Every day, Kasjia would wake up on the over-twenty-kilometer-long Vengeful Spirit.
However, he did not feel happy about it.
Because he hadn't slept well.
[I am your essence.]
[Kasjia... accept me...]
[Accept... me...]
[I...]
The quality of Warp entities is really low.
Kasjia, who was being spammed with harassing calls every day, helplessly closed his eyes.
He couldn't escape it.
Raising his cracked right hand, he kept thinking about the possibilities for his future in his mind.
What the hell is this thing!?
Kasjia's doubts were also constantly increasing.
It was one thing for the AI on Chemos to say he wasn't human, but how come after his Space Marine modification was completed, he was rapidly moving in the direction of not being human?
A few weeks ago, on the Silent Star encampment.
After successfully capturing that small xenos warship, he had controlled the xenos crystal and its warship to land on the Silent Star.
As for how he controlled it, and why he could control it... Kasjia had no idea.
But Kasjia seemed to be able to sense the other's thoughts as if by telepathy.
The other seemed to be overjoyed to have met him.
And the remaining xenos remnants in the warship had also chosen to lay down their arms and surrender because of his communication link.
Kasjia had just parked this warship near the Mechanicum camp.
The facts were just as he had expected. These crystal xenos were indeed the maintainers of the Dalinite Gate, and they also possessed the methods by which these gates were maintained.
According to the crystal xenos, they were created by their Creator to guard and maintain these gates from the very beginning.
The reason they had passed through the gate before was because they had sensed an unknown creature gathering near the gate.
Therefore, they had come to drive away and eliminate any creature that dared to approach the Creator's sacred creation.
But they had never thought that the "enemy" would possess the mark of the Creator.
Kasjia sensed the guilt and fear emanating from the crystal.
But, wait a minute?
Who is this Creator you're talking about?
It's not me, Kasjia, is it?
It really was.
The core of the giant crystal jumped with joy like a puppy.
That giant crystal captain had recognized its master because it had sensed the Creator's aura in Kasjia's hand.
Now that the Creator had returned, they naturally handed over the technology and maintenance methods of the gate to him.
And after the Tech-Priests who had gotten the technology had happily bounced away, Kasjia asked the crystal another question.
"Who exactly is this Creator you speak of, who can build Warp gates?"
They called him—
"The First of All Creation."
"The King of the Empyrean."
"The Creator."
And the only name he knew.
"The Old Ones."
—The Old Ones.
Who the fuck am I?
Sitting in his cabin on the Vengeful Spirit, he fell into deep thought.
Kasjia's existential crisis seemed to have come a little earlier than others'.
He remembered he had transmigrated here.
But—
The AI said he wasn't human.
The guy with the clown mask called him brother.
In the Empyrean, he had turned into a raging fire.
The crystal xenos called him the heir of the Old Ones.
[I am... Kasjia, you are me.]
[Accept me... accept me...]
[Kasjia... I...]
And there was a voice from the Warp that had been nagging in his ear!
Wow.
A gathering of talents, a constellation of sages!
Not a single one of them is human!
Kasjia gave an awkward laugh and glanced at the cracks on his right hand.
He couldn't be a god.
But he was already some distance away from being human.
Let's just call him a god-man.
Forget it. The things in the Warp are no good anyway.
I'll use it as little as possible in the future.
Hmph!
I don't believe it.
With my powerful command and dueling abilities, can't I beat others without relying on these Warp sorcery tricks?
Kasjia said to himself in his heart.
"Achoo!"
Roboute Guilliman, sitting at his desk in Ultramar preparing for the crusade deployment, sneezed.
"My lord?"
His Second Company Captain, Ieonid Telemechus, asked.
"It's nothing. You may continue with your work."
Although he didn't know why a Primarch would sneeze.
And then, Horus's fleet completed the purge of the xenos in the region and returned to the Silent Star.
And under the guidance of the crystal warship that had surrendered to them, the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet successfully passed through the gate and arrived at the xenos' homeworld on the other side.
It was a group of planets composed of crystal.
Not long after arriving, the giant crystal contacted the other side's headquarters.
After several hours of negotiation, the xenos race composed of crystal officially declared their submission to the Imperium of Man.
And they offered up all their gate technology.
And this stuff was really too precious for humanity.
A stable Warp navigation beacon!
Even the Emperor himself, after hearing about it, had given it a very high evaluation later on.
Given that the gate technology they provided would greatly help the Imperium and the Mechanicum to form a stable Warp route...
...soon after, the Council of Terra officially decided to forgive their previous attacks and to incorporate them as the Imperium's most loyal subject state, as part of its territory.
Originally, they hadn't wanted to be merciful to the xenos.
But it couldn't be helped... they gave just too much.
So—praise the Emperor's mercy!
Of course, these were all later events.
After completing the communication with the crystal xenos, their 63rd Expeditionary Fleet began its return journey.
According to rumors, this return trip was because the Emperor was about to select one of the eight returned Primarchs to be the Imperial Warmaster!
Warmaster!
The Imperium of Man was about to have a Warmaster!
Wait, which Warmaster?
Hearing this title, which had a 100% chance of being backstabbing, Kasjia broke out in a cold sweat.
But if the timeline hadn't gone wrong...
...in the early days of the Great Crusade, the one who could be elected Warmaster was not the well-known Horus Lupercal.
But the mysterious master of the Second Legion, whose existence would be erased in the future.
Even Kasjia, during his time back, had never seen him.
But looking at how happy Horus was, smiling at everyone...
...Kasjia decided it was better not to break his fantasy.
Oh, so it's that Warmaster.
That scared me. I thought it was some other Warmaster.
No wonder he had often heard the veteran Emperor's Children talking about the Warmaster before.
Kasjia, walking in the ship's corridor, breathed a sigh of relief.
"So they're about to select a Warmaster. I thought time was messed up—"
And then, beside him, several Space Marines in pearl-white armor walked by.
They were saying something about "thirty years Sagittarius golden ring," which he only half-understood.
What?
What what what?
Sagittarius... Golden Ring...?
Kasjia stood there, dumbfounded.
The timeline really hasn't gone wrong, right?
This time, the Warmaster couldn't possibly be Horus, right?!
[Preparing to exit Mandeville Point.]
Just as Kasjia was in a state of confusion, an alarm sounded on the ship's broadcast.
With a strong jolt, the view outside finally returned to the starry sky.
And the whispers that had been lingering in Kasjia's ears also vanished.
The familiar Sol System finally returned to Kasjia's view.
Arriving at the very center of the Imperium, Holy Terra.
So beautiful, Holy Terra!
Although there was no sea, and the land had turned into a bare, dark brown, Kasjia was still full of nostalgia for this place.
It was time to go home.
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