How can a retired savior be considered retired if his price drops to 40,000?

Chapter 231 Pre-exam syndrome ()

Although, due to the presence of the Emperor's statue, this lounge on the Stormbound is undoubtedly the space with the strongest "religious atmosphere" on the entire ship, including the Lion's Mane, but for the Imperials, In other words, this "religious atmosphere" is just better than nothing.

This feeling is evident from the statue itself. Anyone with a little bit of artistic appreciation can clearly see that although the person who carved it has very high requirements for his own work and does show some reverence in the process of making it, that reverence is different from anyone who is allowed to do so. The craftsmen who created the Emperor's statues were all different.

Even though religion and art in the empire often complement each other, the statue of the emperor in the lounge is far superior to religion in terms of artistry. To put it more bluntly at this point, it is to say that in this work, the Emperor is indeed demonstrating divine power and actually saving his subjects from darkness. But if you look carefully at some of the ambiguous expressions made by the author, the viewer will find that it will gradually be difficult to determine whether this work is a tribute to the power of the God Emperor, or whether it contains some mere rhetoric. There are hints of heresy out there.

Then there is the shrine itself. The shrine where the statue is placed can be easily seen by anyone as being added later, because it obviously only completed the main frame, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in details.

Inquisitor Hastings knows why: the statue was just placed there normally. Only Sigismund on the ship felt that this was not acceptable, so he would put it intermittently when he had both leisure and materials. Let’s do some work on the shrine part. But even an Emperor's Champion, on a ship that seemed quite unorthodox from all angles, clearly did not think that displaying the Emperor's majesty in this way was a high priority - at least not that it should be prioritized. At that height of the first.

At least since the day before, it happened to be the time when the son of Dorne was captured by Fujimaru Ritsuka and began the final verification of the Chaldean lighthouse construction. His construction and carving of the shrine was once again put on hold.

As for the Imperial Guards who are also capable of doing this, and in terms of numbers, they are obviously more efficient than Sigismund alone. Why they didn't take over this part of the work, or why they didn't remove the outer frame of this "semi-finished product" and replace it with their own work, the reason why Judge Hastings didn't know, nor did he want to know.

At least that's what his warp instincts on prophecy persuaded him. Since he also intuitively realized that this issue should not really be that important, he restrained his desire to get to the bottom of it based on the principle that doing more is worse than doing less when he was in the enemy camp.

——In the empire, who has higher authority between the envoys of the throne and the imperial guards? From a legal perspective, this question may have a theoretical answer. But to put it bluntly, in actual operation, in the final analysis, it still depends on firepower. At least on the Stormbound, the one at a disadvantage is undoubtedly Inquisitor Hastings.

This thought made him feel anxious and annoyed. He forced his consciousness to withdraw from this negative emotion and returned to the present moment: the only twelve Blood Angels left after the Battle of Skelos were wearing plain linen robes, quietly People gathered in front of the Emperor's shrine in the lounge to pray.

Obviously, there is no priest among these twelve people, and the one who presides over the entire process should be the only remaining holy blood priest. Therefore, although everyone knows what they should do, the most important preaching part of the ceremony, It still looks a little rushed and crude.

What was before the Inquisitor was not an urgent matter, so he did not interrupt the ceremony. After removing the power armor (and the various markings on it), Hastings realized for a moment that he couldn't tell who the Blood Angels were. So he waited by the door, taking the opportunity to look at each one carefully - and finally had to admit (with some disdain) that from an aesthetic point of view alone, the scion of Sanguinius did indeed look impeccable. .

Hastings did not unnecessarily emphasize his presence in this space, but with the keen senses of the Astartes, it was impossible for them not to notice that there was an extra person in the room. The appearance of an Imperial Inquisitor still significantly accelerated the ongoing ceremony: this once again illustrates that the authority and power of the Inquisition in the Empire are beyond imagination, or it once again illustrates the many things that the rose knot represents. Neither is very pleasant, or both, depending on which direction the person chooses to look at the issue.

At least, for the current client, he has long passed the age where he can think about such trivial matters. Hastings waited in silence until the Blood Angels' informal mass ended, and then he expressed his intention to come under the inquiring eyes of the Blood Priest Decker: Regarding Skye He still had many details to learn about the war on Los and the sudden appearance of Sanguinor in a desperate situation.

Immediately afterwards, he was not surprised to find that at the moment when the words fell, Brother Decker instinctively showed a defensive posture. Considering the identity of Judge Hastings, perhaps the other party understood this as a relatively mild review in form, and the parties involved had no intention of correcting this——

——Because, of course, this is a milder form of censorship.

From a personal emotional point of view, Sybilla Hastings certainly admires these Blood Angels who struggled in a desperate war for seven years and finally persevered and waited for victory, but the Imperial Inquisitor will not because of personal feelings. And gave up his own job:

His job is to doubt everything.
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The warp voyage to the Baal System was uneventful.

The strange thing is that most of the subspace voyages Fujimaru Ritsuka has experienced have been uneventful - even after entering the dark side of the Empire. The relevant somatosensory evaluation comes from Inquisitor Hastings, so it can generally be considered credible by the standards of contemporary Imperial people, even though Fujimaru Ritsuka himself does not think so. To put it bluntly, she did not think that the losses that occurred from time to time in the process of observing the warp on the top of the Lion's Mane's navigator tower were "acceptable".

She had indeed thought about whether it was possible to promote observation machines such as "paper moons" throughout the empire, but this question did not even need to be "asked to others". In that fantasy, she had already understood how big the matter might be. Resistance is fully understood. Human beings sometimes turn a blind eye to another method that is more efficient in resource utilization because they are unwilling to give up the interests they already hold. Or, perhaps, this is just because of the "interests" and the overall situation in the eyes of those with vested interests. Just different.

Fujimaru Ritsuka knew that this was not something she should worry about. Although she still firmly believes that "in order to ensure their transcendent status in the empire, the Navigator family gave up an observation method that could greatly reduce the loss of family personnel and insisted on using the dangerous and inefficient 'third eye' to observe subspace. To ensure that the Navigator family still maintains its unshakable monopoly in subspace navigation." This kind of behavior that she had already tasted in the fantasy world was silly, but she also knew that if she had to do something "big" in the empire, If you want to take action, your energy should first be reserved for Chaldea Lighthouse.

After all, everything must be taken into account that her client has no dissatisfaction, but in the current empire, it is like a "service life" that only lasts a moment. Regarding this matter, it is basically certain that the outcome of the matter will be that a prototype of the "Paper Moon" that can be mass-produced has disappeared before it has passed the verification of the Mechanicus.

Let Mr. Ferus worry about the technical issues, and let Mr. Robert have a headache about the promotion throughout the empire. The most important thing for her to do now is to talk to the Blood Angels Chapter, and then choose a place on Baal Prime to start. Lay the foundation. This is what Fujimaru Ritsuka thinks about this.

——And this "chatting" process will definitely not be as simple as it was in front of Guilliman.

Although the Lord of Ultramar is a primarch, the son of the Emperor, and the Regent of the Empire, most of the meetings between Fujimaru Ritsuka and the other party in the Parmenio system happened...either It is not so formal because it is urgent to follow the authority, or it is "secretive" for various reasons.

In particular, due to the existence of the most important reason that caused her to "cover up" (here specifically referring to Conrad Coates), coupled with the importance of the Chaldean Lighthouse Project itself, some kind of The erratic "need for confidentiality". Although she is indeed known as the "Imperial Saint" or a similar title in a small area, she has not formally, with great fanfare, announced to the world in some form. The people of the Empire declared their presence.

With the acquiescence of Fujimaru Ritsuka himself, the Imperial Regent might have turned around and carried out some intelligence and rumor manipulation. Then after a period of fermentation, the story circulated on Parmenio had a great influence on the entire battle. The "Imperial Saint" who plays an important role in making the final decision will become Kaelia.

Regarding things like fame, honor, etc., she had no trouble with these, and she even felt vaguely sorry for Kaelia. If everything that Fujimaru Ritsuka had experienced in his previous life and fantasy could be stacked up in a book or a movie, it would be enough to make anyone who watches it realize that those golden " "Glory" is actually not a good thing - or maybe she just can't learn how to enjoy it. No matter how she looks at it, she can only see from the glory everyone's unworthy expectations of her and the huge pressure contained in it. .

She was quite happy to be able to get rid of this pressure package and all the troubles that followed it, but if this pressure package fell on other people around her, especially Kailia who was obviously inexperienced, inexperienced, and young, Shang Qian, or to put it more intuitively, would remind her of herself when she first joined Chaldea, and she had to turn around and feel ashamed and worried for him at the same time.

But fortunately, at least for now, Kaelia is physically far away from the planet that has become too fanatical, and is still within the range that Fujimaru Ritsuka can see... far away. Back to the topic: The process of "chatting" with the Blood Angels Chapter will definitely not be as simple as it was before in front of Guilliman.

Things are different in every sense of the word. She didn't just have to fight a defensive counterattack on Baal that lasted only a few days, nor could she throw the remaining mess to the Imperial Regent after solving the most critical problem. She was going to represent the Chaldean Bureau to acquire land for complex civil construction on the Blood Angels' recruiting grounds.

Regardless of whether this is legal and reasonable, and regardless of the ultimate purpose of this behavior, from the appearance alone, this is tantamount to breaking ground on Tai Sui's head - that is to say, no matter what she thinks about it, or even whether the saint What do the Blood Angels think about this? In this meeting, the Chaldean side must use various grand and cumbersome means to emphasize their official background and legitimacy, in order to declare to the dark side of the entire empire that they are indeed here. Legally, it has the relevant rights, and it is impossible for the Blood Angels Chapter not to respond reciprocally.

Every time he thinks about this part, Fujimaru Ritsuka will become uncontrollably anxious. Even though the Imperial Guards and Somni have stated that they will take full responsibility for formulating the process and all related plans seriously...

...But Fujimaru Ritsuka herself always felt that it was precisely because these golden giants said this that she was very, very special and extremely uneasy.

(End of this chapter)