The other knights were silent, waiting for Azriel to continue.
Silence is the best camouflage. The more you talk, the easier it is for people to detect your identity and thoughts.
Only when everything is settled will they know each other's identities.
"The Dark Angels are powerful. We have existed for ten thousand years, and the blood of Lion is passed down among us. However, Chaos and the traitors have never given up the idea of dragging us into the abyss. They desire and seek our weaknesses. Those traitors hide in the chapters and the corrupt hide in the chapters, like a thorn in the flesh."
Azrael whispered.
The Horus Heresy was thwarted by the Loyalists.
After the traitors were forced to flee into the Eye of Terror.
The number of organized rebellions did not decrease as a result.
There have been many cases of traitors and chaos corruption among the various chapters.
During the years that Azrael had been in charge of the Dark Angels, he had also been vaguely aware of the problems that had arisen within the chapter.
Many people once thought that the Stone Fortress was indestructible, including Azrael.
Since he became Grand Master, there have been several invasions of the Stone Fortress so far.
Thousands of people lost their lives.
The combat monks, recruits, slaves, and mortal guards all suffered heavy casualties.
A large number of precious dark relics were also stolen.
These invaders were extremely calculated.
Their targets are all prisoners in the prison deep within the Stone Fortress.
That was the greatest traitor of the past, Lord Cypher - Luther.
Although the plans of these invaders were ultimately thwarted by the Dark Angels.
But they still caused damage to the Stone Fortress.
Assisted some of the inmates in the cells to escape from their cells.
Of course most of the prisoners had been executed or re-added to the cells.
Yet to this day, a few prisoners remain hidden from the Dark Angels somewhere within the Stone.
From time to time, slaves and mortals would go missing in the fortress.
Their bodies would be discovered a few days later.
Their bodies are covered with terrible scars, and their bloodless faces often reveal extremely painful and distorted expressions.
The Dark Angels have conducted several cleansing operations in the fortress, but the results have been less than satisfactory.
As if with precognitive powers, the enemy would depart before they arrived, leaving behind only blasphemies and empty hiding places.
This made Azrael suspect that the regiment had been infiltrated.
To this end, he made a lot of plans to catch it.
He founded six closed order in the name of secrecy and participated in them, carrying out counterintelligence programs.
Now, the order he was in was just one of the ones he had secretly established.
With his extremely complex structure and unequal information gap, he ensured that even if there were lurkers and corrupters in the six orders, they would not be destroyed.
It can also ensure that these six orders will complete the counterintelligence plan according to his will.
Guilliman's arrival was the perfect entry point.
The enemy wants to turn them against each other and plunge the empire into chaos again.
And Azrael will take advantage of this.
As for Guilliman's destruction of the Dark Angels Chapter.
Azriel believed in the vision of Lion, the father of genes.
From some secret materials that can only be read by the Grand Master, he learned some things that happened ten thousand years ago.
Lion, Guilliman and Sanguinius joined hands to establish the human base - the Second Empire, hoping to preserve the human flame.
Learn that Terra has not fallen and the Empire has not been destroyed.
Together they defeated the traitors, quelled the Ruinstorm, and rushed to the Empire's aid from Ultramar.
What's more is that Lion fell asleep before Guilliman fell asleep. As the regent of the Empire, it is impossible for Guilliman to know nothing about Caliban.
Maybe he didn't know much, but he definitely heard about it.
Therefore, the demon's attempt to sow discord between the Dark Angels and Guilliman was just a joke in Azrael's mind.
But he couldn't say it clearly.
The issues involved are very complicated and it is easy to cause confusion if everything is mentioned.
The world is not black and white.
There are some things that cannot have truth.
However, Azrael knew that Guilliman could be trusted.
Just because his genetic father, Lion, trusted Guilliman during the Heresy when the four gods invaded the real universe with the help of Horus.
What's more, after Guilliman woke up, he tilted all the resources of the chapter towards it, which showed that he was very dependent on the chapter.
Azrael believed that even if Guilliman knew the ins and outs of the Caliban incident, his reaction would at most be rage, and it would never be serious enough to destroy the entire Dark Angels Chapter.
If the original chapter is destroyed, it will only make everyone in the chapter feel insecure.
For ten thousand years, every family has some secrets.
The wolf of Fenris, the vampire of Bawi.
Who can ensure that they are not the next
If they can even attack the Dark Angel, who can be sure that they won’t become the next victim
So far, Guilliman has targeted the corrupt bureaucracy the most, while other problems have been basically handled lightly and mainly through guidance.
Daemons and traitor forces want to use Guilliman to cause civil war in the Empire.
And Azrael will guide this to lure those people into revealing their true colors.
Playing tricks with the Dark Angels.
Are those idiots worthy
Azrael took a moment to describe the plan in detail.
"Guilliman's arrival has already caused various forces to move. Their purpose is obvious, which is to provoke conflicts between the Dark Angels and the awakened Primarch, thereby causing a civil war..."
His presentation took quite some time and he described the complex plan involved.
Wait until all four knights nodded and confirmed the mission details.
Everyone swore an oath and ended the meeting.
"After today, we will no longer gather together. Even if the conspiracy is exposed and the cancer is cleansed, there will never be a day for us to gather together again." Azriel said.
It is their duty to walk in the darkness and protect the light.
There are no rewards, no commitment, loyalty is the only reward.
"The Order never existed," one knight responded.
“Secrets are our refuge,” Azrael said. “They are how we protect our empire.”
The three knights nodded.
The party ended and everyone left.
Azriel took the time to gather people from other orders separately and spoke different words to them in order to ensure the smooth progress of the evolution.
No one except him can know all the secrets.
No one knows how all this works so closely and is linked together.
Any traitor who sabotages the plan will become the prey of this plan.
... ... ... ... ...
Every traitor, chaos, and alien should die.
Whatever the reason, it is true.
This is the standard of conduct for Inquisitor Grey.
As an Inquisitor of the Empire, she was captured by the Necron Overlord, Trazyn the Infinite.
And imprisoned it in a time-depriving force field.
It was not until the outbreak of the Battle of Cadia that Trazyn the Infinite released a portion of the Imperial collection to assist the Empire in its fight against Chaos and avoid affecting the plans of the Undead.
During this time, Grey was able to escape from the clutches of the devil.
She thought about how to take revenge on the Endless Trazyn every day, but she also knew that now was not the best time for revenge.
The most important thing now is to heal the scars inflicted upon the Empire by the Great Rift.
For this reason, Grey can only vent her anger on the traitors and aliens.
Because she had worked with Cawl, Celestine and others to go to Macragge to resurrect the Primarch.
Out of the Primarch's trust, she was given an expeditionary fleet to attack worlds invaded by demons and traitors, and to suppress powerful families that resisted reform.
Due to her fanatical faith in the Emperor and her worship of Guilliman, she did not hesitate to eliminate any family or powerful person who tried to resist the reform.
The empire is vast, littered with the wreckage of ambition and war.
Some are the last surviving works of Golden Age builders, while others are massive structures created by crazed members of the Mechanicus.
Hell No. 5 is a transit station located in the void.
Made of meteorites and steel from the void, it is extremely majestic and huge, with a diameter of 1,500 kilometers.
With a population of nearly 10 billion, it is a very famous subspace transit station in the Nephilim sector.
Each waterway has special nodes.
As long as the rulers are not stupid, these node intermediate stations can basically be turned into prosperous colonies by utilizing the large number of passing subspace fleets.
It is precisely because of this that Hell No. 5 Transit Station has prospered.
Merchants like this route very much because it is fast, safe and highly confidential.
They can hire some wild, unofficial navigators to assist them in navigating this route, greatly reducing costs.
At its peak, Hell No. 5 was the transit point for materials from nearly a hundred star systems, and it prospered to the extreme.
Until the Great Rift.
All of this was shattered, the glory was gone, and it quickly went into decline.
No ship is now capable of warping in the Warp without an official navigator.
Wild Navigators also have a third eye that allows them to peek into the currents of the Warp, but they are not good at capturing the light of the Emperor and are easily lost in the vast ocean of Aether.
Nowadays, fleet trade has begun to gradually decrease. Even if there are brave people who want to gain wealth and fame by taking risks, they dare not take this route anymore.
Hell No. 5 provides services such as maintenance, entertainment, and rest to passing ships.
Passing ships also provided it with food and industrial products from various planets, contributing to its prosperity.
After the warp storm broke out, fewer and fewer ships passed by.
Even naval vessels and supply fleets stopped coming because of concerns about casualties.
This extremely prosperous spiral void building was left with only emptiness and echoes.
It has even reached a semi-abandoned stage, filled with a large number of smugglers and slaves.
The power of the Ministry of Justice is also slowly waning.
This place has completely become a lawless place where mortals with weak wills can easily find all kinds of temptations.
Gray led a huge fleet to suppress the rebellious noble forces while hunting down demons and aliens there.
A cult called Sturm started a rebellion.
Grey easily resolved the rebellion, captured many believers, and learned that Sturm was an evil church that worshipped Ouroboros.
Before the cultists died, she got a clue to Hell's No. 5 intermediate station.
She pursued them all the way to Hell V, attempting to destroy this evil church in one fell swoop and eliminate a great enemy for the Emperor and the Primarch.
With the power of the expeditionary fleet, she destroyed all the rebels with ease.
The purge went on quickly.
Inside the Hell No. 5 Transit Station, the nobles involved in the cult incident and the captured believers knelt densely on the port platform of the space station.
These people were all trembling, grabbing the corners of their clothes nervously, and were afraid of their impending fate.
Gray's eyes were cold, she had no mercy on traitors.
Just as she was making her decision, the voice of her subordinate rang through the communication device built into her ear.
"You ought to see this, my Lord."
There was a hint of fear in the other person's voice, and it was obvious that he was frightened by something.
"What's wrong?" Gray asked in confusion on the communication.
"The stuff here involves the Dark Angels." said the subordinate.