Chapter 485: Guilliman's (Cat) Children Were Endless.
Although the Emperor was a VTB who took his role-playing way too seriously, his purity still paled in comparison to Hogg's.
No matter how you looked at it, the Emperor at least still looked human. Hogg, on the other hand, was a sentient lump of flesh who spent every day putting on a show, constantly imitating a human being.
Take getting your head blown off, for example. For an ordinary creature, that was a fatal wound, dead as dead could be. But for Hogg, it was like stubbing your pinky toe on a chair while wearing slippers. Aside from the pain, it was no big deal. One extra bowl of rice and he'd be right as rain.
From the perspective of the Adeptus Custodes beside the Golden Throne, the scene was indescribably eerie and horrifying. Hogg had simply plucked his own head off and was toying with it in his hand. From the looks of it, he was about to break into a song-and-dance routine.
Even more horrifyingly, after cosplaying Xingtian, Hogg's head and torso sprouted a mass of twisted tentacles and new limbs. In the end, they turned into two identical Hoggs. Compared to his original height of 2.3 meters, though, the two split-off Hoggs were shorter—probably not even two meters tall.
Looking at the equally handsome Ork Boy before them, the two Hoggs spoke in unison:
"Wow! Good heavens, you're so handsome!"
"Heh heh" ×2
But when it came time to decide who would go over there to scout ahead, both Hoggs thought the other should suffer, while they stayed in the Imperium to slack off.
"You go. I'm the head, and it stores all our world-shattering wisdom. Losing it would be a huge loss to the Imperium of Man."
"Bullshit!