41 Chapter 36

"What? Father no, we're here because you asked us to be here." answered Roboute after he got confused but then he immediately regained his composure.

"Umu, you sure you don't want titans where you'll pilot it yourself?" asked the Emperor with a teasing tone to his sons. Vulkan just raised his hands.

"I do father, I want to have a titan with a flamer, heavier than the heavy flamer." said Vulkan with enthusiasm to his father which just smiled and laughed.

"Very well, very well, we'll create you a titan." said the Emperor like a father who promised his son to buy him a toy. Vulkan smiled and thanked his father.

"Anyway, let's get straight to why I have called you here." the tone of the Emperor suddenly shifted to that of a more serious one which made his sons listen attentively. They have times where they fool around with their father, but when their father had this serious voice, they too must be serious as this either is related to the Imperium or someone that can affect the Imperium.

"I'm sure you might have known about your brother, Sanguinius's current state. His soul is lost, poofed out of existence. But I may have a way to resurrect him." said the Emperor to the two which made them look at their guards who's space marines that are part of their respective legions. They gave them the look ordering them to go out and stand guard which the space marines complied immediately.

"Sanguinius's soul is not completely obliterated in some sense, but with his body's current state it's almost the same as obliterated as the leftover fragments of his soul are getting weaker and weaker. The thing is, we can heal the leftovers of Sanguinius's soul on his body and recreate his soul from that fragments." added the Emperor which made have a look of seriousness. This matter concerns the fate of their brother, they must be serious at this kinds of situation.

"We can use the machine that I commissioned the technopriests on mars to create." added the Emperor to his statement. This machine is a force collection machine.Thanks to the force research and the research of where their psychic power was coming from, this machine was created. This machine will be forcefully pulling the "souls" of the dead people before they reached the plane of the dead. The Emperor's psychic energy will rip open through the fabric of the very spacetime itself and connect this massive machine the size of a red dwarf star when fully operational to collect the "souls" of the recently dead people and store it on a rather similar plane to that of the plane of the dead but this plane is created by the Emperor, much like a pocket space for souls.

"This machine can only harvest the souls of the newly dead sentient being. Meaning this war against the Empire also has another purpose." said the Emperor, looking at his sons for any violent reactions.

"Father, this means that we had to kill billions of sentient beings here?" asked Vulkan with concern. His friends from the jedi order was still alive, he knows it in himself, he can feel it.

"Sadly yes, not billions but trillions or possibly quadrillions. With the sheer power of Sanguinius's soul, billions will only heal a small fragment of his whole soul." answered the Emperor truthfully without hiding anything.

"Organizing a sacrifice of our own people is out of the question as I can't sacrifice humans for my own selfish desires and it will also be detrimental for us to do such a thing." further added the Emperor which made his sons fall into deep thought.

"So let me ask you, are you ready to commit a massacre for your brother?"

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Naboo...

"For the love of the Emperor, where are your regiment? We've been trying to contact your sector for an hour now!" growled an angry officer to a guardsman who just arrived and reported that their position was almost compromised and the communications was paralyzed.

"Sir! The enemy concentrated their bombing on our position. Our communication equipments were all paralyzed." reported the lone guardsman.

"The sector 3a? They must've..." the officer looked at the 3d holographic map of the battlefield as he thought of the possible reasons on why the enemy wants to possibly breakthrough out of the sector 3a.

"I see, they'll use the sector's geographical disadvantage to launch a concentrated attack and enricle the nearby sectors!" said the officer in enlightenment as he looked at the map with seriousness.

"You! Report this to the central command and request for the deployment of the reserves. A decisive battle with surely happen anytime." ordered the officer to a soldier which saluted and immediately radiod his orders back ti the central command.

Hours gone by and the reserves was sent in to reinforce the sector 3a. On the side of the Empire, their concentrating their forces on a breakthrough on the other side of the sector 3a. The sector they're bombarding was only an illusion. They need to have the enemy concentrate their reserves on one side then they'll breakthrough on the other. This way, they wouldn't be able to reinforce other sectors on time or with the same amount of force.

Darth Vader would be leading the charge as he deemed it necessary. Hundreds of thousands of clones are concentrated to perform a quick thunder like breakthrough.

Darth Vader slowly walked as his black cloak fluttered under the wind created by the explosions. Hundreds of thousands of troops followed him, AT AT, speeder bikes, and many more as the gates opened and they charged.

Darth Vader ignited his lightsaber and suddenly moved faster than the eyes can see as he immediately arrived on the enemy lines and wreaked havoc, killing many in the process.

The appearance of Darth Vader made the guardsmen on that sector freeze in fear as they slowly got massacred.

"Arghhhh!" shouted a guardsman as he got mutilated from the center of his body by the lightsaber wielding man.

The guardsmen tried to overwhelm him with numbers but he used a skill he named, force shockwave, which dealt a powerful pushing force from all direction.

As the guardsmen got knocked down, he moved in and killed each one of them with such brutal efficiency and speed.

Minutes only passed by as he single handedly won the sector all by himself unscathed. He slowly eyed the nearby sectors and moved once again, but this time he got hit by a bullet from what seems like a sniper rifle from a distance.

Darth Vader'w body tumbled as the bullet directly hit his abdomen leaving him severely wounded. But luckily, the bullet didn't hit any vital parts of his body.

He struggled to stand up as blood spurted out of his breather device and looked at the sniper from a distance. Darth Vader infused the force to his body as he jumped and charged at the sniper who was getting ready to fire once more.

But before Darth Vader can reach the sniper, a crossbow bolt hit him on the leg...