Warhammer Inquisitor

"Long time no see, Vito."

The psychic voice rang directly in Vito's mind, the oscillating voice was like a sandstorm blowing from his mind, Vito looked at the man sitting on the golden throne, he was sitting there, his mouth could no longer be opened Instead, he is forced to use his powerful psychic powers to communicate verbally.

Yes, the Emperor can still speak. It's not that he can't speak or he doesn't want to, but because of the way he speaks now, probably a single word will kill a whole high lord in the world. Not to mention ordinary people, it is estimated that the space fighters and the Custodians Enough to live to hear what the Emperor had to say.

But there are also people who can do it, such as the powerful Primarchs, and the ancient immortals who are standing in front of the throne now, except for the emperor, the most powerful psyker in the galaxy, Vito Constantine.

Vito looked at the emperor on the throne. He had seen many portraits, sculptures, etc. of the emperor, but when he really stood in front of his old friend after ten thousand years, he realized why the traitors cared He is called the corpse emperor.

There is not much left of the emperor's body, only the remaining flesh and blood have long since shriveled, and the skin has been folded into a rag and pasted on the skeleton. A covered mechanical eye was implanted, and the flickering red light flickered on the mechanical eyeball.

Vito wasn't sure if he'd see the world with those eyes, because he looked like a literal corpse, with the eyes and nostrils and mouth all gone, leaving only a pale The skull rests on top of the wrinkled-skin-covered head.

There is still some flesh and blood left on his chest, which is completely stuck to the center of the skin on the ribs, and the huge wound still remains. The huge gap from the center of the chest to the side of the waist has been stitched up as much as possible. The scar that Horus left, the wound that put him on the golden throne for eternity.

Perhaps it was caused by the power of the four gods. The wound seems to never heal, and the gap will be partially torn apart with remaining flesh and blood. Even if the emperor's whole body is already withered, the scar on the chest still has fresh flesh and blood. , the scars that are always bleeding.

Vito looked at the wound, where hoses were inserted one after another, sucking the unnaturally flowing blood into the pipeline, and then re-passed through the blood pressure pump connected to the side of the golden throne, inserted between the emperor's ribs. The injection vessel enters the Emperor's body.

Vito didn't know what the meaning of the circulating supply of blood was, the emperor's body had been turned into a mummy after tens of thousands of years of spiritual energy burning, and the countless energy channels inserted behind the golden throne had been burning day and night for thousands of years. The emperor's spiritual energy was extracted from the body, and then sent to the Astronomical Torch through the huge winding pipeline around the throne, as well as a large number of transfer equipment, which made the lighthouse continue to burn.

Vito looked at his old friend, the friend he hated the most, but also the one he cherished the most. He was the only friend who could truly be said to have accompanied him throughout his life, since he called that name he had long forgotten At that time, he knew himself well. From the ancient days of that civilization to the present dark galaxy, they are the only ones left with each other, who have truly become each other's friends.

So when Vito saw him, seeing the living corpse sitting on the throne, his heart couldn't help but colic. Slaanesh once told himself that the throne is an eternal torture, and Vito didn't know the specifics at first. What does it mean, now he knows.

Vito looked at the shriveled body of the Emperor, and the exposed bones, and sighed, "Hello, old bastard, you are so ugly."

The Emperor's laughter echoed in his mind in a low and hoarse voice. At the same time, the golden gate behind Vito was closed, and the magnificent gate was closed again, leaving only him and the Emperor in the throne room. , two people, two last guardians of human civilization stayed before the golden throne.

"We haven't seen each other for a long, long time, old friend. It's been too long since we've had a direct conversation like this. I'm glad you're finally here."

"I don't want to come here. You can scare a child to cry like this. Every time I see your statues and portraits, I feel that the current imperial aesthetic standards are really hopeless. Since I think your ghostly appearance is a kind of "beauty" ""

Vito pointed at the emperor's upper and lower body and laughed. He didn't have any sense of awe when he came to the Golden Throne normally. He looked more like a neighbor who came to visit the house. Talk to him about it.

"Speaking of which, can you hear me talking and playing? You know, you may be missing something called an ear on your head." Vito poked his ears with his fingers, then pointed at the emperor's bald head and said with a smile , that head is really bald in the literal sense, it is a skull after all, it is very smooth.

"Yes, I can capture your voice with psychic energy, then what are you doing?"

The emperor stopped abruptly in the middle of his speech, because Vito was gently flicking the red satin covering the emperor's lower body with his fingers, and the gorgeous silk was pulled by the spiritual power and floated up, lifting the emperor's body. The lower body was exposed to the light.

"Wow, that thing of yours is really small." Vito rested his palm on his chin, and with the other hand, he used two fingers in the distance to show the size of the Emperor's thing, and then gloated unabashedly , "You are so big, but that thing is so bad, what are you doing?"

"I'm biologically a mummy now, Vito."

"But your things are really small and wrinkled. I really regret that I didn't bring a camera in. Otherwise, I'll take pictures and sell them to the Battle Sisters. I'll definitely post them."

Vito continued to raise the silk gloatingly, but soon the emperor interrupted it with psionic power, and the silk fell back to where it should have been, covering it for Vito to watch haha s things.

"Seriously, can you still feel the itch? I heard that Nurgle has some kind of phantom itch virus that he intends to throw at you to make you itch, but there's no way to scratch and torture you."

Vito wiped a tear from the corner of his eye with a smile and said, walking around the throne room with his hands behind his back, he looked at everything glittering around him with a disgusted expression, "Hey, it's gold again, you Tasteless old bacon."

"Old bacon?"

"Look at you, the bare meat sticks to the bone, isn't it bacon? I remember it was Tzeentch who first called you that. They didn't want to call you by your first name, so they tried to make fun of you. I have to say that those four guys are sometimes no different from children.”

"We are all similar, old friend. What is the difference between the so-called gods and people? How are they born from our emotions and thoughts, and what is the difference from us? I believe that you are better than me on this point." Clear, how are you and Lilith?"

"Aren't you going to criticize my love life? I'm here to save the world, not to listen to your nagging." Vito walked to a long row of instruments under a high wall, and he looked at the The complex instrument terminals placed in front of one another, the screens overlapped one after another, and their ends were connected to the densely packed pipelines that were clinging around the throne.

"I did tell you not to hang out with Slaanesh's sisters, but I also know that you won't listen, you haven't changed over the years, you are arrogant and have no scruples, you are an idiot who doesn't think about the consequences .”

"Glad you realize that, old fool."

Sure enough, as long as Vito and the emperor stayed together, they would scold each other within five sentences, but they would not feel unhappy because of it. In fact, the emperor laughed instead, and the psychic laughter shook Vito's mind. It was as if he had been caught in a sandstorm in the desert.

"Laughing fart, old man, I'm blowing a sandstorm in my head when I talk to you, and when you laugh, you turn into a ten-level typhoon." Vito rubbed his ear with one hand, and began to hold the other hand in front of his face. Click on the meter.

"They all say that you are called the corpse emperor. The human empire worships a corpse that cannot speak. The Mechanics uses the dark age technology of the Golden Throne to barely maintain you in the moment of immortality. There are also rumors that the Golden Throne It has been damaged for thousands of years, and it is almost paralyzed."

Vito said and clicked on the screen in front of him, a series of garbled codes appeared on the flickering screen, and the calculation arrays that appeared and collapsed alternately appeared on the screen, just like the nerves of a man who has fallen into madness. so-so.

"And it seems that the rumors are not groundless, so you are about to die, right?"

Vito clicked on the screen in front of him with a smile, and the chaotic gibberish quickly collapsed as his fingers clicked, and soon turned into a completely fragmented information flow.

"I recommend cremation, and then directly give your ashes a romantic air burial. I will fly the Skyhawk and sprinkle your ashes in the sky of Terra, so that you don't need to buy a cemetery. Terra's land costs you I don't know how expensive it is, I can't afford a pit of ashes as big as yours."

"Ha ha ha, don't worry, my old friend, you know that when I die, I will come back to life."

"Yes, I know you will be resurrected like Vulcan, and it will take a lot of methods to kill you idiot, but there is a question, will you still be you when you resurrect? You know, like to tell riddles And stupid Middle Eastern shamans who don't speak human language."

The Supreme Marshal smiled and raised his finger and pointed at the Emperor behind him with his thumb. His series of actions just now, if it were anyone else, would have been blasted dozens of times by the Forbidden Army's bolt guns, but Vito obviously didn't Yes, he was having a "normal" chat with the Emperor.

"Some people say that after you die, you will become the fifth evil god and destroy all human beings, so will you? If so, I suggest starting from the stormy galaxy. I was cheated by someone when I played cards last time. Where is that idiot, if you don't mind, help me kill all the people there, anyway, the guys there are old and cunning."

"Well, you used to have a word called hell joke in ancient Terra?"

"Remember, what's wrong?"

"You're telling hell jokes right now, old idiot."

Both of them laughed, and Vito rubbed his temples with his palms with a low laugh. The Emperor's laughter made his brain hurt, "So what will you become, you idiot? God?"

"The question is, what is a god? Do you have unparalleled power? Then are you a god?"

"I don't know, anyway, the Judgment Court, the Assassin Court, and the children of the Star Border Army regarded me as a god. It's so embarrassing. Now I know why you hated being regarded as a god. And, don't tell me riddles, I But I warn you, you can't move now, I can toss you as much as I want."

As Vito said, he snapped his fingers, and golden lightning instantly soared into the sky, lighting up the throne room and the shadow inside the emperor's naked white skeleton.

"Well, the answer is, I don't know, and I don't know what I will become after I die. I don't know whether the so-called god is a human being, but there is only one thing that is certain."

"What?"

"When I am resurrected after death, the final moment will come. I will return with a stronger power than ever before. Although I don't want to admit it, the prayers of the believers of the state religion for thousands of years are in the subspace There was a huge wave, and that power of faith made me stronger than ever."

"When I return from resurrection, I can use that power to destroy chaos, end all chaos in this dark galaxy, bring peace and prosperity back to mankind, and let our people enter a great era again. coming age."

"Then why haven't you been doing that all the time? Old bastard, you've been sitting in this damn place for ten thousand years, and every day you have to burn a thousand psykers to give you the function of this broken chair, and then you go and put that super galaxy on your head The flashlight is on, why are you sitting here?"

As Vito said, he continued to click on the screen in front of him, as if they were simply chatting. The two of them were just like this. During scolding and teasing each other, they said things that are absolutely important to normal people. No, they may not even be able to summarize the big things of those things.

"Because I was waiting for an opportunity, that time has not yet come, and the destiny has been suspended for ten thousand years, and now it is finally working, because of your actions, old friend."

"My action? You mean I fucked your little angel? By the way, your girl is awesome." Vito turned around and gave the Emperor a thumbs up, who was impressed by his abnormality as always, and The wrangling was amused.

"No, it's not your act of picking up girls. Although I don't want to admit it, you're picking up girls. Now that you've picked up Guilliman, the child finally woke up. When he wakes up from the eternal sleep, fate will The clock is turning, and my plan and the moment are coming."

"Your words sound like a prisoner who has been imprisoned for 10,000 years and suddenly found a file." Vito looked at the old bacon with his hands in his arms and said unceremoniously.

"The ten-thousand-year stalemate has finally been broken. With the return of Guilliman, the empire will resume operation after ten thousand years of stagnation. Belisarius Kaur will reinject technology and progress into the engine of the empire. Then The chess game that has been suspended for a long time is finally alive again, and our plan can continue."

"Our plan? Why didn't I know we had a plan?" Vito shrugged, not hiding his dissatisfaction with the emperor at all. This guy, after ten thousand years, is still the same virtue, and everyone and everything are up to him. In his eyes, there were only countless opportunities, and he didn't even feel any joy as a father when his son woke up.

It was just a craftsman who saw that his favorite tool was turned out again. He has always been like this. It has never changed from 10,000 years ago to now, and even now it may be because of the divinity of "protecting all mankind". Even more crazy.

"When Guilliman leads the Empire to continue to fight against Chaos, I want you to find the other Primarchs, bring them all back to the Empire, return them to their own positions, spur and supervise them to perform their duties, When all the Primarchs return, I can break free from the throne, and they will fight against the raging tide of destruction after I break free from the throne, until I return to resurrect and end everything."

"They can't stop it, even if all the Primarchs come back, the Astartes warriors and all humans with them can't stop the unrestrained warp space storm after the collapse of the webway exit, the gap will directly On Terra, the heart of the Imperium, a new Eye of Terror is torn, and the forces of Chaos shall break free into the physical universe."

Vito frowned and replied in a low voice. He looked at the emperor in front of him, the emperor who was sitting on the golden throne with no emotion. He responded to Vito with an almost rational voice.

"But their deaths will buy me time, and the deaths of the Primarchs and the Astartes will buy enough time for my return and the final counterattack. That's their significance."

"You want to sacrifice them, as well as the vast majority of human beings, those fellow human beings for whom you want to fight for the future, for your resurrection time?"

"The death of an individual is certainly worth mourning, but even if only 10% of the human race survives, human civilization can be rebuilt in the new universe, and our race will surely continue and develop. This is what we have to do everything."

Vito frowned and looked at the Emperor in front of him, who continued to answer Vito with a cold and unsentimental voice, "This is the only way. I have thought about tens of millions of ways in the past 10,000 years. This possibility, the only one, can truly end all threats."

"Just imagine, old friend, when I return, we will work together to end the threat of ten thousand years, chaos, alien threats will be completely wiped out, human beings will truly rule the galaxy, under our protection, our civilization will surpass gold era, reaching an even more incomparable peak, and even the darkness outside the system will subdue mankind."

"Isn't that what you and I are after? Everything we have been pursuing for 50,000 years has allowed our compatriots to ascend, step into the ladder of the greatest civilization, and become the most prosperous and immortal existence among thousands of stars."

"But the price is that half or more people will die in the chaotic frenzy in your mouth, and your sons, if you really treat them as your sons, old bacon, they, their heirs will also be there Die together with countless fellow human beings in the frenzy!"

Vito roared suddenly, lightning jumped from his body instantly, and the golden thunder struck the ceiling of the palace, countless lightning exploded from Vito's body instantly, and the golden lightning bounced around him, He glared at the emperor in front of him, and with a backhand swing, he shot out a giant bolt of lightning.

The lightning struck the Emperor, but was blocked almost immediately in front of his mummified body. The Emperor's psychic power deflected the lightning, and Vito watched as the lightning was sent flying and hit the wall. He stepped on the ground fiercely, and then shot out a second bolt of lightning with his palm. The howling arc instantly bombarded the shield in front of the emperor, and the burst of golden lightning bombarded everything around the throne.

One set exploded and disintegrated under the bombardment of the golden lightning, shattered glass wreckage and steel shards flew in all directions, a large piece flew towards Vito's head, but Vito raised his hand in mid-air and knocked it out. Got it under control, and then slammed it towards the Emperor.

The metal wreckage hit the shield in front of the Emperor, and was instantly ejected and hit the ground at Vito's feet, but Vito didn't pay attention to the wreckage that almost hit him, but raised his finger to point Looking at the emperor in front of him, countless lightning bolts shot out from his angry eyes.

"You are the most fucking bastard that all mankind has ever produced! You will sacrifice more than half of humanity for your goal of "Great Rise", and even I think you can only live for ten years." One of the people, you will do the same, right? You treat everyone as a tool, a group of tools that can be sacrificed and discarded at any time!"

"Each of us has our own place, my old friend, and this is the only way to break the situation."

"Fuck you! What about yourself? Only you are not a tool, right? You treat me as a tool, and only you are the player in this "great game" right?! Only you are eligible to live until then , live to the end, and then find a fucking garden world to watch the stars retire?!"

Vito roared, his roar was accompanied by countless lightning jumps, golden arcs bombarded the ceiling above his head, countless gravel and bricks fell one after another with the lightning bombardment, and hit the huge pieces on the ground A huge amount of dust and dust was raised.

Vito raised his hands violently, and the psychic power instantly grabbed several huge boulders and smashed them at the Emperor, but the latter also smashed the stones with psychic power immediately, and with a backhand blow, the psychic heavy blow knocked the emperor away. Vito flew out.

"No! As I said, each of us has our own place. If the future of mankind requires me to sacrifice myself, I will do it! I sacrificed others, and I will not be afraid of my own death. If it is necessary if."

"You're a fucking old bastard!" Vito cursed and got up from the ground, propping himself up from a pile of rubble, his hair covered in crumbs of dust that had fallen from the throne room ceiling, Vito lifted With his dusty head, he looked at the psychic corpse on the throne. There were raging psychic flames burning around him, and the light distorted the space structure around the throne.

His psychic power is stronger than ever before, more than a million times stronger than before he sat on the throne, Vito frowned looking at the burning psychic flames, from Vito's perspective Well, the "person" on the throne is not like a "person" at all, but a real god, a god without the slightest bit of humanity.

He stood up from the rubble after a moment of silence, cursing, "You old bastard, I really want to kill you, if I can."

"Perhaps one day you will, old friend, but not now, I have told you my plan, and I want you to do what I have told you to retrieve all the Primarchs, the choice is yours, my friend , The future selector of mankind is always in your hands, you may or may not do it, but now, you have something to do."

"You didn't come here to fight me, did you? We demolished most of the throne room, now, it's your turn to do what you should do."

Vito watched the emperor silent for a moment and then patted the dust off his head. The gray dust fell from his head with his slap, like a gray snowflake, "I want to dissolve the High Lords Council and take over Terra The defense of the thirteen people you established back then has become a greedy, corrupt and useless existence, I will disband them, but the High Lords Council was established by you after all, so I will ask for your consent."

"They were indeed established by me, but I also clearly handed over the power of the regent of the empire to you back then, my friend, when I am unable to walk in the world, you have full power to act on my behalf. It was so then, and it is still the same now. So, so do what you think is right."

"In addition, connect Helen to Terra's defense system, you will need her help, I will use prophecy perception to order Trajan to obey you, and he will take you to the system master control room in the palace."

"I thought you didn't like Helen, and didn't like any artificial intelligence, so you explicitly forbade the Mechanicus from contacting any technology related to artificial intelligence. Now you suddenly think about it?"

"No, it's not, I'm still against artificial intelligence, but like I just told you, when the future of mankind requires me to compromise and sacrifice, I will do so, and now it is, before all plans come to an end , human beings need Terra, and I need to sit on the throne to burn the astronomical torch and restrain the webway, then I will do my best to keep Terra."

"So go ahead and plug your girl into Terra's system and do what you think you should do."

"You just told me about your crazy plan, so we had a fight and demolished half of the Throne Hall. I almost wanted to kill you, and then you gave me the whole of Terra? And let Helen take over?" into the system, and you know if I order her to take all of Terra's permissions, and lock you up here forever, old bastard, there's nothing stopping me from doing that."

"I believe in my choice back then, and now I still believe in you, my friend, and do whatever you think is right."

The emperor looked at himself with his eyeless eye sockets, and the immortal psychic corpse looked at Vitor in front of him, who also stood in front of the throne and looked up at the giant who was like a dead tree. He sighed for a long time, then turned to look at the golden gate behind him.

"Every time we meet, we want to save all mankind and the whole world together, and there are quarrels and there is a high probability of a fight. It seems that this time is the same, but it is a little different. This time I was the only one going. "

Vito said and walked towards the gate. He stepped over the wreckage they had thrown out and walked towards the direction of the golden gate. But just as Vito stepped into the scope of the rubble ruins, a sound rang in his mind. The Emperor's voice.

"No, I will still walk with you, and we will continue to protect mankind together in another way."

As the emperor said, he used his psychic power to suddenly open the wall on one side of the throne, and a weapon rack suddenly opened on the closed wall, in which stood a golden battle armor, and a piece for mortals. Prepared wearable power armor.

Vito looked at the armor, and saw that the golden power armor had a huge power claw on its right arm. He knew the armor, and immediately recognized who the armor belonged to with almost one glance. .

"this is not"

"I ordered the craftsmen of the Golden Tower to recast my power armor and transform it into a model that can be worn by mortals. I will present it to you, my old friend. Wear it, and he will let you get Undisputed supreme power, when you wear it, no one in the entire empire will doubt that you can exercise the power of emperor in my place."

Vito looked at the armor, looked at several servo skulls flying out of the broken ceiling above his head, they hung mechanical arms and a full set of assembly tools and floated around the armor, they were waiting for Vito, waiting for him Put on that armor.

"You..." Vito said and looked at the emperor, who smiled softly. The palm that was already like a dead tree was lifted up under the action of spiritual energy, and the palm was stretched out towards the armrest of the throne with difficulty. Pointing to the golden power armor.

"Let it walk with you instead of me, my friend."

Vito looked up at the Emperor, then turned his head slightly to look at the power armor. After a moment of silence, a helpless smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "You old bacon."

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Tula really stood outside the gate of the end. He stood on the steps overlooking the imperial guards below. He slightly raised his head and looked down at all the golden armored warriors standing here. He was full of pride in his heart, and soon they could follow With the Supreme Marshal, step into the battlefield of glory like the legendary predecessors of the Forbidden Army.

He imagined that he once stood beside Vito like himself, and the person who commanded the imperial army for him was Commander Valdor, and Trajan couldn't help but tremble with pride in his heart.

And at the same time, the door behind Trajan slowly reopened. The magnificent golden giant door slowly opened with the sound of heavy mechanical rotation, and the rumbling transmission structure resounded throughout the hall.

"Marshal, we are waiting for you." Trajan turned his head and said to the person behind him, but his words stopped the moment he saw him. Trajan looked at the golden iron that stepped out of the gate. Boots, golden armor gleamed in the light, and the Emperor's own sky eagle emblem shone brilliantly in that light.

Wearing golden power armor, Vito walked out of the throne room. He stepped onto the edge of the stairs and looked at Trajan beside him. A sun-like halo flashed behind his head, a sculpture of a soaring eagle Spreading its wings behind the golden sun.

"Emperor?" one of the guard soldiers behind Trajan said in surprise, he looked at Vito standing in front of the gate from behind the commander, his eyes were shining brightly, he looked almost the same as The Emperor was exactly the same, when he stood in front of the Last Gate in his power armor, it was as if the Emperor himself stood up and walked out of the gate.

Vito looked at Trajan with a shocked face beside him, and then looked at the soldiers of the Imperial Guard below. All the attendants standing on the stairs turned around and looked at Vito at the top of the stairs. The long road to redemption in the entire hall All the imperial guards on both sides looked up at the top of the stairs, Vito, who was wearing a golden armor, looked down at the soldiers below with the sun shining behind his head.

Vito slowly raised his arm, and with the lifting of Vito's fingers one by one, the huge power armor shone like a holy sword piercing the sky.

In an instant, all the imperial guards knelt down, and Trajan led the surrounding attendants to kneel down on one knee immediately. Following the steps, all the imperial guards who went down knelt on one knee in front of Vito. , extending all the way to the end of the road to redemption, all the imperial guards knelt down.

Vito looked at the kneeling guards in the entire hall below, he slowly put down his power claw, he watched the huge power claw glove with sharp claws in his hand raised his head with a golden halo .

"let's start."