Chapter 440: Who Are Alpharius, Omegon, Beta, and Gamma?

Facing Zhou Yun's question, Nessus's expression stiffened slightly.

The Alpha Legion is different from other Legions; the Alpha Legion does not have just one Primarch.

Instead, it has the twin Primarchs Alpharius and Omegon, one of the Alpha Legion's deepest secrets.

He instinctively wanted to conceal the situation regarding the Omegon Primarch, but after glancing at the Truth-or-Falsehood Divination Machine in Zhou Yun's hand,

Nessus's expression twitched.

This thing is simply the Alpha Legion's lifelong enemy.

Nessus initially thought it was some kind of lie detector, but after observing it carefully, he discovered

that this thing seemed to ignore all other conditions and directly judge the truth or falsehood of a statement itself.

"I am not Omegon," Nessus could only answer honestly.

The Truth-or-Falsehood Divination Machine bounced up, judging that what Nessus said was correct.

Zhou Yun stroked his chin, as if pondering something.

"Then are you Beta?" Zhou Yun continued to ask.

What the hell is Beta!

Nessus cursed in his heart; where in the Alpha Legion would a Beta come from?

They have and only have two Primarchs, Alpha and Omegon; how could there be a third Beta?

"There is no Beta," Nessus stated frankly.

He wanted to confuse Zhou Yun's understanding of the Alpha Legion, but that machine could judge—hmm?

Nessus looked blankly at the Truth-or-Falsehood Divination Machine in Zhou Yun's hand.

The Truth-or-Falsehood Divination Machine gave no reaction.

According to the situation just observed, no reaction should mean there is no distinction between true or false, or it lies between true and false.

"There is no third Primarch named Beta in the Alpha Legion!" Nessus hurriedly spoke, using more precise and explicit words to address the Truth-or-Falsehood Divination Machine.

The Truth-or-Falsehood Divination Machine gave no reaction, indicating that Nessus's words had no distinction between true or false.

This left Zhou Yun, Sanguinius, and Guilliman stunned.

If there is no Beta, no third Primarch of the Alpha Legion, the Truth-or-Falsehood Divination Machine should have directly judged it as false.

But now the Truth-or-Falsehood Divination Machine's judgment is actually that there is no distinction between true or false?

What does this mean?

Is there really a Beta? But different in form from a true Primarch?

Zhou Yun was just trying it out casually.

After all, if there is a second, there might be a third; cut off one head and two might grow back.

But he didn't expect to make an unexpected discovery.

"... There really is a damn Beta?!" Nessus was dumbfounded: "How the hell can there be a Beta?"

As a high-ranking member of the Alpha Legion, he didn't even know their Legion had a third Primarch.

This made Nessus himself feel a wave of confusion and blankness.

"It can't be that there's a fourth Primarch named Gamma!" Nessus almost blurted out.

Then, the Truth-or-Falsehood Divination Machine still gave no reaction.

"..."

Whether it was Nessus, Zhou Yun, Sanguinius, or Guilliman, they all fell silent.

Four? How can there be four?

A look of fear appeared on Nessus's face.

But he still couldn't help but, together with Zhou Yun, test all the Greek letters.

Finally confirming that, besides Alpharius, Beta, Gamma, and Omegon, all others were judged as non-existent.

But the judgments for Beta and Gamma were that there was no distinction between true or false.

Does that mean it can be said to exist or can be said not to exist?

This made people feel very eerie.

Zhou Yun thought for a moment; the simplest method was to wait until Hua Di Huang logged in and met Huang Huang Daxiong, then just ask him directly.

After all, he created the Primarchs; wouldn't he know how many there are?

Nessus was still in a state of blankness and confusion.

As an Alpha, he had already accepted the various secrets, concealments, and unknowables within the Legion.

But suddenly having two fathers... even Nessus, as an Alpha, found his brain burning.

"How should he be disposed of?" Zhou Yun looked at Guilliman and asked.

Guilliman looked at Nessus and thought for about two or three seconds.

"Didn't he claim to be loyal?"

"Then let him make some contribution to the Empire."

"The Internal Affairs Department has purged too many traitors and demons; there are many jobs no one is doing."

"I think he is very suitable; let him do it."

Zhou Yun couldn't help but nod, saying with agreement:

"Since the Alphas have arrived, let those big beasts of Chaos—the birds, the snakes, the Change-Lings—rest."

Nessus suddenly sobered up, his gaze toward Guilliman and Zhou Yun carrying some fear.

"Don't think about suicide," Sanguinius smiled slightly and reminded: "I, this my lord Saint Doraemon, am the Death God of both Humans and Eldar; even if you burn yourself to ash, you can still resurrect."

Nessus revealed a look filled with fear.

As the assistant minister to the head of the Department of Internal Affairs, he knew just how terrifying the Department's work was,

and merely serving as assistant minister had left even his Astartes body feeling utterly exhausted,

yet Ji Li Man actually wanted to shove all the work of those banished daemons onto Nesos.

Nesos's tongue trembled uncontrollably,

the only thing that had kept him going in the position of assistant minister of the Department of Internal Affairs was the thought that once the mission ended, he could go die.

"What? Didn't you proclaim yourself loyal?"

Ji Li Man asked with a smile:

"Unwilling to shoulder some work for the Imperium?"

The Imperium's current system had been entirely designed and laid out by Ji Li Man after the Great Rebellion, based on Makado's political legacy and last wishes,

the special feature of this system being that it did not worry about traitors, spies, or even daemons within,

because a single piece of work itself had already been broken up and scattered among tens of billions, hundreds of billions, or even more Department of Internal Affairs clerks; no one person could grasp the whole picture, making it hard to cause any real damage to the Imperium based on the work in their hands,

traitors, spies, and daemons who had infiltrated the Imperium's administrative system would even be swept up in the tide of the Imperium's administration, finding that not only were they unable to cause major damage to the Imperium, but were instead forced to take on the tasks the Imperium assigned them,

this was a trap Ji Li Man had deliberately left within the Imperium's administrative system; to try to strike at the Imperium through the administrative system was exceedingly difficult.

Previously, Nesos had also relied on influencing the High Lords, borrowing the already-existing conservative faction itself, to quietly push the High Lords into making wrong decisions, slightly hastening the Fall of Cadia.

But now the High Lords were completely under Ji Li Man's control; the High Lords' decisions were in effect Ji Li Man's decisions, and Ji Li Man would not be swayed or influenced by someone like Nesos.

So Ji Li Man was not at all worried about what kind of damage Nesos could cause,

in fact Ji Li Man actually hoped Nesos would stir up some trouble, as that might just lure out a bigger fish from the Alpha Legion.

Nesos's expression went rigid, his whole body trembling; he absolutely would not sink back to that state.

"I have another way to prove my loyalty."

Nesos hurriedly said:

"I have a cargo, a cargo from the Black Legion, that I wish to present to the three of you."

"You will definitely be interested!"

(End of chapter)