Warhammer: Expedition to the Multiverse from 30k

He felt as if he was dreaming, unable to distinguish reality from illusion.

Horus turned around and looked. In the endless darkness, the Four Chaos Gods seemed to have fallen silent. There were no annoying cheers, nor discouraging boos.

The victor of the final battle returned to the ritual altar of the Vengeful Spirit, crossing the boundary between the real universe and the Warp and reappearing in a burst of eerie scarlet light.

The meaning of Horus's return was self-evident. Roxi's clenched fingers even drew blood from his palms, and Waldo beside him was ready to rush forward and fight for his life.

Horus raised his hammer high, announcing his victory to all the spectators.

But vaguely, he sensed something strange from the reactions of the four evil gods. If the Emperor was really dead, then they would definitely not be so calm.

Forget it, I was just worrying too much.

Just when Horus had some doubts and was about to check again, a figure walked up to him with determination.

It was Loken, the last of the Luna Wolf, and his rebellious son.

Loken has discarded all weapons, for any weapon is useless against Horus.

"Gavier?" Horus suddenly calmed down and stopped thinking about the Emperor.

The Emperor is dead, the first half of his life is over, and it is time to pursue his own great ideals.

"Father," Loken replied.

Horus waved his hand, and instantly the battlefield burning with flames of war turned into a tranquil lake.

Locke looked at the scene in front of him and was suddenly a little dazed. He understood where this place was. When he entered the Council of Four Kings, he swore allegiance to this lake.

"I will kill for the living, I will kill for the dead, my loyalty is to Lupercal."

"I am the Luna Wolf, the son of Horus. I will uphold my duty and guard every decision of the Wolf God."

Horus stood by the lake with his back to Loken, and his meaning was self-evident.

He blamed Loken for breaking his original oath, and his son betrayed him and was desperate to become his enemy.

"I have never regretted my choice, father."

"You are wrong. You were bewitched by Chaos and even killed the Emperor, your beloved father."

Horus was immediately annoyed. He knew Loken's integrity and stubbornness, but he did not expect that he could still refute him like this after seeing the Emperor die in front of him.

"When I joined the Council of Four Kings, I have been doing my best to assist you, advise you, and keep you calm, but it is clear that everyone except me has failed in their duties."

"Abaddon only knows how to cater to your preferences and has no brain of his own. Eichmand is too cautious and too selfish.

So when they saw you being stabbed and fell by Eugene Tamba, they lost all reason and let that beast Erebus send you to the Temple of Daven."

Loken was still talking to himself, and Horus turned around and looked at his son.

"Lorcan, in my eyes, you have always been my Sanguinius. You are just as stubborn as he is."

"I still won't kill you. I am your father. I always have been, I am now, and I will be in the future."

Afterwards, Horus planned to turn around and leave. He wanted to rebuild the empire and humanity that collapsed in the war and create a royal court of his own.

"Father!" Locke suddenly shouted loudly.

Horus paused, hoping that his son would change his mind.

"You said that you accepted the power of Chaos in order to win the battle against the Emperor. Now that you have won, why don't you disperse the filthy power of Chaos?"

"Are you still going to let Chaos control you? Are you still addicted to that power?"

"Are all your words lies? Are they just a trade-off?"

Hearing that Loken was still advising him to give up this power, Horus suddenly became furious.

Forget it, forget it. Since you are so bothered by it, I will do as you say.

"I have accomplished my plan, and I have immediately abandoned it, proving that I am better than the Emperor."

"I am the master of power. When I need it, it is there. When I don't need it, I will discard it."

In front of Loken, Horus took the initiative to disperse the blessings from the Four Chaos Gods - the power of Khorne, the changes of Tzeentch, the tenacity of Nurgle and the pride of Slaanesh began to disintegrate.

The Four Chaos Gods immediately noticed the abnormality of their puppets. They angrily denounced Horus's stupidity and short-sightedness, and asked him to stop his suicidal behavior.

Horus was laughing at the four gods. He had never compromised with these lifeless beings. He also knew that these evil gods in the warp were not good things. But now his goal had been achieved and they were no longer of any value to him.

The Wolf Shepherd God's aura quickly weakened, and the power from the four gods was expelled by him.

He felt his own weakness, even Horus felt the holes in his own soul, without the glue of the warp, he was dying.

But it doesn't matter, the Emperor is dead, and he has become the winner of this duel and bet.

The one who wins between the two of them will become the Dark Lord of mankind, the supreme power that symbolizes the end and death, and Horus will be its master.

"My son Horus is dead."

At this moment, Horus, whose unrivaled power had dissipated, suddenly heard the voice of a third person. It was not him, not Loken, but the voice of a person who should have died.

It's the emperor.

Every muscle in Horus' body tensed instantly. He finally understood why the Four Chaos Gods did not show any special emotions.

Because the Emperor is not dead.

Horus' heart was instantly filled with shock, anger and fear.

It turned out that the Emperor whose head was smashed by Horus with the World Breaker hammer slowly dissipated. It was exactly the same as the Lord of Mankind, and even Horus could not tell the true from the false.

"It's Alpharius's [clone]."

"Hydra's nine-headed snake, if you cut off one head, two heads will grow back."

Horus's face changed drastically. He did not expect that the Emperor would use this trick to deceive him.

But now that he had dispersed most of his Warp power, he was no match for the Emperor.

Horus immediately called upon the Four Chaos Gods and ordered them to return the power.

But how could the four gods, who had just been rejected and fooled by Horus, be summoned and dismissed at will? They just screamed maliciously and watched Horus being knocked to the ground by the Emperor.

The Four Chaos Gods are slowly pouring their power back into Horus' body, so that he will not be killed immediately by the Emperor, but yet will not be able to recover to his full strength.

The puppet they chose was too disobedient.

He had too much personal will. Even after being corrupted by Chaos many times before and having his good will shattered by Malohurst's ritual dagger, Horus still had other ideas.

The Emperor pulled Horus up. There were wounds on his body, but what was flowing was not blood, but a kind of fluorescent light.

He used the Emperor's Claw to tear into Horus' abdomen, stabbing it hard, then twisting and tearing it counterclockwise, causing the opponent maximum pain and torture.

"Why did you kill my son Horus Lupercal?"

The Emperor pulled out his power claws, and the power of the Four Gods immediately repaired the damage he had caused.

"Why did you take control of the remains of Horus and kill my other son, Sanguinius?"

The Emperor tore Horus' arm apart again, but the Four Gods still resisted Horus's weakness, and the arm that fell to the ground, along with the weapon, returned to Horus' body as if time had gone back.

"Why did I let half of my son betray humanity, betray the Empire, and let humans kill each other?"

The Emperor used his great sword to smash Horus from head to tail, but the Wolf God who should have been dead still remained alive. He was like an immortal puppet, being constantly pieced together by the Four Chaos Gods.

“Why do you damn things always corrupt and interfere with the intelligent life in the real universe? There are many races in this universe trying to ascend, and the last one who came closest to success was the Ancient Saint.

You are responsible for the destruction of the Ancients. You took advantage of the Necrontyr and the Star Gods. You are the murderers.

Why do you always torture the souls of all living beings after death, and always make this galaxy more rotten and smelly? The subspace gathers not only negative emotions, but also positive emotions. Why do you only have negative emotions left?"

"Besides our universe, how many other universes have you attacked? The Chaos Disaster has definitely not spread to just one universe. You are eager to make countless universes your pastures."

The Four Gods immediately booed in disdain. They did not want to answer the Emperor's questions, but only laughed at Horus's current miserable situation.

They were not worried that Horus would be killed by the Emperor, because under the control of the power of the Four Gods, Horus might be beaten badly enough to vent their anger.

But they were confident that they had locked onto Horus's status and future, so the Emperor could not defeat Horus even if he tried every possible means.

They used Horus's ugly behavior to show their arrogance. They gave the Emperor the opportunity to kill Horus, but the Lord of Mankind was unable to do it.

This feeling of helplessness and despair on the brink of hope made the Four Chaos Gods even more obsessed.

The Four Gods may have a relatively independent and complete self-awareness, and they have their own likes and dislikes, but their essence is not some kind of powerful subspace creatures.

Their essence is closer to a concept, a rule, a natural phenomenon, and they act according to their own characteristics. If you peel off the "humanized" skin of the Four Gods, you will find that their rules of action are closer to machines.

Horus, who just seemed like a demon god, was beaten to a pulp by the furious Emperor. Without the support of the power of the four gods, no one in the real universe could pose a threat to the Lord of Mankind.

+Slaves!+

+Traitor!+

+Puppet!+

+Fool!+

The four wills took turns bombarding Horus' will, while increasing the amount of power they deployed.

Horus felt his power filling up again, and he grasped the Emperor's power claw and forcibly pulled it out of his body.

The Emperor immediately distanced himself and used his fingers to draw in the air, forming several grand pentagram patterns.

That was the signature move of his chancellor and close friend, Malcador the Mage.

However, now that it is used in the hands of the Emperor, it has even greater lethality than the original version.

The shining pentagram instantly began to spin at high speed, turning into a ball of scattered light and shadow, and then cut through Horus's armor and body with a ferocious attitude that could cut through everything.

Horus has not yet reached his peak. The Four Chaos Gods would like to see this drama of father and son killing each other last longer. It would be a huge waste for them to end this ceremony too quickly.

The black and gold armor of the Wolf Shepherd God was cut open from the ribs to the shoulders, and the bones and flesh inside were also shattered.

The Emperor's next combo accelerated, using his psychic powers to create constant distortions and explosions, while Horus continued to heal.

In the eyes of Loken and the spectators outside who could only watch but not intervene, it seemed that even if the Emperor tried his best, he could not completely defeat and kill Horus.

A strong feeling of despair came over them, and almost everyone felt suffocated.

Horus' lost power returned, and he became the irresistible, scourge-like monster again.

He knocked the emperor to his knees again and punched him in the head again and again.

He threw the twisted helmet aside, grabbed the Lord of Mankind by the hair, and dragged him towards the Dark Throne that emerged from the ritual altar.

That is the throne that symbolizes the fifth evil god. Horus wants to sit on that position with his father.