Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 368 Curze and the Emperor (Please subscribe)
Roche did not return to the Crown of Victory, and his Red Alert also detached from the Thundercloud-class planetary battleship again after arriving in the solar system.

He returned to the Red Alert with Conrad Curze and the veterans who had always been with him.

As early as the moment the memories ended, Ryan had changed his identity. As the commander-in-chief of the empire, he mobilized all the warships in the solar system except the Phalanx, including his brother's Angel's Tears and Victory Crown.

Ryan has been preparing for this moment for too long. His brain, which was born for war, has already brewed countless strategies and tactics. He has simulated how to win this war in his mind thousands of times, and now it is finally time to make his grand plan come into play.

As per the Emperor's previous orders, Jaghatai Khan and Sanguinius would assist the Lion in the war.

This was already the perfect start for the Lions. Moreover, with Rogal Dorn in charge of Terra and the solar system, he did not need to divert a lot of energy to defending the solar system.

Attack, attack!
The best defense is offense, and the Calibans know this well.

After meeting the Emperor, Roche returned to Red Alert, the starting place.

He stroked the warm ship's cabin wall, with the intelligent computer Pika lying on his shoulder. Although the New Caliban was nice, this was his home.

He once piloted the Red Alert and worked hard to fulfill the Chief's instructions, but now he has a new mission.

According to the Emperor, if the situation really becomes irreversible, he will use all his strength to send Roche and Red Alert away from this universe.

Luo Xi must make plans early.

Compared with the Thundercloud-class planetary battleship that is hundreds of kilometers long, the Red Alert appears much smaller and more delicate. Under the guidance of Pica, Roche found Conrad Curze.

Night Haunter had no desire to be aboard one of his brother's ships, no matter which one.

In Roche's opinion, Conrad was even like the animal called "cat" in his mind, who only liked some narrow and cramped cardboard boxes rather than spacious and bright rooms.

In fact, compared to Macragge, the Midnight Haunter whose mind is full of killing and self-destruction, Curze is now as normal as can be.

He gave up on killing Guilliman and Lion, and even assisted Sanguinius during the Battle of Davin.

Curze just wanted to peel off the skins of some aliens and demons and review his ancestral skills. This insignificant little hobby was nothing to the Primarch.

"I promised you something before, now it's time to fulfill my promise."

Curze in the Iron Man was still reading a book, leaning on his bed, and only turned to face him when Luo Xi spoke.

"The Emperor will meet with you."

The next second, Veronica ejected Conrad, and Iron Man stood beside Roxie, aiming his power fist at Curze's head to prevent the little bat from doing anything tricky.

"The Emperor is willing to see me?" Koz wanted to remain calm, but Luo Xi could see through his disguise from his slightly trembling mouth and his erratic eyes.

"Impossible. How could he want to meet a traitor, a shameless person, a degenerate person? You don't need to comfort me. I don't need these cowardly lies."

"He must be extremely disappointed in me. He gave up on me a long time ago, just like I gave up on my scum sons. It's ridiculous that a sinner from Nostramo became an inquisitor of the empire."

Curz's words always have a hissing ending, which comes from Nostramo's language habits and is also a detail revealed when he is upset.

Koz's heart was already in turmoil when Luo Xi said that.

He had always longed to return to Terra, but when he was truly one step away from the Emperor, he was afraid.

He feared and hated his own prophecy, but he relied on it precisely. His vision of the future did not include the scene of returning to see the Emperor and being forgiven by him.

"If you have anything to say, tell the Emperor."

Luo Xi said, he took out a golden imperial double-headed eagle statue from his pocket. When it was placed in front of Koz, the double-headed eagle immediately flashed with brilliant golden light, spiritual energy surged, and a figure faintly appeared in the room.

The figure was extremely blurry, but his identity could still be recognized at a glance.

It was none other than the Lord of Mankind, suffering upon the Golden Throne, the Emperor, Konrad's father. The illusory figure gradually solidified as it gazed upon Curze. The Night Haunter's back grew increasingly hunched, and Curze dared not meet the Emperor's gaze.

"Father." Koz finally spoke.

Conrad seemed to have prepared himself mentally. He folded his hands over his chest, hunched his back, and walked around the room by himself, trying his best to avoid the direct gaze of the emperor's shadow.

Like a ghost that has lived in the shadows all its life, avoiding the glaring sun.

"I am a loser, I am a hated guy, I know my brothers hate me and despise me, Sanguinius, Lion, Guilliman, but it doesn't matter, I hate myself too."

"I was overly obsessed with prophecies and illusions about the future. Even though Sanguinius, Dorn and the others had tried to persuade me, I could not break free from them. But all of this was just my excuse. Only if the prophecy could not be changed could it prove that it was not my fault."

Conrad tore open his wound again and showed it to his father.

"But I found out that I was wrong. On Macragge and Daven, I realized that everything was just self-deception. But I have made a big mistake. There is no turning back, father."

"My abominations are the sum of all human sins, magnified ten thousand times in me. You designed me to be a judge, an inquisitor, but I myself have committed a sin. Even the Primarch should pay for his mistakes."

Luo Xi couldn't help but close his eyes. That was the starting point of Koz's loss of control. He killed an innocent gangster boy because of his wrong prediction. The judge was tainted with sin, so he was naturally no different from those sinners.

Perhaps for other people, all of this can be compensated by "mistakes" and "errors", but Koz is different. He cannot tolerate the slightest sin, even the sin he has committed himself.

Conrad's pain was almost tangible. His sharp claws tore the flesh of his arms, and the blood of the Primarch flowed from the wound, but he seemed unconscious.

The Emperor did not speak. He waited for Curze to express all his resentment.

"But my legion and I are so cruel. We use the evil of human nature to fight and spread fear with bloody and brutal means. What are we doing for this? Isn't it to quickly conquer those planets that refuse to surrender and to punish those planets that have second thoughts?"

Curze questioned the Emperor: "Father, have I ever tried to make all humans bend to my will? Have I ever slaughtered and destroyed those aliens and human civilizations that refused to surrender, just for my own selfish desires?"

"No, no! I am doing this for the Great Crusade, for your cause! I am doing this for you!"

Conrad suddenly flew into a rage, venting his inner dissatisfaction and anger.

He was angry with the Lord of mankind, angry with his father.

"My legion and I are guilty, but we are only accomplices. We are only accomplices in the crimes of the empire, and the source of all this is you. Your conquest is unjust, and you are also guilty."

"There is no glory or justice in our Great Crusade. It is just a galactic crime. No matter how beautiful the prospects you promise are, you cannot hide those cruel means."

Luo Xi understood that Koz had indeed made progress compared to before. He had freed himself from his own sense of justice and no longer sought death blindly.

But this guy was so stubborn that he got himself into another dead end.

He believed that the actions of everyone, including himself, including the Lord of Mankind, were unjust.

Everything was a huge crime, and he felt pain and torment because of it, so he wanted to be judged by the Emperor. It was both the Emperor who judged him and he who judged the Emperor.

"Koz, Koz, you think too much, but you lack the wisdom to see through everything." Luo Xi sighed in his heart.

He understood that because of Curze's unique experience, he had never had his worldview shaped by someone like a "foster parent", even a scum like Kor Phaeron.

A distorted worldview is at least better than having no worldview at all.

Everything was figured out by him.

Including sin and justice.

(End of this chapter)