The Sun King's Evidence

The autumn of 2522 in the imperial calendar.

In the fountain courtyard of the Palace of Fontainebleau.

Ryan was slowly immersing himself in the bath water amid the scent of cornflowers, irises, red roses and carnations.

The original body is now starting to look a little less like a human being. Every step he takes is filled with ultramarine light and shadow. His every move is like the ancient god of war coming to the world, or like the gods fighting in the ancient war between elves and gods. The carriage patrol is as majestic as the human world.

Ryan's physique became stronger, but he deliberately suppressed his body from expanding further because it was not time yet.

Under the streamlined muscles, countless spiritual torrents are surging. Among them, the silver spiritual energy is a gift from the Emperor. The Emperor's genes make up half of the Gray Knight, and those golden torrents are Malcador's last. As a gift, the power of the palmer is actually more inclined to the abilities that evil villains should have, such as mind control, crazy torture of other people's souls, and banishing the opponent directly to the depths of subspace in one breath. .

However, the most powerful ability that Ryan gained after being promoted to demigod is called the Shadow of Oblivion, which allows the original body to summon a spirit body of his own to fight alongside him. This spirit body has about 50% of Ryan's combat power, and will Imitate Ryan to release various psychic skills and directly participate in the battle, but you can't leave too far away from Ryan.

Despite this, the Forgotten Shadow may be the most valuable legacy left by the Emperor and Malcador. It allows Lion to do two things while also changing the situation of the battle at the most critical moment. When necessary, Lion's entity can Instantly switching places with the spirit body will cause Ryan to instantly lose half of his psychic energy and physical strength, but its flexibility and tactical effects far outweigh the cost.

For example, in the final moments of the Horus Heresy, when the Emperor personally led the Custodes, Sisters of Silence, and Mechanicus Priests to fight countless Chaos Daemons in the Webway under the Imperial Palace, the original Daemon Draconion was almost killed on the spot. Lord of Mankind, the Emperor relied on this move to switch places with the spirit body at the critical moment and avoid Draconion's fatal blow.

This is different from flashing. Flashing requires some preparation time and will be interrupted. The Shadow of Oblivion will not. At any time, including the moment when Ryan is seriously injured or even dies, he can calmly exchange with the Shadow of Oblivion. Avoid death at the cost of half your psychic energy and physical strength.

Ryan went through six tests before finally being promoted to Demigod. After Malcador's enlightenment, he passed five of them easily. He played with a gun in front of Khorne's seat, drank soup at Nurgle's table, and drank in Tzeentch's house. Passing stolen goods, skipping gangs in front of the emperor, passing merchants under the ancient saint's stage.

Only the test of Slaanesh took Ryan more than three months to successfully overcome.

It has to be said that Slaanesh did have many tricks, which shocked Ryan, especially some of the unique skills of his demons, which cost Ryan a lot of energy to get rid of.

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In addition to being indescribable and indescribable, Slaanesh also came up with a strange move. A group of muscular bird demons wearing leather and chains blocked Ryan, when boy♂next♂door and ass♂we♂can , when the forest elf reached out to Ryan and issued a royal invitation, Ryan believed that it would be difficult for everyone to refuse.

And that song, Ryan can fucking sing it.

"I can't fly out of the colorful world~ It turns out that I am a drunk butterfly~"

Ryan sang it subconsciously, then shook his head with a wry smile.

It took more than three months for Ryan to finally overcome his shortcomings in this area and successfully resist the temptation of Slaanesh.

The original body began to realize that he was no longer a human being, or not fully human. The current Ryan was a combination of "human" in the subspace concept and "human" in the mortal concept. He was still a human. , but not entirely mortal anymore.

Leaning comfortably next to the large, dense bathing pool, Ryan took a monocle lens from the tiles beside the pool, leaned out, and began to browse the messages sent in from outside by Theresa and Veronica.

Yes, although Ryan has been in seclusion for several months, just like his father who has been sitting on the toilet for 10,000 years, Ryan is also aware of the outside world. The Fairy in the Lake and MI7, including Talleyrand, arrived on time. Send the information into the training room for him to browse (if he is free), and his spiritual power can also slightly perceive what is happening in the outside world.

The aftereffects of the breakthrough are still there. The seven scattered forces in Ryan's body are now running around. He still needs some time to straighten everything out. Also, he has been dazzled by watching Slaanesh's carnival performance for too long. Ryan's current vision is equivalent to People with moderate to high myopia also need some time to recover.

Furthermore, Ryan knows that even if he is the Sun King, there will always be a day when it comes to an end. Kingship is not eternal, and he cannot rule Britannia forever. The Kingdom of Knights needs to rely on its own system and beliefs to continue.

Over the years, the knights, nobles and bureaucrats have formed a habit of "listening to His Majesty and doing as he says" and lack the ability to think and make decisions on their own. This incident happened to be an experience.

And Devon Hill, he who can generals is a talented general, and he who can generals is a handsome man.

By the way, Ryan also wanted to see if the Old Guard was at risk of evolving into the Roman Praetorian Guard.

The first thing he opened was Beria's report.

Beria wrote in the report that most of Estalia's territory fell. The knightly army was slow to mobilize due to the lack of decision-making by the bureaucrats and the slow response and slow mobilization of the knights and nobles in recruiting troops. In the end, Estalia's millions of refugees only had about 1.1 million people, including 300,000 young people, successfully retreated to Britannia and are currently resettled in the principalities of Beléon and Carcassonne.

Due to differences in language, culture, beliefs and living habits, several large-scale conflicts broke out between Brittanians and Estalian refugees almost immediately after contact. The Bretons looked down on Estalian refugees. The demi-humans and Estalians also blamed the chivalrous patients for not supporting them as early as possible, and neither side accepted the other.

Ryan sighed slightly. Malcador was right. Conflicts between mortals due to race, country, culture, and belief often only require a tiny spark to detonate and form a chain of hatred.

Fortunately, at this time, the Estalians felt extremely confused about the future. It was an extremely trance-like state in which the country was no longer in ruins and there was no hope of even regaining their homeland.

It’s done, no need to fight anymore.

At this time, as the orthodox descendant of the Sunwatcher family, the appearance of Juan Carlos Sunwatcher quickly conquered the hearts of all Estallians. In love, Juan is the Estalian He had great military exploits and a far-reaching reputation. The Estalians were proud of him and always regarded him as their own child. Therefore, after the main bloodline of the Sunwatcher family was cut off, Juan was originally Duke Magritte. He had given up on being the legal heir of the family before. Now that most of the family bloodline is dead, can I reluctantly pick it up?

sure! According to the law of aristocratic succession, the remaining more than a hundred knights in Estalia declared Juan on the spot as the legitimate heir to the title of Duke Magritte and swore allegiance to him after Juan appeared. Even Estalia people were prepared to do so. Juan was crowned Grand Duke of Estalia, and a military organization, the Estalia Militia, was quickly established with Brittanian support.

For the knights, nobles and the bureaucracy, this is the result of the game, and both sides can accept it. Juan is the son-in-law of Duke Hagen. Just like Ryan married Sulia, he married our daughter as if we were one of our own. The bureaucracy is naturally familiar with Juan, who is easy to communicate with and control. As for Juan's personal loyalty to Ryan, there is no problem.

The title of Duke was offered to the world, and Juan himself had no reason to refuse it.

But Ryan was still not satisfied.

His original idea was to redeem military power from the knights and nobles by releasing the land ownership of Estalia.

That is to say, let go and let the knights and nobles get enough benefits in the process of regaining Estalia. In exchange, they can completely take away the military power and troops from the hands of the knights and nobles, so that these military nobles can completely become A simple landowner.

Don’t underestimate this step. This step is very important and is the key to further centralization. Why did Ryan implement the military rank system before? Isn’t it because the military rank system is a symbol of the nationalization of the army?

Just like when Lane was a baron, he could just ignore the duke. I'm not your vassal. How about changing this relationship to Lane being a lieutenant colonel and the opposite being a general?

It is a pity that the reform has entered deep water. How can the knights and nobles give up the military power they have held for thousands of years? They do not resist Ryan's command of their troops for the time being. Firstly, they have interests. Secondly, Ryan's prestige is too high and his strength is too strong. The knights and nobles do not want to go against Ryan.

But I don't have to cooperate. This method of relying on Ryan's personal prestige is not thorough, it is not easy to unite the command, it is not easy to cooperate, and it cannot exert the maximum combat effectiveness.

Even the empire on the other side of the mountain actually took advantage of the opportunity of the Great Holy War to destroy the country. After starting over, Ludwig only took back part of the military power from the military nobles.

"One generation can only do what it does for one generation." Ryan said with a wry smile, and that was all he could do for the time being.

Then came the second piece of information, about the war against Chaos in the north of the empire.

The city of Kislev had fallen under the attack of Velich-The Curse. The Chosen One of Tzeentch was obviously not satisfied with this achievement, and he immediately ordered to attack the Empire.

More than 100,000 Chaos troops marched southward, while the Empire only had less than 30,000 Northern Allied Forces. The 60,000 Imperial troops organized by Emperor Karl-Franz raced against time at all costs to reinforce the border. Many of the troops that set off never reached their destination. Beastmen and Greenskins, hungry for killing, frequently hindered their advance. Entire regiments were wiped out by the spreading plague. Some soldiers died of exhaustion, desperate to move forward at all costs. comrades abandoned on the roadside. Others deserted the unit and fled their homes to protect their loved ones.

At this time in the north, the commander in charge of protecting the empire was the Great Baron and Elector of Hawkland Edbrand Ludenhoff. He carefully planned a series of powerful counterattacks and flexible tactics to delay enough time. , and then finally waited for the emperor's reinforcements, Ludenhofer soon discovered that he had become the leader of nearly one-third of the Reik Guards and a quarter of the emperor's direct army. After receiving powerful reinforcements, Ludenhofer The husband finally had the capital. In the Battle of Rupert, Ludenhof led the imperial army to defeat the Cursed Legion, and personally used the iconic Hawker Chief's Fire Gun to blow off Wilich's head.

Of course, Velic wouldn't die from a bullet to the head, but the mercury in his skull still forced the Chaos Warlock to retreat. Without the guidance of their master, the army of the Curse collapsed in the wind, and the empire once gained hope.

It's autumn now, at least this year is over.

Everyone knows that this is not over yet. The hundreds of thousands of people in the World Cursed Legion are not even the vanguard of Archaon's world-destroying army. They are just a reconnaissance team, the real vanguard, and the deputy general Kurgan of the Eternal God's Chosen. The 300,000-strong Kurgan army of the great warlord and the powerful Kron-Conqueror of the Sanctuary is still gathering across the mountain pass... It will arrive at the northern border of the empire as early as next spring. The 60,000 people in Ludenhoff's hands (There were losses in the war) The number was only a fraction of this vanguard army.

Ryan was noncommittal, and then looked at the next piece of news, which was jointly sent by Aurora and Teresa from MI7.

This is the news about the sudden emergence of "The Reincarnation of the Human Emperor" Wo Teng.

His appearance brought huge turmoil to the entire empire's political situation.

What kind of great upheaval?

Thinking of Karl Franz, Emilia and Frederick, Ryan showed an interested expression and continued to read.

Half of the plot of ET1 has been explained in these chapters. In the next two wars, the plot of ET1 will be all over.

As for the issue of some people saying that there are too many jokes, I admit that this is my writing hobby, but to a certain extent, the background data cannot lie - I spend several hours carefully writing plot development, characters, and writing. When it comes to war, when writing about the dark setting and background of Warhammer, subscriptions go down, but when it comes to silly and silly comedy plots, including those about women, subscriptions go up.

Of course, there are also plots where the Primarch and the Emperors appear.

To paraphrase the words of my favorite boss Ji Cha: This is everyone’s choice.

In other words, this is inevitable after the rise of this chapter. As for whether one likes it or not, that’s a matter of opinion, right?

After all, online articles are products that tend to cater to readers, and I am not a platinum tycoon like Squid.

Don't ask for votes, please order it all. This book will try its best to explain the ending and finish it smoothly, and then consider the next one. The only thing for sure is that the next one will definitely not be about farming.

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