Hearing Abaddon's name, Gavial Loken fell into a brief silence.
The look of horror on his face could not be concealed.
The shock this name brought to his heart was like the raging waves caused by a storm in the ocean.
To be honest, knowing that Abaddon was imprisoned here was more surprising to him than seeing the two Primarchs.
Abaddon, Captain of the First Company of the Sons of Horus and head of the Council of Four Kings.
The most valued offspring of Horus.
During the Great Expedition, he was promoted to a company captain early on due to his military achievements.
He was the first person under the Primarch of the Sons of Horus Legion.
During the Horus Heresy, he participated in the Battles of Instefan III and V, slaughtering a large number of loyalists.
"He's here too?" Gavial Loken said with a slight frown.
"Yes, he is here too. He was captured by the Holy Emperor's legendary general, Lord Calgar, and sent to Terra. This is his prison and will also be his tomb." Trist nodded.
"Come on, take me to see him." said Gavial Locke.
He and Abaddon fought several times.
The first time was in the Anthem City on the planet Yin Stefan III.
The Council of Four Kings completely split.
He and Torgaddon fought against Horus the Younger and Abaddon.
Torgaddon also died in that battle.
The second time was at the Saturn Wall during the Siege of Terra.
Abaddon planned to lead his men to break through the palace from under the Saturn Wall, but Dorn used quick-drying cement to seal them all underneath and suffocated all the traitors involved in this operation.
Many loyalists died at the hands of Abaddon.
When Abaddon was finally besieged and was about to be killed by the loyalists, he was taken away by the rebels' teleportation device.
After that, there was no more contact between them.
... ... ..
The Astronomican of Atonement is larger than one could imagine.
Giant pillars support the huge dome, which is so magnificent that it looks like a miracle building.
This made Gavial Loken doubt that such a building was not built by humans.
The giant arch is hundreds of meters high, with several statues standing on both sides parallel to the arch.
They held a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, guarding the Astronomican like loyal guards.
The surging crowd walked past the feet of the statue, their height only reaching the instep of the statue.
Glass depicting various legendary deeds is embedded high up in the wall, with colorful paintings writing the immortal legends of those heroes.
The Imperial Guards patrolled the Astral Torch in golden armor, alert to the trouble that traitors might cause, and also to prevent rebels from blending into the tourist crowd and releasing the monsters.
Of course, their greater responsibility was to make visiting guests aware of the power of the empire.
They held spears in their hands and wore full-body covered golden armor.
Standing on the suspended platform like a god.
Flying over people's heads.
Just like the jailer who imprisoned the evil god in ancient mythology.
The chances of those traitorous prisoners escaping are almost zero.
Today, Terra is the domain of the Holy Emperor, and the entire galaxy is protected by his power.
The Webway also isolates the original, chaotic Warp.
The traitors could not borrow any power from the gods they believed in.
Made of special materials, it can suppress their power to the maximum extent and weaken their power through the soul siphon.
Tourists poured in like a tide and walked along the designated corridors.
Watching these traitors who once brought countless deaths to the human empire.
These people have turned their backs on the light of humanity and pushed humanity into the abyss.
Traitors are never forgiven.
There will be no forgiveness of any kind.
Any mercy and sympathy shown to them would be a betrayal and harm to those who sacrificed.
Gavial Loken walked along the wide corridor under the guidance of Trist.
Statues of imperial heroes can be seen at regular intervals.
They stand here, acting as silent guards against these traitors.
Gavial Loken didn't know those people.
But he could feel their determination and courage from their eyes.
The courage they possess is no less than that of their predecessors.
Gavial Loken knew that the Empire had experienced long, dark years until the Holy Emperor brought them the long-awaited salvation and dawn.
During those difficult ten thousand years, mankind suffered a lot.
Blood and dead bodies filled every moment when the gears of time turned.
Human civilization has reached an unprecedented low.
Productivity is low.
Science and rationality are gone.
Trist was very familiar with the Astronomican of Atonement.
She has received many guests to Terra and introduced them to those attractions.
The Astronomican of Atonement is a must-see attraction for those guests.
Trist led Gavial Loken through the complex corridors inside the Astronomican of Atonement.
The Astronomican of the Atonement holds a large number of Imperial traitors.
Use the Soul Siphon to drain and torture them.
To ensure the projection of the Astronomican of Atonement into the Warp.
The corridors connecting these cells are intricate and it is easy to get lost if you don't know the way.
After all, at first glance, the place was full of people, and there were densely packed heads.
If you take the wrong road, you will never be able to find the original road again.
With her knowledge of the Astronomican of Atonement, Trist was able to always choose the correct corridors leading to Abaddon's prison.
After walking for about ten minutes, they arrived at Abaddon's prison.
As the Dark Warmaster, his status is no less than those of the Demon Primarchs.
The imperial guards gave him a prison of the same size so that more people could watch at the same time.
There are many tourists.
They came from all directions, from all territories of the empire.
Let's meet this traitor who brought great disaster to the empire.
Abaddon, a name that once frightened countless people.
And now, he was imprisoned in an empty, tidy cell, with a soul siphon device installed in his brain. The leaping light shone with the roaring machinery, turning the soul of this dark man blessed by the four gods into pure energy and projecting it into the ether ocean.
The man who brought darkness to the galaxy is now being watched like a monkey by people.
No dignity.
When Gavial Loken stood in front of the prison cell, Abaddon recognized his former colleague.
"Lorcan."
"Traitor." Gavial Loken spat as he looked at Abaddon in the cell.
"You remain the same as always." Abaddon said weakly.
The Soul Siphon and the Chains were steadily weakening him.
All the sufferings that the emperor had once endured were reproduced on him.
No one can bear that kind of pain.
Fulgrim would scream for it, too.
The Soul Siphon Device used by the Astronomican of Atonement is modeled after the Golden Throne.
That is a torture device that even the dark elves would fear.
Abaddon would rather be blown to pieces by the Empire on the battlefield than stay here.
Unfortunately, he didn't have the power to choose.
The empire even deprived traitors of the right to commit suicide.
Guilliman is truly inhumane.
"It looks like you've lost." Gavial Loken showed a mocking look, "The God you preached was not able to save you."
"The gods underestimated Guilliman." Abaddon spoke the name with hatred.
It took thousands of years of forbearance and great effort to bring together the scattered believers of the gods, and with the help of thirteen dark expeditions, the galaxy was torn apart.
I thought we were only one step away from final victory.
Who could have thought that it was the beginning of destruction.
Guilliman's resurrection changed everything.
Their original advantages were gone and they became prisoners.
The forces of the gods retreated to the subspace and needed to gather strength again before launching a counterattack against the real world.
"This is your destined ending." Gavial Loken said, "From the moment you decided to betray, your ending was already determined."
"That is not betrayal. The Empire was created by us, Loken. We fought for it. We built it with blood, sweat, and fury. We built it with the worlds we took. We built the foundation of the Empire with the flesh and blood of our brothers. Remember Cyjanus? Remember Kallus? Remember Viparo? They are all our brothers, our family. We once drank and talked happily, and swore an oath that we would never betray. They died in the Great Crusade, and gave everything to build this Empire."
"But what have we gained?" Abaddon roared. "The Emperor has abandoned us, handed over the power of warriors to bureaucrats, and let the blood of warriors be shed without comfort. What have we gained? Loken, tell us, when the Emperor abandons us, should we wait for death?"
"Are you still making excuses for yourself?" Gavial Loken said, "Just like before, you always make excuses for yourself. You once swore an oath to be loyal to your monarch, but you are just greedy for power and status. You have no dignity and shame. You use lame excuses to hypnotize yourself, believing that you have lost your past glory for those pure and beautiful ideals. You have spent tens of thousands of years urging yourself to repeat such words just to believe this. But I want to tell you, Abaddon, Horus fell into the abyss because of you. It is you who made him bear the eternal infamy even if he died."
"Not us," Abaddon roared.
"You believed Erebus's foolish words and sent him to Daven's temple."
"That's the only way to save him."
"I would rather he die with the honor of a warrior, or give up the title of Warmaster and return to the Emperor to recover, than to become a puppet fooled by the gods."
Gavial Loken's voice pierced Abaddon's heart like a sword.
It made him howl in pain.
If I hadn't believed in Erebus, perhaps none of these things would have happened.
Even with such injuries, he could be sent back to Terra using the stasis field to seek the Emperor's help.
In that case Horus would still be the Primarch of the Sons of Horus.
His statue would stand in Terra's Times Square, and his name would appear in the Empire's heroic history books, rather than being a traitor despised forever.
Stasis fields were not widely used at the time, but as the Warmaster, Horus had the best technical magi.
At that time, Horus and Abaddon both valued the reputation of the Sons of Horus too much and did not want it to suffer any damage.
Horus being sent back to Terra with severe injuries would inevitably make his position as Warmaster unstable.
Sending him to the Temple of Daven to seek healing from the power of the Warp is an extremely foolish thing to do.
But at that time, it became a good plan for them to maintain Horus' position as Warmaster and the honor of the Sons of Horus.
In the end, they all paid the price for their mistakes.
While wounded, Horus became corrupted by Chaos.
The ambitions of Abaddon and others grew increasingly larger, and they eventually embarked on the path of betraying their brothers and colluding with the evil forces of the Warp.
It caused a brutal massacre and rebellion.
“It’s not our fault!
Abaddon said in a pained tone.
"It's your fault, Abaddon. Erebus is the most damnable of you, and you are the second most damnable." Gavial Loken said word by word: "I have seen the stupid things you did with my own eyes, and saw how you sent Horus to hell. I saw with my own eyes how you led the noble Luna Wolves to the abyss."
"No! Not like that," Abaddon screamed in agony.
"That's it, Abaddon." Gavial Loken said, "You have no right to make any accusations. I will not let you go, Abaddon. Even if you are now locked up here like a wild dog, I will not have any mercy on you. This is just the revenge of the new Lord of Mankind on you, and the revenge of those of us who have returned has not yet begun."
Abaddon looked up at Gavial Loken, his eyes revealing a hint of fear and uneasiness.
During the Great Crusade, he knew that Loken was a determined man.
Once he sets a goal, Locke will never give up.
He said he wanted to take revenge on me, so he must take revenge on me.
"When we leave Terra, I promise that you will cry with Erebus. Those who have been destroyed by you will take revenge on you through my hands. I will break your spine again and sever your neck nerves, leaving you lying there like a paralyzed old man who can't take care of himself, and become the laughing stock of the entire galaxy."
After leaving such a threat, Gavial Loken turned and left.
Trist also left with the legendary imperial hero.
She accompanied the Imperial hero as he toured the many traitors who were imprisoned next.
All the traitor primarchs are here.
Except for Horus who is already dead, all the others are here.
They all knew Loken.
During the Great Crusade, Loken was very active.
As a member of the Council of Four Kings, Loken often accompanied Horus and his colleagues to greet other Primarchs.
Those who betrayed the Primarchs no longer had their former honor and were reduced to monsters.
The only ones who remained somewhat normal were Perturabo and Curze.
Curze did not turn to Chaos.
He just participated in the rebellion.
Perturabo chose Chaos itself, rather than the Chaos Gods.
The two of them still retain a certain human appearance.
Fulgrim, Mortarion and the others have all been transformed and are extremely ugly.
They were angry at Loken's arrival.
Thinking this was just another trick of Guilliman's tormenting them.
It wasn't enough for the common people of the Empire to treat them like monkeys.
He even went so far as to resurrect those who had long been dead so that they could laugh at him.
They said so many big words during the Great Rebellion.
Mocking the folly of the Empire in defying the gods.
Those who died were mocked by them as meaningless sacrifices.
They have joined the Chaos Gods, gained immortality, and will indulge in pleasure until the end of the universe.
Now, they are imprisoned in cages and exhibited like monkeys.
Is there anything more embarrassing than being seen by acquaintances when you are in a state of despair
It's like when a man becomes rich through illegal means, he mocks his law-abiding friends as poor and will never be able to show respect to others in his life.
When he went bankrupt due to suspected crimes and had to beg on the streets after being released from prison, his poor friends became rich one by one by running legitimate businesses that abided by the law.
If you are humiliated by people you don't even know, no matter how angry you are, it is still within the tolerable range.
But if they are humiliated by those acquaintances, they often cannot save face, and may even become angry and frustrated.
When the many traitors saw Loken coming, they did show more anger and shame than when other people saw them.
Guilliman resurrected Loken, making their previous actions seem like a joke and a clown.
They were imprisoned in cages, but Loken returned once again and became a hero and a legend.
Such things make them feel defensive and difficult to accept.
Gavial Loken also expressed contempt and humiliation towards each of them.
Use concrete actions to shatter their last fantasies and tell those fools that he is the real Gavial Loken, the captain of the 10th Company of the Moon Wolves.
The tour of the Astronomican of Atonement lasted a day, and Gavial Loken saw all the traitors imprisoned there.
Most of the named traitors were brought back and left here to be humiliated.
Gavial Loken had no mercy on those people.
The choices they made in the past have led to the bitter consequences of today.
Those traitors deserved it.
If he wasn't afraid of the huge impact, he would have suggested torturing these idiots.
"This is all like a dream, Trist." As he walked out of the Astronomican of Atonement, Gavial Loken whispered to the narrator, "Everything we once dreamed of has become a reality. The heroic spirits who fought to the last moment in despair will rest in peace."
"That's not necessarily the case. Death is not the end of duty." Trist said, "The Empire has learned how to use the recorded data hidden in the background of the universe to summon the Empire's heroes."
"What do you mean?" Gavial Loken asked in confusion.
"Those people you are familiar with may all return. The Holy Emperor needs them to participate in a greater war." Trist said: "That war is more grand and mysterious than the Great Crusade. It involves multiple fields and dimensions such as life and death, fate, and truth."
Gavial Loken frowned slightly.
He tried to understand what Trist was saying.
Guilliman has an ambition far greater than that of the Emperor himself.
More importantly, the other party is implementing various plans to ensure that what he wants can be achieved.
Gavial Loken felt a little uneasy.
To be honest, his vision is still at the same level as that of the captain of the 10th Company in the Great Crusade. Even after experiencing the Horus Heresy, he only recognized the existence and dangers of the Warp.
There are too many things in this era that he needs to understand.
Gavial Loken didn't know whether he should support breaking the cycle of life and death.
This hesitation continued until he was sent back to the hospital for recuperation and recovery.
The reason why he did not have such hesitation was simply that when he was sent to the hospital, he saw his former confidant.
They had fought side by side against the evil.
We used to drink and chat happily, and sit together to discuss the future we desired.
When they looked at each other, they couldn't help but call out each other's names.
Even if there is a gap of thousands or tens of thousands of years between them, they can recognize each other at the first moment.
"Torgaddon."
"Lorcan."