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

Chapter 7 Contract
Once the atmosphere became more harmonious, the unsavory aspects of the whole plan seemed more bearable.

"I guess the organizer of this trial allows you and me to meet, which is probably a signal that 'the trial is over'." Conrad Coates took the initiative, "We can proceed to the 'next step of the plan' - —Although I don't like my father's whim decision to bind me to another person with some kind of magic, but if that "other person" is you, it doesn't seem to be the case. can not stand."

Fujimaru Ritsuka shrugged indifferently: "Well... let's talk about the 'contract' first. This thing, well, is still necessary at least in the initial stage of the plan."

"Appreciate further details?"

"Everyone has climbed out of Nostramo and has a certain psychological endurance. I will put it bluntly: You still remember that you are dead, right?"

"deep impression."

"After 1 years have passed in the material world, even the remains of the original body will decay over time. It is understandable that there is a high probability that nothing will be left now, right?"

Conrad Coates motioned for the other party to continue speaking nonchalantly.

"Under the above premise, as a complete subspace creature with only your soul and essence left, if you want to walk through the veil and walk in reality, where will the body you need come from? You can't be like those messy demons. Every time, I rely on bloody sacrifices to pile them up for you, right?"

Facing Fujimaru Ritsuka's natural gaze, Conrad Coates paused suspiciously for two seconds and silently looked away.

"——Why do you really think about it like this?!"

"...The empire is very big, and you can sift out countless sinners on any planet." The dead original body understood from the beginning that Fujimaru Ritsuka was strongly opposed to this, but he did not understand this point of view. He didn't even feel that there was anything wrong with his thinking. "If the situation is urgent and there is no time to sacrifice, then temporarily snatching a body that is not very suitable can also be used as an alternative. Just carefully select a target that really deserves to die."

Fujimaru Ritsuka took a deep breath and covered his face in pain.

"We need to find a large amount of time to talk about this issue, about law and procedural justice..." She said angrily behind her palms, "But I thought you were a little bit hysterical. You don't understand at all." Do you care about this behavior which is almost the same as 'cannibalism'?"

Konrad Coates laughed sinisterly: "Didn't the one on the throne tell you? I also used the flesh and blood of dead people to make sculptures - carved a statue of my father, and he himself used the flesh of the dead to make sculptures. The statue is talking to me."

He didn't really want to explain anything by mentioning this matter, he just wanted to scare this little mortal girl who looked underage.It is a pity that this girl, who is not as ordinary as most mortals, and whose real age is probably not a "little girl", has long passed the stage of being frightened by simple bloody horror stories. What she did in response The response was just a longer, louder sigh before taking his hands away and giving him a serious look.

"We also need to talk about this, including things like you and your legions hanging corpses and human skins everywhere as decorations." She said, "Although I tell you that you shouldn't desecrate remains and such things are big things. The probability is completely false, and I don’t want to talk too much about your ‘artistic tradition’, but you should at least pay attention to hygiene issues, right?”

Conrad Coates began to feel that if there had to be some kind of "contract" to tie him to this little girl, his future life would not be boring.

Fujimaru Ritsuka waved her hands with boredom, as if this could drive away this topic that she hated so much: "Anyway, back to the original topic - this 'contract' modified from the original system is to solve the problem that you don't have A body that can walk in the physical world exists. This is not entirely true, but for the convenience of understanding, I use this minimalist version to summarize: I can directly use ether to weave a substance that is almost the same as the original one in reality. Form, the contract between you and me guarantees that the one who uses this form is indeed you and not some other cat or dog in the subspace."

After a slight pause to make sure that the other party had no doubts, Fujimaru Ritsuka continued to add: "Of course the contract itself has many other functions, but you can just treat it as a property rights certificate. If you don't like it, wait until we all Just cancel it after leaving the subspace. Besides, haven't you already maintained contracts with tens of thousands of people?"

Conrad Coates raised his eyebrows: "I don't have such an impression."

"Even if you don't mention my illusion, you still have your legion!" Fujimaru Ritsuka waved his hand in the direction of the gathering of Space Marines on the inside of the bridge, "You didn't realize that Astartes transformation surgery can also be regarded as The process of reaching a base contract with the original body?"

She paused, carefully observed Conrad Coates's expression, and then concluded firmly: "Okay, you didn't realize it." "So this base contract-"

"——I'm starting to regret using this as an example. I'm not good at explaining these magic concepts at all!"

Fujimaru Ritsuka was depressed for a while, but he still forced himself to explain these concepts: "In fact, the Astartes transformation surgery itself has fully embodied the concept of the base contract: the Astartes will provide The original body of the gene enters into a contract at the genetic level, and undergoes radical changes in the process, randomly inheriting some abilities or traits from the original body, and instinctively speaking, it is difficult to think of resisting one's own original body, and in the end The important thing is that once the base contract is established, it cannot be broken. The base contract imposed by a being of Tiamat's level can even completely change the receptor's way of thinking from the underlying logic, obliterating its original personality, thus Achieve complete control over the receptor - but the Astartes operation is not that scary."

Konrad Curze nodded and asked: "The contract that the emperor intends to establish between you and me——"

"——That one is just a relatively ordinary magic contract, modified using Chaldea's heroic spirit summoning system." Fujimaru Ritsuka shrugged, "It doesn't involve genes, it doesn't involve souls, there is no particularly clear master-slave relationship, it's just It is simply a magical 'channel' built between you and me as a bond, and you may or may not share some of the other person's abilities. There is no particularly troublesome ritual, and you can cancel it at any time if you want to. Even if you regret it later, it doesn’t mean you can’t disconnect and reconnect at any time. This kind of thing should be easy to use in emergencies.”

The other party to be contracted is noncommittal about this.

"You don't seem to be very interested in this matter?" Fujimaru Ritsuka took a few steps around the original body who turned his head and tried to look at him again. "I think everyone is connected to many contracts, so there are many contracts between them. One more is not much... But if you are really bothered by this, I promise to solve it after we solve the problem of the body. If you feel uneasy, I can also swear to you with my soul in a magical sense. "

"That's not the problem." Conrad Coates stretched out his hand and easily moved her back to where she was. "Just do what you should do according to the plan - you have done a good job. But in that 'big plan', you have your tasks and I have mine. We are just working together temporarily, there is no need to make the relationship too good."

He said this half-heartedly, and then let go of control over his domain.At the moment when time in the illusion began to flow again, Conrad Coates' figure shattered like a bubble and dissipated into nothingness.

He left the illusion.
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Although in Fujimaru Ritsuka's view, it was Conrad Coates who disappeared on the Night Veil in the illusion; but from the latter's perspective, everything around him was rapidly cracked and broken, taking him with him The tangible entity in the illusion turned into golden gravel-like light spots and dispersed towards the extremely vast space around it.

Time and space in the Warp are meaningless.Although their entire plan clearly had a clear timetable, whether it was from Fujimaru Ritsuka's words or the Emperor's plan, before leaving the subspace, those things were nothing more than empty talk and waste paper.Therefore, Konrad Coze cannot accurately locate the time and space where he is. Even the original body, under such circumstances, can only describe his current state in a rather imprecise way:
He was in a space that was entirely made up of golden light. No matter which direction he looked, it was endless. There was no gravity, so he couldn't even tell the difference between up and down. It belonged to some kind of space belonging to the emperor.He himself was in an indescribable soul state. The ends of his limbs were always deforming uncontrollably like some kind of viscous black fluid, which always made him feel quite irritated.

But in this glittering place, what annoyed him the most was the glittering Ferus Manus in front of him.

As a dead person who also exists as a soul or a subspace creature, Ferrus Manus's form seems to be much more stable than that of Konrad Curze.The latter didn't really want to think about the reasons carefully, and they didn't bother to pretend to be brothers and sisters with each other - they had nothing to say when they were alive, and this didn't change after death.

Even the sarcasm and criticism they had said in their last "conversation" were the kind that without the mighty power of the Emperor between them, there was no chance that the dead Primarch would die again. "chat".

"Have you made your decision?" Ferrus Manus asked straightforwardly in a rather blunt manner.

"Do I have any room for decision-making in this whole thing?" Conrad Coates sneered, "I am unforgivable, and death should be my only and final destination. But our father will always ignore us Do what he thinks is right according to his will. I don’t deserve a second life. I have said it many times. Do you think he really listened to it once?"

This was also the reason why he suddenly seemed uninterested at the end of the fantasy.Conrad Curze once again clearly realized that he was just a monster hiding in the dark, and Fujimaru Ritsuka...

"Father must have his reasons for choosing you in this matter." Before he could give an accurate definition of Fujimaru Ritsuka's success, Ferrus Manus repeated it in a mechanical manner. Recalling this point of view that he had repeated 56 times before, he interrupted Conrad Coates's train of thought, "Maybe we can't understand it yet -"

"——But in my opinion, the reason he woke me up from my sweet death was just because you refused to go." The Primarch of the Eighth Legion, who is proficient in almost all uncomfortable methods, did not care (or rather , deliberately) lifted the fig leaf of his brother, "Unlike me, you have long enjoyed the qualification to occasionally set foot in reality as a member of the Cursed Legion. But why has it never been spread among your descendants after 1 years? Your miracle?”

Conrad Coates mocked mischievously, almost like a arrogant child: "Are you worried that you won't be able to hide from your heirs now that you have a physical form?"

(End of this chapter)