A Kiss

The Imperium had always been loosely governed, riddled with conflicts, and the various institutions hated one another to the bone.

Once this bombshell dropped, all Tzeentch needed to do was stir the pot a little, and the Imperium's next civil war would be imminent.

What? You said those damned primarchs who had betrayed us for over ten thousand years, betrayed our great Emperor, and thrown themselves into Chaos's embrace had returned to the Imperium?

And they claimed they wanted to serve the Imperium and humanity again? It was a daemon conspiracy! They wanted to destroy the entire Imperium!

But Tzeentch could do that now too, couldn't he? He could leak the news about the primarchs and plunge the Imperium into this state of suspicion ahead of time...

Or had Tzeentch already done it, and Lin Fan simply had not noticed yet?

"What are you spacing out for? We should get going. Those bugs aren't going to slow down their invasion just because you're daydreaming."

Jaghatai's voice reached Lin Fan's ears, interrupting his thoughts.

Lin Fan looked around. There were T'au, humans, Aeldari, and primarchs who were practically no different from Warp daemons.

These species stayed on the same planet without slaughtering each other over prophecy and hatred.

Heh... I've spent too long in the Big Canteen. I forgot how savage the universe really is.

Lin Fan shook his head in relief.

Conspiracy theories, daemon whispers, all that stuff.

The Milky Way had never lacked such things. Even if Lin Fan had not recovered the primarchs or established the Big Canteen, there would not have been any less of this nonsense.

What was there to worry about? Soldiers came, generals blocked them; water came, earth dammed it. The Emperor surely had a plan. He was the Lord of Humanity.

Rather than