Imperium Nihilus (10,000-Word Chapter, Please Subscribe)

How could an ordinary person be driven completely insane, even into hysterical madness?

The answer was to constantly create a sense of crisis and pressure, forcing them to cross the moral lines in their heart through one difficult choice after another, until the string called reason finally snapped.

Likewise, similar methods could be used to drive a normal civilization mad.

For example, humanity, which had once upheld the Imperial Truth and rejected all religion and idol worship, had been forcibly driven into a near-hysterical state of madness by the Chaos Gods of the Warp.

Over the ten thousand years following the loss of the Emperor and the Primarchs, they had gradually degenerated into the wretched state they were in now.

To be precise, in order to deal with all manner of powerful enemies and ensure the survival of the entire species, the ruling class had even completely discarded its humanity. Like Devils wearing human skin, they used brutal high-pressure policies to strangle every opposing voice in the cradle.

They did not hesitate to launch cruel Great Purges, slaughtering millions, tens of millions, and hundreds of millions of civilians deemed heretics or beyond saving.

Many extremist ideologies, including those of the Ecclesiarchy, had been born in this age of constant pressure from enormous external threats and gradually developed into something utterly deranged.

To maintain so-called "loyalty," some Inquisition subordinate organizations whose minds had gone bad would even stab Astartes in the back if they believed there was something wrong with them.

Most importantly, compared to the prosperous thirtieth millennium, the overall standard of living for Muggles in the current fortieth millennium had regressed by several times over.

With humanity's example before him, Raymond clearly intended to reenact the same thing upon the T'au.

He would use the Chaos forces of the