Chapter 797: The Meaning of Material Life
"What am I?"
"Whom do I serve?"
Before clone Corvus, clone Lorgar Aurelian repeated the Grey Knight mentor's questions.
Corvus swept his gaze across everyone present in astonishment, then realized that aside from himself and the now-strange Lorgar before him, everyone else seemed to have only seen Lorgar for the first time that very second.
It was as though their memories had been erased.
"Do not ask too many questions, flesh-and-blood mortal." Lorgar Aurelian seemed like a different person. His expression was blank, his eyes vacant and dull. "The truth of certain matters holds no meaning for the entire universe. Consider what you can do to influence or investigate the trajectories of the smallest components of the Real Universe. Only then will you become learned."
To Corvus, Lorgar looked possessed.
The vacancy and dullness in his detestable brother's eyes did not seem born of ignorance or stupidity. Instead, they resembled the composure and calm that came after seeing through everything.
"If you came to help..." The Grey Knight mentor spread his hands. "Why would the Regent, the Warmaster, and Talon's leader send a philosopher?"
"I do not wish to explain, because my answer cannot change the course of your life. There is no meaning in it."
The Grey Knight mentor heard more incomprehensible nonsense emerge from beneath the black armor.
But just as the Grey Knights had no intention of dwelling on it further and were preparing to continue with their real work, the auxiliary limbs mounted on Lorgar's armor suddenly extended the metal book before its wearer.
Lorgar wrote something else in the metal book.
Then, under Corvus's astonished gaze, the Grey Knights chose to abandon their mission.
"Minor characters, come with me." The Grey Knight mentor gestured, opened a Psychic Power