Warhammer: I don't want to become a stinky can!

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Hades pondered, saying that it could only be described as useful, but not very useful.

First, prayer itself is an act that harms the soul; second, its effectiveness is linked to the degree of piety, so it's not something that can be achieved simply by chanting a slogan.

Shouting it as a slogan will only disgust yourself.

It would be better to pair it with a think tank; at least a think tank is more useful and won't cause friendly fire.

Praying can remove debuffs, but you're unlikely to continue fighting afterward unless your soul flame is exceptionally strong, your recovery ability is high, or your will is unwavering.

Hades was slightly disappointed, but more relieved, because it meant that apart from these two fanatical believers with abnormal thinking, it was unlikely that anyone else would have a fanatical love for Hades and his Black Domain.

As for what to do with these two fanatics...

Hades plans to keep Kirkland and King under house arrest in the Blackrock experimental area, making them work and preventing them from contacting other techies.

As for Margot, Hades will release her back into the Hounds of the Underworld, giving her a certain period to weed out all the mentally unstable members of the Hounds. Then Hades will put these people into the Zero Company, isolating them from normal people.

Hades has a high degree of control over the Zero Company. Compared to those who don't understand what the Dark Domain is and simply think it's a miracle, the Untouchables adapt well to Hades' Dark Domain.

The existence of the gravedigger also makes the Zero Company's ideological barriers very high.

Of course, Hades would also tell these people not to talk nonsense or act crazy—

The door was flung open, and a man in a gray cloak strode in, whipping the wind around him.

“Hades, you haven’t shown up in your office for fourteen hours. The sages of Ruster have started to feign madness. You could go to work now—”

The only one who could enter this area without notifying Hades is Legion Commander Mortarion.

Hades turned around and saw Mortarian silently staring at the people in the room.

Ugo and Had tried to stand up and bow, but the two, exhausted from their psionic powers, looked somewhat unsteady.

Mortarian glanced silently at the two men lying on the floor in the interrogation room, and at Hades, who looked like he knew nothing.

Mortarian raised an eyebrow.

".?"

"So, that's it."

Hades simply explained the current situation: in an empire that believes in imperial truth, religion should be valued.

Mortarian, on the other hand, had a "That's it?" look on his face.

"This reason cannot explain your sixteen-hour absence from your post."

The Primarch casually deflected Hades's words, effectively shutting down the conversation.

In reality, although the war in Rust had ended, the front-line horns of official documents had just been sounded. There were war debriefings, material verification and declarations, not to mention the liaison work with the Mechanicus and the First Legion.

Hades knew that his actions were tantamount to shifting the pressure from the front lines onto other managers.

But that's not the point!

"This violates the imperial truth! Unauthorized religious activities... I fear I might be arrested one day."

“If he hadn’t allowed it, you would have been executed long ago in Meint.”

"?!"

Mortalian ignored Hades' reaction, took out his command board, and began assigning tasks to Hades, continuing, "..."

"He doesn't care about that."

"When he tacitly allowed his historians and recorders to refer to the Legion as 'demigods,' he had already tacitly approved of these petty jokes."

"This is just a superficial rule; nobody cares about it until the bottom line is crossed."

“There are always people who are born with a thirst for power and domination. Even if they are not allowed to call themselves ‘gods,’ they will use other names instead.”

"But wait, do you know the attitude of those sages back in Milton?!"

"Just ignorant believers."

Mortarian chuckled.

"As long as you go far enough and are alone enough in a certain area, they will idolize you."

"Didn't you see those people, those who kneel down when they see me, muttering that they are the Grim Reaper?"

"A raccoon dog of the same kind."

In a sense, in the eyes of those people, the Primarch is the god.

Every legion has a portion of mortals, or on planets ruled by the Empire, people regard the legion as a synonym for "sacred".

God Child, Demigod, Angel

“But I can indeed respond to prayers.”

"But you have already understood and explained all of this. This is a characteristic. Fire is hot, and stone is hard and rough. This is just a characteristic of your Dark Domain, but it just happens to manifest in the subspace."

"This is science, not witchcraft or theology. It's understandable and explainable, so what are you worried about?"

"."

This is true.

“I…at least I have to stop them from spreading this.”

Let's not let these lunatics go out and embarrass themselves.

Hades is always cautious in the strangest ways, which Mortarion cannot understand. Among his mortal servants are those who worship Mortarion as the god of death, but what does that mean?

Aside from giving born slaves a false sense of security from being protected by the strong, it serves no purpose whatsoever.

Yes, Mortarian knew that ideas had power, but it seemed that the ideas of the weak did not have the power to stir up a storm.

Moreover, the Death Guard has a dedicated team of Untouchables.

Nor will a mad judge step forward, because these servants secretly believe the Primarch is a god and kill them all.

"Suit yourself, but only if you fulfill your duties as commander."

Mortalian satisfiedly tossed the workload over to the Primarch, who blinked and looked at the latest message—

An invitation to a banquet?

Hades was giving orders to the two [Followers], while Mortarion silently opened the notification. It seemed to be a victory celebration, and the Primarchs in the vicinity would be present, but for some reason, it specifically emphasized that Leon and Ruth would not be attending.

Chapter 252 Going to Eat

It turns out that you shouldn't try to procrastinate on tasks.

Hades transforms into a blank, emotionless machine of official business.

First came Astraan's shrewd letter. After taking a large amount of fuel and ammunition from the Death Guard, he quickly ran away with the Dark Angels. Garo and Mortarion came forward to see him off.

During the farewell ceremony, Mortarian seemed to want to mock the Dark Angel, but was stopped by Garo.

Oh, got it.

Hades quickly wrote a sarcastic reply to Astram, the gist of which was: "Hearing your words is like hearing a single conversation."

Next came Ruster's reconstruction plan, with the sages hoping to join the Death Guard.

Hades carefully examined the contents; good, there were no suspicious religious traces, although he remained highly suspicious of these motor enthusiasts.

Approved, approved. Multiple forging worlds are a good thing. Besides, Ruster isn't as big as Grei's, and it's been half destroyed. So this partnership is definitely led by the Death Guard.

It's like they're half-dependent on the Death Guard. Compared to Greière, who has his own independent armed forces, Juste clearly doesn't have the confidence to discuss too many things with the Death Guard.

The sages of Ruster were very grateful to Hades for leading them out of the encirclement, and offered to build a ship for Hades.

Generally speaking, for the foundry world, a good ship requires considerable technology and equipment.

But the sages confidently declared that Ruster's world furnace was of the highest quality and that entrusting it to them would be absolutely the right thing to do.

Hades thought about it and agreed.

When he went to the World Furnace to provide support, he could sense that the World Furnace seemed to be of a very high standard.

Although it felt quite strange at the time, a good furnace produces good steel, even though the world's furnace is not used for iron smelting.

Among the more famous ships in Deathguard, one is the Glory Queen-class Endurance, and the other is the End, which is the ship of Carathiphon in the original work. Now the End also belongs to Deathguard, but the captain is still a Terran.

There's also the Fourth Knight, or the Reaper's Scythe.

The Death Guard has many ships; Hades could choose any one as his vessel if he wished.

Hades hadn't considered this before; the Endurance was fine, and most of the Deathguard's ships were too cumbersome in his eyes.

Now, the sage has offered to commission a ship for Hades.

Who could resist a cool spaceship!

Hades couldn't refuse anyway.

As for Hades' needs, there's no rush. Ruster is still rebuilding, and production isn't that fast yet, so he can think about it carefully.

Hades' initial vision was to have a Clippers team capable of operating the Zero Link, low-key yet fast.

Hades replied earnestly to the Sage of Ruster, praising their meticulous work ethic and offering several constructive suggestions for their future cooperation with the Death Guard.

After dealing with the oil enthusiast, Hades continued with the approval process.

Galasper's recruit surgery is almost finished, and training can begin. He needs to notify the foundry to make the armor.

Report on the transformation of Barbarus. Some discerning planetary governors have begun to try to contact the administration of Barbarus.

Construction in Druhn is progressing steadily, and the third phase of transport deployment to Galaspa is underway.

Galaspa's production was good, and after a period of observation, nearby planets began to sign foreign trade agreements with Galaspa.

Hades, assessing the output of Mient and the development of Galaspa, considered that he could resume the recruitment of the Hades.

Production is now in line with demand, and the recruitment of ordinary people to assist the army and administrative personnel can be normalized.

Hades decisively issued a new conscription order to Galaspa, recruiting as many soldiers as possible, as the legion could afford to support them.

Hades was assigned a heavy task this time, but there were no war reports. Those kinds of things were all handled by Vox and Galo. Perhaps compared to logistics, war reports were at least somewhat related to the war.

When Hades finally extricated himself from his wrangling with the Justicialist Order, he discovered that he was the last in the entire Legion to finish his official business.

While Vox and his superiors analyzed the battle reports approved by the Primarch, Garo led the Soulless Ones in another sweep of the Ruster system to identify any anomalies. Meanwhile, Mortarion had already begun his plan to train the next batch of new recruits.

Only Hades pulled himself out from a pile of red robes, his face showing signs of sudden death.

The main purpose of the meeting with Just was to discuss cooperation matters, and to repeatedly confirm that they had not arbitrarily changed their beliefs.

Forget it, what does their prayer for Om Messiah have to do with Hades?

They will never reach the truth of prayer unless they include keywords.

Meanwhile, Hades fitted Margot with a full set of surveillance equipment and then tasked her with finding any unruly members of the hounds.

Hades specifically instructed Margot to forbid proselytizing, should Hades see or hear anything inappropriate on the monitors.

Kirkland and King, as usual, were thrown into the research and forging area. They were to be sent to create Ghost Knights or research other Blackrock technologies.

The lantern given to Ugo last time was actually a product of Kirkland's previous technology.

Another war has ended, and the Death Guard, who had just ticked the box on the plan, naturally did not receive the Empire's next conscription order.

Conversely, Mortarion received an invitation in his own name to a world gathering on the edge of this grand battlefield.

Mortarian showed little interest in this.

This doesn't mean he wasn't curious. If someone is suddenly told he has a bunch of brothers, even if he knows they're all jerks, he'll still at least take a look and satisfy his curiosity.

Hades didn't react much to this. There was no such thing in the original work, or perhaps it was too trivial to be worth recording, or perhaps it was related to Ran Dan and was thus erased.

Anyway, the Death Guard didn't touch anything during the Battle of Randan, so there's nothing to worry about.

Hades figured this was probably just a Primarch gathering, a chance to get acquainted and familiar with each other, so that if the two Legions ended up fighting together, it wouldn't be so awkward.

The Primarch can bring the Royal Guard. The Death Guard sent Hades and Garo this time. Garo was there because this Terran veteran had connections with soldiers from other Legions, making communication easier.

Hades attended because he wanted to freeload a meal.

It wasn't that Hades was dissatisfied with the Death Guard's food; in fact, everyone on the Death Guard ate the same thing, and they didn't care about their food.

Furthermore, Hades is actually the procurement officer for the Death Guard's supplies, and the decision regarding the recipes is, in a sense, also related to Hades.

The food supply for the legion is a very troublesome matter, which also involves the legion's location and how to transport food.