Chapter 429

Watching Wu Pifu hacking wildly at this nearly nine-meter-tall Four-God-Chosen demon, everyone around had a feeling of being completely bewildered.

Huron Blackheart had just become the Four-God-Chosen; this was the only case since Horus. The terrifying sense of awe was simply unimaginable, and everyone present felt as if they were in a dream.

At that moment, whether on the Imperial side or the Chaos side, everyone felt they were witnessing history, having entered a dreamlike epic.

Yet, in the blink of an eye, the Four-God-Chosen Huron Blackheart was hacked to death by Wu Pifu's chaotic slashes, lying on the ground and even being minced into meat, in a state where he kept regenerating but could never get back up.

At that time, the sense of epic in everyone's minds had not even dissipated yet.

But that wasn't the most exaggerated part. The most exaggerated part was that another Chaos Space Marine, whom most of them hadn't even heard of, came down, was instantly killed by Wu Pifu the moment he arrived, and then was immediately empowered by the Four Gods, resulting in yet another Four-God-Chosen...

Is this some kind of wholesale business!?

In the distance, Ma Genusi immediately said, "Wait a moment, have you noticed?"

Angron also immediately said, "This Four-God-Chosen demon... is weaker than the previous Huron Blackheart?"

Mortarion said, "Yes, weaker. Not to say much weaker, but definitely smaller in power, let alone compared to Horus. I estimate it's even a bit weaker than our own Daemon Primarchs."

The three Daemon Primarchs fell silent. Their superhuman brains were rapidly analyzing everything. Just a few seconds later, Ma Genusi immediately said, "I understand. So that's it."

The other two Daemon Primarchs also revealed expressions of realization.

Kethia immediately turned her head and asked, "What do you mean?"

The three Daemon Primarchs did not answer her but continued to look at the battlefield. Kethia said again, "If we are allies, if we want to continue to assist Him, if in the future we still need to fight side-by-side on countless battlefields, then right now..."

The three Daemon Primarchs looked at her. Ma Genusi said, "You should know about the Great Heresy, right?"

Kethia hesitated for a moment but still nodded slightly.

Ten thousand years ago, the Emperor launched the Great Crusade to reclaim humanity's ancestral lands, leading the twenty Space Marine Legions He had created to conquer the galaxy and finding the twenty Primarchs lost in the galaxy. Afterward, He returned the Space Marine Legions to their respective gene-primarchs, then hurriedly returned to Earth, Terra, in the middle of the Great Crusade, and appointed the one among the gene-primarchs with the highest prestige, strongest ability, and greatest capacity to integrate strategic situations as Warmaster. That person was the gene-primarch Horus.

But after that, Horus was corrupted by the Four Gods and fell. At the same time, the Four Gods united for the first time in history to bestow blessings upon a single existence. This was the only time there was a Four-God-Chosen, and Horus was that sole case. Then, Horus led half of the traitorous gene-primarchs toward the Solar System, eventually forcing the Emperor into a desperate situation. In the final battle, he killed Sanguinius, the most powerful gene-primarch other than Horus at the time, and was then killed by the Emperor, vanishing into ashes. However, he still severely wounded the Emperor, forcing the Emperor to rely on the Golden Throne to maintain His dying life...

This was the version of the Great Heresy that Kethia knew.

Ma Genusi said, "The Emperor is a Perpetual, and the most powerful Perpetual. He is also the most powerful psyker, to the extent that His power even exceeds the limit of so-called psyker levels, beyond the limit of the limit... To put it in layman's terms, any life forms a soul projection in the Warp. However, the soul projections of ordinary life are dim, so demons cannot find them. But the soul projections of psykers are in a state of flickering light. The stronger the psyker, the more intense their soul light. This is also the reason why psykers are dangerous, because demons can usually find a psyker's psychic projection very easily to devour, possess, corrupt, or twist. If there are no specific techniques, a psyker will be easily manipulated by Warp demons. This is one of the reasons why life in the material universe fears psykers so much. You should know all of this, right?"

Kethia nodded again.

As Ma Genusi said, this was the root of the distortion in this 0.5 Dream World: the Warp!

Psykers open Warp rifts and are most easily twisted by the Warp. Therefore, the attitude of the Human Empire toward psykers is that it is better to kill a thousand by mistake than to let one go. Only the most stable among them can survive, but they still need to serve the Empire and undergo checks on their political background and the like. In short, this is a very complex process. Ninety-nine percent of psykers will be used as consumables, either as fuel for the Astronomican or as materials for various rituals, rites, ancient machinery, or long-range hyperspace communication. Someone like Kethia surviving as a legal psyker probably accounts for less than one in ten thousand of the total.

Ma Genusi said, "The Emperor is the strongest psyker in the entire material universe, the only one of His kind. The light of the soul projection He emits in the Warp even turned into a star, resulting in a qualitative change. Demons can indeed see and find Him easily, but once they look directly at Him, the vast majority of demons will even be blinded, and once they get close, they will even be reduced to ashes, let alone fighting Him in the material universe. Even the strongest Greater Daemon would be directly banished by a single thought from the Emperor. Simply put, the Emperor at that time was no different from Him now. By His side, all Warp corruption can be isolated and expelled."

Kethia's expression shifted. She vaguely understood, but just asked, "Then..."

"Four-God-Chosen!"

Ma Genusi said with a grave expression, "This is the answer. When the power of the Four Gods is mixed into one, a certain peculiar qualitative change occurs. It's just that none of us personally saw the battle between the Emperor and the Four-God-Chosen Horus at the time, and the only Primarch who saw it was killed on the spot. But from these two Four-God-Chosen demons, it can be seen that when the power of the Four Gods is mixed into one, its nature changes, becoming a kind of pure, chaotic Chaos. This description is contradictory, but it does exist. This power comes from the Warp, yet it is higher than the Warp. Even in the material universe, it does not weaken in the slightest, is not affected by the weakening of the Veil, and is not afraid of banishment or isolation... This is the truth of the Four-God-Chosen: a nature of independent power that has broken away from the Warp, which can be perfectly manifested in the material universe. Even if in terms of total quantity, this new Four-God-Chosen demon is not even as strong as our Daemon Primarchs, its nature represents that it is the only thing capable of harming Him, as well as the power of the Emperor back then!"

Only then did Kethia truly understand what the meaning of this Four-God-Chosen really was.

She said with a face full of horror, "Then what if the Four Gods merge? Does it mean that our entire material universe in the galaxy will be completely destroyed?"

The three Daemon Primarchs immediately showed mocking expressions. Mortarion said, "That won't happen. The four of them would absolutely never have the idea of merging, unless one of them defeats the other three—and it must be a war in the absolute sense—and then proceeds to devour them with itself as the main body. This is the only way for the Four Gods to merge. Otherwise... even if they face destruction, it is impossible for the Four Gods to merge."

Kethia understood only half of it, but she still breathed a sigh of relief.

She looked at the battlefield again and saw Wu Pifu hacking the new Four-God-Chosen demon into meat paste, and then starting the process of continuously hacking and chopping on the ground. Although he himself also started spraying blood all over, it was clearly not serious.

Kethia was an elite Inquisitor who had been through a hundred battles; she would not act on impulse, nor would she fall into unnecessary confusion due to worry.

She could clearly see that the injuries Wu Pifu sustained were minor. Although the blood-spraying phenomenon was severe, he hadn't even broken any limbs, no organs had fallen out, let alone fatal wounds. These injuries didn't even need treatment. Whether it was the combat personnel she had seen in the battlefields she had experienced, or the injuries she herself had sustained, these injuries were clearly insignificant.

The problem she was worried about was another one.

"... That's two Four-God-Chosen demons now. Huron Blackheart is the leader of the Red Corsairs. I am aware of his existence; he is a warlord-style traitor, an opportunist who defected to Chaos. But his strength is beyond doubt, so when he was chosen by the Four Gods, his height, physique, strength, speed, and psychic power were all stronger than this Decalion."

Kethia looked at the three Daemon Primarchs and said, "Does this mean that the stronger the original body, the more powerful their strength becomes after being chosen by the Four Gods?"

The three Daemon Primarchs all agreed. Ma Genusi immediately said, "That's right. This is the point we just confirmed. For example, after Horus became the Four-God-Chosen, he was even enough to threaten the Emperor. It is very clear that the stronger the original body, the more powerful the Four-God-Chosen power it can withstand. That is why there is a difference in strength between the two Four-God-Chosen demons; the latter one is clearly more than a notch weaker."

Kethia immediately said with slight fear, "Then what if the Four Gods dispatch Greater Daemons, or your Primarchs—what should we do then?"

Mortarion said, "No need to worry. Greater Daemons who already carry the mark of the Four Gods, or the Daemon Primarchs of their respective factions, cannot be chosen by the Four Gods, because that would mean the other three admitting defeat. In essence, it is just as impossible as the Four Gods merging. The only thing to worry about is those who do not have the mark of the Four Gods and are in the fifth faction in the Warp... the Chaos Undivided ones, like Lorgar or Perturabo. If it were them, they might even be able to recreate a terrifying existence like the Four-God-Chosen Horus!"

Lorgar and Perturabo were also gene-primarchs who rebelled back then, but these two gene-primarchs did not commit to a specific Evil God faction, but rather to the Warp itself, so they were in the Chaos Undivided state of the Warp's fifth faction.

At this time, Angron's daemon head suddenly said, "What I am worried about is not this, but that in the team that attacked this time, there is another existence who is very close to the level of a gene-primarch. If it were him... perhaps he really could be a huge threat."

"Abaddon, the scion of Horus, Warmaster of the Black Legion, initiator of the twelve Black Crusades, successor of Horus, the person recognized by the Four Gods together..."

At the same time, near the Mandeville point in outer space, on a massive battleship, several Warp sorcerers and the Chaos Librarians of the Black Legion used their sorcery to display everything on the battlefield, including the appearance of the two Four-God-Chosen demons and their encounters and fates. Everyone looked at the image in the mirror with crazy, fanatical eyes, and then they all subconsciously looked at Abaddon.

"Four-God-Chosen, Abaddon the Divine Lord!!"

Suddenly, a Chaos Space Marine cheered loudly, and the next instant, he was hacked into two pieces by a black blade.

Abaddon's face was ugly, and he even roared loudly with panic, "I am not! Stop talking nonsense!"

"Turn around! Enter the Warp immediately!"

"I remember now, I am about to launch the Thirteenth Black Crusade, and there are many urgent matters to attend to. Immediately, immediately!"

"We are returning immediately to organize the Thirteenth Black Crusade, ah ah!!"

(End of chapter)