#531 - Grand Inquisitor: From now on, there will be only one sun in Holy Terra!

On the streets of the City of Petitioners.

"Commander, in the name of the Hope Primarch Savior, the 13th Infantry Company of the Veletharis Storm will crush all possible acts of rebellion!"

Sergeant Major Holmes responded to his superior's order, then led his Solar Auxilia company forward in silence, their Redemption-pattern power armor and emblems gleaming in the sunlight.

They would cooperate with the security forces to deal with the bloody conflicts on the streets.

Or rather, it might be a small war.

The power struggles in the Throneworld were intricate and complex, with too many ambitious individuals stirring up trouble. Each change of power brewed countless bloody incidents.

The lessons of history were vivid in their minds.

Most recently, the return of the Imperial Regent caused the "Primarch Disaster," triggering a series of tragedies caused by Chaos cults, aliens, and mutants.

Many blocks of buildings were burned down, blood flowed in the streets, and billions of people died as a result.

There was also the upheaval known as the "Terran Spring," caused by the Hope Primarch Savior's reforms.

That being swept away a large number of heretical rebels and insubordinate elements lurking in the Throneworld. Although the actions were meticulous and restrained,

hundreds of millions of innocent lives were still lost.

Now, after the Hope Primarch Savior's reforms and purges, the Throneworld was much cleaner than before, and the number of bloody chaotic incidents each year had also decreased significantly.

Too many Space Marines, Inquisitors, Solar Auxilia, and security forces were secretly dealing with heretical corruption incidents.

They were doing their best to eliminate the influence of the Chaos Gods on the Throneworld.

But no one dared to be careless, especially at such a time. No one wanted the Hope Primarch Savior's coronation ceremony to be tainted by blood and attacks.

Clack—

As the commotion from the street reached them, the Solar Auxilia uniformly drew their plastic batons.

They were ready at any moment to swing their batons at the rebels, crushing their rebellious hearts into oblivion.

"Why do these guys oppose the Hope Primarch Savior?"

The midday sun was a little strong, causing Holmes to squint slightly, subconsciously looking up at the sun in the sky.

More than a decade ago, they couldn't see the sun.

After that Savior arrived, the sun reappeared in the sky, and sunlight once again covered the land of Holy Terra.

According to the research of a certain historian, the last time Holy Terra had sunlight was before the Age of Technology.

Now, the Terran Environmental Protection Act promulgated by the Hope Primarch Savior had been implemented, and thousands of weather satellites and climate control stations were hidden in the near-Earth orbit of the atmosphere.

More environmental restoration modules were being installed.

These mechanical facilities saved the environment of Holy Terra, making the sky azure blue, and the climate warm, comfortable, and pleasant all year round.

Lush tree-lined avenues, irrigated gardens, and more urban landscapes had also appeared in the major hive cities.

The once suffering and dilapidated Throneworld was gradually becoming a harmonious and pleasant harbor.

Holmes couldn't understand the thoughts of those opponents. The Savior had clearly brought change to everyone.

That being restored the glory of the Solar Auxilia, drove away hardship, disease, and hunger, and allowed the residents of Terra to no longer starve to death in the streets.

Even the once massive Terra Corpse Reclamation Association had gradually changed its work content and become a sanitation department.

Were those people still not satisfied?!

"Perhaps, the High Inquisitor's purification of Holy Terra is not enough, and there are still remnants of heretical rebels hidden within."

The living area of all the hive cities combined was equal to the living area of a star sector in other regions, and it was complex.

The buildings, underground tunnels, and pipelines left over from countless eras concealed too many people and organizations, even the Department of Internal Affairs could not fully grasp them.

It was simply a dark world outside the Imperial regime.

High Inquisitor Devair organized a cleansing force of hundreds of millions of people, cooperating with the Mechanicus's computational power to carry out cleansing activities, while the Department of Internal Affairs cooperated to re-calculate the resident population.

But the progress was exceptionally slow.

During the cleansing activities, the relevant troops found a large number of strange and unknown populations in some dark corners of the Throneworld.

They even found a primitive tribe at the bottom of a certain hive city.

They had lived there before the Age of Technology, with almost no traces of technology, surviving by hunting mutated creatures and gathering algae.

Even more ironically.

That primitive tribe's living area retained a small piece of residual groundwater, nurturing many lives.

Making their lives better than the lives of Terra residents in the 40K era, before the Savior's reforms.

At least these primitives had a relatively safe environment, fresh food, and water.

Their average lifespan was also higher.

In view of the Hope Primarch Savior's governance philosophy, the cleansing force did not immediately destroy the living environment of that primitive people, but instead provided some assistance while protecting it.

But the Ecclesiarchy of the Imperium, hearing the news, sent a large number of priests to settle in and preach to those primitives.

Trying to get them to understand and worship the Emperor.

The Ecclesiarchy of the Imperium believed that it was an important achievement of faith.

After all, primitives on Holy Terra were rare existences with special significance. If they could be bathed in the great faith, it could better reflect the Emperor's glory.

Before long, those primitives came into contact with the Imperium's technology and life under the guidance and special investment of the Ecclesiarchy's "God Loves Mankind" sect.

They had delicious bread, meat, and purified water, and could also use the psychic network.

The only trouble was that those primitives became addicted to browsing some pictures on the Internet after contacting the network.

Most of them were cool handsome men and beautiful women.

This triggered criticism within the Ecclesiarchy of the "God Loves Mankind" sect. The relevant bishops believed that it was not the primitives' fault, but that the sect had carried out incorrect guidance.

After that, the "God Loves Mankind" sect retreated in disgrace under criticism, and another sect took over, cultivating and consolidating the tribe's faith.

This matter also sparked a debate between the Ecclesiarchy and the Adeptus Mechanicus of Urdesh.

They believed that the pictures on some forum platforms in the Adeptus Mechanicus of Urdesh and the Savior's territory contained elements of joy and needed the Mechanicus to carry out more thorough maintenance and banning.

In particular, the ideological element called anime seriously poisoned the Imperium's citizens, affected the Imperium's atmosphere, and should be immediately banned.

But the Adeptus Mechanicus of Urdesh argued on principle and did not make any concessions.

According to them, all the data on the psychic network had been screened by the Machine God, and there could not be any problems.

The Ecclesiarchy's accusations were blasphemy against the Machine God.

The Adeptus Mechanicus of Urdesh even resolutely maintained anime, which had to some extent become the faith and fun of a large number of young tech-priests.

They could not accept the banning of this ideological element, especially since this element was also related to the Machine God.

The quarrel between the two sides became more and more intense.

In anger, the Adeptus Mechanicus of Urdesh released a large number of dirty deeds of Ecclesiarchy priests on the psychic network, especially those related to joy.

It was simply unbearable to look at.

This triggered an earthquake within the Ecclesiarchy. Just as the Ecclesiarchy was dealing with some unclean incidents internally and preparing to counterattack the Adeptus Mechanicus of Urdesh,

the Adeptus Mechanicus of Urdesh released a large amount of content data, much of which was the Hope Primarch Savior's likes and comments on anime-related pictures.

Those contents fully showed that the Savior also loved to watch these anime elements' pictures, and also left messages to reward and urge the tech-priest creators to update.

This silenced the Ecclesiarchy.

They couldn't possibly accuse the Hope Primarch Savior. The Redemption Titan God-Machine was still standing on their heads, and several Ecclesiarchy bishops even fainted in anger.

After that, both sides silently cooled down the matter and did not mention it again.

But the Ecclesiarchy of the Imperium still exerted influence internally, prohibiting priests and believers from contacting any related content and criticizing it.

Claiming that it was an unclean existence.

In fact, the content on the psychic network that was criticized by the Ecclesiarchy was safe. Not only had it been screened by the Machine God, but it had also been protected by the Hope Primarch Savior's little sun essence.

Especially after that being obtained a trace of the essence of joy, even if the relevant content had a slight influence, the resulting joy faith would be absorbed by it.

Instead of being offered to the Lord of Pleasure.

The Hope Primarch Savior deliberately allowed the existence of those contents, which was essentially a kind of ideological liberation.

It could effectively impact the Imperium's imprisoned thoughts and release some vitality.

Of course, all of this was controlled within a reasonable range.

These were just some ripples caused by the cleansing activities. Under the deterrence of the Hope Primarch Savior, they did not cause any bloody disputes.

In the past, such theoretical disputes would have been enough to trigger a war, fighting to the death.

The cleansing force spent a huge amount of resources and manpower, cleaning up the dark corners of the Throneworld little by little, and excavating the remaining ancient ruins.

They were striving to cleanse every corner of the Imperial heart, and in doing so, they obtained a great deal of precious technology.

This was something Holy Terra had never been able to do before.

The once barren and chaotic Throneworld had been spending all its energy just maintaining the survival of the planet's population and the operation of its various departments.

There was simply no way to organize such a large-scale operation.

What's more, this operation required the cooperation of all Imperial departments. In the past, if the Imperium wanted to organize such an operation, the various meetings, debates, and conflicts of interest would take decades or even centuries.

The prolonged and repeated pulling and dragging would be enough to kill the relevant plans in the womb.

The Savior suppressed the major departments and forces of the Empire with force and power, so that the departments could be organized and ignore the conflicts of interest.

To carry out a large-scale cleanup of this Throneworld.

No matter which department or which sacred region, there was no place that the cleanup forces could not go.

Except for the Imperial Palace.

That was one of the most stable areas of the Empire, and the Custodes were responsible for carrying out simple cleanups. A major upheaval could lead to danger.

These years, the cleansing operations organized by Grand Inquisitor Deville had roughly cleansed the dark side of Holy Terra, and at the same time, he had outlawed and destroyed millions of illegal, heretical, and rebellious organizations.

According to the plan, the next step was to audit and investigate the trillions of people on Holy Terra.

Too many heretics and rebels had integrated into the population because of the dissolution of their organizations, secretly undermining order.

They had to eliminate all possible alien and heretical threats, especially the Tyranid gene-thieves hiding among them.

This plan was still in preparation, but the news of the Savior becoming the ruler of the Empire arrived unexpectedly, which led to the emergence of various heretics and rebels hiding among the people.

Causing chaos.

After Grand Inquisitor Deville shocked the High Lords and other high-ranking Imperials, he was worried and felt guilty.

He believed that this was his dereliction of duty. As the Savior's hound, he had failed to promptly clean up the hidden dangers lurking in the Throneworld.

The only thing to be thankful for was that, after several rounds of cleansing, the scale of the chaos had been greatly reduced.

Compared with the previous Primarch Disaster and the Terran Spring, the damage to the Throneworld could be slightly ignored.

It might affect the Savior's image and cause flaws in the coronation ceremony of that being.

After all, the new "Emperor" of the Empire ascended the throne, and Holy Terra broke out in chaotic attacks and many bloody incidents, which was undoubtedly a blasphemy against the Savior.

It would also leave a bad impression on the many forces in the Imperial territory.

In any case, Deville must stabilize the order of Holy Terra as soon as possible to ensure the smooth progress of the Savior's coronation ceremony.

He prepared to implement the relevant plan in advance under a new name.

Deville summoned the relevant high-ranking Imperials in the name of the Savior to study and discuss countermeasures.

Several hours later, a new action and related laws were introduced.

The action was named the "Holy Terra Social Security Management Action", and its purpose was to deal with the existing security problems in the Throneworld.

Deville and other high-ranking Imperials defined this chaos as a security chaos, rather than a heretical rebellion, attack, or rebellious resistance.

To reduce its impact in name.

This social security management action will be jointly carried out by various departments, gradually advancing with a five-year node, and completely eliminating the problem of social security chaos in the Throneworld.

Of course, the most important purpose of this action was to quell the current chaos with thunderous momentum.

Grand Inquisitor Deville's hawk-like gaze swept over everyone, and his tone was extremely serious:

"Everyone, we must clear up this security chaos within five days, and there is no limit to the relevant investment..."

He raised his hand slightly and made a gesture of the Department of Monitoring:

"For the Savior!"

Dozens of Inquisitors from the Department of Monitoring, wearing black coats and red armbands, also swore allegiance in a fanatical tone and posture.

"For the Savior!"

Everyone present followed suit in a inexplicable pressure and fanatical atmosphere.

Some of them even had a slight sweat on their foreheads.

These guys were completely loyal to the Savior, even to the point of fanaticism. Even the Emperor was placed behind the Savior by them.

Everyone knew that Grand Inquisitor Deville and the Department of Monitoring were the Savior's special guards left on Holy Terra, responsible for acting as vicious dogs to tear apart all rebels who opposed that being.

This was also something that could not be helped.

There were too many ambitious people on Holy Terra. The Savior himself was not present, and only by implementing such high-pressure supervision could those monsters and snakes be suppressed.

Perhaps this situation could be gradually improved after that being truly ascended the throne.

Gradually stripping the powers of the Department of Monitoring from various affairs.

When the personnel from the various departments dispersed, Deville walked alone to the terrace with his hands behind his back. His whole person was meticulous, and even his hair was orderly.

He looked at the busy crowd below, and there was a trace of fanaticism in his eyes:

"Lord Savior, I will fulfill the mission you have given me, so that your power and authority can be exercised without hindrance!"

This administrative officer, who came from a hereditary family in the Erse Star Royal Court District, was able to step into the heart of the Empire step by step from the edge of the galaxy, relying on cruel methods and unparalleled fanaticism and loyalty to the Savior.

For loyalty, he was willing to give everything.

Now, that being whom he respected had succeeded in becoming the ruler of the Empire, the new Emperor.

In Deville's view, from now on, there would only be one sun on Holy Terra, and that was Hope, the Primarch Savior.

Of course, the Emperor still existed, but that could only be religious veneration, and could not interfere with the operation of the Imperial regime.

Otherwise, this appointment would be meaningless.

Those Imperial forces would still interpret and promote the Emperor's will, placing it above the Savior's decrees, causing many influences and chaos.

The related management costs would also increase greatly, making it more difficult to promote unity.

For example, the current Holy Terra was completely promoting various policies under high-intensity surveillance and suppression.

It was equivalent to holding a gun to the heads of various forces, forcing them to obey.

Any slight disturbance could form a new chaos.

High-pressure surveillance could not be implemented for a long time. Force could threaten life, but it was difficult to manipulate and control deeply rooted people's hearts and minds.

If this continued, it would eventually lead to a greater disaster.

Therefore, Deville must further strengthen the authority of the Savior, until that sun representing the Savior was bright enough.

So that no one could ignore it.

In fact, the Savior and related high-ranking members had been discussing a problem a long time ago.

That was, how to reduce the Emperor's influence?

Because the Emperor's faith had become a problem for the Empire, and even a weapon in the hands of some forces.

Now, a better way was to promote the faith of the Golden Sun and the Savior, further weakening the image of the Emperor and strengthening the faith in the Savior.

That would require religious reform, building a large number of Golden Sun and Savior statues in all territories of the Empire, while hiding and concealing a certain number of Emperor statues.

To achieve a certain degree of balance between the two, so that faith would gather more on the Savior.

As for the Emperor's opinion?

He would only applaud Deville and the actions of related beings.

The Emperor himself was forcibly pushed onto the altar. He had said countless times that he was not a god and did not need to be worshiped.

However, those believers seemed not to have heard it, and even regarded it as the influence of an evil god or the Emperor's test of their own faith.

Now, faith had become the source of the Emperor's pain, making it difficult for him to bear, and he was about to lose control!

No one could bear the cost of the Emperor ascending to godhood, whether it was humans or the Chaos Gods.

Once the Emperor ascended to the godhood and became the Dark King in the prophecy, then He would become the most terrifying enemy of mankind, without one.

Just like Slaanesh and the Eldar.

That was an existence that could not coexist in any way. Only the fall of one side could usher in liberation.

At that time, the human race would usher in the greatest tragedy.

Whether it was the Primarch or the warriors of the Empire, they would be forced to wield their blades against the former Human Master and Guardian.

Until one of them completely fell.

The Great Rift in the Warp a hundred years ago may have been a strategy jointly implemented by the Chaos Gods to reduce the number of humans and reduce the contribution of faith as much as possible.

In order to prevent the Emperor from taking that step.

But that was just an emergency stop.

Now, with the influence of the Savior's territory and the Indomitus Crusade, a large amount of territory had been recovered, and the Emperor's glory had once again spread to all parts of the galaxy.

Those devout believers who had escaped from suffering had continuously contributed more faith to the Emperor.

This made the Emperor even more guilty and painful. He deeply knew that he was both the guardian of mankind and the death knell of mankind.

What kind of sorrow and torment was that?!

According to the forbidden news coming from the Golden Throne Hall of the Imperial Palace.

The Mechanicus, responsible for maintaining the Golden Throne, had discovered many hidden cracks on that magnificent machine, and the number of cracks was constantly increasing...