The bright light of the reception room looked down on Hades from above, causing his gray hair to almost radiate a hazy halo.

Hades swallowed.

In the end, as if resigned to his fate, and as if compromised, Hades stretched out his hand.

The Emperor across from him smiled with satisfaction, and the Emperor reached out and let go of the small white bone he was holding in his fingertips.

"Da"

The sound of white bones colliding with armor was crisp and audible, and Hades looked stunned, and a faint golden flame seemed to burn along his arm, with a crackling small popping sound, burning everything.

Hades blinked, and the next moment, these flames of nothingness were gone.

Aside from the momentary flames on his retina, Hades himself felt no other senses.

The emperor reached back, he crossed his hands, propped his chin, and looked at Hades with interest, for some reason, Hades felt that the emperor had become more energetic.

"That's ...... That's it? ”

The Emperor nodded,

"You can eat it, or you can just put it away."

Hadisto's hand holding the knuckle trembled slightly, and he silently, silently retracted his hand.

"I'd better take it."

He felt the white bone in his hand, very light, the texture was slightly rough jade, other than that, this was a plain, shimmering porcelain-like knuckle bone.

It turned out that the emperor's little finger bone was similar to everyone else's.

Hades thought as he drew a wire of the right length and thickness from the wire he had carried, tied it to the slight depression in the middle of the phalange, and wore it around his neck.

It took Hades a bit of effort to tie the necklace himself, and the emperor waited for him in silence, and finally Hades finished it, and he tucked the simple necklace back under his clothes - so that others could only see that Hades had brought a B7 wire.

When Hades turned his gaze back to the Emperor, the Emperor spoke,

"I have a rope."

If it was an ordinary person, Hades would ask him why he didn't say it earlier, but given that the emperor was opposite, Hades decided to be polite.

He smiled reluctantly, a sign of surrender to the emperor's emotional intelligence,

"Thanks, but not anymore."

"I've got a rough idea of your plan, Neos, at least for now."

"So what's next? Let's go to the City of Perfection and then witness its burning? But I want to remind you that in Luojia's legion, there is—"

"I know."

The Emperor interrupted Hades, the golden flame burning in his eyes,

"Every legion has hidden sons lurking, and I know they exist, but I don't know exactly who they are."

"You know who they are, right, Hades?"

Hades paused for a moment, then nodded firmly.

"At least I know some, like the two bastards hiding in the Legion of the Speakers."

Two shots, both shots, Erebus!

The emperor smiled faintly,

"They have something to do with the beliefs of the four gods, right?"

Hades looked at the emperor,

"You know ......"

"I know some of the fragments of the story, and thanks to your prompts, I can deduce the rest of the story. Before I found Seventeen, there were indeed traces of Chaos in Colchis, where Seventeen landed—and Luojia went to war, claiming to have erased the blasphemous existence and established a ...... of faith about me across the planet."

The Emperor calmly stated,

"But if he falls, it proves that the traces are not completely erased, they are just hidden in a more subtle way, waiting for me to make a mistake."

"That's why you're here, Hades."

Hades quietly immunized himself inwardly, which sounded a lot like a precursor to a pie.

The emperor, of course, would not have known what Hades was thinking, he continued,

"Do you think there are traces of Monazia? Or the other planets conquered by the Bearers, Davin, Korosa, Uwand, ......"

Monachia is the city of perfection, on a planet called Kerr.

Hades was silent, in fact, in the original book, Luojia's adoptive father, the first-class scum of the Warhammer world, Colfaron had personally admitted that he and Erebus had left a ...... on the planet conquered by the Whisperers when he persuaded the shaken Luojia The ashes of culture.

Of course, the ashes here refer to the Chaos Defense Faith that Roga's mother planet, Colchis, once had.

Hades nodded, he thought,

"As far as I know, there's a high probability of existence - you want me to find out what might be the sign of depravity in the City of Perfection, Neos?"

The emperor smiled and confirmed Hades's conjecture, he paused for a moment, and then spoke again,

"Before that, I had asked the heirs about the idea of destroying the City of Perfection."

Hades was stunned,

"What do they think?"

The Emperor shook his head gently,

"Nothing new, but in their eyes, I saw horror buried deep beneath the hard shell – they thought I was cruel."

Ruth was even exonerating Luojia, and to the emperor's amusement, during their conversation, Ruth revealed the fact that he had read the Sacred Word.

Hades' words interrupted his recollection,

"Are you guilty?"

The emperor smiled,

"No, the Perfect City is destined to be burned, Seventeen needs to realize his mistake, and the burning of the Perfect City is also a wake-up call for him and the Legion, a kind of protection-"

"At the same time, untempered faith does not stand up to the storm, Hades."

The emperor naturally uttered horrible words,

"If Seventeen can truly bear my trust in him, then he must accept the punishment of my own self - he needs to prove that he is truly religious."

"He must prove that he can survive the next storm, or I'll scale back his legion."

"I will personally point out the errors in his faith, point out his uncleanness—and you will need to help me find proof...... At the same time, remove the carrion from the legions. ”

Hades groaned for a moment,

"Looks like we need a pair of schedules."

"It's nature."

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If Hades were to make any comments on the emperor's plan, he would only say that he was too proud, really too proud.

But the emperor has his proud capital, so Hades does not make an evaluation.

"I suggest you need to have a serious conversation with Killyman at least once, Neos."

The emperor looked at Hades,

"Machado said the same thing to you, Hades."

Hades nodded undeniably,

"You do need to talk to Killiman, I don't want to see the Ultramarines ......"

"I will."

The Emperor interrupted Hades in time and decisively changed the subject.

"Hades, how many betrayers are among the Bearers in the stories you know?"

"At least two."

Hades immediately said,

"Okay, I got it."

The emperor said lightly, but Hades looked hesitant,

"Neos, if we punish the sinners we know now, will they elect new messengers?"

"It's inevitable."

"That's—"

"Take their pick,"

The emperor said casually,

"Don't be afraid of a roadside stone, Hades, we're about to step into a bigger battlefield, and if we can't save humanity from it, let the galaxy be destroyed."

…… Another madman, Hades thought desperately, and the memory of Motarian seemed to have become less extreme.

None! It's finally over! All right!

I've been talking to the emperor for two fucking days! 1w word!

(End of chapter)