Warhammer: I don’t want to be a can of worms! ! !

Chapter 673 121. Pluto is above

Years later, Cardinal John of Hades would recall the midnight night when he was appointed Cardinal.

In a secret room in the Cathedral of Hades on Terra, the Archbishop of Hades, who still had a Mediterranean hairstyle, handed him his new dog tag, and the "Church Deacon" on it was changed to "Cardinal".

"May Hades bless you."

The archbishop said earnestly, and he also pretended to take the dog tag. They all believed that Hades did not exist at that time, but the ceremony still had to be done.

"John Fabian is determined to live up to Hades."

Then the Archbishop sprinkled liquid mixed with the blood of the Soulless on him, and the simple ceremony ended.

But after this ceremony was over, it was the highlight that John wanted.

The Ming Sect is the only imperial institution that only appoints talents, regardless of the origin and family background of the person.

Using the connections of Hades, the Archbishop organized a small party for him alone with other important forces in the Obscure Star Territory - to facilitate John's future actions in this Star Territory.

Under the dim candlelight, while others were lingering on the dance floor, Archbishop Samuel walked up to John, and John hurriedly toasted to the Archbishop.

They chatted for a few words at first, and then the archbishop looked at John with his deep eyes.

"Congratulations, John Fabian."

Samuel said, with a playful smile on his lips,

"I have heard about your deeds. You are a smart man. I don't think I need to remind you how to make Hades great - you know, every few times there will always be someone who is not very flexible in thinking."

John smiled. He had already begun to plan how to clean up the local caravans and Mechanicus. At the same time, he placed the quiet warriors who liked him on duty in the dormitory.

"But you have to understand that all your achievements are based on one reality, John - there cannot be large-scale chaos in the jurisdiction."

John laughed. Large-scale chaos was impossible, at least not under his hands. He asked jokingly,

"What if there is?"

"Then fill it with your life."

John shook his head and continued to test,

"Aren't you afraid that I will escape one step ahead?"

Samuel laughed too,

"No, you won't - I have seen more bishops than you, and none of them choose to leave. If you are unfortunate enough to catch up, you will know why."

"Because... Hades will come to punish me?"

John swung the glass, but the archbishop smiled, raised his glass and left.

They were all pretty happy then - after all, they all naively thought Hades was a lie.

Until...until that person really showed up.

……………………

"Bishop, you are more embarrassed than I thought."

The oil man's ruthless sarcasm sounded, and John rolled his eyes.

"I am now the bare commander,"

The Cardinal said, feeling his heart twitch, that he had retreated with the Chapter's troop carriers - but the others were gone, and that the Eldar launched three more air strikes.

"What? Are you here to see a joke?"

"No, I just want to come to you and ask for a soulless one."

"No more, they're all dead."

John said, thinking of the silhouette of Silent Man leaving at the end, damn she walked around in a carefree manner, why did she leave him alone? Preserve the independence of the church? Not to be annexed by the neighboring star region?

"That's really bad news - Bishop, can you exorcise and bless me?"

"Of course, you're talking nonsense, metal lump."

"Then follow me."

The great sage Lavi said, she commanded her huge skitarii to pick up John and walk through the city that was already in chaos.

Almost all the remaining soldiers are here, as well as the civilians on Safiya who have not yet had time to retreat...

John saw them being forced out of the collapsed houses by missiles and huddled among the ruins of the houses. Some of them were thin and even hiding in the triangular shadows formed by huge broken cement boards.

The bishop was keenly aware that some of them already had signs of corruption.

But through their eyes, John judged that this was the infiltration caused by excessive external spiritual energy, rather than the corruption caused by the inner corruption of the soul.

He saw the buds growing on the child's face.

John struggled.

"I need to exorcise them!"

he yelled, then fell silent again before the Skitarii looked like they were going to physically calm him down.

"Oil man! What do you want me to do?!"

"Bless the little general's artillery,"

The Mechanical Sage said,

"The concentration of psychic energy is too high, which interferes with its aiming system. I have blessed and prayed for it, but it still cannot be improved."

"Haha - you are not religious!"

"Ohm Messiah has His own decision. Since our Bishop John is pious, then you can come."

The Mechanicus, mortals, and legions, as the three-headed hellhounds under Pluto, share the same beliefs. In this regard, the Mechanicus does not shy away from methods derived from Hades.

They boarded the city wall that had been blown open by the bomb. The oil man blocked the gap with abandoned vehicles in the city, but John knew that this place would be directly breached later.

They are now completely trapped animals, struggling not to die——

As long as the main city with the highest population density is not captured, the Chaos ritual cannot be completely successful.

Hades once taught John,

If Chaos wants to completely corrupt a planet, then they must have the natives of this planet. Only the souls of humans who have grown up on this planet for generations can communicate with the essence of the planet, and only through them can the planet be corrupted.

This is why the Hades Church has become a team that focuses on evacuating civilians, because they know that everyone's soul will bring strength to their enemies.

Of course, there are also people in the church who simply practice kindness.

John tilted his head, and his pupils reflected the battlefield in the distance. He saw the corpses of the Imperial Titans like a hill, and the corpses of humans, densely packed, and the red robes of the Skitarii mixed with blood, dyeing the earth red.

... Fortunately, they are not the bloodthirsty in Chaos.

John thought of this hell joke at an inopportune time.

The good news is that the army of the Mechanicus is similar to the Hades Church. Their loyalty to Hades keeps their souls from being eroded by Chaos, so such a large number of deaths will not increase the power of the opponent.

But what really made him despair was the endless mixed army of the Eldar and Slaanesh in the distance, and the elegant and slender killing Titans of the alien race...

This was completely beyond the Chaos deployment force that the Bishop had originally thought of. Chaos was completely impatient - after John and the defenders dragged the battle long enough, He wanted to taste this planet immediately.

John's scalp tingled.

"It looks like He is in a hurry."

The Great Sage Lavi said,

"You also need to hurry, Bishop."

John sneered,

"One, two, three, four... I saw at least four of those weird things, but now there are only two rounds of ammunition?"

"Destroying one is victory, Bishop, you are more pessimistic than me."

John smiled bitterly, he stumbled out of the arms of the Crusader, limped to the side of the Great Sage, in front of the strange device.

On the platform of the city wall, the battering ram-like thing carried by four crawlers was waiting for him. John took out the last bottle of mixed powder of the Soulless and Black Stone from his pocket and began to bless the small general cannon.

The Great Sage Lavi and the temporary commander of the Dusk Reversers stood beside him. They were silent for the time being. Only the last struggle of the Skitarii, Knights, and Mechs could be heard from far away on the city wall.

It was they who delayed the long-range firepower of the Eldar and prevented it from pouring into the city for the time being.

There were also the sobbing cries of civilians in the city.

But... the artillery fire will not fall.

John smeared the ashes on the small general cannon. For the first time, he recited His true name so devoutly.

The cardinal knew very well, he knew it very well, Chaos only wanted the living.

He thought that his guards had all left him, and he was going to do the last thing next. He wanted to slow down the arrival of corruption as much as possible. He wanted to go down to the city and try his best to prevent these souls from falling.

John wanted to let these souls leave as decently as possible.

He knew it very well that Chaos would only want the living.

John stretched out his right hand, wiped away his tears with his fingertips mixed with blood and dust, and wrote prayers on the small general cannon again.

"The Lord of the Underworld is merciful. He saw the souls of the world sinking into the sea of ​​pain, and said, 'I want everyone to sleep in my domain', no matter you are rich or poor, old or young, innocent or sinful."

He certainly knew what Archbishop Samuel meant by that sentence.

After that, John talked about this matter with other cardinals. The Archbishop's words were obviously ridiculous. There might not be true believers of the Emperor of God in the state religion, not to mention the Underworld Church, which is known for its flexibility.

Without a sufficiently mature punishment and supervision mechanism, how could the Archbishop guarantee that these cardinals would fulfill their doctrines and hinder the invasion of Chaos as much as possible when Chaos came?

But after that, John got a truth that made him have nightmares for seven consecutive days after he returned.

It turns out that he is not an exception. It turns out that he was complacent and thought that the truth of covering up the past had long been known.

The truth is very simple -

Before they entered the Hades, every cardinal had been imprisoned and abused by Chaos.

After the blessing, John stepped back, holding the remaining half bottle of ashes, and nodded calmly to the sage.

"I am no longer of any use. Can I bless the people now?"

"Good luck."

The sage immediately hurried up to check the general cannon, and the temporary war band leader immediately came forward to discuss countermeasures with the sage.

John limped down the city wall. The armed forces of the Hades could not be said to be the strongest. On the front battlefield, the Hades was the most laborious team.

They are usually used for early warning and exorcism for the people.

John's fingers trembled unconsciously when he thought of that past.

The story is very simple. His parents were Chaos believers and used their children as sacrifices.

That day it was his sister's turn. John's sister gave John the wire she had hidden and her escape map - telling him to find a completely black building, and then she was dragged away by her parents.

He finally did it. After two days and two nights of hiking in the wilderness, he found the dark building. The priest of the Hades found him and immediately contacted the Silent Man to deal with the incident.

In the end, he was the only one who survived. He saw his sister who had completely fallen into the way of Nurgle. Finally, he asked the priest if his sister had rested?

The priest's answer was affirmative.

After that, he did not become a useless person because of the blow. He joined the Hades and began to study further.

On the one hand, fear drives him to wish to have his own Quiet Guard, and on the other hand, as he studies in the Chthonic Cult, he begins to realize that he can prevent similar tragedies.

But John did not say this out loud. He defended himself with determination and greed. As success became more and more attainable, John followed the Hades' [Turning Expansion Movement]. He deliberately chose a star field far away from his hometown, vowing to escape from it. Don't let yourself be dragged down by the past.

After that, he had his own group of Silent Soldiers. He rested on success and only needed to ensure that there was no Chaos in his jurisdiction - other powers were at his disposal.

but……

…

"You know, John, I was surprised too - I thought no one knew I had been a Chaos slave gladiator for a while."

Another cardinal pursed his lips and smiled, with a sad look on his face.

"Maybe this is why we - we have witnessed the cruelty of Chaos with our own eyes. We may have fallen countless times, but we still survived and were full of fighting spirit - what does this have to do with Pluto? We know it in our hearts It’s clear that he is just an excuse, a switch for a certain spell.”

"This is the real secret of the operation of Hades."

said the cardinal, laughing to himself,

"People who have truly experienced the atrocities of Chaos...people who are truly compassionate...cannot watch others suffer, because we have all prayed for someone to save us, right?"

…

John took a deep breath and walked slowly to a poor man who was wailing. The man's mouth had begun to crack.

He poured out some of the ashes,

"Don't be afraid, I'm helping you."

John said, start praying, if you can save just one person... it is better to use a mantis as a chariot than to do nothing, and this is also delaying time.

"The Lord of Hades said, 'When you are in trouble, praise my name.'"

…

"There is no such thing as Hades..."

John said slowly,

"There are no followers of Hades in Hades, but we have the same belief."

Another of his colleagues laughed,

"Maybe Pluto is some kind of group will of Hades, haven't you noticed, John? Even though you and I talk about business - the result - hahahaha!"

The Cardinal approached John and winked slyly.

"I think you breathed a big sigh of relief the moment you got the power to dispatch the Silent Men, because... I did too."

The corners of John's eyes twitched insignificantly,

"I have another question, how did you escape in the first place?"

The person opposite him paused for a moment.

"A senior in our team gave his life in exchange for mine - don't laugh, he was almost corrupted to death by Chaos, so I think he is so kind."

He got it.

John thought, damn Hades, this is the Alliance of Victims of Chaos.

…

The bishop gently closed the deceased's eyes. His injuries were already fatal.

The blood on his broken leg was still flowing all the way, and the looks in some people's eyes frightened him, as if he saw his former self.

boom! boom! boom!

The city wall was lost, and John numbly heard the roars of the people at the city wall. He just bent down and held the little boy's hand tightly. The little boy's head had begun to have horns.

John said hoarsely,

"Say it to me - praise Hades."

"Praise be to Hades."

This sentence made the boy feel a little uncomfortable, and tears seemed to begin to well up in his eyes, but he knew that John was saving him, so he continued to read it.

"Praise be to Hades."

"Praise be to Hades."

"Uncle - does Hades really exist?"

John's hands trembled for a moment. At the other end of the street, the Slaanesh horse showed its head with a cry, and was hit against the wall again by the warriors of the Chapter who rushed out.

Does he really exist?

Although people are spreading rumors that he is back, and even his superiors say they have seen the man with their own eyes, John has never seen him. This may be another lie - this is definitely a lie, gods do not exist, He is a man who sees and believes.

"he……"

John trembled and said,

"Pluto exists - but as long as we ourselves are enough, he is very busy. Say to me, my child, praise Pluto."

"Praise be to Hades."

"..."

silence.

John suddenly felt some kind of omen, his ears were dizzy, and then he raised his head and subconsciously looked into the sky.

Something appeared there.

It's Hades.

"Fuck."

John said.