Chapter 1013: The Battle Between the Regent and the Human Spirit

Watching Qin Mo's projection disappear, Guilliman slowly exhaled, took a deep breath, his expression became serious, and his mood became extremely heavy.

Guilliman did not need to kill any powerful enemy, nor did he need to face a terrible enemy now, but for him, the next thing to do was still a hard battle.

This matter was just as he and Qin Mo said, to argue with the Supreme Lords of the High Lords Council about the upcoming war.

In terms of spirit, this was undoubtedly a hard battle.

What should be done must be done. Guilliman did not avoid or hesitate. When he left the room, he gave orders to the champion guards outside the door, asking them to transmit information to Terra and inform the high lords to attend the emergency meeting.

Originally, this process was complicated and lengthy. Due to the limitations of superluminal communication means, the transmission of information across galaxies was extremely dependent on astropaths, but the efficiency of these people who played riddles in the subspace was terrible.

But now it is different from the past.

The Empire no longer needs to use astropathic communication to transmit information, because the superluminal messenger ships sailing back and forth are more stable than sub-space communications in most cases.

In addition, at the end of the Golden Crusade, Talon did not dissolve its alliance with the Empire, but extended the alliance for 120 years to prevent possible retaliation by the enemies of the universe after the Golden Crusade.

It is still the renewal period of the alliance, so the Empire can use several superluminal communication lines under the Talon communication system for superluminal communication over extremely long distances.

Every time Guilliman held an emergency meeting remotely without going to Terra in person, it was because of the communication lines.

This time is no exception.

When Guilliman entered a hall somewhere in the Stone Fortress that was specially used for remote meetings with the Primarchs and the Imperial high-level officials who were not nearby, the Supreme Lords of the Imperial High Lords Council had been waiting here for a long time in the form of holographic projection.

Except for the new Forge General who had not yet officially taken office, all other Supreme Lords were present.

"Today I only want to say one thing, that is, we must be prepared for a full-scale war with the Necromancers, and we must not have any flukes."

Guilliman hated, annoyed, and tired the Supreme Lords.

So he was too lazy to say anything nice and pleasant to the ear. He got straight to the point in this meeting without any euphemisms, because for these elites among the elites, no matter how euphemistic the words were, they were no different from plain words.

And such a simple and straightforward sentence was instantly understood by the Supreme Lords.

That is, as the regent, Guilliman needs to unite them, at least on the surface, and then cooperate with the regent's intention to start the Empire's huge war machine, so that the Empire can fight and maintain normal operation.

The Supreme Lords present represent the interests of all forces in the Empire except the Space Marines.

From the Imperial Navy to the Astra Militarum, from religion to taxation, from the open military departments to the assassins in the shadows... The High Lords' Council itself can be seen as the embodiment of the huge ruling entity of the Empire.

Without their cooperation, many departments and ruling institutions of the Empire cannot function normally, and Guilliman cannot easily realize his intentions.

"We should have given up the fluke of not going to war long ago." The Pope of the State Church suddenly spoke loudly.

Then there was a wave of echoes.

"Go to war! Go to war!"

"For the Emperor! For Holy Terra! For humanity!"

"The Orpheus sector has been recovered, and the Imperial Sword composed of the Astra Militarum, the Imperial Navy and the Space Marines will surely be unstoppable and recapture one sector after another from those damn skeletons!"

"The Astra Militarum is already ready."

"..."

Except for the absent Forge General who has not yet taken office, all the Supreme Lords unanimously expressed their extremely enthusiastic and submissive attitude.

But Guilliman was expressionless.

The Supreme Lords' bold words and firm attitude... their superficial support for the Regent was like a torrent that suddenly hit the dam, leaving nothing behind and stirring nothing up.

Because Guilliman has seen through the hypocrisy behind the enthusiasm and determination.

Since Guilliman returned and assumed the duties of the Regent until now, those who dared to directly jump out to oppose have disappeared. It does not mean that there will be no opponents among the remaining people, but the opposition will be more gentle and tactful.

Guilliman has even guessed what the Supreme Lords will do next.

"Although we have the same attitude, according to the procedure, we still have to vote."

"Believe me, this is not necessary, not at all necessary. The final result of the Regent's order to prepare for war will only be one, that is, it will be quickly passed and implemented by the entire parliament, and then we will each do our own thing."

The Supreme Lords talked to each other.

"The new Forging General has not officially taken office yet. How can we go through the procedures when he is not here? Just draft the Regent's Will and notify him after the new Forging General takes office."

Some people even considered Guilliman from his perspective, and their words were quite like Calgar and the Four Heroes who only followed the lead of the Primarch.

"I heard that the new Forge General has arrived on Terra, so it's okay for everyone to wait for him."

"We have our own procedures, and the Forge General also has his own procedures for taking office."

"..."

While the high lords were talking, Guilliman sat on the chair with his head down, his eyes were not on other people, and even his attention was not there.

He was thinking, how good would it be if the Empire didn't have so many threats?

There is no need to compromise with these people, nor to worry about doing something to these people causing the Empire to shut down and then be powerless to resist when foreign enemies invade.

Whether it is hard or soft, there is always a way to deal with these people, instead of having to work with them like now.

For some reason, Guilliman suddenly remembered that he had talked about something with Qin Mo when he was alone. This thing is that if the Emperor has a button, just press it to get up from the throne and move for an hour, but the price is that a high lord will die when the button is pressed.

Obviously the Emperor will press the button until it smokes.

While Guilliman was laughing at what he was thinking, Calgar suddenly walked into the hall and whispered something in the ear of the Gene Father.

Guilliman nodded expressionlessly, then looked at all the Supreme Lords: "Since you think we should wait for the opinion of the new Forge General, then we will wait."

The Supreme Lords immediately explained that they did not have to wait for the Forge General, but briefly discussed the fastest way to get the Regent Order passed in the parliament.

However, Guilliman no longer listened to any of the Supreme Lords.

He knew that the reason why the new Forge General did not appear in this meeting was definitely because other Supreme Lords had interfered and used various methods to delay the time for the new Forge General to take office and attend the meeting.

The Supreme Lords were good at this, so good that Guilliman could only guess that the Supreme Lords really did it, but there was no evidence to prove that they did it.