Warhammer 40: My Fiancée Fulgrim

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"A new weapon? A gift from Mars..."

During a break in the troop rotation, the tribunal picked up one of the new-style guard spears and examined it closely.

The spear, crafted from fine gold, remained as easy to wield as ever. Although it was too heavy for ordinary people to swing, it was just right for the Imperial Guard.

If there's anything different from the past, it's the gun barrel—the original explosive barrel has been removed in the new Guardian Spear design, leaving only the power spear tip and two switches.

......pity.

Actually, La quite likes this design.

Although the bomb gun is ineffective against demons, it is helpful for them to deal with other enemies in normal times.

"......etc?"

"Two switches?"

......

La no longer knew whether this was right or wrong.

Seeing the demons being swept away and cut in half at the waist by the long, long spears, even the most conservative Imperial Guard had to admit that this method was indeed very effective.

Making the spear extendable to achieve both melee hitboxes and long-range attack... who could have come up with such a design?

But it works.

The demons caught in the blast of the long spears seemed to be hurling insults at the Imperial Guard on the other side in their own language.

It's nothing more than calling him a "coward" or "despicable"...

Ugly, but ugly is useful.

Fully powered weapons may be rare in other legions, but the Imperial Guard would certainly not lack military supplies.

Newly charged guard spears were continuously delivered to every member of the Imperial Guard.

.......

Incredibly... they actually managed to hold off this miraculous city in the online world!

Even if the demon army is endless, they cannot keep running into the enemy's guns indefinitely in such a fierce war of attrition.

They are fearless, but not mindless.

Demons are greedy—rather than dying here and returning to the warp to be reborn, they would rather have other demons, or even people from other factions, act as meat shields to protect all the demons from the damage from the Imperial Guard and other forces.

The souls harvested after the conquest will naturally be enjoyed by the clever demons.

After crushing the exhausted Imperial Guard, each demon is now fully motivated to advance.

But... if you just walk right into the line of fire, it only makes it easier for other demons to get their fill... then those demons aren't so noble.

With absolutely no benefit to be gained, both sides actually stopped advancing in the various network channels connecting the cities and instead stood in a stalemate.

Once the war stabilizes, it will be countless times more difficult for the demon army to tear open another gap in this network than it is now.

The only thing that could break this situation was probably a large number of Tzeentch demons, who could use their superior spiritual power to break through the opponent's advantage of long reach and completely shatter the Guardians' stable defenses.

If they still wanted to prevent the warp from being completely extinguished by the Emperor's Webway Project, and if they had even a shred of strategic awareness, Tzeentch's demon army should have come to lead the demon army to break through the Imperial Guard right now.

But He did not.

During this time, He had something He considered more important to accomplish.

......

Ahriman carefully infiltrated the prison beneath the Imperial Palace.

Actually, it's nothing special—even when the Imperial Guards were all present, Dark Elven races and clown troupes had sneaked into the palace before.

After Ahriman lost the protection of the Soulless after most of the Imperial Guard and the Silent Sisters were transferred to the Net Path Defense, especially the latter, he had the opportunity to get close to the Father of Genes, whom he had always wanted to rescue.

Magnus.

At this time, the defenses of Terra Palace were weak. A large number of the Imperial Guards, including the Black Guards, had been transferred away. Even the most elite guards were no match for Ahriman, who had been blessed by the supreme god of wisdom.

Not only that, but to ensure the success of his operation, Tzeentch even detonated a group of Chaos cult members hidden in Terra Hive in advance, sending several Dark Lords of Shapeshifting directly into Terra Hive to corrupt the minds of the civilians and increase their fear of Chaos.

This forced Makado to personally go and erase the memories of everyone who knew about the incident, in order to reduce the impact of the event.

This gave Ahriman an opportunity.

—The blue bird really went to great lengths to rescue Magnus.

Even the plan to attack the Internet was put aside by Him.

As for Ahriman, he naturally shared the same goal as Tzeentch.

Or rather, everything he did after the Nicaea Conference was for the same purpose.

He wanted to prove to Magnus, the father of his genes, that the Primarch was actually wrong.

At the Council of Nicaea at that time, Ahriman, as one of the Thousand Sons who was being tried alongside the Primarch, was extremely dissatisfied with the Emperor's encirclement and suppression.

Although Magnus was indeed not very bright, everything the Emperor did, and the subsequent Emperor's sting operation, was pushing Magnus and the entire Thousand Sons toward their doom.

This deeply angered Ahriman.

If the Thousand Sons lose their research into psionic energy, what is the point of their existence?

Just then, as Magnus was taken away by the Emperor and the Thousand Sons were officially disbanded, he received the truth from his old friend in the blue warp.

—In fact, the emperor was the one who started all of this!

It was he, the Fire Stealer of the Warp, who used the same power to create the twenty-one Primarchs!

From the very beginning, he has been exploring, researching, and utilizing the warp!

Long before Magnus did this, the Emperor had already amassed boundless knowledge and power along this path.

But he was afraid to share... This is true of all tyrants; power corrupts their hearts, absolute power corrupts absolutely...

Fearing that his dirty deal with the alien god would be discovered by his children, and fearing that his children would imitate him and gain power comparable to his own... the Emperor forbade psychic research and maliciously lured Magnus into his trap!

Everything was to cover up his own despicable acts, even to the point of imprisoning his own child!

The emperor was more treacherous and tyrannical than they imagined...

Faced with this undeniable truth, Ahriman resolved to help these intelligent and kind-hearted warp beings overthrow the hateful Emperor who had stripped him of his reason for being!

In the vast and boundless wisdom of the warp, why are all the most precious and powerful places possessed by the Emperor alone?

he.......

It turns out that the Emperor had planned this from the very beginning!

He will use all of humanity's resources and countless deaths as sacrifices to complete his ascension to godhood!

The Emperor has long since betrayed them; only the Imperial Double-Headed Eagle remains loyal!

Just like Magnus, who had prepared a psionic phone call, Ahriman, with the same mindset of saving all of humanity, contacted other members who originally belonged to the Thousand Sons and began his meticulous rebellion plan.

Until now.

"Father!!"

After a frantic search and countless hardships, he was finally able to stand before his genetic father.

【Ariman? Why are you here?】

Psychic communication is convenient and quick, requiring no words at all; all the information that happened during this period was poured into Magnus's mind.

Then, he was horrified.

"You bastard! What have you done?!"

Magnus was furious.

idiot!

idiot!!!

[You...you shattered the network! And you even instigated several Astartes legions to rebel?]

[A large-scale sacrificial ceremony? A subspace storm?]

Are you all insane? Won't we become the enemy of all mankind if we continue like this?

"That's right!"

Ahriman spoke earnestly.

"Father, even if it means going against the whole world, we will save you!"

Magnus... he did not understand the meaning of Ahriman's words.

"But...why should I make enemies of the whole world?"

Just as Magnus, a magical pony, is among the offspring of the Emperor, a magical great pony, there will naturally be many more among Magnus's offspring...

My Little Pony.

It's a ridiculous loop.

“Father, whether right or wrong, the fruit of fate has already been borne. If we continue to dwell on gains and losses here, we will never have a chance to rise above our circumstances.”

"Stop thinking about that, sir. Let's go!"

No matter what you say, it's useless. Anyway, it's already done. In the future, you can study countless things at will in the vast ocean.

It's up to you whether you want to join us!

"Go! Where can I go with you if I leave?"

With no time to think and no other choice, Magnus struggled internally for a while before finally deciding to leave with Ahriman.

......

The Glory of Macurag.

Bow of the ship.

Guilliman struggled to wield the silver short sword in his hand, slowly supporting himself up along his bleeding arm.

In fact, in his one-on-one duel with Luo Jia, he should have been the one to win.

In close combat, despite Luo Jia's advantage with the Chaos Artifact, Guilliman's superb combat skills were clearly far superior to Luo Jia's rudimentary abilities.

Soon, his opponent was forced to retreat in defeat, only able to barely defend himself.

Unfortunately, whether due to his inherent passivity or some other reason, while Guilliman believed he was in a one-on-one situation, Luo Jia never agreed to it.

As more Ultramarines landed with the Emperor's Son's fleet, the elite Ultramarines, serving as the Ultramarines' personal guards, instantly surrounded and protected Guilliman.

"You go deal with the other Word Bearers and warp creatures, I'll handle this!"

Guilliman growled in a low voice, his eyes now bloodshot, only the blood of the traitor Luo Jia could wash away his anger.

Then.....

Then they revealed their true colors—elite troops from the Alpha Group, who launched a surprise attack on Guilliman, who had let his guard down.

Although with Guilliman's speed and strength, it wouldn't be difficult for him to suppress Luo Jia while also dealing with these nine Alphas.

But even Guilliman himself did not expect that among the nine elite Alpha Legion soldiers who were besieging them, there was a real Alpharis.

Under the piercing blow of the opponent's pale spear, Guilliman fell to his knees with difficulty.

“Alpharis...you...”

"Brother, I am everywhere."

The hydra spoke with a confident tone.

"Thank you, but I should be fine too."

Luo Jia got up from the ground, stretched his body, and then raised the giant hammer in his hand, ready to smash it down on Guilliman, meeting his defiant gaze.

"Sorry, brother, I had no choice."

Even with the original body's physical attributes, this attack would only result in it being shattered to pieces.

"Wait a minute."

But just then, the Hydra's spear blocked Luo Jia's path.

"Luojia, take your hammer aside, I'll handle this."