tragedy.
Tragedy after tragedy.
Innocent people were mercilessly executed by the angels, and the rational pavilion was crushed in front of the crawlers.
This is what Elaine sees through the eyes of the Word Bearers.
She stared at the closed-eyed icon in front of her, recalling everything her father had said to her here.
——The fate of Luojia has always depended only on himself.
——He knows my attitude towards truth and religion in the empire, but he still turns a blind eye and imposes that fallacious theory on everyone.
——No matter whether the destruction of the Perfect City depends on Guilliman, no matter whether the faith in his heart is completely destroyed, from now on... he will move to more extreme extremes.
——No matter which direction the result is, it is destined not to be good.
——As long as he still maintains meaningless illusions about faith and obedience, the rift between him and the empire will only grow wider.
——Until it is irreversible, until it completely breaks.
——At that time, I will personally decide his fate.
——Even you, Elaine, you can't stop my will.
The cold words spoken by the Lord of Humanity seemed to be vivid in her mind, and Elaine slowly clenched her fists.
The steps towards destiny are undoubtedly arduous.
Obviously... even though Erebus and Kor Phaeron died under his influence, the Word Bearers are now clearly on an incorrect path.
In this situation, Lorgar actually chose to give the Word Bearers the order to completely destroy the Perfect City and leave no one alive.
Perhaps this kind of order seems very reasonable in Lorgar's eyes, because it was here that Erebus was found to have heretical tendencies and received the order to destroy the city from the Emperor. However, there is no doubt that this is Lorgar's characteristic of blindly obeying power is vividly highlighted.
He took it for granted that the Emperor took Erebus's treachery out on the Perfect City.
The Emperor only provided a reasonable cause and effect for Elaine to execute Erebus.
"Luojia..."
Feeling the gunfire and screams coming from the city, Elaine gritted her teeth.
As the supervisor appointed by the Emperor to Lorgar, Elaine enjoys command over most of the Word Bearers in the Perfect City - however, she never expected that Lorgar would issue the order "leave no one alive".
In the original history, Lorgar was completely rejected by the Emperor for his faith and the value of the Legion, so that Erebus and Kor Phaeron had the opportunity to take advantage of it, until Lorgar mistakenly made the mistake during the Great Heresy. He fell to the belief of Chaos, such as launching a Shadow Crusade against Five Hundred Worlds and other rebellious acts.
Just like getting along with Perturabo, Elaine wanted to rewrite this tragedy, but inadvertently created an even more tragic tragedy.
Yes, she did not expect that Lorgar would carry out the emperor's orders in such an extreme way. The reason why Lorgar's extreme religious fanaticism was completely aroused was inseparable from Elaine's execution of Erebus. .
Although Elaine had already thought of many reasons, before she could explain all this directly to her brother, the Emperor came to the Perfect City at an unexpected time. After the differences in the exchange between father and daughter were over—— The Emperor gave Lorgar the grim order to destroy the Perfect City.
Obviously, the personal visit of the Lord of Mankind not only means that this matter is just a dispute between the 17th Legion and the 12th Legion.
It is a question of the 'loyalty' of the entire Legion of Word Bearers to the Empire.
In fact, ever since rumors spread that the Chief Chaplain and First Captain of the Word Bearers had been exposed as having betrayed each other, the entire empire had been shocked.
Especially Leman Russ. Although the Wolf King is still fighting for the Empire on the front lines of the Great Crusade, the astrologists from the Space Wolves have traveled across more than half of the galaxy to come to hold him accountable. Perhaps they are the 'executioners' Due to his responsibilities, or perhaps it was the wolf king's rigor that was inconsistent with his apparent brutality.
Rumors about the Second and Eleventh Legions are also spreading among the veteran associations of the major legions at this moment. It is obvious that the Seventeenth Legion may also face the sad end of being erased from history.
One thing anyone could see was that the Word Bearers' position in the Empire was about to be in jeopardy.
So much so that even Elaine, who was trapped in the center of the vortex, should not make any big moves anymore - during the communication with her father, she knew that the emperor had always had a bad opinion of Lorgar, especially after learning the knowledge of the curse. After the future was revealed, the father seemed to have left several behind-the-scenes secrets.
Whether it was against the legions who were supposed to be traitors, the legions who were loyalists, or...herself.
Thinking of this, Elaine looked at her right arm.
Under the mighty power of the Lord of Mankind, the exquisite prosthetic limbs return the touch of a real arm in a way that transcends cognition. The dazzling golden light revealed from the gaps in the arm armor still gives me a vague premonition of ominousness. Just like the pair of chain axes given to her when she first returned to the Empire.
Elaine can feel that this arm will be of some use in the near future.
However, everything... must be done after the current matter is over.
Some of the readings on the data panel made her frown.
[——Turn right, then go straight. 】
Under the influence of the voice of the soul, a Leman Russ tank that was heading towards an extremely hidden but large refugee gathering place suddenly changed its direction. Its tracks stained with blood and minced meat followed the genes without hesitation. and sailed away from here on the primarch's orders.
"well…"
Elaine sighed slightly.
She had carried out this order countless times, just so that the refugees could survive the wrath of the Word Bearers for a few days.
But it was only a few days.
Under the orbital bombardment, in who knows how long... there will no longer be any living people left in this city.
Although the Primarch could comfort himself, in this way he could alleviate the suffering of innocent believers, so that they would not have to face death under the execution of angels and the collapse of their faith.
But there is no doubt that this is hypocrisy.
Even if what Elaine did was to save a future that was doomed to destruction, her execution of Erebus was the source of destruction.
The Emperor did not take Guilliman with him, symbolizing that he had given this burden to himself.
And she personally pushed the 17th Legion to a point of no return.
But no one could understand what she did, and instead it brought more disaster to the perfect city.
It's like, everything the Lord of Mankind said to Elaine sincerely is also the only truth in this dark universe.
——No matter how great your ideals and visions are, no matter how tenacious your will and soul are.
——Suffering and tragedy will always be with you and never leave.
She clenched her fists.
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