Warhammer Inquisitor

Chapter 313 The Rise of the Primarch: The Palace Wall

Vito walked on the streets of the palace. The palace was huge, as huge and complex as he thought. There are countless streets and dense palaces and buildings here. To enter here, you'd better bring Last guide, trust me, maps are useless.

There are countless criss-crossing aerial platforms, long bridges and pavements in the palace, which form an extremely complex structure, like a huge web woven by giant spiders. Even the sunlight will be obscured by those tall buildings and magnificent palaces. Here , most of the time the light you can see is artificial light, those blurred lights, make every street and every palace here look the same.

The palace is too big, it is just like Terra itself. This planet is the most complex hive planet ever built by human beings, and Terra is the leader and representative of the existence in the palace. Its history is far more than that. Any urban area that exists today on this planet is ancient.

After the rebellion of Horus, most of the city of Terra was demolished and rebuilt, so now the place has changed with time, and things are different. Vito hardly knows Terra. Thousands of years have let this place The planet was completely changed from his memory.

But here is the only exception, the palace, which has never changed for thousands of years, Vito remembers everything here, the buildings, the palaces and every dark street and wall, the towering statues and magnificent reliefs are still not a single one. Change.

Unlike the hive city cluster of Terra outside, everything in the palace maintains its ancient appearance, believe me, but no one dares to say anything about demolishing the palace and transforming it into a more modern and used look, you just dare to say , then the state religion will finish this nonsense, and just turn your head and put a stick on your head, and then scream out heresy, heresy waits to tie you at the stake and burn you to death.

However, this also brings benefits. The immutable palace is just like when Vito came. He can't remember when he came last time, a thousand years?Or two thousand years ago?The memory has changed and blurred a lot, but he is still familiar with this place. He understands that every good commander, no matter how long it has passed, will remember the defensive structure that he personally designed.

Everything here was designed together by Vito and Dorn, who was recalled to Terra by the Emperor from the front lines of the Great Crusade. He asked Vito to use his military talents, and war skills, to assist Dorn in the defense of the palace. Improve and build.

At that time, Vito didn't know what the Emperor wanted. He thought that even if the old idiot had a whim and let himself come back and mess around, Vito and Dorne built the defense structure of the entire palace together. These complex streets and alleys were like spider webs. The floating streets and long bridges are all designed for street fighting.

The extremely complex urban structure will make any enemy who breaks into it without understanding it, pay a heavy price. There are a large number of firepower points in the countless winding streets and alleys, which directly cross the streets. The towering city walls and The city gate blocks the way of attack, and the condescending platform allows the defender to completely cover every street, and the attacker can only be slaughtered.

This effective defense facility played a huge role during Horus' attack on Terra. It was these complex defense structures that enabled the few loyal parties to stand firm in the rebels' attack. Every step forward has a painful price to pay.

Even the berserk World Eaters, or the Iron Warriors' war masters, are completely useless in these complex and well-defended palace streets. The war has turned into pure bloody street battles, and all the equipment advantages are gone. , the two sides are fighting in the most primitive way.

So the high lords are very smart, they remember how the strong and high walls of the palace saved Terra last time and saved the people in the palace, so they piled up food here and hid in the walls and defenses of the palace Inside, hidden under an efficient void shield that can cover the entire area of ​​the Grand Palace and withstand the prolonged bombardment of the huge fleet.

But now, it seems that this place no longer meets the requirements of the perfect defense. Vito is very satisfied walking on the dark streets here. He looks around. The open city gate was empty, leaving only a few guards.

Most of them didn't come to stop Vito. Many people just glanced at him, and then acquiesced to him to pass. Everyone knew that the situation in Terra was tense, so no one wanted to take the initiative to cause trouble for themselves, but, always Some people exist outside of these normal people, such as guarding the site at the city gate.

Vito walked through the dark streets shaded by the huge palace. He walked from the avenue at the bottom of the palace to a huge gate under the magnificent city wall. As long as you pass through here, you can go to the inner court guarded by the Imperial Army.

But when he was walking towards the place, a second lieutenant officer with a gun came out, blocking the front door and also blocking Vito's way. The second lieutenant had a gun on his chest and raised his hand to signal Vito to stop. Down.

"Stop!" He pointed at Vito and yelled, and the subordinates around him also subconsciously picked up their guns. They stood behind the sandbags and the bulletproof shield wall and watched Vito approaching.

"The Emperor is here! Do you know where you came from?" The second lieutenant held his head high and looked at Vito as proudly as a cadet who had just graduated. His voice was loud and his clothes were quite neat, conforming to every Military grooming standards, so yes, Vito guessed he did just graduate.

He looked at the bright young man in front of him and smiled, he pointed to the door behind him, "I'm going to the palace, please let me."

Vito's words have not been finished yet. In fact, the second lieutenant came up as soon as he said a few words, pressed Vito's chest, and stopped him, "Without the permission of the lord council, no one is allowed to. Do you have permission to enter the palace?"

"No, but I have this." Vito said, and took out the Inquisition's pendant from his arms. The red i letter swayed in front of the second lieutenant, but the latter didn't seem to respond at all, but the subordinates behind him were frightened. With a single jump, they almost made a unified move of all the normal imperial people to see the logo of the Inquisition.

But obviously, the second lieutenant did not belong to the category of "normal people", he still raised his head proudly and looked at Vito with his nostrils, quite arrogant and arrogant, to be honest, that is not a wise move, especially for the Inquisitor and Word.

"Am I not clear enough? Lieutenant."

"No, no, sir, I told you that you have to pass a pass that can only be signed by the High Lord Council, and the rest of the people will not." The second lieutenant raised his head again, he is now Looking at Vito with his chin, Vito smiled and looked at him in the face of the rather disrespectful and very beating move.

"What's your name? Lieutenant."

"Malfoy von Burke, from the ancient and widely respected Burke family, Terra's long and ancient prominent family!" Malfoy patted his chest proudly and said loudly, the voice was deafening, as if afraid of Vito Inaudible.

Vito touched the pendant in his hand and smiled, "Burke family, I have heard of you, your family originates from a bureaucratic family that has served the Ministry of Government for generations, because once again in the political struggle, you are in the right place. , who stood on the winner's side, assisted the then high lord of the Ministry of Government to win the struggle, and was promoted and appreciated."

"It seems that you know my family history very well, sir, then you should also know that the loyalty of the Burke family is unshakable!" Malfoy raised his fingers proudly and shouted, and he raised his head higher. Point, with that nostril and chin at the same time to Vito, who laughed, fingers touching the pendant in front of him.

"Indeed, but sometimes, being too smart is not a good habit, so let me teach you some basic common sense for your family."

"what?"

Malfoy asked in surprise, but before he finished speaking, he was punched in the chin by Vito. He stepped back and looked at Vito who was rushing up. He subconsciously raised the gun hanging under his arm, but he As soon as the barrel was raised, Vito cut off its body neatly with a sword.

The first half of the laser gun fell to the ground in an instant, and Malfoy was also swept by Vito's foot on the bulletproof shield that had hit one side. The young Malfoy hit the shield and gasped in pain, but he didn't. Just as he was about to get up, Vito grabbed him and pushed him back on the shield.

Vito put the phoenix sword across his neck, his other hand instantly pulled out a bolt gun and pointed at the soldier who was holding the gun subconsciously, "If you don't want to die, just stand up, I'll teach you some basic philosophy of life, sir. ."

Vito said coldly, he didn't even bother to look at those soldiers, because he knew they would obey. These soldiers didn't come from some noble and powerful families, and they didn't want to provoke the Tribunal.

The soldiers with guns raised their hands and released their weapons to show that they were not hostile, and then stepped back, as if to make room for the Inquisitor, Vito nodded in satisfaction and grabbed Malfoy's clothes. The leader looked at him, and he put the knife on the neck of the young ensign, who looked at Vito with a bewildered expression.

"Teach you the first thing, the Inquisition never needs to consult the opinion of the high lord. We can do whatever we want, even kill you. The only thing that needs to be consulted is that you want to be bombed. If you were shot, you were killed by an automatic cannon.”

Vito said that he put the muzzle of the bolt gun on the side of the lieutenant's head, and the latter looked at Vito with a horrified expression, looking at the bolt gun nailed to his forehead.

"Secondly, don't look at people with your nostrils when you're talking, especially when there's an inquisitor standing in front of you, because if he's upset, you're dead, understand? Second lieutenant."

Vito grabbed his collar and asked, the young lieutenant under him nodded repeatedly and responded to Vito with a hoarse voice, "Understood, Lord Inquisitor."

"Very well, now get out of the way." Vito said and grabbed the second lieutenant, then pushed him to a soldier, the second lieutenant bumped into the heavily armed soldier, he rubbed his body armor on the body armor He turned his head to look at Vito, who had already entered the city gate.

No soldier dared to stop him, everyone retreated to the sides to make way for him, Vito walked over, and the soldiers beside the second lieutenant looked at Vito and then looked at the annoyed second lieutenant, "Sir? Are you okay? ."

"Shut up, I'm fine, damn it, forget about him, anyway, the Imperial Guard will take care of him anyway, those Golden Armored Guards won't let an irrelevant idiot in."

Apparently the second lieutenant didn't know what he was talking about, he didn't know anything about Vito's identity, he didn't even ask his name from beginning to end, and the latter knew his first and last name, well, since it was There needs to be a purge of the minion families around the high lords, so why not add another name to the list?

Vito pondered this question and walked into the inner court. He walked along the gardens and streets that were like turning the clouds into the sun. Here, all the complex buildings disappeared, and what was revealed was a vibrant green garden.

Here in the steel hive city of Terra, it seems out of place and precious, surrounded by plants that are well trimmed and cared for, embellishing life and nature, and a long path stretches through the garden, extending Go to the front of the magnificent golden gate.

Vito was walking on the road, he walked through the beautiful trees and flowers on both sides, he walked from the boulevard full of plane trees to the front of the huge gate, where two people stood on either side. A tall Custodian.

The warriors in golden armor looked at them. They stood silently on both sides of the gate and held their weapons. Vito walked in front of them from the shade of a tree. They nodded, "I'm going into the palace, my name is"

"Vito Constantine, the Supreme Marshal and the true Regent of the Empire."

Before Vito finished speaking, his voice was interrupted by the sound of the rumbling open giant door, and a voice came from it. Vito looked at the magnificent golden giant door that opened to both sides, and opened from the center. A golden giant emerged from the gap.

The Custodians on both sides of the gate held their weapons and retreated to both sides, making way for the new tall giant who walked out of the gate wearing golden armor and the fur of a snow-white lion on his right shoulder. , The golden banned army walked in front of Vito, standing in front of him like a mountain, and behind him walked out a few ornately dressed banned soldiers in red shirts.

Vito looked up at the warrior in front of him. He was slightly surprised, but soon smiled again, "Trajan?"

"Yes, Marshal, that's me, it's an honor to see you here, my lord." Trajan, the current commander of the Emperor's Custodian, nodded to Vito, who looked at him in amazement, then again Looking at the two sides, he was not surprised. In fact, he may have known about his arrival a long time ago.

"You know I'm coming here, right? You all know it." Vito raised his eyebrows slightly, looking at Trajan in front of him and asked, the latter smiled slightly, but still maintained sufficient solemnity .

"The Emperor already knew of your arrival, he knew it when you arrived at Terra, he had been waiting for your visit, and now you are here, Marshal, so he informed us and ordered me to come here in person welcome you."

"Huo Huo, the specifications are really high. The commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard plus your guards can meet me alone. It's okay." Vito hugged his arms and looked at Trajan jokingly, as well as the Imperial Guard wearing colorful armor behind him. Veterans, armed with power weapons that shimmered with stance lightning, each one of them tough enough to block a hundred, they greeted themselves once again.

Trajan raised his head with a slight smile. He held down the lion-headed saber he was about to wear and looked at Vito in front of him, "That's natural. Only in this way can we welcome the return of the Supreme Marshal."

Saying that, Trajan turned sideways to make way, and the soldiers of the Imperial Army behind him also neatly flicked to the sides, holding a lightning halberd and standing on both sides of the road opened for Vito as if they were entering a high wall, stepping neatly. The sound echoed in and out of the gate, and Vito looked at them and then to Trajan, who was on the side.

The latter nodded slightly to Vito, "Come on, Marshal, he's been looking forward to seeing you again for a long time, and we shouldn't keep him waiting."

Vito looked at Trajan and sighed softly, and then even walked into the gate from between the forbidden troops, Trajan immediately walked between the forbidden troops on both sides and entered the gate, and the soldiers of the guard were all Turning in place, carrying weapons, he followed Trajan and the Marshal into the inner court of the palace.

The golden door slowly closed behind them. This was a meeting of old friends, a reunion after [-] years.

(End of this chapter)