Warhammer 40 Spring: Loyalty of the Multiverse

Chapter 180 Daily Life 2
After everything was settled, Tie Hui and the others arrived at the prison and looked at the steel warriors who were imprisoned separately.

They very safely removed the power armor from each Iron Warrior, leaving only the groin area.

From time to time, servants would come down the corridors of the prison to perform prayers, incense, and baptisms in the control panels of each cell.

No matter what, it's still a machine, and it has a machine soul!

In the past, this prison rarely held any people or creatures. So it was always deserted. But today it was quite lively, and the scent of incense and smoke filled the corridor.

Only after a priest led the servants away did the group arrive at the prison cells.

Klepach's limbs were stretched outwards and bound with chains, and a potentially explosive device was attached to his neck. A control collar was also attached to a chain behind him, holding him firmly in place.

As they swayed, the chains rattled from time to time.

Four surviving Iron Warriors were captured, but one of them lost a leg in the battle when a magnetic energy cannon ripped off his leg.

Although the others had some wounds all over their bodies, none of them were fatal!

"My cousins, I never expected you would still be willing to fight for the Corpse King!" Klepach opened his tightly closed eyes upon hearing the commotion, and sneered upon seeing the newcomer. He now knew the era and time period in which he lived.

After his arrest, the mechanical priests played the imperial state religion's sacred words on a loop. This left him completely dumbfounded, knowing that this was utter rubbish written by Loga.

He had previously dismissed it after seeing it, and the Emperor had also declared his strong dislike for such things. He had strictly prohibited it, and after the establishment of the Perfect City, he sent Ultramarines to destroy this religious city of the Rebels, a city that praised the Emperor.

He had heard of this, which showed that the Emperor hated being called a god. And even though he and his relatives were secretly plotting to rebel against the Empire.

However, they accepted the imperial truths promulgated by the Emperor. So much so that even after the Word Bearers joined their group, they were still ostracized by their other cousins.

After all, a group of fanatical religious zealots are indeed annoying to some people who have received a high level of knowledge and rational education.

So when he heard the sacred words of the state religion, he realized something was wrong. He immediately demanded to know where he was and what had happened.

Then, with Tie Hui's approval, they told him everything that happened after the Horus rebellion, which made each of them break down!

For several days, the prison was filled with their remorseful roars. When the mechanical priest on duty reported the news, everyone assumed they were regretting the harm they had caused to the empire and its current state.

But when the group went to interrogate them again, they were surprised to find that these guys still stubbornly insisted that it was all the Corpse Emperor's own doing, that it was he who had plunged human civilization and the empire into such an abyss of no return.

We certainly deserve to die! But the sins are nine-tenths of it!

Tie Hui "..."

Everyone was speechless, utterly bewildered by these steel warriors who had come from ten thousand years ago. They hadn't yet been corrupted by the Chaos, so why were they so indignant towards the Empire and the Emperor?
Even from their previous roars of regret, one could clearly hear the deep remorse they felt for their betrayal.

Ironbringer had a vague idea of ​​what was going on, not to mention their Primarch, Peturabo. In fact, for the individuals within the Iron Warriors Legion, the reason for their rebellion was their anger at the Emperor's instrumental use of them.

Those who ventured into the toughest challenges, suffering heavy casualties, received resource supplies that were even less than those of other warbands, and still less than those of the Imperial Fist.

They didn't even have time to rest before tackling another tough challenge, resulting in heavy casualties. And the emperor himself didn't even offer a word of comfort.

Therefore, the fundamental reasons for the individual rebellions of the Iron Warriors were, firstly, dissatisfaction with the Emperor; secondly, the imbalance in resource allocation; and based on this second fundamental reason, a third reason arose: dissatisfaction with the entire imperial system.

Furthermore, their subsequent actions after their defection indirectly confirmed Ironfelter's earlier conjecture: that when facing the Xenomorphs, they could set aside past grievances with the Empire and reach a temporary cooperation agreement.

So the reason for the rebellion was the desire to change the empire's system and receive fair treatment. But who could have imagined... that their own villainous empire would become an even bigger cesspool?

Although the emperors sat on the toilet, which made them feel more relaxed than ever before... what followed was the bewilderment of the empire's decline to such a state.

Because they never imagined the empire would become what it is today!
"I find your brains to be really abnormal!" Tie Hui looked at Klepatch, who was hanging in mid-air. With just a wave of his hand, the four chains would suddenly activate and tear off Klepatch's limbs.

When Klepatch heard Iron Grey's words, he was first stunned, then stared at him intently, his anger clearly visible in his eyes.

"You don't understand at all. Your so-called Corpse King is just a hypocritical scoundrel." Tie Hui looked at him expressionlessly, listening to the guy's incessant chatter.

But Derrens, standing behind him, couldn't bear to listen. After all, he was someone who had personally witnessed the Emperor's apparition. Moreover, he currently possessed books that had recorded the Emperor's every word and action.

“Traitors! You are pathetic, pitiful, and hateful! A bunch of cowards trapped in self-doubt. Just like your poor Primarch, Peturabo! You…” Ironfair waved his hand, interrupting him as he was about to continue. He simply watched Kleparch in the cell.

He had heard of the Horus Rebellion, but to be fair, the Emperor was indeed... inhuman in some ways!

In exchange for the technology to create Primarchs and Astartes, half of the Primarchs and Legions were to be contributed to Chaos.

However, the Emperor reneged on his promise, which led to an even bigger disaster. The deceived Horus died completely in the temple, becoming a puppet of the four Chaos Gods!
Even in the end, Magnus, deceived by the Chaos Gods, destroyed the Web that the Emperor had painstakingly built with a single psionic phone call. Countless top scientists, gathered by the Emperor over millennia, perished in the explosion.

From that moment on, humanity completely lost the means to survive peacefully in the universe. And the Emperor himself ascended the Golden Throne!
Looking back from this point in time, the cost of this transaction is far greater than the cost of giving up half of the sphere and the legion at the time of the original deal.

And the cost may even continue to rise over time. Take, for example, the Atonement Crusade; the price paid was enormous!
We can't just look at how many troops were sent to Chaos; we also need to consider the impact on the Empire from different perspectives, the subsequent crisis of trust between the warbands and the Imperial government, and the destruction inflicted on the Imperial world by those corrupted warbands!
Do you think the price is too high?

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(End of this chapter)