Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Mortarion's death has driven the Nurgle faction mad.

If Chaos were to learn that Guilliman and Lane were both here, the other factions within the Eye of Fear would certainly not remain indifferent.

One is the Imperial Regent, and the other is the Commander of the First Legion.

Killing any one of them would be one of the greatest victories in the history of chaos.

Guilliman and the Lion King exchanged a glance.

A certain understanding had already been reached between the two.

Lawson is about to enter the realm of the Chaos God to fight for humanity's future.

If they can't travel together, then they'll stay here and hold off all the enemies they can attract.

Guilliman gripped the hilt of his sword, and the Emperor's Sword slowly came out of its sheath.

The Emperor's Sword once belonged to the Lord of Mankind.

After Guilliman's resurrection, it became one of the symbols of the Emperor's will in the real universe, and it also set fire to the edge of Iakx and Nurgle Gardens, a fire powerful enough to anger the god of corruption.

Guilliman looked at the sword in his hand, then turned the hilt toward Lawson.

"I don't know how you plan to enter Nurgle Garden, nor how you will keep your physical body intact there."

"But this sword once belonged to my father."

"It can withstand Imperial Fire more than any mortal weapon, and it has actually damaged Nurgle's domain."

"Take it with you, it should be helpful."

Lawson was somewhat surprised that Guilliman would actually give him the Emperor's Sword.

The Emperor's Sword is not only a weapon, but also represents Guilliman's current status in the Empire.

Handing it over to someone else is almost tantamount to temporarily relinquishing the symbol of authority personally left behind by the emperor.

"Are you willing?"

Guilliman said calmly, "I hope you come back alive."

"In comparison, a sword is not so important."

Upon seeing this, the Lion King also removed the Emperor's Shield from his back, which was also part of the Emperor's legacy.

It was once hidden deep within the Milky Way, only to reappear after the Lion King's return.

Ryan handed the Emperor's Shield to Lawson.

"Not everything in Nurgle Garden can be cut down with a sword."

"Take it."

He seemed somewhat reluctant, and added, "Anyway, I still have the Sword of Loyalty."

Guilliman was not rendered powerless without the Emperor's Sword; his flagship was equipped with weapons that the Primarchs could use.

Lawson stopped being pretentious.

He first took the Emperor's Sword, then fastened the Emperor's Shield to his left arm.

The moment the sword and shield fell into his hands, the imperial golden fire within him surged forth on its own.

boom!

Golden flames spread rapidly along the spine of the Emperor's Sword.

The dormant power within the sword seemed to have found a wider outlet, and the flames instantly rose several meters high without harming anything around them.

The Emperor's Shield also lit up at the same time.

The golden patterns on the shield awakened layer by layer, and a thick curtain of light unfolded along Lawson's left arm, then resonated with the flames on the Emperor's Sword.

One attack, one defense.

The two weapons belonging to the Emperor formed a complete cycle within Lawson.

Golden flames burst forth from the sword, forming a stable boundary along the shield.

The warp projections formed from Mortalian's memories faded and shattered as soon as they were exposed to the light.

Guilliman and the Lion King both fell silent.

In Guilliman's hands, the Emperor's Sword is a powerful weapon capable of burning demons.

In the Lion King's hands, the Emperor's Shield is a sacred relic capable of withstanding Primarch-level attacks.

But when Lawson grasped the sword and shield at the same time, there was no separation between the two weapons, as if they were meant to be used by the same person.

Lawson merely activated the Imperial Golden Flame slightly, and the sword and shield responded simultaneously.

The harmony was so natural that it was impossible to ignore.

The Lion King glanced at Guilliman.

Guilliman was looking at him too.

The imperial relics in their hands seemed to be more familiar with Lawson than they were with it.

Lawson burst into laughter.

"Good stuff, I'll return it to you when I'm done using it."

The Lion King said calmly, "Come back alive first."

He was already thinking about discussing it with Guilliman, or maybe giving the two items to Lawson, but he didn't know if Guilliman would be willing to part with them.

Lion King and Guilliman returned to the surface of the Seventh Blackrock Fortress.

The appearance of the two Primarchs has reignited the already out-of-control war.

The communication array of the Seventh Blackrock Fortress continues to broadcast to the Eye of Fear.

More demon lords and chaos warbands have also turned their attention here.

Even if they have no connection to Nurgle, the possibility of two loyalist Primarchs appearing simultaneously at the edge of the Eye of Terror cannot be ignored.

Guilliman swung his sword, cleaving a corrupted war beast in two, and glanced at the Lion King.

"How long will it take Lawson?"

"do not know."

The Lion King pierced the Chaos Lord's chest with his sword and then kicked the corpse off the edge of the platform.

"Then let Chaos keep watching us."

Inside Blackrock Fortress, Lawson stood in a completely enclosed circular space.

Surrounded by a black stone structure hundreds of kilometers thick, no psionic energy fluctuations could leak out.

Even when Nurgle cast his gaze into the Eye of Fear, he could only see a blank space completely erased by the power of the Blackstone.

The object floating in front of Lawson was not Mortarion's soul.

The moment the Lord of Death was beheaded, his soul core was completely devoured by the swarm mind.

The demonic nature and the consciousness that sustains its existence were all dismantled and absorbed by Lawson, with not a single part returning to the Garden of Corruption.

This matter could not be kept secret from Chaos.

Demons that die at the hands of Lawson never come back to life, nor do their souls reappear in the warp.

If Angron was like this, if Typhons was like this, then Mortalian would naturally be no exception.

Only if a fragment of Mortarion's soul, retaining its full consciousness, were to return to Nurgle Gardens would it immediately arouse suspicion.

What Lawson left behind was something else entirely.

Even after Mortarion's soul was consumed by the swarm mind, the outermost layer still bore the mark left by Nurgle.

That was not part of Mortalian himself, but more like a mark of belonging that the evil god had etched onto the soul of a demon.

As long as this mark exists, the rules of the Corrupted Garden will instinctively pull in, attempting to reclaim the power belonging to Nurgle.

Lawson devoured Mortarian, but did not destroy the mark.

He stripped away all of Mortarion's consciousness, memories, and power, leaving only the outermost layer of decaying aura, as well as the pain, humiliation, and despair imprinted upon him at the moment of death.

In the end, all that remained in front of him was an empty shell.

It's more like a scar left in the warp after Mortarion's complete disappearance.

Swarm intelligence has already anticipated the possible reactions that Nargoose might make.

Nurgle knew that Lawson could devour souls.

It could also sense that Mortalian's core no longer existed.

Mortalian died in the Seventh Blackrock Fortress.

The Black Stone Field can sever warp connections and tear apart the very essence of evil.

In this situation, it is not unusual that a small amount of residue bearing the mark of Nurgle was pressed into the real universe and only recovered by the Garden when the force field experienced a brief fluctuation.

On the contrary, Mortarion left no trace after his death, which was too clean.

The fact that the Primarch's soul was consumed, and that the mark Nurgle left on him was erased, are not the same thing.

What Lawson needs to leverage is precisely this difference.

He didn't need to lie to Nurgle that Mortarion was still alive.

All that's needed is for the Corrupted Garden to believe that this is a worthless fragment that miraculously survived Lawson's devouring.

The more incomplete, the more reasonable.

The more abstract or vague something is, the less attention it will attract.

What Lawson had to do was hide in this fragment.

But he cannot simulate Mortalian's complete soul.

Nurgle knew his son all too well.

Any false personality, memory, or thought can be exposed the moment you enter the garden.

Lawson closed his eyes.