The Old Man Returns, the Counteroffensive Begins

In short, Ferrus's fate had ended from this moment onward.

Uh...

Had it really ended?

No!

Because the Emperor still had other uses for Ferrus.

After Ferrus died.

After the Emperor sat upon the Golden Throne, began using the Astronomican to absorb the faith of countless humans, gradually dominated the Warp, and truly became that cold, dark colossal sun.

He summoned too many heroic spirits from humanity to join his Legion of the Damned, wreaking havoc in the Warp.

Among them, Ferrus also appeared as a heroic spirit, becoming an Imperial Greater Daemon within the Legion of the Damned, no less formidable than the Greater Daemons of Chaos, fighting endlessly in the Warp.

But that was ultimately something that happened in the Warp.

Ferrus's fate in the physical universe had truly ended.

Until Downton awakened him at this moment.

After awakening, Ferrus immediately looked around.

When he saw the Emperor, he instinctively asked him.

"Your Majesty, did my death prove my loyalty?"

See? He was just that kind of perfect yet twisted person.

Even if Fulgrim had merely come to find him and persuade him to defect to Chaos, Ferrus would still wonder whether there was truly some possibility of betrayal within himself that had led Fulgrim to seek him out.

He feared that he was a rotten piece of meat giving off the stench of decay, which was why stray dogs had come for him, yet forgot that whether meat was good or rotten, it was all a target for wild dogs.

Hearing Ferrus's words, the Emperor smiled faintly, then shook his head and said.

"That is not important, Manus. What matters is that you still have the chance to return everything you suffered to Fulgrim.

"But this time, the condition is that you must truly defeat it in