Warhammer: Just unified the Empire, you said it was 40K

Chapter 352 The Grey Knights' Collection of Magnus's Souls?

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Soon Magnus saw himself as prophesied.

They appear to be besieged by the Grey Knights led by Vulcan.

and.

It happened within a very short time after he made his prediction.

Magnus seemed to be in a daze.

No?

The Empire's Grey Knights surrounded their territory.

The Grey Knights are the Empire's most skilled knightly order in dealing with demons. Everyone who joins the Grey Knights undergoes numerous trials and tribulations.

When a Grey Knight chooses to join, these Grey Knight Commanders, or Think Tanks, will pull demons from the warp and then force these Chaos Demons, which terrify the Empire, into the Grey Knight's body.

Only by withstanding the invasion and corruption of the Chaos Demons could the first step be completed.

The next step is to conduct another test and trial of loyalty.

Each time, it consumes one of the Chaos Demons they captured.

Until the Chaos Demon can no longer influence the Grey Knights, that is, once the Grey Knights' loyalty has been recognized by the Emperor, then the Grey Knights will undergo a series of training sessions and eventually grow into Grey Knights capable of taking on a hundred enemies single-handedly.

The Grey Knights have a special way of attacking Chaos Demons.

Faced with the endless stream of mental energy and chaotic magic attacks from the Chaos Demons, their chaotic magic and mental energy were instantly melted away by the power, like ice and snow meeting burning embers.

However, their damage can inflict some real damage on Chaos.

Therefore, even Chaos found these Grey Knights a headache.

Therefore, Magnus immediately became alert when he saw these gray knights appear.

The Grey Knights have a special attack against Chaos Demons, so they will also have a special attack against these Thousand Sons.

Magnus's mental state is somewhat abnormal.

This Lord of the Red Devils is deeply broken in spirit and soul, filled with contradictory thoughts and eternal torment.

He possessed a profound self-awareness, yet was simultaneously forced into a state of chaotic enslavement.

He always knew that he had been deceived and corrupted by Tzeentch, and that the Nicaea Prohibition and the burning of Prospero were both orchestrated by Tzeentch.

He was also keenly aware of the mutation of the Thousand Sons, which was essentially a combination of genetic seed defects and subspace erosion. However, in order to save his offspring, he was forced to accept Tzeentch's power. His subspace nature was also completely unleashed and absorbed by Tzeentch, thus making him controlled by Tzeentch.

He believed that his betrayal of the Emperor had plunged the human empire into darkness, and this guilt manifested as a persistent burning sensation on his soul after his ascension to the Demonic Realm.

Tzeentch granted him near-omniscient psychic powers, but this "omniscience" was actually a curse of information overload—his consciousness was constantly being torn apart by billions of future possibilities.

Its single eye symbolizes "sacrificing sight for truth," but now it has become a metaphor for being tormented by the truth.

He believed all the truths he saw to be his own, but in reality, they were all manipulated by Tzeentch, who made him see the so-called truths.

Actually, a long time ago.

When Prospero was destroyed, Magnus split his soul into pieces in order to survive.

The largest fragment became the Demon Prince, while the remaining fragments transformed into chaotic demonic incarnations scattered across the galaxy, causing his consciousness to be fragmented and his temperament to be unpredictable. Therefore, the current Magnus is not the complete Magnus of the past.

Although Magnus is trying to collect the fragments of his soul scattered throughout the universe in his own way, Tzeentch's conspiracy causes his soul fragments to fight each other constantly. His soul can never be complete because it exists in different times and is forever fighting and conquering in various places.

Chaos only hoped that Magnus could continue fighting forever, becoming a toy in Tzeentch's hands.

Moreover, Tzeentch was here.

It is absolutely forbidden for Magnus's soul to be collected and returned by anyone.

Now, after seeing a large number of prophecies, Magnus quickly saw everything he had experienced: the empire's collapse, the Thousand Sons being hunted down by the empire's warriors, and him, just like Prospero before him, watching in despair as the Thousand Sons were once again suppressed and hunted down, and a large number of the Thousand Sons were destroyed by Sisleyan of the Gamma world.

He loved the empire, but did the empire ever love him?

Did the empire ever love its thousand sons? Did it ever love its offspring?
I'm afraid not.

Thinking of this, Magnus felt even heavier; he needed to fight against the Empire.

Protect one's offspring.

On the one hand, he longed for the emperor's reinstatement, but on the other hand, he hated the empire for destroying his offspring. He always believed that his betrayal had dealt a heavy blow to the empire, but at the same time, his offspring had also been betrayed.

Therefore, his state of mind was always filled with contradictions.

He longed to reconcile with the empire, but because of his offspring, he could never return to the way things were before. This dilemma constantly tormented his heart.

Looking at the empire before him and listening to the voices of the past, Magnus knew he could never go back.

While Magnus was trying to predict the future.

He saw timelines upon timelines, countless mottled and interconnected ones, yet he saw no hope for himself. Every choice he made was a betrayal by the empire, and only by embracing knowledge could they achieve true independence, or true freedom, no longer subject to anyone's control. This was all he saw.

And outside.

Inside the passageway leading to Tzeentch's Crystal Labyrinth.

do not know when.

The gray knights had already entered through a path they had cleared, and along that path, they had killed several chaos demons.

Among them is the power of the Chaos Wizard.

"Magnus is the Primarch with the best chance of returning!"

A grey knight, adorned with unparalleled honor, led the way, followed by an iron rider who stood like a guardian fortress. His body was covered with imperial inscriptions and prophecies praising the emperor. In addition to these, there were other unintelligible Sanskrit characters on his body, which seemed to be some kind of coded language.

At Babel.

The Emperor once found a mysterious language on this planet. This language contained the power of the real universe. As long as it was recited, it could directly harm all life forms, including Chaos. It contained a real power that was even more powerful than the Star God.

Moreover, this power is not affected by chaos, nor is it constrained by real physical factors.

This power can only unleash terrifying coded attacks by damaging the physical body.

It is said that an immortal being can kill a Void Whale, second only to the four Chaos Gods, by simply activating a series of coded messages.

Of course, this power was destroyed by the first War General.

Later, the emperor regretted it, and in order to commemorate this kind of code, he had some of the codes engraved on his armor.

During the battle with Horus, the first Warmaster used a secret code to directly blast Horus, who possessed the power of the four gods, into the ground, and he was almost unable to stand up again in a short time.

Almost everyone eventually forgot this code, but the Grey Knights found this powerful code in a warehouse that the Emperor had once treasured, though they didn't know how to use it.

At the very front of the Grey Knights stood their leader, the Grand Mentor.

The Grand Mentor of the Grey Knights is a very special individual.

He does not exist in the real universe.

He spends most of his time in the subspace.

Because of the curse he was under, he could only live in the warp, and his physical body was gradually becoming energy, requiring constant battles to continue to exist.

His position was that of the supreme commander among the Grey Knights.

Furthermore, he is the only mortal to have survived for a century in the warp.

In the war against chaos.

He defeated the demon Primarch Mortarion in a one-on-one duel and engraved his true name in his heart.

He is an absolutely legendary figure.

Castellan Crowe.

At this moment, he is leading the Grey Knights' team into Tzeentch's Crystal Labyrinth.

Behind them stood the Cursed Legion, formed from the fallen Grey Knights of the Empire.

Among them was Stern, the leader of the Brotherhood of Steel.

The Grey Knights, once led by Brotherhood Wars Chapter Master Stern and now deceased, fought as psionic remnants against the enemy. However, during a campaign under the cover of the Empire, Stern's entire force was ambushed and their base was destroyed by Typhon's Nurgle army, who also killed them all.

Now, Stern has returned.

Therefore, his revenge against Typhon may also be on the agenda.

Holding the holy artifact, the Fist of Titan, behind him lies the forbidden book, the Book of Ashes, which records the true names of 100,000 demons and was sealed by the Supreme Grand Master himself.

From the cursed Casteran Crow to Garus wielding the black sword, and the shadowy allies of the Inquisition, they fueled their souls, guarding the Imperium from corruption in an eternal war. Their existence testifies to the cruel truth of the Warhammer universe: the brightest guardians are often born from the deepest darkness.

These were the most loyal and purest knights of the empire.

They are making unprecedented efforts for the empire.

Their souls are incredibly pure.

Their will is even stronger.

Inside the crystal labyrinth.

The figure of a chaotic demon emerges from the infinite knowledge of the Crystal Labyrinth, and the authority of Tzeentch's two-headed eagle is slowly being restored.

"Tzeentch is returning! Release Magnus!"

Throughout the past, they have been collecting Magnus's soul across countless timelines.

However, due to Tzeentch's cunning, all their plans ended in failure. Tzeentch was unwilling to hand over Magnus's soul; at least for now, Magnus was Tzeentch's spoils of war.

(End of this chapter)