Warhammer in a box

Chapter 65 Before the War
"Lord Geisel, I'm here for Count Ludwig." Olgat said in a bad tone.

"Oh? What do you want to do with Lord Ludwig?" Geisel obviously sensed that the visitor had bad intentions.

"Gesser, I would like to invite Lord Ludwig to our temple. I believe you have seen everything that happened outside the city before. As the most important church in the empire, we have the responsibility to find out everything about this unknown god that has nothing to do with the great Sigmar and is not allowed to exist in any church in the empire!
No one can guarantee whether it was done by cultists. "Olgate continued.

"You want to take away a meritorious official before the war? Olgat, this is against the rules! What's more, he is a noble of the empire!

He is a count, and even the church cannot directly say that a count is a heretic.

And don’t you see? As a clergyman, that power belongs to the cultists?”

"Lord Geisel, this is our responsibility. The church ensures that the entire empire is not disturbed by those evil believers and heretics. Now is the time for us to fulfill our duties. Please cooperate!"

"Olgart? Are you really going to do this? Ludwig's title of Count was granted by His Majesty Karl himself, and it was even witnessed by the Grand Chanter of the Sigmar Cathedral in Altdorf. Are you doubting your Grand Chanter?" Lele also stood up to speak for Ludwig.

Lele and Ludwig are friends for life and death, and as a Reik Guard, he is more loyal to his emperor than to the Church of Sigmar. It would obviously damage Karl's prestige if a noble who had just been granted the title of count by Karl himself was taken away in the presence of so many electors.

Carl also gave him some explanations before he left, but he didn't reveal everything.

Finally, after Leler brought out the high-ranking officials of the Church of Sigmar, a trace of panic appeared on Olgate's face.

It is obviously inappropriate for the regional bishop to question his immediate superior.

"Hmph! Master Lele, Master Geisel, since you all said so, I will report the situation truthfully to High Priest Walkerma. I believe the High Priest will make a decision. Let's go!"

Olgate left here reluctantly with the combat priest behind him.

Meanwhile, Kaina on the side mocked him: “Tsk, this is the pastor of the Sigma Church.”

Zhang Heng outside the box also frowned, the incident happened too suddenly, and the noise he made was indeed too loud. He absolutely could not hide it now, and it really attracted the attention of the local church in the medieval world.

But now that things have come to this, we have to fight back. Fortunately, the two most powerful people in the empire still know of his existence. I just hope that the reaction of the Sigma Church will not be too intense.

Geisel assigned the next combat tasks to everyone. With the addition of Nunn's engineers who were good at using various artillery and various war weapons, everyone felt more confident about the next battle.

And the most important thing is that they can mobilize more than 15,000 troops, which is even twice the number of those barbarians.

What is more important is the Leman Rust tank in Ludwig's hand.

Ever since Leonardo, the inventor of the steam tank, mysteriously disappeared along with the design drawings of the steam tank, the entire empire has been unable to replicate the tanks of the medieval world. There are many rumors about his disappearance.

Zhang Heng believed that this must be a conspiracy of Jianqi!!

Only 12 of the original 8 tanks survived the war. They were carrying out their mission of defending the empire in various parts of the empire, and were modified into different appearances due to the needs of different regions.

Although these steam tanks looked so crude in Zhang Heng's eyes, they were still very powerful in this cold weapon era without magic and chaos demons. Flesh and blood were not as hard as metal after all.

Ludwig was assigned the task of driving the Leman Russ to break the formation, and he gladly accepted it.

As the tasks of each unit were assigned and completed, everyone lost interest in eating and returned to their own units to arrange tasks for their subordinates and prepare for tomorrow's battle.

"Ludwig, I heard everything? Your emperor appeared again? What a pity! I didn't even see it!"

Ludwig returned to Leman Russ and met the dwarf Phillips who had arrived.

The dwarf said regretfully.

"Phillips, it's okay. There will be plenty of opportunities in the future. But tomorrow I will fight with Ferrer and others driving the holy relics bestowed by the Emperor. The soldiers I brought from Terra will depend on you. You will lead them!" Ludwig entrusted Phillips.

"Don't worry! I will take good care of these friends. I have to say that I get along really well with them along the way!" The Angrand clan, which has been fighting all the time, is still very experienced in combat. On the other hand, these Iron Hammer Warriors and Iron Dragon Gunners are very strong!
Ludwig entered the Leman Russ again and found that Ferrel was checking the amount of ammunition in the Leman Russ and speaking to the tank in words he could not understand.

"Praise Om Messiah, please bless this war machine to run normally tomorrow. God of Machinery, please bless us with metal and your light. Machine Spirit, please listen to my prayer."

"Ferrer, are you still awake so late? What are you chanting?" Ludwig said.

"I'm used to it. Before a battle, there would always be priests from the Adeptus Mechanicus coming to inspect and pray for these tanks. I'm a little uncomfortable with the lack of such priests here, so I can only do it myself. Although I can't do it, I hope the machine spirit in this Leman Russ can hear it."

"Machine Soul? What is that? What is the Mechanicus? Is it similar to the Imperial School of Engineering?" Ludwig asked curiously. He found that the world where Ferrel lived was far richer and broader than he had imagined.

"That's more or less what you said. They are responsible for the manufacture and research and development of weapons for the entire human empire. The empire cannot do without them, and they cannot do without the empire. The two sides have already coexisted together, just like this Leman Russ, which was made by them." Ferrell said.

"Oh, it would be great if we could also make these things. They can completely change the current situation in the empire. I even think that if we have a few more, we will have a chance to launch a counterattack on the Norse homeland." Ludwig stroked the Leman Russ with a look of longing.

"Rest early, there will be more to come in the future, and there are even more powerful things you haven't seen yet!"
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The humans of the empire fell asleep peacefully, but the Norscans could not sleep this time. When they retreated to Dist Harbor, they found that they did not have enough longships!
The remaining longships were not enough to bring so many people back to the tribe, and their leader Ulfric was missing at this time, and for a time they fell into a state of leaderlessness.

Even internal fighting began between the tribes, as everyone wanted to become the new leader.

At this time, Ulfric was lying on his own Sea Fang. He was scared, and he fell powerlessly on the deck of Sea Fang.

But the next second he felt his soul being called.

"No, no." The devil's scream echoed in his mind, as if the evil god had sent his messenger to take away his soul.

This reminded Ulfric of his original curse.

(End of this chapter)