Chapter 406: Someone Wants to Make Trouble

(PS: I've recovered well recently and saw a few more alliance leaders. Starting in March, I will resume adding chapters for alliance leaders.)

Kethia is a non-pious believer; she fanatically worships the Emperor.

This sentence is actually a completely true portrayal of her, a seemingly contradictory sentence that represents her contradictory life.

As a Beta-level, and the top-rated Beta-level, closest to Alpha-level psychic, Kethia knows the truth about the source of her power too well.

The Warp!

A world of mind, consciousness, and soul behind the veil of the real material universe!

After all sentient life in the world dies, its mind, consciousness, memory, soul... in short, all non-material idealistic things will fall into the Warp. That place is a collection of all idealistic things, and it is itself an idealistic world.

Psychics seem to have superpowers that defy physical properties, but in fact, this is not the power of the psychic themselves, but comes from the Warp.

A psychic is equivalent to a gap, a loophole, or a human-shaped gate to the Warp. It depends on the level of your psychic ability. The higher the level, the larger the Warp power and gap you can borrow, absorb, and open, thus having the levels of psychics, from the weakest Omega-level to the most powerful Alpha-level. Although the performance is vastly different, the source and form of their power are exactly the same in essence.

Kethia is very different from other psychics in that her psychic ability is a psychic, mental-level psychic ability. This makes her senses very sharp. The most critical thing is that this psychic ability of hers is on the clear side, and its effect on herself is greater than its effect on others. So this means she is difficult to be deceived by hallucinations or lies, and her sharpness and memory for specific things are amazing. Even in places where the influence of the Warp is strongest, she can still maintain her sanity.

It was this peculiar trait that kept her from becoming fuel for the Black Ships, but instead, she was valued by a Grand Inquisitor, who took her as an inquisitor apprentice, making her a part of the Ordo Malleus, and she also escaped the possibility of being used as firewood for the Golden Throne, or as some ancient machine, or as a consumable for some important rituals.

She is very grateful to her master, Grand Inquisitor Anris Guss. If it weren't for her master, she would still be at the bottom of the hive city, or die an unnatural death, or be a prostitute, if she were lucky enough to grow up...

In fact, she is also very grateful to the Emperor, not because she was born in a hive city, experienced that tragic childhood, or almost became burning material, etc., and thus hated the Emperor.

Because... her psychic characteristics allowed her to clearly Holy See the truth of the Warp!

There is nothing there except the most essential and deep malice toward all life!!

There is no so-called heaven, no so-called rest after death, and no peace at all. In the Warp, there is only malice and covetousness for the emotions, intellect, and soul of life. That is their food, that is their toy, that is the foundation and meaning of their existence. There is only no goodwill toward any life, whether before life dies or after life dies.

Kethia saw with her own eyes... countless times she saw the souls of life after death fall into the Warp. If they were lucky, these souls would wail and dissolve in the Warp. This belongs to natural dissipation. Kethia doesn't know what this dissipation tastes like, but it absolutely has nothing to do with peace, rest, or harmony. Judging from the performance of these souls, it is about the same as falling into sulfuric acid and aqua regia, and then slowly being dissolved into nothingness.

These are the luckiest of the lucky ones.

Under normal circumstances, souls after death will be captured by existences in the Warp. If it is a non-classified Warp existence, then these souls can barely be considered lucky, because they will be quickly devoured. As for whether they are directly digested, or become part of a non-classified Warp existence, slowly savored by it, or wailing in its body for near eternity... this is not something Kethia can know.

But even so, this is not the most tragic... In fact, these are the lucky ones.

Of all the souls that fall into the Warp, the most tragic are those obtained by demons under the four existences.

Becoming a wailing part, becoming a painful groaning shell, being forged into a weapon or armor on an anvil with a bunch of similar souls, every collision is as painful as the soul being cut by a thousand knives, or being pasted on a wall, becoming a part of a fortress, or being used to slowly, bit by bit, consume, or falling into a pile of foul-smelling pus covered with fungi, bit by bit being corroded, yet unable to die, splitting and spreading on spores and fungi, or becoming a musical instrument, the way of playing is to tear your soul apart and reorganize it, and the tone of the instrument is the sound of your wailing...

These are not exaggerated rhetorical techniques, but real definitions and nouns!

It is the truth that Kethia has truly seen through her psychic ability!!

Repeat again, this is the truth, the truth, the truth, the truth that all life in this world must face!

The only exception is her salvation, her faith, her hope... the Emperor!

She has seen with her own eyes that some souls, because of extreme piety and contributions to the Emperor and the Human Empire, have truly returned to the Golden Throne, truly gone to the Emperor's realm, thereby avoiding all those terrifying encounters and truly obtaining rest and peace after death!

And this is the only reason why Kethia piously believes in the Emperor.

The more she knows the truth of this universe, the more piously she believes in the Emperor, and at the same time, the more she will be loyal to the Human Empire, human civilization, and the Emperor.

And now, Kethia is in extreme confusion.

She is familiar with the intelligence information of various Warp demons, whether it is the sacred numbers, symbolic symbols, image symbols of each demon, or the functions of various rituals, the pointing of various aliases, and even the true names of some demons, she is familiar with them, which naturally includes the definition of colors in the Warp...

Blood red, cobalt blue, rot green, bright pink—these four don't need to be mentioned. They represent the four most terrifying, most powerful, and most malicious evil gods in the Warp toward all life. They are the spokesmen for all terror, and also the behind-the-scenes instigators of the nightmares suffered by humanity and all life, the greatest darkness, the greatest terror!

But that golden color...

Kethia absolutely, absolutely will not misidentify it!

That is her faith, that is the source of all her hope, that is also the goal she strives for... As long as this golden color can descend when she dies and take her to the Golden Throne, then she is willing to dedicate everything for it!

This discovery shocked Kethia's worldview. Because in all the cognition she knows, the owner of this golden color... the Emperor she believes in, is the protector of humanity who is hostile to the four evil gods, and is also the nemesis of the four evil gods and all Warp demons.

But what did she Holy See?

She saw the Emperor joining forces with the four evil gods, the reason being to deceive the senses and cognition of this human!?

The reason?

Why?

Isn't the Emperor in eternal struggle with the four evil gods? Aren't they mortal enemies?

And this human who carries the symbols of other evil gods besides Slaanesh... if he is really human, is he really that important? Is he some powerful existence symbol in the Warp? Is he some ancient heretical god? Or is he the same kind of person as that existence that should have been cursed ten thousand years ago?

An existence that is enough to change the fate and direction of this galaxy, whether it is the Emperor or the four evil gods, are willing to invest in?

But even so, it should be the four evil gods fighting each other, and then competing for this existence, and the Emperor should also participate in this competition, right?

Why... did they all coincidentally deceive the senses and cognition of this existence, instead of setting off a Warp storm and directly investing power to snatch it?

Kethia doesn't understand, she is confused.

Although she knew why this paradise world was so clean after seeing all this, it was precisely because she knew all this that she was even more confused.

She didn't even dare to tell anyone else what she saw and knew!

This is not only a huge blasphemy, a blasphemy against the Emperor's divinity and the foundation of existence, but it is also possible that her notification will destroy the Emperor's plan!

As a formal Inquisitor of the Empire, Kethia knows many secrets that others don't know, such as the rumors that some people can survive in unimaginable desperate situations. These people claim that the Emperor let them live, the reason being that their value as the Emperor's currency has not been exhausted, and the Emperor decided to let them die on the battlefield where they are needed more.

!

This is a rumor in the eyes of many people, a fantasy of these people. Of course, this is a symbol of piety, so no one denies it.

But Kethia knows, this is true!

The Emperor has always been laying out on the big chessboard of the Human Empire, and He decides the life and death of all humans.

Life is the Emperor's currency—this sentence is true!

Kethia doesn't know what she should do now. She has always learned, understood, exercised, and her mission is to eliminate the enemies of humanity. As an Inquisitor of the Ordo Malleus, she is a mortal enemy of all demons, especially the schemes of the four evil gods. She must destroy them.

But... if the Emperor is also involved in this scheme, then what should she do?

Kethia doesn't know what she should do. In fact, she repeatedly confirmed that she must do something, whether it is to block it, or to obey the Emperor's arrangement, strictly monitor this paradise world, and prevent anyone from destroying the Emperor's scheme, she... must do something!

However, she couldn't decide all this alone, so she made a dangerous decision...

"Taichilong, my guard captain, and also my old comrade-in-arms..."

Kethia walked out of the prayer room in the church hall and called Taichilong. In a closed secret room, she filled the surroundings with sacred objects and said straightforwardly to Taichilong: "I will reveal a very, very important intelligence information to you here, but because of the particularity of this intelligence information, I have a great possibility... well, I will almost certainly execute you after you know it, or execute you after the mission is achieved..."

Taichilong didn't even move his eyebrows. He said with coldness in his calmness: "Please speak."

Kethia was silent for a few seconds. She revealed what she saw and the secrets of the Warp she knew. At the end, she painfully expressed that after becoming an Inquisitor, this was the first time she didn't know what to do.

Taichilong touched his mechanical eye and then directly gouged it out. Blood and electric sparks splashed everywhere, but he seemed not to feel any pain at all. He stepped on this mechanical prosthetic eye until it exploded, and then said with coldness in his calmness: "You don't need to be confused. From now on, please be ready to execute me at any time. At the same time, my suggestion to you is..."

"All evil gods, all demons, are enemies of humanity! If you find that evil gods and demons may be saving humanity, or that all their schemes may be what we humans... any human, expects, then this must be their trick, hallucination, deception, and vicious conspiracy!"

Kethia shook all over, and then she gradually regained her calm. At the same time, she walked toward the secret room door, saying as she walked: "Very good, this is exactly what I need!"

"Now! Enter the paradise world, find this man, and then..."

"Eliminate him!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 408 =====