Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor - #695 - Chapter 676 Doomsday Storm: False Emperor and Divine Emperor

Father Mathieu Clercourt stood in the heavy rain, letting the rain pour on his head, and the water droplets filled with broken silver flowed all over his body.

It was heavy rain dropped by the Imperial Navy. At this moment, the magnificent starship was sliding through the clouds. They were pouring holy water mixed with mithril from the belly of the warship. Of course, it was not a real holy water, used to purify religious matters. Contamination, but elimination on a chemical level.

The heavy rain of purification will fall across the globe, washing away all the pollution wherever the Nurgle Demon has gone. The interior of the city will be completely sterilized, and all obstacles that hinder its advance on the outside earth will also be disintegrated. When the heavy rain stops, the imperial army will attack from behind the city walls.

But Mathieu was left behind. He is the war envoy of the expeditionary force. Since he was a low-level priest of the state church, he has followed the army throughout the battlefields of the universe, fighting against those Asians at the forefront of faith. Space Daemons and Followers, but he was left behind, and the Primarch refused him participation in the War Council, and that said it all.

Mathieu stood in the rain at a loss. He was thinking that the original body no longer believed in him, or that he had never trusted him in the first place. It was well known that Guilliman did not believe in the state religion, but if that was all, Mathieu did not What bothered him so much was that he was doubting.

Doubting the empire, doubting the faith, doubting everything…the heresy as it is said in the Book of the Book, the Book of the Book…the Book of the Book.

“You are here, Father.” A soft female voice said, and Mathieu recognized the voice. The girl came out of the rain, but not a drop of rain could touch her. There was a circle of light around her body. , bouncing off all the rain like a shield.

The girl came barefoot but had already put on clothes, but even without Mathieu he would not have reacted to this. In any case, he was a priest and had already sworn to dedicate everything in his life to the emperor, and to women His feelings are naturally among them.

“You are really a saint. I saw that your wounds have healed. Was it healed by the Emperor?” Mathieu asked. He followed the girl and entered her barrier. The rain was not there. Watering him, a warmth spread from the girl.

“Who knows? What about you? Father.” The girl asked standing beside him, her soft skirt flying on both sides of her feet.

“How did you get out? Didn’t Sister Silence notice you?”

“Don’t worry about the nun. I have my own way. She won’t find out that I have left. When she finds out, I have already gone back. But you, Father, how are you?”

“It’s terrible, it’s terrible.” Mathieu said without hesitation, as if he didn’t think about it at all. The words came out of his mouth, and this was the truth.

There was no cover-up, no embellishment, no sarcasm. Every glance and every word was genuine. Vito smiled as he listened. He raised his head and looked down at the rainy earth, “Really? Why?”

“I’m doubting, Saint, I’m doubting the faith. What the Primarch said makes me puzzled.” Mathieu said frustratedly, “You really surprise me, Father, since you have no quibbles.” What’s the point of sophistry in the face of a true saint? Lies can’t deceive you, they can’t deceive the Emperor.”

Yes, if his lies could not deceive anyone but himself, the Emperor would not have to tell him, and Vito knew how to tell whether a person was lying or telling the truth.

“Um…go on, Father.” Vito said softly. He didn’t speak or interrupt. If it weren’t for the light blocking the heavy rain, the priest wouldn’t even know he was still here.

Maybe this is what Vito wants. A seemingly uninhabited environment can often inspire people’s inner thoughts, and the priest has once again verified this.

“Lord Guilliman said that nothing we did was what the Emperor wanted. He mocked our faith. He claimed that the Book of Holy Words was not spoken by the Empire, but by his brothers.” The priest said discouragedly, His face flashed with doubt, regret, and deep self-blame.

“Does this displease you? Father, you resent these words.” Vito spoke softly, his voice like drizzle, “What qualifications and reasons do I have to resent a primarch? The son of the God-Emperor? Who of us is qualified? , a son who could claim to know his father better than he did, his favorite son.”

Favorite? No, I’m not sure, maybe it was, like a prisoner behind bars who got a file, but now, he got a better tool, so what’s the point of a file?

“What do you want to ask me? I can feel your confusion.”

“Tell me, O messenger, who wrote the Book of Psalms?”

“Do you really want to know? Knowing this secret will make you collapse. When you know it, your faith, no, the faith of the state religion will collapse.” Vito warned, his tone did not change at all, but his insight A strong person can find a warning in it.

“Tell me, I can bear it.” Mathieu said decisively after thinking for a moment. Vito glanced at him, and after a moment of silence, he said, “The Sacred Book is written by Lorgar, The Emperor’s Rebellious Son. One of the sons who betrayed him in the first place.”

Mathieu fell silent after hearing this. His expression remained unchanged, but when he spoke again, his voice was full of powerlessness, “So, all of this is a lie. Our beliefs for thousands of years are wrong. We recited The words of a traitor are tantamount to betraying the emperor…”

“I said that the truth will make you collapse, but don’t you doubt me? Doubt, I am lying, maybe that will make you feel better.” Vito even said softly, and with the female voice, it became even more like Like a loving goddess.

The priest shook his head. Although he had already collapsed, he still said firmly, “The facts woven by lies are themselves lies. God’s envoy, we have disappointed him, haven’t we?”

“Yeah.” Vito responded monotonously. He didn’t know if the priest could tell that he was actually lying. The emperor in the past would, but the current one would be satisfied with him.

Fortunately, or what made Vito even feel a little happy, Mathieu did not notice it. He sighed calmly but deeply regretted, “We have let him down. This is a lie, everything for ten thousand years.” It’s all a lie. Our faith and even the entire empire are based on lies. Why didn’t he come to stop us? God’s messenger, why didn’t he send his decree until this moment? “

In the past ten thousand years, countless saints have appeared. They all have the power of the emperor and the majestic light of faith. Through this, they have defeated all kinds of enemies and given the best evidence to the faith of the state religion. A battle Miracle after miracle, it is hard to doubt.

So what’s going on? Why, why did the Emperor, knowing it was a lie, still weave it and let it thrive?

“I’m telling you a truth, do you want to hear it? It’s up to you to believe it or not, but I just promise not to lie to you.” Vito spoke with the same tone, still the gentle voice, the same convincing voice of the goddess.

Her beauty was moving and irresistible. The priest nodded slightly and said with an indifferent mood, “Go on, Apostle, I think nothing can move me anymore.”

“I am not the apostle of the emperor, but the real emperor.”

“What?” Mathieu asked in surprise. He broke his promise in an instant, but he didn’t feel shameless, but deeply shocked.

“I am not the apostle of the emperor on the Golden Throne. That is not the emperor. The real emperor has died long ago. It is not him who is there. It is an evil god. Mathieu. For thousands of years, you have been worshiping an evil god. “Vito said calmly. What he said was shocking and he wanted to deny it, but his face and tone made it difficult to deny it.

“What did you say? We…worship an evil god?” Mathieu said with an unprecedented shock. He had never been so collapsed before. At this moment, he knew what despair was.

“That thing sitting on the throne, he just wants to abuse your worship and gain the power of faith for himself. You are his sacrifices. With the development of the state religion and its fueling, the entire human race has become a sacrifice. , for that moment of being sacrificed.”

“For what?” When Mathieu spoke, he was filled with fear. He had already conquered fear in the war, but now he had never been so afraid. He was afraid of the answer, but he had a desire to know, like an abyss. The cliff jumpers nearby were afraid of the abyss, but were attracted by it.

“Becoming a god, all cycles will start again, and the world will be destroyed. Mathieu, you know that everything will be destroyed. It will be a world without gods, because there will only be one god, one living being, that is it. Vito said slowly but firmly, staring into the night, his eyes flashing with angry lightning.

“Enter the Emperor… No, anyone who can hear the words of prayer… save us.” Mathieu prayed hesitantly. He didn’t know who to pray to. He thought he knew, but now he doesn’t. I found myself as if I was hooded and bumping against the wall in a dark room.

He has never felt that this universe is so dark, so hopeless and without light.

At the moment when he collapsed, at the moment when the real collapse came, Vito turned around. He grabbed Mathieu and pulled him up from the water. The latter looked at him tightly, as if That’s the last hope.

“I am the messenger sent by the real emperor, Father Mathieu. He is calling you. He has awakened after thousands of years of sleep. I am his messenger. The era of false emperors will be ended. The real emperor He will regain the throne, and he needs your help. The Emperor believes in you.”

Vito’s words seemed to inject lubricating oil into a rotten engine. At that moment, the engine was re-ignited. Mathieu’s heart seemed to be burning with hot flames. He raised the torch high in the abyss and saw the sun in the desperate situation. In the real darkness, there is no self-deception. Those who see the darkness clearly will never stay away from the sun.

“What do you need me to do?” Mathieu swept away his previous decadence, and his fighting spirit was instantly rekindled. Like the priest in the past, he now knew who he was fighting for.

Not only for the true emperor, but also for himself and all mankind. He has never been as proud and enthusiastic as he is now.

“You must obey the orders of the Emperor’s Chosen One. He is Vito, the Emperor’s brother. He knows what the true Emperor is like. He is the Emperor’s voice and sword. Go to him and he will tell you. What do you do, secondly, Guilliman, the true Emperor’s son, he needs your help.”

Vito said seriously, from a loving goddess to a majestic messenger, like Athena holding a sword and shield, “The false emperor will try to kill him, take me to find him, maybe Guilliman now Unable to understand the truth of it all, you must guide him, Father Mathieu, you must show him the way, and as a first step, you must take me to help him.”

Mathieu nodded sharply, and he knelt down to Vito firmly, as he did when he first stepped into the church, with enthusiasm and hope, for the real hope, “I will fulfill my mission, I swear, no matter what I pay, I will pay the price to the true God Emperor, and I and my compatriots will atone for the sin of betrayal.”

“I know you will. Go to the Mother Superior, tell her the truth, and rescue me from the prison of the false emperor.” Vito said and kissed Mathieu on the forehead. This was certainly not because he liked men. , but a trick that Vitor had learned from Slaanesh in the past. When his kiss was left on Mathieu’s head, his soul would disappear from the Emperor’s eyes.

In the darkness, he can truly better complete the mission given to him by Vito without being discovered, and Mathieu will do it with enthusiasm and treat Vito like…a true emperor.

Was Vito telling a lie? I don’t know, but I feel that his lies are not all lies. At least for him, the real emperor is indeed dead long ago.

“For the Emperor.” Mathieu said piously. Vito held his head and responded softly, “For the Emperor.”

After that, Vito left, and he suddenly disappeared, and the heavy rain fell on Mathieu again, as if he had never appeared, but when Mathieu raised his head, he knew what he should do.

In the shadows in the distance, Vito appeared there. He walked into the darkness of the corridor and spoke to Eva beside him, “The priest has entered the game. The chessboard has begun to move. Inform Coz and the others to take the next step.” ”

As he spoke, he walked into the darkness. In the sound of his footsteps, the gears of the clock started turning. Midnight was coming.