The Emperor’s Angel of Death

927.M41, Holy Terra, Imperial Palace

　　 The dawn is rising, the air here seems to be full of smoke.

　　 In order to prepare for the Japanese-Chinese Senate meeting, the slave workers have lighted up the incense burners in the upper corridor and entrance hall, as well as those in the niches next to the Heroes Trail.

　　 The huge lead windows in those niches have miraculously survived the billowing shelling of Tyra’s siege. They have been staring at the majestic courtyard behind the Eternal Gate for a hundred centuries.

　　The censer floats with camphor, scepter wood, and rose ash smoke. This is the sacred incense of the state religion. It is said that it smells exactly the same as the immortal and holy smell of the eternal body of the emperor.

Cleopatra Res was unable to testify to this. Although he was expensive as a representative of the trial court, he could apply for it, and he might even be allowed to go to the Golden Throne to participate in the state religion ceremony, but he never worried about it. .

　　 He is not interested in honor, even sacred honor.

　　 What he is interested in, what fascinates him is how to make the heretics more painful to destroy, and the opportunities provided by the demise of the heretics.

　　 But as a radical mentor here, he has to deal with all the things he is not interested in.

　　 Since the Horus rebellion ended and the emperor entered the eternal throne, the power of the human empire has been transferred to the high-lord council composed of high-lords, the Imperial Senate.

The Senate is the highest authority of the empire. Its members are composed of the twelve most powerful people of the human race. This organization coordinates and manages various political decisions within the empire in the name of the emperor. Its responsibility is to interpret and execute the emperor. His will, especially after the emperor can no longer directly rule his empire.

　　 But the human empire is too large, and the High Lords Council cannot cover everything, but their decisions still determine the destiny of the galactic coefficient trillions of human beings.

　　Since the era of apostasy, the number of seats in the Imperial Senate has remained basically unchanged. Except for personnel fluctuations in certain crises, there are 12 stable seats in other situations.

Each seat is assigned to a powerful expert or leader of an empire organization. Tradition, trickery, flattery, retaliation, and common interests are intertwined to determine who will govern and who will lose the election. Their status is too important, and the absence of them in the Senate is unreasonable. These are the nine permanent seats.

　　Including, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Pope of the State, the forging general, the minister of the Ministry of Justice, the ambassador of the navigator, the chairperson of the Star Torch Court, the chief tutor of the Assassin Court, the abbot of the Star Language Court, and the representative of the court.

　　 The nine seats are sacred and inviolable. In the history of the empire, there are very few vacancies. Usually, after the death of the previous one, a successor can be quickly selected within the agency.

However, some seats are more special candidates. For example, the navigator ambassador is open to any member of the navigator family in power. In order to ensure the balance of power, the seat usually has a weaker family member as the ambassador for the seat. This is to ensure that the navigator is strong. The family will not monopolize their special political struggle system and form a power monopoly.

　　In addition to the nine seats, there are three non-permanent seats, selected from the powerful leaders of the various imperial factions. They include:

　　The Lord of the Sun, the commander-in-chief of the astral army, the high-ranking admiral of the empire, the bishop of the state church Terra, the fighting nun, the commander of the imperial army, the minister of the empire, the spokesperson of the charter captain (representative of the merchant ronin).

　　 Strangely, the important military power of the empire, the Astarte Order, almost never had a place in the High Lords Council, except for the first regent of the empire, Kirriman himself and the current commander of the Fist of the Empire.

There is also a cold knowledge involved-because the original body Kiliman served as the regent, the Speaker of the High Lords Council will also be named "Robert Kilman", although it is to commemorate the rebuilt empire Prototype, but sometimes it can also make people feel ridiculous.

Astart’s absence from the highest power of the empire seems to be Kiliman’s intentional intention, because as an elite military force of the empire, although outside the parliament, when the empire is in a critical juncture, others will have to seek the help of the leader of the interstellar warrior. Some people think that the interstellar warriors were turned away in order to implement the idea of ​​the Terra Council, distinguishing that the original War Council would exclude Astarte.

　　Kiliman himself also believes very much that, as the "Astarte Mantra" said, the interstellar warrior is to serve mankind, not to rule mankind.

　　 Cleopatra Rhys, as the Grand Inquisitor, also agrees with this.

The bench representative of the Trial Chamber is the voice of the Trial Chamber in the Council of the High Lords of the Empire. Although this position does not bring additional power over the Grand Inquisitor, it is due to the influence of this position at the highest level of power. This is indeed a strong support to maintain his own supremacy.

　　 Trial court representatives are nominated by the chief judges of the various court divisions in Terra, and the judges who have fulfilled this duty will be designated as the chief judges of Terran origin.

In addition, it is not uncommon for multiple Tyranian grand judges to share the positions of bench representatives at the same time, and the maximum term of a Tyranian grand judge who can serve in the High Lords Council is 5 years, after which it must Stepped down.

　　 Cleopatra Res has been in this position for 4 years, and his term is about to expire. In the future, he has a grand plan to hunt down heretics.

　　 But now, UU reading www. uukanshu. com he still has to deal with these annoying trivial matters.

　　 He entered the inner palace through Saiemon Gate in the morning when the first rays of sunlight emerged, and then followed the corridor behind the high garden and the wall of dawn to the chapel behind the cloister, where he made a brief prayer in the sink.

　　 Cleopatra is not a person of good face, he is a person of conviction, but this is not the reason why he prays every day.

　　He went to pray because he knew, or at least he knew quite well, that at least a dozen agents from other organizations or camps were staring at him day and night.

　　 It's easier to make sure that he is seen doing what he should do than to waste manpower on cleaning up those agents, eyes and ears every day.

　　 This is the daily life of Holy Terra.

　　 Let his opponents go busy, it’s not a big deal to act.

　　 Cleopatra has been doing this throughout his life.

　　 So he is doing what others want him to do. As a grand judge, he should attend all meetings, whether formal or informal.

　　He should be humble and decent, he should not express any cruel or bloodthirsty desires, and his opponents often assume that the representatives of the court must have these in their hearts.

　　 Since the Assassin's Court ransacked thousands of years ago, the high lords often think that the Inquisition Court may be the second organization that Tyra went to ransack.

　　 Especially at the end of the forty-first millennium when the conflict was deepening, the Tribunal did a lot of things that seemed to them very extraordinary.