Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

Before communicating with Lion, Guilliman learned about the transport fleet reported by the Logistics Department.

The Logistics Office was established by Guilliman himself after his return. They were only responsible for counting and integrating supplies from the Empire and Tyrone's aid. They did not have many ships, so most of the transportation of supplies was handled by other Imperial agencies.

The first time he learned of this incident, Guilliman did not place all the blame on the high lord.

After all, this is not the first time that the empire's institutions have been inefficient and made mistakes. If the conventional focus of material transportation on Orpheus, which is outside the sector and is the battlefield, is a mistake that needs to be punished, then such mistakes have accumulated enough to bring down the empire. There were killings from top to bottom.

However, the appearance of the Supreme Minister, the Emperor of Humanity and Grand Master of the Court of Assassins, confirmed Guilliman's suspicion that this matter was done by those Supreme Ministers who secretly opposed him.

The Human Emperor was not always with the Ultramarines Legion's fleet. She had been away from Talon for some time and did not appear until recently.

Appearing in the private residence of the Grand Master of the Assassin's Court, he directly persuaded the Grand Master to follow him and leave Terra through his spiritual power to witness something with his own eyes.

What this witnessed was that five high lords had left Terra and went to a tomb world in the eastern part of the galaxy.

The Grand Master thought this was impossible, because he saw with his own eyes that all the Supreme Ministers had just concluded a meeting, but he didn't know why he found the person in front of him very convincing, so he followed the emperor who did not reveal his identity to the tomb. world.

There, he saw the ceremony prepared by the Necron to welcome the distinguished guests, saw Imotek who was not on the front line of the war, and saw the five people from the Supreme Lord talking to Imotek in fear and hope. .

The Grand Master believed that he had been deceived by psychic powers until the Emperor brought him back to Terra and captured a Grand Master who had traveled to the Tomb World but was still on Terra in the eyes of others. After dissecting him, he found that Just a bionic robot.

As for what the five supreme ministers said when they went to the Tomb World, the Grand Master and the Emperor have not said it yet, because they have something simpler and more direct for Guilliman to watch after completing the communication with Lion.

"About who the five supreme ministers are and what they talked about in the tomb world." The Grand Master said, taking out a ring that was circulated on every Grand Master of the Assassin's Court and offering it with both hands, "This is the evidence."

Guilliman took the ring, and as his hand touched its gemstone he saw everything before his eyes.

See it directly from the perspective of the Grand Master of the Assassin Court when he was in the tomb world a few days ago.

The five supreme ministers are the commander-in-chief of the Astral Army, the minister of the Ministry of Justice, the chairperson of the Star Torch Academy, the ambassador of the Navigator, and the chairperson of the Star Language Hall.

Guilliman was calm, and to be honest he wasn't surprised.

Except for the non-term commander-in-chief of the Astra Militarum, all the five supreme ministers he had offended before.

Guilliman still remembered that when he first returned, some of the people sitting at the seats of the five Supreme Ministers were against him and some supported him. However, as the Supreme Ministers at that time were dealing with heavy affairs and extreme The brain-consuming conspiracy gradually came to an end, and now the supreme ministers he saw were indeed against him.

Especially now that he has become a commander-in-chief of the Astra Militarum who has no power and is idle.

"On behalf of this tomb world, I welcome you."

The Justice of Imotek saluted the five arriving High Lords.

Contrary to what Guilliman expected, these five supreme ministers were not cowardly people. They behaved quite proudly in front of those skeletons.

The five supreme ministers ignored the judicial officer at all and looked directly at Imotek himself.

"We are now in a state of war. We are not friends visiting each other, but enemies sitting on the negotiating table." The host of the Star Language Hall said forcefully.

"We may not be friends, but we can definitely talk. Otherwise, why would you take the initiative to contact the people I sent, and then come here to risk being replaced by the mechanical version of you forever?" Imotek said to the host. .

"We are here because we want humanity to avoid a tragic war that is bound to fail, and also because the people you sent show that you are sincere enough."

"This is for the human race."

"That's right! For the human race!"

The supreme ministers were all righteous and behaved as if they were righteous men who were willing to die for the sake of mankind.

Guilliman, who used the Grand Master's ring to relive the meeting from the Grand Master's perspective, was quite satisfied with this. At least they didn't look like cowards who were begging for mercy and just trying to survive.

"For your race?" Imotek looked down at the five supreme ministers, "Each of you is a guy who can try every means to get a piece of wealth from the frontline warriors of your race. You are indeed dedicated to your work. , what you are greedy for is your reward. People like you are willing to take risks to come here, are you not completely selfish? "

The high ministers were left speechless.

But it's not that there are no arguments, it's just that in the world of tombs, this is almost the same as actively seeking death, but you may have to come over just for the sake of that little bit, so it's better to go directly to the topic without wrangling morally.

"We have no intention of waging war against you."

"You didn't choose to fight us, or were forced into a desperate situation. You were just tied to the chariot."

Imotek tells lies, but it is not a real living creature. There is no emotion in its language. Even the highest ministers cannot distinguish truth from falsehood simply by speaking.

"Who tied you to the chariot? Isn't it the ghost King Szarak of Silence who doesn't want to give you a way to survive? That's what you should be thinking in your heart."

"But that's not the case. We had no intention of starting a war with you, it was just a star god who started the war."

Then, Imotek personally told everything about the Casa Dynasty, the Lord of Tyrone, and the previous war between the Casa Dynasty and Menak... everything.

There are no lies, but what is said is not the whole truth.

In short, it is to instill in the supreme ministers that the human empire does not need to participate in the war, and the human empire is kidnapped and put on the chariot.

After listening to all this, the commander-in-chief of the Astra Militarum asked Imotek: "You said you have no intention of war, then why do you massacre humans and why do you go to war with us?"

"When our dynasty woke up, they found that you occupied their territory. Isn't it unreasonable to slaughter you?" Imotek walked beside the five supreme ministers. "Or are you an extremely noble person on a moral level? Race, when you find someone else has invaded your land, you won’t take up arms and kill but sit down and talk?”

Seeing that the Supreme Ministers were unable to defend themselves, Imotek struck again while the iron was hot: "You have deployed your troops outside our territory. Can't we use the same method to prepare for emergencies?"

"I want to ask you, when your war commander led his army to attack us, it took more than two months to launch the attack..."

"Did we fight back?"