Chapter 168: Disappointment from Mother
[I am from Avalon, the Avalon system in the Eden Star Sector, in the Far Eastern Star Field. 】
[Just start from the Holy Terra, cross the Matrom area, and then go some distance to the southeast, you can find its location on the star map, if the distance from the Maelstrom to the Five Hundred Worlds is compared to a straight line, then my home star is exactly at the midpoint of this line segment. 】
[It is not too far from the northern border of the famous Otrama 500 world, and there are also worlds with inherited civilizations around it, and there are even one or two colonies opened up by Mars, but on the whole, it is still a relatively quiet place, in the era of 5,000 years of strife, it is rarely disturbed by the outside world, and the local people even believe that above the clouds, there are gods. 】
[If we take a compass and divide the two tips into the Avalon and Otrama systems, and then draw a circle with my home star as the center and the distance between it and Otrama as the radius, then this circle will cover about two-fifths of the Far Eastern star field. 】
[The eastern part of this circle will cover Damocles and the mysterious region east of the empty ocean, while the southern part will touch the border between the Far Eastern galaxy and the storm galaxy, and its western edge contains the mother star of the Salamander Legion, the Nocturne, and the Chogoris, who raised our brother Chagatai Khan, and in the northwestern corner of this circle, you can barely touch a galaxy called Badab in the Maelstrom region. 】
[Ah...... But that doesn't matter. 】
[Let's go back to my home planet: Overall, Avalon is a huge, rich, and relatively dangerous world, much larger than Holy Terra, with more than a dozen continents and oceans as far as the eye can see, but not all lands are suitable for human life. 】
[Whether it is a rich plain, a verdant valley, a soft beach, a desolate mountain, a fierce desert, an indifferent glacier, a continuous black forest, or a wasteland full of moss and strange rocks......]
[As long as you can imagine the terrain and landforms, as long as the places repeatedly mentioned in the geography books of mankind, you can find corresponding products in this world, not all of them are suitable for the emergence of villages, towns, cities and civilizations, but without exception have magnificent scenery and unique products, although the danger is always there, but there is never a need to worry about the crisis of land, food and drinking water, as long as you sincerely plant seeds and work hard, no one will go hungry. 】
[The only problem is that no matter where in Avalon, the minerals are always very poor, which more or less delays the progress of technology and civilization]
[There is no doubt that it is a land to be proud of, and in the oldest local documents, more than 5,000 years ago, at the beginning of all historical records, so that the world is called Avalon, the land of the gods, the island of pleasure built by the gods of the clouds. 】
[The kings and priests believed that in the beginning, a god on the clouds drove his silver ark to the highest peak in the world, the Eternal Peak, where he created the legendary secret place of the lake, and in the center of the lake, which is always calm and magnificent like jewels, the god caused ten islands to rise one after another, and planted the seeds of the golden apple tree on the most central one. 】
After the golden apple landed, He distributed it to the people, and the first civilizations and kingdoms appeared. 】
After that, the gods would occasionally come to earth to punish the princes who were too arrogant and insane, but since sometime five thousand years ago, He has not been seen again. 】
[Yes, Horus, probably at the beginning of the Age of Strife.] 】
After the gods disappeared, the king's power finally prevailed over the priests, and feudal kingdoms large and small began to appear in those rich plains and lowlands, and the fiefdoms of the counts and knights soon ran out, and the borders of the kingdom began to expand into mountains, deserts, and forests, but there they encountered terrible opponents. 】
[Powerful wild beasts, numerous beast settlements, and those barbarians who are also human beings who have mastered strange spells, some of them even have loose countries, not to mention, in the depths of the dense forest, there seem to be many secret realms and wizards, they are like those monsters in the depths of the ocean, with unimaginable power. 】
[War broke out and lasted for thousands of years, more heavily armed knights and more and more demobilized legions appeared in various realms, wizards who could fabricate fire and lightning out of thin air were hired by every court with a lot of money, and codes, gunpowder, and compasses became popular in society, bringing new opportunities. 】
[With hundreds of years of perseverance in exploration and navigation, the whole world has also completed the connection at a certain point: although the kingdoms on each continent have not completed the unification, they have also traded and communicated with each other, interacted with each other and learned, and according to the location, they have their own characteristics. 】
[Some kingdoms are still bowed down to powerful kings, others have been usurped by hidden wizarding guilds, and some are more peculiar, the trade-keen Gulf regions have allowed more democratic institutions to rise, not to mention the tribes that run on the meadows, or still bow down in front of the statues of the gods. 】
[That was about five hundred years before I landed: but sadly, for various reasons, the pace of civilization also stopped moving forward at that moment. 】
[A more powerful mode of production has never been studied, and as I grew up and learned, what I saw was still a land of heroes and beasts, swords and magic, and electors and religious wars. 】
The children of the nobility took up the sword and became knights, while the children of the peasants practiced the longbow and became rangers, exploring the vast wilderness and forests alone or in groups, dreaming of becoming a household name hero, gaining the favor of the nine fairies of the lake, or being passed on in a mysterious secret realm. 】
[Every king fought for their claims and marriages, they greedily watched over every piece of land, and at the same time exploited the power of their vassals day after day, and in the wars they provoked, the vicious mercenaries and knights took the opportunity to find their own business. 】
[Some religions span the continent, like the sun, some religions are dying and old, long gone, for the sake of faith and gods can even spread for more than a dozen generations, for a holy city with history, there will be thousands of knights leaving their homeland, setting off waves of fanatical expeditions. 】
[You can see pirates plundering every merchant ship and every monastery, you can see the bitter priests attacking the bishops' beliefs, you can see people loudly denying kings and gods, preaching the power of science and reason, you can see the pockets of merchants growing in the countless busy trades, and they can even influence the rise and fall of those ancient dynasties. 】
[Everything is flourishing, even despairingly: for this prosperity has been going on for hundreds of years, and for hundreds of years everything has come to a standstill.] 】
[The history books of heroes are getting longer and longer, the busy seaports are increasing, the rulers have more complicated titles and intricate blood ties than they can fully figure out, but there are still more beasts to kill, but there are still more lands to explore, and everyone, whether it be kings, bishops, or farmers, is just repeating the story that has lasted for generations. 】
[Whenever an opportunity arises to bring civilization further, it dies for a variety of reasons. 】
[Just as I can't find all the history of this world before the arrival of that so-called god.] 】
[Civilization seems to have appeared suddenly, and it seems to have been frozen at a certain moment.] 】
[Until my arrival, until my appearance and rise, my adoptive father ignited the ambition that every emperor would have, and he declared that I was the heir of the gods, and let the people of the clouds give him a gift in order to crown his hegemony. 】
[They didn't believe it at first, until I leveled a city, then let the warship out of the sea, landed on land, and breached a city of empresses that claimed to have never fallen. 】
[And so they succumbed to the power, and although my adoptive father was still unable to forge true unity, he could take the crown of the High King and become the nominal co-ruler of all. 】
[However, I didn't stay on my home planet for long: less than ten years later, the Empire's fleet had arrived. 】
And then there's the stories you know. 】
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Morgan's narration came to an abrupt end, as the destination of their trip had arrived, and the vanguard warship of the Shadow Moon Wolf Legion had also sent back a question that needed attention.
The target system they had just arrived in wasn't empty, a fleet of Ran Dan was cruising in orbit around the target world, but their size was doomed, they were just trouble.
Horus was raising his head arrogantly, and he watched the desperate adversary through the divination boxes on the battleship: they didn't even have twenty ships, they were like mango pieces on a cream cake.
The wolf herding god just glanced at these opponents casually: although he had collected some information from Ran Dan, he never cared more about it, after all, it was Johnson's prey.
Although on the surface, Horus and the Emperor won the victory against Yu Randan in that nameless galaxy, but every Empire knows that only Johnson and his legions are the greatest contributors to the victory of the Randan Empire, and the Wolf Shepherd God will not snatch this glory: he will never do such a tasteless garbage act.
Ran Dan is a record that belongs to Johnson, an immortal monument that belongs to the Dark Angel, there is no doubt about it.
But then again......
Horus's eyes narrowed.
On the way here, in his conversation with the Emperor, Horus sensed the vague intent in the Emperor's words: the Lord of Humanity seemed intent on banning everything about the Randan Empire, so that all the participants would either forget the memories or keep silent.
In other words, the greatest merit of his Caliban brothers seems to be [disappearing].
Horus shook his head in his heart, at this moment, he sincerely felt sad for his brother Johnson, and he didn't know if Johnson had the next chance to obtain such a feat again...... He found it difficult.
Without the glorious memories and exploits of Ran Dan, perhaps the knight king of Caliban would have been destined to be a second-rate echelon among the brothers: his Dark Angel Legion was indeed very strong, so strong that the wolf shepherd god was not willing to imagine any scene against it, but in Horus's heart, Johnson's command ability was more or less worthy of the First Legion.
Johnson was too petty to have the grandeur of Horus, Ferrus, and Gilliman, who was a great warrior and tactician, but on a wider stage, he was not as good as he could be.
As the god of the wolf, he learned the true kingly demeanor in the emperor, while his Gorgong brothers used cold calculations to produce the most terrible oppression in the galaxy.
As for Killiman, the king of Otrama, the unquenchable fire of ambition in his heart has increased his bearing, Killiman only needs to grasp a quill, he can write more power and ambition, and the Division Lord of the Ultramarine, he never hides his arrogance and terrible ambition, he keeps talking about his five hundred worlds, but who knows if what he desires in his heart is five thousand, fifty thousand, or even more?
Johnson ...... He's fourth, or worse, at best: look at what he's done with the mighty First Legion, these Dark Angels will no longer be the Shadowmoon Wolves' rivals in merit and prestige.
Horus thought of this, and he didn't even know whether he should be happy or sorry for his brother first.
And just as he was struggling, the gaze of his gaze subconsciously swept over his sister and quickly caught something.
In her pupils, there seemed to be some kind of glow of interest.
"You haven't fought in such a battle?"
[I've been to a lot of bigger ones, but they're all so big, so big that one might expect some kind of small-scale passion, but Johnson never let me waste time on the more subtle battlefields.] 】
The wolf shepherd snorted softly: that was indeed something his brother could do.
"So what did he let you do in those times when there wasn't a great war?"
[Office Director...... Pretty much. 】
"Sitting at his desk?"
[Rather, I sit in his seat and manage his legions. 】
“……”
"Hahahahaha......"
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Horus was amused by the joke.
Why didn't he realize just now that his blood relatives were so talented in humor.
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"So, why don't you have a skirmish, Morgan?"
Horus laughed for a moment, then made a suggestion, and he was pleased to see the flame in Morgan's pupils burning at the simple suggestion.
[Hmm...... But I only have six people, and you have at least 6,000 people, so this kind of competition doesn't seem very fair. 】
"The affairs of the war are handed over to my children, as for you and me, it is enough for each person to bring sixty people, and we can have a hunting competition, using Ran Dan's officers and battleships as their respective scores."
[But I don't have sixty people. 】
"I can lend you Abaddon, and some Gastarin, and my best children, who will be no worse than any warrior of any legion, I promise."
【…… Abaddon ......]
"What's wrong? Need me another one? ”
[Nope.] 】
Morgan smiled, her eyebrows crooked.
[In a sense, I actually like Abaddon as a child.] 】
The wolf god smiled proudly.
"yes, it's a pity he's mine."
[But then, isn't he mine?] 】
Horus was stunned for a moment, then continued to laugh.
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When the wolf shepherd had had enough of laughing and began to command his children to do all that had to do with war and hunting, Hector finally broke away from the arena and returned to his mother.
Morgan nodded, not seeming to care.
But while the last Shadowmoon Wolf was also preoccupied with Horus's orders, she crept up to her heir.
[How's that, did you win?] 】
She asked softly, and then saw the melancholy face of her own bloodline.
"Hmmm......"
"His Terminator Armor is too hard, I wasn't impressed."
Hector spat out the words with difficulty, and then, he couldn't help but sneak a glance at his genetic mother.
Morgan looked at him with neither anger nor an angry expression, she just glanced at her child quietly, and then.
Pouted, frowning.
She seemed to want to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything, just quietly patted Hecht's breastplate, and then lowered her head.
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Hector inhaled deeply.
Emperor......
O throne......
Everyone, come and kill him!
(End of chapter)