Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 472 The Emperor's Summons
At the moment when the Wolf King stabbed the Spear of Dionysus into Horus' body, a resonance spanning time and space sounded in different places in the galaxy.

In the Imperial Palace of Terra, deep within the immense Golden Throne, the Emperor, who was suppressing the Webway with all his might, suddenly raised his head.

The increasingly haggard Lord of Humanity stared blankly in a certain direction of the Milky Way. His sight traveled across a long distance and saw his two sons who were fighting for life and death at this moment.

"Horus..."

"my son."

The eyes of the Lord of Mankind were filled with endless anger and hatred, but not towards Horus. He stared straight into the void before him, as if he could cross the barrier of the curtain and talk directly to the four evil gods of the Warp.

"Why did you kill my son?"

"Why!"

An extremely deep sadness emerged from the emperor. At this moment, the man who carried everything in his heart could no longer remain calm and composed.

No matter how he said that "the primarchs are tools" and "necessary sacrifices for the great cause", they were still his most beloved sons.

He had devoted all his efforts to teach his eldest son everything about being a human being and about war, and kept him by his side for thirty years. They were father and son, monarch and subject, and close friends.

Horus understood how much his father longed to unify the scattered human race again, and how much he hoped that mankind would return to the open and powerful golden age of the past.

Horus also tried his best to help the Emperor realize his dream. He became his father's proud warmaster and exercised his power and dreams on his behalf.

Even though the betrayal started by Horus almost destroyed the hope of human revival, the Emperor did not resent Horus. He knew that his eldest son was the first Primarch to sacrifice in this human civil war.

He was an unfortunate being forcibly corrupted by the four Chaos Gods in order to interrupt the dream of human revival.

No matter who was the Warmaster, the Four Gods would have corrupted him, and Horus became that person simply because he was too good.

The Spear of Dionysus was a divine weapon forged by him, which contained the great power of the Emperor himself. It was through this induction that he knew about the brotherly fight taking place inside the Spirit of Vengeance.

He witnessed Leman Russ stabbing the name of Dionysus into Horus' body, and felt the last of Horus' kind soul barely awakened under the influence of this power.

But it is not enough, the gods of the Warp have discovered all of this, Leman Russ is not enough!
"Roshi, I need you."

Psychic power beyond imagination surged, and Roche, who was far away on Ganymede, suddenly felt the scene change and appeared next to the familiar golden throne.

He looked at all this in astonishment, at the Emperor's expression of extreme pain and helplessness.

"Nios?"

He immediately realized that something major had happened, so much so that the emperor couldn't wait to teleport him into the palace.

Because the Emperor sent most of his spirit and strength into the Webway to suppress the Warp demon enemies there, he would hardly allow himself to be distracted to do other things.

The emperor in his eyes was not the brilliant Lord of Humanity, but his former schoolmate. However, the years had brought him too much vicissitudes, like a weathered middle-aged man.

Seeing his sorrowful look, Luo Xi's idea of ​​teasing Neos died down.

"I'm here." Luo Xi said.

"Leman Russ has met Horus, and I sense a battle to the death has broken out between them."

Luo Xi calculated the time. It had been some time since he and the Wolf King separated, so it was not strange for him to encounter Horus.

But, can the Wolf King really defeat Horus?

"When I created each Primarch, I added unconscious entities that I found in the Warp into their bodies. Those Warp entities without self-awareness have great potential, and I injected personality into them."

“I have to anchor them with humanity so that they can truly become human beings.”

The Emperor told the secret of how the Primarch was created: "Leman Russ must have awakened his own essence, so he could pose a fatal threat to Horus."

"Essence?" Luo Xi pondered the word.

He had previously vaguely guessed that the Primarch could not be a simple creation of biotechnology, and now the Emperor himself acknowledged this conjecture.

What then was Guilliman's true nature? A crazed office machine? His thoughts suddenly drifted off to a strange place, like ice skating. "So, what did you ask me to do? Just tell me straight away. No need to be polite."

However, Luo Xi also understood that the emperor asked him to come here not for small talk, but because there were more important things for him to do.

"To make a long story short, an unexpected situation occurred in the war in Betagarmon, and another force chose to intervene, so I hope you can go and help Ryan."

"I still underestimated the determination of those guys. In order to completely destroy the future of mankind, they did not hesitate to reach a greater cooperation to strengthen their power in the real universe."

The emperor's words immediately made Luo Xi more serious. In the emperor's view, even the current expeditionary force of the empire could not fight against those enemies?

In his opinion, even if Lion could not defeat Horus, he could at least weaken their power to an acceptable level, and then abandon Beta Garmon and retreat to the solar system.

But since the Emperor has asked him to go and lend a hand, doesn't that mean that several Primarchs in Betagarmon and their legions are in danger of destruction?
Is it really this serious?

"Take your Iron Legion and join Llane's expeditionary fleet. This time your enemies include a powerful enemy who aspires to be promoted to a Chaos God: you can call him Vashtor."

"Vashtor aspires to become the fifth supreme god, but because of my existence, its wish will never be realized." The Emperor said vaguely.

What is the fifth supreme god?
Luo Xi immediately realized that the old man Neos was hiding something again. He has always been like this, to his son and to himself.

"Is this your attitude when asking for help?" Luo Xi retorted.

The Emperor fell silent.

Whenever he made a request or gave an order to others, no one would disobey or refuse him.

This is rarely due to power and status, but mostly due to the emperor's incredible personal charm.

It was only after meeting the Emperor that Roche realized where the charm of Primarchs like Guilliman came from, and the source was their father.

Just think about it, when a big, golden guy invites you to accomplish something great and save the human race from danger, is there anyone cold enough to say no?
Perhaps only Roxi, who knew the Emperor's past, could say no. He had to make Neos explain himself clearly.

The emperor realized that his old friend could not be dismissed with just a few words, so he thought for a moment and spoke.

"As you know, there are four Chaos Gods today: Tzeentch, Khorne, Nurgle, and Slaanesh."

"They are the embodiment of four macro concepts, and have their own thoughts and consciousness."

"But for Chaos itself, these four most powerful gods are not all. There are still four vacancies, which means that four more Chaos gods may awaken in the future."

"And inside my body, there is a being called the Dark Lord sleeping. Although I want to deny its existence, we are actually two sides of the same coin."

The Emperor's explanation immediately detonated Roxi's brain, like a nuclear bomb exploding in his mind. He stared blankly at Neos on the throne, still unable to believe what he had heard recently.

"No, I actually believed your lies before. You said you were just a powerful psychic, only a little bit more powerful, not a god-like existence."

"Are you really a fucking god? You even lied to me?"

Although Luo Xi had doubted whether Neos was a god before, he was always in a state of doubt, because there was no evidence to prove such a thing.

"Well, it turns out that what Horus said was true. You really are a god. Do you really want to destroy humanity in order to become a god in the future?"

Luo Xi couldn't help but start to think about whether what Horus said made sense.

"No! I am not a god!" The emperor immediately retorted, as if he had been hit in the sore spot.

“The Dark Lord may be a god, but I am not. I am the Lord of mankind, and protecting mankind is my duty, not the Dark Lord’s.

On the contrary, if the last human in the galaxy dies, the Dark Lord will awaken and devour the souls of all humans to complete his ascension."

"I will not let Him wake up. I am the King of Darkness, but I am not the King of Darkness."

What the emperor said was very confusing, and it took Luo Xi a while to figure out what he meant.

"So what the hell does this have to do with Vashtor?" Roshi asked.

(End of this chapter)