Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

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Planet No. 3 in the 12th galaxy, the hive world.

Odd, the governor of this hive world, was sitting in his study, watching the video with a guest from the Inquisition.

There are five videos in total. Most of the contents of all the videos are the same, but the scenes and characters are different.

In the video, without exception, a guard will suddenly appear in front of the governor, and then directly tell who sent him and what he is here to do.

"In the name of Lord Tyrone, I declare that your sentence is death."

So simple and straightforward, without any disguise.

The guards in each video will take action after the announcement and knock the owner of an entire planet to death in the most crowded place.

Even in a backward agricultural world, the guards would leave behind drones that broadcast holographic images and let them fly back and forth on the planet to convey the entire incident.

"This is too outrageous. I thought that guy from Tyrone Galaxy would at least be a little secretive, like assassination or something... This kind of behavior of directly knocking people to death in public without even leaving a decent body is really... ..." Oded's expression was complicated, and he looked at Judge Ellen sitting next to him as if asking for help.

Ellen's expression was also very complicated. It was obvious that such an unabashed act of excluding dissidents was far beyond his expectations, and even far beyond the expectations of some of the higher-ups in the Tribunal.

After frowning and thinking for a long time, Ellen suppressed a sentence: "The sky is high, the gods are far away, man."

"Won't he be punished by the entire empire for this?" Oude pointed to the guard in the video, and the person he mentioned was naturally Qin Mo.

"Otherwise, why am I here? Why do I appear next to you?" Ellen asked with a smile.

Hearing this, Oded suddenly smiled and nodded silently. Ellen had already confessed his identity and purpose to him, and he naturally had great trust in Ellen.

Ellen came to the vicinity of the Tyrone Galaxy after Horst and the other three Inquisitors left. He fully absorbed the lessons of his predecessors and did not go directly to the Tyrone Galaxy. Instead, he waited for opportunities as a lurker.

As long as people in the galaxies around Tyrone have a little understanding of the current situation, they all know that the Lord of Tyrone intends to extend his hand out of the Tyrone galaxy.

And Ellen's mission is also very simple, which is to destroy the Lord of Tyrone's strategy as much as possible.

However, even though Oded knew the purpose of the inquisitor, he did not understand what the inquisitor was thinking and what kind of differences there were within the inquisition...

In the end, Oded sought the answer with a tactful question: "Judge Ellen...can you tell me who sent you here?"

"Lord Karamazov." Ellen said bluntly.

"Ah." Oded suddenly realized it and nodded repeatedly with his chin raised, "No wonder."

Oded knew very little about the Inquisition. He had only heard about a few inquisitors who went to the Tyrone system in passing. Another inquisitor he had heard of was Karamazov.

This is a very extreme character who dares to confront the state religion.

After seeing Oude's look as if he had the word "reassured" written on his face, Ellen thought about it and finally made up her mind to remind him: "I was told one thing clearly when I received the order, that is to prevent Governor Tyrone will integrate surrounding systems, but he must not take the initiative to trigger armed conflicts..."

"I understand, Judge Ellen, I understand." Oded interrupted Ellen's warning, "I have a hundred ways to do it, but I'm afraid that Governor Tyrone will not follow the rules and send people to kill other people. Kill me just the same."

Ellen raised her hand to signal Oded to listen to him first, and comforted him after he calmed down: "Your life will never be taken away by others. The guarding power I can provide you is..."

Ellen originally wanted to talk about all the people he brought here, but he felt it was unnecessary. In the end, he only mentioned a part of the guard's strength: "Ten monks from the Minotaur Chapter, you know, they are with The relationship with the high lord is very good.”

"Then I'm relieved." Oude breathed a long sigh of relief, leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes to rest, while also thinking about the next plan.

After thinking for a long time, Ode said his plan in a deep voice: "I plan to agree with Governor Tyrone on the surface first, and then privately send a letter to the governors who are against integration like me, and then invite them to find a safe place to keep it secret. Let’s negotiate, there is no future if we go it alone.”

"Smart move." Ellen smiled and nodded.

…

Three days later.

While the Imperial Guards were removing obstacles to their plan to integrate the Tailong Star Region, Qin Mo was taking the most critical steps of this plan.

More intelligence will be manufactured in batches, then put into a living metal body made for it, and then a layer of bionic material skin will be attached.

The names of these artificial beings are stone men, which is the same name as the biochemical artificial men in the golden age of human species in the past, and the functions of stone men and iron men in the Tyrone sector are similar to those in the golden age.

Stonemen will be assigned to a total of fifty-five worlds in the entire star sector to manage all the population and everything on the planet.

To the Governor, who obeys the plans for the integration of the Tyrone Sector, the Stonemen are assistants, humble but responsible assistants in all matters large and small.

To the opponents, the Stone Man is the new governor who will take their place.

Just as Qin Mo was making the stone man himself, Gray suddenly came to the underground cave.

Seeing that Qin Mo was busy, Gray didn't disturb him and just waited silently.

"These creations will turn the fifty-five worlds in the entire star region into the same as Tailong." Qin Mo said while manipulating the metal to come together to shape the body of the stone man.

Gray thought for a moment and said: "That means the existing force and productivity are doubled by more than ten times?"

"More than ten times? Dozens of times!" Qin Mo was very excited. "It's not the Tyrone galaxy plus the Tyrone galaxy, but the Tyrone galaxy times the Tyrone galaxy. This is not an arithmetic problem where one plus one equals two."

Gray nodded silently, but was not very excited, because he had another thing to report: "There is a governor named Oude who is working against you, and he is purchasing armaments for other galaxies everywhere. Because he had a good attitude before. , I and the other guards did not list him as a target for execution."

"He had a good attitude before. How did you find out that he was acting against his will?" Qin Mo asked.

"I found letters from a previously executed governor, letters about buying arms, but this was not enough to prove the governor's guilt. Maybe he just didn't feel safe, so he bought weapons... Then I went to the place where Oude ruled. The hive world has investigated." Gray said, handing the letter and a few photos to Qin Mo.

The content of the letter is about the acquisition of weapons.

The content in the photos is more interesting.

A bald middle-aged man wearing coarse cloth looked like a civilian, and this civilian was actually arranging for ten Astartes to set up defenses in the manor.

The bull's head symbol on the power armor of the ten Astartes indicated that they were from the Minotaur Chapter.

"Alas." Qin Mo sighed briefly after reading the letter and photos, and thought for a long time with some tiredness before finally making a decision, "If we had just left the nest, I might have bargained with these people, but now I I really don’t have the leisure time.”

Gray nodded, turned and left: "Give me two hours."