.

"You madman!" Magnus trembled.

"Maybe, but who wouldn't be?" Duker looked through the glass of the hall at the unknowable sea of ​​stars.

"When we step into the stars, some childish ideas of having the best of both worlds must be abandoned. This universe may be just an absurd dream, and the gods and demons are just phantoms in the spirit. The more we suffer, the more We should move forward fearlessly as if no one else is around, so as to ensure the survival of our species in this cruel and merciless universe.”

When Magnus heard these words, he was stunned at first, and then laughed wildly in the hall, "Hahahaha, Dukel, you are crazy, you are completely crazy!!!"