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. They work together to lead 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 does not 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 is the emperor, he dares to order the dissolution of the Tribunal. The next moment, Duanmu Huai will 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?

Motarion clenched the sickle 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 the loving father in his body. Originally, under the great power of the loving father, his body was strong and resolute, and he was not afraid of any attack at all. Even his brother, who was also a gene original, could not kill him.

However……………

Motarion shook his head vigorously. He didn't know when he began to hear strange whispers in his ears. At first, Mortarion thought it was the sound of a swarm of poisonous flies, but soon he found that this 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 irritated, and even wanted to reach out to open his skull and scratch out the itchy brain.

"What's wrong? Is this all you can do, Mortarion?"

Duanmu Huai straightened his body and clenched his war hammer. The corrupted Primarch was no joke. He had hoped to win the battle quickly, but Mortarion's physical fitness was beyond Duanmu Huai's expectations. A large number of Death Guards were rushing to the bridge, while his Night Guards and Ogis had all gone to resist the enemies behind them.

The sound of gunfire, explosions, the flash of fireballs, and the roar of dragons were all fading away. Duanmu Huai stared at Mortarion, as if only their world was separated by a thick glass at this moment, and the sounds around were gradually fading away.

Duanmu Huai felt that in the process of fighting Mortarion, something seemed to be sprouting and growing deep in his heart. His spirit began to spread around like water, and his thoughts gradually intertwined with everything around him. He could hear the roar of the corrupted machine spirit, the ever-painful and hateful roar from the Death Guard, and the endless silence in the starry sky.

But all this had no effect on him. He was like a monarch sitting on the throne, looking down at his subjects below. They were whispering to each other, but nothing they said could change their thoughts and decisions.

That was the secret of the stars, the hum of the sky, and the past of the universe.

The ruler of the universe that once existed... the ruler of the old days.

[Motarion resisted the whispers of the old days... a big failure! ]

[Motarion lost 35 points of sanity]

[Motarion fell into a state of madness]

Now!

Duanmu Huai suddenly opened his eyes, and the spiritual power of the old gods turned into a spear at this moment, whistling through the battlefield and piercing straight into Mortarion's heart!

"No——————!"

Motarion's eyes widened and he roared in anger. This roar even made the Death Guards who were fighting fiercely pause. Then, Mortarion's smelly, twisted, and swollen head began to swell. Under his festering skin, something like a giant snake was moving around, as if looking for an exit!

"Puff!"

The next moment, Mortarion's eyes suddenly burst open, and two twisted, sticky, black tentacles like rotten meat emerged from his swollen eye sockets. They shook instinctively, swinging like leaves dancing in the wind.

"Go to hell—Motarion!"

Duanmu Huai shouted, raised his thunder hammer high, and jumped up, drawing an arc in the air, and smashed down on Mortarion's head.

"No—you can't kill me............!"

Motarion waved the sickle in his hand desperately, trying to resist Duanmu Huai's almost unavoidable blow. However, at this moment, he fell into a frenzy. Tentacles emerged from Mortarion's nostrils, ears, and mouth. They were like an army of earthworms entangled together to form a giant meat ball, breaking through Mortarion's defense. The sticky tentacles squirmed and twisted, rolling out of his throat like vomit, stretching Mortarion's mouth.

If Mortarion was a mortal, then all this would be at most his illusion. However, Mortarion is no longer a mortal. He surrendered to the filth of corruption and ascended to a demon prince. He is now a pure warp creature-and in the warp, any will will become a reality.

Even the will from the old days is the same.

"What, what is this......"

Mortarion raised his hand. On his arm, slender tentacles emerged from the gaps in the armor and the holes in the flesh, swinging and shaking mischievously. Now, Mortarion's body no longer belonged to him, or even to the loving father he worshipped, but to an indescribable existence from afar, from the depths of 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's head heavily.

The swollen and ugly body of the former commander of the 14th Legion, the demon prince of the Corruption Stain, trembled suddenly under this blow. The exploding power tore his armor, his body and even his soul. The cold black flames rushed into Mortarion's body mercilessly. Destroyed everything he had once insisted on.

"————————-!!!"

The violent explosion and flash filled the entire bridge in an instant, and the violent energy storm completely destroyed Mortarion's flagship.

Ecott raised his head and looked at the flagship not far away in surprise. The huge green warship exploded completely in the universe, and a dark green thing like an exploding fireball emerged from it. It twisted and struggled to turn into an ugly face, opened its mouth, and seemed to roar.

But then, it disappeared in the dark universe, and the flagship had become a broken fragment floating in the sea of ​​stars.

"Uncle Judge!?"

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

"Okay, Ecott, the mission is over, prepare to clean up the battlefield, and then withdraw the troops."

"……………Yes!"