Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

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Los One.

The 17th Legion Astartes warrior named Hermit walked in the huge hive city, and his heavy footsteps would open up a path in the dense crowd on the street.

The broadcasts on both sides of the street and the propaganda boats flying in the sky carrying the broadcasts echoed the admonitions of the Hermit's Gene Father at this moment.

"The religious beliefs of the Los system must be replaced!"

"You sacrificed livestock and industrial products to your so-called gods, but the so-called gods did not come to save you. It was me who really freed you from the hands of the slave owners!"

"It was Lorgar Aurelion! It was my 17th Legion! We liberated you!"

"From now on, you can only believe in the truth of the empire! Only the teachings of fire and thunder!"

"..."

The Hermit listened to the roar of the Gene Father on the radio, walked through the crowd, and came to the center of the square.

The fire was burning everything related to the beliefs of the locals in the Los system.

Statues, books, video products...

Lorgar himself was stepping on the remains of the golden statue of the god believed by the Los people, loudly preaching his own arrangements for the Los people's beliefs.

The Primarch held a stick-like scepter in his hand.

On the scepter was the Imperial Sky Eagle, which was the scepter held by the preacher of the Imperial Truth.

But the scholar who came to Los to preach the Imperial Truth was killed by the locals, so Lorgar was shouting with a scepter that was completely inconsistent with his body shape.

The hermit walked over.

"Your damn god can't save you, but can guide you to rebel?"

"I swear here to the extremely sacred Imperial Truth and the Flame Thunder Eagle that if your damn god guides you to rebel again next time, I will hollow out the head of its statue and put it in the toilet of my flagship as a toilet!"

Lorgar was still roaring.

The hermit stood behind Lorgar and said in the communication channel: "The Lord of Flame is coming."

"Shut up." Lorgar scolded the hermit, "Don't you see what I'm doing?"

The hermit was silent.

Lorgar continued to preach: "In this universe, in any known place in this universe, there is only one thing that is sacred, and that is the truth I preach to you!"

"If you..."

At this point, Lorgar suddenly turned back and looked at the hermit: "My uncle is coming?"

The hermit looked at the Primarch with his eyes under the helmet and nodded slightly.

"It's bad!" Lorgar was horrified, "He must be here for the rebellion of the Los people..."

The hermit nodded slightly again.

The Primarch jumped down from the statue, stuffed the scepter in his hand into the hermit's hand, and then rushed to the garrison of the 17th Legion behind the square.

The hermit walked to the remains of the statue and continued the preaching that the Primarch had just not finished.

And Lorgar ran all the way back to the barracks.

The most filial son of the 17th Legion, who was also the legion commander, was found in the barracks by his gene father.

Seeing the gene father so panicked, the legion commander was also anxious: "Could it be that the Lord of Flame has come?"

Lorgar nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes..."

The legion commander immediately turned to look at his adjutant: "Plan B!"

The legion clerk immediately put down all the affairs at hand, took out the seal of the original body and quickly stamped on a pile of documents.

Those documents will prove that the original body is not in Los at this time, but is doing and approving a series of good things.

Lorgar still can't rest assured, and said to the legion commander very anxiously: "Remember what I told you before?"

The legion commander nodded: "The crime of the Los system being conquered and then quickly rebelling is completely placed on the Los people..."

Boom--

The sound of a sonic boom sounded above the barracks, interrupting the words of the legion commander.

Lorgar felt creepy after hearing this sound. He had heard this sound countless times, but it was not as creepy as this time.

The sonic boom was the sound of someone making fine adjustments to accelerate for accuracy during landing.

Then, the person that Lorgar least wanted to see at this time in the Los system fell from the sky.

The smoke and dust suddenly rose and then suddenly dissipated.

"Lorgar, my good nephew, how long have we not seen each other?"

Qin Mo walked towards Lorgar with a smile on his face without any smile, under the breathless gaze of everyone in the military camp.

Lorgar was not so anxious at this time, and his whole person calmed down.

"Go aside." Lorgar, with a pale face, pushed the legion commander, "This is none of your business."

The legion commander stepped back more than ten steps in astonishment, then stood up and looked at the Lord of Flame and the Father of Genes in panic.

Qin Mo stretched out his hand to Lorgar: "Follow me."

Lorgar hesitated, but his legs and feet still walked over, but he still looked back at his legion commander.

"The Primarch still has some urgent matters to deal with..." The legion commander whispered.

"Your Primarch will not be beaten." Qin Mo grabbed Lorgar's hand and jumped up.

The Primarch and the Lord of Flame disappeared in the sky in the blink of an eye, leaving only the deafening roar of the moment they took off.

…

On a certain towering mountain in Los I.

The sudden roar dispersed the strange beasts on the top of the mountain, and Qin Mo and Luo Jia landed on the edge of the cliff on the top of the mountain.

The thing that Luo Jia was most worried about did not happen.

Qin Mo let go of Luo Jia's hand, walked to the cliff silently, and sat down.

Through the clouds, you can see the towering religious buildings on the planet Los, which are being demolished by the logistics machinery of the 17th Legion.

"What are you doing standing there? Come and sit down." Qin Mo patted the seat beside him.

Lorgar hesitated and walked over immediately.

The Primarch curled up and sat down, hugging his legs, looking at the huge religious buildings on Los I that he ordered to be demolished.

"Why did the Los people accept the rule and then rebel?" Qin Mo asked.

His voice was light, as if he was talking about something not serious.

It was also the tone of a question that already knew the answer and did not need to be solved.

"Because I burned their idols, strictly prohibited their religion, and destroyed their temples." Lorgar said, "The Los people resisted the truth of the empire, and they foolishly believed in a god who would not care about them at all... I provided the Los people with the material conditions we could provide."

"Build an industrial zone to produce synthetic food that can feed everyone of them."

"Then they still rebelled."

"..."

Qin Mo listened to Lorgar's words.

He was thinking about Lorgar himself.

Lorgar no longer believed in religion when he was on the Great Crusade, but he treated the Imperial Truth like religion.

And this Imperial Truth came from a discussion between Flame and Thunder.

Qin Mo remembered the Emperor asking himself at that time: "The Imperial Truth is indeed a lie, but when we don't have a large-scale anti-warp influence method, is it feasible to let everyone know the existence of the warp and the dark gods?"

"Of course not." Qin Mo answered, "If everyone knows the existence of Chaos, the possible impact... is unimaginable."

The Emperor nodded: "So let's make Imperial Truth 2.0."

Compared with version 1.0, Imperial Truth 2.0 has added dialectical weight, because it is an extension of rationality, acknowledging the existence of idealistic forces and giving examples of the impact of idealistic forces.

This is the Imperial Truth that the Primarchs are now spreading in the Great Crusade.

Applicable to the period before the entire galaxy is isolated from the influence of the warp.