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Chapter 118 Warhammer - The Emperor Cries

The emperor is heartbroken.

He is indeed the most powerful psyker in the entire galaxy (currently, apart from Dio).

But then I heard this news all of a sudden.

Even emperors who considered themselves the most resilient and powerful could not escape being heartbroken.

Dio looked at the weeping emperor with a strange expression.

Of course, this was from his perspective; from the perspective of others, the emperor remained calm.

"Is humanity truly unable to return to its former glory?" the Emperor asked, his voice trembling with suppressed sobs.

Dio sighed.

The empire's later calamities were, in truth, caused by a combination of various factors.

But ultimately... it still has a direct or indirect connection with the emperor himself.

After all, imagine a giant, golden-haired man with a halo, doing things that even Superman might not be able to do, saying to your face, "I'm not a god..."

Some of the original entities expressed: Ah, yes, yes, yes.

In the later stages, Luo Jia went completely mad. When the Perfect City was destroyed, she used a single psionic attack to make all the Word Bearers, including the Primarch, kneel down.

This miraculous power planted a thorn in my heart.

Even when Magnus was still being raised by his adoptive father in the galaxy, it was the Emperor who personally taught him psionic online classes.

This immense power, capable of wielding psionic abilities across the Milky Way, was evident in his first words upon meeting the Primarch: "I am not a god."

Among the Primarchs, only Guilliman, Wolf King, and Khan were considered to be truly enlightened. They outwardly agreed with the Emperor's power, which was akin to a miracle, but inwardly they held it in contempt.

If they weren't outmatched, they might have turned on each other immediately.

Wolf King, in particular, knew his role the moment he boarded the ship with the Emperor. The Emperor wanted him to be his own executioner, an internal one at that.

There was no rebuttal, after all, they couldn't win, and the Emperor was the victor in Fenris.

It was normal for Fenris to submit to the emperor.

And Guilliman…

The emergence of the Second Empire made everyone know what he was thinking.

But no one questions him.

Firstly, the emperor was still active outside at the time, and secondly, the emperor himself did not say anything.

Secondly...

Although Guilliman was seriously wounded and confined to a stasis field during the Siege of Terra, his troops were the only ones among all the legions that maintained their full strength.

If you questioned Guilliman back then, not only would the Ultramarines be wiped out, but the entire Legion would be wiped out as well.

Moreover, Guilliman was later possessed by the Emperor upon his return and burned down Nurgle Gardens.

Even setting aside the burning of Nurgle Gardens, the Emperor's possession was a great act of loyalty!

Although the Imperial Guards didn't trust them.

Overall, after all this, it really feels like the emperor's previous ten thousand years were all for nothing.

Even if, according to the script, he has played anyone.

Men, women, gangsters, thieves, assassins, soldiers, and those in power, etc.

But all of these experiences combined have given Dio the feeling that the Emperor's actions are completely incomprehensible to anyone who touches upon matters concerning the Primarch.

Although this is the screenwriters' fault, the higher the initial image was, the harder it has fallen!

And so, he became a background figure sitting on the golden throne, and people outside even jokingly called him the Corpse King.

The Astartes transformed from warriors into monks.

The emperor became the last person he wanted to be.

God, the being whom everyone believes in!

"What did I do wrong? I just wanted to save humanity as soon as possible, reunify the human empire, and bring humanity back to its peak. What did I do wrong?!" The Emperor knew what Dio was thinking when he saw the look in Dio's eyes, and he couldn't accept Dio's gaze.

Dio was helpless. The Emperor's prophetic abilities were actually not as effective as Sanjeres' (latest setting). He knew that the Four Merchants would corrupt half of his Primarch as early as after the warp storm swept through the Primarch.

That was the agreement he and the four vendors had made initially, even though he had broken the agreement on his own.

But he doesn't trust any of the Primarchs, not even Lemanrus, the executioner who wields the Spear of Dionysus.

The emperor slumped to the ground, utterly bewildered even knowing the future. The knowledge he had acquired over the long course of history left him feeling lost and helpless.

"First, find the Primarchs, then teach them like a father. As for saving humanity..."

"You should know the old saying: 'To repel external aggression, one must first pacify the internal situation!'"

Even if this is just your family matter.

In Dio's view, if the Emperor had managed to resolve the internal relationships within his family, at least a large portion of the messes caused by the Primarchs' irrational behavior could have been avoided.

The emperor opened his mouth as if in thought, and after a long while he nodded.

"Then I'll go tell all the legions to send a company from each legion to come with me. We'll bring the Primarchs back first, and once they've integrated, we'll launch the Great Expedition!" The Emperor's eyes lit up, and he jumped up and said.

Dio flicked him on the forehead.

The emperor was puzzled, and cautiously asked while covering his head, "Is there some other oversight?"

Dio almost laughed.

"The Great Expedition must proceed, and the education of the children must also continue. Apart from a few Primal Bodies that you need to visit in person, the others can wait until later," Dio explained.

Dio then named several Primarchs.

"Horus, Mortarion, Angron, Conrad Coz, Corvacs Corax..."

The Emperor noted down the names of these people one by one. Of the twenty-one Primarchs, Dio had only mentioned half of them. Finally, the Emperor asked, "So, who was the first of these?"

Dio thought for a moment and said, "Horus was originally the apparent firstborn son, but the most tragic of all the Primarchs is Angron. If we want to find the Primarch, he must be the first one!"

The Emperor had an impression of Angron, after all, Dio had given him a whole set of official Warhammer novels.

"Is it because of the Butcher's Nail?"

Dio nodded: "Without Butcher's Nail, he would be the most rational Primarch, a muscle-bound man with a gentle temperament like Vulcan."

"Moreover, his experience as a gladiator made him distrust any high-ranking officials, believing that they were all a group of exploiters. Originally, you forcibly took him away, and he was carrying the Butcher's Nail and couldn't think straight. He thought you were a powerful exploiter and that he couldn't resist, so he went with you."

At this point, the emperor gave a somewhat awkward smile.

"The rest are all written in the novel I gave you. Take your time to organize them on the way there, think carefully about how to get along with them, and only tell them everything they can know after you've cultivated a good relationship with them."

“Even if we can’t let them know, we have to tell them the reasons and consequences. Everything has to be made clear. Otherwise, if we act like riddle tellers, like Horus and Magrus, who are very curious, it’s only a matter of time before they rebel and cause trouble.”

The emperor nodded. Once he understood the logic, he knew what to do. Previously, he had been confused by his own involvement, but now, by stepping out of the situation and thinking from a third-person perspective, he understood the cause and effect.