Diego held his weapon in his hand, leaning against a metal wall, and looked cautiously at the four people standing opposite him about ten meters away. At least from the appearance, they were obviously not good guys. He calmed down and silently mobilized his spiritual energy. In this place where the Emperor's holy power was everywhere except for the magic circle that was still running weakly, the Grey Knights Grand Master easily restored his condition to the peak. However, the restraint that now restricted him from fighting with the four people was not strength, but doubt. Why could the Black Legion traitor wearing a black eight-pointed star with the symbol of the Chaos Gods stand in the Emperor's Holy Flame like nothing happened, and there was even golden flames on the blade? Why did the old soldier wearing the power armor of the original color of the World Eaters look so calm? Why did the person over there, who was wearing a green robe and he couldn't tell what force it was, exude a righteousness that impressed him? The strangest thing is, why does that guy who looks like a succubus from head to toe not only carry a bunch of holy relics of the state religion, but even the psychic energy wrapped around his body is the purest exorcism psychic energy that can deal a decisive blow to the evil demons in the subspace?
Oh, right! And why didn't the Khorne Daemon that they killed show the typical phenomenon of being exiled to the warp, but simply broke into a pile on the spot and was burned to ashes by the golden flame? Does this mean that the place where I am now is not actually the real universe, but a node in the warp? However, this can only explain part of what I am experiencing now - more of it is even more confusing because of this speculation...
While Diego was examining the Hammer Guys and was ready to have a good fight with them anytime and anywhere, a few Hammer Guys who had happily killed Khorne were about to summon another wave of Four Gods when they discovered that there was one more person here. The Hammer Guys who had recognized the Grey Knight in front of them who looked very capable were going crazy in the chat group, and even tried to call Big E out after just a few words to ask him to explain the current situation.
"Fuck, it's Brother Zha! Aren't we fishing for Chaos Demon? Why is it buy one get one free?"
Looking at the legendary Grey Knight standing opposite him, surrounded by silver psychic energy, Liang Feifan's eyes twitched slightly - although, summoning a big demon to send a brother away is always a popular scene among the 40K cultists, but it is a bit subtle when such a thing happens to them...
"It's a big problem. If you tell Brother Zha that we are Big E's men, he won't believe us. Besides, how can we continue fishing with Brother Zha squatting here?"
The political commissar sister felt a bit of a headache. Although, with the combined combat power of their descended bodies, it would not be a problem to suppress Brother Zha, but this was an action they would only take when they had no other choice. However, finding a way to make Brother Zha understand their existence and actions without going beyond the scope did not seem to be a simple task?
"In fact, things are not that bad. The fact that Brother Zha didn't take action shows that he has doubts about our identities. Just think about it, given Brother Zha's temper, isn't it incredible that he didn't rush up with swords when he saw our current incarnations?"
Lich Zhang was quite calm - although in fact, he was the first Hammer guy who was ready to fight with Diego.
"Then... should we just talk about it? No! Let Big E go and explain. This is a very troublesome matter. I'm worried that our diplomatic failure will lead to some bad consequences. Shit! Why did he log off Do Not Disturb again?"
After hearing Lich Zhang's reasoning, Liang Feifan felt a little relieved. After thinking for two seconds, he decided to contact a 40K social phobic person and ask him to explain the problem to Brother Zha in person. However, when he moved his gaze to Brother Da E's avatar, he was not surprised to find that the human emperor had already made a classic dive.
"He is Big E after all. If he were to admit that he is at least a god-like being, I think he would be under tremendous psychological pressure. Look! Diego is looking at me again!"
The most heartless Dark Lady among the Hammers read through Diego's deeds in the realm of Slaanesh, then she decisively ignited pure flames with her left and right hands and jumped up and down in front of the Grey Knights' Grand Master - this very Slaanesh demon's operation made Diego's mouth curl up from time to time, and his hand also tried his best to press down on the hilt of the sword. The other Hammers could see that Diego was already trying very hard to suppress his desire to attack...
"Liang Feifan, why don't you bake yourself golden first? I think you are quite convincing in the current situation. Brother Zha's eyes fell on your sword at least three times. He is probably suspecting that you are a loyalist... Well, anyway, he thinks you may have the Chaos Eight Points for other reasons."
The Political Commissar, who forced herself not to think about whether the Dark Lady might cause other problems, turned her gaze to Liang Feifan and gave a very...criticizing suggestion.
"But he's also looking at the Dark Lady! Isn't the Dark Lady, a succubus with a big E divine power, more convincing?"
"...Personally, I don't support the Dark Lady and the drag queen communicating. Didn't you notice that the drag queen couldn't help himself?"
The Political Commissar pointed at the Grey Knights' Grand Master, whose eyes were already showing murderous intent towards the Dark Lady, and her tone was slightly anxious - it was obvious that the Grey Knights' Grand Master might have already distracted his thoughts in certain areas and had the urge to fight them directly.
"Tsk - I will definitely protest his actions to Big E when I get back!"
Liang Feifan, knowing that he was being forced into this task no matter what, smacked his lips in dissatisfaction. Under the gaze of Grand Master of the Grey Knights, he raised his hand and ignited the Chaos Eight-pointed Star on his chest with golden flames. Then, he activated a function in the operating system, causing sacred words to appear on the sword in his hand.
"Brother, I know you have many doubts about our existence, but I am sure that we are friends, not enemies. Perhaps we can talk?"
While racking his brains to piece together a sentence that probably didn't mean any harm, Liang Feifan took a step forward - and was relieved to see that Diego didn't do anything more extreme. However, after he took the second step, the screen in front of him reminded him that the Grey Knights' psychic power had reached a peak.
"Is this what you think is the best distance between us? Well, let's leave it like this."
Liang Feifan stopped and pretended to sigh deeply, then stopped walking, leaning on his sword. Seeing this Black Legion Astartes who looked less and less rebellious but wearing rebellious power armor being so sensible, Diego, who was sure that he was not entangled by any strange guy, also lowered the tip of his sword slightly, indicating that he was willing to listen to him.
"Ma'am, call some people over here."
After making sure that Brother Zha had shown "limited friendliness" to his group, Liang Feifan, who had discussed with other Hammer guys in the chat room about how to increase Brother Zha's trust, also made a gesture of lowering the tip of his sword while giving instructions to the Dark Lady. The Dark Lady, who had already received the script, nodded, turned around and disappeared in the hall - such a smooth operation made Diyal frown again.
"This is the Eye of Terror."
Before Diego could think about the relationship between these four strange guys, Liang Feifan spoke first, drawing Diego's attention back to their conversation. Hearing the familiar place name, the Grey Knight Grand Master, who understood why he was not banished back to the subspace by the curse lingering on him, nodded slightly, motioning Liang Feifan to continue.
"And we come from the distant future. You may not believe it, but in the future we live in, the glory of the Holy Emperor has illuminated the entire galaxy. Even the four Chaos Gods in the Warp have surrendered to the glory of the great God-Emperor. Part of their essence has been taken away by the God-Emperor and has become part of the God-Emperor's light. Therefore, in the era when we were born, the Chaos Mark no longer points to Chaos itself, but some interpretations that seem blasphemous to you now have appeared. In these interpretations, certain beings have become extensions of the Holy Emperor himself."
"........"
If Diego's worldview was only shocked when he first saw these four people, then now after listening to Liang Feifan's serious and earnest explanation of a bunch of reasons why they were like this, which he could understand separately but were extremely outrageous when put together, Diego's worldview was completely shattered - the future, the Grey Knights' Grand Master, who had wandered in the Warp for who knows how many mortal years, under the guidance of the Chaos demons and the malice of the Warp itself, had seen countless times - but he could swear that he absolutely! Never! Seen! Any future! In which the Emperor rises and! Reversely suppresses the Warp!
"Whether you believe it or not, brother, our future is the world that seems so incredible to you now. For us, the records of this era have long been blurred. Therefore, after our team was dragged back to this era by the power of the warp for some reason, we were confused about the difference between the two eras for a long time. Until we seized this ship."
The political commissar also took a step forward and continued Liang Feifan's words in a hoarse voice.
"Destiny is indeed not immutable. Why did your world move towards such a future?"
The Grey Knights Grand Master, who was already 50% convinced that these 'rebels who could use pure psychic energy' in front of him were indeed from a different future, confirmed again that he was not trapped in any psychic hallucinations. He decided to dig for information on why this future appeared. Although he knew that the possibility of his own imperial world reaching this future was almost non-existent, it was good to know a little bit.
"In our future, Erebus and Kor Phaeron died on their home planet before the Holy Emperor met his great descendants. And the cult on Colchis was also destroyed by the Emperor's descendants before the Holy Emperor arrived.
Uprooted—that’s the clearest distinction we have.”
"I see. This is indeed a commendable variable."
The Grey Knights Grand Master, who was familiar with some key details of the history that most of the records were locked in darkness, nodded slightly and pondered in his mind what would happen in that war if these things really happened. He easily concluded that perhaps the Chaos Gods could still find one or more spokesmen to infiltrate their venom into reality. However, it was obvious that they would encounter greater obstacles. After all, some tools were damaged, and temporary replacements were definitely not as handy as those that had been well-adjusted before!
"So we want to correct the mistake that Erebus and Kor Phaeron are still alive. Unfortunately, we have only locked Erebus's location now, and the time we can stay here is probably not enough to support us to find Kor Phaeron."
Liang Feifan took over the conversation again, with a hint of regret in his tone.
"The goal of this ship is to annihilate Erebus?"
The Grey Knights' Grand Master caught the key words in Liang Feifan's words and revealed a hint of anger in his voice.
"Yes - we have obtained the coordinates of the demon world where he is now, and the ship is currently heading there - Madam, are you back?"
"Yes, I'm back."
The Dark Lady's succubus incarnation nodded reservedly, and slightly turned its body to allow the three beings behind it to enter the ceremony venue - well, a bloodletter with golden horns holding a sword burning with golden flames, a golden fire demon that looked exactly like the Tzeentch fire demon, but with golden flames all over its body, and a person who looked extremely peaceful and had nothing in common with the plague carrier unless you looked closely... uh, a humanoid creature that was too clean?
"...Okay, count me in. Also, why are you performing a ritual to summon a demon?"
Diego, who had believed more than 80% of what this group of people said, still maintained the necessary vigilance, but his aura was no longer aggressive. Knowing that this Grey Knight boss nicknamed "Brother Zha" had been successfully "fooled" by them, Liang Feifan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"This was our favorite hunting activity back then - burning the essence of the daemon and returning it to the cycle of the warp - seriously, brother, the daemons of your time are really easy to bait..."
"Do you want to continue this hunt?"
Diego was slightly stunned when he understood the meaning of Liang Feifan's words, and then he felt vaguely ecstatic in his heart.
"of course."
"Then count me in, too."
32. Erebus must die! — The ship sailing out of the warp
Shake.
Shock.
When the Painful Truth ended its warp voyage of who knows how long, and under the cover of a series of purple-black warp lightning, passed through the curtain between the warp and reality at Mandeville Point in the target galaxy, and reappeared in the area of the Eye of Terror where the rules were relatively more inclined towards reality, a powerful shock spread to every warehouse and every corridor of the ship - such an unexpected shake that several Hammer guys were hit, and some could only barely stand by holding on to the wall, while others almost fell to the ground.
"Wow, is it so exciting when the Imperial ship rushes out of the warp? It felt quite stable when entering the warp."
However, since the quality of the Hammermen's descended bodies was very good, after the initial wave of shaking, they quickly found the balance point in this shock that made people feel that the whole ship was about to fall apart - and at this time, the Grey Knights' Grand Master, who had vaguely guessed about this unusual shock, also spoke at the right time.
"This is not a normal phenomenon - if I'm not mistaken, this is the real world's 'resistance' to this ship."
"Forehead?"
The dark lady was slightly stunned as her brain didn't react to what Brother Zha said.
"Battle-brother Grey Knights, you would not say this ship has been 'warped'?"
The political commissar sister understood what Brother Zha wanted to express and spoke in confusion.
"But that doesn't make sense! We captured this ship in the real universe - well, the Eye of Terror is at least half of the real world - to say the least! When we captured this ship, it was basically 'real'!"
Lich Zhang's tone was fierce - well, although I don't know how much of that tone was fake.
"Brother Diego, could you please elaborate on your understanding of the current situation? It seems that the knowledge we lost in that time is not just some history of this dark age."
Finally, Liang Feifan, who first spoke to Diego, made a summary.
"I don't know how you got along with the warp at that time, because I can't imagine your future. However, I think that as long as you get along with the warp, some things are connected."
Hearing Liang Feifan's question, the Grey Knights Grand Master was silent for a moment, and then said something that seemed to have nothing to do with the current situation. Then, he slowly walked to a nearby door, gently placed his hand on it, and stirred up his spiritual energy. The next second, under the stimulation of Diego's silver spiritual energy, the door appeared
A string of words, a string of words suppressed by burning golden spiritual energy.
“What are these words…?”
Although at first glance, the Hammers all thought that these words were some kind of meaningless ghostly symbols. However, soon, with the help of their descended body's language translation module, the Hammers understood these words - or the meaning of the curse, and in an instant, the Hammers were all confused.
"Why is there such a terrible curse on this door? Who left this curse?"
After repeatedly looking at the curse words written on the door that were obviously related to psychic power, the Hammer guys were full of questions - admittedly, they were well aware of the fact that God knows how many people died in pain and unwillingness on the Painful Truth, but they were also very clear that with the style of the Word Bearers, there was no possibility that these victims would leave any curses!
"Do you remember what we did under this door one month ago according to Terra time?"
Realizing that these strange "future beings" were indeed idiots in terms of psychic knowledge, the Grey Knights Grand Master took his hand off the door, stopped stimulating the curse, and began to guide the Hammermen to recall the past. Under Diego's guidance, the Hammermen also began to think seriously - about a minute later, the Dark Lady slapped her pliers hard, and her tone was suddenly enlightened.
"A month ago? Wasn't that when we were chasing and beating that great demon of evil?"
"Yes, yes, yes! I remember that you were disguised as a Slaanesh demon that had been active on this ship for a long time. You made the Slaanesh demon think that its experience was a false alarm, and it happily cooperated with you to step on the traps all the way - oh, it looked so miserable at that time!"
In the Hammer Man chat room, Liang Feifan, who remembered the unlucky guy named Slaanesh mentioned by the Dark Lady, quickly joined in the conversation.
"It seems that the big demon was hacked to death by us under this door? It seems that before it died, it was roaring loudly and asking the Dark Lady why she just stood there and watched instead of coming to help according to the plan?"
The political commissar sister then recalled what happened under this door - although during the months-long warp voyage, they had managed to fish out at least eighty demons with some strength and then turned them into points, but this Slaanesh demon was indeed one of the most miserable demons to die - after all, he foolishly thought that everything was just a pre-meal adjustment before the big meal, and finally found out that he was the catastrophic feeling of being the big meal... Well, the political commissar sister even felt that if they were following Tzeentch, they would be blessed at least.
"In the end, the Dark Lady herself used the Holy Flame of the Emperor to kill its last bit of life, and its power returned to the original cycle of the warp. Diego, you mean that this curse was left by it, but hasn't it been 'destroyed'? Didn't we fail to eradicate it at the time?"
"No, it was indeed completely destroyed - none of the demons we 'fished' out in the past few months were able to escape back to their masters."
The Grey Knights Grand Master first shook his head and denied Lich Zhang's guess.
"Then why......"
"The Warp is a world of will. These are the final remnants of the will of those demons."
"...I don't understand. Aren't they all reduced to ashes?"
A bunch of question marks popped up above Liang Feifan’s head.
"Just like in reality, the death of a deceased person will not make the words they left behind disappear, the complete annihilation of a demon will not affect the 'death message' it left behind. Of course, not all demons have the ability to leave messages, and these messages cannot bring back the demons that have been annihilated. At best, these messages are only used to remind their masters what happened to them, so that their masters can take precautions."
Diego explained.
"So what is this curse?"
"Yes, these are the 'last words' left by those demons that had a little bit of willpower and were able to maintain their 'existence' at the last moment - but they were all intercepted by this ship, and none of them could return to their master."
After saying this, Diego looked around at the Hammers, trying to see if they understood the hidden meaning behind what he said - as a result, he was "helpless" to find that everyone, including the succubus, had question marks on their faces, so Diego had no choice but to continue speaking.
"Therefore, this ship has become a 'ship carrying a large amount of Warp demon curses'. Its existence has irreversibly slid into the Warp - just like a mortal being injected with excessive Warp power, the flesh disintegrates, and the essence merges into the soul."
"But, Battle Brother, isn't it the power of the Great God-Emperor that is burning in this ship? How can it still be called a 'cursed ship'?"
Liang Feifan's puzzled words were met with Diego's rare hearty laughter.
"It is precisely because the great power of the Emperor enveloped this ship that it became such a 'cursed ship'. Well, everyone, I have a hunch that sooner or later this ship will be rejected by the real universe and will no longer be able to exist stably in reality - so no matter what we want to do in reality, we have to speed up a little - after all, this universe has never lacked failures."
"Don't worry, Battle Brother, we will leave Mander
The bait had already been thrown out by us before the point of the Well. "
——————————————The dividing line of Erebus——————————————————————————
Holy Word Star.
This is a planet that was given a seemingly sacred name by Erebus, but it is buried deep in the Eye of Terror, and is a demon world planet overflowing with all kinds of blasphemy and madness. It is not known whether it is accidental or due to the influence of the Eye of Terror itself, this planet and the galaxy it is in are full of incredible coincidences with the holy numbers of the Chaos Gods. The galaxy where the Holy Word Star is located has eight planets. The Holy Word Star is numbered sixth in this planetary system. The distance between the Holy Word Star and its star is calculated according to the Terran size, which is exactly 999999999 kilometers. Finally, the time it takes for the Holy Word Star to revolve around its star is precisely stabilized at a special time of Terra days - as if the four Chaos Gods have strangely reached a consensus in this galaxy.
All these coincidences and inconceivable things easily moved the famous Word Bearer priest Erebus, who was drifting here because of a warp storm while "spreading the truth" with his warband in the Eye of Terror. This dog who was famous in the eyes of every great destroyer, when he realized the strangeness of this planetary system, he immediately announced the "holiness" of this world. Then, he made up his mind and ordered his subordinates to find a large number of traitorous Astartes or mortals who were "willing to serve the truth of the gods" to build various buildings on this planet to worship the four gods of Chaos. Erebus was sure, at least he was very sure that as long as he completed a great sermon on this planet, he would be favored by the true god he served, and thus take a very solid step forward on the road of truth. It might even be more solid than his own Primarch. After all, his Primarch had been meditating in his temple in the warp for a long time without leaving his house. Maybe he had already fallen behind the times!
However, what bothered Erebas was that although he had already prepared all the sacred plans for this planet, the lack of resources and manpower made the construction of this world extremely slow. In the Eye of Terror, a star region where a mouthful of clean water could trigger a duel, the amount of resources a Chaos warband could get was completely positively correlated with the ability and combat effectiveness of the warband leader, the people behind him, and the personal connections of the warband leader. As the first to surrender to the Power of Destruction and the fuse of the historic event of the Horus Heresy, Erebas' ability and combat effectiveness were not bad among the warband leaders, and the people behind him were the highest powers in the High Heaven. Logically speaking, a warband leader like Erebas should be one of the top leaders in the Eye of Terror. Although it was a bit troublesome to build a demon world, it would not be reduced to the point where everything was lacking. The reason was still...
Erebus's reputation in the Eye of Terror is so good that few people are willing to join him!
"Lord Dark Apostle, communication from the Painful Truth."
Today, Erebas stayed in his secret room again, studying the will of the dark power seriously. Today, Erebas's life seemed to be no different from the previous period. Today, Erebas received news that a cruiser from the team he sent out to collect resources had returned.
"Oh, I suppose they didn't disappoint me?"
After hearing the report from his servant, Erebas put down the human skin scroll in his hand, stood up and looked towards the door.
"Yes, they reported that they have made all members of the Howling Desire War Gang embark on the Four Righteous Paths. Moreover, with the help of the Howling Desire War Gang members who have embarked on the right path, they have also plundered all the young people and construction resources on the world where the Howling Desire War Gang is stationed, and stuffed them all onto the Painful Truth."
"Yes, these are what we urgently need now. I'm sure the gods will be very pleased. How long will it take for them to come back?"
The good news reported by the Painful Truth brought a faint smile to Erebus's face, who had been in a bad mood due to the slow progress of construction on the planet. Although the Howling Desires Wargang recruited by the Painful Truth was formerly a Slaanesh Wargang that only walked on the path of indulgence, and although one could easily guess which Destroyer Wargang the mortals who could mix with the Howling Desires Wargang believed in, Erebus believed that with his words and the Destroyer Wargang's appreciation of him, it would be easy to get these lambs who had deviated from the true path back on the right path.
"Their report shows that they are close to Mandeville Point on the Holy Word Star, and will return to you soon with a full load of spoils. Sir, do you need me to help you change your clothes?"
"of course."
33. Erebus must die! — The bolt gun of the black armored vehicle
The Holy Word Star, where the Word Bearers reside.
In this first group of buildings on the Holy Word, the old Word Bearer warrior Bestol stood on a terrace, looking at the pile of unfinished buildings standing on the plains or hills in the distance, which were so gloomy that even the word "smoky" could not describe it. The eyes on the face hidden behind the old MK signal power armor helmet were filled with helplessness and confusion. As one of the earliest followers of Ai
One of Erebus's Word Bearers, Bestor was once the dark apostle's most fanatical pioneer, roaring scriptures of the Four Noble Path and fighting for it on many battlefields - at that time, Erebus was still a basically perfect high priest, and both his combat skills and understanding of the Four Noble Paths made ordinary Word Bearers like him admire him. At that time, Bestor was very sure that under the guidance of his own Primarch and Erebus, as well as adults like Kor Phaeron, the Word Bearers would eventually be able to tear apart the false appearance of the false emperor and implant the true truth into the hearts of the people of the Empire - and this would also represent that mankind would move towards a truly new era, a new era guided by the Word of Truth.
However, everything collapsed so quickly. On the eve of the false emperor's false appearance being completely exposed by them, the Astartes Legion that raised the banner of rebellion collapsed in an instant because of the death of Warmaster Horus, and each fought for its own - and he followed Erebus in a panic and retreated to the Eye of Terror. At that time, Bestor still believed that Erebus, who seemed to be quite high-spirited at that time, would sooner or later be able to carry the truth and the wrath of righteousness, rush out of the Eye of Terror and deal a heavy blow to the empire - but now...
