Warhammer: Just unified the Empire, you said it was 40K

Chapter 285 Entering Terra, Lighting the Star Torch

The Minotaur band bullies the underdogs, and Makado's voice appears.

Now that he's in the Empire, he's confident he can guarantee his safety.

Moreover, he no longer needs to be under the protection of others. He has a certain ability to protect himself. Although the Gamma World has not traced all the soul data and physical data, his own characteristics will gradually fill in that part.

He is no longer at his strongest, when he could suppress Angron with just his psychic power. But now, his abilities far surpass those of the think tanks, and with other guards around him, his safety is fully guaranteed.

"Humph!"

boom!
The Minotaur company commander fired directly at the soldier who had been declared a 'traitor'.

And those gun barrels, aimed at soldiers, are basically impossible for soldiers to stop with their armor.

This was Minotaur's response to Macado's question.

Are you the empire's 'regent'?
Sorry, whether you are the regent or not is none of my business.

My mission is to wipe out these rebels.

They put something that shouldn't have been put in, so they are guilty. Even if you are Makado, you cannot violate the rules of the Empire. Does that mean your power as Makado is greater than that of the Empire, or greater than that of the Emperor of Man?

As requested, the Minotaur were authorized to wipe out everyone at the outpost.

Eliminate everyone.

The person in front of him should have been killed by his explosive gun to establish his authority.

However, the power of psionic energy directly froze the bullets fired by the Minotaur company commander.

The trajectory drawn by the muzzle of the bomb gun created a ripple in space before stopping in front of the mortal.

"Stop creating innocent killings."

Upon hearing Macado's voice, the other chapter leaders who were following him immediately understood that Macado had taken action to protect those who had helped them, even if the other party was just a mortal, and to protect his life.

This has nothing to do with anything else; he needs more supporters in order to actually do something meaningful within the human empire.

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Macado's intervention made the situation extremely tense.

Macardo is not one of those political old-fashioned schemers who only engage in mutual exchange of interests. His greatest skill is not in following his own rules, but in creating them. The Grey Knights, the Inquisition, and the Assassin's Court of the past were all established by him and played a significant role in the Empire's ten thousand years of history.

He was not just a compassionate old man.

His sadness stemmed only from his assessment of the empire's current state. His methods would not be merciful; otherwise, he would not have created the Assassin's Court to unify the voice of the entire empire and allow the Emperor's Great Expedition to continue.

Those power struggles can indeed plunge an empire into trouble.

However, he is not one of those who walks the rules he himself sets.

He will create new imperial rules if necessary.

In fact, he had already told Kaul about those things before he arrived, and Kaul had also told Makado about his millennia-long accumulation plan.

If necessary, then a large-scale reshuffling of high-ranking officials is indeed required to push the empire to implement new policies.

Ottara, Gamma World.

If both worlds jointly support the Empire, and the resurrected Primarch is able to return to the Empire and launch another Great Crusade, then the Empire's future may still have a glimmer of hope.

And now, it's just before that opportunity arrives.

Makado disappeared from the warship and appeared at the checkpoint.

The battle group leaders immediately tensed up.

They were afraid something might happen to Macado.

But in reality, very few people could assassinate Makado on the spot. The Space Marines couldn't, and even the Xenomorphs would have a hard time. Moreover, if he could be assassinated now, then the Empire would indeed be beyond redemption.

Makado's figure looked as if it had been enlarged.

Amplified by psychic energy, his body was even taller than the original body, and he emanated intense psychic energy fluctuations. Even the most powerful think tank leaders would be shocked to see how a mortal could possess such powerful psychic energy when they saw Makado's psychic energy.

"Lord Makhado"

"Regent"

"You're back."

From his initial low-key actions to his current high-profile ones, Makado knows his role: to salvage the Empire's 'future victory' amidst the despair of the universe and its utter collapse.

He could no longer remain low-key, no longer like those who needed other Space Marines to fawn over him before he could truly take over Terra. He had to be high-profile, to tell the Imperium that there was still hope, that the future of the Imperium was not dead, that they could continue to live, that he had returned, and that others would continue to return, and that we would once again reach the greatest moment in the history of the Imperium of Mankind.

Yes, I'm back.

Makado's psychic power is like an amplifier.

His voice was transmitted from the void to the checkpoint, where the maintenance workers who were originally at the lowest level heard Makado's voice.

They seemed to automatically know everything about Makado, the great moments of the empire he had experienced. They felt as if they were there, witnessing firsthand how the empire grew stronger under his leadership, through the first, second, and third expeditions.
Each expedition brought the aliens in the empire to their knees and instilled fear in the invaders. Wherever the empire's army passed, all enemies surrendered in fear.

Excitement, exhilaration, hope.

His psychic powers, like magic, swiftly transmitted these intertwined and complex emotions between them.

This is the battle cry that Makado originally developed for those warbands. He doesn't need to inspire people through battle cries; he only needs to use his psychic power to spread the emotion of hope into these people's brains. Their brains will naturally form a response to hope, and the more desperate their existence is, the stronger the feeling of hope will be when they receive it.

This method of applying psionic energy also involves technology obtained through exchanges with psionic laboratories. These laboratories contain a pure 'Angel' Paradise' project, a technology abandoned by a gamma world. Although the project has been abandoned, some of its technologies are still usable.

"Your Majesty"

"You're finally back!"

"By the Emperor."

Some people who already knew Makado were moved to tears and knelt down to offer their loyalty under the influence of this 'language' emotion.

Makado's voice echoed across Terra.

Countless people heard Makado's voice.

It sounded like whispers in their ears.

Some people looked up at the sky. The sky over Terra was almost identical to the Nest, but now it had changed.

"came back"

"They're all back."

The people of the empire began to rekindle their hope.

Even Makado from ten thousand years ago has returned to the Empire; the Empire is bound to get better.

This is the hope that Makado gave them from the bottom of their hearts.

Although such displays of spiritual power and supernatural abilities, which inspire faith in the people, would displease the emperor.

But now, do they have any other options?
Macardo knew, the Emperor knew, and even the state religions knew: the Emperor truly did not want faith to emerge. Ironically, the Empire now could only exist by faith, so it didn't matter to Macardo using psychic powers to display some mystery and increase faith.

Even emperors are not lacking in the power of faith.

However, they lack a large number of true loyalists and pilgrims.

Now, in this way, true loyalists and pilgrims can be directly selected, and these loyalists and pilgrims are the only way for them to dismantle internal conflicts within the empire and reintegrate its resources.

All Makado needed to do was tell them that he had returned.

So soon.

A large number of people will then defect to us.

He is indeed short-staffed and doesn't have the time.

However, he will not be bound by rules and the political ecology of the empire.

He wants to take full control.

Military, politics, trade, nobility. Resources outside the battlefield, and their allocation within the battlefield.

He would issue the most appropriate tasks in the most precise way through the central link in the empire that he trusted most, ensuring that every order was completed accurately.

Even during his internal reforms, he could allow some worlds to be abandoned and others to be left unsupported; once he recovered, he could reorganize the Great Expedition.

Of course, before he could do all this, he needed to know the Emperor's intentions.

What does the emperor really want? What are the emperor's goals?
and so.

These tests from the Minotaur and the High Lords were meaningless to him.

Because Kaul had provided him with sufficient military support, which was hidden near the Terra orbit.

"You say you're real, so you're real? Makado has been dead for a long time!"

The other party questioned Macardo's authenticity in order to undermine his authority.

But Macado doesn't need these.

All he needs to do is relight the star torch.

Macardo didn't argue with him. At the checkpoint, he directed the Mechanicus of the Great Sage Caul to relight the extinguished Imperial Star Torch.

Just as those people felt the power of the Star Torch reawaken after hearing Makado's voice, they soon experienced a similar resurgence.

Both the navigator and the Starry Court sensed the starlight from the center of the Empire.

And all of these were rekindled with the return of Macado.

A new hope instantly welled up in my heart.

"It's lit up!"

"It's lit! The star torch is lit!"

Meanwhile, those further away who had lost their way upon entering the warp saw, in an instant, the Imperial Star Torch burning once more.

Bright!

It's finally lit up!

The empire was not destroyed!
(End of this chapter)