The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Thinking of the illusion of ancient humans worshiping a giant golden tree that I had seen, Sorylian blinked, realizing the truth of the matter.

"That's right, that's the only possibility, the Omnissiah who awakened self-awareness is the source of the Iron Men rebellion!"

But Ananda shook his head.

"It is not the source."

"Then it is..."

"The human heart."

"The human heart?"

"A heart to save the world, and a heart to bring disaster to the world."

"Are you referring to someone?"

When Ananda said this, Sorylian immediately thought of someone, but he wasn't sure. He felt it was too absurd, but within the absurdity, there seemed to be its own rationality.

For example, that person is known to be very disgusted with artificial intelligence, but it is generally believed that this is due to the Iron Men rebellion. But in fact, it cannot be ruled out that it might have been the case even before the Iron Men rebellion?

After pondering for a moment, Sorylian shook his head.

"I can't understand, wasn't that personally destroying humanity's most glorious era? Isn't that what He... what He hates the most?"

"This is not the path he envisioned. He believes that humans have been replaced by objects, turned into domesticated livestock, and even abandoned thinking. He cannot see the future of this path. He firmly believes that the power of man lies within himself, in the soul, on the other shore of the Sea of ​​Suffering."

"Can I understand it this way, He believes that the highly developed artificial intelligence civilization developed by humans has no future, and then chooses to more deeply explore the psychic potential of humans... I have heard similar views. He seems to prefer a model like the Eldar for the future of humanity, a completely psychic race? But if that's the case, the price is too high. How many people died and how many worlds were destroyed in the Iron Men rebellion, just to change the path..."

Master Ananda did not answer directly, but chose to continue reciting his obscure ancient scriptures.

"By the power of my ego, all afflictions arise, the three realms of reincarnation, without any possibility of liberation."

Realizing that the terrible historical truth that had happened was right in front of him, Sorylian felt a little uneasy for a while, but he also realized that the Emperor was indeed capable of making such a cruel multiple-choice question of saving some people while killing others.

But this was still too exaggerated and bizarre. Even Sorylian, who had basically gotten rid of the shackles of past thinking, still found it hard to believe.

"But... but if He didn't agree with the development path of humans at that time, why didn't He stand up personally?"

"He once believed that the collective choice of all beings might be better, and He was also one of the creators of that era."

"It shouldn't have caused a disaster like the Iron Men rebellion... And weren't you watching over Him? How could it..."

"Only the most profound lessons can make humanity avoid it from afar. Moro's sometimes extreme ideas are the demons in his heart at work."

"Master Ananda."

Sorylian suddenly looked at the other party and said very seriously:

"Do you agree with Him?"

Ananda was silent upon hearing this, and after a long while, he slowly replied:

"He cannot save all beings, and I cannot save him."

"So you didn't stop Him back then?"

Ananda did not answer.

"Since the Emperor did not approve of that path, why didn't He stand up to clean up the situation during the Iron Men rebellion? Wouldn't that be much easier than the Great Crusade?"

Ananda's next words shocked Sorylian.

"Because... I sealed Him and the Nalanda Sangharama together in the Fount of Laws."

Sorylian was almost in a state of dumbfoundedness. He had thought of a dozen possibilities, but he had never thought of this one.

"Sealed... sealed Him?"

Before, Ananda said that he was the Emperor's fellow disciple, Sorylian didn't feel much about it, after all, it was too far away, but now that the other party said this, he finally realized that the person sitting in front of him was from the same era as the Emperor, and came from the same school.

Then his power...

"Master Ananda, so is this the reason why you have been incognito all along? Then how did He escape?"

"When the time comes, it will naturally be unlocked. I once hoped that he could understand, but he has gone too deep and too deep in ignorance and troubles. The great vows he made have become his Sea of ​​Suffering, without a single sail to cross. My actions have harmed him instead."

After gradually getting used to Ananda's language logic, Sorylian vaguely touched on something.

"Is it saying that after He left, He didn't change his mind, but instead developed more extreme ideas? For example... creating the Primarchs? Yes, is the power of creating the Primarchs also related to the Fount of Laws you mentioned?"

Ananda put his hands together, and in the end, he just sighed.

"In the end, the demon in my heart cannot be subdued."

Sorylian didn't know what to say. Of course, he also felt that if humans entrusted everything, even thinking, to their own creations, that would indeed be a problem. It can be seen from Gellan's reaction that even without the Iron Men rebellion, the attitude of highly personalized artificial intelligence towards their increasingly "wasteful" masters would probably not be good, let alone that their creators were not even humans, but artificial humans created by humans. Then what is the difference between humans who seem to have complete freedom of life and living exhibits placed in advanced cities? If it develops to the end, the situation will probably be unprecedentedly bad, and even the human race will be "abolished".

Unless humans choose to abandon their bodies like the Necrons and turn themselves into efficient and powerful metal bodies, taking the path of "machines" to the end.

But the Necrons themselves are a "failed" case. They are indeed powerful, even challenging the ancient creators of the galaxy, but in the end, they made wedding clothes for others and achieved the Eldar. They have never been the overlord of the galaxy for a single day, and even now they have to find a way to restore their flesh and blood.

In this regard, it is not unreasonable for the Emperor to choose to forcibly brake humanity on this path. At least from the perspective of a psychic race, its power belongs to itself, just like the Eldar, every individual is the most perfect creator, artist, and warrior, without the need to borrow any creations, and there will be more sustained motivation. The Eldar have been prosperous for 60 million years, and the choice of path has contributed greatly.

Of course, that's what they say, but the scale and damage caused by the Iron Men rebellion are still shocking. Even if only a few words remain about that era, and the culprit of all this is actually the later savior, then this is undoubtedly the greatest irony to the legitimacy of the Empire's regime.

After all, "sudden braking" always comes at a huge cost.

Sorylian didn't ask what He did to the Nalanda Sangharama back then, because it was meaningless. Knowing it would only increase his troubles.

At that moment, He must have made a decision. Regardless of whether He would be praised for generations or infamous for thousands of years, He ultimately chose a dark and lonely path of a hero.

But is such a path really worth walking alone?

Even Sorylian himself didn't know, and he didn't even dare to think about how future generations would comment on his merits and demerits after he had completed his life and made his final conclusion.

"The Maha-something that you released back then... is that the current UR-025?"

"A part of its consciousness body."

"Why? Since it would launch the Iron Men rebellion, it should be extremely hateful to humans, right? And it doesn't seem like a peaceful thing."

"Because it is also a sentient being, and all sentient beings can be enlightened."