The Bizarre Adventures of Cloud Hammer

"No, these are two different names."

Pu, Ouchen and the other two all had some impression of the name Sword of Blasphemy, but they just couldn't remember where it came from.

As he thought about it, Apu looked at his hands and remembered where he had seen the name Sword of Blasphemy.

Apu: "It's Rogal Dorn!"

Luochen: "What's wrong? Laopu, have you also been infected by Dorne?"

Ap: "Don't you know, the Blasphemy Sword is what Dorn kept and the missing ship?"

After GW's multiple book-eating, Rogal Dorn became the last Primarch of the Human Empire to disappear. After his brothers ran away and slept, Dorn persisted in the Empire alone for a long time and presided over several army building campaigns.

The exact time of Dorn's disappearance is unknown, but it's known that he disappeared during an attack on a Chaos fleet, and since he was outnumbered, it's hard not to think he deliberately went missing. Dorn disappeared aboard the Blasphemy Blade, and the Imperial Fists only recovered one of his hands after their rescue attempt. (Unclear left and right)

Ou Ge: "Apu, are you sure?"

Ap: "I'm sure! This is Dorn's missing ship!"

Luochen: "What are you waiting for? Catch him quickly. If we can find clues about Dorne, we will make a fortune!"

As long as everyone can find Dorne, there will be someone to take care of the mess in the empire. When Old Thirteen wakes up and sees that his good brother is there, the pressure on him will be much less.

The Cloud Hammer Fleet rushed directly towards the Blasphemous Sword, but the Blasphemous Sword discovered that someone was heading straight for it, so it ran away without looking back and ordered its warships to intercept it to buy time to escape.

"Gloria, can you find a way to stop the Blasphemy Sword?"

"No, it's too far away, but I can mark it. The next time the ship appears, we can find it immediately."

"Hurry up and hit it! It's about to warp jump!"

The Cang Yin Sword fired a shot from a very long distance at the Blasphemous Sword. Although it did not cause any damage, it was marked. When the Blasphemous Sword appears next time, everyone will directly pull a group of Emperor Fists to see if it can escape.

The Blasphemous Sword escaped, and everyone turned back to help the Imperial Navy clear out the remaining Chaos fleet, and then continued to the next place.

In M41.153, ten years after the Gothic War officially broke out, the remnants of Chaos in the Gothic Sector were basically eliminated, and the war was truly declared over.

Under the orders of the High Lords Council of Terra, massive monuments were erected in the Gothic Sector. These monuments were engraved with the names of every Imperial soldier who served in the war, from Admiral Ravensburg to an ordinary merchant ship crew member. Their achievements would be remembered by both the Empire and the Gothic Sector.

The names of the Cloud Hammer people should also be among them, but Ou Ge asked Ravensburg to hide their names. If they had not been late, the Gothic Star Sector would not have to suffer such hardships, so they do not deserve these honors.

At Ou Ge's sincere request, Ravensburg agreed, but the achievements of Nebula Hammer will still be recorded, and the hero should not be forgotten.

One day in the same year, everyone came to an uninhabited planet in the Gothic Star Zone. On a mountain peak of this planet, they built a pavilion and set out a table of delicious food, waiting for the arrival of a 'friend'.

(Note: Rogal Dorn disappeared long before the Beast War aboard the Despoiler-class battleship Blasphemy. The Despoiler-class battleship was originally designed and constructed in mid-M36. The Warp is truly magical, isn't it?)

Chapter 113 A friend comes from afar

Not knowing what the "friend" they were about to meet would like to eat, everyone filled the table with their usual home-cooked dishes and put some fruit in the middle. Considering that the other party might drink, everyone also took out two bottles of fine wine.

"That shouldn't be a problem."

Everyone looked at the table full of steaming dishes and said that these dishes were all made by themselves, and they were not so unethical as to serve pre-prepared dishes to the guests.

Luochen: "I'm still a little nervous."

Ou Ge: "It's impossible not to be nervous. After all, the person we are going to meet is the Emperor."

Everyone felt extremely nervous at the thought of meeting the Yellow Skin Man. As one of the underlying logics of Warhammer 40k, the Emperor no longer needed any introduction, and everyone just regarded him as the 'Emperor' rather than the 'God-Emperor'.

Ah Wei: "So who will come?"

Eryu: "It's definitely not possible for me and Xianyu to get along."

If everyone wants to talk to the Emperor, they need to ask Gloria to remove her "invisible" state. Among the six people, Xianyu was targeted by Khorne in Isil, Eryu was clearly being chased by the Emperor's son, and it is unknown whether Luochen, who was modeled after Professor A, will attract Tzeentch. Awei seems safe but is also based on the prototype of the rebels. The only ones who are really not involved in anything are Apu and Ou Ge.

Apu: "It's just me and Brother Ou. We're the only two who can be more stable."

Ou Ge: "Gloria, please remove the 'invisibility' status of me and Lopu."

"Well, I've already untied you two. If things go wrong, I'll take you both and run away together," Gloria said.

Having lost their "invisibility" state, Apu and Ou Ge felt that something was missing. Now they were like walking naked in a forest with countless dangerous beasts wandering around them.

Apu and Ou Ge sat at the dining table waiting. Not long after, a mist filled the area around the pavilion where they were.

"Subspace energy fluctuations have been detected. He's coming." Gloria reminded everyone.

A figure walked out of the fog. It was a woman with wings on her back and wearing golden armor. There was also a golden halo like the sun behind her head.

This is a being called a living saint (E-Armageddon) in Warhammer 40k. The most famous living saint is undoubtedly Celestine, but the living saint in front of him is obviously not one of them, and his appearance makes everyone feel familiar.

"Isn't this the big-headed woman?" Xianyu remembered that this living saint was the female Storm Heir Lanny on Isil.

"Lanni" sat at the other end of the dining table, facing Apu and Ou Ge. Her golden eyes kept scanning the two of them, and her mouth opened and closed, giving people a feeling that she wanted to say something but stopped.

Both parties remained silent. Apu and Ou Ge were not sure whether Lanny was possessed by the yellow fox, so they did not want to speak first.

Say something quickly, no matter if you are the big-headed girl or the emperor, if you don’t speak up, the atmosphere will become awkward. The two brothers are nervous, but you can’t be really socially anxious, right?

One minute, five minutes, ten minutes passed, and both sides remained in a stalemate, with no one speaking.

Finally, Apu couldn't bear it anymore, and he asked tentatively:

"Emperor?"

"……it's me."

"Lanni" is indeed in a state of being possessed by the Emperor, and only by borrowing a suitable body can the Emperor communicate with everyone.

Huangpizi, do you like playing female characters so much?

Apu and Ou Ge didn't feel comfortable asking the Emperor why he hadn't spoken, so they decided to introduce themselves first to ease the awkwardness.

Ou Ge: "We are..."

"I know, you are Uldren, he is Priseth, and the other four are called Seteface, Lo Dust, Axwell and Eryu." The Emperor had long known the external identities of the six people clearly.

The emperor has finished speaking, what else can Brother Ou say?

"Why don't we eat the food first, otherwise it will get cold." Apu said. Now they had no choice but to eat first.

The emperor nodded, picked up the chopsticks with his right hand, and said after taking a bite of the dish:

“The taste is a little bland.”

How did you get a review? I didn't expect you, a yellow-skinned person, to have such strong tastes.

Holding back the urge to complain, Apu asked after organizing his thoughts:

"I wonder if the one before us is the 'human' Emperor, or the 'God-Emperor' the Imperium believes in."

"I cannot even explain this question clearly myself, but what I can be sure of is that it is my human side that is here talking to you," the Emperor replied.

"The human side...Okay, let's just leave it at that."

Apu and Ou Ge looked at each other and then got down to business. Everyone had too many questions to ask the emperor, but in the end they only picked a few important questions.

"Before asking the first question, I would like to say something about us." Brother Ou said slowly.

"Before coming to this world, we were just ordinary people. Our lives were not rich, but we were happy."

"Because of this, after arriving here, we naturally set our sights on the common people of the empire, rather than the extravagant and decadent lives of the imperial aristocracy. That kind of life is too far away for us."

"We've visited many planets, and the civilians on most of them... let's be frank, from our perspective, they don't live like human beings. There's no light in their eyes, everyone is like the walking dead, and even the children don't smile."

Brother Ou couldn't help but clench his fists when he recalled the scenes he saw in those hive worlds. For people from the 3K era, everything in the hive worlds was too disgusting. It was like living in hell.

"So Emperor... what do you think of the Imperium as it stands today? We know you don't care about any one individual, only humanity as a whole, but we still want to know your opinion."

"I know you may have many... opinions about me, but the current empire is not what I intended."

The current state of the Empire is definitely not what the Emperor wants to see. He also knows what life is like for most civilians, but as he sits on the Golden Throne, he can't change anything.

Apu: "Since you know the current state of the Empire, why did you let mortals rule it in the first place?"

"Because I originally envisioned that the human empire would be ruled by mortals. Mortals are the main body of humanity, and superhumans should not be above mortals."

Ogo: "Is this your reason for excluding the Primarchs and Astartes from Imperial rule in the latter stages of the Great Crusade?"

"At that time, I thought the Great Crusade was almost over, and I was busy with the Webway, but... who could have imagined what would happen."

Those things refer to the Great Crusade and the Great Rebellion, right?

Ap: "But you don't even have an explanation, not to mention the Astartes. Aren't you afraid that the Primarchs will have wild thoughts?"

"I thought they would understand me."

"..."

The Emperor's words choked everyone up. They could never have imagined that the Emperor was so confident about his relationship with the Primarch.

Brother, do you really not know how touching your emotional intelligence is?

Apu: "As the most powerful psychic in the real universe, you didn't foresee the occurrence of the great rebellion?"

"I did foresee the Great Rebellion, but that doesn't mean I knew everything that would happen. The strongest psychic is also human, not an omniscient and omnipotent 'God'." The Emperor emphasized that no matter how powerful he was as an Immortal and a psychic, he was still human. It was just that many people wishfully regarded him as a god.

"I also want to stop all this from happening, but who knows if my efforts are actually promoting the prophecy? Just like those Eldar."

Speaking of the prophecy that Douya had brought about, Luochen, who was listening, couldn't help but say to Brother Ou:

"Brother Ou, can you please ask Huangpizi what he thinks about Angron?"

Ougo: "My companions would like to ask you, what do you think of Angron?"

Not only Luochen, everyone wants to know why the Emperor did that on Nu Star. It was really the style of play that received the most barrage. It couldn't be that he was really afraid of being knocked out by Nu Star's anesthetic and being captured to be used as a star force by the slave owner, right?

"Angron... you think I became schizophrenic and lost my mind in order to keep up with the progress of the Great Crusade." The Emperor did not want to answer this question.

But schizophrenia and brain damage is a good answer, and it can also explain the emperor's shocking actions at that time.

Ap: "Let's not talk about the mess during the Great Crusade. It was obvious long ago that mortal rule would ruin the Empire. I understand your concern for the Astartes, but why didn't you order the Custodes to rule the Empire? The human template you created has been sitting in the Imperial Palace for ten thousand years. If they had come out to rule for a few thousand years, the Empire wouldn't have become so rotten, right?"

“Because I can’t.”

"Why can't this be done?"

Everyone is confused. Can't you, the Emperor, even say a word to the Imperial Guards?

It really doesn’t work.

The Emperor explained the reason to everyone. After defeating Horus, he sat on the Golden Throne in a seriously injured state. From then on, he could no longer communicate directly with the outside world unless he used force to forcibly transmit information. However, except for the Primarch, even the Commander of the Imperial Guard could only obtain extremely limited information, and his consciousness depended entirely on his own understanding (imagination).

Before the Primarch disappeared, the Emperor still believed that mortals could manage the Empire on their own, but when the Primarch disappeared and things began to go wrong, it was too late.

Brother Ou: "Since we can't communicate directly, then the revelations you gave to believers don't count? I remember that you used revelations to help people resolve several crises, right?"

"That's not me, or not entirely me."

Since the rise of the state religion, the people of the empire generally regarded the emperor as a god. A large amount of faith entered the emperor's body, and the "divine" nature born out of faith began to appear. Today, a year later, the "divine" nature has completely overwhelmed the emperor's already limited humanity, making him no longer the "Emperor" of mankind, but the "Divine Emperor" of the empire.

God will respond to the prayers of believers, so in times of crisis, the Emperor of God will bring down revelations and miracles to maintain the human empire. As long as the empire does not fall, humanity will not perish. As for what the empire will become, it is not within the consideration of the Emperor of God.

Although the Emperor could have used other forces to do the same thing, when those to whom he gave inspiration and missions were labeled heretics and burned at the stake, the Emperor realized that he could not change the Empire.

Apu: "Then why can you communicate with us directly now?"

"I have you to thank for this, because your arrival has brought about changes. Don't think negatively. Although those four guys are abstract entities formed from emotions and concepts, they cannot represent everything."

When Gloria came to this universe due to a traffic accident, the "God" Emperor and the four vendors were attracted there. This gave the Emperor, who had been suppressed by the God, an opportunity. In addition, the arrival of everyone brought unknown changes to this universe, allowing the Emperor to temporarily do things that he could not do before under extremely harsh conditions.

Ou Ge: "So this is temporary?"

"Yes, although I can now communicate with you using the fragments of humanity that I once abandoned, I can feel that this ability will disappear soon." The Emperor also implicitly acknowledged Lanny's identity. She was the reincarnation of the fragment of humanity that he had abandoned before the decisive battle with Horus. It was for this reason that Lanny could withstand the Emperor's power with her mortal body.

Apu: "Then Emperor, why don't you take this opportunity to inform the Imperial Guards?"

It's never too late to mend the fold. Isn't it okay to let the imperial guards take charge of the empire now?

"I tried, but I couldn't. Only you and a few people who have come into contact with you can understand what I say. Even if they can understand, do you think the Imperial Guard will believe what 'I' say?"

Let the emperor, in a possessed state, tell the Imperial Guards that he is their master and that he now orders them to leave the palace and govern the empire. There is no way the Imperial Guards will believe him.

It is undeniable that the Imperial Guards are arrogant. Apart from the Emperor and their colleagues, they rarely take other things seriously. Unless the Emperor personally orders the Imperial Guards to leave the palace, they will never move, and the current Emperor cannot do that.

"Alas, corn spirit."

I can only say that it fits everyone's stereotype of the Imperial Guards.

After chatting for so long and eating a lot of food, it’s time to discuss the most important issue.

"Emperor, do you know why we took the initiative to see you?" asked Brother Ou.

"I can guess part of it." The Emperor put down his chopsticks and looked at Ou Ge and Apu and said, "The empire is already terminally ill. No matter what it does, it will only prolong its life. So you don't need to care."

"We don't want to care about this empire either, but we want to know how to save humanity."