There were indeed no external injuries on his body. As for mental attacks and psionic damage? A psionic attack that could harm the Primarch couldn't possibly be so silent. After all, physical strength is one thing, and soul resilience is another.
Although the new Primarch looks small and weak, anyone can sense his godlike soul identity.
To harm a Primarch in spirit and soul, at least the Fallen Magnus would have to do it personally at close range.
"Where is the attack?! Your Highness?"
"Attack?"
A dazed Shinji Ikari stared blankly in all directions, his mouth agape. It took him a second or two to realize that Titus and the others were mistaking his reaction for an assassination attempt.
“If you trust me, I can give you a check-up right away,” said the Great Sage Caul without hesitation. He was extremely reluctant to have a Primarch vouch for him, as it was a rare opportunity for him to have a problem.
"No...it wasn't an attack, I just...didn't you...didn't any of you see these things?"
Shinji Ikari's mind was in turmoil. He covered his head with one hand, and Sergeant Sevis kindly came over to support the Primarch, who was staggering a bit, and looked at what the Primarch was pointing at.
"You dislike these?" Sergeant Sevis was quick-witted. "Remove them! Remove them! Immediately remove all these servants, cherubim, and servo skulls. Don't let them get in His Highness's way!"
"No!"
Shinji Ikari struggled, his feet finding their footing, and he stood up again. He was slightly out of breath, as if he understood something. (The latest chapter of *Fantasy Princess* has been released.)
Everyone can see these things, and even know their names. In other words, just like the previous approach of "abandoning planets with no value and letting them fend for themselves, as long as they can pay taxes," these things are also one of the characteristics of the human empire here.
However, while abandoning planets that are "worthless" can be explained by insufficient military strength and the inability to make do, what's going on here?
"You, you tell me exactly how these things were made, and what their purpose is!"
"This……"
"Say!"
Sergeant Sevis looked troubled. He could tell that the kind and benevolent prince was both shocked and furious. Although he wanted to get to the bottom of things, if he really told him, the original prince would probably be even more shocked and furious.
However, faced with Shinji Ikari's repeated requests, Sergeant Sevis finally couldn't resist and obediently began to explain:
"This is a servo skull, a drone device made from human skulls. It is made by extracting the skulls of devout imperial servants after their deaths and modifying them by the Mechanicus, so that the deceased can receive great honor and continue to serve the empire after death."
A servo skull is essentially a human brain skull wrapped with mechanical devices, flying in mid-air and being commanded. It's already quite terrifying in horror movies, but if it suddenly popped out, it could scare most people to death.
However, this is only the mildest one.
Shinji Ikari's expression had turned incredibly dark. Sergeant Sevis trembled with fear, but under the Primarch's intense gaze, he continued speaking:
"This is a machine servant, a cyborg created from humans. Many of them were made by criminals and slaves and used to do simple, highly repetitive work. They are 'robots' that the Empire allows to be used, not artificial intelligence."
"Those who are transformed into machine servants lose their own thoughts and souls, becoming merely... very useful servants who only know how to receive orders."
"And this one, Cherubim, this, this, this is..."
It's too embarrassing to talk about, absolutely too embarrassing to talk about.
Although no one would normally find anything wrong with these things, now, under the gaze of the new Primarch—"How could you be so heartless as to create and use such things?"—no one could bring themselves to say the final explanation to the Cherubim.
The so-called Cherubim are human babies who have been mechanically modified and fly around in the air.
If it's just described like that, it seems acceptable. It's like adding some mechanical parts to a baby's body, which is similar to a servo skull.
But only someone who has never seen a Cherubim would think that way. To any human outside of the Warhammer 2 era, a Cherubim would be easy to vomit up.
It's disgusting, filthy, uncanny, and utterly inhumane!
Shinji Ikari couldn't understand how the people here could create such a thing, even put it into use, and seem so proud of it!
If he hadn't suffered so much during his first playthrough of the world, he would have...
If he's already vomited enough by then, he'll actually vomit in public.
Titus, Sergeant Sevis, the local sage, and everyone else bowed their heads in repentance.
They didn't know why these three useful items would cause the Primarch to be so furious, but when the Primarch's sorrowful, angry, saddened, disgusted, and heart-wrenching gaze swept across the room, they all felt a sense of guilt.
Although I don't understand, if the Primarch feels it's inappropriate, then they must have done something wrong!
Shinji Ikari took a deep breath, his voice colder than ever before: "The entire Empire is making these, using these?"
"Yes, yes." Sergeant Sevis wished he could bang his head into the ground.
But unexpectedly, Shinji Ikari simply took a deep breath and refrained from further condemnation or outbursts.
Although he is young, he is not incapable of making progress.
After what happened on the Lunar-class cruiser, he realized that it was pointless to talk to these people.
While Titus and his group still possessed some semblance of normal human understanding, it was limited. This level of "normal human understanding" merely allowed them to recognize that they were still human, that everyone else was human, and that they should fight for humanity and not become traitors.
But talking about morality, conscience, human rights, respect for fellow human beings, and the physical and mental well-being of the deceased is completely impossible.
He was furious, truly furious, but he also knew that no matter how much he vented his anger on these people, it would only make him appear as if he were being unreasonable on his own.
Yes, he has realized that if he demands that the people of this universe have normal morality and values, then in the eyes of the people of this world and this era, he is just being unreasonable!
Such unreasonable behavior is pointless. He himself is still so young and doesn't know how to explain and educate people like Titus so that they truly understand from the bottom of their hearts that what he is doing is wrong.
So he chose a faster, more effective, and not unreasonable approach.
He bypassed Titus and his men and went straight to settle accounts with Neos!
[I don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "@Eternal Yellow Skin, get out here!"
[I don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you!"
[I Don't Want to Pilot Unit-01]: "You yourself have experienced the modern world, you should have normal values and morals, so how could you create such an empire?!"
[Unwilling to Pilot Unit-01]: "What exactly did you, Emperor, do? You dog of an emperor, this isn't over until you explain yourself clearly today!"
[I Don't Want to Pilot Unit-01]: "What are these servants, servo skulls, and cherubim? Are these things that humans can create? What do you take human lives for?"
Aa ...
Shinji Ikari was extremely shocked, angry and dissatisfied. If he hadn't been unfamiliar with swearing, he would have cursed Neos to a pulp.
If Neos were right in front of him, he would immediately pilot Unit-01, unfurl its light wings, and charge at this tyrant, beating him half to death, or even worse!
Whether we can win or not is another matter, but we must fight.
And even if he were hit, it wouldn't be enough to vent his anger!
【Eternal Yellow Weasel】: "—?!"
[Eternal Yellow Weasel]: "Calm down! Calm down first!"
[I don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "How can you expect me to stay calm with something like that?!"
[I don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "There have been so many emperors and tyrants in Earth's history, and all their worst deeds combined don't even amount to one percent of yours. Bah!"
【Eternal Yellow Weasel】: "I didn't create the Cherubim. They were created by someone from the Republic of Age 2. I was already on the Golden Throne at that time, so I couldn't do anything about it. You can't blame me for this."
[I don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "What about the servant and the servo skull?"
【Eternal Yellow Weasel】: "...Those two are much better than the Cherubim, right? Besides, the Inquisitors did the Servant Skull thing, not me. Don't pin the blame on me!"
[I don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "So you're admitting that mecha servants existed, or were even popular, when you were still able to move?"
[Eternal Yellow Weasel]: "This..."
[I don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "And don't think that just because I'm new here I don't know anything. I've heard people say that you've manifested your power many times over the past ten thousand years, and there are even some living saints who are your direct representatives, and they often bring your will."
[Don't want to pilot Unit-01]: "So you could have sealed it off from the beginning, but you refused to do it, isn't that right!"
The emperor remained silent.
Although he kept dodging the issue and changing the subject, the truth was his Achilles' heel, and Shinji Ikari had indeed found the root of the problem.
Indeed, let's not even talk about the other two. Whether it's the Servant or the Servant Skull, they at least have practical uses. But what about the Cherubim?
This disgusting thing serves no purpose other than for show. Banning it wouldn't affect the empire's operation at all. In fact, during the apostate era, he specifically had the Custodians bring the nuns to see him at the foot of the Golden Throne, and there was direct communication between them.
He only needed to speak at that moment to suppress the Archangel without expending any extra effort.
At that time, the Cherubim were far from being as prevalent throughout the empire as they would be in later generations, so abolishing them would not have been difficult.
But he didn't actually do that, even though it was just something he mentioned casually.
Because in his mind, this matter was really nothing, not even worth mentioning.
Having lived through the Dark Ages, witnessed various prophetic futures, and confronted those four blobs of dung in the Warp, his tolerance for things like Cherubim and Servant skulls was extremely high.
Although he knew these things were bad and wrong, he genuinely chose not to correct them when he had the capacity to do so.
So much so that now, in this 40s era, these are typical ancestral laws, and even if an emperor wanted to depose someone, he would need to stand up himself and spend a lot of time doing so.
Otherwise, relying solely on others to relay verbal instructions would not stop a large number of people from using it privately, and it would remain popular and fashionable.
The emperor paused for a moment, then re-examined himself.
Am I really a very, very bad person?
He hadn't realized it when he was just going about his business, but now that he'd been scolded by a key outsider who wasn't even his subordinate and whom he needed to please, he realized that he had indeed made a mistake in his actions.
Although I have come from ancient times and I really like human values and morality, perhaps my own values and morality have long been distorted without me even realizing it.
【Eternal Yellow Weasel】: "...I can grant you the power to seal off the Cherubim and the Servant Skull, but not the Machine Servants. The current Empire still needs them."
[I am Batman]: "So what are the Servant, Cherubim, and Servo Skull that make Shinji so angry?"
[Eternal Yellow Weasel]: "You don't need to know this, it's a secret!"
【Eternal Yellow Weasel】: "@Don't want to pilot Unit-01, shh!!!"
Chapter 01 The Emperor: What's wrong with our Warhammer Empire?
The Emperor was in a panic. He was truly desperate. Aside from the time when the Netway Project was completely destroyed by a single phone call from Magnus, who had saved his entire family, this was the most anxious moment he had experienced in tens of thousands of years.
He himself, and the entire human empire in the Warhammer universe, including himself, were almost the complete opposite of Ultraman, the first pure and saintly figure in history who had surveyed the infinite multiverse. He had been aware of this for a long time.
Don't talk about hardships, don't talk about necessary evils.
Indeed, the Empire, plagued by the existence of the Warp and the Chaos Gods, was forced to commit many atrocities.
For example, burning psionicists, promoting a state religion, disregarding the lives of navigators, the corrupt Highlord system, and allowing the existence of the Inquisition.
These are indeed necessary evils.
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