I'm a magnetic field madman

“Magnetic field power, this power is so compatible with our father.”

A painful experience? What could compare to the horrific torment endured by emperors for thousands of years?

Mental torment? What could be more humiliating than an emperor being forced to witness the empire he built sink into a sea of ​​superstition and blind obedience?

The Emperor's path is ten thousand times more tragic than the Second and First Male paths combined, but even so, the Emperor still endured it.

His soul was as powerful as a god, and his body was the strongest immortal being in the entire universe.

What would happen to a being that is perfect in every way after it comes into contact with the power of a magnetic field?

When a Primitive comes into contact with a magnetic field, its power develops to at least 650,000 horsepower... while someone like Leon can even jump to an exaggerated level of 990,000 horsepower.

Because the Primarch itself is also an entity with all its stats maxed out.

Emperor? The level he gained the moment he came into contact with the magnetic field power directly exceeded the norm—he directly became the ultimate powerhouse!

The reason for this is that only a body created by an ultimate powerhouse can contain ultimate power.

Even though the four Chaos Gods possessed power to rival the Emperor in the Warp...

But unless Bai Wujie also uses his own flesh and blood to create a body for them in the physical universe that is large enough to contain their power, how can they contend with the Emperor!

Magnus remained silent after being spoken to. He felt the Emperor's glance, and even that simple look made Magnus tremble all over.

He seemed to have already foreseen the bleak fate of being exploited as a human battery in the future.

Having enhanced Terra to its fullest extent, the Emperor descended once more upon his palace with overwhelming power.

This time, no matter who it is or who they are, their fervent faith in the emperor no longer needs to be questioned.

A truly great god, an absolutely invincible being, can only do one thing.

Worship is enough.

153. Imperial Reforms

For the human empire that encompasses the entire galaxy, a truly explosive piece of news spread like wildfire.

The Emperor has awakened...

The ancient legend that had been dormant in the myths of ten thousand years, the god they had worshipped and prayed to day and night, has returned.

Carrying his offspring, the deity who emerged from mythology once again stands atop the sacred Terra!

Even with the Empire's frighteningly inefficient communication channels...

Such explosive news still spread to the distant, hazy star field in a very short time.

The Emperor's return swept away countless shadows and fears from the galaxy...

This instilled a deep-seated fear and despair in even the most arrogant traitors.

Traitors began to evade the Empire's army, and the arrogant aliens dared not plunder humans anymore...

Moreover, the alliance between the human empire and the Eldar empire has now revealed a terrifying outcome.

In today's galaxy, which race can compare to the union of these two great empires?

They could easily sweep across the galaxy and rule the universe on their own, and even though they were all crippled... their combined power was probably greater than when they were at their peak.

Under the blazing sun, the darkness created by traitors and heretics is so fragile.

The emperor's return also brought some minor changes to the empire.

His first act upon returning to the empire was to issue decrees reforming the state religion and the Inquisition...

To some extent, it limited the adjudicative power of the court and shrank the sphere of influence of the state religion, and forcefully confiscated a large amount of wealth hoarded by the state religion of the star sector, ordering them to distribute it.

This was an order that would be almost impossible to carry out even if issued by a High Lord or a Primarch, but if it were issued by the Emperor—

Everything happened so smoothly it was unbelievable.

Those greedy bishops who had hoarded their life's wealth wept bitterly as they donated almost all of it... whether to the Astral Army or to the common people, they dared not keep so much.

Because the emperor is watching them, even if not all of them are necessarily devout.

But if he dreams of a golden sun, then no amount of greed can overcome such fear.

However, the restriction of the court's power has encountered some resistance.

It wasn't because the court wasn't loyal enough; on the contrary, it was precisely because the court was too loyal that it encountered such enormous resistance.

The complexity and variability of factions within the courtroom had reached a level that defied description...

There was once a Water Clan diplomat from the Tau tribe who tried to understand the Empire's internal affairs system...

As a result, the very act of dealing with the differences between the filming and the courtroom scenes nearly drove the diplomat insane.

In short, you only need to know that there is even a faction within the Inquisition that openly hopes to kill the Emperor and thus conform to Horus to understand the complexity of this motley crew.

Faced with such a problem, the Emperor did not need to handle it; the Assassin's Court directly took on all the responsibilities.

Because it immediately withdrew its forces, the Assassin's Temple, which suffered almost no losses in Leon's bombing of Terra, directly diverted 90% of its targets to assassinate the Inquisition's dissidents.

A bloody and brutal purge was carried out, wiping out not only the judges and their undercover agents, but also the ancient noble families of Terra.

Her position as High Lord was usurped, and Grefax became the new representative of the Inquisition. She and the Imperial Truth Fundamentals she represented, who constituted only a tiny minority within the Inquisition, gradually replaced the mainstream ideology of the Inquisition.

Within the central government, the emperor had completed the restriction of the power of the bloated court in a very short time, greatly weakening its extraterritorial powers. While streamlining the overly complex system, he also addressed the issue of the excessive power possessed by the court itself.

In truth, the Emperor might prefer to eliminate these two powerful organizations outright. However, even a God Emperor has to compromise with reality.

As for the contraction of power, raising this topic is tantamount to an insult to imperial authority, so there's no need to elaborate further.

The third problem the Emperor had to deal with was how to deal with the highly autonomous but also seriously corrupt sector administrators.

This is a major issue that even an emperor couldn't handle; it's not that his authority was insufficient...

Rather, by the time his orders reached the local level, they would have likely passed through countless rulers.

The Milky Way is simply too vast, and subspace travel is far too unstable.

The emperor's orders are good, but when they are carried out, all it takes is for those greedy governors and nobles to do a little something wrong—and he can turn from benevolent rule into tyranny.

In fact, this group didn't need to rebel against the emperor at all. From a political perspective, there's a specific method of regional political confrontation against the higher-ups called "over-executing."

They obeyed the emperor's orders, but allowed him to go too far, thus implicitly resisting the emperor's commands.

But that's no longer a problem.

After uniting with the Eldar Empire, the Emperor personally received the ruling council of the Eternal Kingdom and reached another deep cooperation agreement with them.

The Emperor sent a portion of the Imperial army to the galaxy where the Eternal Kingdom resides... to help them carry out offensive and suppressive operations in the inner sphere of the Galactic Empire, and to help them occupy those Galactic Empire-controlled worlds not ruled by the Coruscant and occupied by other extraterrestrials in the galaxy.

Both the Astronauts and the Astartes were extremely enthusiastic about this task...

Even those judges whom the emperor considered beyond redemption showed extreme enthusiasm when he threw them into the court.

This is a real hardship for the aliens in the Star Wars universe—the Galactic Empire, ruled by Palpatine, is a human-centric FXS regime, and the arrival of a human empire is a heavy blow.

Of course, with so much effort put in, the Emperor naturally obtained the full picture of the hyperspace engine technology.

Compared to the subspace engine, the hyperspace engine's stability is simply unbelievable...

Its technology is so advanced that it can be easily mounted on any small spacecraft—most importantly, its speed, even though the universe doesn't have such stable hyperspace routes, eliminates the time uncertainty of subspace...

A ship with a hyperspace engine can fly from one end of the galaxy to the other in less than half a month!

Of course, the hyperspace engine is not perfect either—if we don't use the warp, which is the largest hyperspace, the biggest problem is the large number of pocket dimensions within the galaxy.

And based on this point, under the leadership of the Divine Kingdom Council...

The Emperor even had a brief exchange and conversation with the representatives of the Necromancers stationed in space.

Meanwhile, the Endless One, Tarachin, who replaced the Space Necromancers, regretfully expressed that he could not keep the Emperor's Throne, but happily took some "little things" from the lunar laboratory.

After a friendly private conversation between Tarachin and the Emperor, the two sides reached a consensus in a short period of time...

The Necromancers will guarantee to provide hyperspace data to ensure they don't warp into the Necromancers' pocket dimension...

Humanity must also ensure that it ceases the digging up of any space necromantic dynasties for some time to come.

The Emperor readily agreed, and so Terra's large fleet, under his supervision, immediately began a massive engine disassembly and reassembly operation.

The Navigator family has expressed great concern about this issue—or to put it bluntly, these families, who rely on being humanoid compasses in the warp, fear being left behind by the times.

It's also thanks to the Emperor's 10,000-year-long blessing that these inbreeding psionic families have been brainwashed. If it were 10,000 years ago... these people would have even dared to blow up the prototype of the Golden Throne in order to maintain their status!

But the Emperor is not one to abandon those who have served their purpose—or rather, at this stage he still needs to stabilize these psionicists.

In the name of the Emperor, he guaranteed that the Navigator family's current status would be maintained, and that they would not be entirely without purpose in the future.

Although hyperspace travel does not involve warp space, those hyperspaces are still potentially vulnerable to invasion by warp predators.

The future development of navigators will not focus on guiding routes, but on discovering subspace entities that intrude into tunnels.

After stabilizing them, the Emperor ordered the Solar Fleet, along with the Martian Guardians and other forces, to go to various star systems and worlds... holding planet-destroying cannons and extermination orders to their heads, demanding that they deal with corruption.

In short, everything is unfolding according to the most perfect script.

The emperor's awakening brought too many new things to the empire... and brought about the enormous changes that should have been done but had not been completed in the past ten thousand years.

But among his many reforms, the most significant change was his transformation of the political system of Terra and even the human empire.

The former emperor refused to allow Astartes to be included in the Highlords Council...

Because the Lord of Man was at that time paranoid or naive, he believed that after building the Web of Man, he could gradually free mankind from psionic powers and the warp.

While it wouldn't be as ruthless as it was with the Thunder Warriors, where the Astartes were treated with utter annihilation...

But at that time, the Emperor did intend to gradually fade the Astartes from the Empire after the Great Crusade was completely over.

But now, such an action has been proven impossible.

If the Emperor had enough time and resources, he might have been able to wait for a system similar to the Imperial Guard to gradually replace the Astartes and humanity in the galaxy... But there wasn't enough time, and with the rampant use of magnetic forces, the Emperor had to make changes!

He directly unearthed the Primitive Space Marines hidden on the moon by the Mechanicus Grand Sage Belisarius Caul...

After adding a new "magnetic field adaptation" to their technology, they spread the technology and its seeds across the various warbands of the Empire.

The Emperor's firm order was to gradually replace the older Space Marines with more mature and powerful ones. This might have been a cruel and merciless order for the Space Marines, but coming from the Emperor, no one could disobey it.

He allowed an additional Astartes seat in the High Lords Council—this was not unthinkable; in fact, the Astartes had the opportunity to gain a seat in the High Lords Council before and after the War of the Beasts.

Moreover—if "newcomers" like the State Church and the Inquisition can secure their seats in the High Lords Council, what's wrong with having one more Astartes?

As for the selection of the Astartes' chairman, the Emperor, after careful consideration, left it to the Astartes themselves to decide.

After all, Astartes was highly militarized and had a strong fraternal culture...

Even the Astartes High Lords appointed by the Emperor are bound to have huge disputes. Letting the Astartes make their own choices can both slow down efficiency and suppress some dissenting opinions.

Anyway, the biggest reform is not here.

The biggest reform was actually the establishment of a permanent regency seat by the Emperor above the High Lords Council.

Yes, permanent seats.

Unlike the Emperor's Hand appointed by Macardo, the Regent's seat is permanently reserved for the Primarchs, and when the Emperor is absent from Terra or unable to fulfill his duties, the Regent is the Emperor!

This means that the Regent's power will surpass that of the Highlord Council... A weak Regent might be restrained by the Council... but for a Regent with a tough stance, the Highlord Council can basically only act as a mouthpiece.

Guilliman, who was appointed regent by the emperor, and was very likely to be the ruler of Otramama in the hands of the emperor for thousands of years to come, how could he be a weak political figure?

Within months of the Emperor relinquishing power, Guilliman rapidly took control of the entire political structure of Terra.

By adopting a strategy of punishing some and then winning others, he used his exceptional political skills and tough stance to peacefully yet efficiently seize all power in Terra.

Such ability and attitude caused many high lords to tremble in fear under the shadow of the regent, and to despair that the era of the high lords had come to an end.

And to be honest, Guilliman was actually a staunch conservative among his brothers.

Even though he established the Second Reich and actively allied with the Xenomorphs, he was still one of the Primarchs who was most obedient to the Emperor and the most conservative.

If someone like this is already acting this way as regent, imagine if it were another Primarch, like Leon El Johnson…

That scene was truly chilling.

Various political and institutional reforms have been underway for a year and a half...

And after the news of the Emperor's return and its influence spread throughout the entire human empire, he suddenly made a huge decision.

He is about to embark on a new expedition.

He personally led a massive expedition against the Eye of Fear!