Warhammer: I don't want to become a stinky can!

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Ahriman's voice was hoarse.

"Why was it that when I saw the Crimson King again... he was already..."

"They've betrayed us?"

"What exactly did the empire do to him back then? That it caused my father to betray us?! How disappointed he must have been—to—"

Chiko's questioning came to an abrupt end.

Hades looked helplessly to his right, his crimson sideburns flying wildly, his noble ivory horn pointing to the sky, his single eye shining with pure white light, and the giant's red skin gleaming.

【I don't! 】

Magnus shouted, "I have not betrayed you! Magnus has never betrayed you! Azek—!!!"

“Wait,” Hades’s voice was drowned out by the Primarch and the Thousand Sons’ shouts, “The Lord of Mankind didn’t tell you about your father…”

Before he could finish speaking, Hades watched as Magnus charged towards Ahriman, who screamed like a mouse whose tail had been stepped on by a cat, and began chanting protective spells and curses.

"do not come!!!"

Ahriman roared,

"You puppet of the ever-changing world—I have never acknowledged you as the great Crimson King, get out of my way!!!"

Ah, Magnus's expression looked like he was about to break.

Ahriman's words may have caused substantial psychological damage to the Primarch, so much so that Magnus was unable to capture Ahriman immediately. The battle-hardened veteran of the Thousand Sons had already successfully retreated to the doorway, preparing to go out and call for reinforcements.

Hades, of course, would not allow this to happen. He nimbly flipped over the table, decisively reached the door before Ahriman, and blocked the way with his body.

"calm!!!"

Hades shouted, "Azek Ahriman, this is not an illusion of a world in flux!!!"

However, this was to no avail; Ahriman brandished his staff, enraged.

"Carlos!"

Ahriman shouted, immediately changing the incantation as he recited,

"I admit your novelty this time—the Descent of Hades! I knew that was impossible! That arrogant, negative psychic bastard should have died ten thousand years ago!!! Instead of sitting down and having a proper talk with a psychic grey knight! Even illusions have logic!!!"

Hades gave a polite but somewhat awkward smile.

Hades doesn't like hearing you say that.

But being a veteran who had fought against Tzeentch for ten thousand years, Hades decided he should be gentler.

The spell that lit up on Ahriman's staff struck Hades, but it only flickered.

“I respect your caution when facing chaos,” Hades chuckled, “but sometimes you can just recite the incantation directly and stop worrying about me.”

Hades leaned forward slightly, and the next moment, a storm arose!

【Don't!!!】

Magnus let out a short cry and lunged at Ahriman, seemingly trying to shield him from the attack, but Hades was one step ahead of him.

Hades squatted down with a smile, pressing Ahriman down with one hand so that Chiko's face made intimate contact with the floor, while clutching a glittering red stone in the other.

Ignoring Ahriman's screams, Hades used the Dark Domain directly to press it against his hand.

"Ahhhh!!! jrsrhub dj——"

Even so, Ahriman continued chanting the incantation relentlessly; he seemed to be beginning to hope that he was truly facing Tzeentch, and not...

Hades.

Hades!!!

Magnus roared, "Don't kill him!!!"

Hades slowly rose, looking with satisfaction at the utterly dejected expression on Ahriman's face, as if he had been possessed by a ghost.

"Am I that kind of person? Little—I'm just making Ahriman face reality."

Hades released the red stone, and the phantom of Magnus immediately sprang forth, looking worriedly at Ahriman on the ground.

"The concentration of the dark domain I released was very low; it didn't stun them."

Hades said, “Get up, Ahriman, stop playing dead. There is no such thing as a sudden change of the world here.”

He released a dark aura that enveloped the entire hall, even surrounding the two psionicists with a faint shadow.

Magnus's soul remained so beautiful that Hades silently retracted the thought.

“I assure you, in my name, that being by my side will be the safest place to escape chaos, Ahriman.”

Hades glanced at Magnus, then bent down and pulled Ahriman up.

"Given that you are behaving this way to be wary of chaos... I'll pretend I didn't hear anything."

Ariman's face remained expressionless. He stared at Hades, who wore a forced smile, then glanced at Magnus, who looked deeply worried.

Eighteen seconds later, Ahriman accepted this despairing reality.

He began to miss Tzeentch the Great Demon Carlos.

It's at least better than Hades.

"...Thank you for your forgiveness, sir."

Ahriman managed to squeeze out those words in a sullen voice, his momentum completely deflated.

“So…” He looked at Magnus, his eyes seemingly gleaming, “this is…?”

Hades patted Magnus on the shoulder.

“A part of your father’s… absolute loyalty, no doubt about it.”

"Isn't this a conspiracy by the Weaver of Fate?"

Ahriman choked up as he said, “I have been through too many similar things, Hades. No fragment is pure. The hatred for the Crimson Sinner is deeply engraved in the soul of the Grey Knight. He has taken away too many of our companions.”

Hades paused, then turned and looked Magnus over again.

He looked at Ahriman seriously.

"Believe me, believe me... the greatest soulless being in the history of the Empire. If I can't guarantee this, then no one can."

Hades said, but the image of Macado came to mind: "His past, present, and still loyal."

There is still a future.

Magnus said, swatting Hades' hand away and looking at Ahriman.

【forever.】

Magnus never betrayed them.

Magnus said seriously,

What you see of him... is merely the price paid by a loyalist for loyalty.

"And I," Magnus said, "am his 'cowardice' and 'kindness.'"

[The others...]

Magnus paused for a moment, then walked up to Ahriman, frowning.

As far as I know, the Lord of Changes has been trying to collect them, and other beings... are also collecting my other soul fragments.

Ah, Hades thought, the Magnus fragment he drew still looks like an SSR.

“I’ll give you some time and space to catch up? It seems this Thousand Sons still doesn’t fully trust you, Magnus.”

Hades said, "But in order to prevent chaos, I cannot give you complete freedom for the time being."

Magnus smiled, while Ahriman nodded somewhat awkwardly.

"Praise Hades."

Ahriman muttered,

"I guess this is the first kind thing you've said to me in ten thousand years."

Hades casually found a stool and sat down, skillfully opening the control panel. Taking advantage of the lull, he prepared to approve documents and schedule meetings.

Ahriman nodded.

Hades ignored Magnus's quiet exclamation and his attempt to keep Ahriman out of Hades's sight.

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Chapter 614 Psychic Power and Nirvana

"Tzeentch is truly a scoundrel..."

Hades muttered to himself, trying to minimize his presence so as not to interrupt the heartwarming father-son reunion on the other side of the hall.

Compared to the Thousand Sons who were obsessed with psychic powers ten thousand years ago, the current Ahriman is much more cautious and careful—otherwise, he wouldn't have survived for ten thousand years.

But what exactly happened and what happened during those ten thousand years is something only Ahriman himself knows.

They have struggled to survive for ten thousand years, believing the Primarch had betrayed them...

Thinking about it this way, the Lord of Humanity who didn't tell the old swindler the truth is also quite a bastard.

But if the Lord of Mankind were to reveal the glory and loyalty to Ahriman Magnus... could the Thousand Sons still resist the temptation and corruption of the traitorous Primarch?

……

Hard to say.

Hades decided to put the topic aside. Now that he was here, and now that they had a fragment of loyalty, there were no other assumptions. They only needed to guard against Tzeentch in the future.

However, the Lord of Man said that he could temporarily disregard Tzeentch...

Within the subspace, the Emperor has likely recently gone to pay a visit to the Lord of All Changes.

Hades pondered that, as of now, the Lord of Mankind must have the souls of several loyal Primarchs in his hands; it remained to be seen how he would use them.

Perhaps it is asleep, perhaps it is out strategizing with Macardo, or perhaps it has simply gone to attack Chaos like Mortarion.

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"This is Nirvana."

The emperor opened his eyes and calmly gazed at the Nirvana statue placed in the distance of the underground palace.

Within the burning golden eyes, the area where the massive cardinal operated was utterly silent; this silent existence had no machine spirit—the machine spirit being a symbol of the subspace.

Wonderful creation.

The Emperor gazed upon the Nirvana created by Hades—did Hades himself know that he had created something akin to a space necromancer?

In the beginning of the story, the Star God also transformed the Fearful Ones into space undead in this way.

A space necromancer transformed from a fearful of death, a personality purely programmed, a dead person who has completely abandoned their soul.

This is Hades, who has merged with the star god...

A helpless smile appeared on the lips of the Lord of Humanity. Perhaps only now did he realize how rebellious and earth-shattering his "creation" had been. In a sense, he had unleashed a new star god.

But he did not regret it; on the contrary, he felt gratified.

Humanity failed.

In the past Iron Man Wars, they suffered a crushing defeat; Iron Man technology, unaffected by the warp, was not the answer for the human race.

After that, the wildfire of ignorance and worship spread, the edifice of technology was overthrown and locked up, technology was considered a gift from heaven, and the subspace ideology swept over the technology developed by mankind.

Once upon a time, every glimmer of wisdom from a sage would transform into a thought in the subspace, observed by chaos, and benefited by chaos.