Somewhere within the Imperial Inquisition.
These inquisitors stood above the traitors steeped in lies, subjecting them to loyalty interrogations that shook the soul. Few could withstand the inquisitors' tests of loyalty, and fewer still could remain loyal after enduring them.
They were so loyal, so resolute in carrying out one execution after another.
Whether the rumormonger before them was a noble High Lord or a lowly worker in a forge factory, everyone had to stand humbly and trembling before them to be interrogated.
These inquisitors of the Inquisition were among the Imperium's most loyal beings.
They had endured countless interrogations, yet none had ever shaken their loyalty to the Imperium.
As one rumor after another was exposed.
Their gaze shifted from those spreading the rumors to the true instigator behind them: Chaos.
All the rumors shared a common trait. They came from nests of Chaos, spread by the sorcerers of Chaos.
With the return of the former Imperial Primarch, Sanguinius.
Rumors targeting Sanguinius also began rising across countless worlds.
The Inquisition executed more and more traitors. The Imperium did not seem to improve because of a Primarch's return. On the contrary, the Primarch's return only intensified Chaos's activity. Vast numbers of Chaos-corrupted beings filled realspace, constantly emerging from within worlds and corrupting worshippers and believers.
This was the source of the rumors.
And among the Blood Angels.
Chapter Master Dante could not hide the smile at the corner of his lips.
He had returned.
Wonderful.
At last, he could rest.
No one knew the pain he had endured over these years.
The entire Blood Angels Chapter suffered under the torment of the Red Thirst and the Black Rage.
That endless torment had forced him to bear the Chapter's burdens and responsibilities every moment of every day.
He did not wish