Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 765 07.764: "Purists and Radicals"

"Since the 1313th Infantry Regiment does not exist, further investigation is unnecessary. After all, it is impossible for a naval captain to serve in an infantry regiment that has been completely destroyed. Your Excellency the Inquisitor, I am afraid that your information is wrong."

The words of the civilian official from the Ministry of Military Affairs immediately caused the whole audience to fall into silence.

The Black Hammer Inquisitor's jaw muscles were tense, his eyes were wide open, and he stared at the civil servant, obviously finding it difficult to accept this result.

He couldn't understand. If the naval captain was assigned to command a destroyed legion, then what was he actually commanding? Walking skeletons? Ghosts that could be summoned and dismissed at will?
Suddenly, an incredible idea emerged in his mind.

The thought made him shudder, but if Horatio was not a heretic, then the only reasonable explanation for this situation was that, as recorded in the Inquisition texts he had read, the supreme power of the God-Emperor was protecting this young rising star of the Empire.

He looked at the tall and mighty man in front of him with disbelief, and his prominent Adam's apple rolled up and down several times.

Horatio looked at Farida again, and she nodded slightly, indicating that Horatio accepted this statement.

"Yes, I went to the ground only to follow the orders of the Military Affairs Department. Since the investigation of the Military Affairs Department has come to no avail, the investigation of me should also end." Horatio smiled and politely said to the people who were examining him, "It's a pleasure to meet you all. Goodbye."

"My apologies, Colonel." The military supervisors of the Ministry of Military Affairs uniformly gave Horatio a solemn Sky Eagle salute.

Horatio noticed that cold sweat was running down their temples, including that of the Black Hammer Inquisitor.

"Maybe I should talk to the temperature control department and ask them to lower the temperature inside the ship." Horatio joked gracefully.

Although the Military Supervisory Committee possessed inviolable supervisory power, they could not offend a naval colonel at will, not to mention that this person was an imperial lord, a renowned imperial hero, and the only living descendant of the legendary Admiral Speyer.

No one wanted to have animosity with the future admiral of the Gothic Fleet, and that was only the height of his current foreseeable future. Given his age, he would have a lot of achievements in the future.

Everyone turned around and prepared to leave the light cruiser "Swift Eagle".

"Inquisitor Black Hammer, please stay." Horatio called out to him with a smile, stopping only him from the crowd.

The Inquisitor stopped abruptly, frozen in place.

The others looked at each other, and when Horatio stopped calling the roll, they lowered their military caps and walked out.

After everyone left, only Horatio, Farida Hood, Teiperu, and the Black Hammer Inquisitor who was called were left in the corridor.

"Inquisitor Black Hammer, you seem to have something against me?" Horatio walked to Black Hammer with a smile, stood shoulder to shoulder with him, and asked the burly man while looking down at him slightly.

"You misunderstand, Colonel."

Black Hammer forced a smile on his stern face, and said to Horatio in a grim tone, "I have a lot of opinions about the disciples of Ravenno. Almost all the inquisitors of the anti-foreign order know that they are radicals who advocate contact with aliens."

Black Hammer lowered his head, his face gloomy, and glanced at Thei fiercely, and continued: "But this is a blasphemous heresy! Those who associate with them are also heretics!

Colonel Cochrane, it's not too late for you to turn back!
An Imperial hero like you should not go astray! Aliens must die, and their creations that blaspheme the Emperor and the purity of mankind must also be destroyed. This concerns the future of mankind. If we always covet the immediate benefits and ignorantly indulge in the use of alien creations, mankind will never be able to get rid of the threat of aliens! "

Horatio stared into Black Hammer's eyes.

He could feel that this extremely conservative Inquisitor truly wanted to save the future of mankind, but the path he chose was completely different from Thei's. In a sense, he could even be called a loyal supporter of the "Imperial Truth." Because the Imperial Truth clearly stated that all aliens should be eliminated and their creations should also be destroyed, otherwise it would bring endless dangers to mankind.

But, that was 30K, when the Emperor was still walking on earth.

In the dark and hopeless 41st millennium, who can say who is right and who is wrong between the radicals and the purists?
Everyone is just trying their best to choose a direction in the darkness according to the direction they firmly believe in, and walk forward headlong to save the empire in their own way.

"Your ideas are correct, and so are Inquisitor Teiperu's ideas."

"If you want to humiliate me, then there is no need to do so. We have different ideals and cannot work together!" Inquisitor Black Hammer said with his tone becoming even colder.

"No, I sincerely think that your hatred of xenomorphs is fine!" Horatio agreed with a smile.

This sudden response surprised Inquisitor Black Hammer.

In his eyes, this man's stance was erratic, like an unfathomable dramatist, making it impossible to fathom his thoughts.

"In my eyes, your philosophy and that of Inquisitor Thei are just in different order.

You think that only by destroying the aliens can the empire be saved; but Inquisitor Thei has never thought of letting the empire accept the aliens. She just wants to use the aliens to solve the threat of the Chaos enemy first, and then deal with the aliens.

It seems that your ultimate goals are the same, aren't they all to save humanity and the great human empire?

When I was a Lieutenant in the Navy, I was in orbit of the fallen agrarian world of Fal, engaging in a void war against both Ork Xenos and Chaos Traitors.

I remember that very clearly.”

Horatio's gaze drifted, as if he was back on the cruel battlefield of Farr. As the acting captain of the Indefatigable, he replaced the seriously injured Captain Lord Stirling. Commodore Edward Peru was sitting high on the fleet command throne behind him.

In front of them is the green-skinned orcs' fleet of junk ships, and behind them is the Chaos rebel fleet composed of evil heretics and shameful scum.

The danger of total annihilation is still imminent.

Horatio took a deep breath and continued:
"If the Imperial Navy had continued along its original route, it would have been caught between Chaos and the Orcs and forced to fight on two fronts.

But we evaded the Orks by making a great turn in front of the enemy which was extremely risky and might even lead to the complete collapse of our battle line.

The battle situation turned into one between the Imperial Navy and the Orks, sandwiching the Chaos fleet in the middle and deliberately avoiding attracting the Orks' attention so that the aliens' firepower could be concentrated on the traitors.

In the end, we won the crown of victory for the God-Emperor and avoided many losses.

While the heretics and aliens were fighting to the death, we ruthlessly crushed all those who stood in our way, successfully saving the precarious Karl-Duniash fleet in orbit, and saving the British Astra Corps on Farr that was about to be destroyed by the falling artificial moon.

Inquisitor Black Hammer, I want to say." Horatio stared into Black Hammer's dark eyes.

(End of this chapter)