Chapter 985: Dirty, but You Won’t Get Sick if You Eat It

The Emperor explained the Great Crusade to Corax, saying that as a primarch, Corax had a heavier mission and responsibility to bear, and his talents must not be wasted on this planet.

Corax understood what the Emperor meant. He was asking himself to sacrifice his family for everyone. And considering that when Corax joined, the Great Crusade was nearing its end, and closer to the bright future promised by the Emperor. Corax pledged his allegiance to the Emperor, vowing to do whatever it took to win the Great Crusade.

Corax was gone, leaving his fellow workers behind. The Adeptus Mechanicus came, and they built even larger factories on the ruins of the recently disintegrated giants. Although the workers' lives are better than before, the essence of oppression has not changed at all. The officials sent by the Emperor kept saying the truth of the Empire and the supremacy of reason, but the Mechanicus Priests in charge of management ordered the workers to kneel down and pray to the machines.

Feeling humiliatingly betrayed, the workers once again took up arms and prepared to drive the Mechanicum from their lands, but their uprising was suppressed by the Mechanicum and the Imperial government.

Corax heard that he had returned to the Redemption Star, and the workers shouted at Corax: You have changed! Where is the justice in your heart? Were they all stolen by that lying emperor?

Corax explained to the workers that only by realizing the Great Crusade can mankind be truly liberated and rejuvenated.

Such words made the workers sneer, and Corax left in a hurry with an apology. He always believed that the Emperor was right and that if his plan succeeded, everything he was enduring would be worth it.

Then the Great Rebellion broke out.

The Raven Guard, Iron Hands, and Salamander Legions fought against the Sons of Horus, the Emperor's Children, the World Eaters, the Death Guard, the Iron Warriors, the Night Lords, the Word Bearers, and the Alpha Legion, who arrived successively.

Ferrus and Vulkan died, and the eighty thousand Raven Guard were reduced to three thousand. Corax led the remaining troops to fight a guerrilla war, and finally found an opportunity to escape from the siege of Istvan V.

Seeing the growing power of Horus, Corax asked the Emperor for permission to go behind enemy lines to contain and harass the enemy forces, even if the entire Raven Guard army was wiped out.

The Emperor had no choice but to give Corax an unstable technology, allowing Corax to gain a rampage speed comparable to the production efficiency of degraded bodies. As long as the human genome is implanted, they can grow into a Space Marine within a few days.

This extremely high efficiency caused concern among the top brass of the Raven Guard, and Corax believed that they must extinguish the flames of the Horus Heresy as quickly as possible.

If he failed to stop it, all the blood of the Great Crusade would have been shed in vain, and he would not have the face to face his brothers and sisters in the Redeemer.

This unstable technology did greatly increase the size of the Raven Guard, but it was also used by Alpha lurking in his legion. Abnormal distortions spread among the recruits. Corax had to endure the grief and anger in his heart and call a halt to the explosion. Soldier plan. Then he attacked the enemy with his severely mutated offspring, as if he had fallen into chaos.

The Great Rebellion ended, leaving behind a devastated empire. Countless chaos is slowly brewing in it, and both Space Marines and mortals are choked by a despair that cannot see hope.

The exhausted Corax returned to the Redemption Planet with his deformed offspring. The local people revolted again under the oppression of the imperial government, and blood flowed on the ground engraved with the skull of the God of Machines.

Corax, who had been a savior, stood on the opposite side of the rebels. He suppressed them in the eyes of the workers with shock and disgust. Then he returned to his tower and killed the mutated offspring with his own hands, who were no different from monsters.

Hope is gone, the Emperor is silent, the galaxy is withering. Most importantly, even this small area of ​​​​the Redemption Star is not protected.

Seeing everything, Corax left the Empire, just like Jaghatai rushing into the Webway to escape humanity's hopeless future.

"If you don't hear it calling you, you're not desperate enough." Corax repeated it to Leman Russ after saying all this.

Leman Russ sighed and said, "At least Fenris is still the Fenris I am familiar with."

"Yes, but the Redemption Star is no longer worthy of the word redemption. He has changed back again, and I am no different from Curze, and I am even worse than him."

"So, what now?" Lin Fan asked from the side, "How did you take back the essence of subspace?"

Corax pointed to the beads surrounding him, then pointed to Lin Fan's belly and said, "I have to ask you, I found this thing in your belly. It has similar properties to mine, forming They have created an ingenious balance structure that controls each other's forces. If the balance is destroyed, I will continue to act in the form of subspace essence."

"In my stomach?" Lin Fan scratched his head, then smiled bitterly, "Maybe he ate something weird, but I really can't remember what it was."

"There's something like a starfish in your belly."

"Starfish?" Lin Fan blinked a few times and remembered the Patrick star he ate under the sea in the cafeteria, called the two-dimensional prison, from where Odemeyer was released.

How are these things living in my stomach?

Lin Fan suddenly felt uncomfortable. He wanted to vomit something but couldn't. In the end, he had to swallow a few saliva as if he had resigned himself to his fate, as if he had a harmless parasite in his body.

"Only human nature can restrain the essence of the warp, and the manifestation of human nature is the human body. If even the body cannot be maintained, it means that human nature is as fragile as a candle that is about to go out."

"So you have become like this ordinary person now? We have to find a way to change you back."

Corax shook his head at Leman Russ, rejected his kindness, and then said with a little joy, "I think this is good. Now I finally look like an ordinary person."

"So what should we do now? Magnus has stopped now, and we still have to find a way to Cadia."

"Leave it to me, the wave of shadows will show us the way." Corax opened his hands to the front, and the boundless darkness enveloped everyone. Everyone could not see anything, and could only hear Corax telling them to keep quiet in the darkness.

"Corax, what is the name of your warp essence?" Lin Fan asked suddenly.

"Fear of darkness instinct. You can call it that."