Chapter 38: Chapter 38 The Demon Prince's Conspiracy
It is not easy to bypass the surveillance of the Inquisition and the Assassins' Court.
But with the help of a radical Grand Inquisitor, Fulgrim secretly gathered the high lords in a secret room at the bottom of the Ecclesiarchy.
The [cyborg] who possessed the consciousness of the [Mars Forging General] sat upright on a stone chair, looking at every high lord present with his mechanical prosthetic eyes that glowed with dangerous red light.
In the dark and deep space, there was a suffocating silence.
After a long time, a sharp friction sound broke the silence here!
The gears buried in the stone wall began to move, and under the drive of the piston and the mechanism, the stone door engraved with the emperor's statue opened with a bang.
The bright light inside the church poured in from the gaps, and melodious and pure hymns echoed in every corner of the space.
[Pope of the State Religion] Decius and another old man with life-support devices inserted into his body slowly walked into the dark secret room.
A breeze lifted the corner of the old man's clothes, revealing an iron rune with a skull emblem embedded under the hem.
This is an ornament called the [Rose Knot]. Throughout the empire, only members of the [Inquisition] are qualified to wear this ornament.
"Desius, why are people from the Inquisition here?" The [Minister of the Interior] was shocked and angry.
Although he has not yet been crowned, the Primarch who is able to lift the Sword of the Emperor has already become the de facto Regent of the Empire.
The charge of "assassinating the imperial regent" is enough to scare even a weak-minded person just by hearing it.
Everything about this conspiracy must be hidden in the dark!!!
Once the [Assassin's Court] or [Inquisition] are aware of the High Lords' intentions, what awaits them... will be excommunication that is more terrifying than death!
"This is our ally!" Fulgrim said calmly, "Grand Inquisitor, Elvis Lancelot."
Each Grand Inquisitor has his own ideas on how to more effectively defend the Empire! So since the day the Inquisition was established, many factions have emerged within the organization.
Elvis came from the extreme faction within the Inquisition, the "Human Supremacy Faction"!
This extreme faction pursues the concept of "pure human supremacy"! For them, all species except pure human must be destroyed.
Note that the word used here is "pure breed"!
In other words, in addition to aliens and chaos, even astropaths, navigators and mutants are also targets that this faction needs to eliminate.
The Grand Inquisitor, who personally participated in this conspiracy, was even more extreme!
Elvis Lancelot believed that the Primarch created by the Lord of Mankind using the power of the Warp was not pure.
The Primarchs, Astartes and even the Custodes have all deviated from the concept of "humanity", so they are all targets that the Grand Inquisitor needs to eliminate.
There is no doubt that this is a suffocating cerebral palsy statement!
Under normal circumstances, this obviously abnormal cerebral palsy would never reach the position of [Grand Inquisitor]! But the territory of the empire is so vast that this kind of situation is inevitable.
This conspiracy, which was enough to plunge the entire empire into turmoil, was held under the auspices of "Desius".
The high lords expressed their own ideas and put their own values on the table without any concealment.
Among the many high lords, [Mars Forging General] is undoubtedly the most radical one.
The other high lords only wanted to hold on to their power! But the Martian Forge General wanted to kill the Primarch completely through a war.
The extremely radical plan of the Forge General coincided with the idea of the Demon Prince [Fogrim].
Every Primarch has an extremely strong will! To corrupt an Emperor's child with depravity and desire is simply a joke.
Fulgrim's plan was to use these foolish High Lords to kill the Primarch's body in the physical universe.
The psychic shock generated by the fall of the Primarch contained terrifying energy, combined with the blasphemous ritual that Fulgrim had already prepared...
The holy son of the Emperor will be directly promoted to a demon prince! The great Slaanesh will bless him and lead him into the Pleasure Castle to enjoy eternal carnival.
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[Martian Forge-General] is the spokesperson for the Mechanicus in the Council of High Lords.
As a powerful figure in the Mechanicus, the Forge-General controls six [Intelligent Control Legions] and nearly 100,000 [Kartoriats] of the Mechanicus.
Together with the Mechanicus fleet anchored in the port of Mars, the Fabricator-General is indeed capable of threatening the Primarch.
The purpose of the Grand Inquisitor's existence is to add an insurance policy to the plan of killing the Primarch.
The Grand Inquisitor's battleship, the Black Oath, carries a bipolar cyclone torpedo used to execute the extermination order.
If all else fails, the Black Oath will launch whirlwind torpedoes at the Primarch's fleet.
Even the powerful emperor's own children could not escape the fate of being reduced to ashes in the face of the terrifying power of the whirlwind torpedo.
Killing one of the emperor's own children was undoubtedly an extremely crazy plan.
The High Lords' appeal was only to keep their own power! However, the crazy plans of the Casting General, the Grand Inquisitor and the Pope of the State Religion frightened these mortal lords.
"No, this is too crazy!" The [Minister of the Interior] showed a trace of fear in his pupils, "Even if this plan succeeds, we will definitely not be able to escape the reckoning from the Astartes and the Imperial Guards!"
The mortal lords began to retreat, but how could Fulgrim let these weak mortals ruin his plan?
[Prince of Pleasure] Slaanesh holds the power of desire and corruption! The most powerful ability of the Slaanesh demon is to amplify the desires in the hearts of living things and tempt people to fall without knowing it.
As Slaanesh's most beloved Daemon Prince, Fulgrim naturally inherited this terrifying ability to play with people's hearts.
Under the guidance of the Demon Prince, the souls of the mortal lords have been blinded by corruption and desire! In order to prevent the power in their hands from being taken away, the mortal lords are determined to strangle the original body.
Chaos's conspiracy is approaching quietly! But the loyalists are completely unaware of it.
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Deep in the sea of soul.
The Primarch's fleet had been travelling through the Warp for three Terran moons.
The great power from the Lord of Mankind protected the fleet of the Primarch! Even though the [Geller Stand] used by the warship to isolate the warp was damaged, no Chaos Demon dared to provoke it.
After a long journey through the warp, the Primarch's fleet has arrived at the center of the Solar Segmentum!