Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

Vito sat on the ridge beside the lake. He looked at the lake surface that shone like a mirror. The ripples on the lake surface were constantly rippled by the wind, and they looked like twinkling stars in the sun. Erratic, yet incredibly beautiful.

The breeze blows from the lake and blows upward along the ridge. The grass and trees are gently swaying in the breeze. These strong lives growing on the ridge sway with the wind. A beautiful flower grows between the cracks in the rocks. It was a red rose, blooming in the most beautiful color on the rocky cliff, just like the planet itself.

A person passed by the flower, and her fingers gently traced the petals, and the beautiful flowers swayed gently with her fingers.

Vito looked at the lake, seemingly not noticing that she sat next to him. She sat on the cliff with Vito, her long silver-haired head resting on his shoulder, and her hair as white as snow, like the peak of this snow-capped mountain. The white snow above shone brightly.

"You are in a bad mood, Vito." Lilith said softly, her voice as gentle as the breeze in the mountains. Vito sighed long and looked up at the sky. The sky in the exhibition was like a painting.

"All my friends are gone, dead and gone, and I am the only one left." Vito said, he closed his eyes and breathed a long sigh of relief, "After ten thousand years, I am the only one left." You are still here, you should know how I feel."

"Loneliness, I know." Lilith said. She leaned on Vito's shoulder and pulled his clothes with one hand. Her silver hair swayed with the wind, bunches swaying in the wind.

"Eternal life is a curse, Lily. You will always watch your friends leave one by one, but all you can do is say goodbye. No matter how long or how long their life span is, you can only watch them grow old. , die, and go on alone.”

Vito sighed softly and lowered his head to look at the letter in his hand, "Corax didn't say goodbye when he left. I thought I would want to meet him and have a few final chats, but I was wrong. , I don’t want to at all.”

Vito looked at the letter, looking at the familiar font and writing style, "I'm not good at saying goodbye. I've never been good at saying goodbye. In the past, I attended funerals silently, and then went there in the crowd, or after people left. Saying an awkward farewell alone in the cemetery.”

"When Marx died, I stood under the shade of a tree, waiting for Engels and others to leave before going up. But I was even a little relieved at the time. I was not there when Marx died, and neither was Engels. We avoided the final disaster. Life and death."

He looked at the sparkling lake, and countless memories came to his mind. He put his hand on the ground, Lilith's hand was placed on the back of his hand, her fingers were clasped on the back of his hand, and the numbing comfort felt smooth. Climbing up to the head with his arms.

Vito smiled and touched her head, "But you are still here. Ten thousand years later, you are still by my side. I don't need to say goodbye to you. This may be a blessing."

Lilith cannot be killed. She is a demon, a demon prince. Even if she is killed, she will be resurrected in the subspace. This may be a great luck for Vito.

"Do you hate them?" "Who?" "The Emperor and Guilliman."

Vito was silent for a moment, then showed a faint smile, "No."

"They bombed the Perfect City so that Erebus could bewitch Lorgar and plot against Horus to cause the rebellion. How could you not hate them?" Lilith asked softly, leaning against Vito. The warm body temperature was transmitted to Vito's arm through his clothes.

"He is not a good father, nor is he a good person. I know that. I have been with that old bastard for 30,000 years. During the 30,000 years, he always came to me for help. Sometimes I came to him. To be honest, he Don’t like me either.”

"Then why didn't you listen to Lorgar then? If you didn't listen to her, you could have become the Emperor and succeeded him. Lorgar and many of the Primarchs would support you. You are better than him, Vito."

Vito smiled and put his arm around Lilith's shoulders. He stroked her shoulders, "No, although I don't want to admit it, he is more suitable to be the emperor than me."

"I have tried, Lily. He is right about one thing. The love between my children will make me unable to do anything at many times, and I will not be able to do many things. Stalin also told me so at the time."

"Joseph was preparing for a major counter-revolutionary campaign at that time. I knew clearly that he had to do that and could only do that, but I would still persuade him. Even if I knew I couldn't persuade him, I would still persuade him. I didn't know what to do otherwise. What should I do, but I will still advise.”

"Like Joseph said, I am a good person, a good friend worth entrusting everything to, but I am not a ruler, and my humanity will restrict many things."

Lilith leaned on his chest, she adjusted her position, and Vito held her tighter. He smiled and leaned his face on her head, "So I don't hate him, I know he exploded The Perfect City had no choice, just like when we cleared out the Thunder Warriors, we all had no choice. Me, him, and Waldo, we all knew we had to do it, especially me. They unified Terra under my command, and I saw it with my own eyes. Witness and even join him in ordering their removal."

Vito still remembered everything at that time, the final battle of the Thunder Warriors. It was the first time he saw the Emperor's merciless side, even for his own people, and he had seen it many times since.

"In the Perfect City, I can imagine how he felt at the time. He fought with me and let me beat him to a pulp, which also meant some self-repentance. I also know that Guilliman was the same later. I have been regretting it all the time, and even fell into Lorgar's ambush during the rebellion."

"Lily, they are my friends. In fact, I knew them before they remembered the world. I saw them being created in the genetic laboratory on Mount Everest with my own eyes. The security work at that time was arranged by me. Waldo and I designed all the security work, but in the end, I didn't expect that it was Erda who summoned the evil god, and your sister and others took those children away."

Vito touched Lilith's long and neat silver hair. Lilith didn't speak, but just leaned on his chest and listened quietly.

"I asked Erda why she did that. She said she didn't want her children to become his tools, weapons and killing tools. She told me that I knew better than her what kind of person that old bastard was." "Of course I know. It's been 30,000 years. We have been together for 30,000 years. I still remember the first time we met on Mount Sinai. That idiot was wearing a headscarf, like a charlatan, although in a sense he was." Vito laughed, and even Lilith was amused. He looked at the churning lake and the flickering ripples. "We have cooperated on many things. We have killed demons and dragons together. We have planned and witnessed together and promoted many major events. I dare say , No one in this galaxy knows him better than me. "

"That's why I hate him, and even fight with him sometimes, and he always, we are like two bad friends, we don't like each other, but if we find each other and seek help, then we will not reject each other, even if we still curse each other, or even draw knives to cut each other. "

"Thirty thousand years, I have lived a lifetime and he is my only true friend, can you imagine? In thirty thousand years, only this idiot understands you, knows your past, and you also know his, the two brothers in distress. "

"I know that although the old bastard says that he doesn't care, speaks rationally and keeps silent about the truth, in fact, he still has all the emotions he should have in his heart, no matter how hard he tries, he will never be able to stop him. No matter how he deceives himself, suppresses and hides, the bastard has a heart of flesh, at least before he sat on the throne. "Although we are immortals, we are human beings after all. We have all the seven emotions and six desires of humans, but many times our power is very great and there are many things, such as the dark side. The same is true for those dozen children." Vito laughed mockingly and rubbed his neck. "The old man said that he was ruthless, but after Erda caused the original body's plan to go wrong, he did not execute Erda. Even Waldo suggested that Erda be executed on the spot. After all, she colluded with the evil god of chaos, which was a capital crime anyway." "But he let her go and just let her live in seclusion in Africa. He even let me go to see her. Although the old man The bastard won't say anything, but he still wants to know how she is doing. He is still a human being after all, a person with divine power, but still a human being. I know this better than anyone. "

"We are friends, friends of 30,000 years. For 30,000 years, we have been alone together. Many of our friends have died, and many of our common friends have left. We will attend the funeral together and mourn for them together."

"So I rejected you and your sister, and rejected Lorgar. I will not kill him and replace him. On the one hand, it is because he is more suitable to be a leader than me, and on the other hand, it is because he is my friend, a friend I have dealt with all my life. I understand him and believe in him. "

It's just for a promise, a promise he made to his friends, that's all.

Vito smiled bitterly, recalling many memories, "I also refused Horus's request to recruit me, because I know Horus. He is not as suitable to be a leader as his father. I know very well that he is too proud and values ​​his honor too much. He will not be content to be under others, whether it is the Emperor or Chaos. In the end, he will go to war with Chaos again after winning, and a few generations will destroy the entire human civilization and even the Milky Way." "The prophecy of the cult is right, Lily, I know very well, I know him, I know them." "So I helped him defend Terra and the Imperial Palace. I want to protect mankind and all my friends, Sinderman, Qi Le and others, those ordinary people, they are also my friends." "I have been trying to bridge the contradictions between them. They are all my friends. I hope they can understand each other and go on together, just like the Emperor and I, although we don't like each other, Sometimes we quarreled, sometimes we fought, but we could still go on together. "But I failed. Once again, I watched my friends fighting each other, killing each other, Ferrus, Alpha, Koz, Angel, Lily, my heart was broken, I didn't want to see my friends killing each other." "It's not your fault, Vito, it's not yours, it's me." Lilith clutched Vito's clothes, she hesitated to speak, and cursed in a low voice, Vito smiled and said, "No, I know you didn't, and your sister didn't do it either. Chaos bewitched the heart, but the premise of bewitching is that the relationship has already fallen apart, and the root cause is still ourselves. Simply blaming Chaos is avoiding responsibility and deceiving ourselves. " "This kind of self-deception has led to similar things happening again and again for ten thousand years, tens of thousands of years. I don't want to avoid this responsibility, and I don't want to blame anyone of them. I know they are all right. "

"No, Vito. It was I who found her and suggested that you replace Horus and become the emperor." Lilith said, she just said without looking into Vito's eyes.

"I know I should have just tempted you to fall like the others and join the rebel side, but"

"I know, girl, I know. In fact, Horus himself also came to me. It's not just you and her. Horus wanted me to be his Malcador, Hand of the Empire. I also refused. I won't They are the ones who betrayed him.”

Vito looked at the sky above his head, at the beautiful sky and the picturesque world. His weather-beaten eyes contained the entire history of human civilization, and many forgotten stories and truths.

His black eyes reflect the light of the sky, like a mirror, a mirror that sees the soul.

"I don't know how they will evaluate my work." "Good job?" "Ha, no, Guilliman will probably laugh first, then point at me and scold me, and then say, "Give me a good job." Get out of here, I'll do it."

Vito smiled and put his arm around Lilith's shoulders, "At least you have been with me for ten thousand years, and you probably won't spray me."

Lilith smiled and leaned against him, "Not yet."

Vito smiled too and rested his head on hers.

He held her arm and sat on the high ridge. The sun illuminated their bodies and the breeze blew their hair, making this scene like a beautiful painting, as if it were an eternal painting.