The Vengeful Spirit.
In front of the conference room on the main bridge, Horus was at this moment sitting alone at the huge conference table.
Looking at the vast, boundless, and ever-changing fluctuations of the Warp outside the Geller Field.
Horus felt a strange sense of joy.
He looked at the small, golden centaur statue in front of the conference table and felt a little strange.
He didn't know why, but recently he had always felt as if this thing was glowing.
But how could something made of gold glow, apart from reflecting light?
Then... could it be his imagination?
But as a Primarch, how could he have illusions? It was really strange.
But the Sagittarius golden ring...
The Sagittarius golden ring...
Sagittarius...
"Horus, do you have a moment?"
A rather gentle and quiet question came from behind him, which seemed to be able to soothe all anxiety and restlessness.
"Ah! Sister, you're here!"
Horus quickly stood up and turned around, and said with a smile and open arms, to show his welcome.
And by the way, he inconspicuously wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth.
"Sanguinius, what can I do for you?"
Horus looked at the other person.
The woman was about the same height as him, with long, smooth golden hair that almost reached the ground, but for some reason, as if by some magic, it did not touch the ground.
And her appearance was the most beautiful in the world.
Anyone who saw her, even if they were not human, would be amazed and infatuated with her flawless and incomparably charming face.
With just one look, one could never refuse any of her requests again.
As for what she was wearing, it was secondary. After all, the Emperor's aesthetic was rather singular. A suit of bright golden armor, adorned with some rubies from her home planet of Baal, which shone brightly.
Apart from that, she also had a pair of pure white, flawless feathered wings.
If these wings were on someone else's back, they would definitely be seen as a dirty and evil mutant.
But when they were on her, they were just right, like an angel descending from a myth, not out of place at all.
Sanguinius.
At this time, she was in Horus's fleet, learning the various knowledge of space combat.
And the Emperor had promised that when she was ready, he would arrange for her to meet her gene-son legion.
And to this, Horus had also hinted several times to let Sanguinius be mentally prepared.
The Ninth Legion might be even more... disgusting than imagined.
But now was not the time.
"It's a message from the Astropathic Choir, from Terra."
"We have found another of the Emperor's gene-sons, on the planet Colchis, not far from our fleet."
"The Emperor hopes that we, the nearby Primarchs, can go with him to welcome the return of the new Primarch."
"I wonder what your opinion is."
"Why not, sister," Horus replied with a smile. "Since a new brother is returning, then as the big brother, I should naturally go and welcome him."
"Notify the Navigators. Prepare to change course."
Prospero.
The capital, Tizca.
Outside the city.
"Finally."
Magnus retracted his psionic spell and, looking at the gradually closing and disappearing Warp rifts, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Although it was not difficult for him, as a Primarch-level psionic power, to deal with these Psychneuein swarms...
...but given that he had gone a bit too far just now, he couldn't use too much psionic power, for fear of continuing to tear open the Warp rifts.
He could only rely on his own two fists, without any magic enhancement, to tear the queen bee in the Psychneuein swarm to pieces.
A sorcerer, it's very reasonable to know a little bit of strength.
Without magic, I can still tear you to pieces!
However, the Psychneuein, after swarming and having a queen bee on guard, were not to be underestimated.
Dealing with this Psychneuein swarm had taken the Primarch a considerable amount of time.
And dealing with the Warp rifts also took time...
Therefore, at this time, Kasjia and the remaining Thousand Sons Astartes who were aiding the city could only fight alone.
"I hope nothing else goes wrong," Magnus couldn't help but say in his heart.
With the last of the magic repair web completed, soon, these rifts would also completely subside.
But he didn't know what the situation was like in the entire city of Tizca now.
Thinking of this, Magnus's expression was a little heavy.
And guilty.
If Prospero had really been severely damaged because of his good intentions gone wrong...
...Magnus could never forgive himself.
Sigh!
It was all his fault!
He had carelessly let those madmen from the Corvidae cult summon Warp creatures.
And when he was solving the problem, he had carelessly used too much force and had released a swarm of Psychneuein that even he himself would have to spend some time to solve.
Not only that, but he had also carelessly overloaded the Tizca shield, causing a large number of psykers to fall into a coma, and the number of psykers in the city who could stop the Psychneuein swarm was now very small.
How come, the more he thought about it, the more something seemed wrong?
Magnus felt a cold sweat breaking out on his back.
Haha... he was really... careless...
He would definitely be more careful next time.
"Quick, Amon, you take the rest of the Thousand Sons and re-establish the shield."
Magnus said to the few Thousand Sons Astartes who were left by his side.
"I'll go—"
Dong—
[Thirty years, Chemos]
[Sagittarius, golden ring]
A strong golden sound wave, like a demonic sound piercing the ear, came from the central area of the city and continued to the area outside the city of Tizca where Magnus was.
He could feel that under the influence of this brilliance, his mentality seemed to have become calmer, more natural.
Even some of the remaining Psychneuein had quickly turned into snow-white ashes under this one blow.
"What kind of sorcery is this?"
Magnus was greatly surprised.
After browsing through various books of almost all the races and xenos in the galaxy, Magnus was still a little incredulous at what he was seeing.
He seemed to have seen a magnificent, grand, and beautiful creature.
It was pure gold, and was shaped like a centaur.
Its appearance was a little blurry, and it did not seem to be as angular as a human, but more like an abstract human creation.
It drew its bow like a moon, and the golden arrow in its hand was ready to be fired.
And under its hooves was a golden wheel, like an old golden ring worn on a person's hand.
This mentality of a golden centaur, Magnus seemed to have seen it somewhere before.
Right! In the Emperor's private collection!
He had seen this shape of a centaur in the Emperor's collection before.
When he had secretly used his psionic power to sneak into the Imperial Palace on Terra, wanting to read some of the private, precious books collected by the Emperor himself.
He had seen, at the side, this old, simple golden ring.
On that golden ring, the carved centaur was no different from what Magnus was seeing at this time.
As for what happened later... it was no longer in Magnus's memory.
Anyway, it was very terrifying, very scary.
Enough to make him not dare to sneak into the Imperial Palace again.
But speaking of which, why was this golden ring here?
No one knew.
Fulgrim didn't know, and Kasjia... well, he said he didn't know.
But in any case, this had indeed achieved a very effective result.
While flying over Tizca with the help of psionics, Magnus's heart was filled with more and more joy.
Not only had the Psychneuein swarm that had entered the capital been completely dealt with, but even the civilians who had been stung and were almost certain to die had also quickly woken up under this unknown ritual and had been brought back from the dead.
Even the psykers who had been in a state of chaos and coma when the shield had been overloaded by the strong force, under the influence of the Sagittarius golden ring, had gradually had their psionic turmoil soothed and had regained their sanity.
Under the influence of the choir, the entire city had gradually recovered from the double blow of Magnus and the Psychneuein.
"Alright, alright, everything's back to normal. Stop chanting, everyone."
Just as Magnus was still wanting to feel the strength of this mysterious power from the Warp for a while longer, the choir was impatiently interrupted by Kasjia, who had rushed forward.
Sigh, what a pity.
Magnus was a little disappointed.
But in any case, the problem of the Corvidae cult was also perfectly solved.
Now, almost everyone would think that they had been attacked by a swarm of Psychneuein.
No one would think that what had attacked them, and had shattered the psionic barrier, was a group of strange and varied Warp creatures.
"This..."
"This was also part of my plan," Magnus thought happily in his heart.
Several Terran hours later.
At the top of the pyramid, where Magnus's private library was located.
"Regarding the Psychneuein and the lurking Warp creatures on the planet, have they all been dealt with?"
"Yes," Magnus nodded. "But there are still some creatures that may be hiding in the ancient ruins all over Prospero."
"Not many traces have been left... the Emperor probably won't find anything, and won't blame me."
"So, you're really not going to control it a little? Magnus?"
Kasjia continued to persuade him.
Seriously, if he were the Wolf King, he would have knocked him out right now and sent him back to Terra.
This guy is really too good at making things happen!
In less than a week that Kasjia had been on Prospero, the other had made such a big mess for himself.
He even suspected that the reason why there were occasional incidents of Psychneuein stings on Prospero was very likely all because of the rifts that Magnus had opened.
They had even formed a fixed foraging route for this group of Psychneuein.
Psychneuein: Come here.
Psychneuein: A mysterious jungle spot.
It was really hard to imagine that if this continued, breaking the Webway would be a normal performance.
"Friend, I can feel your concern. In this matter, my actions were also too reckless and lacked proper consideration."
"But you see, didn't we smoothly solve this matter and learn a lesson from it?"
"As long as we can make progress, making some mistakes is actually no big deal."
Magnus's answer was also very simple.
Actively admit your mistake.
And then resolutely refuse to change.
Listening to this, Kasjia was also a little angry.
So frustrating!
"But! Magnus! If you continue like this, you will fall into the abyss!"
"Enough!"
Perhaps because Kasjia had been persuading him for a long time, Magnus was also a little displeased.
However, it was impossible to tell if he was seeing red from his red skin.
"Friend, I don't need you to teach me how to use psionics!"
"I have been studying psionics on Prospero since I was a child, and I have read countless books. You have only just luckily obtained some psionic talent. How can you have enough knowledge to criticize my methods of using psionics?"
"When it comes to the use of psionics, you are not yet qualified!"
"Also! How dare you accuse me of communicating with Warp creatures too frequently and bringing them into the real world!"
"Because it doesn't conform to the Imperial Truth!"
"Then what about you, Kasjia? Isn't this golden centaur you summoned also a Warp creature? Didn't you also bring him into the real world?"
What are you shouting about!
You, Kasjia, also did it!
He, Magnus, had only briefly communicated with the Warp creatures.
You, Kasjia, are even more awesome!
This isn't catching a little Warp Pokémon!
This is a custom mode!
Faced with Magnus's accusation, Kasjia fell silent.
Hiss... that's true.
That's really true!
Although he really didn't want to admit it.
But what Kasjia and the Third Legion were doing now was not much better than Magnus.
"But I don't know..."
"You don't know? Then what on earth is this spell...?"
Magnus fell into deep thought.
Compared to the friendly Warp life forms that he and the Thousand Sons had encountered while traveling in the Warp...
...this method of using a joint call was more like a religious ritual.
To use a ritual to summon the help of a Warp creature, to assist the summoner in completing a series of related help.
And the golden centaur that he had seen before through his Warp vision was precisely the Warp creature that had been summoned by everyone!
So interesting.
Seeing a new way to use Warp creatures, Magnus's eyes lit up.
I never thought, I never thought.
That in this world, there was actually a summoning ritual that he, Magnus, did not know about, and that Kasjia and the Third Legion had used it first!
Kasjia, oh, Kasjia!
I never thought that you, this guy, would also be playing Pokémon!
Now, Kasjia had also done it.
A kindred spirit!
In Magnus's impression, Kasjia had suddenly become incomparably friendly.
But... this guy, as a Space Marine, why had he always been so anxious to emphasize to him that Warp creatures were very terrible and that he should not casually come into contact with them?
Wasn't this contrary to his own actions?
"I understand!"
Magnus suddenly had a flash of insight.
So, this was to remind him!
It wasn't that he wasn't allowed to play.
But that he had to play secretly, to play carefully.
To play without leaving any evidence for others.
Not to be like a greenhorn, who would just carry it around and play openly just because he liked to communicate with Warp creatures.
In that case, if the Emperor were to find out, and blame them, no one could escape.
But if he were to learn from Kasjia, to secretly, quietly wrap his way of communicating with Warp creatures in the form of faith...
...then who could criticize Magnus's actions?
So that's how it is!
He suddenly had an epiphany.
So, this is what Kasjia meant!
Truly—
...world-shaking wisdom!
....
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