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

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The arrival of the Empire brought about many changes. If the Mechanicus hadn't been unable to understand Barbarus's food chain, Barbarus would have been significantly altered long ago.

The little girl spoke in a clear, crisp voice.

"Sir, my grandmother told me that I look a lot like you. Is that true?"

"Can my brother also be disliked by others?"

Hades was speechless. He stared at the child, who was just above his knees, and squatted down.

The villagers of Lysa may not have the concept of untouchables, but people's feelings about untouchables will not change.

He spoke patiently.

"Yes, I was also disliked by others for a period of time."

"This is because of our constitution; we are untouchables, naturally capable of harming things with souls."

Hades paused again, then continued,

"But not everyone hates us. Strong will can overcome the dislike for us."

"I know,"

Little Herrera spoke, and the little girl raised her hand high, holding her brother's hand, while her brother shrank behind her.

"Had has been playing with me all along."

Compared to Hera, Had was noticeably smaller and looked more listless.

This is probably the price of prolonged contact with untouchables.

And he's a psionicist.

Hades sighed softly.

He reached out, took off the gloves from his power armor, and gestured for the little girl to hand over their hands.

Little Herrera's eyes darted around nimbly, then she exaggeratedly pressed her and her brother's hands up to her.

Hades controlled the dark domain and attached it to his hand.

Hader abruptly pulled his hand back as if he had been burned, and this time he hid completely behind little Herella.

Little Herrera looked back at her younger brother with a puzzled expression.

Ignore the siblings' whispered conversation.

Sure enough, Hades thought of it.

Had's soul flame was already quite weak; although it was more dazzling than the soul of an ordinary person, it was also more precarious.

It seems these two children can't be left together, otherwise Had will be unconsciously killed by her sister, Hera.

Hades sighed again.

He looked at the little hand that Herrera was still holding in his hand; even after touching the dark domain, there was no sign of discomfort.

Untouchables do not exclude each other.

However, Little Herrera's anti-psychic domain also seems quite weak.

But Hades didn't know that his Dark Domain was too powerful.

If this child knew that he had been hurting his younger brother...

Hades blinked, signaling little Herrera to withdraw her hand.

“You are an untouchable, little Herrera, and your brother is a psionic.”

"Psionicists? Do you mean monsters who can use witchcraft?"

Little Herrera pulled her brother back a few steps, looking at Hades warily.

“My brother is not that kind of person; he doesn’t practice witchcraft.”

Hades sighed; he wasn't good at talking to children.

It was Had, who was behind little Herrera, who popped up.

"Sister, perhaps that really is the case."

He muttered.

The adult from before had been staring at them with the eyes of someone eyeing prey. Added to this were the villagers' discrimination against the siblings over the past few years, and the adult who had always followed them since.

The good news is that the tallest adult didn't look at his sister with hostility, which is unusual, as people always subconsciously dislike little Herrera.

Perhaps it was because the adult in front of them had the same physique as his sister, but was clearly of a much higher level than these adults; he could even command other people.

His sister can still be saved.

Compared to the carefree little Herrera, Had, who was born tormented by both the Barbarus psionic environment and the little Herrera's anti-psionic domain, had long been aware of their destined tragedy.

They all had to die, they all had to die under the discriminatory gaze of the villagers. After giving birth to the sickly brother and sister, their parents abandoned them and went to Xinghuan to make a living.

They depended on Grandma Lysa for survival, and even though Grandma Lysa had a high reputation in the stronghold, she couldn't change that.

but now!

Now he can let this adult take his sister away; that adult surely knows how to prevent his sister from being subconsciously disliked by others.

But how could they get this adult to help them?

Hader knew that the tallest, death-like figure wanted to kill him, and that was when the figure quietly blocked his view.

Perhaps this adult is a good person, just like his sister.

But for Hades, the psionicist, Hades, being an untouchable being, exuded an even more oppressive aura of a superior predator.

He can.

"I'll go with you, you can."

Hader whispered, feeling like he was about to cry, “You can kill him. He won’t hide and bother them.”

He would trade his life, the life of a monster who used witchcraft, for his sister's life.

Hades sighed again. Why did he suddenly feel like crying? Had he burned the child too badly with his Dark Domain?

He deliberately minimized the darkness; if he had held Karas down and opened the darkness to its maximum extent back then, what would have happened to Karas?

He scratched his head and decided to use a combination of deception and trickery to get the two children into the Death Guard first. Little Herella would contact Sister Silent. Of course, it would be great if they could be put into the Death Guard's Untouchables.

After confirming there was no threat, Hader was assigned to the think tank's undertakers.

Currently, the Death Guard Undertaker's manpower is severely depleted, as there are very few wild, normal psionicists on Barbarossa due to environmental factors.

These wild psionicists often go mad from Barbaross's long-term corruption.

However, if they are taken away from this environment beforehand, there might still be a chance to save them.

After all, not all Barbalus psionicists have the same background as Karastifon.

Hades cleared his throat and spoke as gently as possible.

"Hard, you mean you're willing to come with me?"

Hader nodded, his eyes red-rimmed.

"it is good,"

Hades then looked at little Herrera.

"And you, would you be willing to come with me to the legion?"

Little Herrera looked at her brother, then at Hades, clearly not understanding why her brother had suddenly made such a request.

Not to mention him, Hades also couldn't understand Had's thought process.

But if Hader were to reveal everything, the two of them would probably be shocked.

"Since my brother said he'd go, I'll go too!"

"But I need to tell Grandma Lysa first."

"Alright, alright, go ahead."

Hades watched helplessly as the two children, carrying farm tools, skipped and hopped back home.

Regardless of the children's wishes, their physical condition destined them to spend the rest of their lives on a grander battlefield.

Hades stood up and clapped his hands.

At this moment, little Herrera and Had were unaware that they would soon face a problem far more serious than life and death.

The flames of war will inevitably linger for the rest of their lives.

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Chapter 135 Summary of Barbarossa's Initial Investigation

The sky over Barbarossa was as gloomy as ever, but for the farmers who were used to working here, today was a bright and sunny day.

Hades stood in the wilderness, pondering how to arrange the selection of new recruits for the Death Guard.

According to his own plan, the Death Guard's recruitment will have two sources of manpower: voluntary registration and the Death Guard's private recruitment of talent.

He doesn't need to worry about being hindered in recruiting soldiers. Barbalus's social structure is still very simple, and there is no such thing as aristocratic families or nobles.

The Death Guard has absolute control over this planet.

After all, on some planets, being chosen as a Space Marine is a rare honor, and many noble families will further expand their power by having their offspring selected into the Legion.

However, such a trend doesn't exist in Barbarossa. Everyone is poor on a very average level, and there are simply no extra resources to support a class like landlords. Therefore, there won't be any dramatic events like families blocking each other from enlisting as new soldiers.

In fact, the Death Guard needs a lot of new recruits, but that doesn’t mean that just anyone can become a Death Guard. High-quality recruitment is also a guarantee of the Legion’s strength.

The first batch of Barbarus people who were transformed were all veterans who had fought alongside Mortarion in the gas for many years, and could be considered the most outstanding group of military personnel in Barbarus.

Now, due to the intervention of the Empire and the Mechanicus, there has been no large-scale war on Barbarus for a long time. After the Legion left, a large number of young and strong people from Barbarus poured into the construction of the Star Ring, leaving the old, weak, women and children on the surface of Barbarus.

Of course, he wasn't recruiting the young and middle-aged men working on the ring; they were too old and had missed the best age to undergo the modification surgery.

The children who were left behind by their parents or sent back to Barbalus are the main targets of Hades' recruitment this time.

The Star Ring does not provide resources for those without labor power, so most children born there are sent back to Barbaros by their parents.

On Barbarus, since the Mechanicians still don't understand the biological factions here, and dare not easily burn the glass of a Primarch's homeworld and rebuild it, Barbarus still maintains a small-scale farming model.

Some agricultural machinery, temporarily suitable for local crops, was introduced as transitional tools.

The sages believed that this awkward period would eventually pass, and there was no need to design a dedicated production line for the currently inefficient and low-yield crops on Barbarossa.

But this awkward period didn't end until after the first battle of Deathguards.

Um.

Hades still remembered the scene when he went to inquire about the sages' progress, and the sages stared at each other blankly.

And they handed Hades a bunch of papers to prove that they were indeed doing work.

Hades, who was putting on a polite smile in front of the sage, almost lost his composure.

Of course, they wouldn't make things difficult for them. Hades, who had lived on Barbarus for a period of time, naturally knew about the strangeness of Barbarus.

These estimates will have to wait until he can see if he can expel the Nurgle psionic energy from the planet.

Turning our attention back to Barbalus, this planet originally had little mining industry; its developed sector was agriculture, with some fishing in the area near the equatorial ocean.

Because of a lack of surplus productivity and the foundation for industrial development, commerce in Barbarossa never really took off, and in most areas, barter trade was still a common sight.

Actually, Mortalian's strongholds were also based on a distribution system back then. Money? What is money?

In other words, those who return from the Star Ring will bring back some Imperial currency, but these small metal blocks are basically useless in Barbarus.

Interestingly, Hades discovered that some small ornaments that could be used to decorate gas masks were particularly popular on Barbarus. These trinkets, made from scraps of the Star Ring Industry, were taken down from the Star Ring by some people with ulterior motives and then exchanged for food.

A unique sight appeared—

Young adults on Barbalus choose to work in the Star Ring because the environment there is generally better, and the emerging human settlements also attract the attention of the Barbalus people who have spent their lives farming.

The mechanical sages or imperial bureaucrats on the Star Ring would exchange a large amount of supplies for their labor. Even if they could no longer work, this large amount of supplies would be enough for them to return to Barbarus and spend the rest of their lives there.

Currently, Barbarus's ring mainly produces various semi-finished mechanical components that may be used in the future modification of Barbarus, as well as being responsible for the production of some of the Death Guard's living supplies.