(After checking the grades for each subject, I'm still getting all A's even though I write novels every day in class. I'm in a great mood! Time for another chapter.)
Two months later... Holy Terra, Throne Room.
A man and a woman sat behind two connected desks, buried in piles of documents that surrounded them.
Li Feng had originally come to visit his girlfriend, but he ended up being conscripted; all military and production-related documents landed on his desk.
The 36th Millennium, the Age of Apostasy, also known as the Reign of Blood. The avaricious High Lord Vandire, using religion and his own authority, once became the Imperium's 'Grand Eunuch Wei Zhongxian,' even bringing the Battle Sisters, who at the time called themselves 'the Emperor's Daughters,' under his command, turning them into 'the Emperor's Brides' and his private army.
Vandire's rule was cruel and unreasonable; countless worlds were subjected to Exterminatus based solely on his personal judgment. Vandire's sins were heinous, causing widespread resentment among the populace.
Where there is oppression, there is resistance. Led by a bishop named Sebastian Thor, the enraged and fed-up populace and local government armies raised the banner of rebellion against Vandire's tyrannical rule.
Vandire naturally organized armed forces to suppress these rebels, but a Warp Storm, dubbed 'the Emperor's Wrath,' destroyed Vandire's minions.
When the rebels surrounded Terra, and it seemed the Terra Imperial Palace would be affected, the Custodes intervened. Alicia Dominica, the leader of the Emperor's Brides, debated with them, trying to persuade her to betray Vandire.
However, these foolish girls, brainwashed by the scoundrel Vandire, refused to listen. The Custodes had no choice but to bring Alicia and her five closest Sisters to the Imperial Palace, entering the Throne Room:
"Come, ask your father or husband yourselves, and see what he means."
No one knows what happened in the Throne Room, but their hair all turned white the moment they entered. (This is also why the Nuns dye their hair white.)
But the six women, upon emerging, furiously cursed and rushed directly to Vandire. Alicia openly denounced 'Grand Eunuch Fan' as the greatest traitor in the world, then drew her sword and beheaded the High Lord.
These six women then became the founders of the six main Orders of the Battle Sisters, belonging to two convents (military districts).
The first is the Convent Prioris, headquartered on Terra.
And the Convent Sanctorum, headquartered on Ophelia VII.
Generally speaking, the Convent Prioris is more like a standardized professional military force, while the Convent Sanctorum is more like a group of fanatical crusaders.
The two great convents each oversee three major Battle Sisters Orders; all other Orders are branches of these six major Orders. (I will include pictures of each Order below, but my images tend to get removed. If they are, I hope a kind reader will supplement them with relevant Order pictures.)
Belonging to the Convent Prioris:
"Order of the Argent Shroud"
"Order of the Ebon Chalice"
"Order of the Sacred Rose"
Belonging to the Convent Sanctorum:
"Order of the Bloody Rose"
"Martyr Ladies' Order"
"Order of Our Martyred Lady"
And here's the most interesting part: as the Nuns sharpened their knives, ready to chop Vandire into mincemeat, Vandire was still working amidst a sea of documents. Faced with the Nuns disturbing his work, he merely shouted:
"I, I don't have time to die... I, I'm too busy!"
At this moment, Li Feng was slumped over his desk. He had already understood Vandire's words. The Imperium's bureaucracy was not for humans; it was like performing tens of thousands of reading comprehensions of over ten thousand words each day... day after day... Li Feng lay on the table, his heart weary, feeling as if his brain was stuffed with steel wool. Seeing Li Feng slumped over the desk, Sanguinius immediately took off her glasses and also lay on the desk...
"Husband..., I'm going back to rest for a bit. How about you help me finish approving these documents?"
"No, my hairline is perfect, and my hair is thick, but I can't abuse it like this."
Soon, the door opened, and Little Kitten pushed in a dining cart, then came to the two of them and began to set the food on their desks.
"My Lord, this is your ordered 'Northwestern Spicy Chicken Seafood Fried Rice Noodles.' As per your request: extremely spicy, light on meat and sauce, extra celery..."
"Sir, this is your ordered 'Old Terra Zha Jiang Mian,' with extra diced meat, extra noodles, two braised eggs, and plenty of shredded cucumber and bean sprouts."
As the two bowls were placed on the table, they picked up their chopsticks and began to eat lunch, for man cannot live on air alone. The two ate amidst a pile of documents, and Sanguinius happily slurped her rice noodles.
"Oh! I just slurped the noodles and splashed juice on the documents."
Li Feng immediately took some paper and went to Sanguinius's side, using a tissue to wipe her mouth first, and then wiping the chili oil from the document... And the document Li Feng picked up, stained with chili oil from Sanguinius, was about the T'au Empire in the Ultima Segmentum. (Tau: You're telling me the reason I'm being targeted is because of a bowl of noodles? Isn't this bullying honest people! (Shaking head))
When humanity first encountered the Tau, they were merely a group of barbaric blue-skinned primitives, but now they are an interstellar civilization that has achieved complete unification, led by the mysterious Ethereals, dedicated to spreading their philosophy: the greater good.
It showed that a diplomatic meeting between the Imperium of Man and the Tau would be held on the planet Gravelax in the Ultima Segmentum. That's right, there's some diplomatic relationship between the Tau and humanity.
Li Feng then called out to Little Kitten, who was wearing a maid uniform, and asked: "Isn't your ex-girlfriend a Tau? That Commander Shiinyang. Tell us about it."
Little Kitten immediately started mumbling: "Aba... We only met a few times, we weren't boyfriend and girlfriend..."
"Then I ask you, why do I see someone in the Imperial Palace Custodes' 'confession booth' dedicating a song 'Mercury Records' to himself?"
Sanguinius, who was slurping rice noodles, and the Emperor on the Golden Throne both fell silent, seemingly sensing some gossip. Trajann, who was making strawberry milkshakes for the Empress and the Sir at the coffee bar, just shook his head and sighed.
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