Promotion Ceremony, Causing Chaos on "Terra"

Shadow of the Throne, primarch's office.

Arsena Dunn held a Data Slate in his arms and began his report.

"My lord, during the war for the 'Liberation of Drun,' four thousand one hundred and seventy Shadows of Order were killed, ninety-two of them Librarians."

Nimrod nodded. The "Liberation of Drun" had taken one month less than he remembered.

Originally, that bloody battle had lasted six months.

[The casualties were also far lower than I expected. Librarians served as the main force in the "Liberation of Drun" against the Enslavers, yet fewer than a hundred died.

That was thanks to most Librarians having mastered "Gryphon's Roar." It was the bane of Warp creatures.

That included Daemons, as well as other Warp creatures such as Enslavers and Soul-Eater Bees.]

"Compile and analyze the fronts of each Chapter. Report to me every world that meets the following conditions."

"A world that has endured for more than eleven hundred years, with its order intact."

The ritual to advance to "Mentor of Chaos": plan and create chaos, destroy the order of a world that has endured for more than eleven hundred years, and seize benefits from it.

Nimrod already had a target in mind—Terra.

[Hmm... false Terra.]

It was the world Horus Lupercal conquered after becoming Warmaster.

A planet that could not be brought to heel through diplomacy.

"Terra" had lost contact with other human worlds since the Age of Strife.

The Emperor.

"Terra" also had an Emperor.

He likewise called himself The Emperor of Mankind, and he had led his people through five thousand years of long night.

The "Emperor" and the people of "Terra" regarded themselves as the center of humanity, the rightful continuation of human civilization.

The "Emperor" firmly believed the Imperium of Man would inevitably conquer the stars once more, and