The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Hearing Soshyan's question, Walker took two puffs of his pipe, then said slowly:

"Actually, I don't know. It may be Wotan's guidance, or it may be the pulling of the lifeline in the dark. Some kind of intuition led me to join this journey, but after meeting you, I realized that maybe That's the answer."

Facing the deep and wise eyes of the other party, Suoshyan noticed the word Wotan. Could it be an older furnace descendant, or something else?

"Oh? But I've never had any contact with the Furnace."

"A flutter of insect wings on the grassland may set off a storm in the distant jungle. The connection between things is not always superficial, and you see, don't we just sit together now."

Soshyan suddenly laughed dumbfounded.

The old Furnace always speaks in a cloud, which is indeed a very standard psyker.

Then he turned to ask:

"Sovereign Walker, what is the attitude of the Wotan Alliance towards the human empire? What do you think of us who are so similar?"

"Different road non-phase plan."

Concise and clear, but enough to express all attitudes, Suoshyan was silent for a moment and nodded.

"So it seems that we still have room for cooperation."

So he looked at Eldgrim.

"Now I really need an elite force with sufficient strength."

He then looked at Graham again.

"I think the patriarch also intends to sell their clan's force and fighters, but I have another question, that is, this transaction, what do you want us to pay for? Minerals? Precious metals?"

Eldgrim smiled like a flower. He rubbed his palms and said:

"It's all right, but if you can provide another one, none of these are actually needed."

"Oh? What is it?"

"The Alliance wants to get some trade concessions in... the Maelstrom."

Suoshyan shook his head and refused without thinking.

"Impossible. I may treat you as demihumans who are related to humans, but it does not mean that other people in the empire will do the same. Frankly speaking, this is a gray area that cannot be seen."

What a joke, not to mention that the classification of short people in the empire is still controversial. Once they are given a trade franchise, these guys will definitely dump their products. It will immediately stand on the opposite side of Soshyan.

This is much more troublesome than the Red Pirates.

It can't be seen that these short dudes are not big, but they have a lot of appetite. Soshyan has a new understanding of short people.

"How about this."

Soshyan thought for a while, and it is not realistic to directly give a lot of resources to the other party now, because the production capacity of factories everywhere is full due to the war, and many mineral resources are in short supply, and the foundry world has to be satisfied, so he plans to build a compromise.

"I can give your alliance time-limited mining rights to some mineral worlds."

As he said that, he pressed the desktop, and a star map flashed out, and gradually narrowed down to a star area with Suoshyan's fingers.

"The Bloody Skeleton Galaxy, there is a rich ore belt, which contains many rare minerals, and the difficulty of mining is very low, and some of them can be directly mined in the open pit. I can draw an area for you, and the time ranges from 30 to 50 years. .”

Eldgrim looked at the star map, then frowned.

"Commander, if I remember correctly, this seems to be the territory of the Red Pirates?"

"It will return to the Empire soon."

"this"

Seeing the other party's hesitation, Suo Shi spread his hand.

"Of course, you can settle it now, but it will take some time, and the price may not be too high. The resources I can mobilize are limited, so you can choose."

Eldgrim hesitated for a while, then nodded.

"I need to ask my superiors for instructions. Ah, Commander-in-Chief, we still have some weapons and equipment here. Would you consider it?"

Soshyan glanced left and right at those furnace descendants, then smiled and said:

"I'm afraid we won't be able to use the equipment you use, and it seems too expensive to hand it over to mortals."

Although the other party did not mention the price, but according to the information disclosed by Angstrom, the things and equipment of the short man are generally more expensive. Although it is easy to use, it is indeed easy to use, but similar products are almost 3- 5 times the price.

Soshyan was not rich enough to equip mortal soldiers with such expensive equipment. After all, even the simplest equipment such as laser gun carapace was an astronomical figure for an army of hundreds of millions.

Eldgrim blinked, then smiled:

"You can rest assured that all our equipment is modular and can be adjusted according to the user's situation."

"Oh, but aren't you worried about technology leaks? Or does the Wotan Alliance have no control over arms trade?"

"What's there to worry about?"

Machine blacksmith Aliyeu stroked his beard with a smile.

"Unless we are willing to provide technology, no one can imitate our weapons, let alone those mechanical monks, they may not even be able to imitate what they have researched. The alliance does not have any arms trade ban on the human empire, but those mechanical monks are very Rejecting our products, which I usually interpret as jealousy, the Tau are much smarter by comparison."

"Tau family? Do you also have trade relations with the Tau family?"

"Well, that's a young race full of potential."

The other party didn't say much on this topic, but simply dealt with it, and then stopped talking.

Soshyan nodded thoughtfully, and turned to Eldgrim.

"What are you going to recommend to me?"

"Perhaps you can see the actual effect."

Not long after, at a secret proving ground in Angstrom~www.readwn.com~ all the company commanders of the Star Knights, the command staff and some non-commissioned officers gathered. They stood on a high platform and looked at the proving ground below. Master Forge Rogeris adjusting his weapon.

"Brother, what are those short dudes called short men?"

Zod leaned against the guardrail, and then bumped Oscar with his shoulder. The latter looked at the furnace descendants who were communicating with Rogris, and replied in an uncertain tone:

"It should be some kind of demihuman like Ogreen."

"What can the Naya people do? I haven't even heard of them before."

"I don't know where the chapter leader found it, but the Milky Way is so big, it's hard to say what if it's a pocket kingdom left over from the era of the Great Crusade? As long as they don't rebel and pay tithes on time, the empire will Generally, I don’t care about it. You’ve seen the cat people in the Star Militia, right? They’re not human by my standards, and there’s nothing wrong with them. These demihumans are a little shorter, and everything else is pretty standard. human form."

"Oh, to be honest, I'm so short, I'm really afraid of accidentally kicking them while walking. Once on the battlefield, I almost stepped on a Leitlin, you know, when he was huddled in the pit, I thought it was something Small animals"