This day is a special day for the residents of the Perfect City.
The Emperor of Mankind personally visited this world called Kull.
It is the brainchild of the Lord of the Seventeenth Legion, the apple of Lorgar's eye.
【Perfect City】.
It is the glory of the Seventeenth Legion and a monument that every Word Bearer is proud of. Each of its bricks symbolizes the Word Bearers' will to devote themselves to the truth. Just like the name of the Legion, it is a miracle created by the hands of those who have the truth in their hearts.
This city exuding divine light symbolizes the unprecedented rationality in the entire galaxy. It represents the perfect combination of Imperial truth and the Emperor's divinity. It symbolizes all the yearning and expectations of the Word Bearers for the future, and is the foundation of all faiths. The promised land that people dream of - it is Jerusalem, it is Avalon, it is an ideal land flowing with milk and honey, it is the acceptance and tolerance of the Seventeenth Legion by the Lord of Mankind, and it is also the pilgrimage destination of all believers. end.
No one knows what the God-Emperor's personal visit means - is it to bestow endless love and compassion on His devout followers, or to grant them knowledge rich in truth, or is it a sacred test that no one can know?
However, His mere existence is sacred enough.
Just like the countless poems in the "Book of Sacred Scriptures" praising the one who opened up territories in the galaxy, mortals and angels do not need to try to guess the true meaning of that god. He can walk in the world and spread reason and faith to all humans. This is already the greatest miracle.
For several Kurdish days, everyone in the city stopped any meaningless activities. Silently chanting praises, echoing hymns, and even the thirteen strokes of the sacred bell, there was only endless movement in the entire city. The silence is only because the Savior who walks among the stars is here in person.
The glory of religion and reason are blooming at this moment. Everyone is bathed in candlelight and incense and praying devoutly, no matter whether they are noble or poor, just because they all have the same devout faith in their hearts.
Each of them spied the dazzling golden starlight in the night sky. The majestic fleet that symbolized the Lord of Mankind was vaguely visible even in the night sky of Kuhl. They respectively believed in the truth of the Empire and the Holy Word of the God Emperor. At this moment, people stopped fighting among themselves.
Yes, as far as official propaganda is concerned, the ever-expanding Empire of Man is a secular regime that promotes and expounds the "truth" about science and reason, rather than the "lies" of religious belief and spiritualism - however, the Emperor of Man's Mercy is everywhere, and the founding of the perfect city is one of them.
The Empire tolerates and accepts the vast majority of the world who are willing to submit to the Empire's truth. As long as they are willing to abandon all the religious lies of the past, then transforming the Empire's truth into a statement that conforms to the local world philosophy is naturally within the permission of the Ministry of Justice. .
After all, except for the extremely dirty alien forces, the human empire has not regarded those pagan forces as a big threat so far. Even the many pagan forging worlds spread across the starry sky in the Age of Strife have been continuously re-introduced. Under the glorious command of the imperial double-headed eagle.
Strictly speaking, the empire's emphasis on promoting the empire's truth is far greater than the sanctions and suppression of heretics.
Even some of the native religious beliefs on the Primarch's home planet were retained when they returned to the Empire - Sanguinius' Baal, Elaine's Nuceria, these ancient beliefs in the world still exist, and these The people of the world still believe that the existence of those genetic primitives is the gods walking in the world.
It follows that the only things that mattered in the Great Crusade were efficiency and speed.
So much so that Lorgar's almost fanatical belief in the truth that the 'Imperial Truth' was nothing and that 'the Lord of Mankind possesses a divinity' was freely promoted with the Emperor's tacit approval.
Until the 'Day of Judgment' comes.
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Angol Tai closed his eyes tightly, and the ship's hull swaying freely in the turbulence of subspace seemed to reflect the Word Bearer's uneasy mood.
"I still can't believe... we were given an order like this."
He murmured softly.
"…incredible."
Beside the Captain of the Sawtooth Sun Chapter, several Word Bearers also sighed.
They also failed to understand the order.
A few standard Terran days ago, the Word Bearers received an astrological communication of doom.
It comes from Holy Terra, it comes from the will of the Emperor of Mankind.
It delivered an incomprehensible order to the Seventeenth Legion.
【Destroy the perfect city. 】
In fact, after receiving this astrological communication, the astrological officer responsible for conveying the message was instantly killed by the furious priests - none of them understood why the Emperor of Mankind would be so heavy on them. of misfortune.
The Perfect City is the soul of the Seventeenth Legion, the homeland where each of them rests in their hearts, but now the Emperor has severely punished the Word Bearers for this great achievement.
A flame of doubt burns in the heart of every Astartes of the Seventeenth Legion.
Even their Primarch, the end of their faith link, Lord Lorgar of the Seventeenth Legion, almost stayed behind closed doors after receiving this news.
No one knows what thoughts are wandering in his mind, and no one knows where the Word Bearer will go from now on.
However, the Word Bearers' fleet still sailed into the subspace channel.
They sailed towards the Hazy Star Territory, heading towards the perfect city that every believer longed for.
——However, those who preach the truth are now destroying all the 'truths' that they have taken as a warning in the name of truth.
How sad.
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In the broad square in the center of the city, believers gather here: the chanting of prayers and the reverberation of the big bell constitute their pious thoughts, and the eyes that are always closed represent their restless and nervous mood.
This is the early morning of the thirteenth standard Kurzhi since the emperor came to the Perfect City. No devout believer wants to miss this holy mass. The dense crowd that is already empty of people almost forms an unspeakable sea of people.
Until the roaring screams in the sky woke people up from their prayers, and they looked up to the sky one after another.
It was a falling star.
It dragged an overly dazzling tail flame, and its fiery light shone brightly in the hazy night sky.
Until people finally saw clearly what the star brought - the endless iron rain and the screaming iron birds wandering freely, and the shadow of the fleet that blocked the sky pointed its main guns at those sacred churches.
It symbolizes the will of the gods.
It brings the wrath of the gods.
It is the punishment for crossing the line.
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