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"Benefactor? Friend?"

Even though he was being held down by the Emperor, Chagatai narrowed his eyes in surprise and said thoughtfully.

"I thought the Emperor wouldn't even notice those things. You've surprised me, Your Majesty!"

"Even the me of the past has my friends. Don't forget Makado. Alas, I still owe him a moment of remembrance and a moment of silence."

The emperor patted Chagatai on the shoulder, pointed to the huge round table, and turned to the Imperial Guards.

“My soldiers, there aren’t enough chairs here.”

"As you command, Your Majesty!"

The guards quickly dispatched about ten more men to leave the palace and find a sufficient number of large chairs, which they then arranged around the table according to seating arrangements.

The emperor then pressed Chagatai into his place, placed his hands on his shoulders, and spoke with reminiscence.

"Actually, I don't like this table. I disliked it from the first moment I saw it."

Because there are only your seats at this table, Guilliman.

If you were all sitting here, you would be suspected of attributing everything to yourselves.

But in my eyes, in the world I can see.

Far too many lives are being sacrificed for the human empire, yet only you have been given the opportunity to sit here!

At this point, the Emperor turned his head and smiled at Celestine.

He then spoke to Celestine.

“Celestein, this is the first time we’ve had such a relaxed conversation, isn’t it?”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Celestine responded, flattered, his wings fluttering uncontrollably as he spoke.

Upon noticing Celestine's wings, Chagatai Khan couldn't help but ponder for a moment before exclaiming in surprise.

"Those wings...you are Saint Gilles' daughter?"

"She is my daughter, the one I chose!"

But unlike you, you were chosen only because I created you, while she, even without my creation, possesses a dazzling soul capable of captivating anyone!

The emperor answered Chagatai's question and particularly affirmed Celestine's significance.

Upon hearing this, Chagatai nodded knowingly, and then asked the Imperial Guards standing not far away.

“Golden soldiers, can you tell me how long we’ve been lost in the net?”

Although in my own opinion, I was only lost for a few months, a few years, or at most a few decades.

But the world seems to have changed. I don’t remember emperors of the past promoting the existence of such a religiously significant life as an example for their empires.

Even now, I still remember the perfect city of Luojia. Wasn't its goal to adorn the emperor and his protectors with such a beautiful halo?
If not enough time has passed, then... such a change is too drastic, I can hardly accept it!

As soon as he finished speaking, Chagatai glanced at Celestine's wings again.

As Chagatai silently examined the feathers on his wings, Downton waved his hand again.

Suddenly, an elderly man, tall but with an unusually aged face, who looked more like an elder of the emperor, stepped out of the flames.

The moment he appeared, Death raised its hand and gently waved, absorbing a portion of the death energy from the man.

While he was given a healthy body, death did not change, or rather, did not change, his advanced age.

Feeling that many of the hidden injuries in his body had disappeared, the old man clenched his fist thoughtfully, then looked around.

When he saw the emperor standing on the ground, he opened his mouth in surprise and asked.

"Father, you...?"

"As you can see, I am well, my offspring."

You should care more about yourself than me, because you're getting old, my child.

Upon seeing the old man's face clearly, the emperor couldn't help but gasp.

Standing before him now was his eldest son, the Primarch of the First Legion, known to the world as the Lion King, Leon Johnson!
However, the Lion King of today is no longer the spirited man he once was, and his proud personality is nowhere to be seen.

Now his hair is gray, and he has a few wrinkles on his face, especially his hairline, which has receded a bit.

Although he looked much older, the Lion King was still very handsome.

But now, he has transformed from that exceptionally handsome young man into this elegant middle-aged man.

The Lion King and the Emperor exchanged a glance, then looked around and said.

"Where is Luther?"

"Tsk tsk, loser~"

Upon hearing the Lion King's words, Downton, seated on his throne, waved and smiled.

"When you mentioned Luther, I thought you were talking about my friend."

I should know that the Loser you're talking about isn't the Loser I know. The Loser you're referring to is your mentor, right?

At this point, Downton, sitting on his throne, made a comical face, shrugging and spreading his hands exaggeratedly as he continued, jokingly.

There are five things in Warhammer that interest me.

First, the Legion has no secrets!
Second, long live the Empire!
Third, the Legion will always be loyal!
Fourth, the Primarch is forever loyal!
Fifth, the evil god sits on the throne!

Haha!

And you, Leon Johnson, father of the dark angels, the great Lion King.

Your story with Luther, isn't that the very secret your descendants emphasize so much... that the First Legion has no secrets?

As soon as he finished speaking, Downton couldn't help but burst out laughing on his throne.

Hearing Downton's laughter, the Lion King was genuinely confused, after all, he himself was not quite aware that the First Legion had no secrets.

Unlike the others around him, who were all prompted to think about something by Downton's words.

For example, Guilliman was extremely nervous because of the words "Long live the Second Reich".

The surrounding Imperial Guards seemed to be aroused again by the words that the Fifth Evil God sat on the throne.

As for Lion King Leon Johnson.

Well, he really didn't know what secrets his legion held.

However, he was well aware of the Second Reich's affairs, so he turned around with displeasure and glared at Guilliman, whose muscles were clenched.

Following the Lion King's gaze, Guilliman could sense that his elder brother was blaming him for leaking the information about the Second Reich.

However, Guilliman didn't care about his older brother's thoughts, after all, he and his older brother had already fallen out long ago!

Long ago, before Guilliman had made up his mind to establish the Second Reich.

Guilliman chose to seek the approval of his eldest and ninth brothers.

At that time, the Horus Rebellion had just occurred, and the footsteps of chaos had completely entered the territory of the Empire, taking root and even flourishing in the Empire's most important Astartes Legion.

Almost every Legion and Primarch was affected to some extent. Leaving aside those Primarchs and Legions that chose to betray, let's just talk about the loyalists.

The Dark Angels are certainly loyalists, and the Ultramarines are certainly loyalists, but even among them, there are a certain number of traitors who have sided with Horus and clearly stood on the side of Chaos.

During that period, civil wars broke out incessantly among the major legions, and the situation even made people feel that every Astartes company sent out on missions was likely to be plagued by internal strife.

Against this backdrop, the flames of betrayal ignited by Horus burned fiercely within the Empire.

This reality deeply disturbed Guilliman.

So Guilliman summoned his elder brother Leon Johnson and his ninth brother Saint Gilles to discuss the future of the empire.

No one knows what they talked about, but shortly after their conversation, the Second Empire was established.

Guilliman, with the support of the First and Ninth Legions, declared the establishment of the Second Reich, based on his Ultramarines Legion and the five hundred worlds of Macragge ruled by the Ultramarines!

Of course, this so-called second empire did not last long.

The timing of the establishment of the Second Empire was as ridiculous as the brief rebellion of Horus.

Not long after Horus rebelled, he reached the Emperor and, with the support and divine intervention of the four Chaos Gods, gained power that almost surpassed that of the Emperor.

After Magnus's good intentions backfired, forcing the Emperor onto the Golden Throne, Horus arrived on Terra with the power bestowed upon him by the four gods.

On that day, the Emperor's best friend, the Imperial Chancellor Macardo, was an immortal born two thousand years in the future, and an old man who was over twenty-eight thousand years old.

He stepped forward and sat on the golden throne in place of the emperor, using his psychic power, second only to the emperor's, to completely block the network.

Therefore, the emperor finally had the opportunity to rise from his throne and, dragging his weary body, engage in a one-on-one battle with his son Horus.

The battle lasted a day and a night. The Emperor nearly lost the battle and even managed to gain a respite by appealing to Horus's emotions. Only then did he finally turn the tide and defeat his rebellious son, who had been manipulated and heavily bet on by the four Chaos merchants.

As for the Imperial Chancellor, Macardo…

It was this all-day perseverance that led to Macardo's death on the Golden Throne.

While Makador's psionic abilities are inferior to the Emperor's, the gap between them is not as large as one might imagine.

As for Macado's cause of death, it was simply because his body was too fragile to withstand the impact of the Golden Throne.

Even the physical body and spiritual energy of an emperor were drained by the Golden Throne, leaving him as a skin and bones, a mere skeleton.

Makado simply couldn't withstand that kind of impact; he was literally risking his life to bear it.

In short, the Horus Rebellion began with the defection of many Primarchs and Legions from the Empire, proceeded through the deaths of figures such as Sangilius, and ended with the deaths of Horus and Macardo.

After the Horus Rebellion ended, Guilliman, who arrived late, finally halted the Second Empire's plans upon reaching Terra and finding the Emperor sitting on his throne, unable to speak or move.

Of the people who started the Second Empire together, only two remain today.

Guilliman and Leon Johnson were speechless with emotion.

But while lamenting the deaths of Sanguis and Macardo, Guilliman and Johnson, who once had a barely decent relationship, became increasingly estranged due to their mutual distrust of each other.

After all, at that time, Leon Johnson had always aimed to become a war coach.

Before Horus's rebellion, he lost the competition for the position of warmaster to Horus, but that's another story.

So, after the Horus Rebellion, who should the Empire appoint as its new Warmaster after losing its Warmaster?

At that time, Leon Johnson was naturally the one to take the lead.

Just as Johnson was seriously competing for the position of general, Guilliman pulled away his ladder.

The position of Warmaster was a new role that emerged in the Empire after the Emperor created the Primarch and subsequently created many Astartes Legions.

The emperor, mindful of his poor father-son relationship with his children, decided to select a sociable and suitable son to serve as a position to command and coordinate all his sons and the proud Astartes Legion.

However, after the rebellion, Guilliman directly coerced the imperial authorities and issued the Codex Astartes, which decisively dismantled the various legions!

After the massive Astartes Legion was broken down into smaller battle groups of a maximum of one thousand men, did the Empire still need a Warmaster to manage these smaller battle groups?
Stop joking. The various chapter leaders don't have the same influence as the Primarch.

Managing a warband only requires Imperial officials.

Therefore, Guilliman did not express any ambition to compete with Johnson for the title of general manager.

But Guilliman's actions shattered Leon Johnson's dream of becoming a war coach, which is why their relationship became increasingly strained.

Of course, many things happened after that, and ten thousand years have passed.

Zhuang Sen no longer cares about the position of War Commander.

Time has taken away his youth, and even more so, his temper and pride.

Now he's like an old man, having become indifferent to many greedy pursuits.

As for the secret that Zhuang Sen was currently wondering about—the secret that the First Legion had no secrets…

This all started with Zhuang Sen's disappearance.

As is well known, the Dark Angels were absolutely loyal during the Horus Rebellion.

But shortly after Horus's death, after Leon Johnson returned to the Legion from Terra.

Something happened that he could not have imagined.

The First Legion's Dark Angels were based in a world called Caliban, which was located near what would later become the Eye of Terror.

In short, when Leon Johnson returned to his home planet Caliban, he was met with a rude awakening from attacks by his own offspring and mentor.

It turns out that when Johnson went to Terra, Leon's mentor, Luther, who remained in Caliban, had long ago defected to Chaos out of jealousy of Leon.

Meanwhile, the Dark Angel on Caliban followed Luther, betrayed Leon, and became a fallen angel.

Leon had barely arrived at Caliban's interstellar orbit when he was met with a fierce attack from Luther and the fallen angels.

The furious and arrogant Leon could not swallow this insult, so he directly ordered the fleet to use all means to retaliate against the traitor, and then begin landing.

And so, after dealing with the rebellion, Leon and Luthor began their final battle.

Leon initially held the upper hand, but he eventually felt compassion for Luther, and it was this compassion that led to Leon being hurt by Luther instead.

As for what happens next...

A sudden subspace storm swept through the physical universe where Caliban was located, tearing a huge rift in space.

At this time, Caliban was already in ruins due to the fleet's bombing. Then, a warp storm blew Caliban away, leaving only a monastery.

Leon Johnson also disappeared in this warp storm. His disappearance, along with the betrayal of the fallen angels, dealt a double blow that left the remaining dark angels completely bewildered.

Because the Dark Angels were the first Astartes Legion to be established, and were truly the First Legion, they believed they should be absolutely loyal.

Thus, after this foolish and shameful internal strife broke out, the dark angels desperately covered up the facts, concealed Caliban's events, and spared no effort in hunting down the few remaining fallen angels in order to destroy the evidence.

As time went by, fewer and fewer Dark Angels knew about this, and only a few inner circle members still knew about that past.

But every member of the inner circle swore to keep this secret.

They desperately try to cover up this secret and never mention it. If anyone finds out, the members of the Dark Angels' inner circle will do everything in their power to silence them.

This is the famous...

The First Legion has no secrets! (End of Chapter)