Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 123 Facing Death as a Human Being

"What the hell are you doing! Stop what you are doing, Father!"

This possibility suddenly occurred to Xiweier's mind. Gao Yi wanted them to die, and he was even willing to let all his soldiers here be buried with him!
The priests also stopped what they were doing, simply because they had completed their work.

"Everything for the Holy Machine!"

The priests looked at the reactor in front of them. In two hours, the reactor would be completely overloaded and the process would be irreversible.

A huge amount of plasma will also completely flow into the core of the planet, and the resulting explosion will be enough to destroy the planet's crust and achieve the goal of destroying the entire planet.

And they will also dedicate themselves to the great holy cause. This is the terrible thing about religion. Believers can willingly give up their lives for a word or an order, because in their hearts they will be closer to the gods they believe in after death.

Sivir also found something wrong. He tried to call out to Asbais to leave with him, but Asbais, who had been completely bewitched, just sat cross-legged in front of the reactor, tightly holding a double-headed eagle decoration, and kept chanting prayers to the God-Emperor.

She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she seemed to see the golden throne waving at her.

There was no hope. In Shiver's eyes, Asbais was completely hopeless. He had no choice but to call on his only remaining servants to rush outside. He thought he would still have to fight with Gao Yi's soldiers, but they had no intention of stopping them at this time.

Instead, he watched Sivir rush out with her servants.

The soldiers who had warped in using the psychic crystals were 100% loyal and pressed the detonator without hesitation.

The cluster melta mounted on the elevator exploded.

The extreme high temperature completely burned the only elevator leading to the top of the hive, cutting off everyone's chance to leave.

When Xiweier looked at the ruins in front of him, he gritted his teeth and loudly denounced Gao Yi's despicableness for daring to murder the Inquisitor.

But gradually his emotions stabilized.

"Gao Yi Mungat, what on earth are you plotting? Are you truly the Emperor's living saint?"

Sivir murmured.

He began to recall all the information he had known about Gao Yi and the Monget Dynasty. He knew that Gao Yi was changing the Monget Dynasty, and he also knew all the measures Gao Yi had taken within Agathos.

After all, there are so many people going to Agathos to trade, and this information is simply out in the open.

How long did it take for Gao Yi to inherit the position of the traveling merchant and develop to his current strength? Just over a year?
In the history of the empire, a year is just a blink of an eye.

Even now, Sivir still scoffs at Gao Yi's various actions. The empire is so big that Sivir has seen many idealists and people who have tried to change.

But in the end, they all had no good ending. Some people died because of their own naiveté. There were only so many resources in the entire empire. If the interests of some people were not sacrificed, it would only cause more deaths.

Many people just can't accept this cruel truth.

Some people are corrupted by Chaos without knowing it, and the good they try to create is nothing more than a trap slowly planted for them by the evil god.

In Xiweier's memory, there is almost no idealist who can reach the height of Gao Yi, who is even a living saint of the God-Emperor.

"Can he really change the empire?"

Sivir laughed, laughing at herself for suddenly having such a ridiculous thought. Even the great God-Emperor had once been unable to achieve such idealism, otherwise the empire wouldn't have been stuck in this quagmire for tens of thousands of years. Sivir knew she couldn't escape. Perhaps there was a path to the surface, but they simply didn't have enough time. Gao Yi's actions clearly meant they would disappear from this world. Even if they reached the Upper Nest, what then?

The final result is just a different way of dying.

Sivir gave up struggling. In the last period of her life, Sivir suddenly recalled the time before she became an inquisitor.

At that time, he walked out of the cruel Zhongsi Academy with absolutely excellent grades. At that time, he also had extremely lofty ideals, which even seemed naive to him now.

Because of her outstanding performance, Sivir was chosen by a great inquisitor to become one of his attendants.

Of course he had heard of the name of the Inquisition. They were responsible for killing aliens and various enemies of humanity. Their supreme power allowed them to execute even high-ranking officials of the Empire. Even the powerful Emperor's Angels were under their control. In Sivir's eyes, this was simply a perfect stage.

When he was young, he wanted to change the world with his own hands, to kill all darkness and evil, and to personally eradicate all enemies of the God-Emperor. All heresy was unforgivable.

At that time, I was even fighting for justice on the streets to stop all kinds of criminal activities, and I even used my savings to help those in need.

But later he discovered that his mentor had been observing his behavior, and he could even see a hint of ridicule in his mentor's eyes.

It seemed as if these actions were meaningless in his eyes.

Sivir didn't understand why his mentor had such an idea, but as he became an official inquisitor, he learned more about this cruel empire and its various secrets, and he found that he was slowly becoming his mentor.

The Empire was rotten to the core, and his mentor even used the lives of tens of thousands of people to teach Sivir how to abandon his pathetic compassion.

Heresy is taking place in a small town, where cultists attempt to sacrifice young girls to an evil god.

But when Sivir's sense of justice took over and he rescued the dying girl and returned to the town for treatment, the plague in their bodies broke out. Tens of thousands of residents in the entire town turned into zombies within a few minutes, and Sivir watched helplessly as the girl he rescued turned into a pool of living rotten meat.

He clearly did not sense any signs of contamination in these girls, but when he saw his mentor's mocking expression again, Shiver knew that he had already seen it.

That time, his mentor told Sivir that he must forget his compassion, which would only harm himself, and the Inquisitor did not need such emotions.

In later missions, he would even see his mentor using the evil creations of the aliens, and even Chaos creations, to resolve threats to the empire.

The Inquisitor, who was clearly meant to eliminate these things, was actively using these forbidden creations on other people. The Inquisitor could even execute them on the spot.

He also learned that if he wanted to eliminate these things, he had to understand them. As long as it was beneficial to the empire, these evil creations could also be used.

His mentor's actions also taught him to adapt, so he took the initiative to come to the lawless area of ​​the expansion zone and was willing to turn a blind eye to the wandering merchants. He did not think that what he did was blasphemous. He was helping the empire.

But later on, as the saying goes, "If you walk by the river all year round, you will get your feet wet." Sivir's mentor was eventually influenced by those evil creatures in a subtle way.

When her mentor was declared a heretic by the Inquisitor, Sivir took the initiative to take on the task of hunting down her mentor and successfully killed him.

Looking at her mentor who had gone mad and whose body had begun to mutate, Sivir did not hate him as much as the other people in the Inquisition did, thinking that he was a traitor.

Because he knew very well how much his mentor had done for the Empire, and that almost no Inquisitor of the Tribunal had a good end.

Maybe in a few years I will be like my mentor.
"Perhaps it would be better to die as a human being?"

(End of this chapter)