Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

Chapter 375 Rest in Peace

Warp, Flockfang

Hide Lake

Howard sat on the grass by the lake, holding in his hands the blood gem given to him by Freya that sealed the souls of all the humans on the planet.

He placed the gem against his forehead, and he seemed to hear the whispers of countless souls in the gem.

He didn't know how long he had been sitting here. He had been sitting here since he found this place, without needing to drink water or eat.

The distinction between day and night in the Warp is not fixed; daylight may last for thousands of years or disappear in a flash.

But Howard didn't care.

He listened intently, listening to the voices of the dead that he had imagined.

"You've been very depressed lately. Can you tell me why?"

After an unknown amount of time, Freya, dressed in casual and lazy clothes, sat down next to him.

"As you wished, the child's soul continues to wander in the real universe. What else are you dissatisfied with?"

Howard didn't want to answer. He only felt a deep sense of powerlessness and negativity from the bottom of his heart.

He kept thinking about what happened on Karenya, he was thinking about his conversation with the nun before the war, he was thinking about the experience of going to the United Nuclear Man with Mei the night he came down from the Crimson Sword, he was thinking about what he told Mei about his wish that night.

He hopes that the races in this universe can understand each other and resolve hatred instead of creating new hatred.

But what happened next put a bloody fact before him:

His wish is nothing but a castle in the air.

Hatred is a cycle. The father's sins are paid for by the son, but the act of collecting the debt from the son gives rise to new sins.

Just like a huge rock on the top of a mountain, once it rolls down, if it is not stopped in the first place, it will never be able to stop once it exceeds a certain limit.

At the moment the nun turned into the demon prince, it was as if the huge rock rolled over his body, crushing everything he had.

The nun was corrupted by him.

He thought he could start by changing the nuns and slowly try to make this rotten and smelly country a better place.

It tried to convey some universal values of its original world to the nun through words and actions, such as tolerance and cherishing life. It hoped to change this nun who was initially obsessed and hated.

In fact, he succeeded. The nun was influenced by him and became more tolerant and gentle.

Are slave laborers also human beings?

The nun's words echoed in Howard's ears, and he repeatedly tried to guess the nun's state of mind when she said this.

But it was this nun who became tolerant, gentle, and yearned for justice and kindness, who eventually turned into the demon prince.

All along, Howard had gotten a basic fact wrong.

The universal values of the world he originally lived in were not the universal values of the empire.

Because the stone of hatred has been rolled down, the empire is caught in a tug-of-war of hatred with its enemies.

Perhaps in the distant past, when the Emperor could still walk the earth, the Empire practiced justice and kindness.

But in the thousands of years since the Lord of Mankind took the throne, the tug-of-war of hatred with Chaos has exhausted all the energy of the empire, so it can only abandon some luxurious qualities that do not seem to be necessary for survival.

Justice and goodness are also included.

The empire requires cruelty, blind obedience, and ignorance.

The empire does not need conscience, does not need thinking, and does not need tolerance.

Because a moment of laxity and doubt may allow the enemy to take advantage of the opportunity, and the nun is the best example.

The Empire never stands on the side of justice, only on the side of humanity.

Even the Empire is not completely on the side of humans. The Empire is more cruel when killing its own people than it is when killing aliens.

It’s just that there are too many humans who depend on the empire. Even if rivers of blood flow and hundreds of planets are destroyed, it will not hurt the empire at all.

The empire was too big and too old. Destroying it or reviving it was a hopeless task. No one had the ability to overthrow it and rebuild a brighter and better country.

But there has never been a shortage of people who try to do so, and without exception, these people have embarked on the path of rebellion.

It was he who made the nun understand this painful truth.

It was he who shook the nuns and corrupted them.

It was he who set the nun on the path of rebellion.

The nun's corruption told him that all his efforts since discovering the truth about the world were meaningless.

His self-righteous kindness and justice are nothing but castles in the air, and he knows nothing about the cruelty of this world.

He suddenly lost motivation.

"That planet...how is it..."

Finally, Howard asked the question.

Freya did not answer with words, but instead used her psychic energy to create a projection.

In the projection, Governor Esrick stood in the ruins and sea of fire, surrounded by the Sisters of Silence, confronting Gloria.

Gloria's body was no longer as perfect as it was at the beginning. Excessive wounds made it impossible for her to restore each scar to perfection. Her body was covered in purple rotten flesh and growths, as if she was wearing a disgusting flesh armor.

Esrik held high the family heirloom sword, and the light of this holy sword gleamed like scorching lightning in the demon's perspective.

He held Durandal high in the air and kept shouting Gloria's real name. Every shout was like a heavy hammer hitting Gloria, like a shackle placed on her.

Finally, Gloria was a little too slow, and before she could slit Esrik's throat, Esrik stabbed Durandal in her heart.

The demon prince's soul was burned by the flames of the holy sword and turned into nothingness.

She died with the sword she had briefly possessed, carrying Durandal from the outskirts into the heart of Orc territory, majestic and sacred, as if the Emperor himself had descended upon her.

"That was the child's choice, so I didn't interfere."

Freya said as she turned off the psychic projection.

Seeing that Howard was still silent, Freya asked again:

"Which ending do you want to see? This? Or that child kills every living person on that planet and then comes here to find you?"

Howard remained silent.

Seeing that Howard was still so depressed, Freya suddenly pounced on Howard and pressed him to the grass.

"You're still not feeling better? I happen to know a way that can always make a man happy."