White, dazzling, cold, merciless, the lights flickering.

Bright room, but not warm.

Despair had crept here, and now, it still looms here, but a small hope slowly flickers, supporting an insignificant light.

The primordial sat silently, over there, out of sight, his heir shouting, without a sound.

Quiet, as the Death Guard always does.

But someone will break the silence.

"Motarian, after I got a glimpse of those images, I have been thinking about how to fight this predetermined fate, how to win the war against the creatures of the subspace."

Rather than the consolation of nothingness, Motarian and his legions now need advice that can be acted upon.

Growing up on Barbarus, Motarian has always been a pragmatist, not an idealist, and he will grab everything he can use, even if he loathes them.

With enough chips, Motarian would accept Hades' offer.

"And now, my first answer is, psionics."

"Every human being with a soul is a conduit between the subspace and the physical world. Among them, psionics are more likely to open the interface between subspace and the physical world. ”

"But this does not mean that psionics are existences that need to be eliminated, we need psionics to warn of the emergence of subspace creatures in advance, and to judge the thickness of the barriers between subspace and the physical world."

"And,"

"We need psionics to fight the psionics, to fight the creatures of the subspace."

"On the basis of considering the cost of deployment, there is only one other psyker who can defeat the psyker."

Motarian slowly raised his eyes, his amber eyes dimming in the white light,

"And you."

Hades jerked for a moment, but quickly continued his speech,

"The Untouchable is also an excellent option against psionic powers, but . Compared with psionics, the cost of finding and cultivating untouchables, as well as the adaptability of the battlefield, are obviously weaker than those of psionics. ”

Hades is a special variant, and not all untouchable people can be transformed into space marines.

Moreover, the untouchable nature dictates that they can only be found on battlefields with psionics or subspace creatures.

On other battlefields, it is not wise to deploy them.

After all, untouchables can also have a negative impact on comrades.

During the Great Expedition, it was mainly about fighting aliens and other humans, and the deployment of untouchables was more like an investment in the future.

Motarian stared at Hades in silence, thoughtful,

"So. Let's not mention the untouchables. We, the Death Guard, need psionic teams, and strong-willed psionics are beings who can resist the subspace. ”

There was still a look of resistance in Motarian's eyes, he thought of the foolish people who used witchcraft, he thought of those who used witchcraft and eventually became insane.

And their power. In the end, it came from subspace.

Those chaotic, crazy, filthy things.

Hades's eyes darkened,

"I know what you're worried about, Motarian, I'm not trying to shield the psionics, in fact, as beings closer to the subspace, psionics are indeed more susceptible to corrosion, becoming. Become those beings we all reject. ”

"So, we need to monitor, and there is a correction of errors."

"That's my second answer, a commissar or a priest in the Death Guard."

"You can call them whatever you want, they are not only responsible for the psychological and ideological work of the psykers, but also the ideological work of the entire legion."

Motarian is visibly lost in thought, commissar? There had never been such a position in Barbarus, and there were no commissars in the other legions.

Commissars are figures who exist in the mortal auxiliaries, and Motarian has always believed that only those who are not strong-willed will need these existences.

And the priest?

Motarian knew that his brother Loga had this position in the Legion, but Barbarus had no gods, and they did not welcome religion or the ornate and wasteful presence of priests.

Motarian frowned, but the cries of the heirs still echoed in the depths of his soul.

"Subspace is a being that can corrupt minds, even if death guards are representatives of tenacity and indomitability on the current battlefield, but. We still need warriors in mind and heart, and this is a battlefield like no other, a battlefield that has rarely been touched upon by previous legions—"

"But this is a battlefield that we will face sooner or later, an existence that we have to face."

Are their minds really not as tough as they seem?

However, the despair just now crawled all over his soul like a bone-eating maggot. That feeling. It's really bad.

Moreover, if Hades proposed, as an untouchable person, as a visionary in advance, he must have thought it through, right?

Even if Motarian felt a subconscious disgust at these unfamiliar words, he was the master of the legion, he was the father of the heirs, and he couldn't be so willful.

Only those who face reality will be the final winner.

"Really. Is there no other alternative, Hades? ”

Hades looked at him, his eyes full of seriousness and determination.

"Motarian, as my personal preference, I don't prefer it either, but in the current situation and form, we seem to have only one option."

Motarian paused for a moment, then nodded slowly and silently,

"Okay, I'll take your suggestion."

"The new think tank team is called the undertaker."

They will bring death, and they will send the enemy back to another world.

Even if their existence is rejected by all.

"And the new team of minds, disciplines, and hearts is called the grave warden."

Anyone can be given the eternal sleep of death, but they can't, they are grave keepers, keepers of the legion.

They have to survive in this cruel world, pass on the power of thought, and stick to the barriers of thought.

"Okay."

Mourners, grave keepers.

Motarian slowly chewed on the two names in his mind.

Their presence will completely change the fate of the Death Guards.

Hades swallowed,

"And then, my third answer is, untouchable."

Mortarian raised an eyebrow,

"Although the number of untouchable people is very small and the cost of cultivating them is huge, we still need them."

"It's going to be a loss-making deal for a long time."

"But we need them."

Motarian spoke, speaking what Hades was thinking.

Hades nodded, at present, the Empire's untouchable troops only have the Silent Nuns, and for female untouchables, there is a formal screening and cultivation process.

Male untouchables, on the other hand, are mostly found in the various other expatriate departments of the Empire, but there is no official channel for selection and promotion.

"If we want to expand the ranks of the Untouchables, we need to expand the source of recruitment for the Death Guard."

"That's my fourth answer."

"It's not just the untouchables, our legions need to be expanded."

Motarian nodded, expanding his army, which was also his ambition in the first place.

After Mortarian took over the legion, he reorganized the legion into seven companies, and the full number of people in each company was 70,000.

If the Death Guard were to reach full strength, they would have 490,000 Space Marines.

Currently, the only conscription planet for Death Guard is Barbarus, and in the original books, Motarian did not choose any other conscription planet.

Hades blinked without a trace, he still hadn't figured out what Motarian thought, to use a conscription planet to recruit 490,000 space marines.

And Barbaros is not yet a densely populated nest capital.

Next door, Robert Killiman, under the premise of sitting on the five hundred worlds of Otlama and having an extremely efficient administrative system, the permanent strength of the legion is only about 250,000.

If the Death Guard wants to expand their army, they must expand their conscription planet.

Generally speaking, during the Great Expedition, it is relatively easy for the Legion to want a conscription planet, as long as it is done properly, it can obtain the planet that has been collected by the Legion into the Empire.

I just don't know why Motarian in the original book didn't apply for a new recruitment location for the legion, most probably, Hades thought, there is a high probability that Motarian thinks that soldiers from other planets are unreliable.

Moreover, if the recruitment of multiple sources of troops is properly operated, to a certain extent, it can also break the regional contradictions within the corps.

A brutal future has been laid out for Motarian and the Death Guard, and in the face of life and death, personal preferences can certainly be ignored.

"Yes, recruit the untouchables and expand the conscription planet, I accept."

Now, Hades meditates in his mind, the Think Tank and the Untouchable are used to fight Chaos head-on, the Commissar is to prevent the Legion from being corrupted, and the expansion of the conscription planet is the decision to benefit everything.

There is also the improvement of productivity, science and technology is the first productive force!

But Hades swallowed his saliva again, to be honest, although he really wanted to go to Mars to learn from the mechanics, but in its current form, his previous behavior directly cut off this possibility.

Hades was afraid that if he left, if Motarian had another scene with the Legion, he would probably have to cry with the mechanical sage on Mars.

"Fifth, we need to develop anti-psionic technology, as well as other technologies that can increase productivity."

As far as Hades knows, the most common anti-psionic device during the Great Expedition was the Anti-Psionic Suppression Collar, which is a product of the Dark Ages, but the Empire does not currently have this technology.

Because, the Anti-Psionic Suppression Collar was a lost technology recovered by the Iron Hand and the World Eater, but now, Mortarian has just returned to the Empire, and the Twelfth Legion is still called War Dogs.

But that's enough, and it at least provides the basis for the existence of anti-psionic technology.

As for the other well-known Soul Grenades used by the yet-to-be-established Chulishas Assassins, the Psionic Ashes were produced after the Emperor sat on the Golden Throne after the Great Horus Rebellion, and it was clear that at the moment, this path was not going to work.

In other alien technologies, there are also weapons that are anti-psionic or manipulate psionic energy.

Tut. Hades thought silently to himself that he had wanted to go to Mars to see if there were any mechanical sages who specialized in anti-psionic weapons.

It's better to go back and send someone else, he will most likely have to hang it next to Motarian as a pendant now.

This proposal, for Motarian, was quite normal and easy to adopt.

Motarian himself is a presence that likes to do experiments, scientific research.

Science and logic, this is the credo that Motarian has always embraced.

That's why, Mortarian and his abhorrence of subspaces that don't speak of logic and science.

Motarian snorted, and took it as if he had adopted it.

Hades, who had just done so, helped him analyze the current situation and countermeasures in an orderly language.

Rather than the panic of being unable to resist in the face of an unknown enemy, Hades put these subspace creatures, which are even incomprehensible to ordinary people, in front of them, and analyzed the countermeasures one by one.

Subspace creatures are not invincible, they have their own underlying rules, death guards can resist, and they can also have weapons against subspace creatures.

Reason had replaced sensual panic, and instead of the previous despair, Motarian was now feverishly calculating in his mind the measures to be carried out and the likely effects.

It should be almost, Motarian thought, Hades did say all the things that could be done at the moment.

But those futures that are full of despair and chaos. No. Motarian knew what else he could do.

Make decisions that can really save them -

On the Endurance, and all Death Guard ships, install a self-detonation system, as well as a system to forcibly disengage from subspace, and install the option of self-detonation on his scythe "Silence".

If that day comes, let the flames consume everything.

Even though his soul may not be at peace, his unwatched children can reap their eventual death.

This is possible. It was probably the last struggle he could do, the last thing he could do to his children.

Hades would never have made such an opinion, but Motarian would.

Of course, Motarian wasn't going to tell Hades about the arrangement he had already made up his mind to do.

Thinking of all this, Motarian's inexplicable suffocation was finally slowed down, and the Grim Reaper lowered his hand that was holding his own throat.

In Mortarion's reasoning, the worst outcome is that most people sleep in the flames, and everything ends up dying.

Even if he doesn't get salvation, it doesn't matter, as long as he doesn't fail his heirs.

At this moment, Motarian felt inexplicably relieved, and looked at Hades with relief, hoping that he would end this conversation,

His heirs were calling him, his soul throbbing inexplicably, and he needed to comfort the frightened children.

However, Hades looked at him with an unusually cold look in his eyes, and he continued to speak,

"Sixth, don't trust anyone."

"Don't trust anyone, Motarian."

Motarian stuck,

"Including death guards?"

"Including the Death Guards."

"What about you?"

Hades took a deep breath,

"If I'm corrupted too, kill me."

"So, including me."

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