"Are you okay?" On the rhinoceros troop carrier, Ranmarok cautiously questioned Rika Fujimaru, who was sitting across from him, listlessly holding the Aquila Scepter, in an unexpectedly respectful manner.

"I want to throw up." The latter exhaled this phrase weakly in the strange smell of promethium burning and the bumps of the vehicle.

The question was exchanged for a displeased glance at Asclepius, who sat next to the girl, and Ranmaroch reluctantly swallowed the question he wanted to ask.

The whole thing started five days ago, when Rika Fujimaru suddenly came to find him on the Lion's Mane and asked him directly, "Do you have a think tank on board?"

At that time, Ranmaroke showed a strong resistance to being "offended", and justly stated that the Dark Angel was absolutely loyal to the Emperor and actively responded to the enforcement of the Nikaia ban, unlike some legions of brothers who disobeyed the Yin or simply turned to the apostate of Chaos, the Lion's Mane affirmed that there could be no "think tank" in any sense.

Fujimaru Rika nodded convincingly: "Okay, I completely believe that you don't have a think tank. So do you have any 'battle brothers who know how to use psionic powers'? ”

Ranmaroke narrowed his eyes dangerously under the helmet, and took half a second to weigh what would happen if he hacked the little girl to death on the spot, and finally had to give up the idea regrettably.

“…… I don't want to play word games with you. He squeezed the words out of his throat, which had tightened with rage, and the little girl across from him just shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly.

"I understand that the Nikaia ban is a recent decree for you. But now, 10,000 years have passed in the real universe, the situation in the empire has changed a lot, and the ban that has long been outdated has naturally become a dead letter—even the current Dark Angel warband has a think tank. She said lightly, "Besides, you are dark angels, 'if no one else notices, it's nothing.'" The empire said that it would not allow the use of think tanks, so you wouldn't use it? ”

Ranmarok didn't say a word, and began to weigh the question again in his heart, "What would happen if this little girl who didn't know the height of the sky was hacked to death on the spot".

He was angry. First of all, because the "little secret" of the legion was easily guessed by an outsider, secondly, because this outsider was even a yellow-haired girl who came out of nowhere, and finally because what this yellow-haired girl said was basically the truth - he really didn't have the confidence to refute it confidently, so he could only put on a strong disguise in the following conversation to forcibly support his momentum.

This new struggle ended with the victory of Rika Fujimaru. Exhausted, Ranmarok somehow ordered the two brothers of the Legion who had returned to normal combat sequences after the ban, as well as a senior navigator and a half-star choir to her, and after half an hour, she realized that she had been killed.

— but all this proved worth it five days later: five days later, four hours before now, they left the port where the world Connaught was founded; Three hours later, they arrived in the Pamenio system, a few light-years away. Even if these three hours were all spent on setting up the psionic ritual, they didn't even get to the Mandeville point.

The Lion's Mane appeared in the orbit of the main planet of Pamenio almost out of thin air in an instant, at the cost of a navigator, a half-star choir, and two former think tank brothers all entering the infirmary due to detachment and varying degrees of psionic burns, and received a large number of vigilant and very unfriendly communications from the Imperial ships that were originally in orbit at the moment of appearance. Ranmarok had no doubt that in that instant, hundreds of spears and cannons were already aimed at them and ready to go, and if the ship showed any sign of rashness, they would all be torn apart in an instant, leaving only the wreckage floating in the planet's apogee orbit.

But nothing happened. Because Fujimaru Ritsuka, who stepped down from the central position of the ceremony, immediately issued an order to the only "forbidden army" not far away, and sent an announcement to the surrounding Imperial fleets with the ship identification code of the "Imperial Dream", and then took over the diplomatic work of the whole ship - no matter how confused or vigilant the Imperial fleet was, for the sake of the meaning of the "Imperial Dream" itself, they had to carefully decide whether to fire or not to fire after figuring out whether this was a miracle or a conspiracy of the enemy.

Then, presiding over the entire ceremony, as the core of guiding the huge spiritual energy that Ranmaroke, who had no talent in this area, could also feel, and after withstanding the terrifying power of the whole process of the ceremony, after putting down two Space Marines, a navigator, and twelve Star Whisperers in the aftermath alone, Fujimaru Rika, who was only sweating on her forehead, came over and said to him bluntly: "I need a little man to go to the ground with me, it seems that there is a war near the target location." ”

Ranmarok has a lot of questions he wants to ask. They had never had such a plan to go to the surface immediately, and where did this "target location" come from, and whether the task was really urgent enough to be carried out immediately—but at that time, he was indeed shocked by the ritual itself that had just ended, and only his free mind unconsciously slid along with her request:

"Given the current situation, I don't think it's a wise move to do it right away."

He was still in Fa Mu's brain to make him say this, but Fujimaru Rika lightly hammered his arm armor with a look of hatred:

"You're an angel of darkness, 'If no one else finds out, it's nothing'! Just transfer two tactical squads to go together! We don't airdrop, we use teleportation. ”

Then, after an hour, they were already on the continent of Hecaton on the surface of Pameño, in troop carriers, heading to the main city of Tyros.

During this period, about 80% of the work was done by Rika Fujimaru alone:

Alone in the hangar, she quietly completed the track-to-ground teleportation of two Rhino personnel carriers and twenty-two Space Marines (as well as herself and Asclepius);

Then, after realizing that the location had shifted to the Plague Warriors' front due to the disturbance in the subspace, she immediately provided psionic protection to all the people and vehicles present, and quickly and silently used the golden spears that appeared out of thin air to ignite the three nearby demon engines and seven Chaos Wizards;

After Ranmarok led her brothers to kill the remaining enemies in the vicinity with the bombs and swords that had been temporarily consecrated before the enemy could react, she purified the air and land nearby, causing a vision so obvious that it could be seen from a distance of several kilometers;

After doing this, she still had the spirit to communicate briefly with the local defenders, and received a warrant code from the current defense commander, Colonel Devolus, to go to the rear city.

Ranmarok didn't know anything about psionic powers, but he also knew that using psionic powers didn't come without a price - the same thing the ritual participants who lay in the infirmary on the Lionmane would have said the same. But after doing so many things, Fujimaru Ritsuka was just pale and felt like throwing up.

Her display of power that was too much beyond the ordinary instinct made Ranmarok instinctively feel awe. For the first time since he had to lead the Lion's Mane into this mess, he began to reflect on whether he had treated the girl too contemptuously. The thought went around his mind and went in another direction: Ranmarok couldn't understand why a man with such great power, even a mortal, would maintain that kind of ...... in normal times Overly approachable attitude.

In the past period of time, Ranmaroch did see and admit that this little girl who seemed to be underage had some abilities and was good enough, but none of these places seemed to be beyond the level that a mortal should have, and she herself sincerely regarded herself as an "ordinary person". If it weren't for the series of events that happened today, Ranmarok would probably not have realized it until she died, and her seemingly mediocre and fragile shell could even operate such great power.

Because Rika Fujimaru was so uncomfortable that she didn't want to speak, the atmosphere in this rhinoceros troop carrier gradually condensed into a silent silence with awe during the trip, and it remained like this for the whole time. It wasn't until they reached the edge of the city, radioed once, and the vehicle slowly came to a halt on the outside of the vigilant defensive line, that the Emperor's chosen envoy to the throne escaped from it almost impatiently.

"Me and my troops need to get into the city." With a sense of exhaustion and pleasure freed from the bumpy vehicle, she said to the defenders, "Look, here is my identification code, here is Colonel Dvorus's warrant, and behind me are the two Dark Angel tactical teams and vehicles that I have recruited, and that's pretty much it. ”

The soldiers on the line dutifully and carefully checked each of the data files that had been transmitted. Fujimaru Rika herself had confirmed that the colonel's warrant contained only basic identification codes, codes, and corresponding orders, and that there was no description of the situation, but the faces of the defenders still changed a little in the process of examination, and there were emotions of surprise, confusion, and awe—she was forcing herself to get used to this: that little title of "Emperor's Choice, Envoy to the Throne" was too easy for the rest of the empire to interpret as some kind of high-ranking inquisitor. It was very infuriating that the long list of "unnecessary titles" that the emperor put directly into the scepter could not be changed by herself.

At the same time, the two soldiers who were checking the documents in the servo system glanced at the dark angels in the back row suspiciously. They may have had some doubts about the black livery of these emperor's angels, but considering the fact that the "High Inquisitor" in front of them, whose appearance did not match the position they assigned, was too high, they finally said that the problem had nothing to do with the camouflage:

"Why did you need to enter Tyros?" One soldier carefully controlled his tone, trying to make it appear routine rather than questioning, "I beg your pardon, but the whole city is in a state of war at the moment, and we need to record and scrutinize all those who enter and leave the line. ”

"There's someone I'm looking for in this city—not heretics or anything." Fujimaru Rika replied, "There must be a girl here who looks about my age who has revealed the Emperor's Sacred Relics, and I need to find her as soon as possible." ”

The two soldiers who had been sent to examine each other looked at each other in disbelief. After a brief silence, one of them hesitated and spoke cautiously: "...... It seems that there are such rumors in the city, but they are just some kind of chasing after the wind...... Where did you hear that? ”

This time it was Fujimaru Rika's turn to get stuck. She unconsciously covered her mouth and thought for a few seconds, and finally gave up on something, sighed, and replied as if she had given up on herself:

"I'm too lazy to figure out a similar logic to round this matter. The Emperor told me. ”

Mi (six o'clock).

(End of chapter)