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What Kurze had not expected was that John Grammaticus, who carried the fulgurite spear, had actually been persuaded by the Eldar seer Eldrad Ulthran not to hand the spear over to Kurze!

And that was not even the key point. Even if Kurze lost the fulgurite spear and could not kill Vulkan, Vulkan had already been tortured mad by him.

But once the Eldar seer opened his mouth, it was no longer merely a matter of sparing Vulkan's life.

That Eldar seer had somehow convinced John Grammaticus, the Cabal assassin and Perpetual, on an entirely different level!

Because Grammaticus had long since stopped wanting to endure the life of a Perpetual.

In another world, immortality might perhaps have been a happy gift.

A Perpetual might hide away from the world and enjoy an endless life of their own.

But this was the Warhammer universe.

Good heavens, who knew how much torment a Perpetual had to suffer from the Warp?

Whenever Grammaticus woke up and saw nothing but despair before him, he truly, truly did not want to live anymore!

That was precisely what the Eldar seer persuaded him with.

Didn't you, Grammaticus, want to die?

Simple!

Just alter the ritual in which Kurze was supposed to use the fulgurite spear to kill Vulkan a little.

Didn't you want to die?

As long as you used the fulgurite spear to kill Vulkan once, then used the ritual to transfer your own immortality to Vulkan.

Wouldn't that mean you could finally die afterward?

And so, Grammaticus, who sincerely did not want to live any longer, hurriedly carried the fulgurite spear around, looking for an opportunity. At the critical moment of Kurze's battle with Vulkan, he found his chance and killed Vulkan!

Because he had not been slain by a primarch, Vulkan did