Emperor's Daughter of the Red Sands

Chapter 59 Hypocrisy
tragedy.

One tragedy after another.

Innocent people were ruthlessly executed by the angels, and rational castles were crushed in front of the crawlers.

This is what Elaine sees through the eyes of the Word Bearers.

She stared at the icon with closed eyes, recalling everything her father had said to her here.

——The direction of Lorgar's fate has always depended only on himself.

——He knows my attitude towards the truth and religion of the Empire, but he still turns a blind eye to this and imposes that fallacious theory on everyone.

——Whether the destruction of the perfect city depends on Guilliman, no matter whether the belief in his heart is completely destroyed, from now on... he will go to more extreme extremes.

——No matter which direction the result is, it is doomed not to be very good.

——As long as he still maintains meaningless illusions about faith and obedience, the rift between him and the empire will grow wider and wider.

— until it is irreparable, until it is completely broken.

——At that time, I will personally judge his fate.

—Even you, Elaine, you can't stop my will.

The cold words spoken by those human masters seemed to be vivid in his memory, and Elaine slowly clenched his fists.

The steps towards destiny are undoubtedly arduous.

Clearly...Even though Erebus and Kor Phaeron died under his influence, the Word Bearers are now clearly on the wrong path.

Under such circumstances, Lorgar chose to give the Word Bearers an order to completely destroy the Perfect City and leave no one alive.

Perhaps this order seems very reasonable in the eyes of Lorgar, because it was here that Erebus was found to have heresy tendencies, and received the order from the emperor to destroy the city, but there is no doubt that It fully highlights Lorgar's traits of blind obedience to power.

He took it for granted that the Emperor blamed Erebus's betrayal on the Perfect City.

The emperor, on the other hand, just provided a reasonable cause and effect for Elaine to execute Erebus.

"Lorgar..."

Feeling the artillery fire and screams from the city, Elaine gritted her teeth.

As the supervisor appointed by the emperor to Lorgar, Elaine enjoys the command over most of the Word Bearers in the Perfect City—however, she never imagined that Lorgar would issue the order of "leaving 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 Falling into the belief of chaos, such as launching a shadow expedition to the five hundred worlds and other rebellious acts.

Just like getting along with Perturabo, Elaine wanted to rewrite this tragedy, but inadvertently brewed a more tragic tragedy.

Yes, she did not expect Lorgar to carry out the emperor's orders in such an extreme way, and 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 Perfect City at an unexpected time for her, and after the disagreement between father and daughter ended— The Emperor gave Lorgar the grim order to destroy the Perfect City.

Obviously, the presence of the Lord of Humanity does not only mean that this matter is only a dispute between the No.17 Legion and the No.12 Legion.

It is a question of the 'loyalty' of the entire Legion of the Word Bearers to the Empire.

In fact, the entire empire has been shocked since rumors of the word bearers' chief priest and first captain being betrayed.

Especially Leman Russ, although the wolf king is still fighting for the empire at the front of the Great Crusade, the astronomical language from the space wolf has crossed half of the galaxy to come to accountability, perhaps it is their "executor" It was due to his responsibilities, or maybe it was the wolf king's rigor that didn't match the barbarism on the surface.

Rumors about the Second and No.11 Legion are also circulating in the veteran associations of the major legions at this moment. Obviously, the No.17 Legion may also usher in the sad end of being wiped out of history.

One thing anyone could see was that the Word Bearers' place in the Empire was at stake.

So much so that even Elaine, who was deeply trapped in the center of the vortex, shouldn't make any big moves - in the communication with her father, she knew that the emperor had always had a bad opinion of Lorgar, especially after learning about the knowledge of the curse. After the revealed future, this father seems to have left behind several backhands invisibly.

Whether it was against the legions that were supposed to be traitors, or those that were loyal, or... herself.

Thinking of this, Elaine looked at his right arm.

Under the mighty power of the Lord of Humanity, the exquisite prosthetic limbs return the touch like a real arm in a way beyond cognition, and the dazzling golden glow revealed from the gaps in the arm armor still vaguely gives me an ominous premonition, just Like the pair of chainaxes she was given when she first returned to the Empire.

Elaine can feel that this arm will come in handy in the near future.

However, everything... must be done after the matter in front of me is over.

The few readings on the data panel made her frown.

【—Turn right, then go straight. 】

Under the influence of the voice of the soul, a Leman Rustank, which was driving towards an extremely hidden but large refugee gathering place, suddenly turned its direction. Primarch's order to drive away from here.

"Ugh…"

Elaine sighed slightly.

She had executed this kind of order countless times, just so that the refugees could survive for a few days under the wrath of the Word Bearers.

But only for a few days.

Under orbital bombardment, I don't know how long... There will be no living people left in this city.

Although the Primarch can comfort himself, in this way, the pain of innocent believers can be alleviated, so that they don't have to face death under the execution of angels and the collapse of their beliefs.

However, there is no doubt that this is a piece of hypocrisy.

Even if all that Elaine did was to restore the doomed future, the fact that she executed Erebus was the source of the destruction.

The emperor did not take Guilliman, which symbolized that he had given this burden to himself.

And she personally pushed the No.17 Legion to the point of no return.

But no one could understand what she did, and instead caused even heavier disasters for the perfect city.

It's like, what the Lord of Humanity once said to Elaine with earnestness and earnestness is also the only truth in this dark universe.

——No matter how great your ideals and visions are, no matter how tough your will and soul are.

——Suffering and tragedy will always be by your side and never leave.

She clenched her fists.

……

……

　This chapter can be a bit depressing.

　　But, it's time to teach my stinky brother Lorgar a lesson!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)