Warhammer: I don’t want to be a can of worms! ! ! - Chapter 546 40,000 years (4)

Chapter 546 4. Ten Thousand Years (4)

————The Age of Apostasy————

It started with Mortarion’s assassination of Sanguinius, culminated with Sanguinius’s failure to ascend to heaven, and ended with mortals criticizing and attacking each other. The Primarchs withdrew from the stage of history one after another. This was an extremely dark era. Ignorance and depravity are the main themes of this era. Thousands of years of glory have been burned, and what is left is just a fly called the corpse of the empire living an ignoble existence.

018.M33-

Assassination: Mortarion failed in his assassination attempt on Sanguinius.

Pope Sanguinius was seriously injured.

Mortarion, who failed in the assassination attempt, did not escape. The Pale Lord, who was also seriously injured, chose to stay in the physical world. He stated to Guilliman and Angron the reasons why Sanguinius must die, trying to convince the former second The Imperial comrades slew Sanguinius.

Mortarion, who was controlled by the three Primarchs, knelt on the ground and emphasized over and over again that the Archangel himself had long been contaminated by the power of the warp, and that the Emperor himself had also been counterattacked by the power of faith.

Already during his quarrel with Sanguinius, the Primarch had sensed something was wrong.

Mortarion even asked Angron if he knew about the Emperor’s finger bone on Pluto’s neck – this is the best evidence that power can pollute personality. A tool used by the emperor to cleanse dirty things.

Sanguinius has been tainted, Mortarion said, said it honestly,

Such a span and intensity of faith should have driven a primarch crazy – but he didn’t know – he didn’t know why the archangel didn’t show symptoms for a long time.

Perhaps, Mortarion suggested, a more terrifying reality was that Sanguinius had been tainted long after the Heresy.

The archangel they came into contact with was the contaminated Sanguinius.

The reason why they did not notice anything unusual about the angels was because the [Archangel] who had spent the longest time with the original bodies was an angel that had been contaminated.

He is an archangel who has been prayed to by the dark side of the empire for a hundred years.

During the Great Crusade, only the Primarch Horus was familiar with Sanguinius, while the remaining Primarchs only had a vague silhouette of Sanguinius.

After the Great Rebellion… Conrad Curze, Leon Jonson, and Corax, who had worked with Sanguinius for a period of time, all disappeared in a very short period of time.

Mortarion stated that, in fact, as the Primarch who was the first to awaken to the nature of the subspace, Mortarion discovered that as the subspace authority he controlled became more and more complex, the more he entered chaos and disorder. .

Just like the four gods of the subspace who are restrained by their authority, the Primarchs who are gradually moving towards the position of [gods] are also repeating this process.

After the Heresy, Mortarion was on the verge of losing control once, but with the intervention of the Death Guard, the Silent Order, and the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Primarch regained his sanity.

Since then, Mortarion has begun to actively cut off his concept of subspace by summoning soulless men from the underworld from time to time.

At the same time, Mortarion established the Cult of Pluto in the Storm Star Territory. Although there was a risk of putting his best friend Hades at risk of power collapse, Mortarion still chose to use the power of Pluto to offset the Emperor’s faith as much as possible. negative impact of power.

No one is immune – not even Malcador, not even the Lord of Men.

Now, Mortarion is convinced that Sanguinius has long been tainted – the Archangel himself has shown signs of sanctification, and the Emperor himself will never awaken now.

Mortarion tried to make Angron and Guilliman believe what he said. In fact, according to the development level of the state religion, Sanguinius at this moment has reached the critical point of [ascension to the gods]. Sanguinius cannot Moving forward, if the Archangel takes another step forward, humanity will face another subspace monster.

Or worse, Sanguinius’s [Ascension] will also lead the Lord of Mankind to the path of destruction.

In fact, the current situation of the Lord of Humanity is not optimistic.

But Mortarion’s words were no longer believed by Guilliman and Angron. In fact, the two originals had indeed paid close attention to Sanguinius for a long time – but apart from fatigue, Sanguinius showed no signs of fatigue. abnormal.

Facing Mortarion’s accusation, Sanguinius, who was seriously injured, did not speak. The archangel lowered his eyes, his long hair covering his bloody eyes, and remained silent.

In desperation, Mortarion pointed out another solution. Sanguinius could use the power of Hades to cut off part of the power of faith.

Only Hades – and perhaps only Pluto – can save the day again.

This proposal completely caused Mortarion to lose the trust of Guilliman and Angron. The two Primarchs believed that Mortarion might have gone crazy in some aspects.

He may be… immersed in the disappearance of his old friend and gradually become crazy.

Even though Mortarion himself had become more eloquent, smoother, and more sincere over the millennia – his former comrades were no longer willing to believe him in the face of the severely wounded and bloody Sanguinius.

Guilliman and Angron just stared at Mortarion with anger, regret, and disappointment.

Sanguinius also disagreed with Mortarion’s views and proposals.

In the end, with the forgiveness of the Archangel, Mortarion himself was imprisoned in the stasis field, and the Tempestus Sector, which had been deliberately ignored by the Primarchs before, came to trial – the Empire began to liquidate the Plutonian Cult and the Tempestus Sector. of the Mechanicus.

and the Death Guard, and its sub-groups.

Due to the instructions of the Pale Lord, the Cult of Pluto and the Cult of Mechanicus in the Storm Star Territory have hidden as much as possible to the edge of the Storm Star Territory, or disguised themselves as normal planetary governments on planets bordering the Extreme Star Territory.

The Death Guards took the initiative to find the Blood Angel Legion closest to them and put down their weapons.

According to statistics from the Empire, the number of Death Guards and their sub-regiments that surrendered alone was more than 100,000.

During the period when the Empire was searching for heretics in the Storm Star Territory, due to Mortarion’s advance orders, no major conflict broke out between the two sides.

But small-scale conflicts are still inevitable. In the Storm Star Territory, wars are raging on countless planets. The joint teams from the State Church, the Tribunal and the Assassin’s Tribunal, led by the young priest Gog Vandier, will judge anyone who has been defined. People who are [heretics].

As time went by, and with the Primarch on Terra unable to take care of himself, Vandire’s liquidation operations became more and more rampant.

At the same time, the Mechanicus of Mars also took advantage of this action and began to liquidate the forge world of the Storm Star Territory. Although the Imperial Regent Guilliman warned the Martian Cult, this group of academic lunatics continued to move forward.

While searching for the forge world in the Storm Star Territory, the Martian Mechanicus discovered many extremely blasphemous clues.

The Empire’s manhunt is still proceeding slowly but steadily. If time passes, the manhunt from the Ecclesiarchy will sooner or later reach every corner of the Storm Star Territory.

However, the manhunt lasted only one standard Terran year.

Because a year later, people realized that Mortarion was right.

019.M33-

Due to the assassination, Sanguinius, Guilliman, and Angron urgently returned to Terra.

The Archangel realized that the damage from the Primarch Mortarion was continuing to disintegrate him. Toxins and diseases slowly eroded him, and the Archangel’s power began to gradually decline.

At this moment, there are more and more incidents coming from within the empire’s territory that mark the resurgence of the Lord of Mankind.

Mortarion definitely has a backup plan, and now, the archangel’s gradually weakening is the best proof.

At this time, the still conscious Primarchs realized that the moment Mortarion stabbed Sanguinius, half of the Pale Lord’s goal had been achieved, and the disease would ensure that Sanguinius would never return to his peak. .

This is why Mortarion surrendered voluntarily.

He has accomplished his goal.

After shutting himself in for four days and nights, a perfect, barely visibly injured Sanguinius emerged from the room.

The three Primarchs held a brief meeting, and Sanguinius summoned Valdor to question the Custodes again about the Master of Mankind.

After receiving a positive reply from Waldo that the Lord of Mankind’s condition was recovering, Sanguinius decided to immediately begin the ritual to awaken the Emperor while his power had not yet been lost and the power of the Ecclesiarchy was still at its peak.

During this ceremony, Sanguinius would act as Pope and attempt to communicate with the Master of Mankind.

After a brief hesitation, Guilliman and Angron agreed to Sanguinius’ plan.

It should be noted that Angron and Guilliman are not people who believe in one side. In fact, Angron and Guilliman have had many private talks on this matter. In terms of politics, Robert Guilliman has discussed this matter many times. After review, it was deemed that there was nothing unusual about Sanguinius.

After taking off the nails, Angron can directly perceive the existence of human emotions. If Sanguinius really has alien intentions, then Angron will be the first to discover it.

It was Angron himself who chose to believe in the Archangel after he checked Sanguinius many times and found no abnormalities.

So, after intense preparations, the empire ushered in that day.

December 25th.

All people born in this era will remember this date, the day when the curtain of darkness truly opened.

Since then, wisdom and courage have been lost, loyalty has disappeared, traitors have taken over, and darkness has returned.

This day was not officially named by the Empire, but among the people it was known as the Day of the Ascension of Sanguinius.