Seeing that Soshiyang didn't speak, Li stopped forcing him and stood up without saying anything more.
"Then that's the end of today's conversation. I already know your position roughly. You can go to Terra with peace of mind. I will get the things on Saturn for you."
"Wait, Li——"
Soshyan suddenly stopped the other party.
"You asked the Imperial Fists to allow me to enter, right? What is your relationship with the Imperial Fists and Dorne?"
Li stopped and then turned around.
"Before Dorn left, he found me and asked me to help take care of his heirs, so I became the wall watcher of the Imperial Fists. However, the strength of the remnants of the Ork Empire in Ullanor was much beyond my expectation. The Imperial Fists
The Fist Corps was unexpectedly wiped out when I went out to investigate the remnants of the Orc Empire in Ullanor. Fortunately, the greenskins were wiped out through the efforts of many parties. Since then, I have been active as an inquisitor, but
None of the warriors of the Imperial Fists know all this. Only the Chapter Masters of all generations know of my existence. They regard me as the only hope of finding the Primarch, and believe that one day the Primarch will contact them again through me."
"Is it just because of this?"
There was a trace of doubt in Soshyan's tone.
"You know about the Eleventh Army and the Second Army, right?"
The other party nodded.
"Indeed, it's not just that. I also have to ensure that the descendants of the Eleventh and Second Legions of the Imperial Fists are successfully separated from the legions and can survive the turbulence of the separation period, and ensure that they do not discover their bloodline in advance.
Secret, this is not an easy task, but fortunately there is a plan arranged by Malcador himself, so I am not alone."
"Do they know you exist?"
“Maybe I don’t know, maybe I know, but it’s not important.”
"Why?"
Li shrugged.
"Probably because I'm weak and have no value or significance in their eyes, so naturally they won't pay attention to me... After all, who would pay attention to a mortal who looks weak and about to die?"
"Your body..."
Hearing Soshiyang's question, Li raised his hand, opened his palm, stared at the dark yellow bandage that looked very old, and replied calmly:
"I'm just a mortal, I can't bear such a long time, and I was seriously injured in the battle with the rebels... This was given to me by my mother. It was originally the shroud of a powerful Witch King. The Witch King
After death, the body was buried under the huge pyramid, but at some time in ancient times, a powerful demon took over its incorruptible body and came to the world. Later, the demon was defeated by the mother and father. It turned into yellow sand but the shroud remained.
Once it is down, with the help of its power, I can continue to walk in the world."
"I don't understand, since your genes come from Erda and the Emperor like the original body, why... there is such a big difference."
"Because the original body does not only possess the genes of the mother and father, but also has a power that I can't explain, and I am just an experiment for my father's first attempt at the original body engineering. My mother once said that my father's influence on me
I hope to be the ultimate form of human beings, the most perfect and powerful human beings, to achieve my father's ultimate ideal of "the best among men". Unfortunately... I did not inherit any power from my mother, let alone my father. If it weren't for my mother, I might have been a long time ago.
Disappear."
"Li, you keep emphasizing...Mother, aren't you loyal to the Emperor?"
Li looked at Soshiyang, and for some reason Soshiyang seemed to be able to feel his helplessness through the bandage.
Then his emotionless voice sounded.
"In the eyes of my father... I am just a failure. I do not have the eternal life of my brothers, their powerful strength, their lightning-fast thinking, and their ability to command thousands of troops at will. I am a
As a child who can never meet his father's requirements, I can't give him any help in his great career. Perhaps the only thing I'm good at is painting. I'm just a mediocre... mortal, and can only be an abandoned son. Only my mother will
I regard her as her son, so I will naturally serve her."
Suddenly, Soshyan's heart became heavy.
He inexplicably began to sympathize with this "pseudo-primarch". Everyone regarded the primarch as the Emperor's children. They were irreplaceable and eternal, so everything should make way for them. This was not just because of them.
The bloodline lies in their strength.
Then a thought suddenly came to his mind: no matter how many enemies he destroyed and how many achievements he made, in the eyes of many people, he would still be far less important than a single original body?
It seems that from the perspective of "value", he seems to be just like Li, a child who will always be "unqualified". No matter what the name Soshyan represents, it can never be comparable to the name Xerxes...
After a long silence, Soshyan asked softly:
"Li, you...do you hate father?"
Li chuckled lightly, then sighed.
"What's there to hate?"
"You are all his children, but you haven't received the treatment that the original bodies should..."
Li tilted his head, and then replied calmly:
"Probably because... I can accept my own ordinaryness, I can accept the fact that I am just an ordinary person, and after all, my parents at least gave me a physique similar to that of a Space Marine, so it's not too bad.
"
Soshyan couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"Li, you have such a good attitude. If every Primarch could be like you...Oh, forget it, this assumption is meaningless."
"After all, the environment my brothers live in is different from mine. How can I put it...I'm actually lucky because my mother is always by my side, but my brothers are not."
"What about...Xerxes? What kind of person do you think he is?"
"he and I..."
Li paused, seeming to be recalling something, and then said with a hint of sadness:
"I have actually only met him twice, but he is also the second brother I have met besides Dorn. He is a person who knows how to take other feelings into consideration. You are very similar in this regard.
It’s just that he always carries a heavy responsibility, maybe because he knows too much... Speaking of which, there is a secret about Brother Xerxes that you should know.”
"What?"
"He is his mother's child."
Soshyan was stunned.
"I know this, he is the original body."
"No, that's not what I meant..."
Li shook his head, and then uttered words that made Soshiyang stunned.
"He is a child naturally conceived by mother and father, not a product of genetic engineering. He is truly...the best of human beings."
"What!"
Soshyan suddenly stood up.
"No need to be so excited."
Li waved his hand.
"This matter is not that difficult to understand. My father has never been a person who puts his eggs in one basket. As early as when he proposed the original gene project, he had imagined that he wanted to have a child naturally, so that he could compare the two.
The differences... But this is more difficult than genetic engineering. My father and mother have long transcended the normal biological categories. Natural reproduction is almost impossible for them. However, it seems that long before I was born, my father finally
I found a way, my mother was pregnant with Brother Xerxes probably fifty years before the Primarch Project started..."
"This...that is to say..."
"Ah, brother Xerxes is our real eldest brother."
Soshyan shook twice and held on to the wall beside him. The impact of this news on him was too strong. After all, it seems that the emperor regarded children born through genetic engineering as tools and weapons, but if it was
His true child...
"...The Emperor...killed his eldest son, his true...son!"