Eternal Night

Chapter 434: Secondary Shelter and Letter

Wu Xianxiao led the team and set off.

One thousand personnel, a total of fifty Rhino troop carriers, four hundred Space Marines running and walking for protection, and four hundred Space Marines in vehicles ready for battle, rotating every twelve hours. In addition, there are fifty selected powerful Mechanicus Crusaders and a Mechanical Sage, as well as the technical priest who followed Wu Xianxiao at the beginning, well, now he has been promoted to mechanical priest.

Then there were a hundred elite crusades and a high priest. Their combat power was the weakest, but their will was the highest. Wu Xianxiao originally did not want to bring them, but Kesiya explained to Wu Xianxiao the reason for bringing them. These people had extremely strong religious eloquence and exaggeration ability. After arriving at the target star field, they could organize the local people the fastest, and their strong faith could resist the corrosion of the subspace when Wu Xianxiao was away.

Finally, there is a troop of fifty nuns, accompanied by a famous arch-sister.

Wu Xianxiao had seen the nun troops on the battlefield. Although they were all women, they had superb combat skills, second only to the Space Marines in both long-range and close combat. Their morale was also extremely high, and they were also the human members who were least susceptible to corruption.

That would be fine, but what puzzled Wu Xianxiao was that the fifty selected nuns, including the chief nun, were basically all good-looking people. Although they were covered in muscles, their looks were pleasing to the eye. This made Wu Xianxiao feel a little weird, but he was confused about this world anyway. Who knows, maybe all these good-looking nun warriors were good soldiers?
In short, the team set off, and the original battlefield area was also controlled by the commanders of the various reinforcements. Their mission was to lure away the four-god demon group and quickly evacuate the planet. After Wu Xianxiao and others entered the webway and the personnel were evacuated, they would use weapons of destruction to completely blow up the entire planet.

This mission would have been impossible to complete in another scenario, because turning their backs on the enemy would immediately lead to a major rout, but these four god demons were completely devoid of any sanity and reason, no different from wild beasts, which gave the powerful commanders an opportunity. Through plans such as dividing the troops, luring them, using vehicles to resist and retreating, they were able to disperse and lure the four god demons away, and the large force also took the time to return to the space battleship.

This battle is coming to an end.

But everyone in the 1,000-man expeditionary force knew that the four evil gods would not accept defeat.

They can fail countless times, but humans are finished if they fail just once.

The Eldar prophetess Elnos and Wu Xianxiao were sitting in the same Rhino troop carrier. In addition, there were the Grey Knights think tank chief, the Grand Inquisitor Apostle, the mechanical sage Tansanger, the new mechanical priest Amida, the state priest Prometheus, the state vice-priest Leston, the elder sister Alicena and others.

Among them, the new mechanical priest Amida and the deputy high priest of the state religion Leston were both acquaintances that Wu Xianxiao knew in the heavenly world. However, they were both promoted now, and from their emotions, it could be sensed that their job titles had jumped several levels.

There were two familiar faces in other Rhino troop carriers, one was Kaisia's guard commander Taichilon, and the other was the lucky one of this battle, Political Commissar Eileen, whose loyalty and ability had been proven for his meritorious service in guarding the trenches. They were both promoted and specially allowed to participate in this great human revival-level expedition.

These are all humans, elves... no, they are the Eldar, and among the Eldar only Elnos is always following, while another prophet, Ifran Uslan, is commanding the Eldar army in secret.

In addition to humans and Eldar, the non-humans are the three great demon primarchs, the head of Angron, and Mortarion and Magnus who possessed humans.

They are all in this Rhino armored vehicle at the moment.

At this time, Prometheus, the chief priest of the state religion, was speaking respectfully to Wu Xianxiao.

This is a kind old man who looks to be about 60 years old. He said respectfully to Wu Xianxiao: "Your Excellency Living Saint, any life is the Emperor's currency. This is not just a religious statement, but has a more realistic reason in essence... Because of the corruption of the Warp, just knowing the Warp may bring destruction to unprepared mortals. Therefore, we cannot tell the truth after death to the trillions of people in the Empire. This is not simply a policy of keeping the people ignorant, but because the nature of the Warp determines everything. Do you agree with this?"

Wu Xianxiao sensed Prometheus' emotions and nodded in affirmation.

Prometheus bowed his head slightly and said, "In fact, ten thousand years ago, the Emperor promoted the Imperial Truth throughout the human empire. It was a philosophy and scientific guiding theory of advocating science, maintaining rationality, refusing to believe in monsters, and refusing to believe in any supernatural matters. In the library of the Ecclesiarchy headquarters in Terra, there are clear records of the Emperor's past deeds and remarks. Only the chief priests of each star region are qualified to see these materials, and they are not allowed to be disclosed. But I can also tell you that in these records, the Emperor has repeatedly stated that He is not a god and refuses idolatry. The human beings He expects are rational, self-reliant, brave, and united."

Wu Xianxiao nodded again and asked curiously, "Since you all knew, why did you start a state religion and promote feudal superstition after the Emperor was trapped in the Golden Throne?" Prometheus still lowered his head. He said, "Because the Imperial Truth cannot save the Empire. The Warp is an objective fact, supernatural powers are real, monsters exist, demons exist, evil gods exist, the horror of being corrupted by knowledge exists, and the souls of humans suffer torture after death also exist... After losing the Emperor, we humans no longer have a way to fight against the Warp, demons, and evil gods on an equal footing. The only thing we can do is to rely on our faith in the Emperor to isolate the corruption of the Warp. This has been proven to be correct over the past ten thousand years. The lofty faith in the Emperor can indeed fight against the corruption of the Warp, demons, and even the power of evil gods."

Wu Xianxiao fell silent.

He did discover the fact that those fanatics did have some ability to resist corrosion, and it was not an illusion or superstition.

Prometheus's expression remained calm and his attitude remained respectful. He lowered his head and said, "It is not that the state religion has chosen a policy of keeping the people ignorant and overturning the rational path chosen by the Emperor for us humans, but that this world forces us to do so... Just like the saying that life is the Emperor's currency, we cannot tell the people the truth about what happens after death, because this will lead to their large-scale corruption, causing the warp to directly corrode the reality curtain. Therefore, we can only persuade humans to cherish life from the perspective of faith, because this is the blessing of the Emperor, and at the same time promote the return of the soul to the Golden Throne. This is not because we want to promote a religious philosophy of intimidation, but to tell them the truth in a way that does not corrupt them as much as possible..."

"Perhaps living in a hive city, a death world, various forge worlds, various fortress worlds, and war worlds is a very tragic thing, but fellow humans please try to live on as long as possible, even if it's just for one more second, because... the world after death is the real hell, and we can only tell them with such silent shouts."

Wu Xianxiao remained silent.

He sensed the boundless compassion and the ruthless cruelty in Prometheus's heart. These two completely different emotions and thoughts actually merged together so perfectly at this moment. This was something he had never seen before in his life.

Prometheus was relieved to see Wu Xianxiao accept these explanations, and immediately said: "Living Saint, please allow me to promote your domain to mankind, Heavenly Death. This is the name we decided to give it after discussion. As long as they die by your side, for you, for mankind, and for the Emperor, then you will lead the dead to the heavenly afterlife, which is peaceful and tranquil, and all the dead will enjoy an eternal sleep of incomparable comfort."

Wu Xianxiao thought about it and said, "Okay."

Prometheus immediately said, "But please allow me to modify some of the contents. First, you must fight to death. Second, you must have enough value before death. If you die just for the sake of death, it is not allowed, including suicide charges, unless the suicide charge has extremely high value. Third, it must be for mankind, for you, and for the Emperor. Fourth, if you kill a demon, you can directly allow death in heaven. Fifth, whether it is suitable for death in heaven can only be evaluated by the Emperor, you, and the chief priests of the state religion. Others have absolutely no right to evaluate, otherwise they are all heretics! ”

Wu Xianxiao did not confirm it immediately this time. He thought about it carefully for a long time and sent a message to Beelzebub. After getting the confirmation, he nodded and said, "Okay, I agree."

Prometheus breathed a sigh of relief. He smiled and lowered his head and said, "I think the other soldiers, generals, and our 'allies' probably have more important things to discuss with His Excellency the Living Saint. Please allow me to take my leave and start compiling religious content about death in heaven with my colleagues."

Wu Xianxiao nodded, and then Elnos came up as quickly as possible. She had a delicate face and slightly pointed ears, and she looked exactly like the elves Wu Xianxiao knew. She came up to Wu Xianxiao and said, "Sir Living Saint, the Eldar troops are guarding outside the webway. We can pass through quickly because we are ambushed and besieged by the dark relatives inside the webway. The large army has pinned down the enemy. Currently, only 1,500 combat units have arrived at the battlefield, of which about 600 committed suicide. The remaining 900 combat units are elite warriors, rangers, wailing banshees, and two Phoenix warrior leaders. The strength of this unit is enough to protect..."

Wu Xianxiao's face suddenly lit up with joy, which made Elnos smile, while the people around them all felt depressed.

But Wu Xianxiao ignored them and focused his attention on the information from the main brain.

"You set up a secondary shelter."

"You received a message from Level 7 citizen Chu Minghao."

"Do you want to answer the call?"

(End of this chapter)