Hades stared at the lab report in deep thought, not realizing that he was the only person standing in the entire area.
Behind him was Ugo, the lamplighter with a look of despair on his face. It seemed that casting spells next to Hades put a lot of pressure on him and consumed his energy.
So now this man is sitting there with a look of exhaustion, and next to him is Hader. Because of helping Ugo contact the subspace, Hader is also in great pain.
In front of Hades, the two believers in the observation window were exhausted and lying on the ground in a humiliating manner.
Praying to Hades seemed to be a very laborious task. In fact, Hades suspected that Margo and Kirkland were about to pass out.
The conclusion was clear, Hades thought easily, saving a lot of time and energy.
Currently, it seems that control-type psionic spells can be cleared or weakened through prayer.
If it is the simplest spell, then just praying is enough, but if the spell used by the psychic is more profound, then the level of prayer will also need to be deepened.
In other words, believers need to be more devout.
But being too pious is not a good thing either.
If each person's warp projection is compared to a flame, then the psyker's control is equivalent to adding a touch of color to the flame.
Prayer is to cast a touch of your own flame into Hades's dark domain.
The stronger the psychic witchcraft, the more polluted the flame is. To remove it, you have to shave off more of your own flame.
But if you shave off too much, it will cause irreversible damage to your soul flame.
Therefore, the essence of removing the debuff is that the believer will allow part of his own fire to be swallowed by Hades, but the swallowed part happens to be contaminated by psychic energy.
Normally, if you chant Pluto with emotion, it will just make you feel a sudden chill on your back, but it cannot completely remove the debuff.
Furthermore, if a psychic has given you a positive buff, praying will also remove the positive buff.
Hades pondered, it can only be said that it is useful, but not that useful.
First, prayer is actually an act that hurts the soul. Second, the effect is linked to piety, so it is not something that can be effectively achieved by just shouting it out as a slogan.
Just shouting it as a slogan will only disgust yourself.
It would be better to equip it with a think tank, which is more useful after all, at least there is no friendly damage.
Praying can remove the debuff, but it is difficult to continue fighting after praying, unless your soul flame is particularly strong, your recovery ability is strong, or you have a strong will.
Hades was slightly disappointed, but more fortunate, because this meant that apart from these two fanatics with abnormal brain circuits, others were unlikely to have a fanatical love for Hades and his black domain.
As for how to deal with these two fanatics
Hades plans to put Kirkland and Jin under house arrest in the Black Stone experimental area first, let them work, and not let them out to meet other oil men.
As for Margo, Hades will release her back into the Cerberus Hounds and give her a certain period of time to pull out all the mentally abnormal people in the Cerberus Hounds. Then Hades will put these people into the Zero Company and isolate them from normal people.
Hades still has a high degree of control over the Zeroth Company. Compared to those who do not understand what the Black Domain is and blindly believe that it is a miracle, the Untouchables have adapted well to Hades' Black Domain.
The existence of the gravekeeper also makes the ideological barriers of the Zero Company very high.
Of course, Hades would also stop these people from talking nonsense and going crazy—
The door was flung open, and a gray cloak strode in with the wind.
"Hades, you haven't shown up in your office for fourteen hours. The sages of Just have started to act crazy. You can go to work—"
The only one who could enter this area without notifying Hades was Legion Commander Mortarion.
Hades turned around and saw Mortarion staring at the people in the room in silence.
Ugo and Had wanted to stand up and salute, but the two men, exhausted from their psychic energy, looked a little shaky.
Mortarion silently looked at the two people lying on the ground in the interrogation room, and Hades who looked like he knew nothing.
Mortarion raised an eyebrow.
".?"
"So, that's it."
Hades briefly explained the current situation. In an empire that believes in the imperial truth, religion should be valued.
"That reason does not justify your absence from work for sixteen hours."
The Primarch lightly staggered Hades' words and choked on the dialogue.
In fact, although the war in Just was over, the official document's front-line horn had just been sounded, with war review, material verification and declaration, not to mention the docking affairs with the Mechanicus and the First Legion.
Hades knew that his behavior was equivalent to throwing the pressure of the front line to other managers.
But that’s not the point!
"This is against the Imperial Truth! I'm afraid I'll be punished one day for carrying out religious activities without permission."
"If he had not allowed it, you would have been executed in Minint."
“?!”
Mortarion ignored Hades's reaction, took out the command board, and began to assign tasks to Hades, and continued,
"He doesn't care about that."
"When he allowed his historians and recorders to refer to the Legion as "Demigod", he had already acquiesced to these little jokes."
"It's just a rule to maintain the surface. No one cares about it until the bottom line is touched."
"There are always people who are born with a desire for power and domination. Even if they are not allowed to call God, they will use other titles instead."
"But wait, you know the attitudes of those sages in Mint at that time?!"
"Just foolish believers."
Mortarion sneered.
“As long as you go far enough in a certain direction and are alone enough, they will deify you.”
"Didn't you see those people, the ones who kneeled down when they saw me, mumbling about death?"
"Birds of a feather."
In a sense, in the eyes of those people, the Primarch is a god.
There is such a part of mortals in every legion, or on those planets ruled by the Empire, people regard the legion as a synonym for "sacred".
Son of God, Demigod, Angel
“But I do answer prayers.”
"But you have understood and explained it all. This is a characteristic. Fire is hot and stone is hard. This is just the characteristic of your black domain, but it happens to be manifested in the subspace."
"This is science, not witchcraft or theology. It can be understood and explained. What are you worried about?"
“.”
That's true.
".I.at least have to stop them from spreading this."
It's better not to let these lunatics go out and embarrass themselves.
Hades is always cautious in strange ways. Mortarion cannot understand why some of his mortal servants worship him as the God of Death. But what does this mean
This serves no purpose other than giving the natural slaves a false sense of security that they are being protected by a powerful person.
Yes, Mortarion knew that thoughts had power, but it seemed that the minds of the weak did not have the power to stir up great waves.
What's more, the Death Guard also has a special team of untouchables.
There won't be a mad Inquisitor who will come along and kill all the servants because they secretly think the Primarch is a god.
"As you wish, but only if you fulfill your duties as commander."
Mortarion tossed the workload over with satisfaction, and the Primarch blinked, looking at the latest message -
An invitation to a party
Hades was giving orders to the two [Believers], while Mortarion silently clicked on the notice. It seemed to be a celebration banquet, and the nearby Primarchs would show up, but for some reason, it specifically emphasized that Lion and Russ would not attend.
(End of this chapter)