Warhammer: Empire Reboot

An official from the judicial office also stood up.

“War law does not grant foreign warbands the power to completely bypass local legal procedures. If the seal is removed today, all orders may lack traceability tomorrow. The power vacuum created by the chaos will lead to centuries of litigation and noble conflicts after the war.”

These people spoke logically and clearly.

Lawson listened patiently, even nodding occasionally.

Is there anything else?

Upon seeing this, a young nobleman also stood up and spoke.

“Your Excellency, we are willing to shed blood for the Empire, but our families cannot be wiped out by a mere temporary order. We need to confirm that our rights will be restored after the war.”

Someone else added.

“It would be a waste of combat power to hand over the private soldiers of nobles who are familiar with the local terrain to the Astral Military Command.”

"Refugee resettlement cannot be based solely on military efficiency."

"The Mechanical Repair Society has concealed some information about water sources and underground passages in the past, and we cannot trust all the data."

"The state religious relief stations are not entirely neutral either; some priests lead crowds to the sanctuary, causing blockages on main transport routes."

“We demand the establishment of an oversight committee to ensure that the joint command does not abuse its authority.”

The noise in the hall grew louder.

Many people who were initially hesitant to speak began to voice their opinions when they saw that Lawson did not interrupt.

Only Serena, Omniklas, and Elixir remained silent.

All three of them realized something was wrong.

Serena lowered her eyes and remained silent.

Omniklas's mechanical arm slowly retracted, as if moving himself away from the gear assembly that was about to explode.

Elisius gently turned the reliquary in his hand, his lips moved but he didn't make a sound.

After the last noble representative finished speaking, the council hall fell silent.

Lawson chuckled softly: "I was right, you really are a bunch of insects."

Representative Harlow's expression changed.

“Your Excellency, we respect your achievements, but you cannot insult the loyal nobles of the Vigilant Star in this way.”

Another member of parliament also mustered his courage.

"We are simply upholding order and the rule of law."

Lawson raised a hand.

"Arrest them."

Two dogs, three dogs, and the mastiff-like guards moved at the same time.

They charged onto both sides of the round table like a pack of beasts clad in Terminator armor.

Before the nobles and members of parliament who had just stood up to oppose them could react, they were grabbed by the shoulders, necks, or arms by giant hands and dragged out like chicks.

A nobleman's private soldier instinctively drew his sword, wanting to protect his master.

Haldo Frostpi was right next to him.

The Space Wolves' combat leader raised his hand and slapped him across the face.

The private soldier was thrown several meters away, sword and all, and crashed into a pillar. His helmet cracked, and he lost consciousness on the spot.

Haldor shook his hand.

"Don't get in my way, you little brat."

The area is closed.

"You have no right to treat me like this!"

"I am an imperial nobleman!"

"My family has guarded the Vigilant Star for seven hundred years!"

"Your Excellency, this is illegal detention!"

"Your Excellency Calga, are you going to watch him undermine the imperial legal system?"

Calga watched this scene in silence.

He felt anger, but also a kind of indescribable shock.

He is still trying to get the parliamentary system working.

Lawson has already dismantled the table.

Lawson looked at the remaining councilors and asked kindly, "Do you think this is none of your business?"

The remaining nobles and officials around the round table turned pale.

A tall, slender nobleman immediately stood up and spoke very quickly.

"My Lord, I fully support all your decisions. My family is willing to relinquish our private army, caravan, reservoir access, and underground warehouses. Vigilant Star needs strong leaders to unite it, and I pledge my loyalty to you in the name of my family."

He spoke very well.

The response was also very quick.

If Lawson were an ordinary warlord, this surrender might have been a way to save his life.

Lawson looked at him and smiled again.

"What makes you think I would need the loyalty of a cunning person?"

The nobleman's expression changed drastically.

"Your Excellency, you are slandering me! My family has served the Emperor since the founding of Vigilant Star, and I personally donate to the State Religion every year..."

"Stubborn to the end."

Lawson's psionic energy, like an invisible giant hand, instantly pressed down on the nobleman.

His magnificent robe ripped from the shoulder, and the lining, belt, camouflage paint, and artificial skin covering his skin all burst open at the same time.

What was hidden beneath was exposed to everyone.

Purple alien skin.

Asymmetrical sternum.

A deformed accessory limb, which is atrophying, has appeared below the shoulder blade.

On the side of the neck, there are fine chitinous patterns resembling scales.

That once handsome aristocratic face began to deform, with prominent cheekbones, sunken eye sockets, and a row of unusually sharp teeth showing inside the mouth.

A gasp of surprise rippled through the council chamber.

Lawson spread his five fingers slightly.

A psionic storm swept across the entire council hall.

The alien features hidden beneath human skin, robes, paint, perfume, prosthetics, and aristocratic attire were forcibly torn away.

More than half of the members of parliament, noble representatives, clerks, transport department advisors, legal deputy secretaries, and deputy heads of the water purification department all revealed traces of the poor prince's bloodline.

Some people's fingers have become deformed into three-sectioned claws.

Some people have developed a purple chitinous shell on the back of their neck.

Some people's eyes turned blackish-purple, their pupils stood up, and they let out suppressed screams.

The entire Supreme Council of the Vigilant Star has been turned into a hive by the Poor Prince.

Serena's face turned deathly pale.

"So many people..."

They offered no further explanation.

A shrill whistling sound erupted simultaneously.

Several mixed-breed animals pounced on Calga.

They knew that this Ultramarines leader was a core member of the Imperial military, and that if they could create a moment of chaos before his death, they might be able to completely collapse the Council.

Others pounced on Serena, Elisius, and Omniklas.

They want to kill the remaining uncontaminated representatives of power.

Several others rushed toward the gate, attempting to escape and deliver a warning.

Behind Lawson, the Shadow Blade emerged from the void-like metallic light.

In the next instant, countless thin lines flashed across the parliament hall.

The mixed-race man stopped his lunging motion.

Their skulls, cervical vertebrae, shoulder joints, knees, wrist bones, and the junctions of their spines were all cut open at the same time.

A hybrid was less than three meters from Calgary, its claws already reaching into the air.

The shadow blade pierced through its eye sockets, exited through the back of its head, and then circled back to sever its knees.

When it knelt down, its head had already split in two.

The hybrid who lunged at Elisius was simultaneously impaled in the chest, throat, and forehead by three shadow blades, and his body slid to the archbishop's feet.

The few hybrids that fled toward the gate were cut into pieces by the metal storm as soon as they leaped up, their blood and flesh splattered on the palace carpet.

Less than a second.

The aliens lurking in the council were all executed.

The hall returned to silence.

Only the muffled thuds of corpses falling to the ground and the suppressed gasps of the nobles remained.

Those opposition nobles and councilors who had just been captured by Er Gou and the guards were now slumped on the ground.

Some of them are purely human.