chsdbacks Chapter 54 Luo Jia's Obsession
Chapter 54 Luo Jia's Obsession
Imperial Truth is a system of thought used by emperors to resist religion, promote reason, advocate science, and guide their subjects to break free from ignorance and superstition and move towards a unified future.
But for Luo Jia, who had always regarded the emperor as a god, this was incomprehensible and unacceptable.
He never understood why an emperor, possessing such immense power, would insist that he was not a god.
He had been trying to understand the supreme will of the Emperor, the ruler of mankind. On the advice of his adoptive father and his chief priest Eribas, he built this magnificent and perfect city to offer to the Emperor, in order to show his supreme respect and absolute loyalty to his father.
But Li Wei's words, devoid of any warmth, were like a red-hot iron, blatantly tearing apart the shell of faith that he had painstakingly built with his life's blood.
He knew that building this perfect city was a blatant violation of imperial truth and a defiance of the emperor's will, but he could not bear to see his worshipped deity treated with such disrespect and denial.
Looking at Luo Jia, who was trembling slightly and looking out of sorts, Li Wei sighed inwardly. Luo Jia's fanaticism was, in some ways, even more outrageous than the extremely twisted Peturabo that he knew.
He is a fanatic, but he has always distorted his way of serving the Emperor, building temples and altars on conquered planets to glorify the Emperor, and now he even dares to build a perfect city that praises the Emperor, completely ignoring the truth of the Empire.
Is this really fanaticism?
True believers should not unconditionally choose to believe and obey a being who is revered as a god, even if that person claims not to be a god.
Li Wei always felt that Luo Jia admired strength, purely admired strength, and had a morbid obsession with deifying the strong to the core.
However, from the current perspective, Luo Jia's extreme faith in the Emperor allows him to test the operational rules of the power of faith.
Li Wei had realized that, apart from the Emperor, only Luo Jia in the Empire could spontaneously attract and gather the power of faith.
The intense, almost palpable power of faith surrounding Luo Jia surged like the tides, fluctuating with his emotions, proving that he had already grasped the basic application of the power of faith.
Although Li Wei felt that Luo Jia's method of manipulating the power of faith was also crude, only increasing his intimidating aura and awe-inspiring majesty, Luo Jia was already much stronger than himself, who was still completely ignorant of the power of faith.
Li Wei actually only had a vague theoretical framework for how to guide and utilize the power of faith to create gods. He had to rely on Luo Jia's special talent of being able to gather faith innately to accelerate his plan.
Just as Li Wei, with a cold expression, was about to speak again, a slightly hunched old man behind Luo Jia suddenly said in a sinister tone:
"Chief of the Thousand Sons, have you gone too far? Building the Perfect City was a decision made by all of us who cherish words. You are blatantly interfering in the internal affairs of our legion."
"Oh?" Li Wei turned his head slightly and looked the Astark monk up and down.
Although the old man before him was wearing the grey power armor of the Word Bearers, he lacked the ferocity and vitality that an Astartes warrior should possess; instead, he exuded a decaying, senile aura that seeped into his very bones.
He already knew who it was, so he said in a calm tone:
"Cole Fallon, the adoptive father of the Loka Primarch?"
"Yes," Cole Fallon said, straightening his back proudly.
"Then you may leave!" Li Wei said emotionlessly.
"Huh? What are you saying?" A cold glint flashed in Cole Fallon's eyes. He was immediately enraged and couldn't understand why Levi was so arrogant and rude.
Even Luo Jia, whose expression was somewhat gloomy and somber, was taken aback, not understanding what Li Wei was doing.
Is this discrimination against her adoptive father?
Although his adoptive father, Cole Fallon, was too old, he had undergone nineteen genetic modification surgeries in Astartes and become an Astartes monk. Wasn't that enough to qualify him to be treated as an equal with Li Wei?
Is it because Cole Fallon is his adoptive father that Levi is openly humiliating him?
Enraged, Luo Jia gritted her teeth and said each word with fury:
"Li Wei, you'd better put away your arrogance, or I'll have to teach that ignorant chief think tank member a lesson on behalf of my brother Magnus."
"I have a way to prove that the Emperor is indeed a god, but we'll discuss the specifics with you later."
Li Wei interrupted the other person with a casual remark.
"What?" Luo Jia, who was furious, was stunned for a moment. In an instant, he immediately dismissed everyone in the hall, and even his adoptive father was ruthlessly driven out.
He was also deeply moved and breathing rapidly.
After the Word Bearers warriors and some devout mortals in the cathedral had all left, only Livy and the restless Luo Jia remained in the magnificent and empty cathedral.
"Can we speak now, Chief Li Wei?" Luo Jia took half a step forward and asked urgently.
He held no hope that Livy could prove the emperor was a god, but he was already driven almost mad by the emperor's repeated denials of "I am not a god".
He desperately needed any evidence that could prove the emperor was a god.
Seeing the empty hall, Li Wei nodded in satisfaction. Then, with a crisp snap of his fingers, the golden shield of the Sosmes rune suddenly unfolded, completely isolating the two from the prying eyes of outsiders and the warp.
He said in a flat tone:
"He has already made it very clear that the emperor is not a god, whether or not."
"What?" Luo Jia's expression froze, then changed drastically. "Li Wei, are you playing me for a fool... You want to die?"
His spiritual energy surged suddenly, and combined with his vast and boundless power of faith, it seemed to be suppressing Li Wei's spiritual energy strength.
"The emperor says he is not a god, but if his offspring become gods, then the lie that he is not a god will be exposed," Li Wei said with a half-smile.
"This...this isn't right, is it?" Luo Jia was stunned on the spot, unable to keep up with Li Wei's erratic thinking, and didn't know what Li Wei was talking about.
"Lord Luojia, don't you want to become a god?"
With a flick of his wrist, Li Wei conjured up four crystals in red, green, blue, and purple.
The moment the four-colored crystals appeared, Luo Jia's pupils shrank, and he stared intently at the four crystals. For the first time, he had directly perceived divinity.
He actually saw true divine radiance in beings other than emperors.
He was overjoyed and trembling with excitement; he had finally found irrefutable proof of the existence of gods.
If he were to offer these divine crystals to his father, the emperor would no longer be able to deny that he was a god.
Seeing Luo Jia's fanatical and distorted expression, Li Wei, who was observing from the sidelines, knew that the matter was more than half completed.
These crystals are pure authority extracted from the demons under the command of the four gods by the creator Vashtor.
His idea was simple: to elevate Luo Jia to godhood and make this Primarch, who had already begun to awaken to the nature of the warp, his first test subject.
As for whether it will succeed, that depends on Luo Jia's luck, but Li Wei always felt that it was not that simple, and felt that he would lead Luo Jia into chaos ahead of time.