++ Thoughts of the Day: Wisdom Brings Fear. ++

"Su Jing has always had a habit that I don't think is very good. It's that he always likes to push himself to the bottom and enjoy it. ”

"Don't ...... Don't read it! ”

"Sometimes he didn't sleep for days, he described himself as withered, his eyes were sunken, he staggered when he walked, his movements became soft and gentle, his eyes were always half-open and half-closed when he looked at people, and he looked like he was about to collapse, but he just stood there. It seems to add a feminine beauty - at least I've always thought he was beautiful. Generally speaking, this adjective is rarely used on men, and I never say it, but I have always admired him in my heart, and have been fascinated by his beauty......"

"Hey!"

"Beautiful. He really deserves the word. ”

"I mean...... Woo-ah-ah! ”

"I hugged him from behind, and sprinkled his neck with my long, soft hair with moisture, and my soft body pressed against my back, and the Siren's offspring gently soothed the man, seducing the sailors on the ship like a mermaid in mythology...... Lead him to the bottom of the sea and experience the suffocation of false love in the drowning......"

"Give it back to me!"

"Wait, let me read a few more paragraphs......"

In the VIP cabin of a merchant ronin Star Ocean Voyager, Lu Mengyao was jumping up and down with a journal in her hand, reciting the passages aloud, while Sadako Yamamura blushed and chased after her, trying to retrieve the book from the magician's hand.

"Stop!" The long-haired girl pounced, but only landed a phantom. Fell on the bed in embarrassment. When the illusion disappeared, Lu Mengyao's true body was revealed, leaning against the wall leisurely, flipping the pages of the diary with his fingers.

"Tsk...... Do you pass the time by writing this when you're bored? The description is really delicate...... I don't know what Lu Dao is for, I think you're very pitiful after reading this...... By the way, this guy doesn't sleep just because he thinks that feeling of being on the verge of death is funny. ”

The long-haired girl lying on the bed buried her face in the quilt and waved her hand, and the diary in the magician's hand flew back with a snap. Then a strong force pushed Lu Mengyao out of the cabin, and slammed the door shut.

“…… I'm angry. The short-haired girl stood in the hallway with her arms crossed, took two deep breaths, and the cabin in the dim yellow light was like the esophagus of a giant beast. It's so dull that it looks like you're locked in an iron box. "I don't want to go back to my room......"

To put it simply, due to the period of confinement he spent as a child, Lu always had a mild claustrophobia. Although it doesn't affect her mind, living in such a spaceship always makes her uneasy.

"Hmph...... Put your life in the hands of others...... It's so unsafe. "Anyway, it's idle and nothing. Magicians begin to ponder the possibility of the destruction of various space warships. Face your fears.

If you're unlucky. A lethal cannonball or spear of light can turn a naval warship that took hundreds of years to build on an industrial planet into a giant plasma flameball; And the warships in the Warhammer 40K universe have another and more dangerous possibility, if the subspace engine is destroyed. A cohesive explosion would tear a rift in the cosmic background in an instant, and the torn warship and the unfortunate surviving crew would be tragically sucked into subspace and vanished without a trace.

Horror stories of unknown truth and falsehood circulate among seafarers, such as the permanent drift of a spaceship that has lost its power and the ghosts that remain on it. Some rumors were about a deadly plague that killed an entire ship, or a famine that killed each other. The ships that have attracted each other for tens of thousands of years because of gravity have piled up into huge drifting ruins, and in the crevices of the ruins live terrifying life......

In the barren universe, human power is so small that it is helpless, and only the daring traders will enjoy the life of wandering in the stars.

The Rogue Traders are an independent force in the Human Empire, a combination of wandering princes, freelance explorers, conquerors, and merchants who have been granted permission to trade in the Empire. No one has the authority to command the Rogue Traders, as they are directly accountable to the Empire - of course, in theory.

Since Mr. Lu and Sadako need to go to the Frontier Node of the Far Eastern Star Domain to find the traces of the ancient fallen Star Marines legion "Children of a Thousand Wounds", the Progaste Inquisitor contacted their superiors and connected them with a more reliable Ronin Merchant loyal to the Inquisition, who sent them to the edge of the star cluster.

"A planet with a relatively primitive degree of civilization, and the human society on the planet is probably at the level of medieval civilization. Then, we received a message from the local Anglican priest that the planet was ...... Wizards, that is, untrained wild psionics, have undergone some unusual changes. ”

The cold voice of the Progaste Inquisitor came from the speakers of the servo skulls, the skulls floating in mid-air that were the most widely used multi-purpose terminals in the Empire. The symbol of a human skull appears in many religious items in the Human Empire, including the Space Marine's power armor, which symbolizes the primordial purity of an unmutated human being from a general theological point of view.

In the Great Rebellion that plunged the Empire apart 10,000 years ago, Warlord Horus led half of his Space Marine legions into Chaos, and the Children of a Thousand Sores were one of them. They tried to gain more knowledge through the forbidden forces of chaos, but unfortunately they were pulled into the realm of chaos by the reaction forces.

The Children of a Thousand Sores believe in the power of knowledge, and they fall to their knees at the feet of the treacherous Lord of Change, Tzeentch. It is said that he was once the most powerful of the four evil gods, and mastered all the mysteries of sorcery in the entire universe, but in the civil war with the rest of the evil gods, Tzeentch, who was beaten by the group, had to smash the crystal that represented the mystery of ten thousand laws, and countless fragments were scattered in all corners of the universe.

The Legion of the Children of a Thousand Sores once had the most complete record of psionic research in the Empire, and their genetic protogen, the famous One-Eyed Magnus, was once one of the Empire's strongest psionic beings, the one-eyed red giant who grew up among a group of wizards and became the best seeker of knowledge with his amazing talent. Led by the Genotype, the Children of a Thousand Sores' ability to preserve knowledge allows them to retain the knowledge and power they possess even after they have fallen into Chaos.

It has been recorded that after the Imperial soldiers had gone through a lot of trouble to eliminate a group of Sons of a Thousand Wounds, the strongest of them, the Chaos Wizard, handed over a large book to his enemies, saying that "knowledge is innocent" and begging them to preserve it.

The result was that the book was destroyed by the Demon Inquisition, and then the group of soldiers who had come into contact with the book was thoroughly decontaminated by a company of combat nuns with a giant flamethrower.

"Some knowledge is fatal in itself." The inquisitor of the Demon Inquisition said so.

And Lu Mengyao and Sadako Yamamura are going for these deadly knowledge.

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Planet Thebes IV.

"Are you already familiar with the way the spiritual energy works in this worldly realm?"

The Ronin Merchant ship is anchored in the synchronous orbit of Thebes IV, a dazzling star that is regarded as a divine revelation by the natives of the planet. And from this star came down the messenger of the God Emperor, a great bird that breathed flames, and two beautiful angels came out.

Each of the planets controlled by the Empire has a different culture, ranging from savage planets that are close to the wilderness, to highly developed nest planets, and the most beautiful environments are the cozy garden planets - as long as they follow the state religion of the empire and pay tithes, the big men don't care how the local planetary governors govern the planets.

Due to the different cultural backgrounds of each planet, the missionary state priests also have some free play to adapt to the local culture. If you want to calculate, the God Emperor probably has more than 100,000 godheads in the entire galaxy, and on some planets he may appear as the god of war, and on other planets he has become the god of the sun, or the god of the sky, and so on.

And on the planet Thebes IV, a medieval planet divided by princes, the God-Emperor was revered as the supreme god of light.

In the marble papal palace, Sadako Yamamura and Lu Mengyao were entertained with the specifications of the oracle. The head of the missionary in the region, the pope of this world, has the supreme authority and power among the nations, in other words, he is the one who rules the planet in the legal sense of the empire.

"Yes." Sadako Yamamura spoke to the magician with a telepathic voice, "The psionic energy of this universe...... It's quirky. No, it should be said that it runs very differently. ”

"Huh?"

"Generally speaking, in other worlds, we use our minds to distort the structure of reality in order to achieve the effect we want. But in this world, our spiritual dependence has been detached from the structure of the world—or rather, the spiritual world of this world is the most powerful I have ever seen...... Chaos. ”

"That is to say......"

"The spiritual energy of this world is to pull the power of chaos to the real world world. It is difficult to control, and due to the high amount of chaotic power in this world, there will be many inexplicable psionic effects. ”

The decaying Pope walked in with the support of his attendants, an old man of unknown centuries of age, holding a scepter of power that shimmered with divine light. The top of the scepter was inlaid with a large gem, and as he moved, they could both feel the ripples of the energy field.

"Hmm...... The glory of the God Emperor has never pulled down this corner of the countryside. The Pope's thick knuckle palm twisted his staff, "Your Excellency the Inquisitor has informed me, two, let's talk about it seriously. (To be continued......)