Warhammer: Start with a dog.

Chapter 708 (9) Who taught you to design the robot mission guide like this?

All this information, which could have shaken even the calmest and most collected warriors, failed to shake Sigismund, who now went by the alias of Volpes.

Not because he was the Black Knight or the Emperor's Champion, and not because he was Sigismund.

The main reason is that he is now a robot driven by a code program that simulates emotions with metal.

Yes, there is no need to rely on the drugs and hormones built into the power armor, no need to wait for the effect to take effect, no need to pray, meditate, practice asceticism, hypnosis and pain gloves, just tell my processing unit to switch certain representations on the mind matrix from ON to OFF mode -

OK, everything is done. The mercilessness, fearlessness and regretlessness that the Black Templars pursue can be most perfectly expressed in these undoubted 1s and 0s.

In theory, he could even perform a large-scale memory deletion procedure on himself, which could effectively avoid psychological problems such as excessive thinking, sudden human nature, the struggle between conscience and orders, or battlefield PTSD.

But the reason why the word "theoretically" was added in front of such a useful method is because someone wrote a more basic code, which lowered the priority of Sigismund's ability to independently delete some memory partitions and independently turn off the emotional switch.

So, since he was taking up so much processing power just deleting useless emotional code from the shock of "Iron Warriors trying to steal a house and become Imperial Fists Chapter Captain!", it's understandable that he let out a low cry when he saw Captain Desorian wearing a very ancient but familiar set of Terminators.

"Tyr's..."

The captain of the Fourth Company, Patrov Desorian, looked deeply at this man who was said to be the lost comrade of the First Company in his own bridge command room.

"Yes. It seems that you also know the history of the Chapter very well." The Fourth Captain finally said, "This ancient holy relic once belonged to Captain Armandus Tyr ten thousand years ago. It was lost among the hateful traitors after Captain Tyr boarded during the Battle of the Farr. Fortunately, we took back the broken pieces from the Iron Warriors' fortress, and then spent hundreds of years repairing and purifying every trace of damage, pollution and desecration."

"Finally," he said, touching the ceramsite shell of his Terminator armor solemnly, "for our service in recovering this precious relic, Chapter Master Pugh has decided to give this suit to our Fourth Company for safekeeping. This is a great honor, for it belongs to an ancient hero who saw and fought alongside Dorn, and it is also our memorial link to the Primarch."

The item is correct, but my database is now marking and annotating it as "Found: Key Node Beacon Target"?

At this moment, a task instruction seemed to be triggered by the appearance of the Tyr armor, and it appeared very prominently in his thinking matrix.

Test mission: Take away Armandus Tell's Terminator armor before the 4th Company returns to the solar system and send it to the designated coordinates for recovery. If the armor is successfully brought back to the Phalanx, the mission will be considered a failure.

Fail then. This is not my job. This task would be better suited for one of Malcador's Knights-Errant or the Sons of Alpha.

His thought was immediately captured by the matrix core.

A new line of task prompts popped up almost impatiently, and the content was straightforward to the point of being rude.

Mission failure penalty: The object's temporal and spatial correlation with the "Fal Naval Battle", "Istvaan V" and "Landing Site Massacre" exceeds 75%. Successful recovery will provide 25 points of subspace coordinate stability for the "Optimized Version of Saint Kirstal's Bell". Abandonment will be deemed a failure.

Sigismund's electronic eyes lingered on these words for a millisecond that seemed like an eternity.

Why me? Why must I do this? Perturabo, the master to whom my current body obeys, has imprisoned my personality in the core of the heretical machine, making me the "ghost of Sigismund" who will be wiped out as a tainted alien if I am discovered.

Once they find out what I am, no matter how much they respect me, they will want to break me into pieces and burn me. So why do I have to do this? For fun? To insult two chapters and two fathers at the same time?

Sigismund did not expect to get answers to these questions, but he did not expect that the matrix core would return task prompts for these questions.

Mission Tips: The fate point marked by the target object is 200% related to the fate of this machine. Considering that this machine is currently defined as "terminated", it is determined that it is the best choice for this machine to find and escort the target object.

He was about to ask why, when suddenly, a brief electric spark occurred between the invisible memory originally belonging to the human soul and the particles of the metal thinking matrix.

Battle of Farr.

fate.

Ancient memories rise from the bottom of the abyss:
The glimpse of the future that Euphrates Keeler showed Sigismund, then a son of Dorne, ten thousand years ago;
The impact he had on him at the time, the decision he made as a result, his disobedience to Dorne's orders, his confession to Dorne after the news of the fleet's failure, and Dorne's anger at his reasons for disobeying orders;
He remembered all the details that had been overlooked.

It was supposed to be his fate to command the Fleet of Retribution and fight Perturabo on Farr.

As the captain of Dorne's company, why would he choose to disobey the Primarch's orders when he needed him most? This is the strangest thing!

Influenced by the miracles and appeal shown by Qile, he finally chose "the will of the Emperor that Qile told him" instead of "the orders of his father beside him."

"I will no longer be your father, and you will no longer be my son. No matter what your future may be, you will never be my son."

The electric current bursting out of the emotional module flowed madly through the ancient and profound rune circuits like countless worms. In an instant, Sigismund, standing in this safe and peaceful command room, suddenly realized something that he had not realized when he decided to become a weapon and a tool ten thousand years ago.

Rogal Dorn was so tired and helpless at the time, but even so, his anger when he heard this reason was not directed at Sigismund.

He had indeed let Dorn down, but Dorn was simply disappointed in him, and he could even taste the saltiness of that bitter emotion.

His Primarch's wrath was not directed at him.

His father's anger was due to...

Wait a minute... Her charm and appeal are too strong... Theoretically, it is impossible to sway a legionnaire...

He suddenly realized that something was totally wrong...

Is it...

"Brother Volpes?"

(End of this chapter)