Kokutus
The crisp and heavy sound of hurried footsteps could be heard in the completely dark stone corridor. Even the gold that had been polished to perfection became dull in the darkness, like an ordinary metal.
Charon stepped over the gurgling blood stream, the moisture leaving marks on the soles of his boots. The deepest darkness was staring at him. In the dimness, the strange green light was the only source of light.
Under the helmet, Charon took a deep breath without leaving any trace. He smelled that familiar smell—
Charon flung open the door.
"Pluto, urgent news, please stop eating."
On the long steel table, Charon saw Hades slowly turn his head. Hades held a bowl in one hand, while on the other side, Kirkland was holding a pot and preparing to add food to Pluto.
Hades blinked and swallowed hard, then he looked at Charon,
"What happened? Tell me."
Hades turned his head casually again and signaled Kirkland not to fall down, he would eat these.
Charon took a deep breath, saluted and stood.
"The Lord of Mankind has ordered the entire Order of Silence to immediately head to the Obscure Star Region, Cygnus X-1, and cancel the plan to head to the Luna Wolf. The legions near the Cygnus Star Region have also been ordered to await your dispatch."
Charon saw Hades stop fighting with Kirkland's secondary limb holding the rice spoon, and the Pluto stopped.
"That's all?"
Hades' voice sounded,
Charon nodded.
"Communications in the subspace are becoming increasingly difficult, and some of the information is lost, or this is the most complete information we can receive."
Hades slowly put down the bowl.
"Okay... let me see..."
What on earth was this incoherent information that made him go to the Hazy Star Region immediately and even give up on Horus
In just a few breaths, Hades had imagined countless possibilities.
Hades pulled up the star map, Cygnus X-1... asked him to look for it—
!
Eye of Terror?!
Hades' breath hitched.
Charon stood at attention, and Hades stood up silently, staring at the Custodes with a sharp red light.
"All troops turn around and head to the Eye of Terror - Cygnus X-1 at full speed now, and be ready for battle."
Charon left immediately, and Hades stood there in silence, as if thinking.
Kirkland remained silent and waited quietly beside Pluto.
After a long silence, the great sage heard a deep sigh from Pluto. He sat down dejectedly and began to eat the last dinner he could sit down to eat.
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Hades had already imagined thousands of possibilities regarding the Great Rebellion.
He could even accept that Mortarion was the first to fall from evil, or various strange apocrypha, such as the Fallen Angels... The only thing that could shock Hades might be the Emperor's Apocrypha.
But based on his biological observation reports around Neos, Hades has always believed that it is impossible for the Emperor to take the pseudo-meridian.
The original Great Rebellion was also a campaign launched by the Four Gods in order to allow the Emperor to ascend to godhood and become the Lord of Darkness.
According to the original work, if the Emperor does not become a god in 30k (or the Emperor does not want to become a god at all), then under the accumulation of human faith, the Emperor will eventually be forced to become the Lord of Darkness.
But the God-Emperor, who has been prayed for thousands or even ten thousand years and has absorbed the faith of a large number of believers, is obviously much stronger than the current Emperor. By then, the God-Emperor's ascension to God will become a real disaster - not only for mankind, but also for the Four Gods.
The solution in the original book is to put the emperor on the golden toilet, where he will be half dead and stuck in a bug all the time, but as long as the emperor stands up from the throne, doomsday will come.
Hades coiled the Emperor's middle finger bone and thought,
The Emperor obviously does not want to become a god. In the original book, the Emperor sat on the Golden Throne. Now the Emperor handed the finger bone to Hades in order to suppress faith and avoid becoming a god.
But this goes against the expectations of the Four Gods. The Four Gods expect the Emperor to become a god, or in other words, in order to prevent human beliefs from causing waves of disasters in the Warp, a god must emerge from the race called "humanity" to sit on a throne in the Warp.
In the original novel, the final battle between Horus and the Emperor was like this. The dead became sacrifices, and the living were promoted to dark gods. No matter who won or lost, the wishes of the Four Gods could be fulfilled. But unfortunately, the Emperor relied on the Golden Throne to complete the bug.
Hades pondered, staring at the finger bones in front of him, and realized that he had made a mistake -
If we reason based on purpose, then the ultimate goal of the Four Gods will not be the Primarch, nor will it be an attempt to destroy the Empire, nor will it be the Final Battle of Terra...
The previous deductions and measures of Hades and the Emperor were entirely based on the premise of preventing the Primarchs from rebelling.
Hades took a deep breath. Why didn't the Emperor realize this? Hades remembered the Emperor's request for him to go to Horus' side... Was Neos panicking? Was he? Or had he seen something in Tzeentch's prophecy that made him think only of the Primarch
The Primarch was not their primary target.
Hades thought silently,
The vision of the Four Gods is simple: to make the Emperor a god.
Who is it
Hades put away his finger bones and covered his eyes silently. He sighed. The Emperor had let him down badly. He might as well go to Horus.
Since the four gods' target is not the Primarch, the rest is easy to infer.
Hades stared at the map, the Eye of Terror.
He recited silently.
This is directed at him.
Hades was very sure of this.
This is definitely aimed at him. The subspace of the Eye of Terror is basically mixed with the physical world. If the intensity of the subspace is too high, his black domain will be suppressed.
But Hades had to go.
Because there is the Eye of Terror.
The Eye of Terror in the Segmentum Obscurus was torn open by the psychic storm when Slaanesh was born. Here, the Warp is able to smoothly erode the physical world. In order to prevent the expansion of the Warp, the former Necrons placed black stone obelisks on a series of planets at the Eye of Terror to stabilize the physical space in this area.
About the Eye of Terror... The story Hades is familiar with is in 40k. Abaddon deliberately destroyed the Black Stone Obelisk that the Necrons used to suppress the Warp. With the final collapse of Cadia, the defense line that suppressed the Eye of Terror was completely defeated. A huge Warp storm broke out, tearing the entire empire in half.
If Chaos really intends to cause a big mess in the Eye of Terror and tear the Empire apart, then Hades must go to the Eye of Terror, because if the Eye of Terror is really opened and half of the Empire's territory is swept away by the turbulence of the Warp... this disaster will be no less than the Primarch's rebellion.
Moreover, as long as the legions fall into the dark side of the warp, it also means that those legions and primarchs are directly exposed to the eyes of the four gods. If they plot against the corrupted primarchs at that time, the consequences will be disastrous.
In other words, Hades now knows that the Four Gods are targeting him, and he also knows that the Four Gods are preparing to use the Eye of Terror against him, but Hades now has to go to the Eye of Terror to prevent the outbreak of the Warp Storm - because there is really no one more suitable than him who has looked forward to 40k.
After all this campaign would mean fighting daemons, something only the Order of Silence had experienced... The Death Guard and the World Eaters were too far from Segmentum Obscurus right now.
Hades wailed in his heart.
But now it’s 30k!
During the Great Crusade, the Empire's army had no experience in fighting demons at all. What made Hades even more desperate was that in 30k, the Empire had not conquered the star field near the Eye of Chaos, which was the territory of Chaos!
Hades swallowed silently. In other words, if Hades did not intervene in the fate of the Empire, the Four Gods would choose the conventional Corrupted Primarch. But at this moment, the Emperor had decided to use Hades to throw shit into the Warp at any time, so the Four Gods... could naturally choose to open the Eye of Terror.
On one hand, the Emperor opened the 30k state religion in advance, and on the other hand, the Four Gods opened the 30k Eye of Terror in advance. Don't, don't speed up the update! What if the server crashes? !
Hades took a deep breath, stared at the map, and decided not to insult the Emperor and the Four Gods. He circled the location of the Eye of Terror on the map.
The two legions near the Eye of Terror are... the Iron Hands and the Iron Warriors, who had just wiped out the remnants of Ullanor.
Who could it be
Hades thought that the Order of Silence could only receive vague astronomical language from Terra, and descriptions of specific people were erased.
Did they all rebel? Or did none of them, and the Four Gods used other forces to cause trouble in the Eye of Terror
And... Haddish paused. In the original novel, it was Abaddon who blew up the Blackstone Obelisk and released the Eye of Terror. However, the Blackstone Obelisk had the effect of increasing psychic energy. If the Four Gods really wanted to play a big game...
Hades began to call out to the King of Figures in his heart, but unfortunately Trazyn did not equip Hades with a communication ability, so the King of Figures of the Great Whirlpool did not come last time.
In the original book, Trazyn appeared in the Eye of Terror, but the reason why the Figure King came was that a bell in its collection suddenly rang.
And that bell... Hades thought silently, that's a product of the fucking state religion! It's hard to say where that thing is!
Although he wanted to call for allies, Hades was prepared for no one and no undead to come to support him.
On the map, in addition to the two Iron Legions closest to the Eye of Terror, there are also the Emperor's Children in the northeast and the Raven Guard in the northwest. Given the difficulties in Warp navigation, it will still take some time for the two legions to reach the Eye of Terror.
What's more... Hades wasn't sure if they had received the edict from Terra.
Hades was not even sure whether the Iron Hands and Iron Warriors had received Terra's edict.
Hades sighed again. Fortunately, the Emperor and Malcador gave him some tokens before they parted.
The best case scenario now is that both Iron Legions are uncorrupted and willing to assist Hades in guarding the Eye of Terror, while the worst case scenario is that both Legions are corrupted.
On the map, Hades deduced the possible battle situation... Not only the Eye of Terror, Hades was sure that the Four Gods would also want to make some moves elsewhere while he and the Emperor's attention was diverted.
… Horus.
The first person Hades thought of was the Warmaster.
But what can Hades do
Hades remained silent. Even if he tried to warn Horus to be careful, that information might be lost in the already unstable warp communications.
He stared at the map. Horus was not very far from Baal now... Hades thought that if Horus really felt that something was wrong with him, he would go to the archangel for help.
On his home planet Sanguinius, Hades thought that the probability of corruption was very small. The only two unlucky Primarchs who had been ambushed on their home planet were Mortarion and Angron. The Archangel in normal state should be able to stabilize Horus.
Hades sighed again.
He could only go to one place, and now it all depended on the luck of the other Primarchs.
Hades and the Emperor had prepared the Primarchs as best they could within the limits of time.
And now is the time for trial.
Maybe
(End of this chapter)