Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

The Primarch watched.

At the bottom of the flagship, an inquisitor named Eisenhorn stood with his hands behind his hands, interrogating prisoners captured from the war.

An eternal veteran of the Black Legion.

Eisenhorn turned around and left after roughly helping the veteran recall some past events, but he left something behind in the interrogation room.

It was a weird brass-colored box.

The first time he saw the thing, Sanguinius suddenly realized that the box was called the Mourning Box.

The Mourning Box was born in the primitive era of mankind. At that time, shamans from several human tribes on the earth united together and wanted to create an item that would allow humans to never lack food, clothing, and happiness. Then this item was created. But was lost.

Sanguinius had never seen this thing, but he knew what it was, and the reason why it was carried by Eisenhorn was because it had the ability to seal demons and souls.

When Eisenhorn was young, he obtained the Mourning Box during a counter-insurgency operation against the governor of the planet who had fallen to Nurgle. At that time, his follower named Bekun used the box to seal the governor who ascended to the devil, and then Eisenhorn Senhorn took the box with him.

"Danger," Sanguinius muttered.

It realizes that the Mourning Box is not actually used to seal away demons.

A person with a pure soul who possesses it can seal away demons, yes.

But if an ordinary person holds it, it will only release terrible things.

But since this was a prophecy, Sanguinius had no way to intervene immediately.

Eisenhorn did not notice that the box was missing and walked away.

Another judge from the Demon Tribunal noticed the Mourning Box. He picked it up, and after using his spiritual energy to detect that it was from the hands of human ancestors and had no malice, he treated it as a treasure. stand up.

Since the interrogation did not go well, and before Eisenhorn returned from his business trip, the inquisitor set his sights on the mourning box.

He noticed that there was a circle-shaped structure on the surface of the Mourning Box, so the Inquisitor raised his finger inexplicably and traced a circle on the circle-shaped structure.

The Mourning Box suddenly changes.

The structure of the surface rises and expands.

A strange atmosphere permeated the interrogation room.

Suddenly a hook connected to a chain appeared out of thin air and penetrated the Inquisitor's shoulder blade. Another hook appeared quickly and penetrated his other shoulder blade.

More and more hooks appeared out of thin air in the interrogation room. The inquisitor was helpless, hooking onto his skin, flesh, and facial features, and stretching them outward.

As Sanguinius watched, the Inquisitor died permanently in an extremely horrific way, and his soul was sent to the demonic realm of Slaanesh to become a toy that could neither survive nor die.

After the veteran of the eternal war who was captured alive also died in the same way, it seemed that he had completed a sacrifice, and there was a piece of damage on the flagship.

This damage is like a damage to the curtain surrounding the real universe. Even if the flagship is within the range of the black stone, the black stone is not enough to completely isolate the influence of subspace.

This reminded Sanguinius of what he had said to Dante before: "No matter how strong the suppression effect of the Black Stone is, can it be stronger than the curtain that directly cuts off the subspace?"

Just as emotional resonance occurs in the real universe, someone performs rituals or uses other means, causing the curtain to be damaged, the protective shell protecting the flagship is also damaged.

Evil things can invade it.

Four abominable evil beings appear in the interrogation room.

The moment they appeared, Sanguinius realized that they were all demon princes. They were all humans before, but for some reason they were favored by the dark gods in the subspace and were promoted to demons.

The leader is a tall and strong demon prince with a head full of nails.

On the left side is a guy with a distorted face, exposed teeth, and his upper and lower teeth are constantly colliding and chattering.

To the right is a bald woman with her throat slit.

There is another demon prince, a disgusting guy who is so fat that oil is constantly flowing from his body.

These four demon princes were originally humans. Sanguinius could sense it, and he could also sense that these four demon princes all served a secret keeper named Leviathan, the great master of Slaanesh. magic.

Then the prophecy progressed a little faster.

An even more terrifying scene appeared directly in front of Sanguinius.

The entire bottom floor of the flagship became a torture hell. Four demon princes who called themselves monks spread pain among the crew and called this pain the ultimate pleasure.

Mortal pain triggers emotional resonance, which further undermines the effectiveness of the Black Stone.

An entire demon army emerged directly from the flagship, but this demon army was composed of big demons, almost all of whom were Slaanesh's secret keepers.

A fleet catastrophe is underway.

But this catastrophe is just part of a greater catastrophe.

Ritual is being carried out on Broome, and the followers of the two dark gods Nurgle and Khorne are manipulating the ritual to allow more and more demons to descend on the fleet.

"Enough!" Sanguinius drank away the illusion before him. He could hardly suppress the compassion and anger welling up in his heart. He almost wanted to rush directly to the main fleet to kill the abominable things that were about to emerge.

But Sanguinius soon realized that he might not be able to catch up.

Then he began to think again, why did the Emperor reveal this prophecy to himself?

"Father can tell him about his humanity, he can tell Guilliman... No... Guilliman should forget it." Sanguinius reasoned to himself.

The Primarch recalled that there was something in this prophecy that could not be ignored, something strange.

That was the scene in the interrogation room that I saw. There was a blur of blankness from beginning to end.

What does that blurry blank represent?

In the end, Sanguinius also failed to consider the reason why the Emperor would reveal the prophecy to himself rather than to the Lion or his humanity.

After returning to reality, Sanguinius quickly stood up and summoned Mephiston.

Mephiston was already waiting in front of Sanguinius.

"I predicted that you would have something to order me." Mephiston bowed respectfully to the father of genes.

Sanguinius then told the heir everything he had predicted, and then gave him an order: "Inform the main fleet of this matter quickly, tell it to Guilliman, Llane, or anyone else, as long as you let It’s good for them to know!”

"Yes, father." Mephiston saluted, turned and left.

"Wait a minute." Sanguinius stretched out his hand and saw his son turning to look at him and asked, "What's the situation over there with the main fleet?"

"According to the latest astrological communication between Ezekiel and I..." Mephiston recalled, "The ground troops sent by the main fleet to attack the Skull Fortress ran into the sudden appearance of the enemy, and the siege turned into an encounter. , this is the latest situation.”

Sanguinius frowned, realizing that things were not simple.