Warhammer 40: Saviors Emerging from the Bottom

With Theodore's assistance, several hundred noble private soldiers stood in neat rows in the square.

Perhaps because they were not used to the change in status, they would always unconsciously lower their heads when facing Xiao Yi.

As expected, some people's souls have been tinged with a faint purple hue.

But they themselves were unaware of this, and even firmly believed that they were the emperor's most loyal servants.

Xiao Yi once tried to peel off the marks left by the Four Gods on human souls so that they could return to normal, but unfortunately he failed.

As it stands, this process is irreversible. Once the soul is branded by the Four Gods, it will one day fall into chaos and become an evil entity that threatens the empire.

Rather than waiting for the other party to go crazy before trying to remedy the situation, it's better to control them in advance.

As for what their ultimate fate will be?

That depends on whether Xiao Yi's future experiments will be successful.

Xiao Yi stood on the makeshift platform and surveyed the soldiers below.

After briefly building up his emotions, he began his speech.

The general content was simple: it expressed approval of the soldiers' defection, affirmed their efforts, and decided to award them appropriate rewards based on their merits.

It's impossible to explain things about the soul to ordinary people.

Instead of wasting time here, we should just make up some other reasons to separate them and put them under supervision.

This can also reduce the possibility of resistance.

Fortunately, those branded by Slaanesh are ultimately a minority, and they are not difficult to manage.

As for the remaining seemingly normal ones, they won't be released immediately.

They will be sent to ideological education centers to receive rigorous education (brainwashing) to ensure they do not make similar mistakes again.

The so-called ideological education center was an educational institution designed by Xiao Yi in his spare time, based on various classics of the empire.

The main purpose is to strengthen the faith of the subordinates and prevent chaos from taking advantage of the situation and corrupting them from within.

If the Four Gods' abilities weren't so overpowered, almost omnipresent, Xiao Yi wouldn't have chosen religion, a medieval-style organization, to exert spiritual control over the regions under his rule.

It's not impossible to use education to raise awareness of the dangers of subspace.

However, among the hundreds of millions of people in Chaodu, there will always be one or two people who are not quite right in the head. If they want to verify the authenticity of the knowledge they have learned.

If they're lucky enough to tear a rift in the real world and let the devil in, that would be interesting.

In this cesspool-like world, knowledge has become a burden.

Even if we were to do that, we would have to wait until Terra's network was repaired and a dedicated area network for humans was built.

It's too early to consider these things now; let's wait until we unify the Far East Star Region.

Speaking of which, Altrama seems to be located in the Far East star system. I wonder if I'll ever have the chance to visit Macurag's famous landmark, the Sleeping Guilliman.

Xiao Yi shook his head, banishing all these chaotic thoughts from his mind.

Victory in the war did not mean he could relax; on the contrary, he had much more to deal with.

Capture escaped enemy soldiers, quell the panic caused by hallucinogenic drugs, rebuild war-damaged residential areas, and restore production...

All of this needs to be resolved by Xiao Yi.

However, before that, there is one more thing to do: take down Shangchao in one fell swoop.

If those nobles realize what's happening and reorganize their resistance, he'll have to slowly erode them bit by bit.

After a quick cleanup of the battlefield, Xiao Yi led the vanguard off, leaving Zhongchao to Mattia's temporary management.

As a state pastor, he knew best how to soothe the panicked hearts of people.

When the roar of tanks reached Upper Nest, all the nobles were stunned.

They couldn't believe that the group of junkyard workers below actually had the ability to defeat the elite troops sent by the Governor's wife and enter their territory.

Some who refused to yield immediately responded with their guns, and their heads became ornaments on Xiao Yi's banner.

For the first time in tens of thousands of years, a garbage collector dared to lay a hand on a noble of high bloodline, leaving everyone in shock.

Some lesser nobles, who were more flexible and had no connection with Salona or the evil god behind her, immediately slid to their knees.

If they don't kneel, they'll die; if they kneel early, they might even get some benefits—that's their way of survival.

However, before they met Xiao Yi, they knelt before powerful nobles.

But the guy, still unwilling to give up, tried to intimidate the garbage collectors he saw as inferior by using his noble bloodline.

They gathered on the main road of Shangchao and stopped the Leman Rustank carrying Xiao Yi.

At the very front of the column, a nobleman, as fat as a ball, pointed at the tank's cannon and shouted, "Our family's bloodline can be traced back to the Great Crusade, how dare you lowly commoners..."

Xiao Yi looked at the other person's classic Tang-style face, his expression somewhat complicated.

"The Great Expedition? I still have an apartment in Terra! Let's crush them and bring these guys to their senses."

The tank driver hesitated, but considering that if he didn't obey the orders, he might end up going to the lower factory to tighten screws with the messenger from before, he was worried.

He had no choice but to grit his teeth and step on the gas. He'd deal with the cleanup after these guys survived.

As the tank drew ever closer, the once arrogant nobleman's legs went weak. He wanted to run away, but his body wouldn't allow it, and he could only watch helplessly as he was crushed into mincemeat.

With Xiao Yi as an example, his soldiers completely let loose, and some of them, who had been oppressed by nobles, even carried out inhumane revenge against those nobles who showed obedience.

Unsurprisingly, these guys met the same fate as the rebellious nobles, becoming mere decorations on Xiao Yi's banner.

Xiao Yi didn't care about their massacre of nobles. No one in a family that could survive for tens of thousands of years was clean, and their deaths were not worthy of sympathy.

There was only one reason for their deaths: these increasingly arrogant individuals dared to disregard their superiors' orders and act on their own, killing those who were supposed to be symbols of Xiao Yi's "goodwill."

This is not only a challenge to his authority, but also a tarnishing of his reputation.

After capturing Bakda, they will need to establish good cooperation with the surrounding governors in order to develop steadily.

If this incident leaves a bad impression on others and causes the cooperation to fail, it would be a loss that outweighs the gains.

Of course, not everyone could surrender. The major families who followed Koulla to Zhongchao to quell the rebellion, regardless of age, were all executed; they were beyond saving.

Because of their swift action, Xiao Yi quickly seized control of the important location on the nest.

Now, with just the governor's mansion at the top of the tower, he can completely control the entire hive.