Chapter 68: Father's Kindness and Son's Filial Piety
"Actulus, your end has come"
Renault held a Gauss rifle to the old Monsk with a pistol, "Put the weapon." β
"Humph! Renault, you're really haunted," Actuls took a puff of his cigar and looked at Kerrigan who was right behind Renault, "and you, Kerrigan, an executioner who slaughtered tens of billions of humans......"
"That's enough, father." Valerian walked up to Renault and looked at his father, "Renault has told everything, it was you who gave up Kerrigan with your own hands, and it was you who created the Queen of Blades. β
"It seems that you would rather believe in a shameless traitor than in your father." Actulus snuffed out the cigar.
"I only believe in the truth,"
"The truth?" Arcturus smiled, then pointed the pistol in his hand at Kerrigan and said, "The truth is that former federal ghost agent Sarah Kerrigan killed the Angus Monsk family of non-partisan councillors. β
Seeing Arcturus raise his pistol, Renault instantly tensed up, his fingers had already pulled the trigger, but Arcturus still said to himself: "Remember those federal dignitaries and even those innocent children you killed, Kerrigan?" You don't remember, but I remember it very well. β
"After you became the Empress of Blades, you betrayed the Star Spirits, betrayed all your allies, and swung the claws of the swarm at every race in the Kopru Zone, do you remember how many people died at their hands? No, you don't remember, just like one doesn't remember how much bread you've eaten in your life. β
Hearing this, Kerrigan clenched her fists, these were her inescapable sins, which had been imposed on her since the day she became the Empress of Blades, and could never be shaken off.
Valerian fell silent, his head bowed, as if contemplating what Arcturus had said.
"What about you? What do you say about the people of Tanzanis, the marginal people you have abandoned? And what about their blood? β
"Those are necessary sacrifices. They died for the higher good, and they died without regrets. "It's their sacrifice that protects more people." β
"You bastard!" Renault couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, he had heard enough of Actors' quibbles, and when he asked him to pull the trigger, Valerian reached out and pressed down his Gauss rifle.
"These people are dying for your power, father." Valenrian looked at his father with a look of disgust, "You've become the kind of person I and you used to hate the most. What is the difference between the current empire and the federation of the past? β
"You don't understand, my son, this is politics, you have to give up some people to save others."
"It's your mistake, because of your mistake, the Tyranid Empire is rotting, and this empire is turning into a federation of the past." "While the people of the frontier are slaughtered by the biters, the Empire's fleets are safely anchored in the ports of the core world, doing nothing or tracking the so-called terrorist rangers. β
"You've disappointed me so much, father."
"Do you think that with a few allies you will be able to completely change the empire? It won't be long before you'll be like me, as long as you sit in the seat I'm sitting in now. It's just refugees, they don't care about it. You're still so weak. β
"No, I'm going to change all that, you don't have to waste your life on it all anymore" Valerian put his hand on his waist.
"What are you going to do?"
"Inherit you, my father."
Then, Valerian pulled out the pistol from his waist, and with a bang, blood spilled on the luxurious carpet, and Arcturus' head hung down.
Actulus' face was full of consternation, and he couldn't believe that his son would dare to kill him.
Valerian's pistol fell silently on the carpet, and a tear appeared out of the corner of his eye, the only trace of affection he had for his father.
Both Renault and Kerrigan were stunned, they never thought that Valerian would kill his father himself.
Valerian turned to Kerrigan and Renault and said, "Let's go, it's all over." Hatred is over. β
Valerian then walked straight out, no one knowing how determined he was to shoot his father, or how much regret he felt.
Looking at the disappearing back from the screen, Horus commented: "He will become a qualified head of the empire, a good emperor." With that, Horus turned off the screen.
"I don't understand, my lord, Valerian killed his own father, which is a great weakness for a ruler." Saul said.
"No," Horus shook his head, "when Valerian corrects Actulus' mistakes and takes the people of the Tyranid Empire towards a brighter future, the masses will not care what he does. β
"But those who identify with Actturus ......"
"There won't be any Arcturus endorsers," Horus said coldly, "I'll help him get rid of his political enemies, I need a stable Tyranid Empire as an ally." If they don't want to follow Valenrian, then they should follow Acturus. β
Thor was stunned when he heard these words, he had expected Horus to use some political means, but he didn't expect it to be so direct.
Horus seemed to see through Thor's heart, and he said lightly: "Although some methods are rough, they are easy to use. Okay, let's take a look at the results of this period of time! β
Thor nodded, and then left the Expeditionary Force's forward headquarters on the surface of Keha with Horus.
The entire coup d'Γ©tat lasted only two days, and Valenrian, with the help of his allies, quickly resolved the forces of his former FΓΌhrer, Actuls.
After the battle, Valerian made another speech, announcing that he had declared that his father, the dictator who had failed the people of the Empire, had been overthrown, and that he had committed suicide in the palace.
General Warfield declared allegiance to the new Emperor Valenrian on behalf of the Imperial military, and of course, as a diehard loyalist of Arcturus, General Davis did not admit it, but soon she followed Arcturus with him.
"This is UNN, I'm Kate Rockwell, on the seventh day of the end of the military operation on Keha, according to the official information of the Imperial Army, the highly decorated General Davis accidentally fell down the stairs at night, and unfortunately died due to his age, according to people familiar with the matter, General Davis died with a terrified expression when he died......"