Chapter 693 Past and Future
Primarch.
The strongest human being created by the Emperor to serve him. But in fact, the Primarch, as a member of the Four Heavenly Kings, was not completely loyal to the Emperor. This is actually easy to understand, and many players also believe that the Emperor's original creation of the Primarch was a mistake.
According to historical records, when the Emperor first unified Terra and created the Empire, neither the Space Marines nor the Primarchs appeared. At that time, the Emperor's subordinates were a group of super genetically enhanced warriors called the Thunder Warriors and the Custodes Legion. It was only after the Emperor unified Terra that he began to create the Primarchs.
In fact, players are very confused about why the Emperor created the Primarch. 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 Imperial Guard Legion is different. Every Imperial Guard is almost a perfect human being, and their power is extremely powerful, no less than that of Space Marines and Primarchs.
The only drawback is that the technology for manufacturing the Custodes is quite expensive and difficult to mass produce.
Logically speaking, when the Emperor unified Terra and prepared to launch the Great Crusade, it was obviously more reasonable to seek technology that could mass-produce the Imperial Army. Even if it does not reach the level of the Imperial Guards Corps, as long as it can be mass-produced with half the strength of the Imperial Guards, then sweeping the galaxy and rebuilding the human empire will not be a problem at all. Moreover, the Forbidden Soldiers are isolated from spiritual energy, which means that they will not be contaminated and affected by the 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 with the dark power of the warp.
At that time, no one except the Emperor knew what was going on in the Emperor's mind. Even the Imperial Marshal Constantine, who was extremely loyal to the Emperor at the time, was very opposed to this plan. You must know that this man's famous saying is "My only weakness is Complete trust in the Emperor." As a result, even he criticized this plan. This shows that no normal person would understand this plan to create a Primarch.
This is also the reason why players do not believe in the Emperor. The Emperor claims that everything he has done, including the Webway Project and Imperial Truth, is to keep humanity away from the Warp and completely isolate it from the influence of the Warp. However, you just turned around and created a group of Primarchs with the power of the warp. This is simply a contradiction in terms, collaborating and leading the wolf into the house...
Anyway, from the player's point of view, the Emperor either has a brain problem or has some conspiracy. In short, his goals are definitely not as lofty as he says.
This was actually how the traitorous Primarchs viewed 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 passionately believed in the truth of the Empire, completely disbelieving and even hating unnatural forces such as magic and psychic powers. exist.
Once again, materialism represents the emphasis on the unity of the world in its materiality, but it does not deny the reaction of consciousness on matter, and believes that this reaction is very huge.
In other words, in the emperor's world, the imperial truth he promoted was not materialism, but pure idealism. In essence, the imperial truth was no different from religions such as Catholicism, denying the existence of real matter. , judging reality purely from the perspective of idealism.
Therefore, Mortarion is naturally not a materialist, he is simply a bigot who hates psychic powers.
So Emperor, you have the nerve to say that you hate religion the most, but in fact, what you do is no different or even worse than those religious lunatics. At any rate, 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 popped, it will completely explode on the spot. Just like after the emperor sits on the golden toilet, if it were not for the emergence of the state religion, the empire would have died long ago, and it would not be able to last for ten thousand years.
Therefore, it is only natural that lies like Imperial Truth be thrown into the trash.
Therefore, it is natural for a renegade Primarch like Mortarion to hate the Empire and the Emperor.
But the trial court is different, and Duanmu Huai 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 mankind. It doesn't care about other things. The feud between the Primarch and the Emperor is their own business. , it has nothing to do with the Inquisition.
Emperor? Even if he was the emperor, he dared to order the dissolution of the Tribunal. The next moment, Duanmu Huai would directly beat him as a heretic and hit him with his thunder hammer!
Whether it is the Primarch or the Emperor, whoever dares to stand in front of the Inquisition is an enemy and will be destroyed!
Just like it is now.
"Boom!!!"
The two huge figures trembled suddenly and backed away from each other. Duanmu Huai clenched his war hammer, his face was cold, thunder and lightning roared on the black armor, and the shining black flames exuded the power from the God of Destruction, swallowing up all the hoarfrost that dared to approach.
On the other side, Mortarion's figure is getting smaller and smaller at this moment. His body, which was originally ten meters tall, has now shrunk in half. Although it is still slightly larger than Duanmuhuai, its appearance has also begun to change at this moment. It became more and more decayed, thick yellow liquid flowed out from the gaps in Mortarion's armor, and the poisonous gas sprayed from the blowholes on his back began to become thinner.
What on earth is this power?
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 power of his loving father, his body was firm and strong, and he was not afraid of any attack at all. Even his own brother, who was also the Primarch, could not even think of killing him.
However…………
Mortarion shook his head vigorously. He didn't know when, but strange whispers gradually began to appear in his ears. At first, Mortarion thought it was the sound of a swarm of poisonous flies, but soon he understood He found that the sound did not come from the outside world, but echoed in his mind, as if an invisible hand was sweeping his brain with feathers, making him feel extremely irritable, and even wanted to reach out and open his skull. , like scratching out an itchy brain.
"What's wrong? Is this all you have? Mortarion?"
Duanmu Huai straightened his body and held the war hammer tightly. The corrupted Primarch was indeed no joke. He originally expected a quick victory, but Mortarion's physical strength exceeded Duanmu Huai's expectations. At present, a large number of Death Guards are rushing towards the bridge, and the Night Guards, Ogis and others under his command have all gone to fend off the enemies behind them.
The sound of guns, explosions, the flash of fireballs, and the roar of dragons are all gradually fading away at this moment. Duanmuhuai stared at Mortarion, as if their world was the only one separated by a thick glass at this moment, and the sounds around him were gradually fading away. Duanmuhuai felt that during the battle with Mortarion, something seemed to begin to sprout and grow deep in his heart. His spirit began to spread around like running water, and his thoughts gradually became intertwined with everything around him. He could hear the roar of the corrupted machine spirits, the ever-painful and hateful roar of the Death Guard, and the endless silence in the starry sky.
But none of this had any impact on him. He was like a monarch sitting on a throne, looking down at his ministers below. They were whispering to each other, but nothing they said could 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... the ruler of the old days.
[Mortarion resisted the Whisper of the Old One...a big failure! 】
[Mortarion lost 35 sanity points]
[Mortarion fell into a state of madness]
That's it now!
Duanmu Huai suddenly opened his eyes. 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 let out an angry roar. This roar even caused the Death Guards who were fighting fiercely to freeze. Then Mortarion's stinking, twisted, and bloated head began to Swelling, under his ulcerated skin, something like a giant snake was swimming, as if looking for an exit!
"Pfft!!"
The next moment, Mortarion's eyes suddenly exploded, and two twisted, sticky, dark, carrion-like tentacles emerged from the swollen eye sockets. They swayed instinctively, swinging towards the leaves dancing in the wind.
"Die—Mortarion!!"
Duanmu Huai shouted, raised his 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 waved the scythe desperately, trying to resist Duanmu Huai's almost unavoidable blow. However, at this moment, he fell into madness. Tentacles emerged from Mortarion's nostrils, ears, and mouth. They seemed to be entangled together to form an army of giant fleshy earthworms, breaking through Mortarion's defense. The sticky The tentacles squirmed, twisted and rolled out of the throat like vomit, opening Mortarion's mouth.
If Mortarion were mortal, all this would be nothing more than an illusion. However, Mortarion is no longer a mortal. He surrendered to the Corruption and was promoted to the Daemon Prince. He is now a pure subspace creature - and in the subspace, any will will become reality.
Even the will from the past is the same.
"This, what is this..."
Mortarion raised his hand. On his arm, slender tentacles emerged from the gaps in the armor and the holes of flesh and blood, swinging and shaking mischievously. Now, Mortarion's body has It does not belong to him, or even to the loving father he worships, but to an indescribable existence from far away, deep in the universe!
"Your era is over! The undead of the past!!"
At the same time, Duanmu Huai fell from the sky, and the thunder hammer in his hand hit Mortarion hard on the head.
The former commander of the Fourteenth Army, the demon prince of corruption, had his swollen and ugly body suddenly trembled under this blow, and the power of the expansion tore through his armor. His body and even his soul were cold. The black flames rushed into Mortarion's body mercilessly. Destroying everything he had ever stood for.
“————————!!!”
Violent explosions and flashes of light instantly filled the entire bridge, and the violent energy storm completely destroyed Mortarion's flagship.
Aikote 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 thing that looked like an exploding fire ball emerged from it. It twisted , struggled and turned into an ugly face, opening its big mouth, as if to let out some kind of roar.
But then, it disappeared into the dark universe, and the flagship had turned into dilapidated fragments floating in the sea of stars.
"Uncle Judge!?"
Seeing this scene, Aikote screamed, but at this moment, a big steel hand stretched out from behind and held Aikote's shoulder. She turned her head and saw Duanmuhuai standing there. .
"Okay, Aikote, the mission is over, prepare to clean up the battlefield and withdraw the troops."
"…………Yes!"
(End of chapter)