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The crow king's life has been really tough.

Really.

But even what he perceives as suffering is actually just a buffer and embellishment before the real pain arrives.

After the Raven King lost the means to quickly rebuild his legion, his offspring, whose mutation pathways had been altered and turned them into monsters, set off in small teams to every most dangerous place in the universe.

They weren't fighting a guerrilla war; instead, they were using suicidal methods to complete the most dangerous missions.

For every two Dark Guard squads that go out on a mission, there's not a chance that one or two of them will return alive.

And so, the tormented Raven King and his tormented offspring wandered the universe for some time.

But then, the Crow King received even worse news!
As he was immersed in grief, he suddenly learned that the Primarch of the Ninth Legion, Sangilius, had been tortured to death by the rebellious Horus in Terra.

It is said that even the body of Saint Gilles was not left behind, only a pile of mud!
On the same day, the Imperial Chancellor, the elder of all Primarchs, who stood between the Emperor and the Primarchs and constantly mediated their father-son relationship... the Emperor's friend, Macardo, also died!
Meanwhile, the Emperor was also seriously injured in the battle with Horus and was carried back to the throne by Rogue Dorne, where he sat and refused to get down.

On the same day, Dorne, the Primarch of the Imperial Fist Legion, also vanished without a trace.

Upon learning this news, King Corax returned to Terra in despair, only to find his father sitting withered on the throne.

He can no longer even speak a single word to his father...

Meanwhile, the still irritable and easily angered Lion King Johnson had a serious argument with the Raven King after returning to Terra.

In this argument, the Lion King berated the Raven King for not playing any role in the Horus rebellion and for not returning to Terra in time, calling him a useless piece of trash in the face of Horus!
Yes, back then, Lion King Zhuang Sen was indeed that kind of irritable person.

With his blond hair, he looks as dangerous as a lion when he's extremely enraged.

Faced with the Lion King's accusations, which stemmed from his anger and loss of reason, the Crow King did not continue arguing with him. Instead, he lowered his head in silence and offered no further response.

He was seething with anger, and no matter what, he was determined to vent it all on those traitors who had betrayed him!

but……

Just as Corax was taking his last breath, Guilliman suddenly issued the Astartes Codex, which stripped him of his military power!

Well, actually he didn't have much military power, because there were only a few Dark Guards left.

But he didn't think he could find any more good news in Terra.

Thus, suppressing his pain and anger, the Raven King led his few remaining offspring back to their home planet.

At that time, Corax was already on the verge of his limit.

But misfortune never comes singly; just after he returned to his home planet, something even more terrible happened there!

Does anyone remember what kind of childhood the Raven King had after being taken away from the Emperor by the power of chaos?

Yes, he landed on an industrial planet dominated by the exploitation of workers, was adopted by a worker, and became a glorious, strong and healthy ox.

Once upon a time, the Crow King led his fellow workers in a desperate resistance against the oppression of the factory owners.

But before this process was over, the Emperor came knocking and took the Crow King away.

After Corax accepted his legion, he immediately saved his fellow workers on his homeworld and used those workers who had participated in the revolution with him as recruits for the Dark Guard.

Back then, Corax still harbored dreams; he wanted to lead his fellow workers to a better future.

The pressure of being the Primarch and leading the Legion in the Empire is simply too great.

Corax had far too many things to deal with and too many wars to fight.

Unwittingly, Corax neglected his management of his home planet.

As the war in the universe intensified, Korax increasingly forgot about his home planet.

The bitter fruit of his forgetting finally erupted after he returned to his home planet, exhausted from Terra!
On that day, a new revolution broke out once again on the homeworld of the Dark Guard.

This time, however, Corax was a revolutionary who had led his fellow workers to overthrow the factory owners...

They became slave owners who were overthrown by the new workers!
It turns out that after the Dark Guard's map was ambushed, and then Alpha sabotaged their upgrade path from behind, the Dark Guard's plans were disrupted.

The resources and power needed to rebuild the Dark Guard are also increasing.

The Dark Guardians are not Ultramarines; they don't conquer a planet and then rule it.

Korax was a man of principle; he had no intention of overstepping the Emperor's authority to rule the planet that rightfully belonged to him.

Therefore, the resources needed for the rebuilding of the Dark Guard can only be obtained from their homeworld and a few worlds nearby.

This undoubtedly caused great damage to their home planet and created new forms of exploitation for the workers there.

If they had never seen the light, the workers on their home planet might have been able to endure it.

But the revolution in Corax more than a century ago is still vivid in our minds, and the shadow of this history is also engraved in the blood of the new generation of workers.

So, faced with the new forms of exploitation, the workers simply revolted!
This undoubtedly caused enormous damage to the Dark Guard!

Unlike in the past, the current Corax understands the vastness of the universe and the imminent danger to humanity.

Although Horus is dead, every traitorous Legion and Primarch continues to cause greater harm to the Imperium and humanity!
This is not a catastrophe facing a planet.

Rather, it is the suffering that thousands, even billions, of planets will endure.

This is a pressure that cannot be borne by just one person or one family.

This is a catastrophic disaster that could befall trillions upon trillions of people at any moment!
So this time, Corax, with his remaining 1,800 offspring, ruthlessly suppressed the workers' revolution on his home planet.

This crackdown undoubtedly brought Corax's heart to a near freeze.

But this is not the end, because this time it is the workers of the previous generation who are suppressing the new generation of workers!
The Astartes in the Dark Guard, who were originally workers, had already undergone a failed surgery and were showing signs of mutation.

This crackdown shattered the hearts and beliefs of those Astartes.

The price of losing faith is severe. In a short period of time, most of the Astas in the Dark Legion have experienced increasingly severe physical mutations.

It got so bad that they lost the rationality that humans and Astartes should have, turning into pure monsters who slaughtered their former comrades!

Faced with this situation, Corax had no choice but to grit his teeth and endure the pain in his heart, and ruthlessly kill those offspring who had completely lost their minds and brains!
In just two days, Corax killed at least a thousand of his past offspring, leaving the remaining Dark Guard with less than a warband, or a thousand men.

Even that's an exaggeration, because he killed almost all of his fellow workers!

In the past, he led his fellow workers with great enthusiasm and ambition, pursuing a better future.

Even after becoming the Primarch and leading the Legion, he remained spirited and strived to bring a better future to the universe.

But when he turned around, he suddenly realized that he had nothing left!

He had clearly put in so much effort and sacrifice for the future, and endured so much pain.

But he suppressed his fellow workers, he slaughtered his legion's offspring, his homeworld remained in dire straits, and his legion saw no hope of rebuilding.

He once possessed so much. But all he ever had was a fleeting possession.

When he looked at himself again now, he realized...

Did he ever possess it?
He has absolutely nothing!
No one knows what kind of heavy river flowed through Corax's heart at that moment.

All people know is that after that day, Korax disappeared from his home planet!
Having just lost his brothers Felus and Vulcan, he considered ending his life with a suicidal mission.

Now that he is in pain countless times greater than before, will he still care about his life?
And so, alone, Corax charged into the Eye of Terror, the front line of the physical universe in the warp!

He charged in alone, vowing to kill every subspace demon he encountered along the way, until he finally killed the damned Luo Jia!

Luojia...

Luojia!!!

It all started with Luo Jia. He mistakenly prayed to the Emperor as if he were a god. He failed to stay true to himself after being punished by the Emperor. He seduced the War General Horus after his fall from grace. And it was he who, along with his traitorous bastards, ambushed him and his two best brothers!

Luojia!!!

At this moment, Corax could no longer hold any emotions in his heart, only hatred for Luo Jia remained!

He remained lost in the Eye of Fear for a very long time until one day, a monster covered in black liquid, whose appearance inspired fear, finally arrived at the castle of the Word Bearers!

At that time, Luo Jia had already embraced his subspace essence, transforming into something countless times stronger than the Demon Prince and the Great Demon, becoming an existence comparable to a Chaos Demigod.

This change made Luo Jia deeply feel the power of life.

Endure a thousand kinds of suffering, and surrender to the enemy with a single thought of leniency.

Ascending to the demon realm is so awesome, so incredibly awesome!!!

He's become a monster!
And so, just when he discovered the monster was closing in on him...

When he immediately recognized the deformed man as the brother he had once ambushed...

Luo Jia was overjoyed!

why?
Because when Luo Jia, along with Fugen and Koz, launched a surprise attack on Felus, Corax, and Vulcan.

Fugan simply chopped Feralas's head off.

Koz directly captured Vulcan, the immortal being who could not be killed.

Only Luo Jia was beaten half to death by Corax, and was almost killed by Luo Jia!
If it weren't for Coz's timely rescue, pulling him out of the battlefield after he was rendered incapacitated.

Then Corax's claws weren't stuck in his shoulder, they were stuck in his head!

Corax hates Luo Jia, but doesn't Luo Jia hate Corax, who made him look bad and even killed him?

As for whether Luo Jia can beat Clarks?
Luo Jia, who had already ascended to the level of a demon, believed there was no problem.

If I couldn't beat you before I ascended to demonhood, that's one thing, but if I still can't beat you after ascending to demonhood, then what the hell was the point of my ascension?
Moreover, Luo Jia is not alone; he has an entire Legion of Word Bearers by his side!
And so, faced with Corax's arrival, Luo Jia rushed out with great interest.

Then he got a good beating from Corax, who was in pain!
How far did that battle go?

In short, the Word Bearers sacrificed nearly eight thousand lives to finally snatch the dying Luo Jia back from Kolacs.

I wonder if Luo Jia will think that he really did ascend to demonhood in vain.

In short, those who harbor such sentiments are now completely numb from this day forward.

Since he failed to kill Luo Jia, Corax decided to block Luo Jia's door from that day onwards and refuse to leave!

One day, two days...

One year, two years...

Nearly ten thousand years have passed, and Corax's obsession has driven Luo Jia to the brink of death!
He never regretted betraying the emperor, nor did he regret attacking his own brother.

He only regretted that when he launched the sneak attack, he had chosen his nineteenth brother, that great traitor, as his target!
Having managed to inflict such damage on Luojia, Corax has certainly embraced his subspace nature.

But Corax and Luojia are fundamentally different because Corax only embraces power, not thought.

All that remained in his mind at that moment was hatred!

The key issue is that neither Luo Jia nor Corax could have imagined that Corax's true nature was so powerful!
He was so strong that he could almost crush every demon prince and great demon, and he could easily beat the ascended demon Luo Jia and his entire legion of tens of thousands of Huaiyan Zhe!
Even though Luo Jia has been blocked at the gate for so long, the four Chaos Peddler's haven't been able to send anyone to rescue him, because there's simply no piece stronger than Corax on this chessboard!
And so it went, until the day Downton Abbey arrived.

Corax is still blocking the entrance to Luojia.

And Luojia...

What else could he do? He dared not go out, not even for a moment!

Ten thousand years ago, when Luo Jia was brutally beaten by Corax at his doorstep, Luo Jia could at least make out Corax's shape.

His body was covered in black liquid and black feathers grew out.

But at least he still had a physical form back then!
And the current Corax...

From a distance, all you can see is a dark and mysterious black mist!

Only when Corax knocks on the gates of the Word Bearer's Castle can one see a glimpse of the black mist condensing into a tiny fragment!
It's easy to imagine how much improvement Corax, who had been marinated in hatred for thousands of years, had gained!
Luo Jia couldn't even beat Corax from 10,000 years ago, so how could he possibly beat Clarks now?
What a joke!
Just as Luo Jia, feeling utterly frustrated, was about to put up with the day and continue pretending not to hear Corax's taunts, she was about to give up.

Suddenly, the voice disappeared!

At first, Luo Jia thought that Corax was continuing to lie in wait in preparation for a sneak attack.

But not long after, his Word-Bearer offspring brought him news that shocked him greatly and was somewhat incomprehensible!

"what?"

Looking at her offspring who had come to deliver the message, Luo Jia pounded on her skull scepter, the head of which was wrapped in a chaotic eight-pointed star, and asked in surprise.

"You mean that bastard Corax disappeared?"

Completely disappeared?
Even when you sent out two small teams to search, they weren't attacked by him?
"Is he really gone?"

Luo Jia was a little frightened. It wasn't that he had developed masochism from being cornered by Corax, but rather that in this universe, stability is the best situation, and even the worst-case scenario of stability is better than change!

Luo Jia had no idea that Corax had been dragged away by someone.

He would only think...

Spicy balls!

Corax is starting to use new tricks!

Damn it!! (End of Chapter)