Chapter 59, Hope Rekindled

The pure cosmic energy and the knowledge contained in it accumulated by the Old Sage for more than ten thousand years were all sucked into his phantom by the black-haired man until there was nothing left.

The Old Sage's device completely lost its energy and stopped working, and then the black-haired man's long sword fell, and the ancient Sage's relic was reduced to ruins.

"Are you full? Father?" Ryan sat down casually beside him, joking towards his father.

"……not enough."

"What?! Is this not enough?" Ryan's face hurts: "Father, this is the collection of the ancient saints for countless years! This cosmic energy is enough to make a mortal a demigod!"

"Not enough, these cosmic energies are only enough to heal my soul that has been torn and tortured for more than 10,000 years. To heal my rotten and dry body, I need more energy." The black-haired man quietly Shake your head.

"Then what should I do?" Ryan asked mockingly, "Father, are you going to suck up the whole world?"

"No... From the knowledge I have obtained, the Old Sage does not only have this instrument." The black-haired man stopped his movements, and after absorbing such a huge amount of cosmic energy, his golden phantom could almost condense into a Entity: "There are more instruments in this world, keep looking for them."

"Okay, I understand, father." Ryan nodded: "The Old Sage has accumulated millions of years or more, and its coffin money is indeed more than that."

"...But there is also good news. I found out about their unique webway construction technology in the technology of the Old Ones. After more than 11,000 years of continuous fighting with demons, my soul and spirit are finally We can usher in a short rest." The black-haired man let out a sigh of relief, and his extremely tall figure walked to Ryan's side: "This is due to you, my son."

"In this case, father, are you busy now?" Ryan's face was a little pale, and the spiritual infusion that lasted for five hours made him feel as if he had run out of fuel.

The black-haired man waved his hand, and the golden light shone on the White Wolf Knight, restoring his physical strength and expelling his fatigue: "What do you want to say, Ryan?"

"I said father, can I ask you a few questions?" Ryan asked casually, touching the back of his head.

"I can see that your heart is full of doubts. Doubts lead to thinking, and thinking leads to heresy." The black-haired man's tone was as unchanged as Wanzai Xuanbing, but seeing Ryan's pale face, the man still nodded: " But you have proved your will and courage, ask questions, and I will try to answer you."

"Father, why did you choose me?" Ryan asked first.

"When you appeared in front of me, I knew you were the most precious gift from the subspace." The black-haired man looked at Ryan quietly: "Unlike all creations, what appeared in front of me, A flawless...human being."

"Flawless?"

"Yes, flawless, the subspace is inseparable from the real world. When a newborn cries for the first time after birth, it means that he has established a fundamental connection with the subspace, but I can't see it from you. Seeing that there is such a connection, Ryan, so you are a complete, pure human being that has not been polluted by any subspace." The black-haired man said with great certainty, Ryan had an illusion that any absurd and bizarre words would only need to pass through his father's mouth , will become the holy truth: "So, father, you have chosen me?"

"Exactly, my genes are perfectly integrated into your body. You are perfectly like a smooth egg. No matter how much the forces of chaos try to corrupt you, they will never be able to break through your eggshell." Black The hair man continued: "The only way is to soak your egg in the sewage for a long time and slowly seep it in. Some of your brothers are like this. When they were babies, Chaos Soak them in dirty water,

I finally slowly corrupted their inner beings, but this is useless to you, because you have grown up smoothly under my watchful eyes, and the corruption of chaos will no longer be able to erode your innermost beings. "

"Even so, I still don't understand what's special about me." Ryan shook his head, obviously not accepting this explanation.

"You still have something special about you, Ryan. After using psionic energy for many years, you should understand your specialness... Your special physique can absorb the power of chaos and turn it into the purest subspace energy. It provides the possibility for my future plan to reverse corruption." The black-haired man continued: "You can easily bear the psionic dialogue with me, which is too important."

"Well, so I'm so powerful?" Ryan smiled self-deprecatingly, he accepted this explanation, but he immediately asked the second question: "Father, just like the rumors, if you are taken from the If you move it from the golden toilet, will you be able to get rid of the shackles and reincarnate smoothly?"

"Yes, and no." The answer was still a cold voice.

"???" A bunch of question marks appeared on Ryan's head.

"My psychic consciousness has fought those horrors in subspace for more than 11,000 years for the survival of mankind. In the real world, my body has decayed. If I leave the Golden Throne, mankind will no longer be able to Against that terrible darkness, my life is an endless torment, but I must persist, any slack in me will cause the demons to rush directly into the real universe, and the crazy and terrifying subspace chaotic energy will destroy the entire entity The universe is flooded, so as long as my body lasts, I will burn to the last moment of my life, I am the Emperor, I was, I am, and I will continue to be."

"Because Magnus is smart, if I don't sit on the golden throne, the human empire will be destroyed. Similarly, even if I leave the golden throne, I can certainly possess it, but just like your fallen brothers, I also I can't guarantee whether my possession will be smooth, and it is also difficult to find a body strong enough for me to walk in the material world. When I return again, whether I will still be the lord of mankind, or become something else, I Can't afford the consequences."

"Now, thank you, my son, after I have obtained the technology left by the Old Ones, I have a way to permanently close the gap in the webway." The black-haired man, or the human emperor finally stretched out his hand, lightly Caressing Ryan's head: "In the temptation of conferring gods, you can still stick to your heart and guarantee your loyalty to me. I am proud of you."

"You're welcome, father, I just want to know when you will be able to help me?" Ryan said with a smile on his face. It is really not a good experience to be touched by his father. He is twenty-four years old and still looks like a Head patted like a child.

"I need enough time to close the webway gap and digest the energy. You still have to fight alone for a while." The emperor told Ryan an answer that did not satisfy him.

"Then... the third question, father, why did you appoint Horus as the commander?" Ryan asked suspiciously.

"Any other options?" asked the Emperor.

"Such as... Guilliman?" Ryan was at a loss for words, and then said a name casually.

"Robert Guilliman's mind is full of dogma and principles. He always emphasizes that everything must be done according to the rules, and he has specially formulated extremely complicated codes of conduct for this purpose, but he never knows how to think about it with his stone head. Things don't always go his way, so despite his superb leadership and political savvy, he's not the right Warmaster under the circumstances."

"Uh...Jonson?" Ryan spit out another name.

"Jonson is more like an orphan than my work. Although he is full of courage and faith, he is lonely and arrogant. He has never bothered to explain his ideas to others, and he has never bothered to listen to other people's opinions. , I cannot appoint him as Warmaster." The Emperor continued to shake his head.

"Then... Sanguinius?" Ryan was a little embarrassed.

"Sanguinius... this is an eagle boy who is full of fantasies all day... Forget about him, he died because of me." The emperor rejected Ryan's proposal again.

Both the father and son fell into silence, until the father's tall figure suddenly fluctuated.

"I should go, Ryan, one last question."

"Father, what is this world?" Ryan stood up. Under the nourishment of his father's holy light, his son had fully recovered.

"This world is very special. It is the playground of the Old Sage, the experimental field behind it, and the final refuge. This world is shrouded in an eternal giant subspace storm. It can only be reached through the astral portal of the webway. The ancient Saint hides the last and purest secret in this world, I don’t know what it is, what I know is Ryan, you must stop the last moment, otherwise... I have a feeling that something terrible will happen, Ryan, You must stop it!" The Emperor's tone was very serious and heavy.

"I will!" Ryan raised his warhammer and made a promise to his father.

"The future era will face a new chapter! Endless flames of war will sweep across the universe! No single creature will be spared, and the road ahead will be full of flames of war. We humans, with the efforts of my beloved son, hope to rekindle! Even in the future The road is full of haze, even if the future is surrounded by darkness, human beings will eventually stand on the top of the blood tide!"

"My plan has kicked off and accelerated growth, Ryan." The father's figure disappeared into the basement.

"Leave it to me! Father! I will never let you down... The premise is that you quickly free up your hands and feet to help me~" Ryan complained into the air.

Shaking his head, Ryan left the basement.

It was already early morning when he came out of the collapsed manor and returned to Mijoden Haven.

He keenly felt that the atmosphere was not right.

In the direction of the town, there was a family of civilians with their families, pushing their cart along the road towards the direction of the town.

This is too abnormal. In this early morning hours, the field is so dangerous. Why do these farmers take the risk to come out in the middle of the night?

Ryan hurried towards the road.

"Grandma? Why do we have to leave our own home?" A little girl with dust on her face and wearing thin clothes in winter, her little face flushed from the cold, asked her grandma with a puzzled expression.

This is a simple family of six, grandparents, father, mother, son and daughter. All the family's belongings are loaded on a simple cart.

"Clara, the barbarians are coming. If you don't leave home, they will break down our house, take away our food, and eat all the children alive!" The old woman held the little girl's hand and panicked. Said: "Only in the town, we are safe."

Even though she said that, grandma's face was full of fear.

"Okay, hurry up! We have to hurry to Mijodenhaven!" The middle-aged man hurriedly urged: "Hurry up! Hurry up, if it is too late, there will be no place to live even if we enter the town!"

"But Dad, I'm so tired, I'm so hungry!" the boy said aggrievedly, his thin body was shivering in the winter night, and his blue face showed the boy's malnutrition.

"Hold on, hold on a little longer! When we get to the town, I'll buy milk with you, come on Lucas, hold on a little longer!" The mother secretly calculated the accounts, and she took out a small bag with some coins in it , She thought to herself that if things go well, after the whole family is resettled, she should be able to squeeze out a little money.

It's just that if this is the case, next year's life will be tense again.

Fortunately, the damned barbarians came at this time. If they had come two months earlier during the autumn harvest, their family would have been finished.

"But I don't want to drink milk! I want to eat ham, I want to eat bread!!" The boy said aggrievedly, two crystal clear snot scratched from his nose, and then quickly froze into ice.

"Lucas! Stop making trouble! We must hurry into the city!" Grandpa scolded quickly.

"I don't want it, I don't want it! I'm so hungry, I'm so cold! I want to eat bread, I want to eat ham! Wow!!!" In the midst of hunger and cold, the boy cried loudly in the field.

Seeing this, the girl also sat down on the ground, crying with her brother: "Wow!!!"

The sonorous cries were very penetrating, and the parents of the children were horrified. They put down the trolleys and tried their best to comfort the crying children. The adults even gritted their teeth and stuffed the clothes into the children's mouths: "Don't cry!" Stop crying!!! You will attract robbers like this!"

"Wow! Wow!!!" Who knew that the child not only didn't listen, but cried louder, and kicked the feet in straw sandals constantly, leaving several black marks on the parents' pants.

"Don't cry! Ulfric is coming, Ulfric is coming!" Mother immediately told the scariest story.

The two children stopped crying.

But it was too late, attracted by the crying of the child, a group of black shadows appeared on the horizon.

It's a robber! The robbers have really come!