"You want to travel with you to Hive World ridian?" Ivixia asked looking strangely at .
"Not just for the pleasant company, my dear. There is a cache of demonic artifacts there. And this ti, it won't be just the Lanter fleet. House Lancefire will provide so cruisers and the Knights." I explained with a big smile, just as Rose entered my room.
Even as a Blank, and my lover wearing the Null Bone Staff, her powers were obvious, as the air shimred around Rose with a light blue glow.
Ivixia patted her hip to make sure the Null Wand was still in place.
"Pef, my love. A demonhunter now?" Rose asked with faint rrint.
"Lady Ivixia was instruntal in closing the Anomaly, my dear. She even fired the weapon." I said while offering a hug.
Rose smiled a little, while her deck of tarot cards flew out and glowed, before falling on the table in so mysterious reading. "Even so my naive Pef, your sweet Ivixia is only waiting for an opportunity to burn you alive. It's how their kind are trained or better said, brainwashed."
I sighed inward, knowing it was probably true. "There's a long list of those who want dead, but it will never happen. In fact, it only saves ti by exposing the traitors and allowing to exterminate them easier." I answered in a cheerful voice, then kissed Rose for a long minute.
When I returned inside my body, Ivixia was staring at with a doubtful look, possibly reconsidering her life choices.
"I do not burn innocent people, no matter what you heard about my order, colleague Inquisitor. And Lord Pef is a Blank, so most corruption accusations would be absurd, at least those involving the Warp or Chaos. There is so doubt on his Chapter's approach on the Codex Astartes...plus all the proven heretek use of xenos artifacts." Inquisitor Dannica replied in a dignified voice.
"Proven you say? A Blackstone Fortress is made by xenos too, with the purpose of fighting against Chaos. Now, how should you be sentenced Inquisitor Dannica? Surely if you're not guilty, being subrged in molten brass will not hurt you." I explained with a wide grin.
"That would be interesting to watch indeed. I boiled Fulgrim's corpse in molten adamantium, but never an Inquisitor, not yet." Rose comnted and weaved a claw made of Warpfire around her hand.
"... That won't be necessary. If Lord Pef did use a xeno artifact, he must have had a good reason." Lady Ivixia muttered as the adamantium floor beneath her feet started lting.
Rose cast another deck of tarot cards, while the floor beca solid again. A trick of the trade worth rembering, as it did use the environnt against soone immune to Warp.
You could also simply use weapons, which was how most Blanks got killed anyway.
"See Pef? Now we're all friends. Next crisis will happen in seven years, if the nice Inquisitor survives so far." Rose predicted with a warning voice, then continued on the Manifold. "This woman is completely deranged. Keep her away from Illevar."
I sobbed inward. All my efforts would be wasted on Ivixia, if things were this bad.
"Perhaps it's better if you are given a new quest, Lady Ivixia. Travel to the Rock and awaken Primarch El'Johnson. Those silly Dark Angels have forgotten about him and keep him hidden in a stasis crypt, right under their fortress." I murmured in a soft voice, while taking out a few items that will help. A dataslate containing the best STC templates I had, another Null Wand and a Blessed Autocimulacra disc, which contained enough alloygel to heal a power armor a few tis.
Both won exhaled in unison, perhaps at the amazing news. "Why her?" Rose demanded in a furious tone.
"Because, only Ivixia can enter this crypt. She needs a Ferryman to help her cross, and those Ferryn only listen to Ordo Malleus." I declared confidently, and then moved the demonhunter aboard the Inquisitorial Blackship in orbit.
Then I sat down and sighed deeply. If my conjecture was correct, the , do you have ti for a eting?'" I asked while smiling at the holoscreen.
"Lord Lancefire...In one hour, if you're available then. There will be a working dinner, with my closest staff only." the Lady Governor answered a bit flustered.
My face did have that effect on mortals, and I planned to use that. For the benefit of the Imperium and the salvation of the human race, of course.
"I'll invite Inquisitor Kalistradi then. Best if she scans your staff for genestealer infiltrators." I explained with a gentle voice.
The geno scanning gadget from Lord Trazyn was really useful after all, even if it cost as much to make as a dreadnought suit or Baneblade heavy tank. A single tank would not save a planet from a genesealer cult, but the Invictus-patern auspex could.
Sadly, only Forge Masters or Archmagi with great experience cold craft them, and not very quickly. Not when it required using thin slivers of Enslaver bones and other exotic materials, like psyker nerves and neurons and an Emanatus Forcefield to scan for special aether and empathic markers.
Trazyn was working on a new device, able to detect Chaos corruption just like the Necrons could for themselves.
Only, doing that with chanicus level of technology was not as easy, nor were Enslaver bones an item found on markets.
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