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Chapter 713 (14) What do you want to do by suddenly exposing my past?

"The Emperor's Champion?"

The three Astartes present looked at each other, each trying to read something in the other's eyes.

"Are you sure this request is addressed to us, Sister Rivinia?"

Finally, Pavas spoke first, "Although the Black Templars are indeed the sons of Dorn like us, the Emperor's Champion is an honor they have inherited for ten thousand years from the first Chapter Master, Grand Marshal Sigismund. The same is true for the Emperor's Champion's armor of faith and the black swords."

What? Wait a minute. Sigismund clenched his fists. What do you mean by inheriting the honor of ten thousand years? Wasn't it an extraordinary measure during the extraordinary period of rebellion and the Great Purge? Didn't it end with my death? Although he was very happy to hear that the Black Templar continued his mission and survived ten thousand years of cruel time, but -

As for Black Sword, when he uttered his dying curse and perished on the bridge of the Eternal Crusade along with his Brotherhood of the Sword, he had already prepared for his body to be desecrated or even discarded by those angry traitors.

He remembered clearly that at that time he had discovered that the burden of his age would gradually tilt the balance of the battle towards the traitor, so he did not hesitate to use his life in exchange for the infinite closeness of the distance between the two sides. When he was cut in half by the Claw of Horus, he used all his strength to stab the black sword into the chest of the Son of Horus, deeply piercing his breastplate and bone plates.

It's a pity that he should have destroyed his lungs but failed to destroy both hearts of Ezekiel Abaddon at once, so he died before he could see the death of the Traitor's Son.

So the Black Sword was not taken by the traitors after his death? But when the heavy weapon was delivered to him from the Sigillite's private vault, didn't Malcador's agents tell him that the weapon was forged on another world long ago, that it was his sword, and that "the Emperor says it is yours" - so why did Pavas use the plural?
Then his thought matrix considerately resolved some of his doubts. The floating unobservable particles sent some of the things that Perturabo and the mysterious mechanical priest had told him or said during their conversations to his processing unit and converted them into retrospective memories that he could read.

Yes, the two who remade his existence had casually mentioned to Sigismund when he was lying on the workbench that the Son of Horus who fought against him and claimed to be the new Warmaster survived in the end. Abaddon ordered someone to carve words on his sword, and then put the black sword and his body on a light cruiser that originally belonged to the Black Templars, leaving a minimum of slaves and servitors on it, and activated her distress beacon before pushing the ship out of the Eye of Terror.

This boat that was constantly cycling through what it was carrying must have luckily completed its job, carrying his scarred body slowly back to Terra, and announcing to the people of Terra with his death the return of the Traitors and the start of the First Black Crusade.

It was during this long voyage to Terra, which might have taken several months, that his dormant soul was taken away along with the theft of his heart and brain - considering that the only living people on this small boat were some captured slaves, the defense force was close to zero, and the party that committed the theft included at least a Primarch like Perturabo, then it seemed that the theft of Sigismund's organs could not be blamed on the poor mourners.

As for the other problems, he should have a chance to figure them out soon, as long as he can get through the current one.

For example - if Saint Celestine is truly an extension of the Emperor's will as they claim, would she - or whoever she is looking at through her eyes - recognize who is inside this forbidden machine full of heresy, alienness and falsehood?
Would she or He rage at the thieves right then and there? Or expose him in front of everyone? What would the Living Saint do if he was exposed? Point out that he was an evil creature and order him to be shot and burned? Would he then open his shields and fight back? Or would he simply hide his face and run away as a sign of shame for the past? If Perturabo was watching him somewhere at this moment, would he do anything to stop it?
--So.

A thought emerged from his mental matrix like a mitochondria invading a cell.

If he revealed his identity to Celestine first, how would she handle it?
If the situation develops next and forces Perturabo to take action, will we be able to see such an exciting and high-spirited scene as the Emperor's Living Saint fighting against the Demon Primarch?
What surprised Sigismund was that when he thought about such blasphemous and blasphemous ideas in his mind matrix, he did not even feel much shame or regret in his heart. Instead, there was a strange and detached emotion stabilizing his personality. If he were to describe it, he would say it was a kind of interesting but natural malice when "the experimenter observes his own experiment".

...Whose personality module is this that was loaded into his matrix? Does Perturabo know about this?
His thoughts slowly came together, and he found that the generation of waste code in his mental matrix seemed to have improved.

"I know," the elder sister said, "but I am also sure that Saint Celestine said this to me, and the sisters around me also heard it."

"At this time? When the enemy can attack at any time and anywhere? Don't you still need to select?" "The will of the Living Saint is the will of the Emperor, and it will be the top priority for all of us sisters to execute. Brother Pavas."

"What about Captain Desorian? What did he say?"

"It is you that the Living Saint wants to see. You'd better leave immediately... No, I have sent a team of pure angel sisters to pick you up, brother Pavas, please give me your coordinates."

Sister Rivinia seemed to have seen something over there. Her voice became firm again. "Don't worry. I will inform Master Desorian about this later."

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Forty-two minutes later, they met the Living Saint of the Emperor in the great cathedral of the Sisters.

Saint Celestine is undoubtedly full of divine glory.

She just stood quietly in front of the altar in the church, and countless nuns and priests knelt there crying, praying to her or confessing. A cordon had already been set up outside the cathedral. The desperate people who witnessed the sacred and magnificent scene of the coming of the living saint knelt outside the cordon with their children or money - their most precious things, and murmured prayers in the direction of the church, begging the saint to show his power, and the Emperor of God to show His mercy to defeat their enemies, so that this world and the humans on it can continue to survive.

When they arrived, the selection of her twin maids had just ended. The two combat nuns who had been blessed by God held their weapons tightly with cold and determined expressions, and looked around vigilantly, as if everyone could be the evil person who hurt the saint.

Sister Rivinia came forward solemnly.

"Follow me and I will introduce you."

She led the three Astartes to the base of the altar, and just as the Sister was about to speak, a voice spoke first, beautiful, sacred and pure.

"An old friend asked me to say hello to you."

As the battle brothers and sisters looked on in disbelief and then overwhelmed by great happiness and joy, the Living Saint called out the name in a kind and heavenly voice.

"Sigismund."

But the next sentence made everyone's ecstatic faces suddenly change color.

(End of this chapter)