Hearing the merchant's words, anger welled up in Valen's heart.
He had a feeling that he was being tricked by the other party.
This damn businessman was playing tricks on him from the beginning to the end, making him run around in circles.
"Go to the fortress and chant a spell to expel ghosts. If you are discovered, do you know what the consequences will be?" Valen said, "The Empire will never allow such blasphemous behavior to happen. Anyone who does so will face the most terrible punishment."
The merchant smiled and shook his head. "Sir, everything you do is out of loyalty to the Emperor and the Primarch. What is this little risk?"
"Besides, with your identity, entering the fortress and chanting a spell will not delay you at all. As long as you are fast enough and act carefully enough, there will be no problem. Such a small spell is insignificant, and no one will suspect you. In order for you to continue to serve the Emperor, someone has already paid the price of his life. Do you want to give up all your efforts?"
Valen clenched his fists, he didn't want to go on.
Something inside him told him that this was wrong.
He could think of the dead Yak and his own responsibilities.
After some inner struggle, Valen finally agreed to the businessman's proposal.
In order to continue to be loyal to the Emperor and to humanity, a little sacrifice is no big deal.
An unnamed star field tens of thousands of light years away.
Magnus, relying on his great authority, watched Valen gradually fall into depravity.
Seeing this guy who was determined to be loyal to his father, he was about to go to the Lighthouse Fortress to chant a spell.
Magnus' smile grew wider.
He knew that his plan was about to bear rich fruit.
The positions of stars in the real universe are not fixed.
In order to teleport over long distances, a beacon is necessary.
And the planetary governor, Valen, has now become Magnus' beacon.
He would go directly to Pharos, bypass the Imperial defenses, and emerge from within the enemy ranks.
"Prepare the ceremony and let us open the passage to Pharos." Magnus looked at his right-hand man, Sharo.
"Understood, my Lord."
Sara comes outside.
In the abandoned hive, a giant altar has been prepared.
Various lost runes were etched on the altar, and a large number of terrified, crying humans were locked in cages, waiting to be sacrificed.
"Begin." Sarah said loudly.
The wizards picked up sharp daggers, pulled the humans out of the iron cages, slit their necks, and threw the bleeding bodies on the altar.
The despair and pain of these lives before death will help Magnus better leverage the etheric power of the Warp and create a path to the planet of Pharos for the Demon Legion and his subordinates.
"Here I come." Magnus smiled.
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The planet of Pharos.
Inquisitor Lizzie takes the Stormtroopers to investigate the Chaos incident according to Clovis' instructions.
In order to perform tasks better and faster.
The authority wielded by the Inquisitor is extremely high.
The Empire allows them to use any means to complete their tasks efficiently.
With the extraordinary intuition of a judge, Lizzie keenly perceived the connection between the missing cases and the chaotic incidents.
In order to get clues, she arrested six sheriff's officers who had multiple disappearance cases in their jurisdiction.
When arrested, every peace officer said he was innocent.
Li Ji did not have time to examine their self-defense, so she asked her subordinates who were best at torture to do the work.
Five of them were indeed innocent, and one admitted that he had connections with underground organizations and provided them with some protection when they kidnapped people.
Li Ji didn't waste any time and went straight to the underground organization.
As for the six sheriffs.
I'm sorry to say, but no one has ever survived the Inquisitor's torture.
When Li Ji left, there were only six unrecognizable, bloody corpses in the interrogation room.
The location of that underground organization is a bit remote.
Fearing strong resistance, Lizzie commandeered a Stormbird.
Inside the cabin, she asked the stormtroopers to get ready.
The Stormbird fighter is very fast.
After arriving at the destination, the Stormtroopers airdropped directly, saving the time of landing.
The believers on the periphery were quickly controlled.
There seemed nothing wrong with them, nor with the buildings, which were filled with shrines and scriptures to the Emperor.
With the help of the scanning equipment, Li Ji still found clues underground.
"Where do we go in?" Li Ji asked a believer with a gun raised.
"I don't... ... ."
Lizzie didn't let him finish his words before she shot him through the head.
"You say." Li Ji raised the gun and asked another man.
The man was frightened by Li Ji's cruelty.
I have never seen such a cruel person. He started shooting before I could even finish my answer.
There is no such thing as loyalty among fallen men.
Under Li Ji's threat, the threatened man brought the Inquisitor and his party to the entrance.
The entrance is hidden in a huge Imperial shrine.
"Disgusting cultists."
Seeing the emperor's shrine slowly open, revealing the entrance to the deep tunnel on the ground, Li Ji could not hide her anger.
It is inexcusable that these cultists were tinkering behind the Emperor's shrine.
Lizzie and the Stormtroopers rushed in.
The blasphemous, evil chaos runes scattered throughout the basement made Lizzie sure she was in the right place.
And those cultists also got the news from the ground.
They took up arms and tried to fight against the Stormtroopers led by Lizzie.
Unfortunately, this kind of stupid behavior is undoubtedly self-destructive.
With the help of the infrared combat device, Li Ji can easily lock the location of those cultists even in the basement with insufficient light.
She fired decisively, and the laser pulse instantly killed one cultist, leaving the other cultist wailing on the ground.
The Stormtroopers also relied on their usual training to quickly strangle the enemies in the basement.
The basement is complex with many rooms.
If other troops were to come here, this kind of environment might be very difficult.
But for the Inquisition's exclusive Stormtroopers, it's a piece of cake.
They showed no mercy, and paid the price of seriously injuring a Stormtrooper.
All the cultists who dared to resist were strangled.
In the huge basement, only a businessman in fancy clothes and an old man in a long robe were left.
They were trembling, with fear on their faces.
Lizzie does not have the power to see the warp, nor does she have psionics.
But she could feel the depravity of these two people.
The souls of these two people exude a foul stench.
You don't need to look to feel their rotten, disgusting souls.
"Tell me everything you know, and I promise to show you a little mercy." Li Ji said in a cold tone.
"Don't you want to know anything!!" The old man tried to be tougher.
Li Ji grabbed his hair, cut off his ear, and threw it in front of him, "I think you didn't hear what I just said, so I'll help you."
After saying that, he injected a shot of potion that enhanced organ sensitivity into the other person's body, amplifying the other person's pain.
The skinny old man suddenly let out a heart-wrenching scream.
Several interrogators under Li Ji's command stepped forward and used various instruments to maintain the old man's pain, causing him to scream miserably.
The stubborn traitor deserves no mercy.
Li Ji turned to look at the businessman, "Can you tell me what you know?"
Seeing the other party's bloody dagger and that terrifying look, the old man next to him screamed miserably, but no one paid any attention to him even when he begged for mercy.
The merchant who claimed to have surrendered to the gods was also frightened and had a psychological breakdown.
He told her everything he had done.
Upon learning that the planetary governor had performed a chaos ritual, Lizzie immediately felt something was wrong.
She had the two guys taken back and interrogated thoroughly to see if they could get more information out of them.
He took a guard team and went straight to the Governor's Palace, wanting to control Valen first.
When they arrived at the Governor's Mansion, they were unexpectedly told that Valen had gone to the Lighthouse Fortress.
He said that there were some logistical matters that needed him to handle personally.
After interrogating several of the governor's close servants, Lizzie got the book without a cover.
All kinds of terrible witchcraft are recorded on it.
Turn to the ceremony performed by the Governor.
Lizzie saw at a glance that this was not a ritual to transform life, but a ritual to beg the existence of the subspace to pay attention to herself.
In other words, Planetary Governor Valen has now become a beacon.
The beacon of the Warp Demon in the real universe.
Lizzie informed Clovis, the Grey Knight mentor who was on guard duty in the lighthouse, of the news.
When Clovis and the Grey Knights found Valen in the fortress.
Valen had already recited the spell that the merchant had said could expel ghosts.
As he cast his spell, the ether in the warp surged, and the storm that had not subsided for a long time became extremely violent.
An extremely terrifying will let out a hideous laugh filled with extreme malice.
The entire planet of Pharos was shrouded in darkness, both on the side facing the star and the side facing away from the star.
A gorgeous, huge crack that spanned the entire planet appeared before the people.
Chaos has arrived.