Warhammer Inquisitor Chapter 369

  Chapter 369 Expedition Road: The Last Throne

The bridge of the Emperor Fantasy is brightly lit. It has not been so bright here for a long time. The bright lights shine on the marble pillars around the huge dome, and the golden silk thread and the statues on both sides are shining under the lights. The glorious, white marble floor also re-splashes the glory of the past to the surrounding areas.

On the stepped bridge deck, terminal instruments that have been silent for a long time, their edge shells are also shining with light under the lights, and the golden imperial eagles that are decorated and imprinted on them are also lit. Glittering underneath, and also gleaming, is the sky eagle on the captain's throne.

Reina was sitting on the throne, which was a silver throne with a raised back. The top of the back of the chair was divided, extending out several parts like swords. They stretched out from the throne high and pierced the top towering dome.

Golden silk threads are decorated on both sides of the throne back. Those golden threads extend from the lower end, and then close together with the raised throne back to the upper center, where they gather to form a golden eagle holding lightning. .

On both sides of the throne, there are two giant silver wolves squatting. Those two wolves are different from the roaring ice field wolf of the space wolf, and also different from the head-raising moon wolf of the shadow moon wolf. They are two proud white wolves. Giant wolves, they crouched on either side of the throne.

  The one on the right proudly raised its hand, raised its sharp claws, raised its proud head and overlooked all the visitors staring in front of the throne, its eyes staring at the distant place.

   On the other side, the wolf on the left is more low-key. It sits with its legs on the ground and hangs its head, as if thinking about something.

Two wolves guard the golden and silver throne. The hard marble throne is not as luxurious and gorgeous as the thrones of most empires, especially the golden throne. It can even be said that it is a bit too low-key, and there is nothing complicated The patterns and carvings are simple, but have an extraordinary temperament.

Because the seemingly inconspicuous throne in front of me was known as one of the double thrones standing side by side with the golden throne on Terra in the past. Pull on, in charge of all the authority and future direction of the empire, while the other king stepped into the vast galaxy, transformed into the empire's sharp blade and shield, and blocked all the demons and monsters in the galaxy for the newborn human empire.

Reina still remembered that at that time, in those days that she had almost forgotten, the Supreme Military Commander of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, before the Primarchs returned, Vito, the Supreme Leader of all the Astartes legions, sat here, sitting in the On the throne among the proud wolves, he met and listened to the seekers from the entire expeditionary army, listened to their words, and made decisions and orders.

Here, once known as the emperor's golden throne in the Terra Palace, the power center of the empire, here, Vito exercises great power on behalf of the lord of mankind. He sits here and commands an unprecedentedly large army. Sweep across the galaxy.

But later, with the return of all Primarchs, especially when Horus became the Warmaster, Vito's power was diluted. Although he himself was quite happy, Vito didn't like to sit on this throne all the time , listening to all kinds of people beeping and beeping to me.

He prefers to pick up the chainsaw sword and bolt gun, put on a chic windbreaker and jump off the Thunderhawk, and fight all kinds of enemies. Even if he wants to command the battle, Vito is more inclined to step on the battlefield himself. Directly go to command the battle on the spot and fight side by side with his soldiers.

Therefore, for Vito, this throne does not like the throne that restricts him to let go of his hands and feet and go to the ground to fight side by side with the Astartes and the mortal auxiliary army. Therefore, when Horus became After Warmaster, Vito gave up the throne to Reina, and let her sit here to command the Emperor's Mirage and the expeditionary fleet.

In the beginning, Reina was not used to it. She seldom sat on the throne, and always felt that it was an act of arrogance. But as time passed, the thrills brought by Vito, or the crazy battle adventures with heartbeats In the end, Lei Na always sat on the throne exhausted after commanding with tense nerves.

So over time, Reina got used to sitting on the throne. She sat here and commanded countless thrilling space battles, and witnessed many tragic and almost impossible battles. She witnessed the Great Crusade here. It also witnessed the end of the expedition brought about by the Horus Rebellion.

Sitting here, she witnessed the betrayal of Isstvan V, the hero of the galaxy marching the army of traitors to the solar system, and also experienced the Dark Expedition and the Battle of Macragge with it. Together with thousands of soldiers, they witnessed the birth of the Second Empire.

And later, Reina was ordered by Vito to lead the Emperor Phantasm through the burning galaxy through the subspace silent engine, rushing into the solar system from the huge encirclement of the traitors and the periphery of the **** battlefield, where they fought with the Imperial Fist, Saint The Blood Angels still have white scars, and thousands of warriors loyal to the empire witnessed the moment when Warmaster Horus descended on Terra.

  Here, this throne has almost witnessed the beginning of the entire Great Crusade, and also witnessed the final sad end of that great journey, falling into the burning galaxy where brothers cannibalize and compatriots are broken.

So when Reina sat on the throne, when she sat on the throne again after decades, she leaned on the back of the silver chair with emotion, overlooking the once bustling, but now The empty and dead bridge, just like the great expedition that has long since disappeared in human memory, ushered in its own end.

Reina sighed for a long time, and tapped her fingers lightly on the wolf head sculptures on the armrests on both sides. Yeta, who was standing on her side with her hands behind her back, turned her head to look at her mother, "Are you comfortable? Are you too Are you tired? You've been busy preparing to leave recently."

"No, nothing Yeta, I just recalled some things during the expedition, and I was a little emotional." Lena leaned her head on the throne and said softly. She sighed silently and recalled the expedition that had ended. The proudest memories of the Great Crusade.

  But Yeta beside her, because she didn't know what was going on outside at all, she was still excited and turned her head to look at the giant wolves on both sides with a twinkle in her eyes. She was very excited that she could finally leave here.

   "I'll see Terra soon! The Empire, and the empire you and Dad, the Marshal, and the Emperor have created, just thinking about it makes people can't wait!"

Reina looked at the excited daughter beside her. She didn't know how to tell Yeta what the empire outside had become. She didn't want to hurt her, this little girl who was full of yearning and hope for the future and the empire. She had waited too long for that moment, and Reina didn't want it to be clouded, like her own mood.

  But Yeta didn't seem to notice the sadness in her mother's eyes. She looked around the empty bridge excitedly, and strode to the edge of the large reception platform in front of the throne, overlooking the huge stepped bridge space below.

   "And not only that, soon I'll be able to see with my own eyes how Ni and the Marshal fight! Not from the stories, but by seeing them! I'm sure that will be impressive."

Reina looked at the little daughter in front, her hand was touching the armrest of the throne, she lowered her eyes and let out a long sigh. Reina's green eyes looked at the back of her wrinkled hand, she put her hand on the armrest of the throne. On the armrest, she had already forgotten how long she hadn't done it.

In the past, she always put her hand on the armrest of the wolf's head, firstly because it would give her a support point for her elbow, which would be much more comfortable; on the other hand, it was also because Vito was still sitting on the throne, commanding They will put their hands in the same position when they are looking at the thousands of troops of the expeditionary force.

She put her hand there, as if to get strength from Navito's palm, to gain courage in every battle no matter how difficult and desperate, to gain determination in adversity, and let that power guide her and her warships to victory.

But Lena didn't know, she didn't know that she hadn't flown into the sky for decades, and as a mother in this place for decades, a settlement leader who cared about the harvest, life and trivial matters, could she still control this road like she did back then? Proud ship, the ship that Vito handed over to her.

Reina has imagined countless times what it will be like to sit on the throne again one day and fly to the sky, but when that moment is really coming, Reina is full of melancholy again, she doesn't know if she will Let down Vito, let down the hopes of the crew.

She sighed, looking at the back of her own withered and yellow hand, she put her hand on the armrest of the wolf head, hoping to gain determination from it as before, she put her hand there, and suddenly, another hand was placed on the back of her hand superior.

Reina raised her head to look at the owner of that hand. He stood aside and looked at Reina with a smile. He stared at her with those black eyes. His smile transmitted a warmth from the back of Reina's hand into his body. , no longer need any words, he has already given everything that Reina needs.

  Reina looked up at Vito with a smile, and the two looked at each other and smiled. Yeta in front turned around and noticed Vito, and she immediately stood at attention and saluted Vito.

   "Marshal!"

   "How is it, Yeta, are you ready to leave here?" Vito raised his head with a smile, and looked at the enthusiastic Yeta in front of him. She looked at Vito with confidence and smiled involuntarily.

"Yes, Marshal, I have been preparing for this day for a long time! The departure preparation list, maintenance steps, and the types, quantities and maintenance columns of the parts that STC needs to produce have all been prepared! We are just waiting for your order. Let this ship fly again!"

  She was very enthusiastic, even excited. Vito smiled when he saw those radiant eyes. He slightly turned his head to look at Reina, "Do you know who she reminds me of when she was young?"

"Okay, don't make fun of me, are you really sure to solve that electronic demon? I never knew you knew programming skills." Reina stood up from the throne as she spoke, leaning on the back of the throne on one side to stand Standing up, Vito on the side smiled and stepped back a little, leaning on the silver wolf on the side of the throne and shrugging.

   "I don't understand, I won't be like that group of engine oil guys, fighting against a group of 0s and 1s every day." "Then how are you going to deal with that electronic demon? Or, does she understand?"

  Reina stood up and stepped out in front of the throne, and raised her head to Lilith, who was leaning against a terminal instrument behind her. She was sitting on the cold and silent instrument with her hands in her arms.

  Yeta also noticed her, the young girl frowned and looked at the annoying woman, Yeta looked at Vito in puzzlement and raised a finger to Lilith, "What is she doing here?"

   "Help, little girl." Lilith said as she drew out the long knife on her waist. With a twist of her fingers, she dexterously let the back of the knife rest against her fingers, and gently raised the long knife to stand in front of her eyes.

   "What can she help? Break it all with a knife?" Yeta frowned, looking at the dangerous woman with vigilance, and the latter smiled coldly, full of sarcasm and ridicule.

Just before Yeta, who was young and energetic and about to be provoked by Lilith's smile, opened his mouth to curse, Vito raised a hand to stop her, and Vito smiled and turned to look at Lilith, "Lily is here I came here as a second layer of insurance, if I don't get rid of that electronic demon, then Lily will manually cut off the reactor, and directly shut down the system physically to trap that ghost thing."

   "But she doesn't even know where the reactor is, so how can she help? And besides, I can do it for you too. You don't need this woman."

Yeta looked at Lilith with one hand on her hip, who was turning the knife in her hand, and quickly turned it in the palm of her hand with her fingers. She didn't say anything, but waited silently for Wei. Trust to explain to his "little daughter".

And he did exactly that, Vito put his hands behind his back and looked at Yeta who was mumbling to one side, his face was full of eyes like looking at a little girl, "Lily is in charge of being the electronic demon who is about to struggle with all his strength, activate the ship When all the automatic defense systems on board prevent the power from being cut off, she comes to take out the obstacles that are controlled."

   "And you, Yeta, you are responsible for leading the way and taking Lily to the reactor, and cutting off the power at the last moment." Vito looked at Yeta beside him, and as expected, her eyes widened, and she suddenly turned her head to stare at Lilith.

"Shall I take her there?" "Yes, you take her there. Reina will be responsible for getting off the ship, helping Peter transport all the raw materials to the STC's automatic loading port, and be ready to start work immediately. Only veterans like them And a few tech-priests, don't they know how to run STC casting templates?"

   "And I want to stay here and take care of the electronic demon, so among all the people present, you are the only one who knows every aspect of this ship best, right? So this mission belongs to you."

   "But Marshal!"

"Okay, as an excellent captain, you have to learn to adapt, adapt and understand people you don't like so much. Believe me, you will always need to cooperate with people you don't like. This is what your mother and I have in common. In this way, I can safely hand over the future to you young people."

Vito walked up and pressed Yeta's shoulders. He spoke in a tone full of trust, which made Yeta quite excited and flattered. Yeta also watched the marshal sigh after some ideological struggle, and chose compromised.

Since the marshal trusts her, her personal grievances must be placed after the task, so as to be worthy of the marshal's trust, especially when he said that he would entrust the future to himself, the excitement in Yeta's heart is even more difficult to suppress .

"Of order, Marshal, I'll take her there." Yeta walked towards the gate, and she walked past Lilith, but she didn't even look at the silver-haired lady beside her, thinking about what Vito said just now , with a happy smile all over his face.

Lilith looked at her and smiled jokingly and glanced in Vito's direction. After the latter nodded slightly, Lilith turned the handle of the knife in her hand, grabbed the long knife and got up to follow him from a distance. Behind Yeta.

Vito and Reina looked at the backs of the two people who were going away and laughed together. Reina turned her head and looked at Vito who was much taller than herself. She stood in front of him and looked up into his eyes. "Do you really have a solution to the electronic demon? I know you never know about programming."

   "Someone will help me."

   "Someone? I don't see a third person here, what are you talking about, Vito?"

  Leina stopped before she finished speaking, her words were stuck as if she was interrupted by the faint blue light, and Leina stared wide-eyed at the shining blue light in front of her.

The light came from a silver disc, and when the border of the disc was opened, it emitted a shining halo. Those blue light particles were flying in the air, gradually converging into a human shape, that was a blue woman, She stood up slowly from the disc.

Reina looked at the little figure in Vito's hand in astonishment. The short-haired woman made of light stood on Vito's palm. Reina watched her widen her eyes, and looked up at her face illuminated by the blue light in disbelief. To Vito, "She is."

"Artificial intelligence, that's right, her name is Helen, she is my apology, I can't tell you this story now, it's a long, long story." Vito raised his head slightly, looking at the person on the throne in front of him. The lightning eagle logo smiled, it was his own logo, and he had followed his own logo since a long time ago in Roman times.

   "Take a moment and I'll tell you, but it will take a while."

"No, Vito, why are you waiting, you have an artificial intelligence? Why didn't you tell me? Didn't you tell anyone?" Reina raised her head and looked at Vito in front of her and asked in surprise. On the man's face, he slightly tilted his head to think for a moment, then turned his head to look at him and wanted to say something, but his face was covered by his hands.

Reina looked at those black eyes, those tired and weather-beaten eyes, he was still smiling, but looked very tired, "I said, it's a long, long story, I can't say it two or three times I will tell you everything, Reina, but I just want you to trust me and forgive my concealment and deception."

"Believe me, I didn't mean to hide it from you, me and him. It wasn't intentional. We thought that hiding it would save you from doing some bad things again, but in fact, we were so wrong. Hiding never solves anything."

"Too many secrets, I've been hiding them for over ten thousand years, I don't want to hide any more, but I must keep hiding them, keep those dangerous secrets in my heart forever, until, when the time is right, you know if I reveal How much trouble will it cause with such a secret in my hands."

Reina looked at Vito in front of her. She stared at those black eyes for a long time. There were too many things hidden in those eyes, too many things that he didn't want to remember, but he still remembered, Because, there are some things that only he can remember in the current universe, and in the vicissitudes of the past ten thousand years, only he can remember them.

The man in front of her is the only one in the galaxy, except for the immortal emperor sitting on the throne, who still remembers the origin of human civilization, the first cry, the first time he stepped on the earth, and sailed to The sea, the man who flew to the stars and the era of prosperity, he is the only one, the last one at the end of the Great Crusade, remembering what human beings were like.

He is the last and the only person who remembers the whole process of the rise, germination, prosperity and gradual darkness of mankind, and also knows what kind of peaks mankind can reach. In the dark galaxy, people will not believe it, and dare not The last person to believe in that future.

The human beings in this dark empire have never seen the sun since they were born. They are like a group of disaster immigrants living underground. They have never seen the blue sky, never smelled the air that does not require wearing a gas mask, and never heard of birds. Singing, and have never seen the sea.

And he, the man in front of Reina has seen everything, he is like the last flickering flame in the darkness, waiting for the moment when the underground world can finally be ignited, and besides that hope, he also Carrying the memories of the dark years, to tell people how not to let the darkness return at the moment when the flame ignited the light.

He is the last guardian, the last inheritor, no one can share his burden, and no one, can understand everything he said, the reason is very simple, you can't ask a group of people who grew up in the dark to believe him , I believe that the only person who has seen the sun tells them that there is sunshine in this world.

Reina looked at the tired smiling man, she wasn't outraged by that deceit, like Magnus, like Horus and the other traitors, she thought maybe they didn't have the chance to stand by him like she did. Standing in front of these last guardians, looking into their eyes, feeling their exhaustion and pain.

"Then why are you telling me now? Let Yeta leave, let Lilith leave, just tell me?" Reina looked into his eyes, the man in front of her showed a slight smile, and he gently stroked her Face.

"Because you are one of my friends who have seen the sun together for the last time and lived thousands of years, so I want to tell you the last flame of the sun in the darkness. If I will die one day, then, You can also pass it on, so that some people in this galaxy will still remember the scene when the sun rose from the horizon and pierced the dark galaxy."

"Vito, don't say that, you." Reina raised her hand to caress Vito's face, and the latter smiled and held her outstretched hand, "The emperor has sat on the throne, hanging half dead This endgame, and now, the pendulum of fate has made him make a decision to end this game and start a new one."

Vito looked at Reina in front of him, he stroked that face, looked into those green eyes, "Reina, when that moment finally comes, when the chess game of the galaxy comes to an end, I will hold up that door The gate to the new world, so that you and they can go there with the fire of civilization, and let the dawn of civilization finally pierce the night and rise from the earth."

"What are you talking about? Vito, I don't understand. Broken chess game? New world? I don't understand what you mean." In fact, Reina still hasn't figured out what Vito is talking about. As I said, no one will Understanding what Vito said, he couldn't make them understand, because at that moment... there were bound to be many sacrifices, many, sacrifices that he couldn't prevent even if he burned himself out.

   All he can do is make the sacrifice less, nothing more.

Vito smiled and stroked her face, "One day you will understand, you will all understand, now, you just need to know that the secret artificial intelligence Helen in my hand is the last one with the strongest computing power in the whole galaxy. A superior artificial intelligence, she can kill that electronic demon."

  Vito lowered his head and looked at Helen in front of him. The latter also saw many strange data flashing in his eyes. Helen lowered her eyes and remained silent for a moment, then nodded slightly in affirmation.

   "Vito."

   "Don't worry, she is not someone who hates intelligence and will not turn this ship into a killing toy, or at least, not a killing toy for humans."

"No, Vito, what I want to ask is, why did you tell me? Just me? You can tell everyone, the crew, they are all survivors of the Great Crusade era, why do you only tell me? I What the **** is there?"

"Because I love you, it's as simple as that, so I believe you know how to treat this secret kindly." Vito smiled at Lena, who was surprised in front of him. They stood in front of two silver giant wolf statues, and Vito stood with her, Standing close to each other listening to all the words and concealments.

The two looked at each other, green and black eyes, suddenly Lena leaned forward and kissed Vito unexpectedly, she stood in front of Vito and put her arms around his neck and buried her head for a while Fan, "Vito, although I don't know what you mean, but promise me, don't play the stupid hero game of self-sacrifice?"

   "If the new world you said is true, then we will go there together. No matter what we have to face, I will sail in that direction with you, just like now."

Vito looked at Reina in front of him, and after a moment of silence, he put one arm around her head, and gently leaned his forehead on her head, "That old **** always said, I still maintain a useless Human nature, walking among mortals is a waste of time and stupid behavior, now look, who is the fool."

"With a good girl like you, it's worth me maintaining this situation for 10,000 years. For you, it's all worth it." Vito said, holding up Reina's face with his fingers, and he looked at Reina in front of him and smiled. with.

   "Go ahead, Peter still needs your help, I have to ask you to plan another crazy trip after I get this all done."

Reina looked at him and was silent for a moment, then nodded and then turned and walked towards the exit of the bridge. She stopped at the gate and pressed one hand on the door frame. She turned her back to Vito and fell silent. After a few seconds, he spoke slowly, "Vito, promise me, don't do stupid things, don't talk about such a bunch of reasons and excuses, just promise me."

  Vito stood in front of the throne, holding Helen in his hand and turned his head to look in the direction of the bridge ahead. He tilted his head in silence for a while and then said slowly, "I promise you."

"That's enough." After saying that, Reina walked out of the bridge. Helen, who was standing on Vito's hand, looked at Rena who was going away. She lowered her eyes and thought for a moment, then looked at Vito beside him But he still held Helen and walked to the throne.

  Vito looked at the throne that once belonged to him, the throne that belonged to the Supreme Marshal Vito Constantine, the burning throne of the last guardian.

  The Emperor has already sat on another such throne, fulfilling the oath he once swore, and now, perhaps, the time will come for Vito to fulfill that final oath.

He raised his head and looked up at the sign of the giant wolf in front of him. The proud wolf overlooked all living beings, stared at the earth alone in the cold wind above, and was alert to all dangers approaching from all sides. That wolf will not be alone When it grows old, it will die alone, just like the wolf on its other side.

  Vito turned around, and he sat on the cold throne. In the silent and lonely bridge, the last guardian sat on his throne.

  (end of this chapter)

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