Angron's Son

153. Angron's Son

Hades still had no idea what had happened.

He was just working, working, digging and digging through mountains of paperwork—

Hades could not understand why, after Guilliman returned, the workload shared among all of them had increased instead.

He did not understand. He truly could not understand.

Guilliman seemed keen on finding work to do when there was none.

Fortunately, through the efficient operation of several workhorses, they completed the aftermath of the campaign, every document requiring signatures, and the arrangements for reinforcements, supplies, and recuperation within just two weeks.

For Mortarion, even more unfortunately, Guilliman had decided that his political acumen surpassed Corax's. Thus Mortarion was forced to stay behind and process official documents, while Corax was sent out to direct troop deployments.

Corax had probably never felt so relieved in his life.

Perhaps the Raven's political talent exceeded Mortarion's, but Mortarion had successfully overtaken him with a thousand years of accumulated experience.

In truth, Guilliman believed Konrad Curze had the poorest political instincts among them. However, due to his abysmal trust rating, Guilliman had not yet put Konrad Curze into the teammate slot.

And every teammate he had put into that slot had been sent off to process documents.

During this time, Guilliman's condition visibly improved. He finally abandoned his prank of making people wake up, turn their heads, and find a desk beside their beds. Instead, he began explaining why it had to be them, and why they needed to do office work.

Few besides the primarchs failed to submit to Guilliman's reasoning.

Hades and Mortarion believed that Guilliman's talent after gaining authority had apparently been invested in making people willingly submit—he could easily make others submit to him and choose to work themselves to the bone for him.

At the same time, his