Chapter 545: Hogg, Master of Desensitization
The Primarchs weren't invincible. Even someone as powerful as the Emperor risked being beaten half to death and stuck on a toilet, let alone the Primarchs beneath him.
Hogg considered himself an honest man who kept his word. If he said he was going to hang them up and turn them into air-dried bacon, then that was exactly what he'd do. He wasn't about to let those useless fools off easy.
At a construction site in Alicia, Dantioch, who had come from far away, was directing his Iron Warriors as they enthusiastically slung concrete. At the same time, he berated a new recruit who had been reading the blueprints upside down:
"I don't know how you passed the recruit examination. Forgetting the Iron Warriors' most basic skill? If I catch you holding the blueprints upside down again, you're done for."
After giving him a few hard smacks, Dantioch, a veteran construction worker of countless ages, sighed that each new generation of recruits was worse than the last. Back in his day, making a mistake that big would have meant executing one man in every ten. Who would have had time for a lecture?
"Ah, forget it. It's only because His Highness is paying for this job. If it were up to Father, you'd be in for it."
The Iron Warrior he'd scolded didn't dare say a word. He thought, I just passed the recruit examination. I've been in the company for less than a week. Before that, I was training on Catachan. There weren't any blueprints there, let alone a single damn lump of concrete. How am I supposed to read them? Am I meant to stare at a tree's snarling face?
The young Iron Warrior turned the blueprints right-side up and slipped away