Magnus awoke in a parched sense of powerlessness, and when he awoke, he felt an inexplicable throbbing—a connection to the Thousand Sons, as if he heard the wails of the sons who had been taken away by the Guardian Elves before they died.

The original struggled to sit up, and then he realized the anxious footsteps that had been there, and Magnus coughed dryly to say something, but he was stopped.

"Quiet, Magnus."

A voice sounded in his ears, and Magnus realized that the caretaker was close to him, and Hades was in the cell.

The light-hearted and indifferent attitude of his everyday speech was gone, replaced by emotionless speech, which reminded Magnus of the unembellished words of the mechanical sage.

"I was wrong, Magnus. You are a mark of Him in Itself, and I can't remove His surveillance here unless I destroy your soul. ”

Magnus heard the hiss of the blade slicing across the ground, his muscles tensed, he wanted to do something, but felt that there was nothing more he could do, he was toyed with by Chaos, and his Thousand Sons and Prospero were gone.

"That is, is it a warning or a joke that He overheard my previous conversation with you—and He wants to put an end to it, and He doesn't hesitate to use your words?"

This sentence is very soft, more like Hades's self-talk,

"What's more, I think the emperor also agrees with the other side, what he saw in Prospero, which may have changed his mind, I should go to more important occasions than guard an outcast."

The anxious footsteps sound again, and you never know if Tzeentch wants you to stop doing it or if he wants you to keep doing it.

After a long time, the footsteps stopped, and Hades seemed to crouch next to Magnus, who was half-seated against the wall.

"Let me tell you a story, Magnus, this is my last attempt."

He said that the sickle made a grinding sound on the ground,

"Once upon a time, there was an unlucky guy like you, who was taken in from the beginning, but the difference between looking at him and looking at you is the same, he has always been unlucky, and on the established line of fate, all the great things he wanted to do failed."

Hades' voice paused,

"You see, on the contrary, you should have had a smooth ride - but unfortunately you met me."

But then he changed his fate, on the one hand he did change a lot of his bad temper, and on the other hand...... I'm not boasting, the waves of subspace also need someone to cut them off in order to make a big change-"

【…… Did you change his fate line? 】

Magnus's voice trembled, and he listened to Hades silent for a moment,

"Yes, soulless people are best suited for this kind of thing, aren't they? It is better to cut it off directly than to use psionic energy to carefully entangle with various waves of fate, but unfortunately, this requires enough soulless ability. ”

You're the only one who can do this? 】

"Yes."

Magnus was silent,

[You were talking about Motarian? He was also ...... It is also ......]

"Shhh

Hades said,

"So you're the luckiest of the unfortunate, Magnus."

Magnus remembered the peculiar aura of death in Mortarion, and that morbid behavior, and it was hard to imagine what Mortarian had experienced in the past.

"It's not just you, it's not just him."

Hades muttered,

"I have also seen an entire legion on the verge of extinction, and his heirs are in a pool of blood, and his own fate cannot escape, and he is ...... It can be said that it is far from the established fate. ”

【…… Angelon? 】

Hades was silent,

"You should have seen the device on his head, so I say you're lucky."

Magnus was silent as if he were dead, and for a long time he asked slightly,

【You were originally ...... It's also here to help me get rid of ...... Those? 】

"Perhaps."

Hades said,

"But you're not like them, even in the most critical moments, their souls don't succumb for a moment, Magnus, you know what I'm referring to."

Magnus had given part of his soul to Tzeentch from the beginning, and instead of a cruel curse, he faced a lie covered in honey.

[That...... What else can I ......? 】

He opened his mouth in vain, it was just an inertia,

"Don't think about that, Magnus."

Cold words rang in his ears, Hades's previous method was to isolate the gaze of the subspace, and then try to do something in line with physics and psychology, but Magnus's situation doomed him to never completely cut off the subspace.

"Accept the harsh reality, and then atone for your sins, Magnus, this is my most sincere advice to you, only do what the emperor commands you to do, and don't think about anything else."

Magnus tried to pull a dry wry smile at the corners of his mouth, proving that he was indeed numb, numb enough to accept it all, but he could only feel the blood oozing from the corners of his mouth.

【…… My story ended at the beginning, right? 】

Hades stood up and paced the cramped cell again in irritation, and that's what he hated about Tzeentch, when killing the other side wasn't the solution, you had to think of another way, but whatever the plan was, it would fall into the calculations of the Lord of Change.

Looking at the emperor's posture, Hades estimated that he wanted to use Magnus as a disposable bomb and throw it out to explode the pony at a critical moment, but the question is whether this is reliable?

Originally, Hades thought that this was fine, but he realized that Magnus himself was already a little Tzeentch, and it was a big gamble.

And he can't be sure if Magnus is a trick or the real key point, because Prospero's anchor point has been removed, and Magnus's biggest twist of fate has passed.

The Emperor clearly had this in mind, and in fact, he had already summoned Hades away, and this was Hades' last day of custody of Magnus.

"Okay, let me try one last time...... Magnus, are you willing to try something better than nothing? ”

Hades saw Magnus raise his hands in vain,

[Is this an order from the emperor?] 】

Hades was expressionless, he turned on the channel and raised his voice,

"Emperor, I'm going to beat Magnus."

"Please."

The other end of the channel disconnected indifferently, and Magnus looked like he was about to scream silently again.

"Now it is."

Hades said calmly,

"You'll have to cooperate with me next."

[Cooperate with you to beat me?! 】

"Yes and no."

Hades said,

"Now...... You'll have to give the authority of your soul to a soulless one. ”

Before Magnus could speak, the Black Domain rushed up.

——————

Magnus screamed and rolled in the sea of consciousness, desperately running away into the distance, he didn't want that to touch him!!

But he was too weak, the Emperor's psionic suppression and the fall of a thousand sons had greatly weakened Magnus's soul light, and in the past, he could have left directly, leaving the cursed far behind.

He watched as the monster engulfed him, like a swarm of insects crawling up his skin, like he had fallen into a bottomless stinking pool, his soul worse than dead, a flame far hotter than hellfire burning his soul.

He subconsciously resisted, but heard a roar from afar,

"Magnus - bear with me! Machado is better than you! ”

Magnus suddenly remembered why he was here, and what that foul-smelling cursed thing was, he might as well just die!

[Knock me out, stay away from me!] 】

"I'd like to knock you out!"

Then Magnus saw the blue—there—and he remembered! The gorgeous waves of the vast ocean seemed to be just yesterday, at the top of the Great Pyramid of Prospero, the power of subspace stepped down from the altar and signed a contract with him.

The darkness twisted and tried to penetrate into the depths of his soul.

A scream rang out from the depths of his soul, and he saw Prospero burning, people's souls burning, providing him with strength.

Darkness and scythe stabbed at him, and treacherous light burst open! After a moment of dazzling light, everything returned to its original place, as if nothing had changed.

Then Magnus heard the sound of falling to the ground, then retching, and the waves of powerlessness began to recede, and he slowly regained his grip on the boundaries of the physical world.

He smelled blood, but not his.

【…… It worked? 】

He asked with a shudder,

"Failed."

Hades silently wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth, worthy of Tzeentch, and worthy of being a psionic primordial, Hades felt that the mark that Tzeentch had buried in Magnus was stronger than the psionic energy of an entire planet, plus Magnus's soul itself resisted him...... Still too hasty, he was in a hurry.

In the distance, the emperor's hand as he pondered the map froze slightly.

"So the fireworks are here."

He whispered, no wonder, and at the same time the emperor turned on the channel,

"Don't waste your efforts, Hades."

Hades took a deep breath,

"It's still a little useful......"

He whispered, looking at Magnus,

"I finally tore a little hole in your soul, Magnus...... Don't try to heal it, that's a sign of where He is, you know what I mean? ”

【…… I would stay away from there. 】

Magnus spoke weakly, as if he were still drowning in the dizziness that the Dark Realm had brought him, though Hades did not hurt him as much as he could...... It is not very harmful, and the feeling of nausea is extremely strong.

Hades frowned.

"I mean if you sense something is wrong, go to the Emperor or Machado immediately."

This can be regarded as giving Magnus the ability to give early warning, but in a sense, it also facilitates Magnus to communicate with Tzeentch -

However, as long as Magnus wants to, Tzeentch can also communicate with Magnus without barriers, so it can be regarded as giving Magnus a self-alert function.

Hadis paused, and then a brisk voice rang out.

"Well, I've got to go eventually."

As if nothing had just happened,

"Have a good time in your prison, Magnus, and don't think about heresy."

"Reform through labor as soon as possible, be a new man, listen to the emperor's words, don't toss around blindly, maybe you will turn over and be a man again after 10,000 years."

The sound of the iron fence opening, then footsteps, the sound of doors closing, the sound of armor joints colliding.

Magnus sniffed the blood in his cell, and for the rest of his full years, he would realize that it was what he heard, the last words of blessing him, and even containing a little word of trust.

He examined the soul, and he stared at Him as silently as He had been staring at him silently before.

Magnus finally fell into the quiet years he had once dreamed of.

Toot toot

(End of chapter)