Soshiyan knew very well that the appeal of the Court was not actually to capture the murder or comfort the unlucky judge. What they were asking for now was "obedience". They wanted to see the Astat organization, the Astarte organization, respected and obeyed the authority of the Court.
Perhaps to outsiders, this is just a stupid dispute over honor, but it has extremely profound political reasons.
Astart's authority comes from their transformation technology, from the primordial body as the emperor's descendants, but this is only the source of sacredness, and the real authority comes from their power, their absolute power that crushes all living beings.
But the judges are different. No matter what their origins are, even those who are psychics, they are just mortals. The fundamental thing that supports their activities in this chaotic and dangerous empire is that they have been the majesty accumulated by everyone, whether they are mortals or Astart for ten thousand years.
Tirien once said to Soshyan that loyalty is the sharp blade of the judge, faith is the armor of the judge, but authority is their life.
Without authority, sharp blades and armor are just dead objects that are stuck on a corpse.
Therefore, the court must and can only maintain their authority in a nearly mad way, so it has created most judges, not accepted any doubts, given no explanation, and was stubborn. Any challenge to the authority of the court will greatly touch the nerves of the judges and trigger a fierce rebound.
This is not emotion or some kind of arrogance, but the foundation of their survival. After all, without the gilded authority, how could they, as mortals, make the empires who control a world and a legion frighten? Just relying on life and death alone cannot actually help them intimidate everyone.
In this mentality, the Inquisition even occasionally uses small matters to conduct "tamed" trials on certain organizations, especially against Astart. They never stopped the obedience test of the Astart War. Of course, they also caused many conflicts. I don't know how many judges died, but they are working hard on this.
Soshyan agreed with this, and he also saw that the goal of the Inquisition has changed, no longer the Relics Chapter, but the entire Alliance of Suffering.
Although Magyar was not as radical as Seth, he also believed that the Alliance of Suffering could not retreat at this time, because the Inquisition was a group of people who knew how to climb along the pole. Once they let go, the subsequent requirements would be endless, and they would not stop until the Alliance became their tool.
After talking with the two commanders of the war, Soshiyang had a preliminary plan in his mind. He first arranged people to find Alexe's secret stronghold. Each famous judge would have his own stronghold, and usually more than one, as an interrogation room, treasure room or temporary repairs to avoid political enemies, and then asked someone to check how many followers Alexe still live and where they are currently.
It is logical that these were difficult to check because the judge not only acted secretly, but also had the highest authority in all the systems of the empire. No one could find clues about them from the official level, but...
Alexe is a judge of the exclusive sect, and the exclusive sect is very close to the state religion, so it is much easier to start from the state religion. Although the state religion may not be willing to cooperate, Soshyang has a bargaining chip in his hand that they cannot refuse, which is enough to make the senior officials of the state religion betray Alexe's information.
After both of these were found, he met with Artecus Badan, the leader of the Relics Chapter.
"Soshyan Alexey's commander, who has heard of Daming for a long time, has seen it today... is surprising."
In the main office of the Victory Trace, Artecus held Soshiyan's hand and looked at the imperial legend who was wearing Seiko Power Armor but was still much taller than himself, sighing repeatedly.
"Officials say that you have a heroic figure similar to the original body. It's true, it's a miracle of the emperor."
"Ha, I was taller before I was renovated. This... Maybe it's really a blessing from the emperor."
Soshiyang smiled slightly, bypassed the topic of his height, and led the other party to sit on a chair against the wall on the east side of the office, and then returned to the back of the huge wooden desk and sat down.
"Brothers of Artecus, your group has been an observer of the Alliance of Suffering for some time and has also performed many tasks in various parts of the Storm Star Domain. The various mechanical memorials and the Nest World also have a high evaluation of your group."
“It is our mission and responsibility to serve the throne and humanity.”
Looking at the warrior who had been in service for nearly four hundred years, he seemed to be no different from all other Astartes, or the Astartes had a high degree of consistency in their emotions and expressions.
But as Magyar said, this person also has a unique concealment temperament, which can easily remind Soshiyan of the Dark Angel.
"Brother Artucus, let me ask more, why is your group going to join the Alliance of Suffering?"
"The Alliance of Suffering is the example and symbol of the unity of the Astart brothers. The sacred texts us into battle groups of thousands of people, and also makes some forces in the imperial bureaucracy think that Astart has become weak and has no power to defend its honor and tradition. They begin to slander and attack us by any means. Many battle groups have been persecuted, but this never happened in the Great Expedition, because at that time we had the Primrose and the Legion, and we were united, and the stingers dare not act rashly. Now all this has disappeared, but at least we can... choose to help each other and defend honor together. This is why we chose to join the Alliance of Suffering. We believe that only unity can better fight against enemies at home and abroad."
When Suo Shiyang heard this, he said nothing, but just raised his right hand and scratched his temple with his fingers. Suddenly he chuckled again and said:
"Brother Artucus, how many great demons have you banished so far?"
Artecus was stunned and didn't even react. Soshiyan asked again in a stressful tone.
"Brother Artucus, how many great demons have you collected so many Chaos weapons in the past? "
"This...is not."
Chapter completed!