Warhammer 40: Gods Of Mortals

Chapter 1149: Past Bonds

The Emperor is in the most secret laboratory, a place that even Erda, who is working with him on the Primarch Project, has never set foot in.

The extremely unique and important gene sequence of Eldana was extracted, experimented and applied.

The Emperor's own genetic sequence was also added.

While carrying out this process, which would have shocked even Golden Age human biologists, the Emperor suddenly remembered a unique but not entirely unique genetic sequence he had seen earlier.

The genes of the primitive human who possessed the power of the star god.

In the early days of the space age, after conquering some alien civilizations, humans would establish their rule on the alien civilization's home planet.

The ruling class is closely linked by genes and race rather than class and power.

On the alien home planets, there are some backup plans, such as some genetic weapons that can exterminate specific alien races. In order to prevent the enslaved humans from forgetting who they are after the aliens take power, there are archives and arsenals that only humans can enter. These things will conduct genetic scans on the users. No matter what the user's purpose is, they must first ensure that the user is human.

At that time, human genes were not as different from those of primitive people as they were in the Golden Age, and genetic technology had not yet been widely used.

But the genes of those primitive people may unlock the legacy of mankind's entry into the space age. Compared with the technological products of today's ignorant era, they seem like children's toys. Just like the genes of primitive people, their existence itself is the only value, similar to the human artwork in Machado's hands.

In the long process of development, human beings have forgotten too many things, even themselves.

Compared with the genes of primitive humans, the genes of immortals are of course different, even if they were born together.

Even the genes within the Eternals are not very similar, just like Elda's genes. Her genes can be used to create the Primarch, but that doesn't mean they can be replaced with Malcador's genes.

The Emperor had pondered many times, thinking about why the Eternals were born in the human race, what mission they had, and tracing their origins to which branch of the human evolutionary tree they belonged...

Ding!
The device prompt sounded, and the Emperor came out of his thoughts. He found himself thinking about things from a biologist's perspective again.

Biologist.

While extracting the mixed genes, the Emperor was thinking about how his identity as a biologist was thousands of years ago.

After thinking for a while, he gave up this idea.

Because the emperor realized that no matter what his identity was, how many identities he had, and what he had done, those things were no longer important in this era.

One must forget oneself and the past in order to better become a leader of the human race called the Emperor.

The Emperor recalled a time when he was afraid of his current choices and the consequences they would bring. When he was a sentimental person, he also thought that if he forgot his past, he would no longer be himself.

But later, the Emperor only felt that he had been really pretentious at certain times in the past. Compared with the fate of countless individuals of the human race, a person's self was as humble as dust and not worth mentioning.

After thinking about many things in the past, the emperor deliberately stopped what he thought was nonsense in his mind.

The emperor could also coldly and objectively find the reason for those so-called delusions - Erda.

Elda is not a partner, let alone a like-minded person, and she doesn't look as pleasing to the eye as Makado.

But Erda has something called "bonds of the past".

The Emperor felt that it was impossible for him to remain purely rational in the face of this abstraction.

Olpersong also has this thing.

The Emperor sat down and thought seriously.

He thought that if he was really a cold-blooded tyrant, then when Orpesson learned of his plan and stabbed him hard in the back of the waist, he should have killed Orpesson, or hunted him down, in order to achieve some purpose, or just to make him pay the price for his disobedience.

But the Emperor just couldn't bring himself to do so.

"It's the same with Erda."

The Emperor muttered to himself.

He thought that bonds were not just about restraining oneself. Erda and he had fallen out a long time ago, but as long as he asked, Erda would still come and do what he wanted her to do.

Thinking of this, the emperor couldn't help but recall the harsh words he had just said to Erda. It was indeed an exaggeration to describe her as Pavlov's dog. He shouldn't have said such a harsh word.

The Emperor shook his head vigorously to get rid of the thoughts in his mind, then raised his hand.

In a space that only he could enter, he retrieved two items stored therein.

Those are two letters.

One was for Olpersson and one was for Jalda.

If Qin Mo were here, he would know what was written in the letter to Orperson - an apology with corny words.

But after taking out the two letters and hesitating whether to send them, the emperor put the two letters back to their original place.

"It would be wise not to let them have any further entanglement with me."

“It’s a protection for them.”

“It’s good for them.”

The emperor thought so.

After thinking about the matters of his two old friends, the Emperor looked at the research equipment and the genes in the equipment.

He couldn't help but start thinking about how he should get along with these Primarchs after they were born.

After a little thought, the emperor took out a pen and notebook from somewhere and began to draw one children's room after another on it.

He recalled the fate and character of each Primarch that Qin Mo had explained to him, and designed a residence that was most suitable for each Primarch's childhood.

He even designed in detail what the Primarch would like in this residence.

Obviously, this was not a sudden idea or thought at the last minute, but something he had started thinking about after hearing about the future of the Primarchs from Qin Mo.

During the Terra Unification War, outsiders did not know how much time and attention the Emperor devoted to this matter.

But if the Emperor confessed these thoughts to Malcador and Qin Mo, the latter two would be surprised by his concern and meticulousness, and would think that the Emperor must have spent a lot of thought and time on the residences of the Primarchs.

Even the Emperor did not infer the personalities of the Primarchs in their childhood based on their grown-up personalities, because he knew that growth would affect the Primarchs. To some extent, what Erda said was not wrong. The Primarchs were children and people, not unchanging tools.

The Emperor had imagined that the two Alpha brothers among the Primarchs would like to disguise themselves as other people when they were young. He tried to figure out the brothers' preferences based on this idea, but later he felt that this was inappropriate.

The Alpha brothers' adult personalities were mostly influenced by Malcador.

The Emperor thanked Qin Mo for his confession. It was Qin Mo's accurate prediction of the future that made him realize that Malcador's ability as a father and elder could only be described as poor, and it would be better for him not to be responsible for training the Primarchs.

Finish this thing.

The Emperor closed the notebook, walked out of the laboratory and called a Guardsman: "Send it to the Lord of Flame, and tell him that this is my suggestion. He doesn't need to refer to it. But I have to make it clear that I am not just responsible for creating the Primarchs and then throwing them all to him."

"My Lord." The Guardsman knelt on one knee and took the notebook with both hands. "Shall I repeat your words to the Lord of Flame exactly as they are?"

The Emperor shook his head: "No, of course not, you can simplify it and simplify it to what you think is appropriate."

(End of this chapter)