American comics: Enlightenment in Arkham, Ascension to Homelander.

At that time, the human empire was in chaos, with wars raging between the Primarchs.

Even Chagatai Khan, the most poetic and rational of the Primarchs, could not distinguish who was loyal and who was a traitor!
However, not all chaos is the same, because chaos has too little effect on the traitors.

They don't need to consider whether the enemy is loyal; they just need to kill to their heart's content!

In just a few years, Horus led his army to conquer cities and strongholds, marching all the way to Terra.

Wherever he went, he was almost invincible; no one could stop his advance.

The only emperor qualified to suppress Horus has now ascended the golden throne.

The cataclysmic events of the net-path created by Magnus placed a heavy burden on the Emperor, preventing him from ever focusing his attention on Horus again.

In this seemingly hopeless situation, the wolf king finally rediscovered his beliefs.

In the past, beneath the wolf king's barbaric face lay a rational mind, but he was not the kind of person who was particularly good at devising tactics.

But it is precisely because of his single-mindedness in battle that he is more likely to understand the current situation of the human empire.

The Wolf King knew that, despite the astonishing scale of the chaos forces and the traitors, the core of the traitors was still only one person: Horus himself!

Thus, the wolf king devised a decapitation plan: he would personally go to Horus, cut off Horus's head, and present it to his father!

But the Wolf King was well aware of the power gap between himself and Horus.

Although the Wolf King boasted that he was no weaker than any Primarch, his reason told him that Horus, empowered by the four Chaos Gods, was no enemy he could defeat!

But the decapitation plan must be carried out, otherwise the already wounded empire will continue to crumble endlessly!
In search of a way to defeat Horus, the Wolf King returned to his home planet and prayed, pondered, and sought a method to defeat Horus in the cold Temple of the Underworld.

In the end, perhaps the mysterious god of the underworld gave him guidance, or perhaps he figured out a way on his own.

In short, at the last moment before Horus arrived on Terra, the Wolf King Lemanrus left his homeworld and led his loyal offspring to block Horus's inevitable path!
This time, the Wolf King did not use his old chainsaw sword, but instead took out the Dionysian spear that the Emperor had once given him.

At this moment, no one knew the mysterious functions of the Dionysian Spear, because the Wolf King had hardly ever used it.

But his instincts and the guidance of the god of the underworld told him that the Dionysian spear contained the emperor's blessing, which not only had the ability to resist the corruption of chaos, but also the ability to dispel the blessing of the evil god!

And so, Lemanrus, wielding the spear of Dionysus, engaged in an earth-shattering battle with Horus!
When the wolf king attacked, Horus angrily cursed him as the emperor's dog, a hopeless and stupid dog.

Lemanrus paid no heed to Horus's curses, for he considered himself the emperor's loyal dog, the kind of loyal dog who would feel he deserved to die even if the emperor ordered his death.

In short, Horus's curses had absolutely no effect on Lemanrus's fighting ability. The battle between Lemanrus and Horus was so intense that even the Astartes under their banners couldn't see their movements clearly!
After the battle had gone on for a long time, Horus seized an opportunity and tore the wolf king’s shoulder armor and shoulder apart with his power claws.

The wolf king traded blows, seizing the opportunity when Horus had severely wounded him, and plunged the spear of Dionysus directly into Horus's stomach.

The moment Dionysus's spear pierced Horus's body, the curse of the four Chaos Gods was instantly dispelled, and Horus lost all his fighting ability.

He knelt on the ground, looking up at Lemanrus with his eyes, which were no longer affected by the four Chaos Gods, and with longing.

After the images of the four Chaos Gods faded from his body, he was extremely weak and could not even move a finger.

This is not a phenomenon that lasts for one or two seconds, but will continue for at least ten seconds. For the next ten seconds or so, Horus will be completely powerless to resist!

At this moment, the Wolf King only needs to swing his hand and Horus's head will fall off, bringing his rebellion to an end.

But strangely enough, looking into his eyes filled with emotion, the wolf king's heart softened...

For the wolf king, Horus was his best brother.

The first son the emperor found was Horus, and the second was Lemanrus. They were the brothers who had the most contact with each other!
With such emotions in his heart, Lemanrus grabbed Horus's shoulders and asked him, his voice choked with emotion.

"Can you come back, my brother?"

"That's difficult, but... why don't you cut off my head?"

Horus slowly answered the wolf king's question, then slowly endured a period of weakness lasting more than ten seconds, and was quietly re-possessed by the blessings of the four gods.

The moment he recovered, he plunged his power claws into Lemanrus's chest!

The outcome was reversed in the blink of an eye. The wolf king was ruined by his own compassion. He not only lost his only chance to kill Horus, but he was also going to die at Horus's hands.

Just then, the Astartes, the space wolves, launched a desperate attack on Horus, sacrificing more than eight thousand Astartes' lives before finally managing to snatch the wolf king back from Horus.

In this battle, the Wolf King suffered a crushing defeat. Not only was he too badly injured to participate in the future battle for Terra.

His descendants were also reduced to almost no more than three thousand due to the battle with Ruth.

When the Wolf King, barely recovered, returned to Terra, what he saw was the scene everyone knows.

Saint Gilles was smashed into a pulp by Horus, and the emperor was severely injured by Horus...

Looking at the dead angel and the wounded emperor, the wolf king was overwhelmed with guilt.

It was all his fault. He should have swung that sword and cut off Horus's head!
Everything right now is his fault!!!
The wolf king was driven to the brink of madness by unparalleled guilt, and his madness just happened to collide with the lion king's anger.

The two immediately engaged in battle on Terra.

In the end, the wolf king, overwhelmed with guilt, was the first to lose his fighting ability, and the lion king pierced his heart again.

Dragging his severely wounded body and heart, the Wolf King paid his last respects to his silent, emaciated father, returned to his home planet to lick his wounds, and silently restored the number of offspring in the Space Wolf Legion.

Centuries later, at a banquet during the Emperor's Ascension Day.

The wolf king could no longer tolerate his mistake.

In the past, he mistakenly let Horus go, which led to Horus severely injuring the Emperor!
Now, he has the responsibility to travel to every most dangerous place in the universe in search of the Golden Tree that can cure the Emperor!

And so, the Wolf King left behind his beloved offspring Bjorn and disappeared into the Eye of Fear with his wolf guards.

Only now was Downton dragging him back to Holy Terra.

Looking at Lemanrus, who was lying at his feet crying, the Emperor patted him on the shoulder and couldn't help but smile.

After all, Lemanrus was the only one who had ever beaten him!

When the Emperor brought Lemanrus back, Lemanrus issued three challenges to the Emperor.

They are eating, drinking, and fighting!
The person who wins two challenges automatically wins.

In the eating contest, the emperor had only eaten one leg of a cow when Lemanrus had already devoured the entire cow.

In the drinking contest, the Emperor had only drunk one barrel of mead, while Lemanrus had already drunk three.

In reality, the Emperor had already lost this best-of-three challenge. But Lemanrus, who was drunk, insisted on a third match with the Emperor, even saying that if the Emperor won the third match, then even if it was a best-of-three contest, he would consider the Emperor a winner and be willing to leave the home planet with the Emperor.

If Lemanrus hadn't issued the final challenge, the Emperor would have lost completely long ago. That's why the Emperor couldn't wait to knock Lemanrus unconscious with a single punch...

In short, the emperor liked his son Lemanrus.

When he saw Lemanrus eating and drinking without any restraint, he had already taken a liking to this good-for-nothing son.

Hearing the wolf king's cries, the emperor lifted him up and placed him in his seat, saying...

"Don't cry, my child, wait here for the return of your next brother."

“I know, Father. Although I know nothing, I will never disobey any of your orders, never!”

And also, I'm sorry, Father!
I should have cut off his head back then. I should have cut off that damned head. It's all my fault..."

“It has nothing to do with that, child. It’s all fate. It’s not your fault.”

The Emperor offered Leman Russ a final word of comfort, then looked expectantly at Downton.

As for Downton.

He reached out and grabbed a large, greenish-brown figure from thin air.

"What the hell?"

The moment that guy appeared in the palace, the Lion King couldn't help but draw his weapon.

"The orcs have invaded?"

As he asked the question, he tried to rush toward the figure completely enveloped in green light.

How could the Lion King not recognize the Waaagh energy belonging to the orcs?

That kind of energy seemed to clung to almost every orc.

But before the Lion King could make a move, the Emperor blocked his way, letting him see what was under the green light.

The Lion King looked closely...

Oh, no wonder he couldn't see it clearly, because that guy was so dark, so dark it was like a void, making the Lion King think there was only a set of green armor in that green light.

Who else could this giant, dark figure be but the Primarch of the Eighteenth Legion, the Lord of Fire Dragons, Vulgan Volkan!

Unlike the other Primarchs, Vulcan not only possessed remarkable forging abilities, but also inherited a special gene from the Emperor: immortality!
Yes, Vulcan is an immortal!
In the Warhammer universe, the concept of immortals is unique.

Rather than calling them immortal beings, it would be more accurate to say they are the undead.

In the Warhammer universe, the immortals possess a unique divinity; they are not only immortal, but also cannot be completely killed.

Unless they are killed by some extremely special means and rituals, the immortals can always crawl back out of hell no matter how much torture they suffer!
The massacre in Istvaan in the early stages of the Horus Rebellion was proof that the rebellion had officially begun.

In that massacre, Loka, Koz, and Fugen led their legions in a treacherous sneak attack on the Iron Hand, the Salamanders, and the Dark Guard.

Among them, Feralus, the Primarch of the Iron Hand, had his head cut off by Folgen, then brought before the Emperor by Horus, and finally retrieved by Rogdorath.

As for Vulcan, after being defeated by Koz, he was taken back to the Eye of Terror and tormented for a very long time.

Because Vulcan is immortal, no matter how much Koz tortures him, he cannot be completely killed.

Enraged, Koz resolved to break Vulcan's heart with boundless suffering, driving him to utter ruin.

As everyone knows, Vulcan was a living saint; his goodness and kindness were enough to make any despicable person look at him with disdain.

And his salamander legion is the best legion for mortals of all legions, without exception!

Even though it took Koz months of brainwashing and torment, he still wanted to corrupt such a living saint.

Even though Vulcan was crushed into a pulp, he was still reborn and held fast to his beliefs.

In order to completely defeat Vulcan, the Lord of Fear, Coz, decided to make Vulcan feel even more despair.

So he built a great labyrinth in his flagship and placed the Dawnbringer warhammer, forged by Vulcan, in the center.

The Dawnbringer Warhammer has the ability to teleport; once Vulcan finds the hammer after escaping the labyrinth, he will have the possibility of escaping Koz.

But Coz secretly blocked Dawnbringer's teleportation ability. He wanted Vulcan to explore the labyrinth with all his might, and after finally finding the hammer and thinking he could escape, he would despairingly discover that he had lost his teleportation ability.

And so, another iconic scene from Warhammer unfolded.

After Vulcan went through countless hardships and finally obtained the Dawnbringer's Warhammer...

Koz immediately appeared in front of him, laughing loudly at him and telling him that he had blocked the entire maze and that he would never be able to escape his torment!
Looking at Koz, who was mocking him, Vulcan, who had been tormented for a long time, gripped the Dawnbringer tightly and spoke to the shell word by word.

"First of all, this is a hammer!"

And so, Vulcan, wielding his hammer, gave Koz a sound beating, then used the warhammer to smash through the maze and force his way out of Koz's flagship.

After he finally escaped the maze using the hammer's physical properties, Dawnbringer's teleportation ability was restored, and Vulcan immediately activated his teleportation ability, disappearing from Coz's sight.

Not long after, Guilliman found Vulcan on Macurag in the world of Alteramar 500, but by then Vulcan had lost his mind.

When Guilliman and his Ultramarines began tending to Vulcan's wounds, Guilliman was horrified to discover that Vulcan had gone mad.

On Coz's flagship, Vulcan witnessed too many of his offspring die tragically before his eyes.

His kindness tormented him, driving him to madness and leaving him with nothing but hatred for Koz.

Just then, the Lion King's warships arrived in Macragge, and Koz plotted to follow the Lion King and break into Macragge's defenses.

Upon sensing Koz, the crazed Vulcan charged directly at the shell and engaged Koz in a fierce battle.

Until it was interrupted by a cult assassin, the immortal John Granmatikas.

This cult assassin came to kill Vulcan, because immortals like him and Vulcan can only be killed by special weapons and special rituals.

In his hand was a lightning-struck stone spear, which he intended to give to Koz, capable of killing Vulcan.

Those were divine fragments formed from the Emperor's psychic lightning striking the sand.

Only a Primarch can kill a Primarch. If Koz wields the lightning-struck stone spear, he can kill Vulcan! (End of Chapter)