Warhammer 40: Gods Of Mortals

Chapter 1178 Ohm Messiah and the Primordial Power
Turn back time.

There were lightning, thunder, strong winds and heavy rain.

The entire Mars was watered by rain that could never occur on this planet.

Those who came to the shield of Olympus to await the miracle revealed so many years ago stood in the heavy rain.

The machinery on Mars began to roar.

The machines that were not started were started.

The broken machines were put into operation again.

From huge array devices to the smallest data tablet in a person's hand, any object that can display and express is chanting the wonderful music of binary.

After this series of miracles happened, people saw a golden spaceship slowly landing at the foot of the Olympus Shield.

Qin Mo turned back time to this moment, and at this moment it was no longer just the emperor who walked out of the spaceship.

"prophet!"

"That's the Prophet!"

A priest who studied the history of the Mechanicus saw two people coming out of the spaceship, and he pointed at the tall and handsome man among them and shouted.

After time went back and everything started over again, the Emperor changed his appearance again. He dressed up as the prophet in the history of the Mechanicus who claimed that miracles would happen in the future.

"That's the Warlord on Terra!"

When the emperor lifted his crimson hood, some people recognized him.

People who have been active in intelligence reconnaissance activities on Terra discovered that these two guys are the leaders of the rising warlord alliance on Terra.

A vile warlord.

The priests present were disappointed.

This was also because the Emperor did not exert a strong mental influence on the people present, making them see his golden and sacred appearance, as he did before the time went back this time.

Otherwise, these people would still bow down like before.

The Emperor was silent.

Qin Mo was also silent.

The two men said nothing, letting the people present whisper, talk about them and make their own judgments.

"011001..."

The beautiful sound of binary suddenly appeared in the priests' auditory organs, and the inferior auditory implants used by those who were lower than the priests also received this sacred music.

In silence, Qin Mo raised his hand.

Every part of the golden spaceship was disassembled, and they were strangely suspended in the air, arranged in an orderly manner.

Then some of these parts began to move, and they gradually came together to form a device that looked like an engine.

At this time, time stands still.

"On the spaceship, you said you would declare yourself the Messiah of Om." Qin Mo looked at the Emperor, "Who should I play then?"

"Who cares? Let them guess." The Emperor said indifferently, "The Mechanicus's beliefs don't exist anyway... There is no God of All Machines or Om Messiah, or anyone can be God of All Machines and Om Messiah."

"..." Qin Mo thought that if time had not stopped at this moment, the priests would probably choose to dispatch all war machines to bomb themselves and the Emperor after hearing the Emperor's words. "The key is that we must gain the trust of the Martians." The Emperor said, "Then we can recapture Mars, and then use the trust and prestige we have to change the Mechanicus, so that they no longer have dangerous beliefs and do dangerous things when it is not necessary now, just like the Terravat people."

The Emperor mentioned the Terran version of the Mechanicum - the Terravatians.

Today, the traditions and beliefs of the Terrawatte people have been impacted. They have dispersed and disintegrated. Only a small number of people still adhere to traditional beliefs, while most of them have turned into enlightened scientific researchers.

Qin Mo could also understand the emperor's thoughts.

To be honest, Qin Mo likes to descend from the sky and kill the enemy with lightning to turn the tide of the battle. He enjoys this kind of behavior.

But playing tricks... Qin Mo always felt that it was inappropriate, and he always felt sorry for these Martians who truly believed in the Mechanicus.

After working together for so long, the emperor also knew what Qin Mo was thinking now.

So the Emperor said directly: "We have to play tricks now, even though it is inappropriate. But the Mechanicus itself was established because of a religious lie, and we have to use a lie to dispel this lie. Sometimes telling the truth does not make things better, but worse."

"Just think of it as making up for the lies I told you. Help me."

"I owe you a favor, and because I owe you a favor, I won't beat around the bush as I promised before."

After listening to what the Emperor said, Qin Mo nodded, and then began to calculate, if he and the Emperor continued to play tricks, how long would it take before the Mechanicus was transformed like the Terravat people.

"If you tell them the truth, the Martians will hate me and they will choose to go to war with us." The Emperor continued to explain, "Even if they know the truth, they will not choose to abandon the faith of the Mechanicus. The priests will anchor their authority with massacres and harsher rule, and we will indirectly cause the deaths of countless people."

"And if we deceive them with white lies, we will have the time and authority to change the beliefs of the Mechanicus. We can gradually marginalize them. We can gradually disintegrate the authority of the priests like slicing sausages, until the name of the Mechanicus becomes a historical term for a certain period of time in the history of Mars!"

"This action was unnecessary in Malcador's opinion. He thought it was too much trouble, but I insisted on giving the Martians a chance to choose and be changed."

"Because I owe it to the Martians... If we have a way to peacefully change this huge and powerful religious entity, the Adeptus Mechanicus, why wouldn't we?"

After listening to some more words, Qin Mo nodded.

Qin Mo doesn't like lies because sometimes lies can lead to misunderstandings, and misunderstandings can lead to disastrous consequences.

But at certain times, honesty will only bring war and irreversible crisis. At this time, if you insist on pursuing honesty that will bring terrible consequences, then this kind of honesty is just self-satisfaction on the moral level.

Sometimes you just have to make a choice.

Time resumes its flow.

The engine made from the dismantled parts of the spacecraft attracted everyone's attention.

Qin Mo injected power into it, and the engine started to run with a roar.

In that engine, the rules of reality related to power are distorted.

The engine became something that couldn't possibly exist - a perpetual motion machine.

"As I told your ancestors long ago! The being you believe in has descended upon the sacred planet Mars!"

The Emperor spoke.

The voice was plain, but it echoed in everyone's ears and in everyone's brain like thunder.

"What is that?" A priest stepped forward and asked the Emperor, his eyes fixed on the roaring golden engine. "Prophet, what is that?"

The Emperor's thunderous reply vibrated the priest's hearing apparatus.

"Original power."

(End of this chapter)