Warhammer: Just unified the Empire, you said it was 40K

Chapter 266 Loyal Angron
Where is this place?
Angron fell into deep thought, his mind still lingering on the battlefield.

To prevent Angron from acting impulsively when he was awake, Gamma World arranged for his fellow Brotherhood members, those who were in hibernation, to surround him.

Although the number was small, he was able to know what had happened to him immediately upon waking up.

It's obvious that someone saved him after their victory.

Here
Is this Nukelia?
Or somewhere else?
No, it's not Nukelia.

Then, as Angron was about to leave, he saw an incredible face.

One of them was a man who should have died in the arena long ago.

Oinemouth.

Angron's mortal father.

This man supported him throughout Angron's earliest days.

In the end, the nobles on the stage, wanting to see Angron's rage and to have Angron completely destroy all his humanity, arranged a duel between him and Eugènemouth.

In the arena, Angron, the King of Duels, was unwilling to fight his opponent. Meanwhile, even under the slave owner's various humiliations, his opponent was unwilling to harm Angron, who was like a son to him. Thus, the enraged slave owner provoked the Butcher's Nail on Angron's head.

The Butcher's Nail completely devoured Angron's sanity.

When his sanity returned, Angron was tormented by a splitting headache, and the Oynormouth in front of him had been torn to pieces in his hands. During his loss of sanity, he had not laid a hand on Angron, nor did he have any intention of harming him.

I forgive you!

"You didn't kill me."

Eunouchay wanted to use his last words to tell Anglon, but by then Eunouchay was already completely dead, and his soul had vanished with him.

The events at Eunhomouth caused Anglon to experience his first mental breakdown.

Seeing Eunouchay now is like seeing a ghost.

"You...you're alive?"

Angron looked at Oynormouth before him, who was stronger and more powerful than before, just like him. At this moment, Angron had not experienced a series of wars to grow, so his physique had not grown to the level of the Primarch.

"You're awake, and you've recovered even faster than I expected."

Oynormouth, like the other soldiers' guides, was responsible for guiding Angron.

Oynormouth introduced Angron to him and his current situation. Of course, this introduction was not intended to directly provoke Angron, because although Angron had lost the Butcher's Nail, he still had his own emotions.

"This world has resurrected you and given you a chance, and at the same time, it has the chance to resurrect those members of the Brotherhood. These are the resurrected Brotherhood."

Given Oynormouth's kindness and importance to Angron, Angron would listen to what he said; however, if anyone else had said the same thing, Angron might have immediately flew into a rage.

After all, although the butcher's nail has been removed from his head, the mental nail is very difficult to remove. Only Eunouchay can help him slowly get rid of this sense of mental defeat.

Let him know that he can not only win back those Brotherhood members, but even bring them back from the annals of history.

The only thing that Anglo felt most guilty about was that the Emperor took him away directly. For the Brotherhood, it was as if he had abandoned his brothers. He left, and those brothers who remained at the Battle of the High Wall were brutally slaughtered by the nobles. Even after the Emperor found out, he did not punish the nobles. Instead, he allowed them to continue living and ruling over the people of that planet.

The Empire's true intentions were not to save humanity, but to maintain its rule, a hypocrisy that Angron saw through.

Oynormouth slowly persuaded Angron, saying he was willing to take Angron to see the Angron who had ascended to demonhood, and even to see his life of being used. This kind of used life was not unique to Angron. Now, he had gained freedom. If he wanted to leave, he could leave this world immediately and go to the universe, to any place.

Angron's emotions were complicated.

He had just learned that he was a perfect, resurrected Angron, a past Angron with the opportunity to change his future destiny, and then he learned that he was about to witness someone who had been used his whole life and had not even escaped from the status of a slave until the very end.

He can leave here.

To start a new life with a new identity.

However, Angron glanced back at the brothers of the 'City Devourer' Eritrak. Although it was Oynormouth who spent some points to revive them, and he had left, Oynormouth would continue to spend points to revive these people. But they were still his brothers.

"I need to see him!"

"I'm going to see that Angron."

The life of the ascended demon Angron was a complete emotional wasteland.

The Eritrak Brotherhood was his only solace, but it has long since vanished into history.

The World Eater Legion and Logar, among others, attempted to fill this void, but were reduced to empty symbols due to the corruption of Chaos and Angron's self-exile.

Ultimately, Angron's "closeness" existed only in his addiction to violence—killing was his only way of communicating with the world. Although Angron constantly pursued freedom, he never achieved the freedom he desired, instead becoming an eternal slave to chaos. A man who sought freedom ultimately remained a slave.

That Angron, now reduced to a head, roared most ferociously at the laboratory. He looked like a beast, forever in pain, forever tormented, forever devoid of his own reason, forever hated by both his enemies and his own people. He was an object of distrust by everyone, a pathetic slave beast, his soul embedded with the Butcher's Nail, his sanity controlled by Khorne.

The arrival of the new Angron seemed to have given this demon-ascended Angron a whiff of something. On its blood-red head, its mad thoughts seemed to remind this new Angron of the agony of having the Butcher's Nail embedded in its head.

"Is this me?"

Anglong couldn't believe it.

He betrayed us, and that's how he ended up like this.

"Yes, we found all the history of Angron, including the history verified from the warp, and found Angron's entire life."

Angron’s life unfolded before him like a documentary.

The former Angron was defeated in the Battle of the High Wall.

The Emperor took him away. He had begged the Emperor to save his members of the Eritrac Brotherhood, but the Emperor refused his pleas and forcibly took him away. In his despair, even without seeing it, he knew what kind of torture his brothers, who had been assassinated along with the slave owners, would suffer.

The Emperor's refusal to save them caused Angron to lose all hope, and the death of the Brotherhood became a permanent trauma for him, leading him to reject any emotional connection thereafter.

Then he witnessed the twisted father-son relationship with the World Eater.

To gain Angron's approval, the World Eater voluntarily implanted a replica of the Butcher's Nail, willingly becoming a crazed, bloodthirsty killing machine.

However, Angron despised the blind obedience of his offspring, considering them nothing more than "clumsy puppets imitating pain." Yet, deep down, he relied on their killing to alleviate his own suffering. To please Khorne, Angron slaughtered a large number of World Eater offspring as blood sacrifices, completely severing his ties with the Legion.

Luo Jia's betrayal plunged him into the abyss.

During the Horus Rebellion, Logar attempted to "save" Angron, claiming he could alleviate the Butcher's Sting's pain through Chaos Faith.

After ascending to the Demonic Realm, Angron longed to break free from all constraints, but instead became an eternal slave to Chaos, completely losing himself.

And now, the head before him, the one who had been beheaded, was actually him, himself. But before everything happened, he made a change, saving him from becoming a slave.

Angron touched his head, which was not yet fully healed, as if he could feel the butcher's nail and the torment he would never want to get rid of.

The ascended Angron seemed to sense Angron's presence.

A moment of stunned silence suddenly appeared amidst the frantic thoughts.

He seemed to see something incredible.

He saw a freedom, an Angron without the Butcher's Nail.

自由
What an extravagant word!

What Anglon pursued his entire life was forever trapped in slavery, but now, freedom is right before him.

He seemed to have thought of many things: hope, longing, and true freedom.

However, the stimulation of the Butcher's Nail plunged him into endless darkness.

There was no way around it; Butcher's Nail had completely taken control of him. He was now, no, it should be said, Butcher's Nail was now the true entity, and he was merely a tool of Butcher's Nail.

In endless pain and despair, Angron couldn't even get a second's rest.

He didn't understand why, why he had to suffer such pain and despair; all he wanted in the beginning was freedom.

Angron seemed unable to accept that the Angron before him had become like this. "Can't you free him from his suffering? Kill him."

"It's no use. Even if you kill him, he will still appear in the chaos and remain in eternal torment. He is already bound to the chaos and can never be separated from it."

Hearing Oujnouches' words caused him even more pain.

The Gamma World has the ability to separate, but it is very difficult, and at least for now, it is not possible to completely subdue the demon.

"What do you need me to do? I can bring back those brothers from the past."

Looking at the demon prince before him, Angron, freed from the suppression of the Butcher's Nail, gradually revealed the justice and mercy within him. He wanted to make amends for the mistakes that Angron had made.

He won't run away.

He wants to atone for his sins.

(End of this chapter)