Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

"Sypher."

"grown ups."

"My lord? Okay."

Vito found Cypher on the top of the rock, a secluded garden located among the thousands of cannons on the back of the rock, with a standing shield raised overhead, blocking out the vacuum.

Cypher is here, he has not been arrested, although according to many people in the Dark Angels, especially Asmodai, he is definitely a fallen angel.

But Raun let him go. He personally ordered that Cypher be allowed to move freely and accepted him as his son, the Dark Angel.

"How many years will it take for that planet to recover?" Seifer asked, looking at the planet in orbit above his head, with green air masses floating in its atmosphere.

The Imperial fleet is hovering in orbit, cleaning up the wreckage of the Tau after the war. They are densely floating on the surface of the planet, and the missing parts fall into the planet's atmosphere and turn into meteors and hit the earth.

"The effect of the virus bomb has weakened. It will disappear completely in another week, and then it will probably take many years to rebuild."

Vito walked over to Cypher and looked with him at the planet in the Gulf of Damocles, where most mortals were left to be eligible for the coronation ceremony and all that followed.

"Sorry for making this happen." Saifu said with sincere apology, "But we have no choice, the brothers will not listen to us, they do not believe us."

"It's a good thing you didn't come directly here. If they see you, they will beat them into sieves immediately." Vito said, with his hands behind his back.

"Forget it, everything has happened. Although the casualties of mortals are regrettable, after all." Vito hesitated for a moment, then looked back at the inside of the giant rock, "Replaced with a original body."

Is it worth exchanging the names of millions of mortals for the return of one Primarch? I don't know, but I guess it's worth it these days.

"Congratulations, you completed the mission." Vito said congratulations, but Seifer smiled bitterly.

"congratulate?"

"You completed your mission and returned the Lion King Sword to your father. He is back."

"Then it's not me you should congratulate." Cypher said, but he had no regrets. "The one who really brought him back was not me, but Luther."

"It was he who told us how to find the tree and get the power to awaken my father from it. In the end, it was all this, not me."

"I spent many years looking for a way, but he brought it."

Next, Cypher told Vito everything that had happened.

After Cypher escaped from the giant rock, he did not escape into the void and hide. Instead, he found Cypher and other fallen angels, those fallen angels who were guilty and eager to atone their sins.

He told them that during Caliban's long imprisonment, he saw a hallucination. At first, Luther thought he was crazy. Many times, he didn't know whether he was crazy.

But the vision came again and again, on that day of the week, on the night when he made the mistake of wounding Lane on Caliban.

In his dream, he saw a tree, a tree growing on the endless sea, with a golden crow standing on it, calling him every night.

"The way to salvation is in this, awaken him."

The crow said this, every night and every dawn, it said this. Finally Luther believed him and swore in his dream that he would find the tree. Then, at dawn one day, he was released.

The little men in green robes opened his cell and let him go silently.

After that, he found Seifer and told him what happened in his dream.

"We searched for the tree and finally found it after countless trials. We found the tree on a primitive planet and on an icy sea."

Seifer said, "It was a dead tree, and no one knew what to do. Then the crow appeared. It was golden and shining like the sun in the blizzard. It looked at me with those eyes and told me to pull it out. Sword, thrust into the trees.”

"And you did it," Vito said.

"Yes, I did. The moment the sword blade pierced the trees, the surrounding ice and snow melted, and the oceans, mountains, and the entire world were awakened."

"And that sword was also burned by golden fire." Saifu said, touching the sword that was no longer on his back. "The crow told me to stab him into Ryan's chest. At first I didn't believe it, but in the end Still believe it.”

Vito snorted, shook his head and smiled, he knew who the crow was.

"Finally you came, it happened, and Ryan woke up." Vito said calmly, and the confusion in his heart disappeared.

"And in order to board the rock, you created a chaos, and then took advantage of the chaos to get on the boat and take a gamble to find Ryan and stick the sword in."

"right."

"A bold gamble." Vito said without hesitation. "If you are slower or make mistakes, you will be caught by Azrael and the others, and then executed."

"They will not relent, and they will not believe you."

"That's why we need to gamble. Fortunately, we won, but" Saifu said hesitantly

"They may not escape death." Vito said for him. Yes, if you really know Ryan, you will know that he will not choose to forgive Luther's betrayal and their actions just because of these things.

This kind of Ryan is him, a king, a serious, ungrateful but just person. He was like this in the past, and he is like this now after waking up.

"He leaves the trial to you, Marshal." Luther said slowly, casting a glance.

"This is just a court martial."

"You know that's not the case. If it was just a trial, he could do it himself." Luther pointed out, "He has now become the king of the First Legion again and can judge them by himself. He can sentence them to death at that time, but he did not ”

"He leaves that in your hands and he wants you to make the decision for him."

After Luther said this, Vito looked at him silently, but said nothing.

"Ryan, the Lion King, he can't make this decision." Luther said silently, with sadness in his words, "You know, no matter what Luther has been like, he is Ryan's first father, although he has never been called Don't call him that."

"He wants you to make the decision for him."

"Then what kind of decision do you think he would like me to make?" Vito asked, "Do you want to forgive him for him?"

Cypher did not answer. He remained silent. Vito sighed and looked at the clouds of the planet with his hands behind his back. "He is Lion, the leader of the First Legion and the eldest son of the Emperor."

"What about the Emperor? What would he hope for?"

Cypher asked, "He gave Luther that dream to guide him away. What is Luther to him? Who are all of us?"

Faced with Seifer's question, Vito did not answer. He responded with silence. The two looked at each other wordlessly for a long time, and then ended with Vito turning around and leaving.

Seifer watched his back until he disappeared into the darkness. At the door, there was a crow's feathers, black feathers, as dark as the deepest night.