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But how could they reverse the overall decline of the battle group?
The only thing that can be done is to find a way to awaken the hero who fought bravely aboard the Istvan III...
As for what happened in the end, one can imagine.
"That's right... Father, no, no, sir... all those planetary governors and sector governors do it this way..."
"This is permitted by the Emperor himself... Even mortal officials and nobles can do this so casually, so why can't we, the glorious son of the Emperor—"
Ugh.
Casca closed his eyes.
"You are beyond saving."
Immediately afterwards, a beam of golden-red flame shot into the sky and engulfed the two of them.
In the instant after the fire subsided, the pitiful son of the emperor was completely annihilated on the spot before he could even utter a scream.
Instead of him, it was Kaska who had just grabbed the other man.
"you."
Casca looked at the soldiers and police officers kneeling and begging for mercy with disgust.
He spared them not out of Casgar's mercy, but because he genuinely wanted to enter the Chapter to search for enough evidence of their crimes.
The emperor's son's depravity far exceeded his imagination.
"Get up and come back to the city with me."
"I want to see just how far this emperor's son has fallen!"
"Yes, sir! We'll do as you say!"
"Thank you, thank you for sparing my life, sir! Thank you, sir!"
"...But, sir...what should we do with that person over there...uh, person?"
Their gazes fell on the somewhat curious boy standing to the side.
The other person seemed somewhat excited because they had seen a god.
"Take him with you and tell him I've found a new servant."
Casca said calmly.
Chapter 232 I Have a Settlement with You
The boy was fascinated by everything he saw around him.
With the help of several military police officers surrounding him, he boarded the magnificent and elegantly streamlined mechanical device with a sense of bewilderment.
The machine somehow managed to float in mid-air.
"My lord, this outfit of mine..."
The boy glanced at his filthy, tattered clothes and said with shame.
Bear!
But what he never expected was that, in the next moment, the god who had originally meant him no harm suddenly covered his entire body with flames.
fire!
It's fire!
Is he going to be burned to death by these flames?
...No, the boy didn't even feel any pain coming from his body; he just felt a long-lost warmth emanating from the flames and spreading towards him.
Immediately afterwards, his hunger and pain seemed to vanish completely in the next moment, and the filth and dust that had been clinging to his body also dissipated as the flames left.
"Follow me. Remember, don't say anything more."
......
"Noble Son of God, Dragon Slayer, Radiant Saint, Crown of Stars..."
The moment Casca stepped off the anti-gravity motorcycle onto the luxurious upper deck of the city, dozens of servants waiting on the deck began their welcoming ceremony with a choir-like aria in High Gothic.
No wonder they say the emperor's son is a junior imperial guard.
Now even the length of names is gradually approaching that of the Imperial Guards.
The melodious chanting lasted for several minutes, finally ending with a cry of "Garr Grando".
"Your most humble servant welcomes your victorious return."
The reason why this place is called a "city" by others is because, over the years, "city" has become a proper noun to describe this steel fortress.
There is only one city in Chemos, and there will only be one city.
The sons of the emperor will not allow anyone to survive alone outside of them—except for those worthless creatures wandering the wastelands.
In order to build a massive facility where they could play to their heart's content, the city built by the Sons of the Emperor on Chemos was obviously more beautiful and artistic than the large hives of other hive worlds.
—On that massive foundation, comparable in scale to the world's steel casting, several silver-white giant towers rise up.
Each tower in the megacity is comparable in size to an upper hive of a large hive world, and the one Casca just logged into is only one of them.
The megacity is surrounded by five colossal towers, and these five towers merely cluster around the very center—
On the surface, it was a fortified monastery for the sons of emperors.
But for the sons of the emperor, who are now mostly idle and aimless, it is just another playground for the sons of the gods of the warband.
"My lord... is there anything else you would like to ask?"
As the other person's expression grew increasingly grim due to his answer, the military police officer standing beside Casca could only groan inwardly.
How could he dare to tell a single lie?!
The opponent could easily evaporate even that Son of God in an instant, and what's even more terrifying is that they didn't even leave him the slightest chance to beg for mercy.
To solidify their legitimacy, the Sons of the Emperor have been spreading and reinforcing the myth of their divine parents on their homeworld.
And then there's the scene where the son of God frantically shouts "Father!" before disappearing...
god!
He...he really is a god!
No one but the gods could possess such power.
"No, according to that bastard's memory, there are only two hundred sons of emperors in the entire city."
"Where are the rest of them, those children of God you mentioned?"
—Of course, they're having a happy vacation in other galaxies.
This Chemos was just one of the many pleasure quarters of the emperor's son.
After all, no matter how much resources are invested, Chemos is just a dying planet clinging to life in a dim binary structure.
Despite having their home planet as a symbol of the glorious sons of the Emperor, the sons of the Emperor preferred to transform the planets of nearby star systems into paradises where they could have fun, rather than this boring world that was always shrouded in twilight.
Chemos was merely a resting place for the sons of emperors.
The numerous garden worlds in the nearby galaxies are important places for the emperor's sons to relax and have fun.
In fact, initially, there was no information about a heavenly world in the area surrounding Chemos.
Some high-ranking imperial bureaucrats, retired officers, governors, and hereditary nobles on planets can enjoy life in Paradise. So why should the Sons of the Emperor, the most glorious chapter in the Empire, have to endure hardship and seclusion and never be able to enjoy life properly?
Right?
This is clearly unfair. As the most glorious Imperial Sons Chapter in the human empire, they also deserve more rest and vacation retreats to properly heal their wounded bodies and minds (in reality, they are not wounded at all).
In order to better enjoy the game, the then-commander of the Sons of the Emperor's Chapter successfully brought several surrounding star systems under his command by leveraging the prestige of the Sons of the Emperor's Chapter.
Then, they filled in the hive cities on the planet and enslaved the original human inhabitants of the world, forcing them to work until they died.
Then, at the cost of vast resources, they obtained mechanical devices capable of purifying the world from the sage Kaul of the Mechanic Church, and over hundreds of years, they transformed several surrounding star systems into various kinds of paradise worlds.
The agricultural world of the ocean planet has been transformed into an ocean resort paradise, the icy world into a snowfield, and as for the original nest world...
Perhaps the word "Comoros" would be a more fitting description.
And it was registered under the name of one of the Chemos native families that could be completely controlled by the warband.
Where is there any resemblance to the Astartes here?
Therefore, although on the surface the Son of the Emperor is still a model Astartes Chapter that doesn't cause trouble and pays the seed tax well.
In reality, they were already a large conglomerate with its own armed forces—it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call them a large dynasty protected by Space Marine chapters.
The Emperor's son of today hardly resembles a Space Marine anymore!
If you didn't know, you'd think you'd entered Slaanesh's Sixth Ring Road.
—The original plan was for the Astartes Order to have a thousand members, but now the entire Order is reduced to only two hundred, who are still pretending to guard the fortress monastery.
Casca: "......"
Should he be angry?
After the initial anger, Casca now feels a profound sense of disappointment and powerlessness.
The Emperor's son has fallen too far, and his actions have completely deviated from what Casgar envisioned the entire warband to become.
Compared to the ascetic Astartes, the Emperor's son was clearly much more worldly than Casca had imagined.
But aren't there such things everywhere in today's human empire?
While waiting for the expeditionary fleet to return in the Badab sector, Casgar often went to the Red Scorpion's library to read about the historical events experienced by the human empire over the past ten thousand years.
He also wanted to figure out what changes had taken place in the human empire during this time.
In Casgar's eyes, after losing the last regent, Guilliman, everything in the human empire was heading towards destruction.
In the past ten thousand years, apart from the upcoming Leviathan Hive fleet, the Imperium of Man has not encountered any force that can directly confront the Imperial Astral Army and Navy.
Not to mention the Astartes.
There are also space necromancers—but so far only the tomb worlds of some small dynasties have been awakened, and most of those battles take place with the archaeological excavation teams of the Mechanicus.
It was to the point that the artifact itself jumped up and attacked someone; most of the empire's inhabitants had never even heard of its existence.
Today, people living in this era don't care whether the human empire will encounter new powerful enemies—in their eyes, the Great Crusade has already wiped out all alien forces that could contend with the human empire.
Although it lacks the grand epic of an emperor, as the overlord of the galaxy, humanity has never encountered any formidable opponent in the world.
Even without chaos and external enemies, the human empire would still be struggling in a cesspool.
......
Casca wandered aimlessly inside the giant tower.
Apart from a very small number of Imperial Space Marines, there are also many members of noble families here—as nobles who provide the Imperial Sons with divine offspring, they naturally enjoy power second only to the divine offspring.
Moreover, Chemos is currently in a completely closed state, and with the lack of outsiders, the entire upper area can be used for all sorts of entertainment.
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Even Casca could be considered one of them.
He could feel that the weight of the fall fell on the little boy beside him.
Everyone knows what the servants in this city are for the children of God.
Although this great son of God said little and simply strolled around in silence, his clever and resourceful servants had already prepared everything for him.
The others simply gave him a knowing look and went about their own business.
It feels numb when you squeeze it.
Kaska looked down at the boy who knew nothing at all.
He suspected that if he were to reveal his true identity, his lifelong reputation would be ruined by this kid.
But then he thought about it again—these beasts who call themselves imperial sons have already completely disgraced him.
"Never mind, just stick close to me."
"Don't look at anything except the scenery."