Chapter 181 Emperor's Analysis
Onboard the Emperor's Dream.
In the eyes of others, the emperor never left his seat from beginning to end, nor did he say or do anything.
The Emperor remained seated.
But in fact, the Emperor was engaging in a communication that no one else could perceive.
"I shouldn't have been angry just now."
The emperor said to the figure of the rickety old man in front of him.
"But No. 12's ability...can dig out the deepest hidden things in anyone's heart."
"No. 12 should not treat me with that attitude. The original body They all misunderstood me, but No. 12 shouldn’t have misunderstood me. He shouldn’t have that attitude.”
“Makado, can you understand how I feel now?”
The rickety old man remained motionless and silent.
Gradually, the emperor stopped talking and calmed down.
Makado then spoke: "You should not reveal anything in your heart in front of No. 12, even if No. 12's talent becomes stronger enough to fully perceive your heart just now , you should not show anything, just use your current silence and indifference to make No. 12 suspect that there is a problem with his perception."
"No one can remain calm after being exposed. , You can’t either.” The emperor raised his hand and pointed at Malcador, his lips not moving, but the thunderous words could be heard in Malcador’s ears.
Makado nodded calmly: "But it's not me facing No. 12, but you facing No. 12. It's not me who is exposed."
The Emperor was speechless.
Both of them were silent.
After a moment, the Emperor regretted and said: "I don't know why I implanted my sensibility into No. 12, sensibility. No. 12 can directly reveal the inner heart, and no one can maintain it in front of him. Pure rationality."
"Emotions and human nature, I have dug a trap for myself."
"Now I have stepped into the trap. I thought that sensibility and humanity were my shortcomings and weaknesses, and it was true.”
The Emperor stood up from his throne, paced back and forth, and kept mumbling.
“I should have given Angron a unique characteristic just like I gave kindness to Vulkan. I don’t know why I made that decision at that time, giving the humanity I possessed and sensibility to Angron."
"What a shame," said the Emperor, and Malcador listened.
The rickety-looking and shrewd imperial prime minister sneered, and couldn't agree more with what the emperor said.
The Primarch itself is dangerous, and the Emperor also passes on some of his weaknesses to a certain Primarch, and the weakness of walking without his own will become a weapon against him.
What happened in the dream that brought Angron just now is proof.
"There is only No. 12." Malcador said suddenly.
Malcador felt that the Emperor should have less contact with Number Twelve.
The Emperor would not react even if he was pointed at and scolded by a certain Primarch or someone close to him... It's not like no one had ever scolded him like this.
But being directly exposed to the inner world...
This kind of unreasonable ability is simply a nemesis.
"The fundamental reason." Malcador analyzed calmly, "You still have expectations for humanity and sensibility in building No. 12."
The Emperor stopped and looked back at Malcador .
Malcador looked at the Emperor.
The two looked at each other for a long time, then the emperor returned to the throne and sat down, and said: "Let's talk about training the wizard No. 12."
Malcador nodded.
A series of visions appeared before the Emperor and Malcador.
That was everything recorded from the "filming perspective" of Primarch No. 12, Angron.
From the moment Angron was thrown into the gladiatorial arena, now Angron is helping Corax accomplish the goals of the uprising at a smaller cost.
But this is not the detailed history of Angron's life, but the scenes that Qin Xia appeared in Angron's life, the things he did, and the words he said.
After capturing the fortress territory, Angron sensed that the newly rescued free men were determined to attack and retaliate against other free men, in order to create panic and let people know that they would follow the gladiators to resist the High Knight. It is wrong and will be punished by God.
Angron sensed them, and then went to Qin Xia to express his thoughts.
Qin Xia was very happy when she heard that Angron was planning to kill those people, and happily praised Angron for his growth.
“He is teaching Angron to become ‘evil’.” Malcador said.
The Emperor nodded in agreement.
In the early days of the rebellion, Angron witnessed the diversity of human species. The Emperor felt that there were many ways to deal with this matter. Angron could provide them with psychological treatment and correct their wrong ideas. However, Qin Xia directly encouraged Angron to kill those people.
This is teaching Angron to become evil.
But the evil that turns evil does not refer to Angron being taught to be a bad person, but refers to a method, a harsh method.
The Emperor saw no problem with this.
Angron's ability to empathize does not distinguish between friend and foe. He also feels the pain of his enemies. He will also feel the excitement and joy from his enemies. Angron needs to know how to distinguish between enemies, friends and neutral parties more than anyone else. .
If no one can teach Angron how to distinguish and deal with enemies, then he will not be able to deal with anyone unless he is in a desperate situation of life and death.
On Nuceria, this inability to be cruel is fatal.
But the emperor did not intend to analyze Angron's educational history. What he and Malcador were analyzing was Qin Xia.
The person who had the deepest influence on Angron.
"Analyzing from some of what he said to Angron."
Malcador stared at the illusion. "He is actually not good at being a father, nor is he good at getting along with his relatives, because he has not received education from his parents, and has no experience in getting along with his parents or children."
"He will use classification methods to classify everyone, and then choose to treat the classified people with different attitudes."
"Category enemies, relatives and friends, neutral parties, use cruelty to way to treat the enemy.”
"I think he must have suffered some kind of shock before he would use this method to differentiate between everyone. Maybe he used to be a pleaser, but after trying to please someone he later considered an enemy, he changed and chose to differentiate first. Friend or foe, choose to show the gentle or cruel side of your personality to your friends or enemies."
Listening to Malcador's analysis, the emperor thought about it and agreed with half of it, but he didn't disagree with the other half. Agreed, but he had to think carefully before coming to a conclusion.
"White Knight." Malcador said, "I once suspected that he came from the future and belonged to a Space Marine force called the White Knight, but when he explained where the name White Knight came from , I gave up this idea.”
“White Knight is a psychological concept. Qin Xia said that the think tank was named White Knight to fit Angron’s characteristics, but in fact I think it is more like a metaphor. He himself."
"But this 'white knight' is not a white knight who will save anyone. He will not save those he thinks deserve to die."
After listening to Malcador's analysis, the Emperor nodded in agreement again.
The illusion changes again.
Angron was in pain during the period of seizing the fortress territory and continuing to expand.
Those people he killed, the enemies he killed, haunted Angron like a nightmare, a nightmare in the true sense, even when Angron was in an area with high influence from the subspace. , he will directly see the souls of the enemies he killed.
Angron can sense the pain of his enemies and empathize with them, which is fatal.
But Angron judged everyone he killed based on the concepts of good and evil he learned from Qin Xia.
Then Angron faced the nightmare, angrily cursed the souls of the enemies he killed, and said that if they came to him again, he would find a way to kill them again, and finally he dispersed those nightmares.
This experience was deliberately concealed by Angron, so neither Qin Xia nor the people who were regarded as brothers and sisters by Angron knew that Angron had suffered from the negative impact of his talent. Struggled.
By the time Qin Xia discovered that something was not right with Angron, Angron had already realized that his soul needed to be tempered, so he felt and absorbed the pain of everyone in the fortress territory. Through this kind of self-abuse, Ways to temper the soul.
Then time passes to after the Battle of Mach City.
At night, Qin Xia and Angron sat on the arms of the god Titan, burning books.
Qin Xia held the iron hook and hooked the burning book from time to time to make the flames burn more evenly.
Angron sat next to the fire lit on the books, twisting two marshmallows in his hands and roasting them on the fire.
Angron asked Qin Xia what book this was.
Qin Xia said, this is a book that I can smell the stench of. Their existence is a blasphemy and insult to the real universe.
In fact, these books were found by Qin Xia in the noble residence of Mach City, and they all recorded some methods of drawing powerful power into oneself through blood sacrifice.
"He can sense something that is affected by Chaos." Malcador looked at the Emperor, "In other words, he can distinguish it."
The Emperor nodded again.
The existence of the Chaos Gods and Daemons was something the two of them never took the initiative to tell anyone, and the Primarchs were not allowed to know of their existence.
But Qin Xia knows what else can be distinguished from the devil.
The illusion disappears.
The Emperor and Malcador stood facing each other.
"He has no soul projection." The Emperor said, "Otherwise we would be able to know his experiences and thoughts from his perspective."
"There is no soul projection, which is why the Twelve No. can't sense him," Makado said.
Almost everything in the real universe has a projection in the subspace.
If things in subspace want to affect reality, they often need to start with projection, and the soul projection of creatures with psychic talents is particularly shining. This is why demons like to possess humans.
The absence of soul projection of a psyker only means that the psyker is not a thing in the real universe.
Just like demons, demons only have essences in the warp and nothing like projections, because they are born from the warp.
But the emperor felt that Qin Xia could not be a demon, because it was often difficult for demons to enter the real universe, let alone exist in the real universe for a long time, and could draw spirits at will in places where the influence of subspace is not strong. Amount of ability.
There is another way for subspace existence to be able to freely enter and exit reality like Qin Xia, and that is to be similar to the original body.
"Perhaps, he is also an existence similar to the original body." Malcador said seriously, "But he is more advanced. His subspace essence can exist directly in the real body, so he can be free in reality. Activities."
"Then he can absorb and purify spiritual energy. Why? If he comes from the subspace and is constructed of pure spiritual energy, then his spiritual energy level is at most higher than that of ordinary spiritual energy. The one who is stronger is right," the emperor questioned.
"Perhaps it is a sub-space sub-god." Malcador patched his thoughts, "A sub-god that represents concepts such as purification, so it can be purified and used with the concepts it has been given. Psychic power.”
After hearing this, the emperor thought about it and nodded.
Makado said nothing more.
Both of them realized that the information they currently controlled was insufficient, and no matter how they thought about it, they were just guessing.
“He knows the future.”
“He has unique psychic powers.”
“He has a big problem with me.”
“ But he should not be our enemy yet, let’s observe for a while before making a decision.”
The emperor thought and gradually came to a conclusion.
Makado had the same idea and slowly turned around to look at the porthole.
This galaxy is not far from Chiaval's galaxy, and the fleet is ready to set sail.
"Will he still carry out the orders given to Angron before?" Malcador asked.
"I do not believe that he would turn a blind eye and stand by while the billions of humans in half a sector are about to die," the Emperor said.
(End of this chapter)