Chapter 691 Past and Future

Primarch.

The strongest human being created by the Emperor to serve him. But in fact, the Primarch's role as the Four Heavenly Kings was not completely loyal to the Emperor. This is actually very easy to understand, and many players also believe that it was a mistake for the Emperor to create the Primarch.

According to historical records, when the Emperor first unified Terra to create the Empire, neither the Space Marines nor the Primarch appeared. After the Emperor unified Terra, he began to create the Primarch.

In fact, players are very puzzled as to why the Emperor created the Primarch, and it is understandable that the Thunder Warriors were eliminated because they were the first generation of Enhanced Humans, resulting in mental and physical instability. But the Custodian Legion is different. Every Custodian is almost a perfect human being, and their strength is extremely powerful, no less than the Space Marines and the Primarch.

The only downside is that the technology to manufacture Custodians is quite expensive and difficult to mass-produce.

Logically speaking, when the emperor unifies Terra and prepares to start the Great Crusade, it is obviously more reasonable to seek technology that can mass-produce the Imperial Army. Even if it can't reach the level of the Imperial Army, as long as it can be mass-produced with half the strength of the Imperial Army, it will not be a problem to sweep the galaxy and rebuild the human empire. Moreover, the soldiers of the Forbidden Army are isolated from psionic energy, which means that they will not be polluted and affected by subspace at all.

However... As if his brain had been kicked by a donkey, the Emperor turned around and created a Primarch that fused his own genes and also mixed the dark power of the warp.

At that time, except for the emperor, no one knew what was going on in the emperor's mind. Even the Marshal Constantine, who was extremely loyal to the emperor at the time, was very opposed to this plan. You must know that this famous saying is "My only weakness is Complete trust in the Emperor", and even he complained about this plan, which shows that this plan to create a Primarch is beyond the comprehension of any normal person.

This is why players don't believe in the Emperor. The Emperor claims that everything he has done, including the Webway Project and the Imperial Truth, is to keep humans away from the subspace and completely isolate the influence of the subspace. However, you turned around and created a group of Primarchs with the power of the warp, which is simply contradictory, colluding with evil, and attracting wolves into the house...

Anyway, from the player's point of view, the emperor either has a brain problem or has some kind of conspiracy. All in all, his goal is definitely not as lofty as he said.

This was actually how the traitorous Primarchs thought of the Emperor, and Mortarion was one of them.

Before the rebellion, Mortarion was a pure materialist——well, it doesn’t seem right to say that. It should be said that he fanatically believed in the truth of the empire, and he didn’t believe in or even hated unnatural forces such as magic and psionic power. exist.

Again, materialism means emphasizing that the unity of the world lies in its materiality, but it does not deny the reaction of consciousness to matter, and believes that this reaction is very huge.

In other words, in the emperor's world, the imperial truth he promotes is not materialism, but pure idealism. The essence of imperial truth is actually no different from religions such as Catholicism, denying the existence of real matter , to judge reality purely from the perspective of idealism.

Therefore, Mortarion is naturally not a materialist, but simply a paranoid who hates psionic power.

So, Emperor, you have the nerve to say that you hate religion the most, but in fact, what you do is no different from those religious lunatics, or even worse. Anyway, those religious lunatics really heard something and then went crazy, but the truth of the empire is completely a castle in the air, an illusion without foundation.

Just like a bubble, once it is pierced, it will explode completely on the spot. After the emperor sits on the golden toilet, if it weren't for the emergence of the state religion, the empire would have perished a long time ago, and how could it last ten thousand years.

So it's only natural that lies like the Imperial Truth are thrown into the trash.

Therefore, it is only natural that a renegade Primarch like Mortarion hates the Empire and the Emperor.

But the trial court is different, and Duanmuhuai is also different.

The life and death of the empire has nothing to do with them. Duanmuhuai's Inquisition has only one goal, which is to protect human beings. They don't care about other things. The parents' grievances and hatred between the Primarch and the Emperor are their own business , it's none of the court's business.

Emperor? Even if it was the emperor, if he dared to order the court to be disbanded, the next moment Duanmuhuai would directly beat him into a heretic and hit him with the thunder hammer!

Whether it is the Primarch or the Emperor, whoever dares to stand in front of the Tribunal is an enemy and will be eliminated!

As it is now.

"boom!!!"

The two huge figures shuddered suddenly and moved back from each other. Duanmuhuai clenched the hammer tightly, his face was icy cold, thunder and lightning roared on the pitch-black armor, and the shining black flame exuded the divine power from the God of Destruction, devouring all Hoarfrost who dared to approach.

On the other side, Mortarion's figure is becoming thinner and thinner at this moment. His body, which was originally ten meters high, has now shrunk in half. Although it is still slightly bigger than Duanmuhuai, it's just that its appearance has also begun to change at this moment. The viscous yellow liquid flowed out from the gaps in Mortarion's armor, and the poisonous gas ejected from the fumaroles on his back also began to become thinner.

What kind of power is this...?

Mortarion clenched the scythe in his hand and stared coldly at the enemy in front of him. He could feel that every fight and every attack between the two sides would weaken the blessing from his loving father in his body. Originally, under the great divine power of his loving father, his body was firm and strong, and he would not be afraid of any attack at all. Even his own brother, who was also the Primarch, would never want to kill him.

However……………

Mortarion shook his head vigorously. At some point, strange whispers gradually appeared in his ears. At first Mortarion thought it was the sound of a swarm of poisonous flies, but soon he heard He found that the voice did not come from the outside world, but echoed in his mind, as if an invisible hand was sweeping his brain with feathers, which made him feel extremely irritable, and even wanted to reach out to open his brain , like scratching out an itchy brain.

"What's wrong? Is that all you have, Mortarion?"

Duanmu Huai straightened his body and gripped the hammer tightly. The corrupted Primarch was really no joke. Originally, he expected to be able to win the battle quickly, but Mortarion's physical strength had exceeded Duanmu Huai's expectations. Right now, a large number of death guards are rushing towards the bridge, and the night guards, Augustus and others under him have all gone to resist the enemies behind them.

The sound of guns and cannons, the sound of explosions, the brilliance of the fireball, and the roar of the dragon's roar are all gradually fading away at this moment. Duanmuhuai stared at Mortarion, as if only their world was separated by a thick glass at this moment, and the surrounding sounds were gradually fading away.

Duanmu Huai felt that during the process of fighting Mortarion, something in his heart seemed to start to sprout and grow. His spirit began to spread to the surroundings like flowing water, and his thinking had gradually intertwined with everything around him. He could hear the roar of the corrupted machine spirits, the eternally anguished and hateful howls of the Death Guard, and the endless silence of the starry sky.

But all this has no effect on him, he is like a monarch sitting on the throne, looking down at the courtiers below, they are whispering and whispering, but nothing they say can change their thoughts and decisions.

That is the secret of the stars, that is the whisper of the sky, that is the past of the universe.

The ruler of the universe that once existed in this piece... the ruler of the old days.

[Mortarion's resistance to the whispers of the old days... a big failure! 】

[Mortarion loses 35 sanity points]

[Mortarion fell into a state of madness]

It's now!

Duanmuhuai suddenly opened his eyes, and at this moment the spiritual power of the old god turned into a spear and roared across the battlefield, piercing straight into Mortarion's heart!

"No-------!!"

Mortarion's eyes widened, and he roared angrily. This roar even made the Death Guards who were fighting fiercely stunned. Immediately afterwards, Mortarion's smelly, twisted, and swollen head began to swell. Swelling, under his festering skin, something like a giant snake is swimming, as if looking for an exit!

"Pfft!!"

The next moment, Mortarion's eyes burst open, and two twisted, sticky, pitch-black tentacles that looked like rotten flesh drilled out of the swollen eye sockets. They swayed instinctively, swinging towards the leaves dancing with the wind.

"Die—Mortarion!!"

Duanmuhuai yelled loudly, raised the thunder hammer high, jumped up, drew an arc in the air, and smashed it hard towards Mortarion's head.

"No—you can't kill me...!"

Mortarion desperately waved the sickle in his hand, trying to resist Duanmuhuai's almost unavoidable blow. But at this moment, he was in a frenzy. Tentacles emerged from Mortarion's nostrils, ears, and mouth. Like an army of earthworms entangled together, they broke through Mortarion's defenses, sticky The tentacles squirmed, twisted and rolled out of his throat like vomit, opening Mortarion's mouth open.

If Mortarion were mortal, all this would be an illusion at best. However, Mortarion is no longer an ordinary man. He surrendered to the filth of corruption and was promoted to a demon prince. He is now a pure warp creature—and in the warp, any will will become reality.

Even the will from the old days is the same.

"This, what is this......"

Mortarion raised his hand. On his arm, slender tentacles drilled out from the gaps in the armor and the holes where the flesh and blood festered, swinging and shaking playfully. Now, Mortarion's body has It doesn't belong to him, and it doesn't even belong to the loving father he worships anymore, but an indescribable existence from far away, deep in the universe!

"Your era is over! The ghosts of the past!!"

At the same time, Duanmuhuai fell from the sky, and the thunder hammer in his hand hit Mortarion's head heavily.

The former commander of the 14th Legion, the swollen and ugly body of the corrupt demon prince suddenly trembled under this blow, and the exploding force tore his armor, his body and even his soul were icy cold The black flames rushed into Mortarion's body relentlessly. Destroyed everything he had held on to.

"———————————!!!"

Violent explosions and flashes filled the entire bridge in an instant, and the violent energy storm completely destroyed Mortarion's flagship.

Aikot raised his head and looked at the flagship not far away in surprise. The huge green battleship exploded completely in the universe, and a dark green mass emerged from it like an exploding fireball. It twisted , struggling to turn into an ugly face, opened his mouth wide, as if about to let out some kind of roar.

But then, it just disappeared into the dark universe, and the flagship has become a dilapidated fragment floating in the sea of ​​stars.

"Uncle Judge!?"

Seeing this scene, Acott screamed, but at this moment, a big steel hand stretched out from behind and pressed Acott's shoulder. She turned her head and saw Duanmu Huai standing there .

"Okay, Aikot, the mission is over, prepare to clean up the battlefield, and then retreat."

"……………yes!"