"Does that mean I don't have to sit on the Golden Throne?"
"You do not need to."
Hearing the definitive answer, Gao Yi breathed a sigh of relief.
"God-Emperor, if you can give me more resources, I can develop much faster! Right now I lack people, money, food, I lack everything. Can't you drop into a dream and send some people to bring me some?"
Only this time, Gao Yi did not hear the answer he wanted.
"No. I do not yet know you well enough, and I need more observation—you and your Warp projection. This projection is very special. It can purify the energy within the Warp; he does not belong to this world at all.
"Moreover, if I were to grant you too much assistance now, the Chaos Gods of the Warp might take notice of you all the sooner, which would do you no good whatsoever.
"I was able to find you within the Warp, and the Four Gods can do the same. Only when your Warp projection is at least strong enough to evade their detection can I grant you further assistance.
"For now, I shall minimize your presence within the Warp and reduce the possibility of the Four Gods discovering you.
"Furthermore, I sense that you have mastered a portion of the Adeptus Mechanicus's faith? Do the tech-priests who hold faith in you also possess the power to purify and resist corruption?"
The Great God-Emperor asked Gao Yi.
"At least for now, it seems so, but there must be a threshold eventually."
Gao Yi had never tested it, but assuming his system didn't malfunction, Pavian and those tech-priests he led—who could already be perceived just like warp-jump units—should be impossible to betray or corrupt. Even if they couldn't hold out on their own, Gao Yi