Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

Macragge's Glory is suspended on the edge of the shining nebula. This giant star cluster known as the Pillar of the East is located on the edge of the Five Hundred Worlds. It is said that this was an ancient war thousands of years ago, when unknown civilizations fought. The remains of broken stars left behind, thousands of star systems were detonated and destroyed, and hundreds of billions of fragments formed a glorious pillar that shines eternally at the edge of the Milky Way.

Many people will travel thousands of miles to visit this giant pillar, hoping to witness one of the most beautiful wonders in the galaxy. Guilliman also agrees with this statement. This nebula is very beautiful.

Guilliman stood on a prototype observation deck of Macragge's Glory. The Roman columns around him reflected the faint light of the stars. The air wall isolated the ship from the void, without the isolation and obstruction of glass. The starry sky shone brighter in front of Guilliman's eyes, and he looked up at the beautiful scenery rising from the edge of the Milky Way.

The light of the stars shone on his face without any hindrance. The blue-purple halo smoothed out his facial features. The concave eyebrows and the bridge of his nose were illuminated by the light. The Son of Vengeance's entire body was exposed to that Under the most beautiful light of the film.

Purple, blue and emerald light reflected on his blue pupils, and the most magnificent starry sky pillar slowly rose from his glasses, beautiful and majestic. Guilliman admired this natural wonder. View, admiring this great creation of uncanny workmanship.

Just as Guilliman was admiring the starry sky, a soldier walked out of the porch of the observation deck behind him. Cato Sicarius, the commander of the second company of the Ultramarines, took off the cockscomb helmet on his head and tucked it under his arm. , he stood at the door and looked at his original body, and the latter naturally discovered him.

"This scenery is still so beautiful. It was the first thing I saw after I accepted the Emperor's appointment in Macragge and stepped into the Star Sea. It made people aware of the feats of this galaxy, and inspired and determined the conquest of the Star Sea. The goal."

Guilliman said and put his hands behind his back. Sicarius came from behind and came to Guilliman. The captain of the second company held his helmet and nodded respectfully to Guilliman, "Indeed, this is beautiful, but Your Excellency has a visitor, Marshal Vito has returned with Bell and the others, and they are waiting for you in the First Conference Hall."

"His speed is even faster than I remembered. It seems that he has not been idle for thousands of years, but has improved a lot." Guilliman smiled and removed his eyes from the stars in the sky. He turned to face Sikariu Si smiled slightly and walked towards the arch exit.

"Come on, although I don't mind letting him wait a little longer, Five Hundred Worlds can't afford to wait, and we don't have much time." "Indeed, sir."

Sicarius said and followed Guilliman through the left corridor of the Macragge Glory. The second captain followed the original body through the long Roman style. In the colonnade, tall Roman columns tower on the right side. The shining stars shine brightly outside the stand shield. Statues sit here silently.

Guilliman walked in this artistic corridor. He passed by a huge mural. He nodded to a group of ultramarines coming towards him. These warriors immediately stepped aside and leaned down to the original body. After saluting, Guilliman passed in front of them with a smile, and Sicarius also passed in front of these young warriors with his sword hilt pressed.

Guilliman is obviously more accustomed to the feeling of being respected by others. He is not as uncomfortable and uncomfortable as Vito. This is actually not surprising. After all, although he has been sitting in a static position for ten thousand years, for Guilliman To me, it was like having a long dream. The days when I was the King of Ultramar and the Regent of the Empire seemed like yesterday.

Sicarius looked at the original body walking in awe. Guilliman had an indescribable aura about him. That kind of aura made people want to follow him unconsciously, follow him up the mountain of swords and into the sea of ​​fire. As if it was born this way.

He is a natural leader, a monarch and a king, destined to be so by nature. He is the noble heir of the emperor and the father of his genes. Sicarius secretly swore in his heart that he must follow him, and his loyalty belongs to those in front of him. This extraordinary being, he vowed to fight by his side until the moment of death came.

Sicarius may not have realized that this emotion, this infinite sense of loyalty to the Primarch, has transcended the Empire, and even the Emperor. He never knew that before the Great Rebellion thousands of years ago, Shadow Luna Wolf and those warriors who chose to betray the Emperor's mission also held the same thoughts as him.

Sicarius doesn't know, he doesn't know yet, maybe he will know in the future, maybe he won't know, only time can give the answer to this.

But now, Cato Sicarius followed the original body into the grand door at the back of the corridor. After passing the door with two stone lions in front, he came to Macragge Glory. conference hall.

Sicarius stood on the steps after entering the door. He overlooked the conference hall surrounded by rows of stone benches. The rows of actions were arranged downwards, like countless arc circles. Put together, this conference room was finally formed, and the core of everything is in the center, in the small circle in the center.

In that small circle, Vito and his soldiers had been waiting there for a long time. They were all doing their own things, and Sicarius glanced at them one by one.

Vito was chatting with Loken in front of the functional platform in the center. Ragnar, Lancelot, Olaf, and Eisenstein were leaning on the tables and chairs on the left. The young wild wolf was making famous gestures with the son of Ryan. The two of them were holding battle axes and long swords, shouting at each other and hitting each other with the tips of their weapons, like two children playing, while the calm old wolf Olaf was discussing something with the equally calm Captain Eisenstein.

And his brother, Sicarius frowned slightly and looked at Bell. He strictly followed the code of conduct of the Holy Scripture as always. The careful and careful Extreme Warrior pharmacist was debugging his weapons. He disassembled the grenade gun and carefully checked and maintained every part. He had no complaints about this job that would make Sicarius tired.

This made Sicarius very unhappy, because it was like a silent irony and provocation, as if to prove that he was better than himself, Sicarius thought unhappily in his heart.

"No, I am the winner. I am the captain of the second company, not him." Sicarius muttered resentfully, looking around at the people below.

They didn't seem to notice Guilliman's arrival, and just when Sicarius was about to loudly announce the arrival of the Primarch, he was stopped by Guilliman. He smiled and shook his head, and Guilliman walked down himself, step by step from the long steps in the middle.

"Hello everyone, I hope everything goes well for you." Guilliman said kindly. As he spoke, the group noticed his arrival. Bell immediately stood up and saluted the Primarch, Eisenstein also stood up immediately, and Loken turned around and saluted Guilliman in a standard military salute.

Ragnar, who was obviously slow to react, hadn't reacted yet. He was still howling and stabbing at Lancelot with his battle axe, "Take my sword!" "You idiot, it's obviously an axe."

The two of them swung their weapons at each other, and the crackling sound and their laughter completely made them ignore the giants behind them. Guilliman looked at them jokingly with a kind smile, but Olaf would not be as indifferent as the Primarch.

The old wolf stepped forward and slapped the two men on the head. The two stupid warriors turned their heads to look at the old wolf. Just when they were about to complain, their heads were turned away by the old wolf. Now they finally saw the Primarch.

Ragnar was silent for a moment, then hummed meaningfully, "Ah, good afternoon, sir."

Okay, he is still so stupid, but this way of greeting reminds Guilliman of Leo. Although his way of greeting is to come up and give you a bear hug, then put you down and punch you in the chest, this generous way of greeting can always make Guilliman feel nauseous for a while.

"It seems that you are in good spirits, which makes me feel relieved." Guilliman smiled and nodded and turned back, while Ragnar unconsciously put his hands on his waist and laughed, "That's right, we killed a lot of heretics, but they all smell like a pile of walking feces, hahaha!"

"You idiot! You are talking to the Primarch." Lancelot elbowed Ragnar and warned him, but Guilliman still smiled kindly, and he raised his iron fist to signal Lancelot.

"No need to be restrained. In a private place, I hope everyone can relax and be natural." "I heard you all. Be natural." Vito said very directly, and he supported himself with both hands and sat on the multi-functional projection platform. Good guy, he really shines with a little sunshine.

Sicarius walked down the stairs behind him. He looked at Vito with dissatisfaction but couldn't say anything. After all, he was the Supreme Marshal. Even he had to be respectful in the presence of Guilliman. Besides, the Primarch didn't look angry.

Guilliman walked to Vito with a joking smile. He supported himself on the table with one hand and nodded to Loken beside Vito, "You passive guy, did you find anything when you went down? Don't tell me that you were busy with a lady and forgot about the business."

"Fuck, am I such a shameless person?!" Vito said righteously.

"Like." Ragnar said decisively, Lancelot also agreed, followed by Bell, Loken and others. Vito looked around at them and waved his fist angrily, "Damn! You are dismantling your boss's desk, where is your professional quality?"

"You have no quality, hurry up, have you found anything?" Guilliman was no longer tactful and decent. He knew that he didn't need to talk to Vito in this way. It would be best if you just called him an idiot.

Vito made a sound and waved his hand. He took out the palm-sized rune stone from his arms. Vito tapped the surface of the holographic projection. As he let go again, the rune stone also floated up, rotating and stagnating in the gravitational light band of the holographic platform.

Guilliman looked at the thing and took a few steps forward. He leaned on the table and looked at the suspended rune stone with a slightly frown and a bitter smile, "So, you went down and walked around for a long time to pick up a stone? What's wrong? You have too many things to write, so you have to find a nice-looking stone to use as a paperweight?"

"Take this damn thing? How should I put it? Although I do have a heavy taste sometimes, I think Nurgle's rune stone is still not suitable for me." Vito smiled jokingly and flicked the suspended stone. The rune stone rotated in the air with the flick of his fingertips.

"What?!" Sicarius shouted loudly after being startled. He walked forward and looked at the stone in shock, then looked at Vito with a frown, "Marshal, are you crazy?! How can you bring Nurgle's creation on board, the Emperor is above! This thing will kill everyone on the ship!"

"Calm down, Sicarius, don't yell in a hurry, this thing will neither kill you nor kill others." Vito said, flicking the stone lightly, and the tractor beam was rapidly moving. The rotating rune stone kept flashing, and the rune stone on it emitted a faint green light.

"The spiritual power of rune stones is inherently weak, and this kind of rune is one of the weaker ones. Only several rune stones placed together in an array can have some effect."

Vito waved his hand relaxedly as he spoke. He sat on the edge of the stone jokingly, not caring about the Nurgle runes flashing on it. "This thing is so strong that it makes people feel a slight cold. No normal person will." There is a problem, let alone you are Asta. Pah!" Vito stopped before he finished speaking. He raised his head and sneezed loudly.

"Aha! It looks like your health is failing. You must have kidney deficiency!" Ragnar immediately seized the opportunity and shouted. He pointed at Vito and laughed, and poked Lancelot on the side with his elbow. Knight Caliban smiled jokingly and crossed his arms.

"Yes, kidney deficiency, it must be kidney deficiency." To be honest, a dark angel, Ryan's gloomy, serious and weird son, so active, can really make people call him a heretic.

"Fuck you two, my body can last another hundred thousand years!" Vito pointed at himself with his thumb confidently, and then he sneezed again. This time it was Loken's turn to laugh jokingly behind him. .

"Kidney deficiency." "My God, Lorcan, why are you making noises? You virgins, shut up!" Vito yelled. He was obviously a little frustrated. Ragnar and Lancelot laughed. But Olaf beside them looked at Vito in confusion.

"Virgin? I don't know about them, but I'm not, I" "Damn! Heretic! I must tell Logan, you heretic!"

Vito waved his fingers and shouted. The surrounding warriors were amused. Even Eisenstein showed a rare smile. Guilliman looked at Vito and smiled softly before looking up at the rune stone, " Okay, let’s get down to business, what the hell is this?”

Vito also smiled. He leaned back with his hands and looked at the rune stone. The thing was spinning in the air, and its rough workmanship and desperate carving skills were clearly revealed to everyone.

"Rune stones are an ancient trick. For Nurgle's plague to spread in the world, it requires the ability of the Nurgle domain itself to maintain it, and the Nurgle demon itself is the projection point of Nurgle's power, similar to a signal base station, which can send Ya The power of space is projected into the physical universe, causing plagues and influenza.”

"In other words, each demon itself is a node, a key to the realm of chaos, so every time a Nurgle demon appears, there will definitely be a plague in that place, and the empire can also interrupt it by killing the Nurgle demon. Nurgle's power stabilizes, thus ending the plague."

Vito looked at the shimmering rune stone and used many memories in his mind. He took a deep breath and exhaled, "And the rune stones are a little trick. They can tear open one without the presence of the devil." The small crack allows the magic of the Chaos Realm to seep in. I remember that guy from long ago, the Emperor, called this thing the Wind of Magic."

"Wind of magic?" Guilliman asked strangely from the side, and Vito shrugged helplessly, "Understand, it was still in the Middle Ages at that time, and his vocabulary was limited. He was also quite a magician at the time, so he made up Such a word.”

"In short, rune stones can be engraved with the words of different evil gods, their sacred numbers, blasphemous words, etc. to create a weak window to connect to the subspace. Although it can be connected to the subspace, the magical wind blowing out It’s very weak and basically can’t do much, so demons never use it.”

Vito spread his hands and sighed helplessly, "So, this thing was invented by humans. Ancient Terra was invented by a group of cultists a long time ago, but it never caused any big problems. After all, the energy was too weak. Those The plague that destroys the world cannot be sustained at all, and can only summon some minor problems that are insignificant. "

"I remember that the fire disease in the Middle Ages was caused by a certain rune stone circle. However, the symptoms of this plague are generally not fatal, and it does not have any major impact on the human body. Most of them can be cured. There is no need to believe that Nurgle can do it. It’s useless, I’ve never seen Nurgle demons and their followers use this kind of thing.”

"So over time, this thing was forgotten, except for the occasional idiot charlatan who brought it out to make a fuss. But such charlatans don't need me and the emperor to do anything. They can just find a knight or an old farmer to carry a sickle. I can take care of him."

Guilliman raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at the rune stone in front of him. He raised an iron fist and touched the stone. The stone quickly spun in front of Guilliman, "From what you said, it seems that this kind of thing has disappeared. It has been there for many years, and its power is quite weak, but considering the current situation of the Plague of Tears that is spreading throughout the galaxy, it doesn’t look like it is very weak.”

"Yes, someone has enhanced it. Although I don't know how, it has indeed been enhanced. The fallen monks in those monasteries also developed preliminary Nurgle lesions. Planet-level plagues can also appear, but other The power is still very weak.”

"Very weak?" Guilliman asked in confusion, Vito nodded seriously, "Yes, it is still very weak. Although it has been strengthened for a round, it still cannot support the emergence of any demons. All we encountered when we were down there were evil spirits. The cultists didn’t even see a single Nurgling.”

"Furthermore, the Plague of Tears' lethality is very weak, weaker than I expected. It has no fatality rate at all. Even if your eyes are blinded by crying, you can recover without any side effects. This is completely inconsistent with Nurgle's characteristics."

Vito sat on the table and held his chin, thinking carefully. He waved his hand as he spoke, "Nurgle's plagues are all highly contagious, with high disease and fatality rates, and are almost incurable, so that the desperate sick people can I believe in Nurgle, but the Plague of Tears does not meet any of the above points. The symptoms are limited to crying, and there are not many disease effects. The most important thing is that people who do not believe in Nurgle can recover.”

"When I was down there, I discovered that this plague was very suspicious. It would only infect half of the people, while the other half were completely healthy. This couldn't be something done by Nurgle's followers. It was more like a game."

"Game?" Guilliman asked with a frown. Vito nodded seriously. He sighed and looked at the rune stone. "Yes, game. Half of them are infected and the other half are asymptomatic to cause chaos, riots and human instinct." Fear, most of the casualties on Korhar have nothing to do with the plague itself, but are caused by the chaos and suppression caused by the riots of panicked people."

"It's like an interesting social experiment, creating an opportunity to observe and appreciate human beings and the suffering they cause themselves." "I don't find it interesting."

Guilliman frowned and stood up. He looked at the stone and thought for a moment, "What is your conclusion?"

Vito also looked at the rune stone and was silent for a moment. He then sat up and nodded slightly, "This plague was not caused by Nurgle's followers. It may be ironic to say that Nurgle actually attaches great importance to the lives of believers and the existence of the disease itself. He does not The plague will be evacuated inexplicably, and Korhal obviously evacuates frequently. It will be evacuated as soon as you pass by, and then released after you leave. This is not something Nurgle would do. "

"Only two evil gods and their followers would like this, like chaos, turmoil and intrigue." Vitor said, raising two fingers, and Guilliman helped him tell the final answer.

"Tzeentch and Slaanesh, I understand." Guilliman dragged his chin and was silent for a long time. The surrounding Astartes warriors looked at each other in silence. No one disturbed the conversation between the original body and the Supreme Marshal.

After a long silence, Guilliman began to move around the functional platform. "If it is the believers of these two evil gods, conventional attack methods will definitely be useless. Not to mention that their people are difficult to find, and they have been found." , it’s easy to rebuild the rune stone array, isn’t it?”

"Yes, it's very simple to make rune stones. You just need to know the name of the Garden of Nurgle." "Name?" Vito said distressedly, while Bell, who was silent, spoke up. He asked about the name that Guilliman also wanted to ask. The problem.

Guilliman also stopped and looked at Vito, who patted his head and smiled bitterly, "Look at my memory, I forgot that you don't know, I'm sorry that I haven't explained this kind of problem to people for a long time, usually it's The emperor will be responsible for explaining, and I will be responsible for killing the opponent."

"The so-called name is also very simple. Every Nurgle plague, regardless of severity, is blown out from a corner of Nurgle Garden. Where is the source of the magic power of the plague gathered? Every garden has its own name. Nurgle Once you get it, as long as you know its name and spelling, you can carve it on the rune stone, and then open the connection gap between the garden and the physical universe. "

"So it's very simple to rebuild the rune stone array. Just carve a circle. It costs zero. You can go to that place just by knowing the name of the garden."

Vito stopped as he spoke. He was stunned for a moment and then touched his chin thoughtfully. Guilliman looked at him with some confusion, "So what should we do? This kind of guerrilla warfare is almost impossible to destroy. We can't keep doing it." Tired of dealing with this delay, I'm almost certain it's a stalling war, someone delaying our trip to Terra."

Vito seemed to have thought of something and suddenly smiled and patted his head. He looked at Guilliman jokingly and snapped his fingers. A small arc of electricity jumped from his fingertips. He turned on the communicator on his wrist. There was a crisp ticking sound, and the logo of the Mechanicus appeared on the display screen.

"Call, if I remember correctly, two centuries ago, at the request of the Inquisition, you developed a lightning teleportation beacon for the Gray Knights chapter that could pull the Gray Knights battle brothers back from the warp, right? ?”

"Correct, but that project did not meet the target requirements. The transmission beacon needs to be powerful enough to penetrate the subspace curtain and form a stable energy transmission belt under extremely harsh conditions to succeed. And this, in the chaotic subspace interference , it’s impossible to do.”

Kaul's weird mechanical sound came out from the communication channel, and the audio lines under the Mechanicus logo also shook.

Vito smiled jokingly, golden arcs dancing between his fingers. He looked at those arcs and smiled, "Give me a beacon and set the teleportation point on the Macragge's Glory. I believe that the Great Expedition version of this ship is equipped with a teleportation array and can be adapted to your little toys.”

"But this still doesn't solve the problem of subspace interference. Vito, you can't complete the transmission." "Don't worry, I will solve this problem. I will send the beacon here before setting off."

Vito turned off the communicator, and Kiri looked at Vito's smile with confusion. He laughed sinisterly, and the iconic old sinister smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He touched his chin and smiled.

"What are you doing?" Guilliman asked hesitantly, while Vito looked at him with an evil smile and shook his head slightly.

"I have an idea."