Chapter 458, Luo Jia and the State Religion

Ryan first lived in Teresa's wizard tower for a day. The sorceress took advantage of the winter weather to study magic, and took the initiative to drive him away after spending a night with Ryan. Veronica had a lot of free time. Witch Jialan simply followed Ryan to move around, so she was naturally nourished and her face glowed red.

A few days before the Winter Veil Festival, Ryan launched the "Earl Walks the Grassroots" activity. As the champion of the Fairy in the Lake, Ryan Macado personally came to Red Fish Village, visited the village elders, and traveled all over the village After Ryan came here, the life of the serfs has undergone earth-shaking changes. At present, hunger and poverty are gradually moving away from this village. Seeing that everyone has surplus food in their homes, this makes them feel The earl praised again and again.

Afterwards, Earl Ryan came to the old man's home in Red Fish Village, extended his festive blessings to him, presented him with a gift of two fish, and cordially greeted the old man's family situation: "Is it inconvenient to enter the city? How is the situation? Is the cost of seeing a doctor high?"

Facing the earl's cordial greetings, the old man smiled and said, "It's all because of the earl's leadership. Now the roads are smooth, public security is guaranteed, medical treatment is convenient, and life is getting better and better."

After watching the villagers, the earl and his party came to visit the old man Yves' home. Yves was a disabled veteran who suffered from rheumatism and other diseases, and had no one to take care of him. Congratulations, the veteran was moved to tears: "I am 58 years old this year, watching the changes in the whole village, the environment is getting better and better, and life is getting more and more beautiful. This is the gift of the Earl."

"Did you eat well? Are you dressed warmly?" Opening the veteran's iron pot, Ryan found that there was minced meat porridge stewed in the pot. The earl was very happy. Ryan kindly expressed that he should report to the knight master if he has any difficulties. Veteran They all used their lives to fight evil, and they made a lot of contributions to the stability, unity, and harmony of Brittania. The kingdom knights in each village should pay attention to understanding the needs of veterans and serving soldiers, and let them feel To receive care from the fairies in the lake and the spirit of chivalry, and at the same time strengthen the training of soldiers, sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime.

After the visit, the Winter Veil Festival came, and Suria officially called Ryan’s entire backyard to hold a turkey banquet in the name of his wife. At the banquet, there were discussions on how to develop Ryan’s potential and rationally allocate Ryan’s public time. The issue of who came first was discussed in depth and a consensus was reached on many contents.

Ryan himself was banned from attending the banquet, and he didn't know what the women were talking about. Later, he learned from Olika, who was relatively loose-spoken, that they seemed to have signed an "agreement" after a lot of competitions that day. , the fairy in the lake also signed the agreement.

But Ryan didn't have time to pay attention to that banquet.

For the Emperor has come, with Lorgar, the Primarch of the Word Bearers.

On the day of Winter Veil,

In the depths of Sharon Forest, in the underground cave.

The four imperial guards looked around vigilantly, and any disturbance would usher in their sharpest counterattack. Angron sat aside with a complex expression, watching the supreme power of the emperor conduct Ryan's spirit and strength. Will, purifying his former brother, muttered in his mouth: "Father, I thought you would capture Petrabo first, so that I could use my ax to chop his stinky face."

The emperor first set his sights on the straw hat Angron was wearing, and then continued to focus on transforming Lorgar: "If you want to capture Petrabo, even if I do it myself, I must do at least a loss." The preparation of 3,000 imperial troops is only 50% sure."

"That's Petrabo. The fortress he spent ten thousand years building is waiting for others to attack, but unfortunately no one will go there." Angron shouted, "I knew it even when I was the craziest, Petra Beau and his stronghold are untouchable."

"There is no fortress that cannot be broken, and there is no judgment that cannot be waited for. Lorgar will pay the price for what he has done." Clarkson, the Primarch of the Raven Guard, whose skin was pale as snow and hair black as graphite, stood in the distance , his taciturnity was lighter than before. Looking at Angron, Clarkson said a few more words, and there was something deeper in his tone—if there was anything.

"If the trial is always late, it means that it didn't come." Ryan purified Luo Jia, the strength of the primogeniture was indeed not very good, at least he felt much more relaxed than before, and whispered while transmitting energy : "At least, the trial is 10,000 years late, and for many traitors, it will be even longer."

"All evil is done, only all enemies are destroyed, their breath is wiped out, their souls and bodies are cleared from the world, all records of their past and existence are lost in time, the culprit must be punished, the threat Only when all the records and names of the enemy and the scrolls on which their stories are written are destroyed, will the real victory come." Clarkson said to Ryan: "From the scriptures of Aster Tower, Kiri Mann wrote."

"Lorgar did the same." The Emperor opened his mouth. He looked at the Primarch of the Word Bearers lying on the stone slab, and there was no more expression on his cold face: "He is on a planet that worships evil gods. Growing up, he didn’t learn anything except faith, he was taught from an early age that the meaning of life is faith, and he doesn’t care about what he believes, but whether he is pious or not.”

"He just needs an object of belief. Before I arrived in his world, the object of his belief was evil gods. After I arrived in his world, the object of his belief was me. After I discovered this problem and finally stopped it Afterwards, Luo Jia felt confused. He realized his mistake, but the core of his belief that he needed in the depths of his soul had not changed. After lacking the object of belief, he was like a traveler in the desert, frantically looking for any water source, The thing called Luo Jia is filled with faith, since you can’t believe in me, then go find a new faith.”

"He began to consult countless scriptures and scrolls, looking for the so-called true gods, the truth of the universe, and the nature of me, the creature called the Emperor, and in this way, he reached the Eye of Terror, saw the four gods of chaos, And embraced his new faith with a kind of ecstasy, before he lost his target, so Chaos God gave him one, Lorgar was like a puppy who saw a Frisbee in his head, he didn't care what the target was, he just needed Someone gave him one, Chaos gave it to him, and he led the Word Bearers with all their loyalty."

"How pious I was before, how much I hate now, am I right? Lorgar, my son?"

After the purification was over, the Primarch of the Word Bearers, with a bald head and ancient incantations engraved all over his body, seemed to have lost everything. He said with a dead heart: "You can even transform me who has embraced Chaos willingly, back to me. The original appearance, father, the great emperor, you used your supreme power to take away everything from me. I finally found my home, and you once again cruelly deprived me of my faith. Are you willing to admit that you are indeed a god?"

"How long will you hold on to that lie?" Hearing Luo Jia's words, the emperor's face changed slightly, and the displeasure of the human lord was expressed through his tone: "I don't want to argue with you anymore This question, because it is meaningless, ten thousand years have passed, a big mistake has been made, and human beings are almost doomed."

"Because of this, human beings need faith, and human beings exist for faith. Father, what kind of rags are you and your empire already? The only thing that keeps your empire alive is what I brought to you , Faith.” But Lorgar pressed on every step, and the Primarch of the Word Bearers stared at his father, his creator, with a fanaticism that was almost crazy, and piousness that had no self: “The end of the age of apostasy proves that Above all, two, one, human beings need faith, and two, you are God."

"...I will change the situation." The Emperor was silent at first, and then said: "In my way."

"Your way? Yes, your way, because no one can stand against you, no one can stand against you, who can stop you? The Inquisition? You, they ruled your empire in the name of the God-Emperor, and now that you are back, they have shot themselves in the foot, and you have finally become what you hated the most." Luo Jia spoke like a A kindly priest, but his words are like sharp swords: "Behold, a feast, Chaos, undead, greenskins, worms, they enjoy a gluttonous feast on the carrion of your empire, if it is not for Your return ignited the fire of hope, and the empire is long gone, even so, you still firmly believe that you are not a god?"

"I am not a god, Lorgar, this is the last time I will say this question." The emperor was always cold and calm: "Stop your self-righteous judgment and self-righteous cognition, isolate chaos, and walk on the path of evolution and enlightenment This is the ultimate direction of human evolution, I am not a god, and I will never be."

Ryan, Angron, and Clarkson sat in a row on a bench, drinking dwarf Bagman beer and listening to the conversation between the Emperor and Lorgar.

"Brother, do you want some sausage?" Ryan took out a plate.

"Give me some, oh, I like the black pepper flavor." Angron nodded.

"Brother Clarkson?"

"Honey flavored."

"Here, this is the best raw honey."

The three Primarchs sat together to eat and drink. Compared with people like Guilliman who like to think all day long, Angron and Clarkson are not people who are obsessed with this problem, but for Ryan , the Emperor is his father, that's all, he doesn't care whether the Emperor is a god, as the Primarch of the Gray Knight, what he has to do is to fight against evil in the name of the Emperor.

On the other side, the debate between Lorgar and the Emperor continued.

"So you think the truth of your empire can defeat Chaos? Do you think the truth of Chaos is that simple? Chaos comes from the subspace, and the composition of the subspace is the sum of all the emotions of all creatures in the entire universe. The more you fight against it, The more you realize that you are actually fighting against yourself, why do I embrace Chaos, because Chaos is indestructible and never will be, do you know that you and your Imperial Truth almost led to the birth of the Fifth God of Chaos?" Luo Jia's face The expression on his face is very complicated. On the one hand, it is the emptiness of waking up, and on the other hand, it is the despair of disillusioned hope: "What is the essence of God? It is the sum of all biological consciousnesses and finally forms self-consciousness, and you, father, you The projection in the warp is a carrier strengthened by the beliefs of all beings, you can deny it, but something has changed in the 10,000 years since you sat on the golden throne, I fell because I accepted that you are not a god point of view, but my decades of research have turned out to be the exact opposite of what you've fed me."

"You are God, my father, the God I believe in told me he wasn't God and I found out he was God, so contradictory, so divided, you tore me in two, you drove me crazy! You put me in one sentence Overthrew everything about me!"

"Do you know how painful it is to force a person to repeatedly deny their beliefs?! But you did this to me twice! You forced a person who has believed in gods since childhood Turn to believe in you! Then force your most loyal believers to give up their own beliefs again! I am forced to kneel in front of you and admit my mistakes." At the end, Luo Jia's expression was almost crazy, and he said hoarsely: "In After I was forced to accept that you are not a god, I found out through countless signs that you are indeed a god, but I have already accepted that you are not a god, I almost went crazy! I am not your toy, instead of continuing to endure Your lies, I might as well embrace Chaos, at least they are willing to accept Faith!"

"So I admit that in the era of the Great Crusade, some of my handling methods were wrong. I thought that the spread of the truth of the empire would keep mankind away from corruption, but I didn't realize that the effect of forcing it was counterproductive because it could not provide spiritual support. Religious fanaticism can unite the masses more easily than rational and scientific education.” The emperor nodded this time to agree with Lorgar: “We need some changes, some subtle changes.”

"I'm glad we can reach an agreement, Father, if you had realized this problem earlier, I would not have betrayed you at all." Luo Jia was still angry, he felt an emptiness from both body and spirit, and he subconsciously wanted to seize The last straw: "You're not going to waste all your time trying to get me back and transform me, tell me, father? What do you want me to do for you? You need me, right? Right?"

"I need a new book of holy words, rewritten sentences, more exquisite illustrations and more inspiring stories. I need someone to help me manage and reform the state religion." The emperor said to Luo Jia: "You are An important piece of the puzzle in my plans."

"Huh~" Luo Jia let out a sigh of relief after hearing the emperor's words. This is what he wanted, needed by his own god, and the thing that supports the thing called Luo Jia is composed of belief and being needed.

"Give me some time to think, Father, I don't even know which one I want, the Book of Chaos Lorgar or the Holy Word, you want a demon prince and dark apostle (chaos devout) to become your ruler of state religion The Primarch? You want to destroy my faith for the third time, I know that after being transformed by you, I will not be able to go back to Chaos, but I need a little time." Luo Jia scratched his finger in pain Own scalp: "You're always so easy."

"Okay, during the time I go to Lustria and come back, you can stay here with Ryan, and then we will return to Terra together." The emperor closed his eyes and fell into a brief silence. It seems to be remembering something, and no one knows what the Lord of Humans thinks.

"Lion." After a brief silence, the Emperor turned to Lion and said, "Bring your wife to Angron's hut in the woods."

"Suria-Kumani-Antri-de-Winfort is my canonized imperial concubine, I want to see her."

"it is good!"