【Law of Faith】
[When the Iron Hands parachuted the first batch of airdrop pods]
"You're a little extreme."
Kirkland slammed the podium, and all the buttons on the table shook. In front of the sage, Angeltai, who had just spoken, subtly took half a step back.
"This is faith."
Kirkland spoke eloquently and his mechanical voice was precise.
"Word Bearer, you should also feel his power - don't you?"
Angel paused for a moment. He recalled the original scene. The corners of the upright Word Bearer's mouth tightened tightly.
"But this is not the reason for you to try to change the Word Bearers' teachings. You have crossed the line."
He watched as the pilot light on Kirkland's face lit up angrily.
"Faith has power - I thought that was something I didn't need to explain to the Word Bearers."
Angeltai tightened his grip on Luojia's scepter and took a deep breath.
"No, you are wrong. Faith is a guiding light, but it does not give us strength. This is our previous commandment."
“You can’t rely on faith and gods.”
Angeltai said solemnly, the great sage paused for a moment, and then started laughing with a piercing electronic music,
"Is this your doctrine, Angelta?"
Angeltay was silent for a moment,
"this is mine."
The Word Bearer spoke softly, and Kirkland laughed,
"I know, I have read 79.5% of the Word Bearers' works, and this idea is not reflected in your thinking."
"But I tell you now, faith has power, Angeltay, and it will be the best weapon to fight these monsters. The ideological war can only be armed with faith."
Kirkland took a step forward, and as if the Great Sage was about to dance a close dance, he stretched out his main limb, raised Angeltai's right hand, and placed it on the Word Bearer's chest.
"Tell me now, for Hades."
Kirkland said with inducement. At the same time, the red robe behind the sage was raised, and Angeltai could clearly see the raised artillery mount, and the dark muzzle was... pointing at him.
Angeltai took a deep breath,
"Okay, just say it once."
He said compromisingly,
"For Hades."
Kirkland let go of his hand with satisfaction. The sage observed the intense trembling in the pupils of the Word Bearers' eyes and the tense muscles. The great sage relaxed and stepped back, saying as he stepped back,
"You're lucky He's so close now that He responds quickly."
Angelta looked away and said truthfully,
"I just felt powerless. This doesn't seem to be a very... fitting description of [giving power to believers]."
He looked at Kirkland's awkward silence. The great sage seemed a little embarrassed.
"All right,"
Kirkland muttered to himself as his several limbs nervously twisted together.
"Although I hate to admit it, based on facts and experimental data, praying with [Pluto] as the object of prayer will not gain power, and it will indeed have some impact on lifespan and control of the body..."
"...I tried changing to Ohm Messiah, but it didn't work as well as I wanted."
Angeltai breathed a sigh of relief and spoke, recalling the darkness of that day before his eyes.
"If according to what you said, a god whose prayers will have negative effects... uses masochistic penance to prove his piety?"
Kirkland suddenly shouted,
"That's because you haven't encountered them yet! In the name of my great sage Kirkland, I guarantee that if you encounter subspace creatures or other false gods - then Pluto will be your only choice!"
Angeltay calmed down and looked at Kirkland calmly.
"What about the God Emperor?"
Kirkland was suddenly stuck. In the end, the great sage could only reluctantly mutter a few words to himself,
"I don't believe in... false gods."
Angeltay chose to ignore Kirkland's words and decided to use his next plan to end the topic.
"So,"
Angeltai softened his tone and said,
"I will discuss with the priest brothers of the legion and let them restore the second version of the prayer and replace the word [Silent One] with [Hades]. This is the biggest concession the Word Bearers can make."
He looked at the sage in front of him looking at him silently. Under the body of the mechanical sage, the deep black metal exuded an ominous luster. For a moment, Angeltai smelled a terrifying smell in this great sage. breath.
But the next moment, the great sage regained his appearance as a faith monger. He lifted his robe and bowed towards Angel Tai in an exaggerated manner.
"It couldn't be better... Given that part of the Word Bearers Legion has already converted to heresy, I hope this can be deployed as soon as possible."
Kirkland's electronic sound is so cold that it changes its tone;
"At least this part of the faith must be completely rooted when the Word Bearers Legion arrives in Cadia."
Kirkland raised his head and stared at Angeltai mercilessly with the red light. Anger rolled in Angeltai's chest. Of course he knew what the other side meant - Kirkland did not trust the Word Bearers.
Angeltai felt his teeth chattering.
But after Angeltai's thoughts touched the reality, the anger in his chest was extinguished instantly. The reality was like this, they... they naturally would not trust the Word Bearers.
Even if it were Angeltay himself, Angeltay would not be like Kirkland and simply change the doctrine to allow the Word Bearers to support Cadia - who knows whether they would respond to the call of the Primarch Lorgar? Next, it suddenly rebounded again.
Angeltai took a deep breath again, and silently thought in his heart of "for Luojia, for the emperor," and just before he was about to think of "for Pluto," the luster on the scepter in his hand lit up slightly.
Kirkland yelled,
"for--"
Angeltay rushed forward and tried to cover the great sage's mouth, but his hands were groping randomly on the metal face. The sage was speaking through a loudspeaker and he had no mouth at all.
Angeltay shouted in despair,
"This is the God-Emperor's psychic power - you cannot dispel it now!"
In fact, Angeltai didn't know whether this was his father Luojia's spiritual power or the God-Emperor's. There was a high probability that it was Luojia's spiritual power, but he would never tell Kirkland this fact.
In order not to aggravate the misunderstanding, Angeltay did not go further. He guarded the scepter tightly while letting Kirkland point at him with the pile of weapons under his robe.
"Give me a few minutes, just a few minutes!"
Angeltay shouted,
"Otherwise - the Silent Order will lose the help of the Word Bearers!"
Kirkland sneered, but the Great Sage did not go any further. They both stared in silence at the scepter that was faintly emitting golden light. Angertai began to regret that he had just prayed to Hades.
There was a moment of brief, silent awkwardness.
Angeltai began to pray, silently remembering the God Emperor and Luojia in his heart. The weather-beaten warrior was convinced that he had spent all his heart and soul praying——
He has long been mentally overwhelmed by the departure and betrayal of his original father, the mission he was given, and the back figure that disappeared that day... that back... the back...
Angeltai suppressed his emotions, forced himself to breathe steadily, and began to try to meditate, which was what the priest had taught him.
Kirkland was speechless, and the great sage stared at Angertai. The golden light on the scepter became brighter and brighter - no, this was not the scepter shining, but... Angertai's own armor was shining? !
In the entire command room, the space began to distort slightly. Kirkland looked at all this in amazement. The sage wanted to call Pluto, but the feeling that these golden lights gave to Kirkland made Kirkland know that this golden light was not a malicious existence.
The gloomy fog rose, accompanied by an unknown fishy smell. Kirkland knew that it was a sign of the use of witchcraft. Angeltai's figure began to fade in the fog. Without hesitation, Kirkland shouted the prayer of Hades. .
The fog surrounded him, and Kirkland realized that he had made a big mistake. He suddenly shot the stun laser in the direction of Angelte, but the beam disappeared in the fog.
"For Hades!"
"...Kirkland?"
The great sage's body suddenly froze. Did he hear Pluto's voice? ! It is absolutely true, that weak and dying voice came from the mist,
"Hades! Where are you?!"
Kirkland shouted, and he was sure that this was the real Hades, because the feeling of powerlessness was guiding him in the direction of the voice.
He stumbled towards that direction, stepping over the corpses of countless Space Marines, including Iron Hands, Iron Warriors, and Word Bearers, as well as countless stinking Daemon corpses.
An uneasy feeling came from Kirkland's thought engine.
"Lord of Hades?! Lord of Hades?! Where are you?!"
Kirkland ran forward suddenly, and finally, he saw that familiar figure——
"Hades—!"
Kirkland shouted at the top of his lungs. In the layers of fog, he saw the figure fighting against the black stone obelisk. The corpses of the demon army were as countless as the grains piled in the barn. He saw at least two tall men being killed. The figure of Pluto is fighting.
He is dying.
Kirkland realized all this clearly, and he ran forward desperately. Wait for him, Pluto, wait for your believers——
Pluto was still fighting, and those who were pestering him were obviously at the end of their fight. Finally, Kirkland saw Pluto raising his sickle, a cold light flashed, and Perturabo's head was spinning in the air——
Kirkland's surprise radio wave was contained in his speaker, but almost at the same time, he heard the sound of arrows being launched, with the power to overturn the entire galaxy, and the ecstasy of a god about to die——
boom!
The sound of metal hitting the deck sounded,
Kirkland knelt on the deck of the Law of Faith. He wailed in pain and called out to Hades in fragments. On the other side, Angeltai knelt on the ground with tears streaming down his face, whispering about Lorgar.
"No...how should I stop this..."
Kirkland said brokenly,
"There is no hope... no... no hope... it shouldn't be like this... no..."
When a mortal glimpses fate, it only takes a moment to realize that nothing can be done about it.
"This is a dead end... This is a dead end!"
Opposite him, the kneeling Angelte's eyes rolled awkwardly and refocused on the crying great sage. His lips trembled,
"We now see that...maybe...there is hope."
Luojia...
This is today, and it should still be like this, guarding Quanqin.
Look at me burning the school down
(End of chapter)
