I'm in Warhammer, I just want to grow mushrooms

Chapter 137: The Virtues and Actions of the Primarch, and the Disappearance of “Him”

(PS: This is the main storyline chapter, try not to skip this chapter.)
Space Marines are cool, there's no doubt about that.

In the games and CGs, they wear heavy and hard armor, hold heavy grenade launchers, and act decisively, cutting through thorns and bushes, killing all enemies without leaving a single piece of armor behind.

Especially in the fan animation "Astartes", the original Punisher Chapter created by the fan author fully demonstrated the calmness and swiftness of the Space Marines.

But unfortunately, what was in front of Li Nuo at this moment was not a game that allowed him to control a space warrior character to kill people wantonly, nor was it a CG with full visual impact.

He must be careful in handling correspondence and must not be casual.

As the top military stratum of the Imperium, most Space Marine Legions were dissatisfied with the Emperor allowing mortals to rule the Imperium, but the Legions would never say it openly - with the exception of the Horus Heresy.

This is an irrefutable fact.

During the Horus Heresy, those who were directly affected by the corruption of Chaos were basically the Primarchs and their most elite Space Marines.

But why would so many Space Marines who were not directly corrupted by Chaos join the Rebellion?
Because every Space Marine has a scale in his heart.

000.M31, the first year of the 31st millennium, the Ullanor Orc Empire was disintegrated by the Human Empire, and the Human Empire's Great Crusade achieved brilliant results.

The Emperor handed over command of the Great Crusade to Horus, appointing him as Warmaster and Chief of the War Council.

At the same time, the Emperor did another thing.

He returned to Terra and established the earliest Terran High Lords Council.

Control of the Primarchs and the Space Marine Legions remained with the War Council of Warmaster Horus.

All other aspects of the Empire's rule were transferred from the War Council to the Council of High Lords of Terra.

This incident planted the seeds of rebellion in the hearts of many Primarchs and Space Marines.

Do you remember who holds the power to appoint and dismiss the governor?
Before the formation of the Terran High Lords Council, the power to appoint and dismiss governors of Imperial worlds lay in the hands of the Expeditionary Fleet.

Whoever discovers this world will decide who will be the governor.

But with the establishment of the High Lords of Terra, the power to appoint and dismiss the Governor was transferred by the Emperor from the Wartime Council to the mortal hands of the High Lords of Terra.

This would amount to taking control of the Imperial worlds directly away from the Primarchs and the Space Marine Legions, and handing them over to mortals - with the exception of the Primarchs' homeworlds and the Space Marine Legions' recruiting worlds.

Who can bear this?
Not to mention that the Primarch couldn't stand it, he couldn't even stand it if his Homelander came.

So, still the same sentence.

The emperor knows nothing about running an empire.

Li Nuo strongly suggested that the Emperor pass the throne to the Thirteenth Prince, Robert Guilliman, and then he sat on the golden toilet, ready to sell the hook to the devil.

Of course, Li Nuo didn't dare to say these complaints out loud.

During this period, most of the Primarchs had good relations with the Emperor, and the Space Marine Legions were immersed in the glory and satisfaction brought by the Great Crusade.

If you speak out your true feelings, you will be bombarded.

It’s not okay to write it in a diary. Serious people don’t write diaries.

Closer to home.

Four official letters from the Space Marine Legions perfectly demonstrate the working styles of these four legions.

The first letter came from the 7th Legion - the Imperial Fists.

As the Space Marine Legion stationed on Terra for a long time, the Imperial Fists were the first to receive the news and the fastest to respond.

The letter contains a large amount of fanatical words, which fully demonstrates the Legion's enthusiasm and loyalty to the Emperor, which is in line with the style of the Imperial Fists as fanatical fans of the Emperor.

After finishing his meal, Li Nuo signed his name on the data pad to indicate that he accepted the trade invitation from the Imperial Fists.

The second letter came from the Sixteenth Legion - the Luna Wolves.

Li Nuo felt mixed emotions after reading this letter.

The previous letter was written by a clerk of the Imperial Fists and was signed by the Primarch of the Imperial Fists, Rogal Dorn.

But this second letter was written by Horus Lupercal, the Primarch of the Luna Wolves.

After Horus finished writing the letter, he handed it over to a private astropath to send, and the original copy of the letter would be delivered to the hive city by a special person.

What Li Nuo saw at that moment was a copy of the handwritten letter.

He read the letter from beginning to end five times, his thoughts in turmoil.

All the feelings can be described in one sentence:
If Li Nuo had not known that Horus would rebel, he would definitely have followed him.

Horus showed a strong affinity in the letter. From the perspective of a partner, he considered Li Nuo's difficulties and visions and provided corresponding solutions.

Horus praised Lino's scientific research spirit and was full of praise for the new synthetic starch.

He was willing to pay the full amount of the goods in one lump sum in the form of a cash transfer, and his only requirement was to get the formula immediately.

Not only that, he will also send a mortal auxiliary army and a Shadow Moon Wolf squad to be stationed on Epimet, and the expenses of these two armies will be borne by the legion itself.

This move is to protect Epimate and to support Li Nuo.

Anyone who dares to pick a fight with Li Nuo will be treated rudely by the Moon Wolves. Even the governor of a star zone will have to treat Li Nuo with courtesy.

Horus was corrupted by Chaos in 004.M31, which is about 18 years from now.

At this time, Horus possessed wisdom, decisiveness, courage, and conviction, and was the most dazzling among the Primarchs.

The image he presented in the letter was that of a good brother who wanted to accept new brothers.

It’s a pity that if I follow Horus, I will definitely die a miserable death in the end.

With a conflicted look on his face, Li Nuo wrote a line on the data board - "To be discussed".

"Huh? I thought you would agree to a deal with the Moon Wolves. The conditions offered by Lord Lupercal are so generous, why are you hesitating?" Tido sat aside, resting her head on Li Nuo's shoulder, and couldn't help but let out a soft exclamation.

"Tido, I've heard this saying. Everything that fate gives has already been secretly marked with a price. I admire Lord Lupercal's generosity and kindness. But I believe there is no love without reason, and no hatred without reason. I'm worried that if I accept Lord Lupercal's generous conditions, he will ask me to do something that goes against my original intention."

Tiduo nodded as if she understood:

"Yeah, I understand what you mean. Are you worried that Lord Lupercal has other intentions? After you reminded me of this, I feel the same way. I will discuss with my father tomorrow to see how to best respond to Lord Lupercal."

"Okay, then I'll leave it to you." Li Nuo smiled and turned to the third letter.

The letter came from the XIII Legion - the Ultramarines, whose Primarch was Roboute Guilliman.

During the Horus Heresy, Guilliman lost contact with Terra and mistakenly believed that the Emperor had died in battle, so he planned to establish the Second Empire on his own territory.

When preparations were almost completed, news came from Terra that the Emperor had not died in the battle.

Guilliman immediately abandoned his plans to build the Second Empire, destroyed all documents and materials, and set out to support the Emperor.

The secret founding of the Second Imperium does not mean that Guilliman has joined the Rebellion, nor does it mean that he has been corrupted by Chaos.

In fact, as of the 41k era, Guilliman still has an absolutely positive image, ruling the Human Empire on behalf of the Emperor as Regent.

The third letter was also written by the clerk.

The difference from the first one is that this letter from the Ultramarines is full of modifiers unique to the nobility.

Remove all these exaggerated modifiers, and there are only two lines left out of more than fifty lines:

"We accept your offer and hope to reach a contract as soon as possible. We would be honored if we could obtain the formula in advance."

Li Nuo circled these two lines of words and signed his name.

"Well, there's only one last missive from the Space Marine Legion left. Let me see who it's from."

Li Nuo swiped the screen of the data tablet.

The fourth letter appeared on the "paper" and Li Nuo's eyes flashed slightly.

This missive came from an unexpected Space Marine Legion.

Its name is - the Fifth Legion, the White Scars.

Li Nuo stood up with the data tablet, paced back and forth under Tido's puzzled gaze, carefully reading every line of the letter, his mind racing.

The original leader of the White Scars was Jaghatai Khan.

Just from the name, you can tell that this Primarch and Li Nuo had a long cultural background before they traveled through time.

In the world before the time travel, the cultural changes in the Yuan Dynasty were the process of nomadic peoples gradually being assimilated into the Han culture.

This is also reflected in Chagatai Khan.

To put it bluntly, Li Nuo felt that his values and outlook on life were similar to Chagatai's, and there was a high possibility that he and Chagatai would become friends, or even form an unbreakable alliance.

The most intuitive reason is that during the Horus Heresy, Chagatai revealed his true thoughts:
The Emperor is bad, but Chaos is worse, so I choose to be loyal to the Emperor.

Leaving aside Chagatai's other ideas, Li Nuo wholeheartedly agreed with his actual thoughts.

Li Nuo thought that there should be many cloud players, including himself, who shared the same opinion as Chagatai.

It is for this reason that Chagatai was regarded as "a wise man in the Warhammer 30k era".

Another reason why Li Nuo values Chagatai so much is:
Jaghatai Khan knew the nature of the Warp.

Long before Jaghatai was found by the Emperor, he knew that there were true gods in the Warp.

After being summoned by the Emperor, Jaghatai joined the Empire, but scoffed at the "Imperial Truth" promoted by the Emperor and Malcador.

Imperial Truth refers to:
There is nothing in the warp, no extraordinary power or life exists, and the so-called gods and demons are just aliens. Because of his opposition to the "Imperial Truth", Chagatai was often criticized by the Emperor.

Despite the criticism, Chagatai never gave up his judgment. He always felt that once the lie of "Imperial Truth" was exposed, it would be a disaster for the entire empire.

This is indeed the case, with the Horus Heresy being the best example of this.

After the Great Rebellion ended, Chagatai became disillusioned with the empire's establishment of a state religion and decided to go it alone.

He accepted Guilliman's legion restructuring plan and split the White Scars into chapters.

After completing this step, Jaghatai went out to hunt xenos, and eventually in a year in M34, he chased the dark elves into the Webway and has not been heard from since.

Li Nuo thought that when he became powerful enough one day, he would also break away from the Diaomao Empire and go it alone, just like Chagatai did.

As an extreme materialist, Li Nuo believed that the empire that adhered to the state religion was the biggest heresy.

Since the time he traveled through time, Li Nuo has been considering which Primarch he should join.

The person he finally chose was Chagatai Khan, whose values and outlook on life were consistent with his own.

Facts proved that Li Nuo's judgment was correct.

The White Scar's letters were written by clerks, and contained 90% refined sentences and 10% poetic sentences.

In just ten lines, he explained the matter clearly and quoted two lines of poetry from the 0k to 2k era of ancient Terra to express his longing for cooperation.

This letter may not seem fancy enough to some people.

But in Li Nuo's eyes, its style and size are just right, which is exactly in line with the wishes and preferences of himself as an "Eastern time traveler".

"Tido, the transaction contract with the White Scars Legion was signed by me personally." Li Nuo signed his name on the data pad.

Tido took the data tablet, tilted her head slightly, and said with a smile:
"You seem to be most satisfied with the letter from White Scar. You can hardly suppress the smile on your face."

"Really? Was I being very obvious?" Li Nuo touched the corner of his mouth, trying to smooth out the curve, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make the smile disappear completely from his face.

Tiduo chuckled a few times and couldn't help but become curious:

"It's beyond my expectation. You are unwilling to trade with Lord Lupercal, and you don't want to personally respond to the meeting with Lord Guilliman and Lord Dorne's envoys, but you only care so much about Lord Khan. This Lord Jaghatai Khan is the most different among the 17 Primarchs. Why do you like him so much?"

"I have read the works of Khan and have a good understanding of their culture. I think it is very good and I have long wanted to meet them and exchange ideas..."

As Li Nuo was talking, his expression suddenly froze:
"Wait, Titus, you just said, how many Primarchs does the Emperor have?"

"Seventeen, what's the matter? Each Primarch has a Space Marine Legion, a total of 17 Legions."

Li Nuo's heartbeat quickened uncontrollably.

No, no, no.

How could there be 17 Primarchs?

Excluding the Primarchs of the Second and Eleventh Legions, and Alpharius' brother Omega, there should be 18 Primarchs shown in the Empire's public records!
How could there be 17 people?
Li Nuo felt a little dizzy and slowly sat down, holding the back of the chair.

Tido thought he was not feeling well and quickly asked Brandi to fetch a medical scanner.

"No, I'm fine, Titus. I just ate a little too much and felt dizzy."

Li Nuo rubbed his brows lightly and told Brandi not to take the medical scanner, but to help him retrieve data related to the Primarch instead.

The servoskull operated a few times on the data board, and a holographic table appeared in front of Lino. The table came from the list of Primarchs and Space Marine Legions published by the Wartime Council.

In order to prevent someone from impersonating a Primarch and committing crimes with the Space Marines, the Wartime Council will regularly update the identity identification codes, legion identification codes and other information in the list to help the various Imperial worlds identify friends and foes.

Therefore, the number of Primarchs and Space Marines in groups at the level of Governor and above is no secret.

No one knows the specific reasons why the Second Legion and the Eleventh Legion were expelled from the Emperor, and those who know will never tell it to others.

Although the governors were puzzled as to why information on these two legions was missing from the list, they wisely refrained from inquiring in order to avoid coming into contact with information that might cause trouble.

In the list of Primarchs and Legions published by the Wartime Council, there were only 17 Primarchs in total.

The missing Primarch was Alpharius, who was supposed to have been discovered and retrieved by Horus in 976.M30.

Not only is the Primarch absent from the list, his Space Marine Legion is also absent.

In normal Warhammer history, the Alpha Legion was founded before the Great Crusade, and was supposed to have been taken over by Primarch Alpharius in 981.M30.

But now, Alpharius and the Alpha Legion are all gone!

This phenomenon is exactly the same as that of the Second Legion and the Eleventh Legion!
A chill ran down his spine, and for the first time, Li Nuo felt that the direction of events was out of his control.

Without the Alpha Legion, who will destroy the Bone Drinker civilization? !

If the growth momentum of the Bone Drinkers cannot be curbed, a strange phenomenon of "I am Ack Hairesh, I am also Ack Hairesh, we are all Ack Hairesh" will most likely appear in the Nebulous Star Region. (Note)
Beads of sweat appeared on Li Nuo's forehead.

Titus wiped his forehead with a handkerchief, her expression concerned and solemn:
"What's wrong with you? This is the first time I see you like this."

"I'm fine, I just realized that something went wrong with my experiment."

Li Nuo held Tiduo's hand and patted it gently, then slowly stood up and forced a smile:
"I'll go to the lab first and talk to you when I'm done."

"Okay, okay." Tiduo hugged Li Nuo gently, "If you encounter a problem that you can't solve, tell me."

"Okay, I will. I'm leaving now."

Li Nuo quickly left his residence, entered his private laboratory, sat down in front of the communicator, and tapped on the keyboard.

He searched for words like "Alpha" and "Alpharis" in different databases.

The search results were varied, none of them related to "Legion" or "Primarch".

Li Nuo found the list of Primarchs published by the wartime Parliament and confirmed again that the word "Alpha" was not included.

At this moment, he finally accepted the fact.

For some reason, Alpharius and the Alpha Legion do not exist in the Warhammer world he lives in.

When the Emperor first started the Great Crusade, there were only 17 legions announced to all of humanity.

“Hiss———Hoo———”

Li Nuo took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, calming the excitement in his heart and putting aside all useless emotions.

Even without the Alpha Legion, it is still possible to defeat the Bone Drinker civilization, it just requires the right approach.

In Lino's impression, the Alpha Legion and the Mechanicus jointly developed a fungal phage virus that is only effective against Bone Drinkers.

The Alpha Legion spread the virus to all planets that might be invaded by the Bone Drinkers.

The virus has a theoretical chance of killing a human being of 7%, but a 100% chance of killing a Bone Drinker.

Ultimately, by the end of 989.M30, the Alpha Legion had completely wiped out the Bone Drinkers civilization, at the cost of a 7% drop in the total population within the virus's range, with the death toll possibly exceeding billion.

Li Nuo plans to draw on this idea and start developing fungi that can kill Bone Drinkers.

In addition, if there is no Alpha Legion, then create a corresponding Orc clan yourself.

It would be best if this clan could possess camouflage capabilities comparable to those of the Alpha Legion, so that they could penetrate deep into the infected area to investigate the infection path and then prescribe the right remedy.

Li Nuo looked towards the fungal warehouse while thinking, and his eyes fell on the genetic sample of the mud man.

Genetic recombination technology can fuse the genes of two organisms into one.

Can I extract the transformation gene of the mud man and fuse it into the gene fragment of the orc?
A light flashed in Li Nuo's eyes, and he felt that he had discovered something.

It doesn't seem impossible to create a clan of orcs that can freely change their appearance.

So now the focus is on the poison that kills the Bone Drinkers.

"Let me think about it. After the Space Beast Clan wipes out the fleet of the Onyet Group, I can wait for the Bone Drinker fleet to come to my door. I must seize this opportunity to get the Bone Drinker sample, and then develop a targeted poison based on the Bone Drinker's physiological characteristics and genetic defects."

Li Nuo was immersed in the conception of the plan.

...

...

"Buzz."

There was a vibration coming from Delton's data board. The Governor's agent chief was helping Amy with her homework.

The place where the two of them were located was the residence of the first district.

After the Lower Nest and the Bottom Nest were stabilized, Delton moved back to the Upper Nest with Amy, and Amy enrolled in another college nearby and became a student.

Delton picked up the data tablet and looked at the message on it, his eyes slightly fixed.

"A search record related to 'Alpharis' has been detected. The searcher's name is: Lino Wilsey. Number of searches: 65. Do you want to clear the search record for him?"

Delton clicked clear, and all the records related to Li Nuo's search for "Alpharius" disappeared.

Delton smiled and shook his legs proudly.

"Oh, Dad, I'm doing my homework, stop shaking my legs." Amy clenched her fist and punched her father's thigh.

Delton immediately stopped shaking his legs, smiled apologetically, closed the data tablet and put it aside.

His legs stopped shaking, but the smile on his lips became more smug.

Retirement life is great.

(End of this chapter)