The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 456: The Void Dragon's Whisper! The God of Knowledge with All Five Senses!

As expected, after hearing the answer he wanted, the Emperor finally calmed down and showed a fairly satisfied expression. He looked down at Horus and said:

"I came back this time to solve the empire's political problems. From today on, the empire's political system will be reshaped, and everyone's burden will be reduced."

If Horus had thought of asking the Universal Corporation for help earlier, perhaps he would not have ended up like this.

Perhaps in Horus' subconscious, the Universal Corporation was just a mortal being with slightly more advanced technology, and its handling of government affairs might be even worse than that of the Empire, so he never thought of asking the Corporation for help.

But Guilliman was not as stubborn as Horus, so the credit for this was given to him.

"I am now going to deprive you of your regent position and re-appoint Guilliman as the new regent of the empire. Do you have anything to say?"

The Emperor glanced at Horus. Even if Horus had complaints, he had to hold them back. Opportunities don't come every day, and if you miss it, you will miss it for the rest of your life.

Fortunately, Horus was willing to accept defeat and shook his head sensibly, saying that he had no complaints and that he deserved this fate.

This tragic ending was already determined the day he took over the Imperial Regent from Malcador.

Confiscating the position is only the first step. The next step might be to be locked up for a few days. After all, the emperor has beaten and scolded him, and it will be enough once his anger subsides.

Anyway, he would definitely not be imprisoned or beheaded like Magnus.

"People need to know themselves so that they can realize their greatest value. It is not advisable to overestimate or underestimate oneself."

Of course, the Emperor would not completely deny the value of Horus because of this incident. If he can't be a good regent of the Empire, can he not be a good warmaster?

Two hundred years of experience in commanding great expeditions was not gained in vain.

"I will appoint you as the Imperial War Marshal, in charge of all military affairs of the empire."

After the Emperor finished speaking, Horus was obviously stunned. He had already prepared to be imprisoned and punished, so why did he suddenly stuff sweet dates into his mouth?

Everything the Emperor did was beyond Horus's expectations.

"The notice for canonizing you and Guilliman has been sent out. The canonization ceremony will officially begin in the middle of this month. All the Primarchs and Lords will participate, including some executives of the giant corporations in the universe."

After saying this, the emperor breathed a sigh of relief.

After beating the child, you should give him some sweet treats. You can't just vent your anger, you have to let the child calm down as well. Since Horus can't be the regent of the empire, he should go back to being the warmaster.

Anyway, there is no other Primarch suitable for this position.

At this moment, Horus was so moved by the Emperor's tolerance that he burst into tears. He had committed such a heinous crime, but the Emperor not only did not throw him into prison, but also continued to give him the title of Warmaster.

A loving father’s heart is broader than the sea!
The announcement of the enthronement had already been sent out in advance, which meant that the emperor had already decided on his affiliation, and this trip was just to educate himself.

Thinking of this, Horus felt even more ashamed.

"Horus, think carefully about every word I said to you when you go back. These words will help you in every moment of your future. Don't make stupid mistakes again."

The Emperor's love for Horus is deep and his expectations for him are severe. This child is the Primarch into whom he has poured the most effort and care. The Emperor certainly does not want to raise Horus to waste.

There are some priceless "private words" that the Emperor only told Horus, and other Primarchs would not have this treatment.

"I will be leaving the Empire soon. By then, you and Guilliman will be in charge of the Empire's affairs, one for external affairs and the other for internal affairs. I will feel more at ease with you two brothers around."

Before encountering the Cosmic Corporation, the Emperor's plan was to develop the Webway first, and then conduct a large-scale genetic optimization project to completely eliminate the barriers between mortals and Astartes.

If the genetic optimization project is obstructed, I will take the Primarchs away from the Human Empire and return power to mortals.

But after encountering the Universal Corporation, the Emperor had a new idea, which was to slowly let the influence of the Corporation penetrate into the empire, and finally let the Corporation completely take over the empire.

Before this, the Empire's political affairs still needed to be controlled by an outstanding politician, and Guilliman was the best candidate.

As for Horus...

The Emperor believed that after this fatherly education, Horus would honestly fulfill his duties as Warmaster and continue to unite his brothers with different problems.

With these two Primarchs around, there won't be any problems with the Human Empire in the short term.

"What, you're leaving the Human Empire again!"

Horus couldn't figure out what was in the Ideal City, so the Emperor had to visit it again and again.

The last time the emperor suddenly disappeared, it had already caused quite a bit of commotion within the empire. If he disappears again this time, it might cause unnecessary trouble.

After all, no one has ever thought about what the era would be like when the Emperor left the Imperium and everything was ruled by the Primarchs and the Cosmic Corporations.

"I just don't stay on Terra often, but I won't come back forever. You and Guilliman must work together. I will keep an eye on your actions."

The Emperor knew that the day would come when he would have to leave the human empire. Since separation was inevitable, he would rehearse it in advance so that the people of the empire could get used to it.

Hearing the Emperor's words, Horus immediately became anxious. He was not a fool, so how could he not understand the Emperor's meaning? If he didn't stay in Terra more often, he would not come back!
Once some goodbyes are said, it becomes difficult to see each other again.

In the past, Horus always felt that Terra was far away, but it was not difficult to meet the Emperor. But now, the Emperor has become so far away that he is in another universe.

Even if you want to see the emperor in the future, it will be difficult.

"Father, why don't you take us with you when you go to the Ideal City?" Horus looked confused. Didn't the Emperor say that he would take them back to seclusion after the war?

Why are you leaving them behind now?

"I need you to stay. Don't worry, you will also go to the Ideal City, but not now." The emperor said comfortingly.

His sons, the primarchs, will definitely ask for a position in the Ideal City, otherwise they will only bully the local imperial citizens if they stay in the Human Empire.

Rather than letting these rebellious sons harm humanity, it is better to release them to fight against the alien races in the universe.

Horus was silent for a moment, then nodded and responded, "Yes, father. I will take care of the empire with my brothers while you are away."

"Horus, you have always been the son I have placed the highest hopes on. Don't let me down again in the future."

The Emperor walked down from the throne, patted Horus on the shoulder and encouraged him.

The word "most" is unique. If the Emperor wants to treat all the twenty Primarchs equally, he must use this word with caution.

But now the Emperor used this word "most" to express his respect for Horus, which made Horus flattered. He was ashamed of his foolish behavior in the past from the bottom of his heart.

Although his father was so kind and generous to him, he rebelled many times and refused to obey his father.

"I only said this to you."

The Emperor stretched out his hand and used his great power to heal most of Horus's injuries. He was hinting that Horus should be more low-key and not show off to his other brothers.

Horus nodded solemnly. He knew, of course, that such things could not be told casually to other Primarch brothers. The last time Magnus was just hugged by the Emperor, he boasted that he was deeply loved by the Emperor.

The result? Not only did he become the one with the worst interpersonal relationships among all the Primarchs, but he was also imprisoned by the Emperor.

Jealousy is inevitable for everyone. Although Horus is not worried about his brothers' jealousy, he does not want them to blame their father behind his back.

Looking at Horus who had been retrained by him, the Emperor could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

In fact, what he had just said to Horus, he had also told Guilliman. Although Guilliman had a lot of political experience, he still found it a little difficult to cope with the Emperor's PUA.

He was so moved that he vowed to give everything he had for the Human Empire.

That's what being a father does.

If you want to motivate children, you can't take the easy way out and call both of them over to praise them. You have to pull them together one by one and praise them face to face in private to maximize the effect.

Everyone hopes that they are the only one, but to the Emperor, no one is the only one. "Okay, go back. Now that the new navigation system is complete, you can meet up with your brothers and see if they are in any trouble."

"From now on, as the Warmaster of the Empire, you only need to obey Guilliman's orders. No one else can restrict you. But you must remember to never trust strangers or entities in the Warp."

The Emperor was like a parent about to send his child to kindergarten, chattering on and on about some things to pay attention to, and Horus listened with great interest, nodding repeatedly in agreement.

After watching Horus leave the Terra Palace, Malcador on the side could not help but sigh in his heart that the Emperor was really good at fooling people. Thinking back carefully, the Emperor had also said such "ambiguous" words to him in the past.

What the only one, what the best, etc., but in the end I have been treated like a donkey all these years, with endless government documents to deal with every day.

Now I can finally be liberated.

"Your Majesty, the scientific expedition team of the world giant has arrived on Mars. Let's set off as soon as possible." Malcador urged.

"Yes." The emperor nodded and walked out of the palace.

The main reason he came back this time was to cooperate with the Universal Corporation to transfer the Void Dragon fragments from the underground of Mars. Dealing with and arranging the matters of Horus and Guilliman was just a matter of convenience.

From now on, the Emperor will gradually fade out of the human empire. He will quietly erase all traces of himself in the empire. Ten thousand years later, humans will only remember that there was a savior, but they will not know his name.

But this is what the Emperor wanted, from Man, to Man.

Half an hour later, the Emperor and Malcador arrived on Mars by airship. Their visit was a secret one, and the Mechanicus believers on Mars were unaware of their arrival.

After all, what happened next was indeed not suitable for the people of the Mechanicus to know.

Although the Void Dragon fragments are sealed deep underground on Mars, they can still be released through a series of external forces to affect these mechanical sages.

For example, sending dreams, or giving the sages some hints through the machine soul.

The god Om Messiah believed in by the Mechanicus is essentially a fragment of the Void Dragon. As the C'tan is a purely material creature, the Mechanicus' worship of it will not create a corresponding evil god in the warp.

That is why the emperor ignored the fanatical worship of these oil men, and instead used these oil men to work for him for free and build war machines.

If these Mechanicus sages knew that the Emperor was about to sell their Ohm Messiah to the Cosmos Corporation, they would probably go crazy.

Don’t be fooled by the fact that these oil guys are all science and engineering students and seem dull and easy to bully, but in fact their mental state is only one step away from madness and normality.

In addition, the people of the Mechanicus control a large number of advanced weapons of the Empire. If they start to make trouble, even the Emperor will have a headache.

Therefore, if you want to divert the Void Dragon, you must be quick, accurate and ruthless.

Soon, the Emperor and Malcador met with a giant enterprise scientific expedition team headed by Paul. They had arranged the relevant equipment and prepared an isolated environment for absolute confidentiality.

"Everyone, please follow me now."

The Emperor waved his hand and led the members of the giant enterprise's scientific expedition team into a long-forgotten secret realm. The coordinate system of this place was only known to the Emperor himself.

It's impossible for other oil guys to find this place.

After a while, everyone entered the depths of the secret realm. As time went by, everyone was surprised to find that the surrounding environment became distorted and the light was gorgeous and abstract.

They seemed to have come to a different space.

In this strange space, everyone can see different illusions and hear different sounds. The Emperor explained to everyone that those were the echoes created by the fragments of the Void Dragon.

"The Void Dragon is a very powerful Star God. Even if it was just a fragment, I spent a lot of effort to seal it."

"This secret place can make him sleep temporarily, but he will wake up one day. If you hadn't come, I might still be worried about how to keep him sleeping."

The Emperor reminded everyone of the danger of the Void Dragon, but with him here, even if the Void Dragon awakened, he could still ensure the safety of Paul and others.

Xu Shiming, who came along, looked at everything in front of him and nodded thoughtfully. He had learned about the Void Dragon and knew how powerful this star god was.

Even if what is sealed in this secret realm is just one of the fragments of the Void Dragon, it is still extremely terrifying.

The fact that the Emperor had the ability to subdue this creature has proven his considerable strength.

Roar--! !

At this moment, everyone in the giant enterprise's scientific expedition team heard a vast roar at the same time, and a magnificent scene appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

The machinery emitting white steam stirred the gears, the flashing electric current made crackling sounds in the clouds, the microscopic particles turned into elves and kept jumping, and the positive and negative annihilation of antimatter cleared everything...

The roar of the Void Dragon seemed to enable people to realize the five senses. They heard the smell of hot steam mixed with engine oil, saw the loud noise made by the Void Dragon devouring the starry sky, and smelled the scene of the planet being drained of energy.

As the god of knowledge among the star gods, the Void Dragon controls all technology and creation. Even a whisper in a dream can still allow mortals to feel the endless ocean of knowledge.

It was not until a long time later, when the hallucination disappeared, that the members of the giant company woke up.

Everything that had just happened was still vivid in their minds, but it was not until the moment they woke up that Paul and the others suddenly realized that they had not taken a few steps since entering the secret realm.

"This is a very special feeling, isn't it? There's an illusion that you can't distinguish between dreams and reality." The emperor said to everyone with a smile.

The technological points of the cosmic giants can indeed restrain the influence of subspace entities, but the star gods are equivalent to the gods of physics, and their power comes from materialism, not idealism.

The "virtual world-physical universe" theory of giant enterprises does not apply to it.

To describe it in an inappropriate but appropriate way, the Void Dragon is equivalent to a physical warrior who uses spell skills, and it is useless to equip magic resistance equipment.

Since the Megacorp lacks the means to restrain the Void Dragon from using its divine power, the Emperor is concerned about whether the Cosmic Megacorp can control this troublesome god.

You know, the Void Dragon is still in a dormant stage and has not really woken up. If the Void Dragon wakes up, it will only be much stronger than it is now.

After experiencing such a special feeling, Paul showed a nostalgic and surprised expression. He had experienced this feeling when he awakened his psychic powers in the "StarCraft" universe.

I thought I would never have such a feeling again in my life, but I didn't expect to experience it again here with the Void Dragon today.

"It's amazing!"

The members of the scientific expedition team showed surprised expressions. The hallucination brought to them by the embodiment of physical rules was even more psychedelic than taking diazine.

Even if it was just a fragment, in that muttering just now, they seemed to have seen all the truths, mathematical formulas, and physical laws of the real universe in an instant.

It’s a pity that the knowledge only passed through their minds lightly without leaving any trace, so they couldn’t remember the truth they had just seen.

However, Song Zhaomei, who had some knowledge of scientific research, still saw something different from the brief illusion, that is, the Void Dragon's understanding of the three-dimensional universe had reached the pinnacle.

This level is comparable to the most cutting-edge scientific knowledge of the universe's giant corporations, in a three-dimensional universe, thanks to the neurophysics and think tanks of the Halo universe, as well as the help of Amon and Kerrigan from StarCraft.

The global giant has almost completed its knowledge of the three-dimensional universe, but it is still somewhat inadequate when it comes to the higher-dimensional universe.

In this regard, I am afraid that Star God cannot bring much help to the giant enterprise.

"The power of the Void Dragon fragment is very strong. Can you really guarantee that you can control it?" The Emperor confirmed with Paul again and again.

"We need your help. Before conducting experiments, we cannot be sure whether the control measures we have prepared are effective," Song Zhaomei replied.

The best way to control the fragments of the Void Dragon is actually to use psychic energy like the Emperor, that is, to use the power of the subspace and the virtual plane to deal with the Star God who knows nothing about psychic energy.

The Cosmic Corporation does have a powerful fleet and many advanced technological creations, but these things are manufactured based on the laws of physics, and it is difficult to guarantee that they will not be used by the awakened Void Dragon.

As for the Matrix...

Song Zhaomei doesn't plan to use this thing unless it's absolutely necessary. They can't use the matrix to solve every problem they encounter. They have to develop something to help Li Ang solve his problems.

(End of this chapter)