Chapter 282

"Macragge above, why are baby corpses flying in the sky?"

Wearing the blue-and-gold Armor of Fate, Roboute Guilliman stood in the repaired sanctuary, his voice rarely showing some ripples.

In this sanctuary built for him, servitors with baby corpse appearances and implanted with various machinery were flying in the sky, flapping their wings, dragging incense burners in their hands, and sprinkling burning incense like clouds.

Roboute Guilliman controlled his voice; his exclamation just now was only heard by Belisarius Cawl, Zhou Yun, and Sanguinius standing beside him.

The war on Macragge had almost ended.

Previously, Chaos traitors had occupied most of the areas of this Ultramarines' home planet and the capital of Greater Ultramar; their troops were several times that of the Ultramarines, and they had a large number of daemon engines, and also occupied an advantage in orbital power... even with the Blood Angels brought by Zhou Yun, the Empire's side still seemed to be at a disadvantage in objective strength.

But there were two Primarchs on Macragge.

Roboute Guilliman and Sanguinius were with Macragge.

The two Primarchs, with the recaptured Hera Fortress as the center, led the Ultramarines and Blood Angels respectively and began the slaughter of the Black Legion.

They were like two war storms that transcended what mortals could understand, using a series of raids, infiltrations, and lightning offensives to divide and disintegrate the Black Legion.

And while the war was going on, Roboute Guilliman also learned what kind of power Zhou Yun's props had.

While shocked, Roboute Guilliman also did not hesitate to open the Ultramarines' reliquary to Zhou Yun.

These relics had been continuously recovered by the Ultramarines from all over the galaxy over ten thousand years, and many successor chapters had also contributed to this reliquary; its quantity, variety, and quality were far superior to the Blood Angels.

The degree of wealth made Zhou Yun sigh repeatedly; compared to the Ultramarines, the Blood Angels were simply poor ghosts.

Ultramarines' 9th Company Captain and Reliquary Keeper Sinon followed the order to open the reliquary for Zhou Yun, proudly introducing the history of each relic to Zhou Yun.

He explained to Zhou Yun that the 9th Company always maintained an honor guard led by him; this team, besides Ultramarines, also included an intelligence network composed of acolytes, chapter servants, and agents.

This intelligence network was like a spider web, spreading across all the routes of the Empire, collecting any clues about the chapter's relics.

This reliquary full of precious things was the crystallization of Sinon's hard work.

Zhou Yun did not stint on praise for this at all, and even an old veteran like Sinon could not help but reveal a proud expression.

After all, Zhou Yun was the one who resurrected two Primarchs; even the Ultramarines treated him with respect.

Sinon generously patted the power armor on his chest and indicated to Zhou Yun that, following the order of the Lord of the Ultramarines, Roboute Guilliman, Zhou Yun could take any relic from the reliquary.

Zhou Yun once again praised the Ultramarines' generosity without stinting.

It was just unknown what Sinon's mood would be when looking at the almost looted reliquary... except for a small part of the relics that Guilliman hoped Zhou Yun would not sell and a part of the relics that were not valuable and only had commemorative significance, most of the other relics were sold by Zhou Yun.

His savings rose rapidly, and a large number of props were exchanged, equipping an entire company of Astartes.

This company was composed of elites from the Blood Angels and Ultramarines, named by the two Primarchs as the Doraemon Company, equipped with super-ability hats, bamboo-copters, Blind Spot Stars, and two famous swords... Denkoumaru.

Relying on the super-ability hat, this company had the ability of teleportation, non-Warp-dependent psychic power, and X-ray vision.

Relying on the bamboo-copter, this company's movement speed and air strike capability were several grades stronger than Chaos Raptors.

Relying on the Blind Spot Star, this company could even conversely sneak attack the Night Lords.

As for the famous sword Denkoumaru... in the report Zhou Yun saw, an Ultramarine once tried to fight a Titan for two rounds, and didn't lose.

Relying on this company, Macragge was completely recaptured in less than a month.

Or rather, in front of two Primarchs and a company equipped with props in Zhou Yun's hands, being able to hold on for almost a month, this Black Legion was really too worthy of the gene-seed issued by the Warmaster.

Just although there was the help of Primarchs and props, recapturing an entire planet in less than a month and defeating the Black Legion, which was far more numerous than themselves, even if the Astartes could still hold on, the mortals had already reached their limit.

And reinforcements from all directions were still rushing over, war machines needed repairs, the army needed to be reorganized, and Macragge also needed to re-establish a command structure to adapt to the rule of two Primarchs.

Therefore, after the entire Macragge and even the planets in the star system were liberated, Macragge temporarily entered a rest period.

Roboute Guilliman planned to re-establish a complete governance system during this time, so that the entire Greater Ultramar could be rebuilt more smoothly and silkily in the subsequent actions.

This ceremony before his eyes was a part of it.

It was for Calgar, the original Lord of Macragge, to return the command to Roboute Guilliman, and Guilliman would also share his power with his brother Sanguinius.

Of course, this ceremony was also to announce to the people of Macragge who had already suffered a lot that the Primarch had returned, and the former Greater Ultramar was about to be rebuilt.

But Roboute Guilliman looked at the cherubs in the sky, and his mood really could not get better.

He had long known about the existence of this thing and had seen several of them on the battlefield, but—

But the appearance of being so dense and everywhere in the sky really made Roboute Guilliman feel a mental shock.

"No, my lord." Belisarius Cawl spoke slowly: "This is not a baby's corpse." "According to the internal records of the Adeptus Mechanicus, there was indeed an initial attempt to use baby corpses to add mechanical tissues to transform them into servitors."

"But clearly, the baby's body could not withstand the Omnissiah's creation, so the Cult chose to use culture tanks for artificial cultivation, producing artificial creatures similar to baby shapes, with internal neural structures far more complex than ordinary babies, intelligence roughly similar to sub-perceptual primates, and body strength far superior to babies, more efficient and practical."

Belisarius Cawl's calm tone, like narrating data, made Roboute Guilliman's body tremble.

But most of the people participating in the ceremony in the sanctuary seemed very normal.

Only Sanguinius's expression was a bit low, and Zhou Yun's face carried some distortion.

This scene was really too abstract and too twisted.

If it weren't for the psychological preparation in advance, Zhou Yun would have suspected whether the Warhammer 40k he traveled to was the Cthulhu next door.

"There was this scene in the hallucination that the gods showed Horus back then."

Zhou Yun spoke slowly:

"It's not entirely his fault for going crazy; the Four Gods told him that the future of the Human Empire was like this: baby corpses flying in the sky, everyone ignorant and ignorant, nine Primarchs including him were deleted from history, and the nine loyal Primarchs and the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang were worshipped as gods."

"He once proclaimed this." Roboute Guilliman's expression was somewhat uncontrollable: "I didn't expect it would really be like this."

"The Four Gods just like to lie with the truth; this kind of unlucky future was caused by him making a big rebellion."

Zhou Yun glanced at the cherubs in mid-air with deep disgust.

This thing was really a part of the forty-first millennium of humanity that had to be tasted; let alone him, a person from the 3k era, even people from the 30k era ten thousand years ago could not accept it.

Especially such a dense pile, holding burning incense in the sky, chanting hymns in their mouths, making the entire sanctuary shrouded in a kind of twisted sense of holiness.

The cherubs themselves were things created by the Ecclesiarch Vandire during the Age of Apostasy, in order to proclaim that he was the chosen one of the Hua Hua Hua Di Huang, to induce the awe of the masses.

Time passed, although that history of Vandire had long been erased, the symbolic meaning of the cherubs was retained and was inexplicably recognized by the imperial masses.

Look at every single word, every single line, every single content!

When the masses saw the cherubs flying across the sky, they would naturally arouse piety and awe; the chapter servants and priests preparing for the ceremony proclaimed so.

And these cherubs were all specially customized unique items, worth a lot, and still needed in many places in terms of function.

Roboute Guilliman could only blacken his face and demand to minimize the appearance of this thing, unless it was a necessary place.

As for the extra ones, they were all collected into Zhou Yun's four-dimensional pocket.

But the priests expressed strong opposition to Guilliman with a humble posture.

Especially when Guilliman said, "Flying ones are not just cherubs; I believe Celestine would be very happy to complete the task of flying and arousing the piety of the masses."

The Ecclesiarchy was terrified by Guilliman's attitude of using a Living Saint as a cherub, even though Celestine herself said she was very happy to complete this task, and even Sanguinius said he could fly a bit...

Finally, in order to prevent the Living Saint and the Primarchs from flying across the sky like cherubs and being surrounded by the masses as a spectacle, the priests had to reduce the vast majority of cherubs.

Zhou Yun could only sigh that it was really lucky that it was Guilliman who was resurrected; if it were the young Lion here, the heads of this group of priests would have already been flying in the sky like cherubs.

In short, Zhou Yun stood not far away watching this group of people start another round of boring and tedious wrangling, feeling quite bored, and thinking that he was not very needed here.

So he squeezed out of the sanctuary silently, slipped into the streets of Hera Fortress outside the sanctuary.

Due to the war, Guilliman ordered the vast range outside Hera Fortress to be opened to provide refuge for the masses.

Now many mortals who came to watch the ceremony also squeezed in here; Hera Fortress suddenly became much livelier from being empty and silent.

Some even had the guts to start setting up stalls nearby.

The Ultramarines were taciturn about this; the war brought too much pain, and the masses needed such occasions to reduce pressure.

Zhou Yun was bored, so he strolled to the street here.

Just then, Zhou Yun heard a preaching sound coming from the side of the street.

"You must be very curious about how Lord Sanguinius and Lord Guilliman returned from death and came to the Empire again, right?"

"This is all because a new saint has descended into the Empire; pious believers, you must remember that name and praise his greatness twenty-two times in your heart."

"He is the holy Doraemon!"

(End of chapter)