Varo Diglis, director of the Ultramarines think tank, feels like he spent three and a half hours in a fantasy way. Even if he was a psionic master, the most in-depth and knowledgeable person in the entire warband, three and a half hours would still be too mystical for him.

If he had the chance, he would still like to discuss with Fujimaru Rika how to copy the back path of the Chaos Fleet in a subspace sense, and what kind of prerequisites or materials are needed for similar psionic rituals. But the three and a half hours were clearly more mysterious, and after the meeting, Robert Killeman badly needed his opinion as a reference.

"She's a little girl who has been completely blinded by heresy." In the ashram where they could talk to each other, the Ultramarines insisted on this, "I admit that she must have something extraordinary, or she wouldn't have been recognized by the overly proud Dark Angels, and even my brother Ferus would have been willing to mess around with her—"

Kiliman stuck. The "resurrection of the dead" is too "unscientific", and his logic has fallen into a dead end at this moment.

"If you want to ask me what I think, my lord," Digris said empathetically, "I think there's something 'extraordinary' that has happened to her. ”

"What did you find?"

"The first thing I confirmed was that Rika Fujimaru wasn't a psyker." This was the conclusion that Digris had already reached when he met him, but when he mentioned it now, there was still an unconcealed sense of surprise in his tone, "She does have some differences, but from the perspective of psionics, her soul is not closely connected to the subspace like ordinary psionics. ”

Killiman frowned, "But she does have some psionic tricks, and we've all seen her throw the cushion across the table with her psionic power towards Koz." ”

"Yes. That's the amazing part. Digris agreed, "It's likely that her psionic power was not drawn from the subspace, but came directly from the Emperor's continuous supply, but the process was so beyond common sense that it almost skipped the subspace entirely. As she cast those psionic tricks, the ripples in the subspace were much smaller than they should have been. I had to search very carefully to feel a little bit of almost no fluctuation. ”

"Could this be some kind of subspace trickery?" Kiliman asked.

"I think that's very unlikely." Digris replied, "I tempted it with the Emperor Tarot. This was believed to be the Emperor's tool for communicating with humans through psionic energy, and if she had any evil contamination on her body, she would have refused to come into contact with it, as it would have been pointed out by the Tarot's omens. ”

"What about Rika Fujimaru's attitude towards this?"

"She treats Emperor Tarot as if she were a game she's not good at — but that's not where the surprise lies."

Digris once again took out the Imperial Tarot card and activated the image on the liquid crystal sheet with psionic energy. The display does not involve divination, so all seventy-eight cards appear in their original patterns - except for the "God Emperor" card.

"This card was supposed to show the image of 'The Emperor Sacrificed to the Golden Throne.'" "But after Rika Fujimaru pulled it out of the deck, the board changed. ”

Kiliman didn't like the word "sacrifice" in his description, which he saw as a religious dissolution of "the great sacrifice that the emperor had made to all mankind," but he was almost entirely drawn to the card's graphics and didn't have time to dispute it.

He knew what the card was supposed to look like. Even though Kiliman has always stubbornly rejected all superstitious activities, he has also had the necessary knowledge of the imperial tarot, which is considered to be a "auxiliary ordnance" that should be kept on hand in the establishment of think tanks.

Even if he had only had a glimpse of the occult props, the image memories that the original had never forgotten could still make the past come to life in his mind: the image on the "God-Emperor" card should depict a shriveled and brown corpse on the Golden Throne from age and torment. He didn't want to pay attention to the occult hints contained in the image, which to Killiman merely showed as a clear result of his father's suffering over the past 10,000 years. But now—

On the card that was suspended in mid-air with Diogres, the emperor was dressed in rich gold armor, wearing a laurel wreath on his head, holding a sword, and his eyes were blazing. His heroic appearance was the same as that of the emperor in Kiliman's memory, and he thought that he had returned to the Great Expedition, a time when everything was good and everything was full of hope.

"In Emperor Tarot, when a strong omen that needs to be revealed can't be fully expressed by the existing cards, the pattern on the card does suffer a permanent change as a result. I've been in a similar situation, but no card has ever seen such a big change. "This new omen...... I can't say, sir. I don't think I'm capable of interpreting it completely correctly. ”

“…… At least we have come to the conclusion that we do need to be cautious about what is about to happen and always be on the lookout to see if it's good or bad. Killiman finally said so.

The original carefully touched the card suspended in mid-air by psionic energy, as if trying to touch a dream that would shatter at the touch of a button.

——

- But it didn't occur to Digris that his genetic father told him that he should "always be observant", which actually meant that he should follow Fujimaru Rika, literally "always observe".

He and another team of ten-man Victorious Troopers were forced into the Storm Frontier by their original attitude, and would follow Fujimaru Rika for the rest of the operation in the name of security.

On top of that, the trio who had gone to the Glory of Macurag as representatives were finally released back to the Lionmane, and Captain Crowwing naturally returned to the Dark Angels, while Somny and Sevita began to stare at each other with the extra team of Ultramarines out of thin air.

"I just had a feeling like this was going to happen." Fujimaru Rika herself commented helplessly.

After a brief assessment of the situation, Digris decided to start with a style: "I understand that there may be many difficulties in this mission in terms of coordination, and we will try to exercise restraint as much as possible. ”

Fujimaru Rika shook her head: "No, you don't understand. You don't realize what Conrad thinks about it. ”

The victors were optimistic at first. Because according to the simple plan that had been laid out before, the Storm Frontier was going to descend to the surface of Pamenio to join the offensive and defensive battles on the ground, but Conrad Coz and most of the Midnight Lord prisoners were to leave the ship and be temporarily placed in orbit on the Lion's Mane until Robert Killiman decided that the situation really needed them. Therefore, it is likely that the only person they need to endure in this process is a forbidden soldier who claims to be not a forbidden army.

But they didn't expect it - by the time the victorious army had boarded the Storm Frontier and had a brief tour of the Imperial Shrine, which could be used as a famous attraction in the future, and at the same time, the Blackstone handcuffs from Sevita's hands had been removed, and the ten Blackarmor Terminators that Conrad Coetz had transferred from the ring were also in place.

"People don't really like this task." Sevita, who had re-armed himself, said with a rare amount of honesty, but instead of the object of their protection, he was staring at Cato Sicarius, who was temporarily in charge of the small group of victorious troops as captain, "But who told our primordials to speak?" ”

Combined with the hint in his eyes, no one can be wrong about what the reason for Saivita's "dislike of this mission" is. Sicarius' eyes narrowed dangerously because of this, but before he could open his mouth to fight back, Rika Fujimaru had already spoken:

"Shut up!" She complained bluntly, "I'm tired enough of the war!" I don't want to worry about these things and have to mediate your quarrels at any time! ”

"But Miss, you're going to have to make us have some fun while we're bored."

"The fact that you are in the sun is already the greatest pleasure in itself."

As a member of the rebel legion, and even owns the copyright to the phrase "kill the puppet emperor", Sevita certainly understands the joy of this: "Oops, this is a little sad. ”

"Lies don't hurt people, the truth is the quick knife." Rika Fujimaru had no intention of continuing to dwell too much on this topic, and directly set the tone for the future, "All in all, whoever picks up trouble first will go to the kitchen and peel the potatoes." ”

Surprisingly, despite the grumbling voices among the Midnight Lords, no one contradicted the decision, and even Sevita made a zipper gesture on her mouth before putting on her trademark batwing helmet.

Then, the preparations went smoothly: the other bats, including the Midnight Lord Proto, left the Storm Frontier with their equipment, and the Victors met with Kelya, who had somehow completed her body test and received her medicine order (the latter was obviously overly nervous when facing the blue-gold Astartes, but she had already behaved well for a teenage girl), and Somney returned to his favorite position in the control room, ready for an imaginary dive voyage. Arrive directly in the gardens of the atrium of the Cathedral of Tyros.

In the process, Cato Sicarius couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart, and quietly asked Fujimaru Rika: "Forgive my offense, I'm really curious, what means did you use to suppress those ...... Midnight Lord's? ”

The word "Midnight Lord" was apparently added later, and its place was originally an adjective that was farther away from politeness and closer to insult. Rika Fujimaru heard this, but she didn't really care, and just quietly shared her experience in the same low volume:

"The point is, make them feel like you're in their group." She replied, "Operationally, if you can speak Nostramo, then you are at the starting line; You can bet on cards, add 10 points; You're a great player, and you're the king of a thousand kings, so you're at the top of the food chain - don't look at those black-armored guards who look like dogs, in fact, they owe me a battle exploit that can be converted into the enemy's head. ”

Sicarius listened, and looked at the little girl who seemed to him to be no more than fifteen years old. The latter shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly, with a little smugness, and freely carried the other party's gaze of "I didn't expect you to be this kind of person".

Miwoo (six o'clock)

In fact, the previous talk of Gollum and Midnight Lord's card play is about this (。

(End of chapter)