Warhammer 30k and the Great Tomb of Nazarick

Chapter 98 Appointment
Another universe

The subspace is unstable. In this world separated from the material universe, time and space are not continuous, so humans can achieve superluminal movement through the subspace.

But because of this instability, it is possible that one could be lost in the subspace for tens of thousands of years before returning to the real world, or arrive a week before departure.

However, these are ultimately low-probability events and will not occur in most cases. Especially when carrying the Emperor's Guards and using the best navigators, the possibility of such an event happening is even smaller.

When everything went well, three thousand Custodes and their supporting Sisters of Silence boarded the Apocalypse-class battleship Blood of Extinction and conveyed the order from the Emperor himself to the Primarch of the Dark Angels, Lion Jonson.

The Emperor's eldest son, Lion Jonson, the Primarch of the First Legion, was appointed as the Imperial Warmaster, in charge of the Imperial military and determined to seize the New Hope Galaxy at all costs.

This time, the Emperor bestowed many rewards on the Primarchs, the most eye-catching of which was the nomination of the Blood Angels Primarch Sanguinius as Lord Protector of the Empire, formally establishing his status as Crown Prince.

After that, Horus, the Primarch of the Moon Wolf, was given the title of Imperial Regent, responsible for managing the entire internal affairs of the Empire.

As well as the Imperial Warmaster against the Primarch of the Dark Angels, Lion Johnson, he is in charge of the Imperial military affairs.

Moreover, this time the war commander is not constrained by the Ministry of the Interior and is the true military commander of the empire.

This was also the position that Leon Johnson had always dreamed of, and it was even better than the best case scenario he had imagined.

The investiture ceremony was held on the Dark Angels' flagship, the Indomitable Truth.
The act of the Warmaster's coronation was great enough in itself, and there was no need to waste additional time, so the Emperor asked Lion to begin military activities as soon as possible.

Amon Tauromakian, the chief warrior of the Imperial Guard, first announced the order to promote Lion Jonson to the position of Warmaster in front of the Dark Angels' high-ranking officials and other high-ranking officials who had rushed over urgently.

Then, in public, Lion Jonson was given the sword of the Emperor himself.

It was a copper-colored greatsword, a two-handed greatsword even for a Primarch, designed by the Emperor himself and forged by the most outstanding masters on Terra.

As Lion Jonson took the sword, he could feel the power the Emperor had placed within it. He took a deep breath, raised the sword, and declared himself officially Warmaster.

Amon then led the other guards and sisters of silence to kneel on one knee to salute Lion Zisu, and pledged to obey the orders of the great warmaster of the empire.

Anyone who knows a little about the Imperial Guards knows what a terrible political statement this is.

The Imperial Guards are the Emperor's personal guard. These super genetic warriors, which can be called works of art, are responsible only to the Emperor. No one in the entire Empire can command the Imperial Guards except the Emperor.

Now, 3,000 members of the Guards of the Ten Thousand have been directly assigned to Leon Johnson's command. This is an unprecedented honor since the founding of the Empire. It shows the great support of the Emperor for the Warmaster and how much importance he attaches to this military operation.

Finally, the top leaders of the Dark Angels and other top leaders saluted the Warmaster together, and the Warmaster's awarding ceremony ended.

The newly-minted Warmaster Lion Jonson returned to his private chambers to seriously decide his next steps.

The Emperor's Sword was packed into a huge and exquisite scabbard and carefully placed on the bookshelf at the back. The mysterious black-robed villain in Dark Angel took off the somewhat uncomfortable dress for Leon Johnson and changed into a more convenient military uniform.

Then all the villains and dark angels left the Warmaster's room.

Seeing that everyone had left, Leon Johnson sat down on the specially made armchair and sighed deeply.

He had always wanted the position of Warmaster, but now that he had it, Lion Jonson felt the weight of responsibility.

It can be said that the five major star regions of the empire are now carried on his shoulders.

Now, the documents written on parchment blessed by the Emperor himself filled half of the ground, weighing hundreds of tons. They were all secrets, the deepest secrets of the Empire, secrets that even the original primarch of the First Legion could not know.

They cannot be written on ordinary paper, nor can they be stored as electronic data, because this knowledge will attract the attention of the subspace during the process of writing, reading, and reprinting.

This information will be corrupted and become a dangerous and terrible source of pollution, contaminating any intelligent life that comes into contact with it.

Only parchment blessed by the Emperor himself can accurately record these precious materials.

It is about humanity's dark technological age, about the Warp, about the Four Gods, and about the darkest and most terrible secrets known to mankind.

Even the proud and cold Lion King couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when he saw this information.

In addition to these materials, the Imperial Guards also brought various equipment hidden in the Emperor's Dream, which did not exist in official documents.

More secret equipment is still being delivered, even the Primarch Zero will be sent to the Warmaster to be used as a weapon.
Lion Johnson looked at the information in silence. Several hours passed like this. The Primarch's extraordinary brain continued to calculate various possible situations and analyze the most effective methods.

The fate of billions of lives was determined by the Primarch's thoughts.

Finally, Warmaster Leon stopped thinking, walked out of the room and issued a series of tasks to the military leaders waiting outside.

The vast war machine of the Imperium of Mankind will begin to operate at full capacity in the years ahead.

The other side of the empire

The Thousand Sons Legion's home planet Prospero also received a message from the Emperor.

Apparently, the Primarch of the Thousand Sons, Magnus, was not treated as well as the Warmaster Lion Jonson.

The Emperor merely gave him an appointment, but Magnus didn't care.

Magnus is a natural master of psychic powers, possessing psychic powers second only to the Emperor himself in the Empire. Therefore, Magnus is also arrogant. He has always disdained material things and power. The only thing that truly attracts Magnus is knowledge.

One of the most important things the Thousand Sons did during the Great Crusade was to collect knowledge from conquered worlds, from pornographic books to forbidden books.

The great library of the planetary machine wonder built on Prospero contains precious knowledge from countless worlds and is a paradise for scholars in the empire.

Now the Emperor approved his plans for a psychic think tank and opened to him the libraries of Terra, which contained the knowledge from the Dark Age of Technology and the Emperor himself that Magnus had so long coveted.

Magnus now feels like Qin Shi Huang touching the electric switch - he is numb.

As for the requirement in his appointment that he maintain the Astronomican, this was a manifestation of the Emperor's trust in him.

The Astronomican is the foundation of the human empire. In the chaotic warp, only the Astronomican can provide a navigation position for human ships.

It can be said that the Emperor and the Astronomican are the prerequisites for the establishment of the Human Empire, and neither is dispensable.

After receiving the appointment, Magnus immediately began to pack up. He wanted to help his father manage the Astronomican as quickly as possible and embrace the vast knowledge in the Terra Library.

(End of this chapter)