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

Chapter 382 Horus Returns

If the emperor were to stand up.

Then the entire universe will be engulfed in terrifying chaos and turmoil.

The four gods of the warp are ready to take action against the gamma world, intending to display their divine prowess on the legions of the gamma world.

But when the emperor was about to stand up, it was only a slight movement, and in an instant, it brought all the actions of the four gods to a standstill.

Nurgle stopped casting chaos magic, Tzeentch stopped his intellectual thinking, Slaanesh sheathed the old woman's sword, and Khorne moved his horn away.

However, after waiting for a moment...

They didn't wait for any follow-up action from the emperor standing up, so much so that they had to consider whether the emperor would even stand up at all.

They knew that the Emperor would rise up, but that would be when humanity was on the verge of extinction. Now, humanity was far from extinction. With the Primarch's return and Chaos's sneak attack, it was time for humanity to rise again. The Emperor would never abandon humanity's rise and choose to rise up and destroy humanity.

This is clearly not what an emperor, as defined by any race, should do.

Even the most extreme person would find it hard to believe that this is something that terrifying fifth god of the subspace would do on the golden toilet of a human.

"Lord of Pleasure!? Us?"

Seeing that the army of Chaos demons led by the Dark Prince Slaanesh had halted its march, even the most disloyal Slaanesh demon could see the Dark Prince's hesitation.

The arrow is already on the crossbow, and there's no turning back.

Are they going to stop now?

After a brief pause, Slaanesh resumed his command to attack.

Come here.

If the people of the Gamma World can leave alive, then these Chaos beings shouldn't continue to embarrass themselves here.

If you say you'll throw him into your paradise and let him experience the cruelty of the Sixth Ring Road, then you should let him experience that no one in this world can withstand the final hurdle, and no one can truly reach you through the Sixth Ring Road.

Only a Chaos God of the same level would have the chance to break through his Palace of Elysium and directly reach him, the Lord of Pleasure.

As long as that guy doesn't actually stand up, they're in for a lot of trouble.

Because once the emperor rises up, all their cards will have to be reshuffled, the existing balance will have to be broken, and a new balance will have to be established to maintain their great game in the real universe.

Thankfully, that guy didn't actually stand up.

However, he's probably the only one who can attract the attention of the entire universe with just a slight movement.

In the chaos, it is said that the emperors of mankind blocked the path to advancement for others.

Only after the Emperor rises up and becomes the god of mankind will other Chaos have the opportunity to become new gods. In the current real universe, there are quite a few Chaos evil gods who yearn to become the god of Chaos, and Vashtor is just one of them.

Within the human empire.

The aura emanating from the Emperor's rise was sensed not only by the Chaos and Xenomorphs, but also by the Primarchs.

After speaking with the Emperor, the Lion King Lionheart was freed from all his shackles and returned all his freedom to him.

Although he sensed something was amiss, his anger clouded his judgment, and he stopped thinking about what it meant.

Only when he waited until now, when he sensed an ominous aura, followed by a powerful emotional fluctuation that drew his soul in, did Lion King Ryan once again perceive that the Emperor was planning something. It seemed to be a tacit understanding between this father and son, who were completely unfamiliar with each other and had no blood relation, or between the creator and the created.

It made him feel as if he were witnessing the decisions made by the emperor.

"The emperor must rise from his golden throne."

"Is he already tired of who he is now?"

Lion King Ryan and the Emperor didn't communicate much from the very beginning. Unlike his other brothers and sisters, he knew everything about himself and what the Emperor's purpose was in creating them.

He saw their relationship most clearly, and he was also the first to accept this fate.

Even though he hasn't accepted his warp nature, Lion King Lionheart is still searching for the most likely future for them. He's considered countless possibilities. He knows that the Emperor values ​​humanity more than anyone else, even his sons who are nominally his.

But if the emperor really stood up.

So, is the person sitting on the golden throne still an emperor?
Because if he were an emperor, he would never stand up.

While Lion King Ryan was thinking.

Upon seeing the Lion King Ryan's condition, the angel of forgiveness immediately stepped forward and asked, "My lord? Do you need us to share your burdens?"

Lion King Ryan, who was inexplicably abandoned by the Emperor, was already resentful. Now, upon hearing the question from the Angel of Forgiveness, he immediately made a decisive decision.

"return."

He returned to the Empire. He was going to meet the Emperor in person.

Perhaps the Emperor will not give him any answer, or perhaps the Emperor has indeed forgotten his promise to protect all mankind after ten thousand years, just as he predicted. But he has never forgotten.

He wanted to see if the current emperor was the same emperor as before.
in the case of.

He wanted to question the Emperor about his intentions: did he want to gain freedom, become a god, or live up to Horus's vision of a terrifying future where the Emperor's creation was a reality?

If not.

Then
"go back!"

An angel of forgiveness quickly signaled to those around him and changed the original course of the voyage.

"Gamma World has indeed published the distribution of the Milky Way's network."

"Unfortunately, we cannot use the internet."

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"There is no key."

Knowing the location of the network channels allows them to clearly see the network distribution map of the entire galaxy, but they do not know how to navigate within the network channels.

If they knew how to enter these network channels, they might be able to travel quickly to their destinations. But now, they can only go through the Stargate, then enter a fixed undercurrent in a star system, then enter the subspace, and finally travel through the undercurrents of the subspace to another star system.

Through repeated undercurrent transport, which would normally take several years during the calmest times in the subspace, the current subspace turbulence could make it even longer.

Therefore, they planned to borrow a warship from the Gamma world to transport them to the Empire.

Meanwhile, Guilliman's Imperial Guard was also advancing toward the Empire.

Unlike Lion King Ryan, Guilliman's 500 worlds contain countless worlds with undercurrents, and their channels can be used to quickly travel to the human empire via warp space.

Even faster than them was Horus, who was already heading towards the Empire.

He realized what the Emperor was about to do the moment the Emperor made even the slightest movement.

The Emperor now knows almost everything about the preparations for the Gamma World, which is clearly the Emperor's partner. Perhaps, before, the Emperor felt that he had a responsibility to lead all of humanity forward, to guide everyone and make them follow in his footsteps.

The emperor, who had reigned on the throne for ten thousand years, was on the verge of collapse. He realized that humanity could never stand in the world solely with his help. Humanity needed to grow and needed its own future. What they needed was not a god, neither in the past, nor now, nor in the future. They needed each and every one of them to become their own 'god,' and the ultimate civilization of humanity would be composed of countless people who made up the entire history of humankind.

The fact that only one god resides in a civilization only shows that he is enslaving those humans.

The greatest thing about human empires is that they can grow up and stand up on their own.

The emperor was pleased with this, for someone had indeed led him to stand up.

This world needs no emperor, no Horus, no Primarch, and no faith.

All they need is themselves.

"Father!"

Horus looked toward the Empire, his long black robe billowing in the wind behind him.

The wind on Longlin Star is stronger than ever.

The disappearance of Vashtor caused chaos magic to spiral out of control, and Dragon Forest Star spawned even more chaotic species, all of which were never seen before.

"Return to the Empire with me."

The emperor neither looked at him nor spoke to him.

But he had to go to the human empire one last time to see the Emperor, because the next time he saw the Emperor...

Perhaps, what he saw was no longer an emperor, but a cold, chaotic evil god.

He knew that all evil gods would extinguish all their humanity, regardless of their previous personality; in the end, they would completely destroy their humanity.

This might be his last chance to see his father again.

So no matter what, he would return to the human empire once again to see the emperor, even though he knew that his arrival would be an extremely hostile event for the empire, with many people wanting to kill him and even more wishing they could burn him to ashes.

But he still wants to go back.

"Commander, are you really going back to the Empire?"

"It's okay. I know that if I go back, I will face a lot of criticism. You can stay here."

“My lord, do you think we are afraid of death? Since we have followed you, we will follow you for life and never change.”

(End of this chapter)