Warhammer 40: My Fiancée Fulgrim

This is blasphemous! This is blasphemous!

How will he face Horus and the Emperor in the future?

While reading this book, I felt as if my power armor boots had been dug out like a Caliban Knight's monastery.

"But why is it that even so, Horus is still loved by so many people?"

After the initial shock, the lion asked himself this question.

No, why?

If Ryan were to encounter Horus now and shake hands with him like before, he would immediately pull his hand back!

That's terrifying!

However, the other citizens of the empire, whether warriors or bureaucrats, all believed that Horus was the best candidate for Warmaster.

Could it be that they all harbored this same feeling towards the emperor?

They're all abnormal!

The lion seemed to have come to a very frightening conclusion.

"This world has gone mad!!!"

Can.

That's why Horus has everyone's support, isn't it?

"Could this be the only way to become a War General through competition?"

The lion looked at the book of the chronicler that he had tossed aside in the distance, and thought with a trembling heart.

Chapter 158 Thirty Years, Caliban, the Knights

Too scary!

The lion king was still reeling from the shock he had just experienced.

As a warrior who devoted himself entirely to the Great Crusade and enjoyed the process of being a loyalist rather than the outcome, he never imagined that his Primarch would be so terrifying!

Horus's open expression of affection for the emperor seemed a little too intense.

This matter became a hot topic of discussion throughout the entire empire.

A Primarch who constantly proclaims himself the Son of the First Return spends a great deal of time recounting his and the Emperor's stories from their youth whenever a tactical meeting is held, and even organizes a "Shadowmoon Wolf University Study" within the Shadowmoon Wolves.

Could this guy really be involved with the Emperor [the text will be censored if I write it out]?

Wow!

What...what is all this?!

As a highly impactful and provocative topic, all sorts of rumors, news, and things that were best left unsaid spread widely throughout the empire.

The relationship between Horus and the Emperor seems to be the most talked-about topic among the vast majority of citizens of the Imperial World after a hard day's work.

It even surpasses the original play characters, Fulgrim and Kasgar, becoming the most authoritative representative of the Centaur Gold Ring.

(Regression correction from the timeline)

"Where is the Terra War Council?"

"Aren't you going to just ignore it?!"

The lion's roar was filled with fear and shame.

Are all Imperial Truth Propagandists idiots who only know how to eat corpse starch?

—Actually, I wanted to take charge.

But even if a conviction is to be made, there has to be a deadline.

Is it a heinous crime, deserving of imprisonment, to promote the idea that the Great Emperor of Man and his most loyal Primarch have a good relationship?

As people living in the 30K era, especially on more advanced planets, they were merely preachers of Imperial truth, not judges of the Imperial Inquisition.

As long as the descriptions aren't overly detailed, depicting things between the Emperor and Horus that shouldn't be described in detail, the preacher can't do anything about it.

In order to achieve a better presentation effect and prevent the audience from falling asleep, the presenter would even take the initiative to tell the audience some strange and interesting stories about the Emperor and the Primarch, in order to re-engage the audience's attention.

I heard the effect is quite good, and everyone likes it.

so

—The Imperial Truth Propagandist did it too.

"Extermination order!"

"They all need to be exterminated!!!"

The lion devoted himself entirely to the great expedition and never tried to understand what those inside the empire were thinking. As a wild child born in the jungle, he didn't care about what others thought.

The Lion King who doesn't understand human nature.

In fact, without his knowledge, the Caliban had already done this kind of thing before.

The Caliban did it all!

When Ryan was still a knight of the Order of Order in Caliban, he and Luther were the two unparalleled heroes who hunted monsters and unified all the knightly orders.

Their story is already widely known and familiar to everyone.

(Luther: "If today is the day you die, then I will live and die with you." — Caliban Anecdotes)

Of course, Ryan knew none of this.

Luther didn't dare let Ryan know any of this.

If it weren't for his need to run for warlord, the Lion wouldn't even care about those foolish mortal bureaucrats—after all, they'd only be interested in power struggles and mutual attacks.

The Great Expedition requires truly capable and willing individuals to meet the challenges that will arise during the expedition.

Instead of a bunch of foolish officials gossiping about other noble families every day.

The lion believed that instead of spending time learning about the trivial matters of these mortals, it would be better to think more about the alien enemies he would face in order to better reduce the casualties of the Great Expedition.

Therefore, the books that were sent to him were piled up in his study and the flagship's library.

Of course, it's just a regular library, the kind that anyone can browse.

As for more secret books, what secret books?

The First Legion has no secrets!

But what should he choose?

"Become a War Commander! Ryan, you're meant to be a War Commander!"

No! Just thinking about such blasphemous thoughts is already as bizarre as a dream on Caliban!

When a war commander sacrifices some of his personal desires, he can gain broader support from across the empire.

Sorry, I can't do that!

With a thousand thoughts swirling in his mind, the lion stepped out of his house.

Fortunately, in order to terraform the surface of Scacia and complete the final cleanup of the Scacia counterinsurgency campaign, the Astartes Legion has been staying in near-Earth orbit these days, waiting.

He still had plenty of time to consider whether he should follow Horus's methods.

Ryan: "."

Never mind, I'll just take a walk first.

He gently touched his forehead and walked towards the main bridge of the Invincible Rationality.

Just then, an unexpected person appeared before him.

The other party was short, even shorter than a typical Astartes. He wore black, silver, and red armor symbolizing the dark angels, and his face, which seemed a bit more somber than the others, showed a look of surprise and complexity when he saw the lion walk in front of him.

Luther, a semi-modified Space Marine of the First Legion.

He is also the adoptive father of Primarch Ryan Aljonsen.

It was he who found Ryan, who was still a wild man, in the jungle and raised him to adulthood in the Knights.

After Ryan demonstrated his extraordinary size and strength, the two fought side by side in the Knights of Caliban, repelling wave after wave of Chaos Beasts and making indelible contributions to the Knights.

But now their relationship is very strained.

Things are very different now.

After the Emperor found the Lion King on Caliban, Luthor joined the Dark Angels as a member of the Lion King's knightly order, becoming a partially modified Astartes warrior. (He was too old to undergo full modification.)

That's right, Luther now should be considered a son of the Lion King.

The wild child he picked up from the jungles of Caliban became his father.

Astartes, isn't that amazing?

Following the trajectory of son → brother → stack, Luther successfully transformed from the Lion King's father into his son.

This is really embarrassing.

Even conjugate fathers and sons aren't conjugate like this!

What Luther found even more unacceptable was that he was originally a genius of the Knights of Caliban, but after the Lion King came along, all his brilliance was overshadowed by the other party.

He even had to call him "Dad".

It’s hard to accept just thinking about it.

Moreover, the two had previously had a minor conflict.

During the previous expedition against the Sarosh Xenomorphs, Luther discovered a nuclear bomb on the Legion's flagship, the Invincible Rationality, that could potentially kill Ryan.

Initially, his jealousy led him to quietly let the threat pass, intending to use it to kill Ryan and thus become the de facto leader of the Legion, leading Caliban towards the light.

However, his conscience ultimately compelled him, with the help of the think tank Zaharel, to stop the countdown to the bomb.

However, it is also an undeniable fact that they hesitated when faced with the possibility of their Primarch being killed by a bomb.

Ryan discovered Luther's disloyalty, but he couldn't bring himself to truly punish him—after all, in the end, it was Luther who chose to save Ryan's life.

The lion harbored resentment and dissatisfaction towards Luther, but couldn't find a good solution.

The two sides remained deadlocked.

(The timeline of the original work has been slightly modified for plot purposes.)

This is actually not good news for the Dark Angels.

As the second most powerful figure in the Legion after Ryan, Luther's influence has always been considerable, whether in Caliban's Order of Order or in the Legion of the Dark Angels.

Without further intervention, Ryan will soon choose to send him back to his home planet Caliban to oversee recruitment and training.

This is actually not strange to Ryan.

Since Luther is dissatisfied with the Lion, let him be in charge of the Legion's recruitment and Caliban's daily management.

Then we won't see the lion anymore, perfect!

However, from Luther's and his many subordinates' perspective, this order to keep them away from the battlefield was almost tantamount to a verdict that they would never be able to participate in the Great Crusade again.

This is tantamount to the lion banishing them.

As events unfolded afterward, the rift between the two grew wider, and Luther ultimately chose to rebel against the Lion King who did not understand human nature.

He contacted the Chaos Cult sorcerers who had infiltrated the planet, and with the blessing of Chaos power, he successfully gained power that was previously unimaginable.

Finally, just as the Lion King was about to return to his home planet to recuperate after the Horus Rebellion ended.

He was then blown into the sky by a cannon shot by Luther, who had become the chosen one of the Chaos Gods, and slept in a stone for ten thousand years.

Luther, as the "Chief of the Fallen Angels," will be imprisoned in the most heavily guarded Stasis Cell inside the giant rock.

Of course, things won't necessarily go exactly as planned in the future.

For example, someone who suddenly learned the [Centaur Gold Ring] and decided to emulate Horus's lion is an exceptionally peculiar existence.

"Commander Luther, it's a pleasure to meet you."

After nearly half a second of silence, the lion smiled and spoke.

Although Luther raised Ryan, the two had always referred to each other as brothers since their time in the Knights.