Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

The briefing room was filled with many people. This was the first time since Bell boarded the Infinite Frontier that the conference hall was full of people. In the past, whenever there was a need for pre-war meetings, deployments and arrangements, only Each department only needs to send one representative, but today almost all important officers, technical backbones and senior non-commissioned officers from all departments are here.

People in the hall were talking to each other. Most of them were very casual. They were chatting in groups and leaning on the table. Especially Ragnar and Lancelot were as informal as ever. They were now on the podium in the conference hall. Fencing in the open space in front of him, literally fencing.

Ragnar and Lancelot each held a long training stick, and then the two of them used the thing as a stabbing sword, gesticulating with each other on the vast field. The two taunted each other and waved their hands. That broken weapon.

The two of them were yelling at each other, but they were obviously in a good mood. The sailors around them were mainly marines and stormtroopers talking to each other. They were watching the battle between the two demigods with great interest. .

In the past, if the people of the Empire could see the Astartes, they would usually step aside with fear and awe, and even kneel down to look up at the Emperor's angels.

But the Infinite Frontier would not. They have been fighting side by side with the Deathwatch Space Marines for decades, and have long been accustomed to and familiar with these four Astartes, especially the arrogance and airs of these two demigods. None.

Well, to be precise, there was a Lancelot at first. He upheld the pride and dignity of the Caliban knights and spoke an "elegant" Gothic that sounded slightly ancient Terran French accent, but now He also let go of his arrogance, although his spoken language remained the same.

But speaking of it, everyone is actually in a good mood today. After all, when they left St. Bassos, they kindly "requisitioned" the local Ecclesiarchy's reserves on the orbital star port to provide food and wine for the Ecclesiastical Bishops and senior monks to take refuge. And lots of good stuff.

At that time, Vito delivered a famous speech on ancient Terra about "fighting the rich". With a wave of his hand, the Stormtroopers and Marines brought back several large boxes of goodies, and they started driving that night. At the celebration party, generally speaking, all the men and women on the ship had a taste of the elegant lifestyle of the imperial dignitaries, so everyone was in a good mood.

Even the usually serious Bell and Captain Cole looked particularly relaxed. They were sitting at a table playing chess. Although it was a bit troublesome for Bell's body to move the chess pieces, it was obviously not a problem for Guilliman. Heirs.

Olaf sat with Father Hus and exchanged some complex theology, imperial beliefs and current political topics with each other. It seemed that the two old guys had a very good conversation.

A cheerful atmosphere permeated the entire hall, but soon new shouts echoed. Cole raised his head and looked in the direction of the shouts. An extremely beautiful woman walked down the steps of the conference hall.

She walked briskly to the seat in the front row, then sat down gracefully and crossed her legs to lean on the back of the chair. Everyone looked at this silver-haired beauty. Of course, everyone knew her identity, even if she didn't wear it. The symbol of the Inquisition.

But her outfit at the moment is indeed worth discussing. Lilith is only wearing a pair of tight pants and a fitted shirt on her upper body, and it obviously belongs to Vito. After all, he is the only one in the galaxy who likes to open two hooks under the armpits of his shirt. He Said it was for the convenience of hanging the gun.

But that shirt was obviously a little too small for Lilith's body. I mean, that men's shirt didn't seem to fit those breasts very well.

The part that was about to come out aroused a lot of "compliments" from the male members present, so that the ladies among them seemed very unhappy, but obviously, they did not notice.

"Judge Lilith." Bell turned his head and looked at Lilith, who was sitting behind him. The latter also smiled and winked at Bell, but it was obvious that the latter did not appreciate it, but the men around him did start to talk about it. Less content is not very decent.

Especially Ragnar. He hit the long stick that Lancelot waved with two or three times, and then walked to the table with a silly smile on his face and said, "Ah, Judge Lilith, I hope you didn't kill Vito." It’s so tiring.”

Lilith smiled charmingly, and that charming smile was enough to make anyone who looked directly at her emotional. She looked at Ragnar, who had his head slightly raised, peering into the deep groove of her chest like the men behind her. She lifted the little hair behind her ears. Showing messy silver hair, "No, he is very good, and he wants me to tell you that before he gets dressed and brings his things over, if there is anyone here who has not returned to his seat, he will shoot him."

Ragnar threw away the long stick and immediately sat on the big iron chair next to Lilith. He smiled and crossed his arms and motioned for Lancelot to sit on the other side.

The Caliban knight of noble blood rolled his eyes speechlessly. He gave up his long stick to the Stormtroopers who were watching the excitement. Lancelot came next to Bell, and almost at the same time, everyone began to hurried back to their seats. .

They reacted quickly, just like the students in the college who heard the teacher coming. They flipped through the tables and rows of chairs to reach their seats at an extremely fast speed. Even the priests of the state church seemed extremely skilled.

As the crowd took their seats, the door on one side of the conference hall was kicked open. Vito grabbed three swords and walked in. The judge walked up to the podium and threw two of the folding knives to Lilith. , the latter easily caught the long knife and leaned casually beside the chair.

People looked at Vito and began to talk, especially Ragnar who smiled candidly. After all, Vito was only wearing a pair of pants and a shirt, which was different from his usual image.

Vito cleared his throat and knocked on the table. Oh, please let me explain, he knocked with the butt of a bolt gun.

Vito looked around the quiet conference hall with the bolt gun, then placed it on the table. The Inquisitor walked to the stage holding a silver dagger.

"Now that everyone has eaten, drank, and played, let's start the next big plan." Vito said. He picked up the silver dagger in his hand and displayed it in front of everyone. Everyone looked at the shape and craftsmanship. The unique dagger blade was obviously not made by the Empire.

"This dagger is called the Nemesis Blade. I know you have no idea what this crap thing is and why I want to show you this crap thing."

"But what if I tell you that after the Horus Heresy ten thousand years ago, the traitor Primarch Fulgrim used a similar blade to stab the loyal heir Guilliman, and it was for this reason that he was still I have been sleeping in my position until now, do you have an intuitive feeling?"

There was a deathly silence in the conference hall. People's expressions suddenly changed when they looked at the dagger, especially Bell. The usually calm and composed Ultramarines pharmacist suddenly stood up. He stared at the dagger with an expression that could almost be called shock.

Bell walked out of his seat and came to the podium in full view of everyone. Vito handed the dagger to Bell. The pharmacist took the small dagger and carefully examined the weapon and the weapon that "killed" his genes. The father's weapon.

Even if Bell tried everything he had learned and understood, and he recalled everything he had learned in the Macragatu Embassy, ​​he still could not understand what made this seemingly small dagger capable of knocking down, He even almost killed his genetic father.

Vito looked at the serious Bell, and then looked at the audience. Bell raised his head slightly and looked at Vito, "Where did you get this weapon?"

"This weapon was once held by the Intress Federation. At the end of the Great Crusade, the Empire fought a war with them. The commander of that war was the future traitor Horus."

"The Imperial Army destroyed the Intress, but by chance at the time, the Empire obtained some of the Intress weapons, but at that time we did not think these weapons had any unique significance, and we did not understand their principles and mechanisms. So it was thrown into Terra’s warehouse to eat ashes.”

"But later, after the rebellion, the Inquisition was established. Through documents and records in the past thousand years, the Inquisition discovered that the weapons of Intress were the source of the weapons held by Fulgrim."

Vito said, leaning on the podium and looking at the eyes in front of him. It was rare that even the living treasure was able to concentrate, so Vito showed a serious face like an inquisitor, although Lilith still had a smile on her lips. Watch yourself lie.

"The Grand Inquisitor of the Demonic Tribunal led people to study this weapon and find its source. Finally, after thousands of years of research and exploration, we determined that its source was not the Intress people, but the ancient Eldar Empire. Heritage, to be precise, the heritage of one of the planets.”

"Judge Lilith is responsible for researching the information on these weapons, and she also brought us an important news. I dare say this is the most important news in my career."

Cole frowned slightly. He knew that Vito would sometimes exaggerate a lot of things, brag and talk nonsense, but now he could see that Vito was serious. If this was really the most important thing he had ever encountered, then it would definitely It's quite important.

Everyone looked at Vito. The inquisitor took a deep breath and pointed at the blade in Bell's hand, "We are convinced that the place where its weapons are produced and more of its technology and secrets are in a stone named Sil. Vacker. On the Eldar planet of Arth, which now lies within the Eye of Terror, the Masters of the Inquisition agree that we must seize the technological legacy and ensure that Chaos cannot obtain these deadly weapons."

The air became cold, and a deathly silence enveloped the entire hall. Everyone knew what Vito meant, which meant that the entire battleship would sail into the subspace and into the hell of the Eye of Terror.

No one has ever come back alive from the Eye of Terror, never. It was hell, not the stuff of religious myth and fantasy but the real hell, full of demons and horrors, and now they were sailing into it. .

Even Ragnar stopped smiling. He and Lancelot frowned. Everyone felt a trace of fear, a trace of fear from human instinct.

Vito smiled and gestured to Lilith, "Let me introduce to you, Judge Lilith comes from the Demon Tribunal. She and her colleagues have been studying subspace for many generations. Now I am honored to tell you that the Tribunal now controls Learn how to navigate safely through the Eye of Terror."

Cole stood up suddenly and looked directly into Vito's eyes, "Why did we never know?!" "Because it's a secret, a dangerous secret, and only a few people can use this skill."

The blind Ms. Orvia Astropath looked at Lilith. She was silent for a moment and raised her finger to point at Lilith, "She is a psyker, an Alpha-level psyker."

Cole and everyone looked at Lilith, who was still sitting on the chair with her legs crossed, looking very bored, not paying any attention to what they were talking about. Apparently she had left this explanation job to Vito.

The latter smiled and nodded slightly, "Yes, Lilith is a psyker, and one of the most powerful psykers so far." "I don't remember that the Inquisition has a psyker judge, Vito. "Olav asked seriously, his eyes staring at Lilith, as if he wanted to pry out something from her, but he failed. He could not see through Lilith's soul and thoughts, as if that thing was shrouded in a layer of mist. Average.

The beautiful female judge just looked at her nails without any intention of explaining anything. She didn't even seem to want to say a word.

"There are many secrets of the Tribunal, and I am not going to explain them one by one, but I can assure you that Judge Lilith can ensure the safety of our voyage in the Eye of Terror. I will discuss specific issues with Captain Cole and Ovia. Madam, please don’t panic or mutiny.”

People started talking around, and Omega, who was sitting in the conference hall, raised his head, rolling rows of data in his eyes, "Can we determine the value and type of its technological heritage?"

The mechanical voice asked calmly, and Vito shook his head slightly and stood up, "No, at least not yet, but I think those things are very important. According to Judge Lilith's speculation, there may be some important things in them, very important. "

"What kind of important thing?" Olaf asked again. He walked towards the podium. The tall giant walked between the steps and seats. People along the way looked at Olaf and whispered to each other. Many of the contents were discussed. All question the value of this action.

Driving into the hell of the Eye of Terror is not an easy task. It is much more troublesome than killing some incompetent governor and then walking in his garden. Oh, and by the way Picked up his daughter or something like that, um...yeah.

Lilith seemed to hear what Vito was thinking, and suddenly raised her head and glanced at Vito with a cold face, then rolled her eyes and began to look at her delicate nails.

Vito came out from behind the podium. He put his hands on his hips and looked at the people in the hall. Vito slammed his heels on the ground to get everyone's attention back.

Olaf also stopped at the first section of the stepped seats, and he looked at Vito with everyone.

"When will I take everyone to risk their lives for some bullshit? Whenever I risk my life, it is always worth playing." "Then why are we risking our lives this time?" Ragnar asked.

Vito stretched out his hand and motioned for Bell to give him the dagger. The Ultramarine looked at the dagger in his hand blankly. Only after Vito coughed heavily did he realize it and handed the dagger back to the Inquisitor.

Vito raised the dagger in his hand and shook it, "According to our speculation, we may be able to find a way to cure the scars of this weapon there, an antidote or something similar."

Bell's eyes suddenly widened. He took a step forward and almost walked in front of Vitor. The latter nodded affirmatively and then looked at the audience again, "With the Emperor's blessing, where can we find a way to resurrect Lord Guilliman?" The last of the Emperor's descendants is brought back to the Empire."

Olaf's eyes also widened, and the remaining two Space Marines also stood up. Cole looked at Vito with an expression that could be called astonishment, and many people showed similar expressions.

Even Omega seemed to show a rare trace of astonishment that only a flesh-and-blood body would show, even though the data flow in his eyes stopped for a moment.

Lilith smiled and rolled her eyes. This big liar has a fart antidote, but at least it seems to be able to scare these guys.

Vito is very good at lying, which is really ironic. He once scolded that bastard as a liar, but in the end, his ability in this area seems to be the same as that old bastard. It is really a great irony. Now that he has begun to become like him It's the same, deceiving a group of people to follow you and risk their lives for a "great" goal.

Vito sighed and regained his energy. He raised his head and looked around everyone, "Yes, if the Emperor bless us, we will rescue a Primarch. In this dark age, who will risk their lives with me now?"

"I will follow you!" Bell said immediately. He put his fist on his chest and said sternly, "In the name of the Father of Genes! I will complete the mission at all costs! No matter what I need to deal with!"

Vito looked at Bell and was stunned for a moment. He looked at Bell hesitantly. Did he find out?

"So are we, Inquisitor." Olaf glanced at the two brothers and said. Ragnar and Lancelot both stood up and nodded affirmatively. They have never been afraid of the Eye of Terror and death, their emperor's angel of death. , never knew what fear was. If the Emperor needed it, they would go anywhere, even the hometown of those demons.

Vito nodded slightly and then looked at the mortal soldiers in the audience. They all looked at him in silence.

But suddenly a man stood up. It was Father Hus. The priest in red robes stood up and performed an eagle salute, "As the Emperor wishes, Inquisitor, I will follow you, and we will bring him back." Heirs to save the dying human civilization."

The priest, as the Omega on the next level, also stood up. His mechanical arm undulated slightly under the red robe. "I can't calculate its feasibility, but in the name of Ohm Messiah, I will explore what this means." data may create new probabilities.”

"Dear friend, do you also need to calculate this kind of thing? Can you calculate it?" Vito asked with a smile, while Omega gave the same boring answer based on data after sliding a series of data in front of his eyes.

Another person stood up. Vito looked at Cole. He stood up from the three giants and looked at Vito. He didn't say anything and just nodded slightly to Vito. That was enough.

Vito smiled and then looked at the people in the audience. Everyone stood up. Men and women stood up. They faced the abyss of hell in the Eye of Terror and made their own decisions.

Vito looked at the people who stood up one by one, until the last person stood up without exception.

Vito suddenly thought of a sentence in his mind, the greatest hymn of mankind is the hymn of courage.

The Inquisitor stood at attention and saluted them, raising his hands in unison, and the Imperial Sky Eagle logo behind Vito shone golden in the spotlight.

The Infinite Frontier's propulsion engine pulled long flames, and the battleship sailed towards the nightmare thing, towards the huge Eye of Terror of the galaxy size level.

Behind them, a golden light flashed in the dark void, and the blazing spiritual flame burned eternally, illuminating the path of destiny.