Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

The military parade continued. After the first batch of Tindaros Legion soldiers were released, twenty-two transport boats started their anti-gravity engines and flew forward to make way for subsequent transport boats returning through the field.

After taking off, they will continue to fly forward for 19 kilometers and land at the end of the parade route to recover previously released troops.

The second batch of airships began to land.

After the regular infantry standard corps appeared, pure heavy armored corps and auxiliary medical and logistics phalanx also marched out of the gate opened by the transport boat in an orderly manner.

At the top of the viewing platform, the atmosphere that had just relaxed became solemn again, and after the official formation of the Inquisition and the appearance of three companies of the Minotaur Chapter later, this depressing atmosphere reached its peak.

"What a grand display!" The senior nun of the Silver Shroud Order couldn't help but say.

The legion of 30,000 people had twenty-seven pure infantry phalanxes in units of 1,000 people, plus eight heavy-armored phalanxes driven by more than 3,000 people with auxiliary equipment. The parade array with a total length of more than five kilometers had just passed. They thought it was the right time. It’s time for the boss to appear.

But the hundred-man array composed of the black and red uniforms of the Inquisition and the hundred-man phalanx composed of the Astartes warriors of the Minotaur Chapter made everyone present couldn't help but raise their eyebrows.

Let the official members of the three major orders of the Inquisition form a parade to participate in the military parade?

You must know that this is not the monks of the national religion who do not have military power, nor is it the Astra Militarum, which ranks lower in the imperial armed forces;

This is a formal member of the Tribunal who has the power to initiate investigations and trials on a planetary world if he takes any one of them!

Although there were only a hundred of them, the people of the empire who were watching the ceremony did not understand them.

But just look at their uniform robes of the same color under the black and red flags, and the feedback power armor exposed under the robes, and then look at the power swords they wear on their waists, or the power hammers they carry in their hands.

Even though they were hundreds of meters away, these civilians could smell the strong smell of blood on their bodies!

The atmosphere of the military parade is no longer a matter of tranquility.

Middle-class families and clerical bureaucrats with some status have been intimidated to the point of breathing by the golden eagle emblem and the three horizontal bars of the Roman numeral I emblem on the pendants swinging on the chests of the judges under the inadvertent eyes of the judges. Beginning to stagnate...

If the ignorant people who faced the phalanx were like this, what about the high-ranking imperial officers who knew their identities?

What about the Astartes warriors?

What about the battle nuns who are dually managed by the State Church and the Inquisition, and look at the phalanx formed by their immediate superiors wearing the emblems of the three major orders?

On the terraces on both sides of the avenue, the sculpture-like Astartes warriors had to step out of their ceremonial decoration state after seeing the formations of the Inquisition and the Minotaur warbands. They clenched their weapons and faced the procession. Show respect by paying attention.

The commanders on the high platform were even more silent. They didn't know how to organize their words for a while.

Because if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't have believed that someone could integrate the Inquisition to such an extent that they were not affiliated with each other, and even the sect itself questioned each other!

The air on the spacious terrace was stagnant. The commanders of the imperial armed forces and the senior officials of the state church all turned their eyes to the battle sisters present in disbelief.

As the armed group most closely related to the Rebellion Order, they should have some understanding of this situation...

The atmosphere on the ground was extremely stiff, and in the Vatican's secret chamber underground several kilometers above the ground, the atmosphere was equally cold.

Under the orders of the Supreme Administrator, the cardinals held high the flags with the blessing ceremony, and each carried a ceremonial guard holding a candle and a book of scripture behind them, and paraded over and over again in the King's Hall hundreds of meters underground.

More than a dozen teams with a total of nearly a thousand people walked through the entire corridors and quiet rooms inside and outside the King's Hall, but no suspicious traces were found, let alone the missing Heavenly Punishment Stand Arms.

Candles passed through the dark corridor, lighting up the candles on the walls along the way, and then walked away again to the sound of reciting the emperor's motto from the Book of Holy Words.

The cardinals searched the place three times before finally finding nothing and regrouping in the central circular hall with their ceremonial guards.

"Impossible...absolutely impossible..." one of his own cardinals murmured, and the colleagues around him were also serious and silent with expressions of disbelief.

This is one of the most core and confidential locations of the Cardinal Affairs Office of the State Church in the City of Divine Grace. Above the entire hall is the majestic main body of the City of Divine Grace, with a ten-kilometer-thick isolation barrier on the flanks, and several kilometers deep below. The layers of blessing prayers are filled.

There is absolute isolation between the main hall and the buildings above and below at both the theological and physical levels. There is only a pontoon made of steel chains hanging outside the entrance of the main hall as an entry and exit passage. It is like a huge sphere, suspended out of thin air in the huge cavity prepared for it by Divine Grace City.

How could a blessed holy object be lost here?

There are 24-hour guards specially set up by the Emperor's Hall on the outside here. Further outside, the military organization of the Holy Light Brotherhood, which has been officially disbanded by the Empire's national religion, has also set up a strict blockade here!

In the context of the Ecclesiastical Priests and Battle Sisters stationed around the clock on the surface and at the peripheral defense nodes of the Temple.

They couldn't imagine who could take away thousands of heavy halberds and sharp swords under the eyes of nearly ten thousand people in these three layers of guards!

"Are there any signs of damage to the Holy Word underground?"

The leading cardinal asked the leader of the Holy Light Brotherhood who came back from outside the hall, but as expected, he received a silent shake of his head in denial.

The Cardinal forced himself to calm down, and then signaled to the priest waiting at the door of the hall. "Inform Your Majesty, we...failed."

No one stood in the way of his order, even though they knew that once the news was spread, decades or even a lifetime of ascetic atonement would await them.

The atmosphere among the cardinals became even colder, but the time left for them had run out. The supreme administrator was still waiting for his return on the ground. They could only give up and convey the news of the failure of the search to the surface.

The military parade on the surface had reached its climax, and the crowds who had recovered from the shock and shock began to cheer.

They were moved to tears by the miraculous ceremony that they were lucky enough to witness. Hymns in praise of the Emperor and the Empire of Man rang out from the crowd, and the loud singing pierced the sky and made the domes of churches several kilometers away reverberate.

When the Inquisitor and the Minotaur Chapter walked out of the square and stepped onto the central avenue, Calvin was riding on a huge throne like a carriage, and the three hundred Gray Knights directly under his command were the protagonists of the military parade. After waiting for a long time, their sacred and majestic faces were finally revealed.

And Calvin, who was sitting high on the throne at the top of the carriage, also "carefully" enveloped himself with a layer of psychic aura.

The subjects of the empire could only see his silhouette from a distance of several hundred meters, but under the influence of the spiritual aura, that sacred figure spontaneously appeared in their minds and became something they could recognize. The highest and most holy being.

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