Chapter 173 Lysander’s reasoning time
Orbital around Holy Terra
Panform Fortress
Slightly later time
Danat Lysander In the history of the Chapter over the past thousand years, there are indeed legendary starting points and regular battle stories.
When a person has already had one of the following experiences: Pilgrimage to Terra since birth, escaping the attacks of Greenskins and Chaos, finally joining the war group from a special channel as a son of revelation, and then hundreds of people who have traveled through the subspace. Survived in the middle of the year, fell to the Chaos Space Marine planet, and rescued two comrades with his bare hands and escaped. After coming back, after several months of internal and external scrutiny by his chapter chaplain and think tank brothers, he was finally declared that this person "has every cell." "pure as a new Imperial Fist", well, even if he occasionally seems to be a little wrong later, everyone is always more inclined to believe what he says instead of going through another few months of review, generally speaking Is that right?
So it shouldn’t be difficult for me to stay here for a while and then find the right opportunity to participate in an expedition and then sneak away after the battle. It shouldn’t be difficult for them to declare me missing in the battle, right?
Generally speaking, with the frequency and intensity of the Imperial Fist's expeditions, although his plan is very simple, it is quite credible and executable.
Lysander wanted to convince himself this way.
But if you have to be a chapter leader of a founding group next - this once meant to him a sacred and noble commission, full of pride and a mandate to lead the chapter forward firmly. He had repeatedly declined it several times, believing that his abilities and character were not yet polished enough to hold the position - but now it is simply a reminder for "Chaos Champion Danat Lysander of the First Company of the Silver Skull Chapter" A horror worse than Gaby's death: when he accepted the position in front of all the Chapter's monks, the elders of the Terra Monastery and the Phalanx, the Chapter Masters of all the Chapters, and the attending representatives from other senior divisions, he Definitely under the Emperor's gaze, surrounded by a host of consecrated objects and sacred rituals.
——Not only would this reveal on the spot the fact that he had devoted himself to serving Chaos, but it could even go a step further and serve the Lord of the Iron Warriors and the corruption of the Praetorian Guards of Terra, thus shaking the entire Imperial Fists lineage. The legal foundation for the existence of the Tarter Order - even the Imperial Civil War -
Lysander excused himself that he needed to think and meditate quietly in order to purify his body and mind before the ceremony. After receiving a lot of praise, Lysander finally He was able to hide alone in the corridor of memories and be quiet. Now he was here in a solemn and half-kneeling posture, seemingly meditating, but his mind was filled with a lot of the above messy and increasingly worse deduction results.
When I think about how terrible it will be in the entire empire after my identity is exposed, how implicated it will be, and how terrible it will be for the empire... no, no, and for my current "companions" What an ecstatic search, cleansing and massacre, there may even be fleets and battle groups that return from expeditions that are not yet aware of it. They return to the empire scarred and exhausted, only to be greeted by irrefutable attacks and destruction——
Lysander became desperate again as his terrifying imagination developed, and then shook his head to throw these thoughts out of his mind along with the unreal and distant laughter. Fortunately, there was no one else here. The company commander had already driven away everyone else, including the robot servants.
So why do you have to recommend me to be the leader of this chapter? It’s impossible not to do it, right? ! But I really can’t do it? ! At that time, due to the relationship between the Imperial Fist and Holy Terra, the Ecclesiarchy, the Tribunal, the Adeptus Custodes and other organizations will send people to watch the ceremony on the mountain formation. It is almost certain that you can't even say, oh, I decided to hold it in a low-key and simple manner, so Let's not invite anyone. It will also be regarded as a serious provocation and hint, and it will still bring great follow-up trouble to him and the Imperial Fists.
How hypocritical, Danat Lysander! You have embraced the steel wholeheartedly, but you are so hypocritically concerned about the safety of the stubborn stone...
I never knew that I could be so like a clown, he smiled bitterly in his power armor.
And if you follow the premise that "everyone must come back to watch the ceremony and all the sacred objects will be sacred, and the venue will become temporarily sacred", then the identity will definitely be revealed...then a series of terrifying reasoning will follow. One by one, the realization becomes reality... The deductions started over again and again failed to come up with any better way to break the situation. The option of suicide was considered from the beginning, but his body full of secrets will also reveal many facts, at most It is possible that the higher-ups of the chapter could keep it and his betrayal internally, and pass it on as one of the eternal dark secrets of the Imperial Fists... If that doesn't work, pilot the Thunder Eagle and pretend it is tainted by Chaos and fly into the sun... …
However, Lysander’s experience and content of conversations with “that Rogal Dorn” and the Lord of Steel clearly made him aware of this choice when it emerged. Come to think of it, given the actual identity and status of the current "Champion of Chaos Danat Lysander" within the Chaos system, it is very likely that the moment he commits suicide, he will be able to open a subspace crack in his neck and jump out on the spot. Something very terrible is stirring up trouble in the heart of the Holy Empire...
Wait, wait, Lysander.
The former Captain of the Imperial Fists murmured in his meditation the prayers he had known since birth. At first glance it sounded like he was reciting the most popular prayers in the Empire. The words of the Emperor's confession...
No, no, think about it differently, Lysander.
First of all, it seems that there is no second you here, so whether it is a substitute or something else, you here are "Danat Lysander, candidate for First Captain and Chapter Master of the Imperial Fists." "People"; secondly, and the most important point is that this time in the Imperial Fists Chapter he was in, Chapter Commander Pew did not die. And according to what he learned later, the Magor Rift here The battles in the first half of the battle and the Thunder Expedition also happened and ended as scheduled, but there were a few details that made him feel strange and his heart was tightening when he thought about them one by one.
1. Pew seemed to have narrowly escaped the Norn Queen's fatal blow this time. However, the witnesses at the scene and members of Pew's Terminator team were all now in danger. In the coma state, the sensors of the power armor were destroyed by some kind of strong magnetic field or wave. No one knew what happened in the last minute before they woke up. Pew's answer to this was very ambiguous. Lysander felt that This feeling seems familiar;
2. According to his memory, after the Battle of the Insect Nest, plus the previous ones, the total loss rate of the monks in the Chapter during this expedition should have reached more than 25%, but this time he learned that the number of deaths was surprisingly less. Only a few brothers who were really not lucky enough died of force majeure, and there was no easy death. This is very, very, very wrong;
3. He remembered clearly the " The word "Hados" was the clue they were looking for this time to hunt down the culprit, "The War Blacksmith Shanto of the Iron Warriors"... because this was when he was still a prisoner of Shanto, and this bastard was telling stories in his ears all day long. Mentioned——
Lysander frowned and began to think about the meaning of the image of the armor plate in the information he obtained this time: In addition to the "Hedos" that was exactly the same as in his memory, there were also There is an extra line of small characters that look fancy.
“We are in big trouble, but surprise.”
(End of Chapter)