Warhammer 40: Gods Of Mortals

Chapter 1109: The Two Kings Have a Heart-to-Heart Talk
When one pope left, the other popes realized that the meeting could no longer continue.

All the French emperors and overlords, each with their own thoughts and not even bothering to maintain the disguise of hiding their thoughts, left one after another, either politely resigning, or leaving directly, or even cursing before leaving.

The only exception is the Sotec Dynasty.

Imotek watched coldly as everyone left one after another, until only Szalak, himself, and the other two popes of the Triarchal Council were left in the entire council.

Those two emperors were not of one mind.

Apart from Szalak, the remaining two Hierophants of the Triumvirate could represent two major schools of thought within the Necron race, except that they were more moderate.

The two popes of the Triarchal Council also resigned from Szalak and left one after another.

In the end, only Imotek, Szalak, and the Grand Justice who served as a substitute were left.

“They didn’t dare to do this before.”

Imotek turned around when he heard this.

Szalak spoke himself.

"Indeed." Imotek nodded.

At this moment, the two people who were at loggerheads in the internal conflict of the Necrons could not help but have a brief illusion of standing on the same front in the face of the current situation.

Imotekh wanted Szahrak's power, but he did not want a loose, crumbling Necrons.

"You shouldn't have canceled the Master Control Agreement in the first place," Imotek said. "You're foolish to do that."

"This is indeed a stupid act." Szalak leaned back on the throne and nodded, "But I don't want my people to be just a group of cold puppets. As a king, I have obligations and responsibilities to them. I have caused the demise of the Deathly Haunters, and I have to find a way to make up for it."

After that, Szalak was silent for a moment, then spoke again: "I feel guilty, and I will make amends as appropriate, but this is not a reason for them to go crazy. They have no right to challenge my authority, nor do they have the right to question my rule, including you."

"The so-called gifts that the Star Gods give us are always so simple, whether it's our bodies or the Master Control Protocol. If the Master Control Protocol could be a little more detailed, it would just allow my people and slaves to obey my rule while having individual thoughts."

Listening to Szalak's sigh, Imotek couldn't say he agreed, but he didn't want to question it either.

At this point, Szalak, the highest-level undead, can also analyze the reasons for the current situation.

"Most of my fleet was destroyed, and they have long been dissatisfied with me, so they dare to challenge my authority now."

"If my fleet had not been destroyed, no matter if it was the Samuri Dynasty or some other mess of fools, they would not dare to jump out."

"We are a martial race. That is why no matter what decisions I make or what mistakes I make, as long as I still have the military power, no one will think that my rule is unqualified."

Szalak first looked for his own problem.

But after thinking about it, Imotek felt that it was wrong: "I am just a dynasty whose capital tomb world was destroyed. My dynasty still owns a large territory and still has a strong military force. But even the emperor of the Cologne Dynasty dares to provoke me. This is unreasonable."

"There's nothing unreasonable about it." Szalak looked down at Imotek. "I still have the means of using both kindness and force, but your prestige is purely maintained by force. When you are no longer victorious in every battle, when your strategy has problems, and even the Rebirth Protocol and the Dynasty World have been destroyed, you can no longer be said to have any authority that is no less than mine."

Imotek remained silent, but obviously agreed with what Szalak said.

"Even now, we can't join hands to do anything to turn the tide." Szalak continued, "You are still hiding things from me about the front line. For example, at least two hundred Star God fragments have fallen into the hands of the enemy, and you didn't even mention this matter."

Imotekh remained silent.

This is indeed the case and there is no way to refute it. Now the front line has fallen into a stalemate.

In terms of confrontations between conventional combat units, humans managed to hold on.

Those mortals of flesh and blood displayed such courage and determination that Imotekh privately praised them in a tactful way.

In their last exploratory offensive, the Sotek Dynasty deployed a World Harvester on a world garrisoned by the Imperial Astra Militarum.

The World Harvester plus the Black Stone that amplifies the influence of the Warp will greatly weaken even the Star Gods who come here, and then they will have to fight the World Harvester honestly.

But humans actually destroyed the World Harvester without the support of the Star God.

When the World Harvester was teleported to the battlefield and appeared, humans simply threw away all their weapons and protective equipment and only took up the decomposition bombs.

Countless humans rushed out of the trenches all over the surface of the planet like insects and swarmed towards the World Harvester.

Engineering troops dig tunnels underneath the World Harvester to provide cover for more covert suicide attacks.

Millions of casualties every second.

For the Emperor's roar shook the world.

Humans are still intelligent creatures. Even if they die, they do so in a planned way. A large number of them serve as targets to attract the attacks of the World Harvesters, and a large number of them look for blind spots or sneak attack the weak points of the World Harvesters from tunnels.

Finally, after suffering countless casualties, the Astra Militarum blew up the World Harvester and paralyzed it.

In addition to the competition between these basic combat units, there are also those star gods.

Saranoga spread a logic virus. Tomb technicians infected with the virus would actively spread the location of the Star God fragments, and then the Star Gods would swarm to a certain dynasty and abduct the Star God fragments.

Up to now, the fragments of Star God that have fallen into their hands, even if they are integrated into individual Star Gods, there are probably sixty or seventy of them.

Imotek did not convey these circumstances back to the rear.

But Szalak does have means, and it cannot be hidden.

These strategic blunders, as Szalak concluded, would undermine Imotek's military authority.

"This race is facing the greatest crisis in history." Szalak sighed, "No one can turn the tide."

Imotek remained silent.

"You didn't gain control of the Sotek Dynasty through inheritance, which made you accustomed to taking everything." Szalak spoke again, "Am I right?"

"Yes." Imotek admitted decisively.

This is why he wants to seize power from Szalak.

Szalak slowly stood up from the throne, looked down at Imotekh from a high place, and gave him a heartfelt warning.

"If you prosper with this, you will die with it."

(End of this chapter)