Warhammer: Expedition to the Multiverse from 30k

He knew that the most important thing he should do was to awaken Russ, then return to the Spirit of Vengeance as quickly as possible to help the Emperor fight Horus.

But he also missed the past years very much, those brotherhoods, those glory and victories, those ordinary days when he issued the extermination order.

He missed the Great Crusade, when everyone fought hard to restore the prosperity of the past, instead of being forced to fight each other for survival after Horus' damned ambition broke out.

Loyalists and rebels killed each other, and every person who fell was a human being.

The love, hatred, and vengeance between the primarchs and the fate of the human race were temporarily put aside by Lion. Under the cover of the heavy rain, he immersed himself in the joy of releasing his wild instincts.

"What on earth are you doing?!" Russ roared, "This is a noble duel, why did it turn out like this? Surrender to me immediately!"

"Surrender your mother!" Ryan cursed.

Having been a knight for so long, he now loves this kind of barbaric and rude feeling. Anyway, he is a barbarian and no one says anything.

The lion's ferocious fist smashed into Leman Russ's nose, causing blood to gush out instantly, and he fell on his back in the mud.

Fenrisians have a heightened sense of smell, as if part of their DNA is mixed with canine genes, but a blow to the nose can bring tears to even the hardiest of Space Wolves.

The salty and fishy taste rushed straight to Ruth's brain, and stars suddenly flashed in his brain, and everything went dark in front of his eyes.

When he opened his eyes and looked at the sky of Caliban, suddenly a familiar memory began to emerge.

Fenris... The Emperor... The Great Crusade, and Lion's Jonson damn it!

He remembered who he was and why he came here.

"I am Leman Russ, the Wolf King!"

"What a crap knight!"

Russ suddenly stood up, punched the other party as well, and then hugged Ryan Johnson tightly.

The two men struck each other's backs as if they were beating war drums, causing a violent shock wave.

The lion also vented his emotions to his brothers, as only they knew how dangerous what they had been through was.

The fate and origin of the Wolf King and the Lion King were changed by the evil god. If they cannot wake up, they will probably be doomed.

"We have to go back quickly. No one knows how much time has passed and whether Quanfather and the others are okay." Ruth said anxiously.

"We have to go back, but there's one thing we have to figure out," Ryan said.

The two primarchs who had inexplicably wrestled with each other, and then inexplicably reconciled returned to the grand prototype conference hall.

Under Luther's strange look, Russ raised Ryan's right hand and declared him his brother.

"Ryan is my blood brother. His words are equal to my words. According to his previous order, all of you should withdraw."

"Luther, Saltana, let's talk."

As Ruth spoke, everyone retreated.

They were still immersed in the shock of having another giant leader, but Luther had already reacted.

"Then let's talk."

Saltana had no idea what was going on, but under the gaze of the two primarchs, he decided to surrender for the time being.

If there was only Leman Russ, they could still put up a good fight with their strength, but now Lion Johnson has appeared, and their chances of winning are reduced to zero.

Russ handed the leadership to Ryan. After all, strictly speaking, he was the lord of Caliban.

"I need to know the secrets hidden by the Sirius Knights, Saltana." Ryan went straight to the point.

"Tell me, is the secret of Caliban that you keep related to Chaos?"

As soon as Ryan said that word, Saltana's pupils shrank instantly.

"How did you know that?" The Lord of the Sirius Knights suddenly became nervous. "This is impossible!"

"The Knights of Order are too young. You don't even know about that ancient past."

The thing hidden on Caliban and the existence of Chaos are ancient secrets passed down from generation to generation, and only a few people know them.

Because knowing the existence of Chaos will itself lead to the spread of its influence.

This is a conceptual idealistic power that transcends the limits of mortal cognition.

The more people know about the Warp and Chaos, the more power they can wield in the real universe.

The Emperor created the "lie" of the Imperial Truth in order to guide mankind to view the universe with a materialistic concept, thereby reducing the polluting power of the warp.

If no one knows the power of chaos, the spread of this pollution can be suppressed to the greatest extent.

"It was the Dark Watcher who told me about this. I am the master of their choices. I have the right to know everything and control everything." Ryan said seriously.

"I am the king of Caliban, and even more so the king of mankind. Submit to me, Saltana."

Saltana's inner struggle was intense. If it was the will of those beings... perhaps he could tell them.

The existence of the Dark Watchers is a secret. They live in mysterious corners of Caliban. They are often only mentioned in some unfounded legends, but no one knows whether they really exist.

In myths and legends, only the greatest knights are worthy of being followed by the Dark Watcher.

"I don't know where you came from, but since you already know about the existence of Chaos, you should naturally shoulder the same mission as us."

"This is not a gift, it's a curse."

Luther, as the one with the lowest presence among the three, couldn't help but become curious.

He felt a special sense of closeness from Lionel Johnson, even more than from Leman Russ.

Also, what are these guys from the Sirius Knights hiding?

The four of them entered a secret passage under the conference hall. Ryan led the team through the complex underground maze, as if he was the master here.

It was not until they arrived at the last secret room that Ryan lit the grease torches on the wall, illuminating the entire room.

"Okay, this place is safe enough. The Dark Watcher has reinforced this secret room to protect it from the prying eyes of the forces of chaos."

Luther looked at Ryan as if he had seen a ghost, because even he didn't know this place existed.

And Saltana was even more shocked and confused, because Ryan's methods of preventing chaos pollution were even more skilled than his.

"Ahem, this is a long story," Saltana began.

"Let's make it short," Ryan interrupted.

"..."

"Okay, first we need to know a question, where did the behemoths on Caliban come from, and why are they so powerful?"

Saltana hit the key point, and everyone listened carefully.

"Caliban has a close relationship with Chaos. Some serious Chaos corruption has spread across the planet, and the Behemoth is the result of that pollution."

Ryan nodded and added.

"Yes, the power of chaos, or the power of the warp, is the most vicious and evil thing in the world. They come from the soul sea of ​​the High Heaven and have abominable ambitions and desires for everything in the real universe."

"The Unliving Ones are the mortal enemies of all human beings. They live in the bodies of life in the real universe, absorbing emotional power and spreading like a plague."

Luther only felt like he was listening to some bards telling unrealistic stories about chaos, the warp, and the pollution of giant beasts.

"Since you said that the behemoths are closely related to the contamination of the subspace, shouldn't we kill all the behemoths?" Luther asked back.

"Wrong!" Saltana interrupted immediately.

"Big mistake."

"It's true that the behemoth is a product of chaos corruption, but you can't deny the fact that the behemoth has absorbed a considerable amount of chaos power and concentrated the chaos pollution."

"If the Behemoths perish, there will be no race on Caliban that is stable and strong enough to absorb the power of Chaos, and the only ones who will bear the brunt of it are humans."

What Saltana said obviously subverted the worldview of Leman Russ and Luther.

Those cruel and brutal beasts that slaughter humans wantonly are actually the safety locks for humans to survive safely?

This……

It's a bit absurd, but it seems to make sense.

"But since you say that Chaos Corruption exists on Caliban, then where is its source? Everything must have a source, right?"

Luther had a very sensitive intuition and he found the key right away.

"Yes, there is indeed a source of chaos on Caliban."

Saltana's expression was extremely serious, as if the mention of that existence made him feel uneasy.

"You can call that thing... [Ouroboros]."

"Inside Caliban, there is something called Ouroboros. I don't know if it is a giant beast, an object, or a concept, but it exists somewhere in a mysterious place on Caliban."

“According to the information we have passed down, Ouroboros has been in a dormant state, and its power has never awakened.

It seems that Ouroboros was once seriously polluted by the Warp, so even in its slumber, it has been releasing weak Chaos power. "

"And the behemoths on Caliban became powerful and violent because of this pollution, but they also absorbed the pollution for humans, which can be considered a combination of advantages and disadvantages."

Ruth and Luther were silent.

If Saltana was not lying, then their act of hunting the behemoths was undoubtedly foolish and short-sighted.

Yes, after killing all the behemoths, the humans of Caliban will no longer be threatened by those monsters, but it does not mean that everything is over.

On the contrary, the more difficult and hidden Chaos pollution will continue to poison mankind, and the Knights of Caliban only know how to deal with behemoths, so how can they deal with Chaos pollution?

Ryan's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Everything that Saltana said was unknown to him in the past.

Because in the original timeline, he was too lazy to pay attention to this guy until he broke through the Sirius Knights' fortress monastery Santa Gruula, and Saltana committed suicide after leaving a string of weird last words.

At that time, his mind was full of unifying Caliban and eliminating the threat of the behemoths to humans, and he didn't think about so much at all.

But his Caliban had already killed all the giant beasts, and even the forest was almost flattened by the Mechanicus to build a huge foundry.

Could it be that his Caliban has been infected with unknown chaos corruption?

That was his lair, his base camp, and the home planet of the entire Dark Angel Legion.

Ryan instantly felt uneasy. He had entrusted the management of his lair to Luther. If Chaos Corruption really appeared, then wouldn't Caliban and Luther be in trouble?

"Those Dark Watchers also didn't tell me that the so-called Ouroboros is hidden inside Caliban."