Origin Truth

City of Infinity.

The Magnuses gathered within the pyramid, discussing the Fivefold Trial.

"I am the answer, so what is the question?"

"Simple, simple, my selves."

"This represents one aspect of Tzeentch's authority: curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge. We do not need to consider what means Qin Xa will use to complete this trial. We only need to make him seek knowledge."

"..."

Qin Xa stood silently in the corner, listening to the Magnuses discuss matters concerning him.

The chief Magnus approached him. "It seems things on your end have been going rather smoothly. You have enough free time to complete a trial."

"Things in the Primordial Universe have indeed gone smoothly—so smoothly that if I had not come here, I would have had nothing to do but jaw exercises." Qin Xa smiled. "But there is something I would like to entrust to you."

"Please, go on."

So Qin Xa spoke of the matter about himself that had always intrigued him most.

It was his own origin...

He had become a trainee Librarian of the White Scars chapter, only to be snatched away by the Grey Knights.

"You want to know whether that happened ten thousand years after the unchanged era of your universe, or in another universe, correct?" Magnus immediately guessed Qin Xa's confusion.

Qin Xa responded at once. "Of course. At first, I was certain it happened ten thousand years later. But afterward, I saved a group of people from a shattered universe, and they developed the same soul sickness as those two Grey Knights in my universe."

"Hmm... let me think." Magnus closed his eyes.

A vast sea of knowledge flowed through the primarch's mind.

At last, Magnus found a place in his memories that matched the description.

"There was such a universe. Dimensional surges occurred