The Three of Them Had More Schemes Than a Honeycomb Had Holes!

The Chaos Creator wanted to claim the fifth seat in the Warp.

This was no secret in the universe. After all, his grandstanding had long since made his ambitions common knowledge.

So what did the "Evil Gods," who had already claimed four seats in the Warp, think of the Chaos Creator's attempt to ascend to godhood?

The answer was that they neither cared much nor didn't care at all.

For Vashtor to become the fifth Chaos God, he had to gather the scattered "keys"—an Old Ones creation connected to the Webway.

To that end, he had joined forces with Abaddon of the Black Legion and started several wars. The Black Crusades were among them, and their goal was always to seize those secret "keys" scattered across different planets.

But sometimes, those wars ended in failure.

And in those cases, rather than saying the Imperium had successfully thwarted the Chaos Creator Vashtor's schemes, it would be more accurate to say that...the four Chaos Gods of the Warp had secretly tripped him up and caused his plans to fail.

The Chaos Creator knew perfectly well that the Four Gods had been secretly obstructing him.

His sinister gaze fell on the Daemon Prince Belak, and he sneered. "You really think I don't know what you've been doing behind my back? Even if someone broke their word, you were the ones who broke it first."

The Daemon Prince Belak's face darkened. He stared at the Chaos Creator without a word, but the deep crimson in his eyes...

betrayed his murderous intent.

"Don't look at me like that, Belak." Vashtor sneered a few times. "We're all just using each other. You used me as a decoy to keep the Primarch occupied while you plotted on Dragon Forest Star to make that man 'ascend to Daemonhood.'