How can a retired savior be considered retired if his price drops to 40,000?

Chapter 149 The Innocent Monster
"Are you suggesting that the Emperor's glory is shrouded in something else?"

Perhaps this would be an intolerable accusation for any Loyalist Space Marine.Even though the person who said this was a girl certified as an "important person" by the director of the Ultramarines' think tank, the think tanks present could not help but question her.Guilliman, who was also in the room, stopped him from expressing his inappropriate emotions, but the Primarch responded by saying: "You should explain this issue in detail."

"First of all, I'm not 'suggesting', what I said is a fact - at least, the emperor and I both believe this is a fact." Fujimaru Ritsuka said calmly, "Secondly, the thing that held him hostage is There, as long as you live in the empire, you will be more or less exposed to it."

The girl gestured to the tattered ancient book that was put back into the box by the think tank. The faded Gothic letters on the cover looked like jagged fangs.

"The Emperor's Words." Guilliman understood the hint, but his inherent thinking made him tend to seek a physical source for the whole thing. "You mean, the Ecclesiarchy? But this Illogical——"

"To be precise, it's faith." Prophet Natas nodded, "That makes sense."

"Explain it, what else 'makes sense'?" Even though he hid it well, the Imperial Regent did start to feel a little irritated when faced with too many unclear topics.

"Faith is perhaps the most powerful force in the world." The prophet said, "It can even shape a god and is also the food of the gods. Not all gods need faith to survive, just like the Star God and the The four overly powerful Chaos Evil Gods are the same, but even those who are powerful enough to sustain themselves often do not refuse the power that can enhance them. For some smaller, secondary gods, faith is very important. Without worship, they collapse into nothingness and become a whirlpool of mindless emotions. If they become unstable, they die.

"And other gods, they were originally flesh and blood mortals no different from ordinary people, but due to certain circumstances, they became the source of more people's beliefs. Beliefs gradually gave birth to beliefs, and beliefs were added after gathering. His body, relying on them, improving them, changing them - if the total amount of faith is large enough, this will eventually make a mortal become a god."

Prophet Natas showed a slightly mean smile in the direction of Fujimaru Ritsuka: "I think the faith gathered by the trillions of mortals in the entire empire should be enough."

The girl in the wheelchair ignored the other party's provocation, but began to use another more popular explanation: "Remember the green skin's psychic field? As long as many green skins feel that a car can drive very fast , then even if the car itself is difficult to start, it can drive very fast if there are enough greenskins nearby. This is similar to what happened to the Emperor."

This obviously shocking analogy made everyone present show a look of resistance, but Fujimaru Ritsuka was completely unfazed by it: "To explain it in a more 'logical' way, that is, 'human beings can also become psychic. The potential of the race'. The existence of psykers itself, and the fact that the number of psykers increased sharply after the Great Rift opened has proved this. Although the vast majority of people basically have no psychic talents, like Natas As the Prophet said, when the number of people who 'believe the Emperor is a god' expands to the size of 'all mankind', the will of the Emperor himself becomes less important."

Here the prophet Natas interjected: "So your master is also a god."

"I didn't say that. He did become very close to God because of this, but not yet." Fujimaru Ritsuka retorted, "Ascension to God has special significance in mysticism. It cannot be caused by simple quantitative changes that lead to qualitative changes. The changes require corresponding rituals - let me make it clearer, don't force me to remind you what happened to the Spiritual Race when that one ascended to the gods."

Unable to refute, Prophet Natas reluctantly shut his mouth, so Fujimaru Ritsuka could continue her speech: "The one currently trapped on the throne, uh, aside from the emperor himself, has Leaving aside his mental problems, most of his threads are occupied by unmanageable pain and prayers, and he does not always have the energy to interfere with reality. And when too many prayers gather in one person Even if they cannot directly create a god, they can more than enough distort a person's way of existence. I have seen many such examples.

"After excluding those pretentious things, some of the so-called 'Emperor's Miracles' may indeed be of his own will, but some of them have nothing to do with his own wishes, but are just the local people's pious prayers that rippled through the subspace. , triggering something similar to the 'automatic recovery' mechanism of the Emperor, and it is just a natural phenomenon caused by this - the psionic witchcraft I use to borrow the Emperor's psionic energy in my daily life is based on the latter principle. .If it weren't for Parmenio's special situation, he would have already died before I arrived, and I wouldn't even try to contact him, because even I can't be sure who I contacted. he'."

After these words, there was a brief silence in the room.Later, Guilliman, who had tried his best to straighten everything out, confirmed again: "You mean that some of the Emperor's thoughts and actions may not be his own, but are influenced by those beliefs that point to him?"

"This is basically considered to be the case." Fujimaru Ritsuka confirmed, "Regarding this problem, I have indeed made some attempts to solve it. I can confirm that it has some effect, but I can't say what it will be like in the end." "You do it What?" Surprisingly, it was not Guilliman who asked this question, but Seer Natas, who suddenly became vigilant.

"It's nothing, I just save one or two planets occasionally without anyone noticing." Fujimaru Ritsuka obviously didn't want to answer directly, "The entire galaxy is a huge mess, and the choices we all face in it are just from 'evil' Choose between option A' and 'bad option B'. Since they are both bad options, why care about how bad it will be in the end?"

——She was indeed trying to prove the principles of humanity, and then took out the concept of "the collective unconscious that humans want to survive" from the Emperor, and made it operate as the restraining force Alaya Consciousness.But this is another universe after all, and the rules it operates are significantly different from the one Fujimaru Ritsuka was originally familiar with.Even she herself can't help but question sometimes: Will the whole thing really go so smoothly?

Perhaps this will be an initiative to separate faith from the Emperor and bring him back from the edge of becoming a god. Or perhaps this act will create another subspace existence that is close to a god and bring new possibilities to mankind. trouble.

But if nothing is done, are we going to let the Emperor sit on the golden throne and be consumed by countless faith, pain, supplications and prayers?Fujimaru Ritsuka asked herself, she couldn't do such a thing.She is very conscious of the fact that she is at the edge of the barrier. No matter how many times she comes again, she will choose to take responsibility and try to pull the lever.

At least for now, everything seems to be going well.At this point in time, Fujimaru Ritsuka can still comfort herself so much.

"...strike an egg against a stone." Prophet Natas seemed to have understood something from Fujimaru Ritsuka's unclear reply, and surprisingly made some suggestive suggestions, "I don't know the specific details, but from the few words you revealed Here, I can think of some stories circulated among our clan—the protagonists in them often don’t have a happy ending.”

The latter didn't have any negative reaction to this, but just smiled: "If I were pursuing a 'good ending', then I wouldn't be in this world."

"With all due respect," the think tank, who couldn't stand it, interrupted here, "In our estimation, generally speaking, 'sacrifice for the empire' can be considered a 'good ending'. No matter where the person concerned ends up in this What end point will it lead to under the framework?”

"I don't know, I think I'm more likely to die on the way." Fujimaru Ritsuka said lightly, "After all, as a subsidy device used to maintain the survival of the human race, the Emperor estimates that my useful life is about It will be around 20 years.”

As Mortarion said before, the Emperor's overly violent psychic energy would indeed wear down its carrier unconsciously.But this does not mean that "Fujimaru Ritsuka can only live for 20 years". The body and soul reinforced by the pseudo-third method are not so fragile - what this "life" actually means is:

20 years later, is she really Fujimaru Ritsuka?

　Miwu (no more)

　　(Escapes into the ice cave by blowing a whistle)

　　
　
(End of this chapter)