Warhammer: Black Emperor

Chapter 188 Losing to the Primarch, and then to his offspring (Third update, please vote)

Pell took a deep breath and looked at the arbitration panel, where three arbitrators sat, from the Honor Guard, the First Warband, and the Eleventh Warband.

There wasn't a single member from the Ministry of Justice in the entire arbitration hall. Vostonia doesn't enforce Imperial laws and is unaffected by the Ministry of Justice.

Pell stepped into the defense table. He was the first Eleventh Chapter candidate to undergo the final test, and he had to defend the Chapter's honor.

The candidate from the First Battle Group looked at his opponent, picked up his gavel, and struck it.

"Please, prosecutor, make your opening statement."

Golovin, who had been defeated by Nimrod, had gray hair.

After being defeated by a seemingly ten-year-old boy named Nimrod, Tesworth's top lawyer was devastated and considered himself a failure, spending his time in bars drowning his sorrows in alcohol.

But just one year later, Nimrod unified Vostonia and was crowned king.

After realizing that he was not from the same world as the king who created miracles, Golovin regained his confidence, his career continued to rise, and he became the first lawyer in Vostoria.

Later, when he learned that the King was no ordinary man and was a genetic prototype, he was completely relieved.

Today, he asked for no defense fees, only to defeat the king's son.

Golovin glanced at his giant opponent, took a deep breath, suppressed his fear, and let his professionalism and desire for victory overcome his dread.

"Your Honor, the defendant Greenwood's laser gun manufacturing plant has violated Chapter 11, 'Factory Governance Regulations,' Article 11, 'Factory Management Rules,' and Article 5, 'Detailed Rules,' of the 'Om Messiah Guidebook.'"

"No process may be altered without certification and approval."

"Unauthorized changes to the production process can cause production hazards and even affect the dome and the entire nest."

As Golovin spoke, he operated the data panel and brought up the holographic image.

"The A-005 ammunition factory in the lower-level hive city was destroyed in an explosion caused by illegal changes to the production process, resulting in the deaths of 404 workers."

"..."

The arbitrator watched Golovin's eloquent speech, which, by ordinary standards, was outstanding.

After eleven minutes of presentation time, the aristocrats and businessmen in the audience erupted in applause, paying tribute to the top lawyer's outstanding presentation.

Golovin glanced confidently at his giant opponent, then spoke in a deep voice.

"Your Honor, I have finished my statement. Please review it carefully."

The arbitrator looked at Pell and began to speak.

"Please, defense attorney, present your response."

Under the watchful eyes of his opponents and the three shadows of order, Pell calmly rose to his feet.

"Arbitrators, three arbitrators, it is true that Greenwood has violated the provisions of the Om Messiah Guidebook."

"But Lord Howard Find added annotations to the Guidebook of the Om Messiah when he carried out reforms in Vostoria."

"The notes in Chapter 11 stipulate that if the factory owner can prove that the improvement is effective after conducting two steps of analysis and experimentation, and that no accidents occur in the thirty-three experimental runs, the improved process can be used during the report approval process."

As he spoke, Per manipulated the data panel, displaying the data and images one by one.

Golovin looked ashen-faced, realizing that he might lose to the king's son again.

After his last failure, he mastered the appendix of legal provisions, which contained two hundred million words, but today he failed because he did not master the footnotes.

[The note about 500 million can only be remembered by Superman who has undergone the augmentation surgery.]
He looked at Per, and the black-robed giant slowly overlapped with the figure in his memory, leaving him momentarily dazed.

The judge sighed, "Victory is important, but the spirit of impartial arbitrator is even more important."

Moreover, he knew that maintaining impartiality was an important criterion in the arbitrators' evaluation of him.

He picked up the gavel and struck it hard.

"The defendant, Greenwood, is not guilty!" Golovin finally came to his senses, and once again he left with a defeated air.

Five days later, he will step into the arbitration tribunal again, facing the defense lawyer, once again, the king's prospective son.

As far as he knew, that was the 1,133rd test of the final assessment of the Shadow of Order.

Five minutes later, all the audience members left the arbitration hall.

A member of the Honor Guard from the Fourth Battle Group revealed a slight smile on his stern face.

"Both of you have passed the final test. You will receive your own power armor and become true shadows of order."

Faced with the arbitrator's puzzled look, the "arbitrator" from the first battle group spoke up.

"The most crucial indicator for evaluating arbitrators is that they are not influenced by the eloquence of the prosecution and the defense, resist the temptation to become legion warriors, and always maintain an impartial attitude."

“This is the true arbitrator, and it is also what Lord Howard Finder requested.”

Eleven days later, in Vostochny's high-altitude orbit.

Per Koscielny, clad in black power armor, stood before the observation window, gazing at his ever-shrinking home world, Vostonia, his heart pounding with excitement.

Having just become a formal Shadow of Order, he was able to follow the Primarch and participate in the war against the Orcs in the Flame Wheel Galaxy.

At the same moment that Per set off for the Wheel of Flame, Wilshire of the Second Chapter had already joined the Shadow of Thrones.

As a Terran recruit, he underwent cyborg transformation on the moon. As the second-ranked recruit in his cohort, after completing his initial training, he should have been a candidate for "Shadowmoon Wolf," just like the other top fifteen trainees.

But before undergoing the modification surgery, Bradshaw of the 11th Chapter of the Order of Shadows found him and extended an invitation, and Wilshire felt that the instructors valued him highly.

Wilshire asked for five days to consider before he began to gather all the information he could find about Primarch Nimrod and the Eleventh Legion.

He asked Hollis, another instructor from the First Chapter of the Shadow Order, about the Primarch and the Legion's ideology.

The Primarch, a former member of the Honor Guard, provided him with a fairly detailed explanation.

The idea of ​​using rules, precise strikes, and establishing order deeply attracted Wilshire.

Compared to the gangster culture of "Shadow Moon Wolf," the concept of "Shadow of Order" was more appealing to him and more suitable for him.

He also learned that His Majesty not only found the first knightly world, but also provided supplies for the Great Expedition.

The Primarch led six warbands in a swift attack on the Orb Spider Alliance, a classic case study discussed at the Lunar Training Base and Strategic Analysis Room.

The lecturers' limited knowledge of the war failed to satisfy the candidates' curiosity, but it piqued Wilshire's interest even more.

After careful consideration, he finally accepted Bradshaw's invitation.

After that, Wilshire worried that, based on his grades, he should have been assigned to the Shadowmoon Wolves.

Later, Bradshaw somehow managed to do it, and Wilshire guessed that it involved some kind of rule-breaking and exchange of benefits.

Ultimately, he and other specially invited boys joined the "Shadow of Order" separate candidate training camp.

As Bradshaw and Hollis's primary training subject, he underwent much more rigorous training than others.

Space training on abandoned warships near Pluto, hunting training in the Necromondadi nest, armored vehicle driving training on the plains of the agricultural world...

He ranked first in all training programs among the final 1,133 candidates.

Wilshire thus became the only recruit jointly recommended by two former Honor Guard members, serving as the Honor Guard's Primarch.

　PS: Per Koscielny will be the lord of the Eleventh Chapter, having previously appeared in chapters 28, 30, and 31.

　　Wilshire is an original character who will be the lord of the Second Chapter. She previously appeared in Chapter 43.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)