After the noisy victory parade came to an end, a scarred and broken battleship arrived at Klentalina escorted by the Glory Queen-class battleship Unyielding Truth.

During the journey across the Kerenna Sector, the Dark Angels repeatedly suggested to Captain Seraph that he transfer the body of the original body to the safer Indomitable Truth so that the dilapidated cruiser they were traveling on could be sent for rest and maintenance, but the arrogant The Angel Spawn rejected the battle-brother's offer.

The bloody sword brought the body of Sanguinius and the sad news of Baal's death.

It wasn't until Chapter Master Seraph and Technical Sergeant Oritos transported the crystal coffin carrying the body of the original body down to the star port, and led the Dark Angels to the orbit to greet them that the Lion King discovered that on this ship There were only two people.

"Is there anyone else on board?"

"No, right? Placed together with the angel's coffin, there are only corpses on the ground. It's a shame that they were able to make it this far with a boatload of dead corpses..."

"How could this be so..."

The Blood Angels no longer exist, and the sub-group Crimson Upstarts also perished together with the 9th Expeditionary Fleet at the mouth of the Breakers. Seraph and Oritos are the last survivors.

The Ecclesiastical Church responded quickly. Many priests chanted the Holy Word and placed the Angel Crystal Coffin in the Cathedral of Hymns dedicated to the Emperor.

Seeing that the body of the Gene Father was finally bathed in the Emperor's holy light again, Chapter Master Saraf, who was covered in wounds, finally passed out with peace of mind. He was seriously injured in the Battle of Baal's Destruction. He only received simple treatment, and it is a miracle that he can survive until now.

The unconscious Saraf was taken away by the Dark Angel Apothecary.

Ryan wore the Baptist armor and came to the technical sergeant Oritos. The lion's ambitious eyes looked directly into his eyes: "Tell me, what happened to Baal."

"..." Oritos raised his head and looked at the team of priests transporting the body of Sanguinius into the church, and then looked at the surrounding Dark Angel Honor Guard guarding his genetic father, and he couldn't help but feel something inexplicable in his heart. , Unexplained sadness and sadness.

Why were the Dark Angels able to rally around their father, but we couldn't even defend our Primarch's home planet?

Oritos was a little discouraged and bowed to Ryan in front of him. "As you wish, noble primarch..."

Governor Banhart arranged a secret room for them, which only accommodated Ryan, Oritos and the secretary of the Ministry of Interior.

As the scribe's quill fell on the parchment, the Techmarine began his narrative:

"At first, we went to Baal just to get a feather from our genetic father..."

"Due to the glory of the angel bloodline, Captain Saraf led us to join the 9th Expedition Fleet of the Terra Expedition. We accepted the blessing from the prophetess and the military assistance of the star bomber, and began to send the star gate construction template to Terra. Holy Crusade.

In the hometown of the Archangel, the Blood Angels think tank on Baal predicted the beginning of this expedition. The 9th Expedition Fleet was allowed to go to Baal and receive the blessing entrusted to us by our genetic father-a weapon from San Gilliam. Spaniard's feathers. "

Speaking of this, Oritos looked a little lonely. They just went to Baal to greet Sanguinius with a feather, but they were forced by the situation and had no choice but to take away the entire body of Gene's father.

"When we arrived on Baal, Baal was being invaded by Khorne's daemon armies, and the blood god's will was manifested there, trying to tamper with the remains of our fathers... The Blood Angels would not tolerate such blasphemy.

The 9th Expeditionary Fleet that had just arrived decisively joined the battle, and together with the Baal System Defense Force, fought fiercely with the Khorne Demon Army that had set foot on the land of Baal, the Crimson Upstarts and the Blood Angels charged on the battlefield together. This was the first time since the end of the Great Crusade Era. An unprecedented grand occasion, the heirs of the Holy Blood who share the same hatred are enough to destroy all enemies...

...Except for the demon that appeared in the place where the holy angel descended. "

"The Lord of the Red Sands with flaming wings walked out of the sea of ​​​​blood from the corpse mountain, crushing countless skulls with every step he took. It held an ominous magic sword in its left hand, and the rumbling battle ax of Khorne in its right hand. Every roar seems to come from the deepest depths of hell, enough to break the will of the toughest warrior.

It is the World Eater, it is the Gladiator, it is the 12th scion of the Emperor, Angron, the ascended demon primarch of the Blood God Khorne. "

Oritos' voice trembled slightly when he narrated, while Ryan crossed his arms and said nothing. He knew very well what the appearance of the rampaging Angron on the battlefield meant - it meant massacre.

"Wait! Please, allow me to overstep... Noble Primarch... What is 'the 12th scion of the Emperor'?" The secretary responsible for recording this secret conversation slapped the quill in his hand on the table, his face With an expression full of horror, he couldn't believe what kind of heresy he had just heard.

"As we all know, His Majesty the God-Emperor created 9 primarchs based on his own genes, and led the 9 sacred Astartes legions to start the magnificent era of the Great Crusade... But what are you talking about now, the 12th scion? ', 'The Ascendant Primarch of Khorne', I...I don't understand...where does this heresy come from?"

Could this Lord Astartes be saying that a certain Primarch had betrayed the Emperor and joined Chaos?

What a blasphemy! ! !

Oritos was silent. He did not immediately respond to the clerk's question, but looked at the Lion King in front of him, wanting to know the original body's reaction to this.

Seeing the clerk's firm expression during his impassioned speech, Ryan's palm on the table clenched slightly, then slowly released it. Finally, he sighed helplessly, his golden eyes filled with sadness.

The scribe was right. The Emperor had only nine sons, and the Empire had only nine Legions of Astartes. There had never been a Horus Heresy, nor had there been any Primarchs or Daemon Princes.

This is the official history promulgated by the empire and cannot be refuted or questioned by anyone. Even for most ordinary people in the empire, they are unaware of the existence of Chaos. Only a few personnel, such as the secretary, knew about the existence of the so-called evil god pollution.

——For example, the victory parade held not long ago on Krentalina was not actually celebrating the victory of Admiral Genievia in leading the fleet to repel the Chaos Spearhead, but celebrating the Imperial Navy's defense against the attacks of cultists and depraved elements. line of defense.

Yes, this is what the human empire looks like today. Lie after lie is built on battlefield after battlefield, building walls that support the Golden Throne.

"Let him continue. Just record it truthfully." Ryan said, "Whether Oritos's words are heresy or not, I will judge for myself."

"..." Oritos remained silent.

The clerk glared at Eulitus, who was sitting opposite him, with hateful eyes, picked up the quill again, and continued his recording work.

"...We were defeated quickly." Oritos said:

"The power of the Children of God is absolute. Countless Khorne vampires emerged from the killings of Angron and scattered us with billowing flames. Every slash of the battle ax in the Lord of the Red Sands can at least steal The lives of five elite veterans were taken away, and not even the knight mecha could do anything to it.

Even the Titan Legion, which was urgently mobilized by the Adeptus Mechanicus for support, was slaughtered by Angron alone..."

"We were retreating steadily." Oritos emphasized: "When we realized that we could not defend Baal from the crazy offensive of Khorne's army, it was too late.

Captain Seraph made a blood oath with the Chapter Master of the Blood Angels, 'Holmos', that we will delay the advance of the Khorne demonic army at all costs and buy time for the rear troops to transfer the remains of our genetic father. .

No matter what, Sanguinius's remains must not be defiled by Khorne. "

There was silence in the secret room. After Eulitus' narration was suspended, there was only the rustling sound of the quill rubbing against the paper. After the clerk finished narrating what he had just said, Eulitus continued:

"The descendants of the angels came one after another, and countless soldiers died gloriously on the battlefield. We refused to take even half a step back in the glorious battle, because behind us was the soul of our father... The hellish mincing lasted for 8 days and 8 nights, until the Holy Blood Angel Chapter Master Holmes also died under Angron's sword, and I also stepped onto the battlefield with my weapon."

Ryan's expression was serious, and he understood the heavy weight contained in these seemingly plain words.

Olitos is a technical sergeant who is a logistics support personnel of the battle group. He is generally responsible for repairing weapons and maintaining equipment in the rear and is not involved in frontline combat.

The Chapter Master was killed, the Titan Legion was wiped out, and even support personnel such as technical sergeants went to the battlefield, which showed how terrible the intensity of the war on Baal was.

"I'm very lucky, but also very unfortunate." Oritos said:

"Fortunately, because when I went to the battlefield, this tragic flesh-mincing war was already at its end. The demon prince Angron summoned through the skull sacrifice ceremony could only exist in the real universe for 8 days. After the 8 days, it was destroyed. Forced back into subspace.

Unfortunately, I was not able to die gloriously in Baal with my battle brothers. Instead, I became a cowardly deserter and fled in embarrassment with the seriously injured Captain Seraph and the body of my late father.

It was midnight on the eighth day after the war began. The Vampires and Khorne Bulls raging on the battlefield suddenly sounded the horn to evacuate. The originally devastating offensive had advanced to the walls of the fortress and monastery, and further on was the Angel's Sleeping Place. land. But at this moment, the demonic army of Khorne retreated.

It was midnight, and there were only a few hours left before Angron's existence. However, the red-eyed butcher suppressed his anger and disappeared early. Even all the vampires were forced to endure the failure to obtain the remains of the original body. The resentment returned to the sea of ​​souls.

It was then that we truly understood... Angron did not disappear because his existence time limit was up, but he fled in a hurry. "

"But it was too late."

Oritos's shoulders were shaking, as if he was recalling a nightmare that would shadow him for life, and cold sweat trickled down his temples:

"Can you imagine? The noble Primarch, the Khorne vampire wrapped in fire and thirsty for blood, the tyrannical demon who knows no fear, is actually crying..."

Ryan was stunned.

I heard Oritos speak very fast and continued: "I heard horrifying wails resounding in the skull-covered battlefield. The retreat of the demonic army of Khorne was so scattered that it could not be called a retreat, but that it was abandoning helmets and abandoning them." A fled in panic.

Something more terrifying than demons and more extreme than chaos came to Baal. They are aloof predators, while demons are just sweet and delicious lambs waiting to be slaughtered... Even the Lord of the Red Sands, who single-handedly slaughtered an entire Titan army, was also killed by that weird... The creature devoured a thigh - if that thing could be called a 'creature'. "

In the secret room, the rustling of quills writing on parchment suddenly stopped, and Ryan's mouth opened slightly in shock, without making any sound.

017.M40, the L-star gate of the Klenna sector was built on the planet Yan Ming.

This is rare good news since the outbreak of Baal's Destruction and the Eye of Terror expansion war.

The human empire has more than one million colonies scattered like stars across the vast Milky Way, separated by astronomical distances from each other. Therefore, transportation lines mean the lifeline of human civilization. It is foreseeable that the penetration of the Star Gate will definitely bring many unprecedented changes to the Kelenna Sector, some of which are good and some are bad.

Russell had no energy to observe these changes, so he left through the L-Stargate network first and returned to his hometown of Falla.

Titan, the Pot of Greed that carries the Ring Temple, is the first ship to come to Falla through the L-Star Gate. It is also the only unique ship with religious buildings on board in the entire Far Eastern Star Territory. She brought Russell with her. Across the already prosperous urban planet Embla, we arrived above a beautiful blue-green planet.

In the airspace between Space City 1 and 2 transformed from two satellites, the Gray Goo Mothership, the 'Fodlan' Biological Ark, and several silently floating 'Cetus' type heavy Titans are already here. Been waiting for a long time.

The construction template of the Titan ship was designed by Gray Wind. There are two types, namely the 'Evangelist' type main battle Titan equipped for military fleets, and the 'Cetacean' type heavy-duty Titan used only within the Order of Truth. .

The former is mainly engaged in battle, while the latter is engaged in defense. Now, except for the Pot of Greed, the five ‘Cetaceans’ are anchored above Falla, which means that senior officials from various departments of the Order of Truth have gathered here, waiting for Russell’s arrival.

Today is an important day. Taking advantage of the east wind of the original body's return, the Star Destroyer decided to hold the first summit meeting of the Far Eastern Star Territory in the former Falla Senate to discuss several important issues that need to be discussed and resolved, and to provide guidance for the Far East. Establish a general outline for the future development direction of Star Territory.

One is the increasingly serious refugee problem in the Far Eastern Star Territory. More and more poor civilians from the Human Empire are smuggling into the actual control area of ​​the Order of Truth on black ships even at the risk of their lives. This is repeatedly prohibited.

Second, in the southwest of the Far Eastern Star Territory, the migrating green tide has hit the Necron Sotec dynasty. A war between aliens has broken out, and the war is in full swing. Should the Order of Truth wait and see from the other side, or wait for opportunities to make profits?

Third, the integration work of the Far East Star Territory has been basically completed, and the management system has been initially set up. It is time to decide the most important question, that is: what kind of political entity does the leader want to establish in the Far East Star Territory?

Or to put it another way – which way do we want to go?

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