Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

"I have no interest in those low-quality prostitutes, Vito, I have no interest in anything there."

As Victor spoke, he raised his head and looked at Vito, who was standing on a huge stone monument. The lightning flashed behind him as he stood there. The light instantly reflected his silhouette from the darkness. He stood there high. overlooking Victor below.

"Gamo is a city of indulgence, but their leader seems to have no interest in all that carnival. So what would the dark lord of Gamo be interested in?"

"Conspiracy and trickery, like the feeling a hunter feels when he has his sights on his prey in the dark, just like the trick you brought for me."

Victor looked up at Vito with a sneer, and the latter shrugged and jumped off. He suddenly landed on the ground, and his face was illuminated by the thunder that skipped above his head again. The two looked at each other under the lightning, and then in the dim fog after the lightning disappeared, Vito walked to a boulder in front, and he leaned on it, his figure becoming blurry and distorted again.

"Some people say that you are dead, lost forever after falling into the webway with Magnus."

"Then do you believe it?"

"Believe it? No, I know you will come back, and there is a high probability that you will come back to me, but I didn't expect that we would meet in this way."

"Which way?"

Victor looked at the silhouette in the shadow, and he laughed coldly, standing on the other side of the mist and looking at the blurry figure, just like all the weird and vague shadows around him.

"You came alone? I thought you would bring his sons, or at least Malus' people, with you."

"Whose son?" Vito leaned against the huge shadow, and his voice came from the other side of the mist, like an ethereal hallucination, just like the vague humanoid shadow.

"The sons of Chakotai Khan, those children on the grassland, have blown up three of my transport ships, six warehouses and a base in the last month. I thought you would take them with you. stand up."

"What are we doing together?" Vito said in the mist. He leaned there and looked at Victor on the other side. The latter hummed softly and raised his eyes to spy on the shadows over there.

"kill me."

"My friend, you approached Stur and stole my holy relics from the chaos. Did you just come here to chat with me? I know you have met Malus, and I also know that she Already told you about that little plot."

Victor said, patting the pistol on his waist with his finger, "If you want to kill me, you'd better take that kid with you. He can cause me ten thousand years of trouble for this matter. We can’t let him work in vain for a while.”

Vito knew that Khan had caused a lot of trouble in the webway, and trouble was an understatement. Over the years, Vito had always heard about the child from everywhere, and there were always all kinds of rumors. Rumors said that there was no news from each base and camp overnight, and all the people in them seemed to have disappeared from the world, and all the teams that went to investigate had also disappeared.

A shadowy mist haunts the webway, bringing fear and death, and those survivors who were deliberately put back to convey all the fear that happened there will always repeat the tall figure over and over again, and That gleaming curved saber.

Vito's shadow leaned against the boulder, and he stood there with a slight shrug, "I also want to find him, but if Khan doesn't want to find him, then no one can do it, or even find that he has been there before. traces here.”

That child was a master of guerrilla warfare. Perhaps master is not enough to describe him. When the Horus Heresy began, Khan was deliberately sent to a distant frontier and was unable to return to defend Terra in time. When Khan eliminated the Legion After the internal pro-Horus rebellion, he was determined to punish those traitors.

A guerrilla war began, a vast cosmic-level guerrilla war. The White Scars Legion attacked everywhere and destroyed countless supply lines, bases and key camps of Horus without warning. However, the traitors could not even catch the shadow of the White Scars. Like a group of invisible shadows, appearing and disappearing anywhere.

Of all the people, probably only Curze and the Night Lords can compete with Khan's guerrilla warfare, but that Batboy isn't here, he's somewhere else, so yes, Vito can't find Khan without his help. Khan, he could only hear those true or false rumors for thousands of years, just looking for the smoke of nothingness.

"I don't know where the child is. If you know, I hope you can tell me. It can save a lot of trouble." Vito said with a smile, and the person opposite him sneered.

"If I had known that he would have died long ago, I would have brought enough people to kill him and put an end to the destruction that had lasted for thousands of years. But I guess you would have stopped me and you would have rescued the child." ?"

"Most likely." "So you see, there is one more reason why you should kill me, Vito."

The two were talking in thin air through the smoke, but suddenly Vito stood up. He stood up from the boulder and walked towards Victor. The latter looked at the approaching shadow in the smoke and gently slid his hand behind him. He grasped the handle of some kind of knife under the windbreaker, some kind of silver slender blade.

Victor looked at Vito. He walked up and walked out of the smoke, and came in front of him so that Victor could clearly see the face. The two looked at each other, and then Vito took out the little one from his arms. box.

He shook his hand in the air and held the box in his hand. Victor looked at the box and then moved his eyes to Vito, "I'm not here to kill you, at least not now, but there are indeed people who want to kill you." You, and there are quite a few of them.”

Victor raised his head and narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at the smile of the man in front of him, "Right? You just took the box and came here to chat with me? If you want, you can call me or send me an email."

"First, I don't have your number. Second, you don't use human phone calls or emails. Second, I heard that after the chaos in Gomo last time, the situation here was a bit out of control."

"Indeed, after the riot you caused in Gemo last time, my power was greatly weakened, so many people in Gemo started to make moves. You broke the balance that has existed for thousands of years."

"Indeed, and I heard that you were very angry. For this reason, you placed a huge bounty on the little girl, Efrenie. It seems that I also have one, and it is more than Efrenie. It makes me want to Surrender yourself and get the money." Vito smiled jokingly, crossing his arms with a playful smile.

"Just think of it as a compliment. Besides, a bounty is meaningless. It's just to express an attitude. After all, you and that girl caused big trouble for me in front of everyone. If I leak you If I drop it, I will look weak."

"So are you ready for the bounty? Do you expect someone to claim it?"

"From the warp, to the webway, and every corner of the galaxy, there are bounties for your head everywhere, especially from Khorne. I heard that the bounty is already so high that it is enough to make everyone in the warp, Even the subordinates of the other three evil gods will be very interested."

Victor said jokingly, and the hand he took back from under his windbreaker hung down by his side, "But so far, no one, including me, has successfully given away the bounty, so I didn't pay much attention to it. To that bounty.”

Vito also smiled in amusement. He shrugged and saw the handle of the knife held by Victor at the waist. He recognized it at a glance as the old enemy blade, which stabbed Horus and led to the war. The Handsome fell into the hands of Chaos and started a rebellion, and later Fulgrim used it to almost kill Guilliman and paralyze him. It was a weapon that he only woke up from 10,000 years ago.

Vito smiled and raised his eyes to look at Victor, then glanced behind Victor, "No one wants to try it? For example, try it with some special weapons?"

Victor in front of him turned his head and glanced behind him. It seemed that Vito recognized the weapon, but it didn't matter. They both knew it well anyway, so Victor said in a rather casual tone, " You are not an immobile target, my friend. It is not easy at all to kill you. In fact, it can almost be called madness. Therefore, sensible old people will stay away, and those young people who are unaware of .You will make them understand too.”

"But if the situation forces it, then no one will try such a crazy move." Victor said, tightening his grip on the handle of the knife, and his words echoed with the hissing blade at the same time.

Vito snorted lightly, and he started walking in front of Victor, walking back and forth in the smoke, "Don't worry, you won't need that thing today, but in the future, you might, use it in, Another person with a bounty on his head.”

"It doesn't matter what Efreni was in the past, but now he is an ally of the empire. She led the Death Army and the Ark Eldar Council to ally with the empire. It is obvious that living allies are useful."

"Although that girl is now the incarnation of the God of Death, and ordinary weapons cannot kill her, she is still just a reckless young man after all. A girl who is hundreds of years old still doesn't know much about this, especially when some people know her from her employer. An assassin who gets a dangerous weapon.”

Vito glanced at Victor as he spoke. He very directly hinted at the knife behind him and the generous bounty he placed on Everene. In some cases, the owner of the bounty did not mind helping those who wanted to obtain it. Bounty people, provide them with some small help.

Victor glanced at the direction behind him with his peripheral vision, and then raised his eyes to look at Vito in front of him. He gently grasped the end of the blade with his fingers and faced Vito with a smile. "So, what is your suggestion?" What? My friend."

Of course, the latter could see that Victor's smile was insincere, but Vito didn't mind. After all, he had robbed his things, made a mess of his men, and had an affair with Malus, who was definitely planning to rebel. The meeting was private, so Victor did have enough reason to doubt himself.

Facing Victor's cold smile without any sincerity, Vito responded with his signature smile, "I met Malus, although I did guess her from the beginning. Where, but by coincidence, we met on that boat and made an agreement.”

"What kind of agreement?"

"Simple, I have a ship and a ship of people who need to find a webway to leave here and return to the physical universe. I guess the empire must be in chaos now, so I have to go back as soon as possible and give it to Guilliman and Everyone is a surprise.”

"Males found a network tunnel for me. What a coincidence, that place happens to be where you are going to have a meeting of the Archon Machines in a while, and Mallus agreed to let her people open it for me secretly. An opening, where my ship will sail in, and then jump out through the webway there. "

"Males will not help anyone in vain, not even you. He is a shrewd woman. There must be a condition for her to be willing to help you. One who is worthy of letting her collude with humans in private in front of everyone. A dangerous move.”

"Indeed, the conditions she gave me were quite exciting. Where would my ship enter the webway? Before that, I would conduct a saturation orbital bombing of the entire temple to ensure that no one inside knew what was outside that day. It flew over and where it came from. Of course, Malus is not on this list.”

Vito said with a smile, while Victor in front of him showed a sneer. His hand was still on the sword behind him, with a sarcastic smile on his face.

"Like what she would do, kill people with borrowed knives, thus wiping out the entire wealthy class of Comoros, except for herself, and then take advantage of the chaos in Comoros to reap the benefits."

Victor smiled coldly, turned his eyes and looked at Vito in front of him, "And you, Marshal Vito, you are the borrowed knife."

"Haha, it's very similar to what we did back then, right? We tied up a Salamander cruiser, and then asked the conspiracy to open a network channel so that the rescue signal could be transmitted, and then let the Salamanders who received the signal come to the rescue The main fleet entered Gemo and used their hands to wipe out the entire Gemo aristocracy. "

Vito smiled jokingly and put his hands on his waist, "She obviously learned well and learned some of my essence, but only some of it. A master master always has some hidden skills."

"You mean, after reaching an agreement with Malus, you robbed me openly, and then told me the whole plan after I brought him in? Although it is indeed a surprise."

"Yes, I think so too. I guess you are probably going to ask me if I am planning to betray Malus, right?" "Since you have already seen it, I don't bother to ask."

Vito took two steps aside amid laughter. He threw up the small box in his hand, threw it high and caught it again, "I will indeed do something for her, but, I promise her The purpose is to completely destroy your body, not even an inch of flesh will be left, so that the Blood Demon can't resurrect you."

"But, what I promise is to destroy the body, not the soul." Vito smiled and opened the box. He threw the contents up, caught it, turned around and threw it to Victor. , the latter immediately stretched out his hand to catch the flying thing, spread his palms and looked at the two symmetrical fragments lying inside.

It is two halves of shining crystal, each forming half of a curved drop shape. When the two are put together in the palm of your hand, they will form a Tai Chi shape.

"Isa's Tears. Legend has it that this tear is different from all soul stones. It is not made from Isa's tears as in the legend, but it is the tears of Isa herself."

Vito said sideways not far away. He raised his head and looked up at the dark night sky above his head. There were no stars on it and it was completely black. "It is said that these tears were shed by Isa during the Great Fall. The sad tear she shed before being taken away to the garden by Nurgle contained part of Isa's true power."

"This makes these two crystals very unique. Compared with other soul stones, its biggest feature is that the two halves are connected. The holder only needs to hold any of them, and no matter how he dies, his soul will They will be sucked into the crystal and then teleported to the other half of the crystal instantly. There is no distance limit and can be transmitted across the entire galaxy. "

Vito said, pointing to the two crystals in Vitek's hand, "And it can't be intercepted or blocked. Even if Slaanesh himself takes action, he can't capture the soul in it. It can be said that he is traveling at home, killing people and stealing goods." It's a good thing. It's worth the effort to find it. If you want, you can even hold the crystal, give her the middle finger in front of Slaanesh, and then escape."

Victor raised his head, looked at the smiling Vito in front of him, and showed a hint of a joking smile, "Keep talking, I'm listening."

"You already know what I'm thinking, don't you? With this crystal, you can teleport your soul out to a safe place when I kill everyone present, and then transfer it into your bunch of cloned bodies. Resurrected and reappeared to surprise everyone."

Vito smiled and walked back to Victor as he spoke, "When the outer guard fleet discovers that you have all been killed, the news will spread like wildfire throughout the entire Gemo. Guys with hidden evil intentions will swarm up and start fighting for the power created by Gemo Vacuum."

"After you are resurrected, you can spread the news that you are not dead, and ask everyone to put down their weapons and return to their respective positions. By then, it will be clear who will obey and who will betray. Then, you can He emerged from the shadows, led the well-organized black-hearted conspiracy, and wiped out all the traitors who were leaderless and fighting on their own, and wiped out Gemo in one fell swoop."

Victor looked at Vito who walked up to him. The latter looked at him with a smile on his face. Victor looked at his eyes and raised his head slightly, "You wouldn't help us for no reason just for the sake of our friendship." My, what are your conditions?”

"It's very simple. It costs almost nothing on you. I want you to guarantee that Everene, who is on the wanted list with me, will also become a blank bounty that no one will claim, just like me."

Vito said, pointing to the sword behind Victor's waist. The latter glanced at the thing and then turned to look at Vito in front of him, "That's it? That's it?"

"That's all." He said with a smile on his face. The smile looked so sincere, to the point of being ridiculous, especially here, near Gemo.

"Your sincerity is indeed valuable, my friend, but there is still a problem." "You don't like this plan?" "No, in fact, we both wanted to go together. I originally planned to do this, but I was the one who brought it on. People will just pass through my defense zone. This plan is perfect and there is no problem. The problem is the opportunity. "

"Opportunity?"

"Yes, my friend, opportunity, why do you want to help me? You have already taken away the Tears of Isa. Without this thing, you can follow the agreement with Malus and put me and others Wouldn't it be more beneficial for you to kill them all together and let Malus, your old lover, become the new queen of Gemo?"

Vito laughed softly after hearing Victor's words. He clasped his hands on his chest and looked directly into each other's eyes with Victor without any avoidance, letting the other person see all the thoughts in his eyes.

"Victor, do you still remember the agreement we made? Underground in the arena, when you and I were still together as slaves for the pleasure of the nobles."

"Of course, how could I forget? You promised to help me overthrow the aristocratic rule of Gemo and help me come to power, but the condition is that I must control the various looters, pirates, conspiracies, etc. in Gemo, and control their influence on The scope and intensity of the plunder of the physical universe.”

This was an agreement Vito reached with Victor a long time ago. At that time, the Dark Eldar were under the control of the Noble Council. Those arrogant old nobles of the Eldar Empire had no restraint at all. In order to fill their own With unlimited desires for material and pleasure, they sent their troops to plunder the entire empire one after another.

The population of the entire galaxy was slaughtered and plundered, and all the supplies were looted. Because of the existence of the Webway, the noble troops of the Dark Eldar could appear anywhere they wanted, plundering the local area before the Imperial reinforcements arrived. Evacuate, and the cycle continues.

As for humans, humans today do not have the technology to destroy the Webway at all, so they have no defense against this series of raids by the Eldar. They can only passively take the beatings and pray that the "lucky planet" that is randomly selected is not where they are. of.

Vito also knew that he could not completely eliminate this predatory threat once and for all. All he could do was to control its scope and extent to a minimum, so Vito helped Victor and he reached an agreement with the future dark lord. , he helped Victor come to power, and the latter needed to control the scope of the remaining Dark Eldar's plunder of the Empire to avoid the kind of unscrupulous attacks before. ,

Yes, in other words, Vito chose to compromise. By sacrificing some people, he actively handed them over to the Dark Eldar for inevitable plunder, and then in exchange for the Dark Eldar not attacking more people, sacrificing a small number of people. Me, to preserve my greater self, this was cruel, but it was the only way at the time.

"That's the reason. In today's Gemo, only you can control those guys. Although Malus is also very cunning, smart and good at power, what she is good at is just operating everything in the shadows, and this There’s no way to stop those guys.”

"Power, strength and decisiveness are the ways to rule Gemo. All power and tactics cannot replace the absolute deterrence of force, and among them, only you can do it."

Vito said, standing in front of Victor, he looked directly into his eyes, "I need someone to continue to fulfill the agreement. M42K has just begun. In this new millennium, I think I will need an ally, an ally." ,friend."

When Vitor said the last two words, he deliberately listed them separately. He stretched out a hand. Victor, who was in front of him, also looked at the hand and raised his eyes to meet Vito's eyes.

"How's it going? In the new millennium, do you want to join the team?" Vito said with a smile. Seeing Victor in front of him, his smile showed for the first time. It could be called a sincere smile. He stretched out a One hand was clasped with Vito's.

"Of course, my old friend, you watch over the humans, and I watch over the Eldar. We have been hand in hand for thousands of years, and this one is of course no exception."

The two smiled and held each other's hands. Vito looked at Victor in front of him with a smile on his face, "What's that old saying? There are two brothers in the galaxy, one in the physical universe, and one in the webway. There is one too.”

"Two races, humans and elves, two brothers, humans and elves." Victor took up the words. They held each other's hands and looked at each other in the ancient stone circle, as if It's the same thing that a pair of real twin brothers said. Humans and spirits have been scheming and dealing with each other, falling in love and killing each other for tens of thousands of years. It's like they are really a pair of twin brothers.