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Yes, that's the memory... Let me see...
Wait, what about the Emperor...?
The Emperor... oh no, it should be the Emperor...
"What! What is this?!"
Chapter 226 Tiberius: This is an insult to me!
Grey Knight: "......"
He silently released his hand, erasing the mortal's memories of the past and present.
No.
He saw nothing.
He didn't see anything!
There is no such thing as an emperor's miraculous appearance here; it is all an illusion created by them to deceive others!
He denies it!
He absolutely refuses to acknowledge that this is their human emperor!
This so-called imperial apparition is nothing but a scheme by a group of rumor-mongers, a group of chaotic believers, and a group of... perverted lunatics!
They also blasphemed the great emperor...
These idiots must be dealt with and eliminated!
......
No.
Actually, he wanted to get rid of himself.
As a Grey Knight, he had endured countless trials and tribulations in a mysterious monastery over many years—neither the temptations nor the threats of demons could shake his unwavering faith in the Emperor.
But he and the other Grey Knights examiners seemed to have forgotten an important criterion—
He can indeed resist the temptations of the devil, but what about the temptations of the emperor?
do not know.
Even the well-informed Grey Knights had never been trained on how to resist the Emperor's temptations, nor had they found any information on how to resist the Emperor's temptations in the Pandemonium.
Even the highest mentors of the Grey Knights would not make separate annotations for such entries.
This is a very dangerous idea.
What do you mean?
Are you saying that the tragic hero who bore the fate of all mankind, the great human emperor, was actually a Roman she-wolf?
This is an utter disgrace to the great Emperor!
Therefore, even if similar concerns have existed.
Even the emperor worried that he himself would be transformed into something he did not want to see due to the faith of countless people.
For example, in the arrangement of the final edict, the Emperor chose the Grey Knights instead of the Imperial Guard because he did not want the Imperial Guard's blind loyalty to lead them further down the wrong path after they became some kind of terrible entity.
But the emperor's vision was flawed...
should!
Could it be this kind of mistake?
!
At that moment, the Grey Knight felt as if he had discovered the significance of the ultimate decree.
He had once been incredibly puzzled as to why the Emperor would give them such an order.
In legend, the emperor's power was so immense that the energy from a mere gesture could crush an entire planet. It was because of his protection that humanity was able to emerge from chaos and perpetual peace.
If one day he is able to step down from the golden throne and walk among mortals—whether through resurrection, reincarnation into another body, or ascension into the warp in some form of warp entity...
If he (or she?) were to actually leave the Golden Throne, the Grey Knights would have to do everything in their power to bring him back to the throne and restore him to his terrible duties. In fact, the Grey Knights were created specifically to deal with this possibility.
The problem is that this task is beyond the capabilities of any other faction within the human empire.
Whether it's the Mechanicus, the Imperial Guard, the Astartes, or the Astral Army... how could they possibly be capable of bringing the Emperor, who has already risen again, back to the Golden Throne?
But the Emperor gave the Grey Knights such an unrealistic order.
To bring the emperor back to the golden throne?
Eh, me?
"It's obvious... the Emperor didn't want us to stop him from becoming a being of destruction, but rather—to prevent more people from seeing him in his current state!"
"The Emperor... the Emperor doesn't want others to see this side of him!"
The Grey Knight immediately understood!
The emperor's wisdom far surpassed that of all of them.
He must have had a deeper meaning in issuing the ultimate decree to the Grey Knights, which was impossible to fulfill!
"So that's how it is... So the Emperor had already foreseen what would happen today..."
According to historical documents he once accessed in the library of the Grey Knights Monastery, the Emperor scattered fragments of his humanity throughout the world before his final battle with the traitor Horus.
These fragments of humanity all possess some characteristics of the Emperor himself... and what he just saw from the memories of the mortal crew members was very likely a part of the Emperor's past.
That was a very large... no, a very feminine emperor!
The Grey Knight immediately understood the Emperor's deeper meaning.
Let alone the Emperor, even the Grey Knight himself wouldn't want to see the Emperor become like this!
I understand, I understand.
The Grey Knight understood why the Emperor had issued the final decree, yet remained silent.
How could you possibly say something like that!
The Grey Knight silently disappeared from the black ship.
Immediately afterwards, he skillfully dialed the psionic communication channel belonging to the Grey Knights.
"Investigation report on the so-called imperial apparitions on the black ship of the Tribunal."
"Based on our investigation of the crew's recollections at the scene... we discovered what appears to be a symbol of the Emperor's apparition on the black ship, but..."
As he was reporting, the Grey Knight was pondering how to present what he had seen and heard to the Grand Master.
Forget it.
Let's just lay out all our concerns and speculations.
"Master, I have a preliminary deduction..."
......
Endymion Galaxy.
As a sub-cluster of the White Scars, the Mantis Warriors' chapter of Space Marines naturally retained some of the traditions of their former parent chapter.
As a Space Marine Chapter adept at rapid strikes, most of the planets in the Endymion system have a considerable number of grasslands that serve as their training grounds and racing tracks.
This place was once a wasteland called Gogotan, but under the rule of Guilliman for seven thousand years and the current diligent governance of the tyrant Badab, it has transformed from an absolutely forbidden zone of life into a lush and verdant grassland.
"The Khan's descendants have never lost their love for racing, not even ten thousand years later."
Seeing another round of high-speed racing taking place at their encampment, the Red Scorpion, acting as diplomatic envoys...
As guests of the Mantis Warriors, after both sides ultimately chose to make peace, the Space Marines and mortals residing in the Endymion system offered them local food, drinks, and performances.
The performance was excellent.
But a crisis is looming.
"Wait, in the sky."
"what is that?"
"Has our ship returned? After we wiped out all the pirates?"
"It's our hero! Our heroes from the expedition have returned!!!"
People cannot hear any sounds outside the vacuum, but the shadows cast by the battle barges in the void seem to indicate the arrival of some kind of predators roaming the void.
That's not our ship.
"The Mantis Warriors have never associated with any chapter that bears this symbol."
At the camp, the Mantis Warrior, who was about to start his anti-gravity motorcycle again, shut down the roaring machine beneath him.
The markings on the battle barge were very old and worn, with gaps and signs of age that suggested they had been made during the Great Rebellion.
It was a fish-shaped pattern, and even in the distant near-Earth orbit, the unique vision granted to them by their genes allowed the Mantis Warriors to see the tiny details on this battle barge.
He felt a kind of... instinctive fear about it.
The intuition of the mantis warrior.
Immediately following, as if in response to his tension, the combat barge, which was rushing at high speed from the outside towards the planet's near-Earth orbit, simultaneously launched countless torpedo compartments from both sides of the barge toward the ground.
As a defensive planet for the Mantis Warriors, and the home of the Mantis Warriors, one of the guardians of Badab, this place has never been a weakly defended territory.
Before the torpedoes launched in scattered bursts could even hit the ground and explode, an almost invisible force dissolved them all.
The surface defense Void Shield intercepted these unexpected attacks.
Although they had no idea why the other side would release torpedoes to strike the Void Shield.
But the Mantis Warrior remained restrained, attempting to communicate with its opponent.
They had a feeling that these guys were purgatory agents sent by the human empire.
Others may not understand the paint scheme on the battle barge, but the only mantis warrior captain left to guard the planet's surface still vividly remembers the name Man-Eating Shark.
After luring the main force of the Mantis Warriors into the whirlpool, they finally couldn't resist tearing up the agreement.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have chosen this time to launch an attack on them!
Moreover, the main force of the Mantis Warriors is not here; only a small Astartes company remains on the planet's surface.
How could they possibly stand against an entire battle barge of Space Marines on their own?
However, in response, all they could hear was an extremely low, hoarse roar, like that of a deep-sea predator.
Tell those cowards... the man-eating shark is coming.
......
The torpedo was just a probe.
Because the Shark Squad was really poor, even the torpedoes they used for probing were nearly scrapped "stock".
To prevent waste, the antique rain, which had been stored for countless years, poured down at this moment.
They didn't care whether this thing would explode or not; it was just a trial balloon to test whether there was a Void Shield.
Countless landing craft and airships simultaneously launched a surprise attack on the planet's surface—aside from the roar of the man-eating shark, no one knew what kind of terrifying creatures they were or why they chose to descend upon the planet at this moment.
The man-eating shark excels in close-quarters combat.
Despite their poverty, each man-eating shark is equipped with a large number of chainsaw weapons for close combat.
Because chainsaw weapons are easy to obtain, have a large kill radius, and produce a more intimidating and terrifying effect of splattering blood, they also do not require charging like powered weapons.
—At the same time, not using ranged attacks also makes their combat very conserve ammunition.
As a member of the Shark Eater crew, you have to be careful with everything.
They were indeed a very, very poor legion.
Not only were there no suitable mortal crew members (slaves) to replenish them, but despite acquiring artifacts and relics that other legions could hardly imagine during their raids, they were also extremely lacking in the most basic power armor, ammunition, weapons, equipment, energy, food, and water.
It's like a top-of-the-line computer not lacking a high-end graphics card and processor—it simply runs out of power.
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