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

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Footsteps came from behind him.

The old man bowed slightly, his wrinkled lips muttering something.

"My lord, something has happened."

The emperor looked up, his eyes burning with golden flames, as if piercing through an endless sea of ​​stars.

The emperor muttered something under his breath, as if confirming something.

Finally, a word came to rest on his lips.

"...Luojia".

The Emperor frowned in disbelief. He paused for a moment, and the next instant, the Lord of Humanity issued his command.

"Summon Hades to the Eye of Terror immediately!"

The emperor shouted,

"Tell him not to go to the Sixteenth Legion yet! Now, tell all the legions near the Eye of Fear to go to the Eye of Fear immediately! And to obey Hades's orders."

Their primary target this time is the Eye of Fear! Not the Primarch!

Once the Eye of Fear opens, half the Empire will be engulfed in the warp turbulence! Countless legions will be trapped in a physical world intertwined with the warp. And now… the state religion hasn't spread widely yet. If those trapped in the warp turbulence were to witness the truth of the warp…

The Emperor took a deep breath... Moreover, such a large-scale spiritual energy, if used properly...

"Call Ruth over here!"

He says,

The bells stopped ringing when Lemanrus's hurried footsteps reached the end of the corridor.

The bells of Terra rang a total of thirteen times, and the Emperor did not mourn for a moment.

Angertai stared at the Primarch who was following Peturabo back in the distance, and something seemed off.

I have nothing to do today, I have an exam.

Chapter 393 Hades sensed something was terribly wrong.

【Corcusts】

The crisp, heavy clatter of footsteps echoed through the completely dark stone corridor. Even the flawlessly polished gold appeared dull and lifeless in the darkness, like ordinary metal.

Charon stepped across the babbling stream of blood, the dampness leaving its mark on the soles of his boots. The deepest darkness stared at him, and in the dimness, an eerie green light was the only source of light.

Beneath his helmet, Charon took a deep breath almost imperceptibly, catching that familiar scent—

Charon suddenly pushed the door open.

"Pluto, urgent news, please stop eating."

On the long steel table, Charon saw Hades slowly turn his head. Hades held a bowl in one hand, while Kirkland was holding a pot, preparing to serve Hades rice.

Hades blinked, made a difficult swallowing motion, and then looked at Charon, the Imperial Guard.

"What happened? Tell me."

Hades casually turned his head again, gesturing to Kirkland not to throw it away, saying he would eat these.

Charon took a deep breath and stood at attention, saluting.

"The Lord of Mankind has ordered the entire Order of Silent to immediately proceed to the Misty Starfield, Cygnus X-1, and to cancel the plan to go to Shadowmoon Wolf. The legions near the Cygnus Starfield have also been ordered to await your command."

Charon saw that Hades had stopped fighting with Kirkland's limbs that were holding a spoon; Hades had stopped.

"that's it?"

Hades' voice rang out.

Charon nodded.

"Subspace communication is becoming increasingly difficult, and some information is being lost, or rather, this is the most complete information we can receive."

Hades slowly put down the bowl.

"Okay... let me see..."

The inexplicable information prompted him to immediately head to the Misty Starfield, even abandoning Horus. What on earth was it?

In just a few breaths, Hades had already conceived countless possibilities.

Hades pulled up the star chart, Cygnus X-1… He was to find it.

? !

An Eye of Fear?!

Hades' breath hitched.

Charon stood at attention, and Hades rose silently, his red light sharply fixed on the Imperial Guard.

"All troops, turn around and proceed at full speed to the Eye of Fear - Cygnus X-1. Prepare for battle."

Charon left immediately, while Hades stood silently in place, as if deep in thought.

Kirkland fell silent, waiting quietly beside Hades.

After a long silence, the great sage heard Hades sigh deeply. He sat down sadly and began to eat his last meal that he could sit down to eat.

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Hades had already envisioned countless possibilities regarding the Great Rebellion.

He could even accept that Mortarion was the first to fall into evil, or that there were various strange pseudo-scriptures, such as fallen angels... The only thing that could truly astonish Hades was the Imperial Pseudo-scripture.

However, based on his biological observations of Neos, Hades always believed that the Emperor could not possibly travel along pseudomeridians.

The original Great Rebellion was a campaign launched by the Four Gods to allow the Emperor to ascend to godhood and become the Dark Lord.

According to the original story, if the Emperor hadn't ascended to godhood in 30k (or rather, if the Emperor hadn't wanted to ascend to godhood at all), then with the cumulative effect of the forced indoctrination of human faith, the Emperor would eventually be forced to become the Dark Lord.

However, after being prayed to for thousands, or even ten thousand years, the strength of the God-Emperor who has absorbed the faith of a large number of believers is obviously far greater than that of the current Emperor. At that time, the God-Emperor's ascension to godhood will become a real disaster—not only for mankind, but also for the Four Gods.

The solution in the original story is to put the emperor on a golden toilet, where he is half-dead and constantly stuck in a bug, but as soon as the emperor stands up from his throne, the end of the world will come.

Hades, while fiddling with the Emperor's middle finger bone, thought to himself...

The Emperor clearly did not want to become a god. In the original story, the Emperor sat on the Golden Throne, and now the Emperor handed over the finger bone to Hades, all in order to suppress faith and avoid becoming a god.

But this would contradict the expectations of the Four Gods, who hoped that the Emperor would ascend to godhood, or rather, that in order to prevent human faith from stirring up waves of calamity in the Warp, a god must emerge from the race called "human" and sit on a throne in the Warp.

In the original story, the final battle between Horus and the Emperor was like this: the dead became sacrifices, while the living were elevated to the God of Darkness. Regardless of who won or lost, the four gods' wishes could be fulfilled. Unfortunately, the Emperor used the Golden Throne to achieve a bug-like feat.

Hades pondered, staring at the finger bone before him, realizing he had made a mistake—

If we follow the logic of purpose, then the ultimate goal of the Four Gods is not the Primarch, nor is it trying to destroy the Empire, nor is it the final battle on Terra...

Hades and the Emperor's previous deductions and measures were entirely based on the premise of preventing Primarch rebellion.

Hades took a deep breath. Why hadn't the Emperor realized this? Hades recalled the Emperor's request for him to go to Horus's side... Was Neos panicking? Was he? Or had he seen something in Tzeentch's prophecy that caused him to be so fixated on the Primarch?

Primarchs are not their primary target.

Hades thought silently,

The vision of the Four Gods was simple: to elevate emperors to godhood.

So… Hades slowly thought… who is the obstacle preventing the Emperor from ascending to godhood?

Who is it?

Hades put away the finger bone, silently covered his eyes, and sighed. The Emperor had really screwed him over; he might as well have gone to Horus.

Since the Four Gods' target is not the Primitive, the rest is easy to deduce.

Hades stared at the map, his eyes filled with fear.

He read it to himself.

This is aimed at him.

Hades was absolutely certain of this.

This is definitely aimed at him. The warp of the Eye of Terror is basically mixed with the physical world. If the warp strength is too high, his Dark Domain will be suppressed.

But Hades had to go.

Because that is the eye of fear.

The Eye of Terror in the Misty Starfield was torn open by the psionic storm that gave birth to the Slaanesh. Here, the warp was able to successfully erode the physical world. To prevent the warp from expanding, the Necromancers of the past placed black stone obelisks on a series of planets at the Eye of Terror to stabilize the physical space of this area.

Regarding the Eye of Terror... Hades knew the story from 40k, where Abaddon deliberately destroyed the Black Stone Obelisk that the Necromancers used to suppress the warp. With the eventual collapse of the Cardia, the defenses that suppressed the Eye of Terror completely crumbled, and a massive warp storm erupted, tearing the entire Imperium in two.

If Chaos truly intends to cause a major upheaval at the Eye of Terror, tearing apart the Empire, then Hades must also go to the Eye of Terror, because if the Eye of Terror is indeed opened and half of the Empire's territory is swept up by warp turbulence... this catastrophe will be no less severe than the Primarch Rebellion.

Moreover, once the Legions are trapped in the dark side of the warp, it means that those Legions and Primarchs will be directly exposed to the gaze of the Four Gods. If they then plot against the Fallen Primarchs, the consequences will be unimaginable.

In other words, Hades now knows that the Four Gods are targeting him, and that they are preparing to use the Eye of Terror against him, but Hades now has to go to the Eye of Terror to stop the warp storm from erupting—because there is indeed no one more suitable than him who can foresee 40k.

After all, this battle will mean fighting demons, something only the Silent Order has experienced... The Death Guard and the World Eaters are too far from the Misty Starfield now.

Hades let out a silent wail.

But now it's 30k!

During the Great Crusade, the Empire's army had absolutely no experience fighting demons. What made Hades even more desperate was that, in 30k, the Empire had not conquered the star system near the Eye of Chaos, which was the territory of Chaos!

Hades swallowed hard. In other words, if Hades did not intervene in the fate of the Empire, the Four Gods would choose to become the conventional corrupted Primarchs. But now that the Emperor had decided to use Hades to throw shit into the Warp and overturn the table at any time, the Four Gods... could naturally choose to open the Eye of Terror.

On one hand, the Emperor is releasing the 30k National Religion game ahead of schedule, and on the other hand, the Four Gods are releasing the 30k Eye of Fear game ahead of schedule. Please, please stop accelerating the version updates! What if you crash the servers?!

Hades took a deep breath, stared at the map, and decided not to insult the Emperor and the Four Gods. He casually circled the location of the Eye of Terror on the map.

The two legions near the Eye of Fear are... the Iron Hand and the Iron Warriors, who have just wiped out the remnants of the Ulanor army.

Who is it?

Hades realized that the Silent Order could only receive Terra's vague astral language, and descriptions of specific individuals were being erased.

Did they all rebel? Or did none of them, and the Four Gods are causing trouble at the Eye of Fear with the help of other forces?

Furthermore… Hades paused. In the original story, it was Abaddon who blew up the Black Stone Obelisk, thus unleashing the Eye of Terror. However, the Black Stone Obelisk itself had the effect of amplifying psionic energy. If the Four Gods really wanted to go all out…

Hades began to call out to the Figurine King in his heart, but unfortunately, Tarachin did not equip Hades with a communication ability, so the Figurine King did not come during the last Great Vortex.

In the original story, Tarachin appeared in the Eye of Fear, but the reason why the Figurine King was able to come was because a bell in its collection suddenly rang.

And that bell… Hades thought to himself, that’s a product of the damn state religion! Who knows where that 30k thing is!

Although Hades desperately wanted to call for allies, he was prepared for the possibility that no one and no undead could come to his aid.

On the map, besides the two Iron Legions closest to the Eye of Terror, there are also the Emperor's Sons in the northeast and the Raven Guards in the northwest. Given the difficulties of warp travel, it will still take some time for the two legions to reach the Eye of Terror.

Moreover... Hades wasn't sure if they had received a decree from Terra.

Hades couldn't even be sure whether the Iron Hand and the Iron Warriors had received Terra's decree.

Hades sighed again. Fortunately, the Emperor and Macado gave him some keepsakes before they parted.

The best-case scenario is that neither of the two Iron Legions is corrupted and is willing to assist Hades in guarding the Eye of Terror; the worst-case scenario is that both legions have fallen.

On the map, Hades deduced the possible battle situation... Not only the Eye of Fear, Hades was certain that the Four Gods also wanted to do something elsewhere while he and the Emperor were distracted.

...Horus.

Hades' first thought was the War General.

But what can Hades do?

Hades remained silent, even though he tried to warn Horus to be careful, as such information could be lost in the already unstable subspace communications.

He stared at the map. Horus wasn't far from Baal... Hades thought that if Horus really sensed something was wrong, he would seek help from the archangel.

On his home planet, Sangilis, Hades thought that the probability of corruption was very small. The only Primarchs who were ambushed on his home planet were the two unlucky guys, Mortarion and Angron. And the Archangel in his normal state should be able to keep Horus in check.

Hades sighed again.

He can only go to one place; now it's up to the other Primarchs to decide their fate.

Within the timeframe, Hades and the Emperor have done everything they can to prepare for the Primarchs.

Now is the time for trial.

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