Chapter 498 Rebirth From the Ashes: Guilliman's Arrival (I Have Something to Do in the Afternoon

Chapter 498 Rebirth from the Ashes: Guilliman's Arrival (Updated in advance due to something in the afternoon)

"You left the Soul Stone to her?"

"Yes, just as a souvenir, or a keepsake?"

It is also a life-saving weapon, Vito thought to himself, who knows how many things will happen after he leaves. This is a turbulent era, and it is always good to have multiple preparations, especially for Olivia and the future Governor Jack.

Vito stood behind the porthole and watched Jack and his group leave below. The young future Governor was in a very good mood, and he should be so. His adoptive mother was still alive, his fiancée was safe, and he had just been received and recognized by Guilliman on the Macragge Glory.

At this moment, the big guy was dealing with various documents that seemed to give Vito a headache. They were piled up like a mountain, but Guilliman calmly and calmly flipped through and reviewed his opinions.

Vito watched Olivia leave with the children, and then turned around.

Guilliman's room on the Macragge Glory seemed very narrow, not because the room itself was small, but because it was filled with a large number of documents and books, with only a small area around the desk for movement.

Guilliman also always wore the Destiny Armor, which he could not take off. If he took it off, the toxins in his body would kill him, so he always wore that big thing. Vito really didn't know how he managed to approve documents while wearing armor.

"Are you having fun playing games on this planet?"

Guilliman asked without raising his head, reaching out for the seal and pressing it on the wax.

"Not bad." Vito answered calmly, walking through the narrow aisle between the piles of books and coming to the big window. Outside, the huge fleets of the two expeditionary forces were gathering above Victoria's orbit.

The Macragge Glory and the Emperor's Dream stood side by side, surrounded by a large number of war fleets, as if returning to the past, when the expeditionary force first set sail from the solar system.

After the rebellion on Victoria was quickly put to an end, Guilliman arrived, leading his fleet of the Indomitable Crusade to the skies above Victoria.

There was no sign, no notification. Although he said he had sent astropathic messages, they were all blocked by the warp storm, so he just came directly.

He did not come empty-handed. Before that, the Indomitable Crusade assisted Eisenstein and his party in fighting Huron. They defeated Huron with a huge force, drove him and his remnants away like stray dogs, and then came here across the stars.

"That child needs to gain the respect of the nobles of the planet, not by me, not by the army, but by himself." Vito said.

"Only in this way can he become a real governor, and I also want to see if he has this talent."

"So, you designed a test for him with Anthony." Guilliman continued to be busy with the work at hand, writing and talking.

Of course, Vito thought, Anthony and his pitiful rebels were not worth mentioning to him, if he wanted to crush them, it would be no trouble at all.

But he didn't, because he wanted to take this opportunity to test Jack, the future successor of Olivia, what kind of talent he had. He deliberately hid himself and designed the crisis situation, and what was satisfying was that Jack did a good job.

It was really pitiful to say, Vito couldn't help but feel pity in his heart. That guy was a toy on the chessboard from beginning to end, Tzeentch's and his own.

"That traitor, Anthony, is he dead?" Guilliman suddenly changed the subject without any warning.

"He died, which is considered to help you clean up the door."

"Very good."

Guilliman spoke calmly, as if nothing had happened. Vito did not doubt that Guilliman had known about Anthony for a long time.

"You knew he was a traitor a long time ago, right?"

"He has a tendency to betray and heresy." Guilliman was reluctant to say the word heresy. He hated this word very much, but it seemed that he could not find a more suitable word to replace it.

"In today's Empire, anyone with talent and knowledge has this tendency to some extent, which is not difficult to understand considering the current situation of the Empire in the past ten thousand years."

"Indeed." Vito answered simply, sitting on an oversized book.

"If I execute everyone with this tendency, then I will be no different from the previous Empire." He said without raising his head, "Besides, if we talk about heresy, we may be the biggest heretics in the entire Empire."

"Indeed." Vito smiled again.

Guilliman reviewed a document and threw it on the small hill piled on the ground.

"Besides, my reform needs the help of these "heretics", the History Court, the Logistics Court and the Ministry of Truth are all there, your Inquisition, and the State Church have expressed dissatisfaction several times."

"Then you should just ignore them."

"Since you, the head of the Imperial Secret Police, have said so, then I will not reply to them." Guilliman threw away a few letters.

He then stopped reviewing the documents and leaned back in his chair, took a sip of the water glass, "I sent Anthony to you, thinking that the expedition would change him, just like the others."

"But it seems that I was wrong. Some people are stubborn after all." Guilliman said, "But I will still try. I am not an Inquisitor."

"Let me remind you that I am an Inquisitor." Vito walked over with a wry smile, walked through the messy room to the table, and threw the box containing the black fragments on the table.

"I won't kill indiscriminately. If I wanted to do that, half of the noble families on this planet would have been gone long ago." He said, "Besides, Anthony did bring some help. Look at this."

Guilliman picked up the box, opened it and carefully examined the fragments. He carefully picked it up and pondered it, and then came to a conclusion.

"Black stone fragments, and they are corrupted."

"Yes, you also received reports about strange black stone tablets near the Great Rift war zone, right? Even if we take the planet, Chaos will evacuate it at all costs, or blow it up completely, leaving nothing behind."

Vito pointed to the fragment, "Now we know what it is."

"Anthony can use it to open the warp rift, and he is just a mortal with a little bit of psychic power. It is hard to imagine the consequences of deploying such things in large quantities in the galaxy."

"The Great Rift." Guilliman answered decisively, he raised his head, "Do you know how to destroy these things?"

Vito leaned back on the table, folded his hands in front of him, "Just blow it up, but you also noticed it, right? Even if they are destroyed, the Chaos pollution in them will leak out, leading to The entire planet has been plagued by years of pollution."

"Indeed, I have received several reports from the Inquisition." Guilliman said, looking at Vito, "Tell me, is it your idea to kill the entire planet without distinction when Chaos pollution appears?"

"No."

"That's good."

Vito moved his position to make himself more comfortable, "But I think I have a way to shut down the Black Stone, but I have to find a friend first."

"Friend?"

"His name is Trazyn. You haven't met him yet, but I think you won't like him."

"Who is he?"

"You don't want to know."

Guilliman and Vito were silent for a moment, and stood up after a long while. He stood up and picked up several large folders on the table and put them down in one place, and then exchanged them for a stack of brand new application letters.

He returned to the table and put them all on the table.

"I guess, just like you don't plan to tell me now how you plan to rescue Sanguinius, right?"

Vito was silent for a moment, but he was not too surprised. "Dante told you?"

"Yes, it was him. I led the Primaris Space Marines who were handed over to the Blood Angels to Baal before. I met Dante there. He told me. Does this make you feel uncomfortable?"

"No, no."

"You should know too."

"I think so, but he didn't tell me what you wanted to do." Guilliman said, but his eyes were not looking at himself, but flipping through the letters on the table.

"I don't think he knows, you know, but you don't plan to tell us."

"Yes."

"Why?"

"The time is not right."

Guilliman didn't speak for a while, just opened the letter and read it, and only spoke after reading three letters.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"Well, I don't need to ask." Guilliman said, picked up the pen and signed his name on the letter, and then handed it to Vito.

The latter took it and looked at the content and raised his eyes. Guilliman did not react. He put the quill back on the table.

"I grant you full authority to lead the expedition. You don't need to ask me or the Terra Council for instructions when something happens. You can make decisions immediately." He said.

"In addition, you will have the power to recruit soldiers, form legions and manage the planets you think are suitable for recruiting."

Vito looked at the letter and was silent for a moment, as if he was doubting something.

"This is not a test or a temptation." Guilliman saw his thoughts, "Anthony's matter has brought a lesson. I think you are more suitable to decide everything yourself."

"Do you know what this letter means?" Vito asked.

"I know." He said calmly, "Do you have any other questions?"

The silence lasted for a moment, and then ended with Vito's laughter. He put the letter in his arms, "No more."

"There is another person who wants to see you, so I won't participate." Guilliman said, picked up a large basket of letters, and then walked through the room to the door.

The door opened and Eisenhorn walked in. He nodded respectfully to Guilliman, who responded briefly and handed the basket in his hand to Sicarius who was waiting outside.

They left, and only Eisenhorn came in, standing at the end of the pile of books and looking at Vito at the table.

He jumped down from the table, then waved his hand to signal Eisenhorn to come over. Vito found Vito at the window, with his hands behind his back waiting for him to ask.

"You know my question, so tell me." Vito said coldly, and in an instant he became the cold leader of the Inquisition again.

Eisenhorn nodded in awe, "As you requested, sir, I tracked down the news of the King in Yellow, that is, Valdor."

When he said Valdor's name, Eisenhorn couldn't help but feel nervous, and his eyes couldn't help but look around, as if he was afraid that there were ears on the other side of the wall.

Especially the guards seemed to have heard it. There were many guards on this ship, many of whom served as Guilliman's personal guards and always accompanied him.

"Don't worry, I'm the only one with ears here." Vito said coldly.

"Unless you didn't keep the secret as I asked you to, and you spread it out." Vito said in a murderous tone, which obviously scared Eisenhorn.

"No, no, sir, only you know." He answered with worry and awe.

"Very good, tell me, what did you find out? You know I don't like long speeches, just get to the point."

"Waldo, he instructed to send a spy to you, sir."

Eisenhorn said cautiously, and the young face couldn't help but frown, "The identity of the spy is very hidden, and he is directly responsible to Waldo himself. Several of my informants in the secret cult died, but his identity was not found."

"Yes, she."

Vito emphasized the female "she", which surprised Eisenhorn.

"We are still investigating."

"No, your work is over." He said with his hands behind his back.

"Thank you for your service, Inquisitor Eisenhorn, I believe you know to keep this to yourself, right?"

"Of course, sir."

"Leave."

Eisenhorn bowed and left, leaving only Vito standing in front of the porthole overlooking the vast planet below. He raised his head and looked at the Emperor's Dream, looking at the window of the officers' club.

He activated the communicator.

"Ms. Petronila Viva, wait for me in the courtyard garden."

The Ouroboros bit its own tail, and he thought, it's time to take the next step.

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