Warhammer: I don't want to be a stinky can! ! !

Chapter 740 184. The Waning Moon
【One month later】

【Terra】

A whole Terra month had passed since the day when everyone lay sprawled on the ground.

During this period, there may have been many frictions or disputes between the Primarch and the Emperor, the Primarch and the Primarch, and the Primarch and mortals, but no matter what, the main theme is always work, work, and overtime.

In terms of directing the work of others, Guilliman completely unleashed his potential.

Hades believed that Guilliman had obviously comprehended the true way of the slave owner. The tasks assigned to each Primarch were just impossible to complete, but he always gave them the illusion that "as long as they worked a little harder, they could complete it ahead of time."

As for those Primarchs who were unwilling to work independently, Guilliman used threats and inducements - the Empire, the Legion, a certain heir you care about... The Lord of the Empire certainly knows what you care about.

In short, everyone has to work, and work is obviously necessary and essential.

Of course, Guilliman was not truly inhuman. He was well aware of the different Primarchs’ acceptance of public affairs, so Guilliman formulated a work plan for each Primarch.

We also have conversations every Monday to check on the mental state of each member, and provide leave or psychological counseling to those whose mental state is precarious.

In this regard, the Primarch's mental state was assessed by the reluctant, unnamed Angron.

In return, Guilliman promised Angron less official duties and more vacation time.

Everyone was assigned to a suitable position. Hades was fully responsible for the operation of the Mechanicus and the Cult of the Underworld. He was also the special instructor of strategic management of the Imperial Construction Department and the chief director of the Imperial Construction Bureau Seven.

As for what the Imperial Ministry of Construction is——

Yes, in order to welcome the new atmosphere and new situation of the Human Empire, the Lord of the Empire, Robert Guilliman, delivered a speech on the 22nd, clarifying the Empire’s next goals, main tasks and work priorities.

Robert Guilliman pointed out that the next priority of the Empire is to eliminate the "three aliens" - aliens, aliens, and heretics - that are hindering the Empire's progress and are still wreaking havoc within the Empire's territory and in the unrecovered territories.

The Lord of the Empire emphasized that in order to accomplish this task, the Empire needs to further liberate productivity. Under the leadership of Pluto, the Empire should vigorously apply advanced archaeological technology to practice and establish troops and people that are fully armed in physical and imperial psychic aspects as soon as possible.

By the way, one day before Robert Guilliman gave his speech, the Imperial State Religion, the Imperial Cult of the Underworld, and the Imperial Mechanicus jointly signed and promulgated the "Criteria for the Identification, Judgment, and Qualification of Imperial Psionic Power (M1)".
This move defined what Imperial psionics was, why the Empire used Imperial psionics, and how to execute psionics that violated the rules.

Imperial psionic power is that which conforms to the beliefs of the Imperial State Religion, or the beliefs of the regional legions, or the beliefs of the Mechanicus. Its power comes from the psionic power of the Emperor of the Warp and the Primarch's psionic domain.

Psychics who meet this requirement need to obtain a certificate of recognition from the religious bureau related to their faith. They also need to pass the hazard level assessment of the Dark Cult. If the hazard level is "medium" or below, they can travel freely within the empire.

After the announcement of this regulation, Imperial Grand Master of Psionics Magnus immediately stated that he and the Grey Knights would be committed to promoting the implementation of a legal and compliant psychic education system, so that every psychic has books to read and a school to attend, and prevent every psychic who is committed to exploring the warp from going astray.

Although there were also rumors that Magnus scolded Guilliman for being an inhuman, at the same time, the Inquisition representative Corax seemed to have visited the Red King afterwards, apparently to discuss the possibility of adding a surveillance system to him, and was successfully scolded out by Magnus.

This is just one of the many arguments and disputes that happen behind the scenes because of the work.
Not to mention the many absurd things like Sanguinius kicking Conrad directly out of the palace, leaving a human-shaped dent on the outer wall of the palace; Vulkan smashing Mortarion's desk with one punch, and so on.

Ahem, we have strayed off topic. Let us continue to focus on the speech of the Lord of the Empire, Robert Guilliman.

In order to better liberate and develop productivity, Robert Guilliman realized that the current empire needed a department that could truly gather the strength of the entire empire and devote itself to the field of production and construction, rather than a small-scale organization of the Mechanicus, local Astra Militarum, and Imperial caravans.

Robert studied and summarized Pluto's previous production and construction experience, and believed that the Mechanicus alone could not meet the size of the empire. Therefore, after negotiations, the Lord of the Empire established the Imperial Construction Department.

The Primarch planned to use the yet-to-be-revived Rogal Dorn and his Imperial Fists as the main force, and specially dispatched a legion (Imperial Fists) and two chapters (Silver Skulls and Trident) to unite twenty-one large forge worlds and engage in large-scale production and construction.

Its first quarter goal is to establish a mass slingshot transportation network covering the entire empire network, guided by Pluto's "Slingshot Theoretical Path and Past Path Fitting".

Once the transportation network is built, even if there is a transportation error between a single quantum slingshot, the quantum slingshots in the neighboring star field will make up for the error, and the transportation error will be reduced to about 15%.

With the deployment of Pluto and the Adeptus Mechanicus within the Empire, this quarter's goals are planned to be completed within ten years.

In addition, numerous advanced technologies have passed the review of the Academy of Athens, the Cult of Hades and the Mechanicus, and have entered the stage of on-site production, becoming one of the countless small goals of the Imperial Construction Department in the first quarter.

Once the goals for this quarter are achieved, according to calculations by Pluto and Fenus, the lord of Nirvana, the empire will smoothly enter a period of explosive growth in economic and military development.

This will be the key to determining the rise and fall of the empire, so within this month, in addition to having heart-to-heart talks with the primarchs (using coercion and inducement).

Guilliman worked in the office with Hades and Finus, calculating all kinds of data until he was dizzy and confused.

The door of the office was kept open to facilitate the mechanical sages who rushed in with various confidential documents and official seals.

For this, Robert Guilliman sincerely thanked Finus and Hades. The two made him realize that in addition to a poor man like him, there are still people in this empire who are willing to work seriously, desperately and responsibly.

A deep friendship was thus established, which came from a kind of mutual appreciation after being exploited - although Guilliman forced others to work, he was the one who exploited himself the most.

This will be a wonderful memory for Guilliman in his later life, although it may not be so wonderful for the other two -

Finus doesn't have much emotion about anything and has become a chosen worker.

Hades himself was fine, but Buz Bella, the Hades's ox horse who came to work with him, collapsed directly beside Hades' desk after working intensively, so Hades had to give the poor man a holiday. At the same time, this also awakened Hades' rare conscience, and he seemed to have exploited them a little too harshly.

Because Robert Guilliman himself did not directly liaise with the various Mechanicus and construction teams, Hades and Finus did not leave their desks for a whole month and were actually stuck in the office for a month.

Guilliman, on the contrary, was busy in the palace, which was already in chaos after the return of the Primarchs, with many matters such as "Mortarion sent a declaration of war", "Angron applied for leave", "Neos applied to go out", "Sevatar complained from the bottom of his heart and hoped to improve the treatment of the Primarch", etc.

By the way, after the seven-day contract ended, the Pale Lord Mortarion went straight to Guilliman's office, but when he saw the three people with cold faces, he silently took a half step back. After a long silence, the Pale Lord realized that Hades was working overtime voluntarily.

Mortarion then invited Guilliman out to fight.

And once again I was happy to get a seven-day job.

Finally, a month later, on a full moon day, Robert Guilliman, the great slave owner and the largest slave in the empire, who had worked hard for many days, decided to give everyone a day off.

This was a reasonable concession based on the degree of pressure from various official duties, and was also the result of Angron's repeated persuasion to Guillimando.

Yes, Angron would advise Guillimando to rest whenever he had time.

So, Guilliman persuaded himself to allow himself a day off, using the excuse of preparing for Rogal Dorn's return.

【?! Are you okay, brother! 】

The Lord of Red Sand, who was holding a plate of dessert, suddenly shouted. The Primarchs who had already gathered at the open-air balcony of the palace turned around and saw the real Ox-Horse trio.

Guilliman had the bonus of a psychic aura, Hades had overwhelming physical fitness, and Feinus was completely mechanical, so the three of them still looked like they did at the beginning, without dark circles under their eyes or other byproducts of overtime work - but the expressions on their faces revealed a strong sense of death, their eyes were dull, and their steps were stiff.

It was as if he nodded and was willing to rest in peace the next moment.

Angron was about to go forward and use his psychic energy to guide him, but Mortarion took him a step ahead. The Primarch, who had been lying in the corner silently releasing poison gas, sat up straight and raised his hand towards Hades.

Then Pluto walked over like a zombie and immediately collapsed on the recliner next to the original body.

Karas, who was sitting near Mortarion, laughed loudly. He nodded to Sevatar who was talking to him, then walked towards Hades' position, ready to taunt him.

However, Hades was already snoring, so Karas's taunt was probably ineffective.

Sevatar was staring at Guilliman cautiously. Beside him, Dante, the Blood Angel who had begun to reorganize the legion, had a sad face and dark circles under his eyes, as if they were dripping with blood. In his hand was the blood wine that the Archangel himself had just poured for him.

【I'm fine, thank you for your concern. 】

Guilliman said, taking the hot tea from Angron. He listened to Hades's snoring and wished he could just fall asleep right now - but he obviously couldn't do that.

First, Guilliman did not allow himself to lose his composure like this.
Second, Guilliman knew that his brother might not be so convinced of him, at least not as convinced as he was of Pluto, so necessary etiquette was required.

Vulkan also left Magnus, who was talking to him, and walked towards Guilliman, who was given a broad, warm, and somewhat suffocating hug.

Guilliman looked at Vulkan's smiling face, thinking that the Fire Dragon Lord's legions were regrouping, and the Salamanders and their regiments were reorganizing according to Vulkan's will.

Guilliman caught a glimpse of Magnus out of the corner of his eye. The Red King was standing on the edge of the rooftop, admiring the moon with a glass of wine in his hand, but he was reluctant to look at Guilliman. Guilliman knew that Magnus was not satisfied with his arrangement for the psykers.

But it didn't matter, the rest of the people in the council all passed Guilliman's proposal.

You always hope too much - don't push your body too hard.

The Fire Dragon Lord said that he was also one of the people on Guilliman's "less work" list, and that the Fire Dragon Lord was not suitable for handling government affairs, so Guilliman decided to send Vulkan out to fight, or to continue to go back to guard the Webway.

There was also new progress on the Webway, and Guilliman's thoughts diverged again, but the premise was to let Hades meet the two Necrons again -

Guilliman still does not fully understand these matters, and he needs to figure them out as soon as possible. What makes the Primarch a little dissatisfied is that both Pluto and the Emperor have too ambiguous attitudes towards some individuals of the Necrons.

[You are thinking about other things again, so you should eat something. ]

Angron’s voice brought Guilliman back. Guilliman blinked in a daze, took the food handed to him by the Lord of Red Sand, and stuffed it into his mouth reflexively.

During this month, most of Guilliman's meals were taken by Angron who would come into his office with a plate, interrupting his work with Hades and Feinus. Hades would then automatically take the food, while Guilliman would need Angron to force the food into his hands.

Otherwise Guilliman would never put down the document in his hand.

In fact, his servants still carefully delivered each meal on time, but at that time Guilliman was mostly immersed in work, so those meals with a strong Macragge flavor were automatically picked up by Hades.

A strong minty smell burst into Guilliman's mouth, which made him shudder. The Lord of the Empire looked at Angron hesitantly, but Angron simply responded with a shrug.

【Don’t think about work today. 】

The Lord of Red Sand said that Guilliman's first reaction was that Angron had used suggestive psychic persuasion on him, and his instinct almost made him subconsciously fight back, but Guilliman successfully suppressed this impulse.

He understood that Angron meant well, and that there was no need for Guilliman to be so harsh on the Lord of the Red Sand, even though Angron had done even less work than Konrad Curze.

Apart from anything else, their bat brother who was creeping darkly in the corner really liked judging others, and bills that had been pending for years were approved almost overnight.

Of course, Guilliman cleverly arranged for the unemployed Sanguinius to keep an eye on Conrad.

So Sanguinius got to work—mainly to refute all the death sentences approved by Conrad.

Finally, Sanguinius, unable to bear it any longer, had a huge argument with Conrad over how to judge him. The Archangel managed to kick Conrad off his desk, and he took up the pen.

Sevatar, who witnessed everything silently, decisively placed the next batch of documents on Sanguinius' desk. The archangel glanced at Sevatar and then buried his head in work.

Corax got a rare vacation. Well, like the Lord of Fire Dragon, Raven has been mainly gathering his own army recently.

Just yesterday, Terra received a report from the Sons of Raven that they seemed to have suffered some setbacks from a new alien race - the Titanium.

This was a small report, received only by Corax and Guilliman, but out of some intuition, Guilliman thought that his beloved Corax might be going out soon.

【Wait, I have something to ask you, Guilliman.】

Angron spoke up and stopped Guilliman who was about to sit down to rest.

【? 】

[Lord of Mankind... I mean, where is our father? I haven't seen him recently.]

Angron asked in a low voice, glancing at Sanguinius, who had been staring at the moon in silence since arriving, suggesting that Archangel Guilliman might be concerned about this.

【He is now on the moon, in a genetic laboratory on the moon. 】

Guilliman said calmly that he realized that Neos seemed to be talking to him, but Guilliman was too busy to have a heart-to-heart talk with Neos about unimportant things, so he sent Neos directly to the moon.

[The job I gave him was to improve the genetic defects of the Space Marines and upgrade them again.]

Relying on the genetic keys preserved by Belisarius and Luther of the First Legion, Guilliman believed that the Lord of Mankind would accomplish this task.

After all, apart from Neos, perhaps no one else in the empire can continue this mission.

In addition, Guilliman himself did not quite agree with the plan proposed by Belisarius before.

As for now... Guilliman silently looked up at the full moon in the sky. The Lord of Mankind was now in a daze, and seemed to be a little sad.

Guilliman sensed this accurately, and he hoped that Neos was grieving for his work, not for Horus.

Throwing Neos into a genetic laboratory on the moon... Another metaphor is that Guilliman decided to turn a blind eye to Neos's search for Horus.

(End of this chapter)