Warhammer 40k: Lust of Light

Chapter 11 The Evil God Whispers

The launch of the Nestar battleships and the Luna Wolves 10th Company battleships requires time, various inspections, supplies, and the replenishment of the Astra Militarum.

These complicated chores were arranged in an orderly manner by Loken.

The few Astartes who suffered physical mutations due to the subspace trek have now begun to recover.

They firmly believe that the food left by the material provider to the entire Tenth Company has some special power, and then their body tissues that have been restored by the material provider will flow an endless stream of heat to the mutated parts.

It was the flow of blood that brought some power from the bodies of those sweet potatoes and substance providers who had healed them, removing the influence of the Warp from them.

or……

It covers the original one with a stronger subspace influence.

This is not important, what is important is that when they regain their sound bodies, they stand beside their company commander and praise the Emperor's gift together.

At the same time, he was also quietly thanking his material provider in his heart.

During this period, several material providers from Naixing appeared. Unfortunately, although their personalities were good, they were not the ones they were familiar with.

Loken summoned one of the material providers to him and started asking some questions.

"Honorable Emperor Angel, I awakened as a material provider twenty years ago."

"Tell me the details at that time."

"...I...dare not say."

This boy-looking material provider is over thirty years old, but he still looks like a teenager.

Loken looked at the other material providers. There were men and women among them, but the appearance of the one he knew was very different, and he didn't have that person's temperament.

A complex temperament of sadness, pity, anger, pain and extremes.

The other material providers avoided Loken's eyes, obviously afraid to admit how they became material providers.

How do you describe that process? How heretical!

Lorcan asked a different question.

"I want to know, when the empire's recruitment order was sent to this planet, were you not selected?"

"Indeed, my lord, we have been chosen."

A girl-like material provider of unknown age raised her hand.

She said: "However, we will be sent back to our homes when we arrive on the expedition battleship. Then, the empire will show that I am serving the empire, and even... died in battle."

Loken was silent, he had already imagined some scenes.

He also started to guess something.

Is the material provider a real human being?

Too strong! Powerful for no reason.

Create matter, control space, restore incomplete life, and appear on different battlefields as multiple selves at the same time...

Perhaps, there are many abilities that Loken has not yet discovered.

For such a powerful existence, if there is no Imperial Truth, then he should be called Him.

This is a god, a god walking in the world, just like the emperor...

Loken's eyes widened, he just had a disrespectful thought.

"Which regiment were you supposed to serve in?"

"War Dogs, Seventh Company."

"Salamanders, Second Company."

"The Ninth Legion has no company..."

"Lunar Wolves, 10th Company!"

When the last material provider mentioned the place where he was supposed to serve, there were so many eyes on him that he shivered in fear.

Loken was finally sure of one thing. Their loss and arrival here were not accidents or coincidences.

They were given some kind of special guidance.

Their inner confusion is because the collective consciousness of the Tenth Company makes them lose their way in the subspace. In that idealistic realm of chaos, this is completely possible.

The reason why they were able to escape from the subspace was because the long-lasting storm suddenly stopped at a certain moment. The subspace was extremely gentle and calm to them at this time.

Seizing the opportunity, they left that ghost place and broke into reality, arriving at Naixing.

This sense of guidance is very much like the handiwork of the material provider.

Loken had felt this way when the opponent brought the Luna Wolves to protect him onto the battlefield.

Loken's meditation was not disturbed by anyone, which caused some pressure on the material providers.

"Why did you set off with the battleship? What are you going to Li Ting for?"

Loken became curious.

Finally, one of the material providers couldn't bear it anymore and knelt down.

"Well, we heard some kind of whisper."

Whisper, this is a strange sound wave that can cause mental and physical changes only heard by those who are traveling in subspace and mentally unstable.

"Your bodies are normal."

Loken could not completely confirm whether these material providers had any mutations, but the other party's body and mind were completely in line with the standards of a normal human being, even too normal.

"We will conduct regular physical examinations to prevent ourselves from developing mutations. This is our physical examination report."

After reading through it several times, Loken lowered his guard against these people.

“Tell me what you hear, including what you hear when you become a material provider.”

This revelation caused material providers to begin to think that Loken was an overly powerful sage.

"The sound we heard is probably the same. Please let me describe it."

The female material provider from before stood up. She was the most courageous of the four.

After Loken nodded slightly, she spoke softly.

"That was the first time I saw someone starve to death. I was about five years old at the time. My native family was pretty good, and they would try their best to feed me first.

This allowed me to develop a special kind of compassion.

My family's love for me is limited to me. They don't allow me to waste food to satisfy the hunger of outsiders.

They always remind me that there are too many people out there, and I alone cannot fill the bellies of so many people.

Until one day when I was five years old, I saw a thin little boy standing not far from me, holding a crop fruit that I had never seen before. "

The surrounding Astartes and Loken inexplicably imagined the child's appearance, and matched him with someone they were familiar with.

The female material provider went on to describe the scene.

“I was curious what that crop was, so I struck up a conversation with him.

He told me that it was a crop that originated from the sacred Terra, and later on, we called that thing the polygonal melon.

He gave me the multi-striped melon. I couldn't imagine it at the time, and I was very excited.

As a five-year-old, it was difficult for me to judge the truth of what was being said, but I was pleasantly surprised to find a sacred crop from Holy Terra.

I pestered him to learn more about Holy Terra. He said little, and eventually he led me to another hungry girl of the same age.

Then he asked me: Will you give me the food I gave you in exchange for another life?

My first reaction was of course no, that was probably the most precious thing I ever got, how could I want to.

But when I saw that skinny and cowardly girl, I finally relented..."

Loken fell into some kind of memory in the other party's description.

The material provider of the 10th Company once gave them the same guidance when they were stuck in some difficult decision, and then gave them some surprises as rewards, and...

Thinking of this, Loken's face was still pale and haggard on the outside, but his face turned red on the inside.

Who would have thought that a group of Luna Wolves would be praised as "good babies"? It's too much!

"When the girl ate the striped melon, she stood up and came into me, and then the boy...

I'm not sure what He is, He tells me...

That girl was actually me on my sixth birthday. When I chose to save myself with the polygonal melon, I successfully made a certain contract with Him.

In my glorious capacity as the Emperor, I will provide the people with a food called the Domon Melon, and perhaps others.

He made me promise that no poor person would starve to death in front of me, and then I became a material provider.

When I was six years old, a rebellion broke out in my city and food shortages reached an extreme level. I saved some lives with polygonal melons.

Years later, when I was drafted by the Empire, an unknown material provider joined the army on my behalf and headed to the brutal battlefield.

Last night, His voice came again and He said..."

The face of the female material provider became particularly weird.

"What did He say?"

Loken always felt that He was conveying some important message to him through this girl.

“He says it’s time to pay the price, and you are going to Liting, where you will experience servitude you cannot imagine for the rest of your lives.

You will have to work a full eight hours a day from now on, and only provide three meals and snacks a day!

And only juice is available in the morning, and the lunch break is only one hour!

Bonuses are only given three times a year, and there are only two months of annual leave. The most cruel thing is that you only get a salary increase every four months!

You can only get three times your salary for overtime work, and you are required to exercise for one hour after get off work!

There is only one day of psychological counseling a week!

Haha you are going to hang me from the street lamp! "

"?!" A group of Shadow Luna Wolves slowly made a question mark and an exclamation mark.

They seemed to have heard a similar style of cold joke a long time ago. At that time, they gathered the person telling the cold joke in the middle, and the guy opened a few cans for them.

A group of pale cans just looked at the quail eggs in their hands, without peeling the shells and throwing them into their mouths. Anyway, the Astartes' intestines and stomach often need to eat metal powder to stabilize the density of the body, and eggshells are also a delicacy.

Loken turned around, and a group of Luna Wolves gave him an affirmative look.

It feels like him anyway.

This made Loken a little entangled with Li Ting.

How should I put it? His attitude towards Li Ting just now was - you just want to be independent, right?

Now the attitude has become uncertain.

The other party directed some material providers to Li Ting, and they may not be the only ones in front of them.

"I am very happy."

Loken spoke with sincerity in his tone.

I'm glad he can still joke in such a tone.

It was also at this time that it was time to set off for Liting.

The keen Loken boarded the battleship and was greeted by the slow Salic.

Salic was even more impatient now.