Warhammer Inquisitor

"Cypher."

"grown ups."

"My lord? All right."

Vito found Cypher on the top of the rock, which was a secluded garden, located between the thousands of cannons on the back of the rock, and the stand shield rose above his head to isolate the vacuum.

Cypher is here, he has not been arrested, although according to many people in the Dark Angels, especially Asmodeus, he is definitely a fallen angel.

But Lawn let him go. He personally ordered Cypher to move freely and accepted him as his son, the Dark Angel.

"That planet, how many years will it take to recover?" Cypher asked, looking at the orbiting planet overhead, its atmosphere green with clouds of air.

The Imperial Fleet is hovering in orbit, cleaning up the wreckage of the Tau family after the war. They are floating densely on the surface of the planet, and the missed parts fall into the planet's atmosphere, turning into meteors and hitting the ground.

"The effect of the virus bomb has decayed, and it will completely disappear in another week, and then it may take many years to rebuild."

Vito walked up to Cypher, and with him looked at the planet of Damocles Bay, on which most mortals had been left, who had been entitled to the coronation, and all that followed.

"Sorry for making this place like this." Cypher said with a sincere apology, "but we have no choice. Brothers won't listen to us, they don't believe us."

"It's a good thing you didn't come here directly. If they saw you, they would immediately beat them into a sieve." Vito said, hands behind his back.

"Forget it, things have already happened. Although the casualties of mortals are regrettable, after all." Vito said hesitating for a moment, then looked back to the inside of the giant rock, "In exchange for a Primarch."

Was it worth the return of a Primarch for the names of millions of mortals? I don't know, but I think it's worth it these days.

"Congratulations, you have completed the task." Vito congratulated, but Cypher smiled wryly.

"congratulate?"

"You have completed your mission and returned the Lion King Sword to your father, and he has returned."

"Then you should congratulate me, not me." Cypher said, but he had no regrets. "The one who really brought him back was not me, but Luther."

"It was he who told us how to find the tree and get the power to wake up our father from it. In the end, it was all in exchange, not me."

"I spent years looking for which method, but he brought it."

Next, Cypher tells Vito what happened.

After Cypher escaped from the rock, instead of hiding in the void, he found Cypher, and other fallen angels, who were guilty and longed for redemption.

He told them that during Caliban's long detention, he saw a vision. At first Luthor thought he was crazy, and many times he didn't know if he was crazy.

But the vision came over and over again, on that day of the week, on the night of the night he had gone horribly wrong by wounding Lione on Caliban.

In his dream, he saw a tree, a tree growing on the endless sea, and a golden crow stood on it, calling him every night.

"Therein lies the way of redemption. Awaken him."

The crow said so, every night, every dawn, it said so, and finally Luther believed him, and swore in a dream that he would find the tree, and then, at the dawn of a certain day, he was released.

The little men in green robes opened his cell and let him go silently.

Afterwards, he found Cypher and told him about his dream.

"We searched for that tree, and finally found it after countless trials and tribulations. We found that tree on a primitive planet, on a frozen sea."

Cypher said, "It was a dead tree and no one knew what to do, and then this crow appeared, and it was shining like a sun in a blizzard, and it looked at me with those eyes and told me to pull it out. the sword, piercing the trees."

"And you did," said Vito.

"Yes, I did. The moment the blade pierced the tree, the surrounding ice and snow melted, and the ocean, the mountains and the whole world were awakened."

"And that sword was also burned with golden fire." Cypher said, touching the sword that was no longer behind his back, "The crow told me to stab him into Ryan's chest. At first I didn't believe it, but in the end I still believe it."

Vito snorted, shook his head and smiled, he knew who the crow was.

"Finally you came, realized, and Ryan woke up." Vito said calmly, all the confusion in his heart disappeared.

"And in order to climb the rock, you created a mess, and then took advantage of the chaos to board the boat, take a gamble to find Ryan, and put your sword in."

"right."

"Bold gamble." Vito said without hesitation, "If you slow down or make a mistake, you will be caught by Azrael and the others, and then you will be executed."

"They won't be soft, and they won't trust you."

"That's why we need to gamble. Fortunately, we won, but" Cypher said hesitantly

"They may die." Vito said for him, yes, if you really know Ryan, you will know that he will not choose to forgive Luthor's betrayal and their behavior because of these things.

Such Lion was he, a king, austere, ungrateful but just, as he had been before, and as he woke up now.

"He entrusts you with the trial, Marshal," Luther said slowly, casting his gaze.

"It's just a court martial."

"You know not, if it's just a trial, he can come by himself." Luther pointed out, "Now he has become the king of the First Legion again, he can judge them by himself, and he can sentence them to death at that time, but he didn't .”

"He gave that to you, and he wanted you to make the decision for him."

After Luther finished speaking, Vito looked at him silently, but said nothing.

"Lion, the Lion King, he can't make this decision." Luther said silently, with sadness in his words, "You know, no matter what Luther was, he was Ryan's first father, although he never called Call him that."

"He wants you to judge for him."

"Then what kind of decision do you think he would expect me to make?" Vito asked, "Forgive him for him?"

Cypher didn't answer, he was silent, Vito sighed, and looked at the clouds of the planet with his hands behind his back, "He is Ryan, the leader of the First Legion, the eldest son of the Emperor."

"And the Emperor? How would he wish?"

Cypher asked, "What was Luther to him when he gave Luthor that vision that led him away? What are we all?"

Facing Cypher's question, Vito didn't answer, he responded with silence, the two looked at each other wordlessly for a long time, and then ended with Vito turning around and leaving.

Cypher watched his back until he disappeared into the darkness. At the door, there was a crow's feather, black feather, as black as the deepest night.