Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

Time passed in silence minute by minute.

When someone stood up and suggested to Guilliman that the High Lords Council suspend the meeting to meet the Forge General who might have encountered some trouble, Guilliman only responded with a silent gesture.

The high ministers stood where they were.

These people whispered to each other and gloated, but none of their thoughts were expressed. From Guilliman's perspective, these people just stood there with their heads down and said nothing, just like dead people.

The supreme ministers have reached a state where they don't say anything or react on the surface, but because they know each other so well, they can know what the other person is thinking as if they can directly see and hear each other's words and deeds. and mentality.

They did use a trick to make the newly Forged General's trip to Terra have some twists and turns, preventing him from attending the meeting before Guilliman's patience ran out.

Just when the high ministers had such thoughts, a sound of footsteps came from the corridor outside the hall.

The footsteps sounded unusually heavy, indicating that the person who made the footsteps was very heavy.

Thinking of this, the high ministers all became suspicious, and at the same time, they all had a bad premonition in their hearts.

Until the hall door was completely pushed open.

Calgar, who had run in and whispered a few words to Guilliman before leaving, as if conveying some kind of military message, entered the hall first.

After Calga, a huge warrior, stood sideways against the door, the two people behind him appeared in everyone's sight.

A man holding a gear scepter, wearing a red robe, dressed as a sage of the Adeptus Mechanicus, with a hunched body.

A general who was obviously the commander of the Adeptus Mechanicus Skitarii. The armor was directly inlaid on the fleshless body. He was holding his belt with his left hand and resting his right hand on the hilt of his sword. He held his head high and his chest was unusually proud.

These two people were clearly the new Foundry General and the military commander who was inseparable from him.

The high lords showed no reaction on the surface, acting very naturally and not at all surprised.

But in their hearts they were all exclaiming: Why did this bastard go directly to the Stone Fortress instead of grinding the program in Terra?

As someone who had heard Calgar say that the Forge General was coming, Guilliman shouldn't be surprised, but he was still very surprised.

It's not because the Foundry General came directly to the Stone Fortress without being delayed in Terra, but because of the identity of the new Foundry General.

"Vic?" Guilliman stared sideways at the body of the newly forged general, "Are you the new forged general?"

"Before you take the final step of personally canonizing me as regent, of course I am not the Forging General, but the ruling sage of Agrippina." Vic made a gear salute, installed for diplomacy and mediation A smile appeared on his flesh-and-blood face, "But now that you have completed this step of canonizing me personally, then I will be the Forging General."

Guilliman stared at Vic.

The Primarch's mood was very complicated.

Vic, Agrippina rules the sage.

This guy once accompanied the Inquisition to inspect the Tyrone sector as Belisarius Caul's deputy, and then accidentally became the Dominant Sage during the defense of Agrippina during the Empire's defense of the Black Crusade.

Later, during the Battle of Tyron, Vic organized an expedition within the Mechanicus, calling on many forge worlds to contribute money to carry out "pilgrimage expeditions".

Then he stopped for a while. Even though he did not participate in the Golden Expedition, you could guess who was behind him with your toes.

The high ministers are likely to unite to exclude this person who is too close to the Tyrone people, and then set off a storm of internal fighting.

But in addition to being worried, Guilliman was also a little happy, because he felt that Vic's appearance was like Qin Mo helping him secretly. At least there was such a famous person beside the Supreme Minister, and he would not have to fight with all the Supreme Ministers in the future. What a joke.

"I really didn't expect that the new Foundry General was you. I didn't hear about it at all." Guilliman held his forehead and slowly exhaled, "That's no wonder. Your Adeptus Mechanicus is relatively independent, and I'm not here. Terra.”

"Isn't the Regent worried that I will cause a civil war in the Adeptus Mechanicus?" Vic suddenly asked.

Guilliman suddenly looked at the other high ministers, surprised in his heart how Vic could ask such a question so directly and straightforwardly on this occasion.

But the other high ministers were expressionless and motionless.

Only then did Guilliman realize that everything around him had briefly stopped.

"The Lord of Tyrone really gave you a lot of good things." Guilliman smiled and shook his head. "I was once worried that if you intended to compete for the position of Forge General, it might lead to civil war, but since you have been selected as Forge General now, Being pushed out to represent the interests of the Adeptus Mechanicus, that's all."

Hearing this, Vic smiled, sighed, and felt a little sad.

Gaining recognition within the Adeptus Mechanicus is no easy task.

Being close to Tyrone is really not a big problem, but having worked with Kaul before...

Being able to become a foundry general depends partly on the reputation accumulated over the past hundred years and partly on inspiration.

The STC is held in the left hand, and the doctrine of "Who is the real Ohm Messiah" is held in the right hand. The former openly shares it in exchange for fame, while the latter secretly promotes it.

Coupled with the STC that can improve the forging world that is like a mountain of code, it is really a good name for Vic Sage.

But Vic does not think that he represents the interests of the Mechanicus as Guilliman said. The election of the Foundry General is an extremely complicated matter. He can only say that most of the Mechanicus support him, and this majority of influence When it came time to cast the general's appointment, that was it.

After sighing in his heart, Vic glanced at the high ministers and talked about the important things at the moment: "When I arrived on Terra, I found that everything was not going well, as if the Om Messiah did not allow me to take up the position of General of the Forge. Then At that time, I speculated that these guys were trying to prevent me from taking office on time, but it seemed that they were not targeting me alone, but..."

"They are putting pressure on me. You are right." Guilliman looked down upon the high ministers. "They don't want to start a war. They are trying every means to put pressure on me. They use me as a wishing machine to ask me to find ways to avoid war." method, but now war is really unavoidable.”

Vic thought for a moment with his eyebrows lowered, and then raised his hand. Those high ministers who seemed to be frozen in isolation from the entire space just now were all normal.

"The Adeptus Mechanicus will make full preparations for the upcoming war." Vic glanced at the Supreme Minister, "Just like you and the imperial institutions you represent."

The high ministers did not hesitate at all, and all agreed with Vic's words, expressing their support as firmly as at the beginning of the meeting, and then quickly completed the process and issued the war preparation order in the name of the High Lords Council and the Regent, as smooth as these The high ministers really support Guilliman with all their strength.