Guilliman looked at the screaming demons and had a vague idea of the terror of the Emperor.
What the other party is afraid of is not him, but the emperor behind him.
Otherwise there wouldn't be any talk of the curser being his own child.
In Vincent Horn's introduction, Cherubel is a demon prince.
The Warp is extremely vast. Even the evil gods known as the Lords of Chaos only occupy a corner of the Warp.
Many places still do not belong to the evil god and are occupied by various demons.
Religion has existed since the birth of mankind, and the first gods appeared.
As time goes by, these gods become more and more numerous.
The simplest example is Greek mythology, which has thousands of gods from the first generation of creation gods to the third generation of gods.
This is just a system.
If we take all of them together, there are tens of thousands of gods that have been worshipped throughout human history.
Thanks to the characteristics of the subspace, when people over-worship a concept, a projection will be formed in the subspace.
These gods were born naturally.
With the development of human beings, beliefs are constantly changing. Many gods are forgotten and abandoned, and some will die naturally.
Some have become another kind of existence. These beings are hungry and are always eager to harvest flesh and blood and souls, so they are called demons.
In the long history of the Milky Way, the millions of years of human history is just an insignificant splash.
Before humans were born, many races had already been born. They had their own civilizations and their own beliefs.
Take for example the few races that are still active today.
The Tau who harass the Empire on the Far Eastern frontier believe in the so-called Way of the Taitaishan.
The orc boys under the rule of the orc warlords believe in the two gods, Gomao and Mao.
Asuryan, Hawke, Xilego and others who believe in the Eldar.
The cultural differences between different races are so great that the gods they created are also completely different.
These gods who have lost their faith will be slowly twisted in the warp and become abominable demons.
When Slaanesh awakened, tore apart the real universe and created the Eye of Terror, the Eldar gods also met their terrible doomsday.
Only Xilego, the god of laughter, and Yinsha, the goddess of life, survived.
When the elves are completely destroyed, Xilego and Yinsha, who have lost their faith and people, will become hateful demons and become more and more twisted.
The origins of demons are varied and cannot be simply explained.
No one knows the origins of Cherubel.
Even Vincent Horn didn't know much about the origins of this demon prince.
When he was young, he investigated an incident involving a Chaos tribe and learned the spells and rituals to control the demon from a seized Demonic Tome.
In ancient times, a demon tribe came from chaos to the real universe, ruled seven worlds and established a kingdom.
After the fall of his kingdom, the demon king was buried in a terrible mausoleum, waiting to be awakened again.
Vincent Horn had been investigating this matter for hundreds of years, involving several large families around the Death Tome, and finally killed the heretic who had been hiding in the tomb of the Demon King, thus preventing the other party's conspiracy.
Later on, he still didn't understand Cherubel's true origins.
Of course, Guilliman had no intention of listening to the stories behind the other party. Everything about demons was corrupt, and even just listening to their stories could lead to being controlled and manipulated by them.
He just wanted to use the Demon Prince as a tool, so there was no need to know where he came from.
In fact, there are many demons in the subspace who use various means to enter the real universe, and then transform into races in the real universe to create their own distorted civilization.
This is why the Emperor created the Primarchs. Without them, the Imperium of Man could not have been established.
The Emperor cannot fight every war.
Of course, in the end, the Human Empire was almost destroyed because of the Primarch.
Some people would blame the Emperor for not caring enough about the Primarchs, treating them as tools and thus causing such a disaster for the Imperium.
Such thinking ignores reality and is extremely stupid and naive.
The amount of thought the Emperor has to think about every second is enough to burn out the Imperium's finest Contemplator computers.
Conquering and ruling a human empire that spans tens of thousands of light years, can only be maintained by psychic communication and subspace navigation, and cannot use intelligence, requires energy that is absolutely beyond anyone's imagination.
Many people don’t even recognize all the people living in the same community, and they don’t even know what’s happening in the town next to them.
What’s more, it could be something happening on a planet hundreds of light years away.
The Emperor needs to evaluate the usefulness of each force to himself, needs to deal with those terrible aliens, needs to plan the Webway, needs to fight against the gods, and needs to maintain the lie of the Imperial Truth as much as possible.
His time has been infinitely squeezed.
But when he met each Primarch, he took out his already limited time to talk with each of them, describe the future of mankind to them, and promise them glory and rewards.
He evaluated each Primarch and then communicated with them in the most appropriate manner.
When they first met, he had a long talk with Lorgar all night, hoping that he would abandon religion and embrace the truth of the empire. However, Lorgar never listened to him and was still obsessed with missionary work despite his repeated orders.
During the Council of Nikaea, the use of psychic energy was banned after a vote by the Primarchs, but Magnus secretly violated this order, and ultimately, due to his arrogance, he broke the psychic barrier built by the Emperor in the underground palace with a single psychic energy, resulting in the Ten Thousand, the Sisters, and the Mechanicum army being dragged to death in the Webway.
Angron hated him for not dying.
Coates thought he brought hope, but he made sure that hope would never be achieved.
The psychologically twisted Perturabo thinks he is just a tool.
Mortarion had always felt that the Emperor looked down upon him.
Among the many Primarchs, the Emperor chose the safest path, which was to appoint Horus, who had been with him the longest, as Warmaster.
Apart from Alpharius who was hiding in the dark, Horus was the Primarch who accompanied the Emperor the longest.
The Emperor himself taught him everything and took him with him on his expeditions.
But I never thought that this road had deep pits.
The emperor’s failure was not because he had no humanity, but because he believed in human nature. This was his greatest sorrow and the reason why he suffered so much while sitting on the golden throne.
He thought that Horus, who had been with him the longest, would be able to take over from him to complete the rest of the Great Crusade and stop the Chaos God from tempting other Primarchs. Even if a Primarch betrayed him, Horus would be the first to go and suppress it.
However, after being injured, Horus chose to betray.
This is why the Emperor was surprised, he never thought that the person who betrayed would be Horus.
He thought Horus really regarded him as a father, but in fact Horus simply regarded him as a tyrant.
Did Chaos corrupt Horus
No, it was Horus who chose Chaos.
He tried to lay his hands on his father's throne, thinking that since he had conquered the galaxy, he should naturally rule it.
Erebus promised him that by sacrificing the Emperor of Mankind, Horus would gain endless power and become the new Lord of Mankind to rule the galaxy.
Horus, who had long been dissatisfied with the Emperor's weakening of the War Council and reliance on the Council of Terra, accepted the deal.
He decided to sacrifice his father and become the new master of mankind.
Compared to the Emperor who still wanted to save Horus in the final battle.
It goes without saying which of the two is more humane and who values this decades-long companionship more.
Being injured only gave Chaos an opportunity to tempt Horus.
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"It seems that you know me, which saves a lot of effort." Guilliman gathered his scattered mind and secretly vowed to never hand over the power to decide the situation of the empire to one person, no matter how trustworthy that person is.
"What are you going to do? Son of the Cursed." Cherubel said.
"I need to get intelligence about the subspace, so I came to ask you."
"So do you want to make a deal with me?" When Cherubel heard Guilliman's words, he suddenly showed a hint of excitement. Trading means corruption, and corruption means depravity. It would be such a wonderful thing for a curser and his own children to degenerate.
"I am the Regent of the Empire. I never make deals with others. Whatever I need, others will give it to me." Guilliman walked into Cherubel. "So I hope you can be sensible, pledge allegiance to me, and then provide me with intelligence."
Cherubel: →_→.
The Imperial Regent is so great that he wants me to be loyal and serve him right away?
Do you think I, the Demon Prince, am just a minor character?